Nicron #112 15 сентября 1999

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Chaos Constructions '999 - the second day.

            Episodes
            second day



   In the first hour of the night after the first day, closing 
the door to the room which hosted the hidden part:), GPV 
fiercely nazvanival someone with Timothy phone Lapo ... Late 
call was surprisingly successful, and on the second day of the 
festival held a meeting to which Gosh awe:) is ready. Companion 
George was Vitaly Vidmirov, member of the X-Trade. GPV, of 
course, took his own tape recorder, but I did not even try to 
get closer than a distance shooting, and when talking to two 
modern encoder off limits:).




        Vitaly Vidmirov (left) and GPV



   GPV: Interview with Vitali Vidmirovym from the group 
X-Trade. Vitarasskazhi how you got on the Spectrum - what year, 
how did a group of X-Trade and so on. 


   Vitaly Vidmirov: On the Spectrum, I fell in 1993, it was
48K Spectrum from a tape recorder. I was still playing with 
toys. I'm after strumming in different toys, interest has 
arisen: how are they work? Thus, I began to get involved in 
programming: first it was BASIC, then - an assembler. In 1994 I 
started programming in assembler, and was somewhere in 1995 (at 
Indeed several early) I met the market with a companion 
Dangerous-om - Slavik (roughly :)... to put it mildly:)) ), And 
thus by 1996 was already a representative group of X-Trade, 
which immediately and formed. Actually X-Trade was not a band, 
it was a so-called studio, which headed in the singular, the 
same comrade Dangerous and recorded on the market different 
drives with Spectrum software. When approaching Enlight'96 we 
decided to write DeMouy. Here I acquainted with fellow LD - 
Dmitry Lomov, and together we sbatsali DeMouy "Illusion", which 
won first place at E'96. 


   GPV: My question is: How does the studio from the band?


   Vitaly Vidmirov: Studio Glory headed in the singular, and 
the studio is just burning, and not any works, except for the 
music he wrote once upon a time, which falls in some 
downloaders to disk (boot-s) and other, even in the game some 
were in the "Gingerbread Man". 


   GPV: That is a group engaged in the production and studio 
just recording and selling CDs, yes? 


   Vitali: Yes, at least if it's called. :)


   GPV: In the period since 1993, what products do you 
personally and Group X-Trade?



   Vitaliy: I like "under itself":) ... over worked, trying to
make some demos ... The main objective was the development of 
an assembler. Looking toys are different - how they are 
arranged inside. Apart from small demos, Dema 1996 "Illusion" 
was my first demoy. More than anything particularly ... Well, 
on tape some beysikovye programs were ... :) Strange, mixed 
BASIC with assembler - something vague. 


   GPV: On the 97 th Enlight were DeMouy, some players were 
writing? 


   Vitali: Yes, after the 96-th Enlight-and was 97-rd, and to 
him we wrote our assembler "Storm" Version 1. Wrote about a 
month, although the piece had been before. And there we have 
written DeMouy. But we dug a little, and deme late to top 
Enlight-and, therefore, it was released separately. 


   GPV: You write some kind of system programs, yes? In 
addition to assembly? 


   Vitaly: When I got out General Sound, Slava asked me to 
write to him the player that I did. And put back the first 
effect with dithering on the Spectrum. It was the winter of 
1997, more precisely, in late 1996 - early 1997.



   GPV: Another rumor:) even claims that the group X-Trade
engaged in the hardware.


   Vitaly: Thank developed General Sound, but Dima was 
developing XTR-modem, which operates on the basis of half of 
the Spectrum network in St. Petersburg. 


   GPV: You're prisutstvuesh on the second day of Chaos 
Constructions (very sorry that you were not at first!). Your 
impressions? 


   Vitaly: From what he heard my impression is better not to 
tell;)! My impression from what he saw - as if thrown in eyes 
unpreparedness events, that is, for example, captions on music 
competition were made directly during playback; any pause type 
copy music from "pisyuka" to "Amiga" through floppy ... All 
this happened in real time, while the components. What I 
clearly did not like. 


   GPV: ... And during this twisted old Amiga demos, on which 
people do not really like to watch ... And leaves the room ... 


   Vitaly: Well, not quite left the room, but the demos showed
not the best, tedious ...


   GPV: What group of X-Trade is going to release in the future 
and over What works now? Of the programs and, perhaps iron?



   Vital: X-Trade Group in the future is going to release
Storm version 2, it is quite distant project (comparatively). 
And since more plans generally do not. Fame will probably make 
General Sound-s, it depends on him. 


   GPV: What will be remarkable "Storm" - turboassembler version
2? What are the opportunities that were not there before, 
something else? 


   Vitaly: First, the volume will be extended for a text that is
256 kilobytes will, maybe will get from 1 to 8 of texts;
under the label can be more memory to make up to 8 banks,
have up to 128 kilobytes. Mistaken, for up to 64 kilobytes, but 
it's still quite a lot. One pass assembler - that is, it will 
almost twice as fast, in fact less, but comparable to twice the 
acceleration of assembly. Will be conditional listening, 
additional opportunities. New Macro realized that it was 
planned to do. And the support Winchester, at least we had 
planned it. 


   GPV: As you know, some members of X-Trade something
do on other platforms, except for the Spectrum. Can be more?


   Vitaly: "Some members of the group X-Trade" - this is 
probably, I :))! I myself bought a "PC", is now trying to learn 
where ASM and C. Already have a project, such a goal, I would 
like to implement. But this project is large, so do not

know how long it takes. But it is too early for him
taken, because I have not yet mastered with assembler.


   GPV: One last question: Are you and all X-Trade
away from the Spectrum, and if so, how soon, and if not,
also how soon?


   Vitali: No comment! :)


   GPV: Thank you!


   Vitaly: otmazatsya! ;-))


   GPV::))

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   CC'999 second day began with a collection of ten additional
rubles each, as the organizers had to cover
damage to five windows smashed at night:). N-ную amount 
collected, entrance to the hall was opened, started the PC and 
Amiga compo. People in the hall was smaller than the first day; 
spektrumisty part of or already left home, or just did not go 
on the second day. Pisishno-Amiga crowd turned out to be more 
space:), and Peter Sobolev enthusiastically clicked a camera 
shutter, resulting in a photo gallery, dedicated to the CC, on 
the Enlight-ovsky site was saturated not familiar spektrumistam 
persons only when I interviewed Serge, was familiar:). LAV 
played the piano, gathering around two dozen students and 
fans:). Outside the hall too, something happened - had 
disappeared ZX-Shadow. Timothy Lapo and LAS have suggested that 
far away, he could hardly have:), and therefore should look for 
it within the school yard, in describing the expanding 
spiral:). Intuition guys did not disappoint - find, picked up, 
warmed:) ... In the evening, ZX-Shadow even tried to give an 
interview:) Frunze on FunTop2000:). 

   Summing up the festival was delayed until late evening,
after 22 hours over award winners (see Nicron
110:)). In the school yard Random long stood before a video 
camera, declaring in conclusion CC'000 - Festival of the two 
thousandth year.