Born Dead #06 17 февраля 1999

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Memoirs - Magic Soft in facts and figures.

                  Magic Soft Facts and figures


The True Story of MAGIC SOFT, told her in between times
leader Viktor Moskalev. Unfortunately, this short text is not
displays, perhaps, all those events that occurred in and
About MAGIC SOFT for the duration of their existence, but at
As a first-hand information. I would like to see the course
plenty of truthful and complete the autobiographical notes of
his past on the old ZX scenery of the early 90th
years. Something like the history about the Moscow group in the 
period 93-95, narrated in one of NICRON'ov. So dear, sit down

for the "clave" their pC / Amiga and write a memoir - you can 
already imagine is let. And we are happy to publish it all.


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(C) MagiC ^ XTM
(R) UnBEL! EVER ^ SPEED co. ^ XTM


    I started my work on computers with Agat'a if
Still remember any ... It was in the late 80's. Spectrum at the
the time had just begun, the details were expensive, and I 
decided to collect his Radio RC-86. Gathered with their grief 
in half:) I started learning it assembler, even wrote something 
... 


    Later, he met with the Atari - I saw her at her new friends,
which subsequently organized Magic Soft. They were XPEh
and Vlad Komkov (now his nick - Juggler). Here on the Atari I
learned that a demo! Learned and understood at once - this is 
my! 


    Then in the 92nd, I was thinking about the ZX, as Atari has 
been not everyone can afford. I did at that time engaged in 
assembling AON-in, so some money in his pocket were carried out 
... In May dream came true - I had the Leningrad-48 (cassette).

After three or four months to become Pentagon-128 - just a fee
without the drive and AY. A month later bought AY - very much 
to me liked the music on the Atari and I wanted to be on the 
Spectrum too, something like that ... I remember from the tape 
loaded the pseudo-demo antsy music from the game:)



    Later Pentagon'y gathered himself and Vladik XPEh. At this 
time I learned about another new computer for me - it's the 
Commodore 64. After watching a videotape with the demos and 
games on it - I was just flabbergasted! At that time it seemed 
that he saw a graphic station! A After some time looking video 
with a demo and games on the Amiga. Well, what can I say, if 
the C64 appeared graphic station! It was just fantastic! In the 
Amiga demo I just fell in love at first sight:) PC at the time 
seemed (However, and now it seems:) such nonsense with a text 
mode and the inability to sync even on shots, that about it

do almost no one remembered ...


    Late spring 93rd ... Vladik already hard kodil on the 
Spectrum, XPEh wrote the music for a ZX, then on Atari ... I, 
too slowly kodit studied, mainly by Vlad. Ironically, but

in Russia on the Spectrum at the time no one was writing a demo 
(torn running line and the music of the games do not count), 
and because of border demo one did not deliver ... We decided 
to fill this gap and why was organized by a group of Magic Soft 
(incidentally, the name came up with my brother, Anton), which 
includes Vlad, XPEh, Anton I. First and foremost, our job - it 
Nonamed demo - edinstvnnaya at the moment (in my opinion) 
Domestic this demo on the Spectrum, where there was nothing 
strange: its code, its music, its graphics ... I remember that 
demo made big splash on many hackers of those times!



    Vladik and XPEh at that time were thinking about the Amiga 
... By the end of 93rd they have bought on Amiga 600, and the 
Spectrum, of course, abandoned ... In Magic Soft left only me 
and Anton. Vladik and XPEh so still and sit on the Amiga, 
though for a long time for 1200:) XPEh writes music, Vladik 
occasionally kodit ... 


    I was engaged in commerce on the ZX. Kodit almost ceased, 
except that only unpretentious intro to the game ... Met a very

many groups have started to appear and simply loners ... In
Magic Soft while two new Membury - Mac Buster
(Coder) and Visual (musician). But, nevertheless, no significant
products, we do not (except that releases games) ...


    Several times was going to buy a more serious comp
than the ZX. I thought, what more I need to, PC or Amiga?
Demomeykerskoe feel like the Amiga, a business like PC. And I 
did your choice. At the end of 96-year I bought the Amiga 1200 
and realized that not mistaken. I'm very glad I did not chose 
then PC! 


    By the mid 97-th year, I began to realize that the 
magnificent Anton schedule (while he still was not nickname) 
and a good music would fit perfectly Visual'a cool code:) I 
started to look encoder. And he was very close - it is VAV, 
whom I knew already about 3 years old ... It's that time 
belonged to the group Megacode. We do not have enough coder, he 
was - a musician and artist. Naturally, We came together very 
quickly ... 


    While I am actively communicated with Beermans and Speed 
​​Co. We Mac Buster'om started thinking about what it would be 
necessary for us all together ... Megacode, Beermans and Speed 
​​Co. took it the proposal with joy. And now, July 12, 
1997-year, nearly all Membury these groups gathered in Moscow 
and was created by the union Extreme (the name coined Mac 
Buster). 


    Extreme became the backbone Exploder (ex-VAV), TeeRay 
(ex-Tracer, Anton), Visual, Mac Buster and me. By that time, I 
think, amigo have already been all but Exploder'a (or rather he 
was Extended AmigaCD32, which he tried to sell more than a year

in order to buy the Amiga 1200).

The rest you have to know yourself:)