ZX Pilot #15 18 сентября 1997

Интервью

Our Guest - Interview SHOTGUN-a.

    Our guest


(C) VEL


   To me the other day went to visit SHOTGUN, share news and 
learn how to extend it over a brilliant perversion. Over the 
past few years, users do not see anything similar.


   I decided to ask SHOTGUN'u few questions for which answers 
will be of interest to users. 

Vel: As originally was supposed to look like your creation?
Sh.: First you expect to put more into the game graphics.

     Intended to make a short introduction to igre.Ono should

     had to go as a cartoon film. Were selected bore
     How many scenes were based on their pictures taken with 
the PC-games 

     Earth Siege. But there was a problem with a lack of

     memory, must agree, 128kb is not so much. Unfortunately for

     Seccy not an established standard for hard drive.
Vel: And what about Scorpion with hard drive?
Sh.: On his "big enough" spread can be judged

     from what I've seen 2-3 cars in the city. Therefore it was 
necessary 

     settle for a few games with screenshot'ami

     Mechwarrior 1 and 2.
Vel: How do you otnosishsya to switch pages through out (253) 
as well? Sh.: You see, on many machines, this number does not 
pass (I 

     mean ATM, SCORPION, PROFI). And say how many, what

     if you want to run our program, you must

     Change the computer (though all members are working on the 
Integral 

     Pentagon'ah, but our programs run on all machines. -

     ca. ed.) is, frankly, not very sensible (consent
     Tes, the program is cheaper than a computer)! And the 
introduction of time      individual switches to turn off the 
extra ports 

     nullify the benefits of extended memory. Although the model
     zhno introduce as standard, such a shift: the expansion

     memory up to 512kb over the unused 2 bits on the port

     # 7FFD, then, when addressing the port # FD on all 
computers 

     we get that amount of memory (by the way, we can produce
     A similar revision to the existing machines with a memory

     no more than 512kb - literally plug 3.2 chip). But

     because no hurry to do this, I present

     currently writing a driver program of extended memory EMD

     (Expanded Memory Driver), but more on that later.
Vel: How do you otnosishsya to Windows'95?
Sh.: I endorse the motto: "Windows must die!". This is a

     nonviable mutant, good living thanks to Bill

     Gates and Co. Maybe I did not understand the people for 
whom 

     "Amiga Rulez", but I am a supporter of PC. And it's very 
sad that beneath      bnymi Win95 viruses spoil the impression 
of this fairly 

     a good car. And my favorite operating system on the PC -

     OS / 2, although the majority of the world's stumps from 
programming 

     shouting something like: "Win rulez, together with 
Microsoft" Vel: If not a secret, then what is your car?

Sh.: In this no secret: I tell you about my progress.

     My own first PC was a Soviet gigakalkulyator

     EC-1841, a second PC - ZX Spectrum 48 (I later subcategory
     lyuchil drive and 128k of memory). At the moment I have ATM
     turbo. Comp anything, but there are a few glitches, though 
I am at      Off. In the future I hope to get P120/16/1.66G 
HDD/2MB 

     VIDEO / GUS MAX.
Vel: And what are your future plans?
Sh.: Well, it's hard to say. Firstly, as I mentioned earlier, is

     work on the EMD v1.0. In the future it will provide access 
to 

     throughout the computer's memory, whether Pentagon, ATM, 
Scorpion or 

     Profi. The minimum necessary to work - 128k. This will be

     relotsiruemaya program. By the way, it will consist of 2

     parts: 1 I: - the installer (it should be run

     every time you boot EMD, it is not relotsiruem and performs
     exists a test machine, loading and setting EMD). 
Unfortunately EMD 

     can be called only (!) via command CALL. Well

     further I still guessing I will not, but I can say one 
thing: 

     probably will continue playing under the name of Nether 
Earth 

     Total Control, and work it will be running vysheupo
     myanutogo EMD. It may also be released version of the EMD 
under IS-DOS 

     (Although the latter can not happen due to the large

     difficulties associated with the structure itself DOS). 
Well, 

     perhaps that's all.