ZX Pilot #42 09 декабря 2005

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Our Guest - Memoirs spektrumista from Dzerzhinsk - Nuts.

          H A R T O S T L (I)



(C) Nuts


     Zhist NUTSa during active

      spektrumizma development in Russia

              and CIS countries.



                          Instead of an epigraph:

                They say up to 40 years to write

                      memoir - is sinful ....


   The most difficult thing in my "memoir" - is
remember what year I became interested in computers. I remember 
exactly that it was connected with my journey into the

Moscow in the year, so commercials 1991st. In addition to
any gifts (water gun, puzzles, posters with "ninja" and Piggy, 
and Stepashko - naturally from "Good Night

kids "), I bought several books, including
including "Going Microcomputer", Part
2. I remember lugging these books on bridge
above the Moskva River. It was a terrible heat. A
glyuknuli and we decided that the bridge is very short
:) As I first this thing! - Memories
nightmare!

   So, this book is in an understandable form
told about the BASIC language, there is even
mentioned differences Spekovskogo dialect
from the sale of other 8bit computer. Reading
all the (very entertaining it was), I decided that
it's cool and what I need komputer. Was
this summer.

   And in the winter-spring of next year, I
get my first Speck - in the implementation
Dubna-48k. Very interesting PC - the processor was chilled, 
commercials up to 2.5 MHz, and All ROM plowed, so did not work

non-standard cassette loaders. But
Arkanoid-2 was just perfect.

   I have since the early days Busick wanted to study and 
stuff. But numerous friends only wanted to play. How to hobnob 
been viewed a lot of toys. But Busick and takes time.


   The first serious work in the Busick
was the result of the death of cassettes
favorite toy of Bubble Bobble 2. I then
not too bad sec Busick and tried to make her a replacement. And 
used the UDG schedule. Before the original action is not

have lasted, and was not fully completed yet.

   I also was fond of every kind graphics. I do not know how to 
draw and do not know how, but made it a lot. I've always wanted

make a sharp image editor. The first and only full-fledged 
version has been bungled by Busick. Called it a miracle

programerskoy my thoughts (you only
Imagine!) The BAT. Was this
prog and splash screen, painted it the same:
some sort square bat with triangular ears. I do not remember 
what I stuffed into this editor, but it was crammed

VERY much.

   In addition, I gathered a collection of screen savers. 
Lumped and navydiral 315 pieces - in 6 cassettes. Until now, 
these tapes are not zayuzanymi.


   In all these activities helped me
(Hurt) a few people. Only one of
They have reached the stage of development of the Pentagon and
TR-DOS, as well as the IS-DOS level
User: Mikhail Gusev. Around the year
in the 1994th, he began active ideas to make
cartoon. Draw he did not know how. So
the only thing that we have successfully done -
Animated Screensaver by Cauldron 2. To the
I'm fine pore yuzal LDIR of Busick. In
result of a witch with a screen saver active
interfered with a broom in the boiler.

   Also, I had relizerskuyu activities.
My initials "P.A." perfectly fit in
circle diameter of 20 pixels, all yellow
color. So there was a "P. A. SOFT". Unreleased were President, 
Arcanoid-2, Art Studio (I did the normal selection of 
controls). These releases were used the ability to display 
custom Busick font stretched 8 times the height. With them

the same has occurred and the first Trouble - such a conclusion
not worked in one of the clones Speck one of my buddies.

   All this research activity was carried out on all the same 
Dubna. She remained in working condition and still

day. Lack of tape recorders and cassettes
also not observed. Initially, I used SEKAMovsky RF adapter. 
Then he switched to the tube B / W TV, already LF. And finally 
assembled a cunning scheme and connected to a color already on 
the telly RGB, in good quality.


   This started my zhelezyachnaya
activity - it is to this day is mainly desoldering various 
wires and cables. 

   Was just created (not by me) and connected (by me) 
wonder-joystick on the basis of P2K: five buttons arranged in a 
cross iron box. "Corporate" plastic stick was broken with the 
active game of Beach Head. Then, instead of the plastic lever 
was machined metal - and also works well.


   Some time after the purchase
Speck, I felt love for the upgrade and
I wanted something cheap IBM compatible. Under the guise of 
this well IBMsovmestimogo for a decent but reasonable Price was 
acquired XT-like clone PC entitled "NIVKI. He was a terribly 
interesting: a huge, armored, with three fans, one floppy 
drive, no screws, lots of connectors and ports. She was 736kb 
DOSovskoy (PTsshnye experts understand) memory. As I learned 
much later - special disbanded its nearly two-fold. I and

could not connect the screw - then seturA
was not. I write about this devayse sufficient detail, as he 
played a fairly a big role in my life Spekovskoy.


   In - First I connected it to the same
TV. This led to solder
great switch ZX-CGA-EGA-> TV. Later it allows you to switch RGB
signals from one of 5 sources.

   Secondly - the development of PCs. Development almost was 
not. I certainly learned Norton. But games I've got very 
little. There were all sorts of incompatibility. And most 
importantly - always something it is not in the module 
kontachilo drive, so that run the car was pretty

difficult.

   Thirdly - more on that later.

   That's how I lived. Looked Gamez. Climbed into them from 
Busick. Then learned pi write code from Busick and started 
programming in machine code without Asma. The greatest 
achievement in this field was the idea writing a sprite editor. 
Machine and insert the code worked increased pixels by 8 times 
(attributes) and reverse conversion. It was scary like

Sprite Master 5.xx:) Cursor and set-points of the removal was 
made of Busick. I even started to use a disassembler 
InfraRed48. But as time went on. 

   In the second quarter of 8th grade I transferred to another 
school. He graduated from the course user PCs. Partying to the 
pore, we as times with the above Mihanom Gusev.


   In the second half of the 1 st class (ie
is in the early 1995go), I joined the courses
training at the institute. It was there (in the
first day) I met with
MoonWalkerOM (now Zeebr, converted from
Breeze, and before that he was ForemanOM, and to
this by someone else) and WerwolfOM (cool artist). The group 
also included AloneIndark, Raven, and (theoretically)

BlackAngel (he did not know about it). I
joined them under the label of Master
Home Computer Group. On the same course went further and FRODO 
with a friend. 

   Just Volcker to once again to persuade me to buy the 
Pentagon-128. In the spring the same year as such and was 
purchased along with color monitor. Thus began a new phase

in my computer life.

   In the beginning had to modify the monitor, because he had 
not held shots (did it was not me). Then I adapted his 
miracle-TV-switcher at this monitor, and the third Comp. Based 
on the boxes on the device Speakerphone pile were two

mid-range the speakers, koi are to me
to this day.



          H A R T O S T L (II)



   Diskette I started actively collecting sistemki. For the 
software had to travel to the nearby town and I worked "Johnny 
mnemonic. Began to study the AFM in TASMe and MASMe. Together 
with Volker we have made a cool release and Russification

GoToHell. Idea was to make economic
game "Good maneger - dead maneger". I
made a menu with illuminated points, while Walker - stuffed 
menyuhi and integrated intro, with a running line. 

   Were still Smak Megademo (which I do not
participated), and later - Fast Bread (written
text-only scrolling text:). Unique
spatial my significant work in
of MHCG was arkanodopodobnaya game
I proposed to build a boot, and that
Walker was made.

   Walker even cared about the prestige and
image of our group. He was constantly kicked
me that I should do something (could
difficult). But he advised me of an order to change pogonyalu. 
Just one of my buddies told me about

a movie whose name "nasal" interpreter translated as "Nats with
shift "(maybe it was he himself invented). On
RTR this movie a couple of times displayed under
called "Crazy." Judge for yourself
(Check) with some dude me my
otassotsiiroval buddy (friends call!). And I did not think long 
and announced his new pogonyalu.


   A little later, at school, I Olympiad
met with Time KeeperOM and another
petition, which we are currently successfully attached. We also 
met with a group of KZS (about the name I coined funny: RGB - 
KrasnyyZelenyySiny - GLC). In particular, it includes 
Ice'and'Green (Then SpaceMan).


   When we all went to college (1997
year) mass koderskaya work went to a new level. In the autumn I 
met with ORGANISMom, VirtualBoyEM (now Woland) and

other companions. Later, there were
and Bear, as well as the Terminus, and Mayor
(Shorter MAYOR - and how it's written there, I no
never seen:).

   It was after reading ORGom (almost immediately) followed all 
sorts of permutations STSENOVYE, intrigue, regrouping, union 
and separation. They continued quite a long time, sometimes 
accompanied by mass gatherings on the further mass associations 
(all city). As a result, the only change

Teams from KZS separated people
Meeting: FaceOff Association,
PowerProject, EYE-Q. In addition to these three, FES
managed to get the same in composition MHCG. In
such a mess I personally deal with
difficulty. But, leaving MHCG, I'm so in any
of these groups are not entered.

   Going to college was marked by
buying a PC from Volker, amigo y Frodo. A
importantly - will have access to the Internet.
Thus, we have access to
placer fresh software, and Time Keeper -
also began to actively correspond with
people.

   Summer 1998go is a serious event in my life - buying 486go. I
managed to buy it shortly before the crash on the 11th
August, a very tiny amount, to
Besides, I could buy more housing for
HRC, as planned to gather complex itself.

   The formal reason for buying PCs were
Education (Autocad, Fortran) and race schedules -
I repeat, I am not a very good artist. Charts
this (porn), I caught a nemeryannom quantities, but it had 
never been used. The game NetWalk FES use graphics, catch 
MAX.KLM / KZS. 

   But there were two applications for this
486. First I began to study emulators
alien machines, and especially - formats
their disks. Second, I finally was able to
to join the flow of software from the Internet.
Before that I only had enough crumbs. And now I
captured several megabytes of files and
began to sort them.

   In the latter, helped me, no matter how
Strangely enough, my "Nyvka. The fact that this
486 was a proprietary IBM PS / 2 "white" building.
A problem was that there was a screw
drive is 3'5 "and the CD-Drive 4x. By increasing
place just was not there. But I made a terrible
sly: connect null modem cable two
COM-port, set the appropriate software,
and used the "Nivki" as an external
5'25 "drive. Initially, I wrote software to
360KB floppy disk, copied its terrible
IBM Copy, glued back and rashobechival.
Benefit, Time Keeper to the pore wrote
Internet to ZX converter.

   Then I began to use
Cardinal'ovsky MS <-> TR and converted
a disk of software at a time.

   After some time I decided to use the remaining idle housing. 
just to the pore, I stopped to get a scholarship

:) The last 30rub I bought the building
deuce, got multikartochku and vidyuhi.
Appeared an external drive, but on it I could
already use HOBET'u.

   Later on it appeared the screw. The story of his
obtaining very funny. To the pore Bear
worked in a computer store,
located in two steps from the hut BODY.
Director of his former work is decent enough Spektrumschik 
years. Here he gave Time KeeperU this screw (31mb,

RLL) with the controller (rather
specific) for "connecting it to
Spec. "After a while we exchanged with him in my (MFM, 21mb) 
remaining from "Nivki" - I had never hooked up.

This screw has an intermediate buffer and
additional storage of my precious
source.

   About the Keeper should say a few more
words. In those days, he is like me and Bear hanging out of the 
Authority. He lived those days with my grandmother. So, in the 
winter Kiper wore a kind of hat type this ... as it is ... 
porcupine! In sense, it was so lush, hairy (I

I do not know from what). Well, my grandmother and nicknamed 
him "hairy hat", then - just a "cap". 

   And yet, this hut was a place of wonderful ORGovskih 
phrases. Type "ORG: Hang Bill Gates! For eggs! Nuts: On

Interrupt! "or" FES: Manavt (SpaceMan)
tore this Mouzon, and learned how to make
this sample, so he tore up the hair on my ass
- So it's easy. Nuts: And what he fought then?
ORG (non-kerf): What, what - MagickOM!
_pauza_ Ah, you're asking about your hair? "

   I to the pore (Fall 199go) has already started
TRAUBL write, and follow the story of his
creation described in detail in the enclosed
supporting documentation.

   What Spec? Unlike many
other stories, this will not narrate
a pile of burned VGshek. My first Pentagon
suffered a couple of drawbacks: buggy INT and
that there is a drive (or more precisely with
controller) was going on, that sometimes all
this thing is buggy. In the process of repairing it, I
suffered physically for life. I
gave it to the repair of private spice, but
I wish I did not do it! Complex it is not
repaired, simply pulled the wires and drive have earned. But in 
the process of visiting of the SPECA I am very powerfully 
faltered and mordyakoy vdvinulsya the dirty asphalt. In

result of one tooth was a couple of millimeters shorter.

   Still, this Pentagon then ill still
memory. I discovered this bit is an original way: buggy prog 
Screen Editor and buggy it specifically for operations with the 
drive. I found this place, and found one byte which periodically

buggy one bit - as a result of treatment went far beyond # 
3d13, as intended. This RUshku, as well as INToobrazuyuschuyu 
chain of my father and resolder. And the comp worked long time.


   But the drive controller does not give up. He
zaglyuchil again and nobody could fix it. Luckily I managed to 
get another Pentagon (traded on the little black and white

TV). Buggy keyboard was
repair. INT And I did not dare to touch.
Controller floparya at Stump this also liked
vzbryknut, but it was not fatal.

   At this the Pentagon, I worked until recently. And I have it 
periodically then dragged TimeKeeperU then ORGu dacha -

for writing the demos at a party. His Pentagon Kiper 
periodically as palil. Last Kiper disfigured and my pentagon: 
INT straightened and tucked it into PTsshny housing (in late 
2001go). By that I had a pore practically no longer included.


   Also, I bought it Volcker
General Sound. It was then
Pentagon I had, I gave "popolzovavshis" his BearU. Later (early
2002go), I gave him and the Pentagon. In addition to
this bear I owed some more
money (finally can since ancient times). From this
we can conclude that I am nothing
do not see listed. That 's the man
This Bear - each with his work (at least 3) were dismissed, and 
even he grandmother was his employer. 

   I had a few amusing
wheelbarrows: "Vesta" - non-operating, the EU 1840 -
understand how and Nyvka "parts, UKNC
- External CD Ice'and'Green recently have
I picked up and connected to your Spec.

   But later we pushed HRC (by the way -
is also beginning to grow into amusing
details). But this is - is another
history.

   The last three years (2000, 2001, 2002)
we no longer gather in the summer at the dacha of the Authority
- When he had to write DeMouy. At the 2002nd
, the cap went into the army, was not BearA.

   Our last Stsenovy funny happened already without their 
participation - this is the name of the demos on Kafe02. Name 
came our joint efforts. Org as he said:

"We will teach you to be afraid of the twenty-first demos - 
this is it Tolkien dungeons Moriah remembered. A

I abruptly realized the title: Demo21. Although
a variant: Berlin38:)

   The story continues. ORG again live in
grandmother. But on the table, where his
Speck, is already the HRC. In short, you know ....