ZX Pilot #41 29 декабря 2002

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Our Guest - Memoirs Alone Coder'a.

             H A R T O S T L



(C) Alone Coder


              My computer.


               I. 48k + Tape.


   Speccy appeared to me in 1991.
However, positively not sure, because
It was a very long time, but there are two episodes
that indicate this is the date.


                Episode 1.

   1991 or 1992. Oddly, no
first Spectrum. The first was taken at the time
before, from him were the memories of
the first games from tape (with Reel Tape
8)) - Locomotion, Stop the Italian Express
and something else, I forgot. This - collected by my
Dad. The distinguishing feature - Rom 1991
, the turbo-reading. This is me in 1991 and
remembered just for its novelty and
Timeliness:)


                Episode 2.

   1992, summer. I lie, you know, in
hospital with a broken leg. After removing
plaster I was dragged into the general ward, where
was more or less with respect to
lying state of another 4 or 5 boys. Y
I have a plate of apricots, which I do not
it, I can not get up. Presented?

   That's nothing better to do I start
throw one of his neighbors in the ward
apricots and at the same time to ship about that, what
I have a computer at home. I have, say,
House is a self-made computer Spectrum,
I have said, I know how little it
programming in BASIC (which meant
I at the time of RC-86 has learned output
ASCII prints and twist the Loop
variable). Well, and so on. In fact,
nostalgia, but I this complex, yet ill,
two months have not seen ...

   The interviewee from doing nothing, while
Apricots have not yet ended, was
remember that he has a computer at home
Panasonic, which can be written
program two buttons ;))))


   Initiator of all my experiments
Papanui of computer with a neighbor
Uncle Sasha from 13th kvartiry.Imenno he
first appeared then "Microsha" which
He was the first and expanded, it was he who coined
used as a shell box
perched chess, it is we take
play the first Spectrum (by the way, now
remembered now, perhaps, the most
old: memory is not always brings:)


                Episode 3.

   Perhaps my first acquaintance with
Speccy: semi-darkness in the 13th house,
laboratory, which rises
The computer on which I show
wonders graphical interface - the program
in BASIC, risuyuschuyu circles
records!

   Computer along with black and white monitor and
recorder (already cassette) first
placed in the secretary, locked with a key.
Access to it, respectively, was
limited, had to ask
Parents: Is it possible to me now a little
play / poprogrammirovat, depending
on the mood ... Later the secretary was
unlocked, and in this state contain up to
today, closing at the request of
the public only on large
holidays. Incidentally, it has become difficult,
because I once broke the lock,
prevented me from working on the keyboard.

   Of course, the norm was wild cassette
computer. But there were a lot:)



                Episode 4.

   Year devil knows what. We are now sitting
friends (Andryukha Ionkin, Serge Chemodanov
and I), that is, we sit at the first of them,
and then my mind comes to write
Now the game in style roulette, to be
was to play the notes. (Pieces of paper we have
then were spent lottery
tickets, we know that any little boys
a set of similar leaves, even though the wrappers
from tea, may play the role of currency.) For
background I have a game with RK-86, jumps on
racetrack. "Of course, this empty game
workhorses of the UDG, I wrote in BASIC for
few minutes, but we are pretty long
dulis in this masterpiece, not saving it,
of course:)


   So I read a mountain of literature on
BASIC, make their own
experiments, wrote the same primitive
program (game "Point", for example, or
graphical editor, where you could
Draw a dot) and save them on tape.

   One of the programs was the editor
animation. Animation 4x8 familiarity
pictured in an increase in the real 4x4
scale, was 128 staff, managers
keys OPQA could move the cursor
Diagonal (break:), etc. ..
The program, although it was small,
was written with tears a few years. Thus,
diagonal cursor movement appeared
thanks Vundiku (if it was still called
Nicholas Trofimych, he attended school and
was a decent kid). It was he who pointed out
me a way to poll Claudia through the ports.

   We managed to give the program on a
local competition, open to all
platform. Later I learned that the program
"Was good, but it could not run."
Can be used not on the computer
:) But the same could be to blame and questioning
keyboard without masking bits 5 .. 7:)


   Meanwhile, imperialism was not asleep.
Spectrum quickly became adult
"Past stage". In one
day it was so ...


                Episode 5.

   I telephoned a neighbor, called me to the tube and
including music (Madonna). I listened and
expressed the idea that anything special
I can not hear myself. Neighbor in response to this
reported that the song playing computer and
invited udostoveritsya.Prishlos
get up and watch.

   Music was not playing Speccy. Spectrum at
the table was gone. Instead, it was
486 ...

   Dad then began to say that
time for me to learn to work in the NORMAL
computer, which computer, of course,
expensive, but you can buy in
Installment ... And I slapped his enormous eyes, and not
understood the bad consequences of the moment: (

   Fortunately, before the implementation of the Napoleonic
plans did not happen. Probably, there was no money.


             II. 48k + TR-DOS.


   This unit came to our house the same way
as the previous one: bought card, packed
house, set at the factory. Like the past,
Pentagon (later the degree of altered
Tot/i8, now he's Chapaya / MPO). Generally,
it was the same scheme as before, but
extended disk interface side.
Was: Magic, tape port, Beeper,
40-key keyboard with the recommendations
buttons 5,6,7,8. And there were glitches. Neither I, nor
Dad did not realize in analog electronics,
but of course, was to blame low-power unit
Food with a serial transformer. (In
previous computer trans was wound
hand, and the drive was not.)

   On this computer, we (then we, as
I'm not one) have begun experimenting with
diskofikatsiey individual programs.


                Episode 6.

   Many of the familiar program IS-Chess 48.
As is known, it has no screen saver, or rather
attribute is the logo, which is difficult
called a masterpiece. On the other hand, there
book in the series "Eureka" entitled "On
chance, "illustrated by painter
K. Moshkina. And here at the fiftieth page
drawn, as the two prisoners, a French
the Turks, the gamble on the book "Theory
probabilities ".

   Dad came up with an alias Mike,
easily pereinachil plot, replacing the bone
figures and the inscription on the book on Wikipedia
"Chess".


   My first experience in soldering was
capacitor, which I soldered leg.
Then I get the hand to repair the keyboard.

   The keyboard I have reed (or rather,
them even two, there were three). There is a large
stock reed, corps buttons, caps,
steklyshek, magnets, photocopies of inscriptions
keyboards and even a nenabitaya fee.
No8, unfortunately, not at the springs: (

   So, I loved angrily burst of
clave, playing in the next game. Tags
I broke the blow reed in one or two
button, then had the very same
and solder a new one!

   And once I soldered the signal from the beeper on
tape recorder and recorded a collection pikalnoy
music. Moreover, it was then, by writing, I
erased the tape of their sources, which I
there are not sorry.

   Did you know that music in games Code
Masters throws the same time and in the recorder
port?


   Game, we always bought at the market (he
still exists), except for a few
cassettes and discs, which could
write off. But our version of the disc, we
never circulated.

   However, I once translated MasterFile
Russian language, then to bring back
catalog materials journal
"Model-Builder." And it seems that this
database is never in good stead,
Moreover, I am afraid it is still stored on
my hard disk 8)

   Another was: policy implementation
ankettestov of the book (as I remember,
two, one of which is preserved), reprints
Examples of books on programming (I
try not to take part in this) was my
Own disc with the source at the ACME (he
still alive:) was a notebook with the project
graphic editor, who wrote on
individual routines, and there were many
another ...


   Had friends who have come and
went to the Speccy, and I found that
each new spektrumist, with whom I
acquaintance, turned out to be all intelligent and
clever:)


   Thus, all did not start today
and not yesterday, but what happened then (and then
there were new acquaintances, new
eccentric projects, third, fourth and
fifth computer, release, and the first reviews)
I will tell you another time!

                                  7vii2002