Interview - Interview with Nikolay Rodionov, author of popular books for the ZX Spectrum

<b>Interview</b> - Interview with Nikolay Rodionov, author of popular books for the ZX Spectrum

             Nikolai Rodionov

        Questions are asked by Alone Coder

DB>> [The traditional question:)] When you have
DB>> appeared ZX Spectrum, what was he like?
> In 1984. "Eraser".
DB> How many years he served?
Yes, God knows. But a lot. Keyboard
only was extremely unreliable, and some
chinilas times, and then, if my memory does not
changes, there was some self-made.
DB> And if not secret, how could a simple
DB> Soviet man get such
DB> fashionable abroad thing? :)
I'm almost a year he lived in Yugoslavia, and thence
brought.
DB> What you had to use up
DB> ZX Spectrum?
Nothing.
DB> What model ZX you have had a different
DB> time, and was there any live
DB> ZX?
The original was 128. And then in
working order was a lot of things, such as
The Hobbit, etc. Now somewhere lying
128-th, but he has problems with standard
keyboard.

DB>> In what year did you first saw the Beta
DB>> Disk interface?
> I do not remember. Somewhere around 90-year,
> Likely.
DB> These were rolls of wire or printed
DB> motherboard? Can I get a man
DB> that they did?
Yes, I do not remember already, as it looked. Not
skeins of wires - exactly.
DB> And when you first heard the AY-3-8910
DB> (YM2149F)?
When I bought Spectrum 128. Well, more precisely,
earlier, when he first saw.

DB>>> Are there any terms that did not have
DB>>> Russian counterparts (in print)
DB>>> before writing the book "ZX Spectrum for
DB>>> users and programmers, and
DB>>> only appeared in it?
>> I do not remember. But it is possible. Term
>> "Ksorka" there has also been screened or
>> "Adaptation ..."?
>> In "Adaptation" was used accurately.
DB>> Hmm, maybe I have an incomplete version?
DB>> what I have, end
DB>> saying: "If I face ever
DB>> continuation of this book, then surely
DB>> I'll assume that you have
DB>> at least some idea of the
DB>> assembler! "
> I do not remember already. Although, like, come out
> Book with the addition, where just about
> Ksorki and it should be.
DB> Your books do not stand on your shelf?: (
No, all gave away, yet on the market to buy,
to give.

DB> When and how did you meet Larchenko
DB> (incidentally, where the accent -
DB> Larchenko or Larchenko?)?
Larchenko. Met in the market Ringback,
somewhere, too, in the 89-90-year.
DB> How many of you at that time was cooler? :)
Of course, I am! :)
DB> It was already started writing MOA Service?
Yes.
DB> How was the division of labor between
DB> you and Larchenko when writing "ZX
DB> Spectrum for users and
DB> programmers? "Who wrote that?
Yes, as it turns. It's hard out there
share.
DB> Are any of these terms, your -
DB> or they were already in the Russian
DB> literature?
DB> "directory entry"
DB> (instead of "directory entry")
DB> "handle"
DB> "flow" and "channel"
DB> "compilation" and "disassemble"
DB> "familiarity"
DB> "distribution"
DB> "masked" and "Non-maskable"
DB> "increment" and "decrement"
DB> "dump"
DB> "macro" and "macro"
DB> "background" (PAPER), and "tone" (INK)
I do not know.

DB>>> How are you with the MOA sought and found the contact
DB>>> with the publishing house?
>> We did not seek contact with the publishers,
>> Publishing "Peter" was born thanks to
>> This book.
DB>> Duc, it's fun! How does it
DB>> happened? Who was the organizer
DB>> "Peter"? What the order means
DB>> had to invest in the edition of the first
DB>> book?
> It is better to ask the publisher:)
DB> Publishers - rich, proud, and I
DB> information from them, certainly not
DB> pull ... And the director of "Peter" with those
DB> has not changed?
He died, became the director of his companion.
Like now - I do not know.
DB> How does the process of publication?
> Sami typeset in Ventura,
DB> What is the product on which platform?
O. New generation, people do not know that
Ventura is:) On the platform, MS-DOS.
> Proofreader were taken from the "Impaksa or
> Something like that, it was called, then again
> Read in. Then went to press. In
> Generally, anything unexpected.
DB> What is Impaks?
Publishing. The first book of the same under their
mark out, unless I am mistaken, though
virtually all the work, except the press, was
we have done.
DB> And how are they
DB> distribution of the book?
I do not know, I did not examine this. Funny
fact - out of print book later, we received
a week after she appeared on the
markets.

DB>> And where are published "Adaptation" (I saw her
DB>> only in electronic form)?
> Ibid.
DB>> By the way, was it published 2 nd book about
DB>> system programs (where they were
DB>> described by A. E. Drums, etc.)
DB>> declared in a second book (in which
DB>> have been describing VU-File, Tasword, TLW and
DB>> etc.)?
> I do not know.
DB> Ie with "Peter" you after so
DB> called 1-d not working?
Worked. I just do not know (can not remember) that
was issued.

DB>>>> How the information was produced for Heads of
DB>>>> "A bit of history" and "Architecture ZX
DB>>>> Spectrum "?
>>> So question for. It was more than 10
>>> Years ago. Let's just say: the bits,
>>> Internet was still "no":)
DB>>> And on the Russian-speaking or English speaking
DB>>> sources?
>> It is unlikely that if there was something
>> Russian-speaking.
DB>>> Were there prior to 1991
DB>>> original Russian self-published
DB>>> brochures ZX (no transfers)?
>> Well, I wrote them X)
DB>> And what, what?
> About ZX:). Descriptions of the program, some
> More useful things. Actually,
> Adapting ... " was first in the form
> Samizdat.
DB> You gave the copy of these pamphlets? They
DB> preserved?
I sold them on the market. I do not
preserved.

DB>> There is earnest in the ZX
DB>> programmer named Deremschuk,
DB>> referred to some distortion in the
DB>> running line program PCopier? :)
> I have no idea. Signed in the original
> The program was.
DB> Hmm, the program TAPE-COPY with the
DB> signature I did not come across ... Search
DB> gave a lot of programs with similar
DB> names, but it is this - no ...
DB> How are you took out fresh programs
DB> about 1991? Where to store them? And how
DB> distributing your own?
Yes, a lot of friends was, somewhere something
occurred. And their selling in the market
Ringback - of course they do not spread
only in this way.

DB>>> What other programmers, but you,
DB>>> Larchenko, Kovalevsky
DB>>> Mednonogovyh, wrote in a ZX
DB>>> Leningrad / St Petersburg around 1991?
>> I am but myself and Larchenko, like anyone
>> I do not remember.
DB>>> What kind of local hackers can
DB>>> remember?
>> Likewise.
DB>> In 1992, in St. Petersburg wielded hacker
DB>> Anton Vasiliev (now deceased). Y
DB>> it in the intro is often present
DB>> inscription "Vasilyev Anton is best". You
DB>> not familiar with it?
> None.
DB>> Who is Cyril Panyushkin? He is one of
DB>> Leningrad or Moscow?
> From Moscow.
DB> It is mentioned in your disk version
DB> Ball Breaker 1'2. That he was to her
DB> doing?
Most likely, sat beside the chair and
nap:)
DB> How do you contact - you have been in
DB> Moscow, or he was in St. Petersburg?
And so and so.
DB> How do you think now: translate games
DB> English to Russian - it was
DB> benefit or harm?
A good translation - the good, bad - harm.

DB> Is there a complete collection (or at least
DB> list) of your releases on ZX?
None.

DB>>> When you get into Fido?
>> In 1994.
DB>> Do you have a Very Old Archives
DB>> ekhi ZX.SPECTRUM?
>> In general, no no.
DB>>> And when you're gone with the ZX?
>> Hmm. I do not remember. Probably, when
>> Something decently appeared.
DB>> This was before the assembler TASM
DB>> (by RST7) or after?
> Apparently, before that, about TASM I think
> I know nothing. Or forgotten.
DB> A Conver Sommander Kovalevsky
DB> ZXZIP Kondratieff? and FUCK and FUT -
DB> program that won DCU?
I do not know these programs. And that is something
DCU has won a few years after its
writing - not surprising. At that
time there were applied its own
unique ideas, which are at loggerheads and
complement - the only question of time. In
Overall, it's like today to overtake
Alain Prost, as he sits on the rostrum,
therefore, a strange sound
"Win".

DB>> or suggested you work in
DB>> "Scorpio"?
> None.
DB>> What you had a permanent job
DB>> about 1994 - it was associated with
DB>> programming?
> Yes, I do not remember. Like and was not something
> Constant during this period.
DB>> And now?
> Now ... Well, we can say that due
> With programming.
DB> hide:)
Yes, it's not that much.
DB> What is the position which the firm, which
DB> projects?
Technical Director of JSC "Davis." Projects
connected to the Internet.

DB> A in which university you studied in which
DB>, respectively, in which specialty?
I'm already in three high schools had to learn, but
more than one year has not turned in any
one.

DB>>> What events to ZX you more
DB>>> all surprised? Well, for example,
DB>>> appearance very unexpectedly
DB>>> program, very much the device
DB>>> or Very cool man?
>> But that was then in Russia, someone cooler
>> Me? ;)
DB>> Iskra soft:)
> Which linoleum trade?
DB> What are they doing now, I do not know:)
Yes they have ten years linoleum trade.

DB>> Did you have any
DB>> impressions, for example, when you
DB>> I saw that on the ZX Spectrum is possible
DB>> bathed in 3D (in the games I of the Mask,
DB>> 3D Pool, Driller, Hard Drivin'...)?
> There were, of course.
DB> And you have not tried myself to write 3D? A
DB> even wrote some games?
3D did not try, appended to the end of the game
there was not one. Yes, and it is not very
it was interesting, deep in the picking
system was more interesting and allows you to
funny stuff.

DB>> There is a drive "educational games"
DB>> published by "Peter".
DB>> There, for example, there is a game about
DB>> "across the street." This software has to
DB>> your attitude?
> It seems not.
DB>> A to Kapultsevicham?
> Who is it?
DB> author of How to write a game "and" How
DB> write a game in assembly language "- too
DB> released ed-tion "Peter". There
DB> electronic versions of these books (I think
DB> they are even posted on the website "Peter"
DB> but I do not go climbing).
Well, if I was not in St. Petersburg.

DB>> In the book "The dialects of BASIC" noted
DB>> if I'm not mistaken, your father - Yuri
DB>> N. Rodionov. He wrote in
DB>> Laser Basic.
> Yes, it is not so much writing, but with
> Interest to deal with this matter.
DB>> Maybe a game on the theme "Go
DB>> the road "- it? In what about the years
DB>> he wrote?
> No, in my opinion, nothing he wrote.
DB> Here kovyrnul program and saw:
DB> PITER Ltd 1991
DB> Akhudow T.A. tel 2353749
DB> There is another program under the brand name
DB> MP "Peter" - typing tutor
DB> "Claudia." Authors: Karpov (Programmer)
DB> and Bzhelyansky (artist).
DB> You're acquainted with someone from
DB> listed?
> Yes, both. The artist had not seen since
> Then, and Pasha Karpov support
> Contact now.
DB> And what they have written?
Nothing.
DB> How, by the way, Bzhelyanskogo name?
Oh, I forgot.
DB> Is there anywhere else his picture?
If not mistaken, his illustrations - in
"Adaptation."

DB>> How often do you read the book - and
DB>> what? Do you read in electronic form?
> The last few years - not to books.
> Previously read very much.
DB> What good writers can
DB> remember?
Dostoyevsky, Vonnegut, Borges, Marquez,
Ham, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche ... tired of all the
Good to remember:)
DB> Are they Stanislaw Lem,
DB> Strugatsky brothers, Sergei Kazmenko,
DB> Pavel Shumilov, Umberto Eco?
Lem and Strugatskikh read, but a fantasy
I interesova a more tender age.

DB> Have you attended any festival
DB> Computer Art (demoparty)?
None.
DB> Are you planning to go to the Chaos
DB> Constructions'2006?
None.
DB> On Chaos Constructions'2005 was
DB> Larchenko.
Well, that was.

DB> It is a pity that on many issues, which
DB> I was interested in the answers, so
DB> to say, lost in the depths of memory.
DB> Maybe you tell yourself something
DB> is good remember?
Yes, lazy me.