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History - The history of the magazine ZX-guide.

          As I did this journal
  Alone Coder


   I'll tell you the sad saga of how
How did the idea to create a ZX-guide, as
it evolved and what ordeals had
endure the unfortunate author in the process
creation of the aforementioned magazine. I hope
reader will forgive me for the excessive use of the word , 
inasmuch as I'm going to friendly conversation with him.



   It all started with that in early 1997
Sane year sold its Spectrum and bought
Amiga in hope (sancta simplicitas), that
on this machine, he will find peace and humility
and be able to relish writing any program
what just willed his soul, and play
any game, any Lyuba will his heart. But
He severely miscalculated: he did a good
in the person did not acquire the Amiga, but lost forever in 
touch with him all Speccy.Ostalos Only two dozen of floppies 
with different magazines so the working drive. 

   Oh, bother the hell, filthy style! Next I will
continue in a human:

   The fact is that when I know Sane
were not, and I present only what I could from
him to fish, and extract from it is difficult, because he 
always pretends to be an idiot and pretend that you do not 
slyshit.Krayne unpleasant personality. That's what makes a man 
pisyuk. 

   In September 1997 we both entered the
Ryazan State Radio engineering
Academy (abbreviated Radik) to the Faculty
Computer Science (abbreviated MCA) in
specialty ), where he and poznakomilis.Cherez some time he 
bought the IBM PC and feeling pretty torpid along, more than 
half a year I went to him in trust and April 1998, suddenly 
received from him a box of disks, disk drive and a fee 
muzykalznogo coprocessor connection method which has hitherto 
not been studied, the latter does not t.k.iz out a single 
wiring. (Competition: who connects it to me, that fellow.)


   I became, briefly, to read all these magazines.
Nothing special, I have not podcherpnul, but some idea of ​​the
how should the magazine look, it did.
Nor do they look like: as faultless or
Spectrophoby. Best magazine should be considered ZX-format, but 
on the fifth number I have not seen him, and then the sixth - 
not even slyshal.Velikolepno  in the first issue

with a story about a programmer Vasichkina -
the perfect type of "live Yuri Sviridov! A  in the fifth issue, which dismantled a letter from one 
reader to the near - just scream!


   But the level of scientific information in all
magazines I obviously do not ustraival.Nadeyus you
have an idea about the state of impotent rage, just in this 
state, I was every time I open section  in the new 
magazine. 

   But soon came the summer. When the whole load, which fell on 
your shoulders Institute, dumped, simply disappears Jelenia 
write anything. Besides, I got carried away Rubik's Cube, this 
is obviously not my game generation, and those who collected 
his ten years ago, of course, all completely forgotten, so

that - I will not pull - for the summer I wrote nothing at all.

   When the time came the second course, I realized that the 
first - they were still flowers: for example, if the first year 
we have There were two lab work, on the second

- For four. Plus forced to study in
Saturday. So - such is the incomprehensible
especially my psychology - suddenly descended on me muse, and 
for the first week study I wrote as much as much as 2 of these 
programs a total volume of 3.5 k. 

   That happened within the next month, from two different 
points of view, you can read in the papers, and <memoires>

. Another month was potrechen out
to dial the story . (If you are 
interested, all it takes 310 k.) At the same time I started 
writing the first article in the magazine - <lesson assembler 
lamer-1>, promises to be the most bulk and at the same time the 
most literary written of them all. The fact that I found

on the far shelf of the collected works of Chekhov
in 18 volumes, so the first article I tried to make nice, and 
during the over the other in me fought for two

opposite desire - to write a Chekhovian short and to increase 
the volume of the journal. (Besides, if someone does not know, 
late Chekhov is not short.)


   But my classmate Yuri Sviridov, at the same
while doing a shell. In fact, it's just
so called - was doing, because no byte
of it has not yet been received. Since
magazine is scheduled for November (explain: if
it will not be written by November, then by all
probably will not ever written, as some wise guy made a session 
in December), but nothing was done, I became wait for next 
weekend to find Assistant (Sunday should not be considered an 
output if you have a 6-day working week). 

   November 3 suddenly happened misfortune
- My mother broke the drive. You know
how to break the drive? So I'll tell you: throw it on pol.Posle 
that it is very not want to read, let alone write down the 
information, so it's not fit for that from him as required - 
this is the most difficult inferences that could produce Sia

woman. So mom, apparently, more
have liked a son-smoker, alcoholic, drug addict, a bully, a 
parasite, but better - at all oligophrenic to them it was 
easier to push around, as a programmer - is too smart for this, 
and therefore must be destroyed. If you think my reasoning is 
too far-fetched, then I will say that Sane, as soon as I told 
him This case, with surprise told me

a similar story - except,
that flew not just drive, but floppy disks, and not on the 
floor and on the ground with a second floor balcony! Another 
example: yesterday (15 November) She (who - I have already 
said) heads to get my sister and me to move furniture his room. 
Prior to that, her bed was between the two cabinets, but now 
she wanted to put them together for krovatyu.Vse her saying one 
day I was not able to lead, but I say that from the words it 
directly follows At least four things: moved the cabinets

not we, but it; house (prefabricated and multifamily) belongs 
to her, and she has a right to us point, she knows all the 
family in the world, and no one of them is not so horrible 
(lazy, svolochnyh) children, we make a muck of all, because

that did not give her command (the whole cabinet was mutilated, 
the mezzanine overhang on the kilometer On the one hand and two 
on the other, etc.). We SPECIAL spent 1 hour on the alignment

mezzanine, although the cabinet arched
(This follows directly from the fact that in the middle of the 
wall loft with him is a whole, while at the edges - gives 
access to ў2 mm in the same direction), it also promised not to 
go into the bedroom, while all will not be done as it should, 
announced for three deadlines, after which it must

to do something, not told me to turn on the computer, 
hoarseness, and fell asleep on my bed place with a deep inner 
awareness his immense right.


   I think I otvleksya.Tak here, the output appeared on 
November 7, I went to the radio market and once met there with 
his brothers Vasya and Denis Loginovymi.Denisa I took to my

and showed his program, he liked;
I took them and we went to him, where he showed me his 
collection of demonstrations (a good collection, but why?), 
gave a listen to my music and look at his computer writing, 
there I saw a computer version of the ZX-Revue, and he did not 
much like, when he came to John, Joe, he did not appreciate my 
programs (and perhaps made an appearance), we talked and it 
seemed to have agreed to cooperate. Now on November 16 morning, 
I go to college has not achieved all 3 of the text: <TR-DOS>, 
<Help> and <mailbox> shell there, Intro not

ready.

   Did I ever magazine