TargeT #05 27 августа 1999

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listening to you? - Valeron talks with Smont'om about games, the screw and the future of the Spectrum.

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        Listen to you? ? / / Valeron
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    Good afternoon, evening, night and all of our kompyuyuternym
 brothers! :) That time has come
 the next, fifth, anniversary edition of our AIS'ovskoy
 a newspaper. Yes, it is not going fast stuff on it, but still
 20 KB of text typed, causing you to contemplate
 fresh "TARGET". People showed great interest in this
 newspaper and to our office began to receive letters of
 e-mail from fans of the beloved SPECCY.

    Here is one of them. Wrote to us one of the most active 
participants  Grodno network, which he himself lives and works 
not  in Grodno, in Slonim. On it you can hear in the fourth

 Amenities

    "TARGET". Well Well listen. Tell him the word.


                                                SMONT / AIS.

                   Reflections on rulnom.


    Veruven da su tora assam, dear People! Let me
 welcome this meaningless phrase. :) Years
 commercials five years ago I feverishly tried to prove that 
the Spectrum  "Too dead for five years, while the EU-1840 is 
the present situation and future  in one bottle. :)


    Well years have passed, and where is the EU? No, it 
certainly does not  in a landfill, I do not want to offend the 
fans of this car, but having  better performance she still 
enjoys a lesser  popularity.


    Are certainly talk that Speck is dead, and for ten years
 as dead, and I think that the pace he had ten years
 will die and then another ten years ... Just like a Phoenix!
 There are new programs, new bells and whistles, here's the 
modem to  example. What rulnaya contraption. Personally, I have 
no bread  feed, and let pokonnektitsya with BiBami. A mouse? As 
I have previously  could have without it?



    SMONT> Here you can add and "Screw", which is true only
 on "SCORPION" and "KAY", but still there!

 And all this at Speke!

    Strange somehow, people have two companies: Whose PC, the
 Who Amiga, Spectrum and not discarded. And even on the 
contrary,  It is at Speke do! Perhaps it should be, because at

 this platform, your work will always be in demand, and
 write something global is quite capable one
 man - and to draw graphics and music and cook up
 nakodit. Currently, such a situation develops,
 that ordinary users almost never left, everyone that, yes
 does. All this gives good hope for the future.

    And yet we do not have enough toys! Not necessarily
 professionally made, such as CV and all sorts. And
 not very important performance, superior to that idea was
 good.

    I remember some time ago on the PC was a toy
 "ADOM", so there was a map of the symbols represented,
 ordinary characters, the protagonist is denoted
 "@" symbol. But what an extensive list of how much any
 nice details ... Certainly has not become a hit, but
 the top ten included.

    Toys represent the highest value in
 computer. Yes, ask yourself, can you imagine the complex
 bought solely for work? Do not you warmed
 soul of the idea that now pogeymit will be in all
 favorite. Personally, I've put together weave bucks
 128 bytes FDD solely for the sake of "Last Battle"! I
 just put a spell on this thing. I still remember the sleepless
 night with excitement.


    SMONT> As I heard from the CPA, now this toy
 adapted from a C-DOS modem!


    Of course the scene is not just the games, but they
 help pass the time between the global shocks
 such as the annual party, the invention of new bells and 
whistles, etc. 

    Remember Spectrofon! He was the best (!) Is a popular
 because of the games, which actually was originally dedicated.
 Why am I paint you? And besides that it is difficult
 overestimate the role of toys in the life of any computer
 platform.

    Why is it so rose platform PC? - I ask you, and that
 You can answer me? Well, yes, of course, is
 Professional Travel platform to create her music, her
 are accounting for it to create animation, etc. etc.
 All this is true, but serious music people write on Mac
 - There bit sound card increase, creating an animation
 on Silikon Grafics on Amiga, it is only in the last couple
 years, PC has taken this area, and for accounting is not
 require such supernavorochennye Pentium are made
 Now put in the office. True, most programs for
 this same accounting require it supernavorochennye
 Pentium, but that's "merit" programmers who created them. 
Well, yes  God is with them, I want to ask you a lot if you 
know people  bought myself a computer for home (!), not for 
toys?  Naturally not everyone is ready to admit it out loud, 
but still  less. Games - this is the motive of all the drivers! 
And on  PC them so much and every day more and more.


    No, of course I am slightly bent, but it has become
 commonplace to see how healthy whiskered guys sitting in 
offices  and chopped into something rulnoe.


    We have a picture of modest. Although the bulk of the old 
super-duper  things with very interesting ideas, but in 
English. Well  Tell me, how many of you fanateli in Dark 
Sceptre, or The  Bards Tale, and Lords of Midnight? Translate 
to Russian  or even knock out a clone - and people are more 
active. Or  take the Mortal Kombat: I've seen two versions (one 
full,  Other - demo), and would not mind to see more and trtyu 
more  successful because the Barbarian smaller brakes, and 
played in  her shrieking and hooting. Heros of Might and Magik

 undertook to write a lot, but so far nothing has happened. May
 be worthwhile to give up the animation in action? Then do not
 would be required such Herculean efforts of artists. At the 
same time  and freed up would occur in memory and can be

 head and share a huge variety of combat units. Not
 Make an empty D: Well, of course beautiful to see
 animation, but it's just, well, two, and then simply
 stop paying attention to it, and here that and
 start to appreciate the diversity and range of possibilities.

    So what works - not an opened edge! Go for it!

    Of course, the ever Speck zagnetsya, already growing
 generation of users have never heard about him. But we then
 you on it grew and matured, we will always love
 and will always follow the scene. While we do not die out, not
 become extinct, and Spectrum. And yet we live and let rulimsya
 make each other a pleasant surprise - a new rulnuyu
 toy. I've already started another project. Wish me luck. :)

   20.08.99 Valeron.


    SMONT> Good luck VALERON!!! It is well that there are
 people who care about the fate of our electronic
 "Friend." This category of people and I am. :-)