Miscellaneous - An Interview with DESALEX'om / XPJ.

<b>Miscellaneous</b> - An Interview with DESALEX'om / XPJ.

   Interview with DESALEX'om / XPJ

(C) Mad Killer/PG/P7S
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Mad Killer> What, where and when?

DESALEX>

  For the first time I saw a computer in a distant
1986, when he studied at the vocational school after high 
school. These were the "Agatha" - the red one-piece, green 
monochrome graphics, and I was with a friend, as the best 
specialists in the field of informatics (for programmable 
calculator !!!), was mandated under the supervision of teachers 
to unpack this stuff and place it on the table ... Work on them 
and failed - drafted into the army. In the army several 
warrants (in overland - warrant) collected his homemade

"Experts" and make up to each
electronics with a question, not whether he could ask to send a 
citizen of one kind or another details of this technique - 
because, say, KR580IK55 - it was a terrible shortage!

Just a couple of people strangely written digit 0 - they are 
crossed out her, and when questioning proudly announced that in 
the civilian world attended computer club, where they learned 
BASIC! 


  After the army I got a good job, where all the new technology 
appears immediately after being on it was somewhere said.

So, there were a couple of Vidic, video camera,
Hi (!) and two companies - electronics -
60 "BK-0010 The same BK-0010 were in
my own school - as many as 12 pieces. - A computer class. 
Estesstvenno, I first played them alternately on the job, then 
school will bring a little "svezhachka" n / a, a thence to and 
from work, etc. Then carried away by BASIC and mastered it to 
and from - until insert in BASIC computer codes. Posted in

1990-1991-th year for four games - they
occupied the entire memory, all 32 KB and appearance did not 
differ from those which were written in machine code.



  A nepodeleku from work at the store Detsky Mir has a small 
otdelchik computer games - stood 3 TV, and to them was 
podtsepleno three improvised SPEC'a. Kids were cut at all, but 
I'm on lunch breaks came to stand and look at krasivennuyu 
(compared to BC) graphics and an endless variety of gameplay n 
/ a (at BC I was able to then about 70 toys

total). After a while a couple of bosses at work have bought 
their children computers Dubna - spektrumsovmestimye only very 
much the brakes - clock frequency was twice lower than 
standard. Some games do not go at all, but to the TV connects 
directly to the antenna input, without any alterations to own 
TV. Since I was have an ace in BC (and not only - at work

there was a couple of "CAAC-2 - it was the same
teaching machine in the school KUVT86, so I have mastered it to 
a level that wrote a database to BASIC with inserts machine 
code), I was at work requested the authorities to collect n / a 
for SPECCY children superiors. Sami heads to assist in getting 
acquainted with people who have kept that computer corner in 
the "Children's World" and the teacher Informatics at the 
Warsaw University - and p / o Opened up the river! Naturally, a 
couple of months I've found a suitable mainboard Spectrum, 
collected the keyboard, power supply, plugged it all in black 
and white TV - and was happy owner of Leningrad version 
ZX-SPECTRUM 48 KB-cassette recorder. It was the month of March 
of 1991. 


  At first I was just a game, wound up connection
throughout the city, sharing p / o was unthinkable
stream, began to correspond with spektrumistami from other 
cities. In the summer of 1992, year began selling tapes of 
games by the commission shops of the city - immediately 
replicated on three tape recorders, cassettes bought boxes 
(good Shostka next) to I still remember, in a box - 120 tapes 
... Drawer missing for two weeks ... The bubble was

nemeryannom - bought himself just what the soul
wished regularly shook in Kharkiv on fresh n / o and I began to 
notice that the tape is becoming less and less, and floppy 
disks - more and more. Naturally, zabalabenil myself a new PC - 
128 KB, AY, color monitor, two floppy drive - it was 1993 year, 
closer to its end. 


  Even on tape, about the summer of 1992,
, the game became less and interest in the device more and more 
games - I not satisfied, for example, that on one side of the 
tape not fit 7 games and I started Games compress, I did not 
like that in some games it was almost impossible to play 
without an infinite life and I became the first to look for 
them in the literature POKES, and then mastering the so 
assembler, began to find such POKE himself. Until I still 
remember that my first obessmerchennaya game - it MASTER 
BLASTER - very much I liked Space Fly-shooters, and wanted to 
pass this, but here further the second level - well, nothing 
... I remember, using the disassembler MONS (STS'a with its

fantastic opportunities had not yet
was!) ponahodil all teams DEC A in the body of the game, sent 
them on a piece of paper (such DEC A turned out to be about 
three dozen), and then tried to from BASIC quench their NOPs - 
and one of POK'ov did it - life ceased to diminish - that was 
fun! Never thought that once I'll write about it

Memoirs ;-)!!!


  More - more. The more I climbed into
game, the faster find what I wanted -
"Circular" simple toy has become a matter
10 minutes ... And throughout his
hakkerstvovaniya such toys were numbered
pieces 800 ... At the same time I started
notice that not all toys are not only
outside, but inside look "normal" -
began to distinguish between different systems and breakups
restore the game to close as possible to their corporate 
version. By 1995-96, the material was enough to write his great 
article rehabilitation games in printing

edition of the "ZX-REVIEW-UKRAINE" - on this topic
It was the first Russian-language paper - to
Received publication itself, it made such a
impression that they asked me to cooperate on any of my terms, 
if only I wrote the article. It was written two articles - 
about obessmerchivanii games and adaptation loadable games from 
tape to disk, while "ZX Revue suddenly not bent.



  Naturally, there was an active correspondence with
spektrumistami from all over Ukraine,
exchange of P / O and information, selling cassettes
(Continued until 1998-the year!) And floppy
(Wrote on request). In 1996, the year was invited to join the 
X-PROJECT, since its base.



  In the second, third and fourth rooms
ZX POWER magazine published remakes
my articles in the ZX REVIEW significant additions + article 
about the new P / O, the first virus to SPECCY, etc. At the 
same time Dr. Squizer drove a lot of sources not seen before in 
our games (he traded in Slovakia at ENLIGHT'97) and I restore 
it wrote the intro, etc.



  As always, the most vpechetlyayuschee
zaparyvaetsya at the very dawn of forces ... IBM
everything was intense, pushing SPECCY. If the first 286-I 
model evoked laughter (as compared with spectrum), the 486DX 
with Windows'om, CD-Rom drive and MORTAL KOMBAT'om as "central" 
game actually kicked the ground from under Foot SPECCY. 
Spektrumisty started to leave. First casualties began somewhere 
in the middle , 1993, and by the end of the century on the 
Spectrum how about the computer forgot to do and only 
occasionally seeing someone at home in a closet or on a dusty 
closet Robic before your eyes pops up a picture - all in the 
"Children's World" for these Robic, tapes n / a rake in tens 
(yesterday brought into the store 20 - and now look - there 
were pieces of 5) - familiar from the "Children's World said

themselves only Robic has sold thousands of
five, and before that sold more Blitz, and
How much was made of homemade ...


  In my opinion, first and foremost reason that Spectrum could 
not compete with the HRC does not lie in the steepness of the 
software under HRC, and that it is possible to look

movies and listen to real music. The main problem was that the 
time has not was adjusted powerful series production car good. 
If the commercials of the year 9293-m found a strong defense 
(conversion) plant, which would organize mass production of 
Spectrum in a respectable (technically attractive) system unit, 
good remote keyboard, maybe even mouse, 128 KB, AY, and, most 
importantly, the modulator TV, so you can connect without 
alteration of the TV, then I think such a device would not be 
very expensive (per by a large circulation) and was able to 
withstand to this day. After that we had - Robic

and their ilk, cassette, 48 kb, without decent sound, but still 
need a TV remake it, and the games are not all ... Any withdraw 
from a failed download from the tape and claim Rodak free TV 
for viewing melodrama. But such machine, as I have described, 
perhaps, now to buy a teenager as an alternative

IBM, if it was worth five times cheaper and
in the neighborhood of two or three friends the same
plowing with the 1000 th game on floppy disks ...


  Well, I hope I have answered your questions. I wish you and 
all the "live" spektrumistam all the best in their difficult 
lives. Bye!


 27/01/2004 Yours - ex.DESALEX.