about different - a story about the state of Spectrum abroad.

<b>about different</b> - a story about the state of Spectrum abroad.

             O R W A N O M I



(C) MEGUS



   In this article I will try to tell a little about the state 
of Spectrum abroad. Much of the information obtained from 
WoMoTeam - the organizers of the German club Spectrum Profi 
Club (SPC). If you wish, you can write them:) Here's the 
address: 


   Wolfgang 'Monika Haller,

   Im Tannenforst 10, 51069, Koeln.

   e-mail: womoteam@t-online.de


   It is sad, but abroad
Spectrum dies, the influx of new users was over long ago, 
leaving only Spectrum real fans, but those fans are still very, 
very much! It is difficult to say in what European country 
Spectrum now more common, so I will not talk about individual 
countries, but about all foreign to Europe.


   As expected, the overseas
use mainly proprietary Spectrum (48, 128, +2, +2 A, +3), SAM 
Coupe (It is fully compatible with the Spectrum 48, but

much more powerful Spectrum 128), and that I
literally struck in Germany alive ZX81!
There is a club ZX-Team, dealing with it
ZX81, these fans are extended to his memory
1Mb (remember, ZX81 - is the ancestor of Spectrum
16), added new graphics modes,
connect the hard drive, printer, in general
made a sort of super-Spectrum. But foreigners are also 
interested and Russian clones Speccy, some have the Pentagon 
and the Scorpions. 

   For the standard disk interface in Western Europe may assume 
Plus D, also meets Disciple-interface in Slovakia

and many Eastern European countries used MB-02 BS-DOS, also 
distributed Opus, and there are still fans Microdrive'a! TR-DOS 
is almost never used, but it was he who takes a leading place

on emulators because the main tributary of programs for Speccy 
now goes from Russia. 

   As in Russia, half of the foreign
Spektrumistov has no home other machines
why and abroad there are different
publications devoted to Speccy, and as
electronic and printed. For example,
SPC publishes a print magazine (recently
I came to 5 numbers of the magazine as a fee for an article 
about NeOS), there are many electronic newspapers and 
magazines. Abroad, there is such a thing as clubs 
Spektrumistov. The most famous German Clubs: SPC, ZX-Team and 
SUC. 

   Russian Spektrumistov abroad is very
respect, one English coder said: "I
just do not understand how you Russian guys
do it! "The Russian program is actively
used, but mainly on the emulators, because Adaptation to other 
disk systems is often difficult because of the love of our 
programmers to all sorts of crazy protection and turbo-loader, 
but even this does not stop some foreigners.

They are adapting a Russian program and translate them into 
their native language. Abroad has long stopped making 
commercial software, all programs have long been public domain,

ie freely distributed.

   Spektrumistov using the Speccy as
networked machine, unfortunately, abroad
No, because FIDO has almost died
Europe, everyone uses the Internet, but not on
Speccy. As they say WoMo-Team, The Spectrum of
Russia is going through those times, which were in Germany in 
the years 1984-1988, because overseas Spectrum appeared much

earlier than in Russia.

   So that the Spectrum is alive and abroad,
though new toys there waiting, it seems, is not necessary, 
because almost all the group has ever produced the game already

withdrew from the Speccy.