News by Alone Coder Promised continuation of news. On November 14, Louisa and I had a daughter, we named her Dasha. The new director of our film studioVladimir Ivanov (in addition to his Directorate, he teaches classes in the 3D modeling circle and 3D printing of the business incubator RGRTU) invitedLdir to teach there, since the 3D direction did not catch on at the studio.Ldir agreed. More and more spektrumists are interested in 3D engines.Jerri took my engine "Wolf 48K" (demo Critical Error and The Board II) and makes a game on it, asking questions along the way. Also included those interestedSayman and Screw/OHG. I have some more ideas a newer 3D engine, while I’m writing pieces of code and modeling on pascal. Looks like the 3D capabilities of good old 48K are still far from being used, but what can be done on others models - it’s even hard to imagine! Work on the game Rusted Souls has reached level 4 (perhaps their there will be 5) -Arwald writes the text. I continue to collect information on the history of the Spectrum - with the help analysis of magazines, diagrams, books and correspondence with comrades. Some I publish the information in this issue of the newspaper. At the same time, I made an automatic identification for this number Spectrum model - it launches the desired shell depending on from what he finds. Another little hack - courtesy ofYerzmyey, John Silver and Karbofos made support for digital audio in Pro Tracker 3. About This is in a separate article. I've been reading a lot lately. It turned out that I didn't publish reading list since Info Guide #10 (that is, since 2007 years!). In this issue I will catch up. Since then I I started adding mini-book reviews to the list. Discovered many new topics. Of course, I am not listing everything I read in internet :) During the disassembly, I also found those books that I read before 1998, even some memorable magazines. One interesting case - magazine "Murzilka" #12 for 1988. Gifts were listed there, which the reader wants to receive for the New Year (it was assumed that parents will see the highlighted answer). I chose... a computer. Where could I see a computer in those years? Except in magazines! [By the way, an interesting illustration in the magazine “Kolobok” #12 for 1989 year on p.12 - clearly made with pixel art! Onwhat car?] Of course, I didn’t get a computer for New Year, but I’m fine I remember how we went to the store and saw these BK-0010 and Partner 01-01 with prices of about 600 rubles, and then my father Following the neighbor from above, I assembled Radio-8bRK. He collected it, just like neighbor, on half of the chessboard (later it was a tradition for next computers). We set up the computer using a huge an oscilloscope, which was also brought by a neighbor. I remember it well. The computer loaded programs from a magnetic tape (reel). The keyboard was made of prefabricated reed keys, which manufactured right there, at the Ryazan metal-ceramic plant devices. A lot of things were made there at one time, including ionistors, joysticks and even solar panels. The same I also had keyboards in Spectrums. With the advent of the computer, I read books like "Basic is simple", B. Walsh, Dyakonova, "128 tips for a beginner programmer", some vague brochures from the publishing house "Highest school", thick volume "Algorithms and data structures for personal computers" etc. That's how I became a programmer :) Radio-8bRK has undergone several upgrades - RAM expansion, flashing ROM, adding BASIC ROM. A huge amount of games was collected quantity, but all these reels are lost. In one of the games - "Oregon Trail" - my sister and I even played on paper when We were on vacation in the village. The other one - "President" - I in mine tried for a whilecopy on Spectrum under the name "Governor", but I found a ready-made complete copy. I gave the board back, disassembled the keyboard, it lies in the closet along with all other amateur radio paraphernalia. Someday it will be possible to return to them and create a museum :)
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