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Alw/ The author of this article wished to save
incognito.
(c) Leonty Mikhailov
- Spectrum is alive! - some shout, to which others -
Some people reasonably object:
- Yes, he’s been dead for five years... It’s just not
decomposition processes have completed due to
torture... no, not resuscitation, but mummification
rather.
However, hello!
And again the debate began in the Minsk network -
So is the machine alive or not? Not yet
chat direct accusations of murder, let's try
have time to stop them.
Everything is extremely simple - the platform is outdated
la. Once and for all. Back in 1992.
And there is no need to shed crocodile tears, nothing
it will not be possible to return. It's too late, guys. And not
even a new high-speed cheap 8-speed bus will help
(16, 32 - if you like, but by default
somehow it became itself) bit video card
with built-in processor and hardware
commands for shifting and rotating windows... If only
in 1993, when in the West writing under Spec-
the room was abandoned, but we just started - that
conditional cardwould push back the date of death
you for about ten years (that's me, for the sake of the round
accounts). Now she will make a splash on
level of ZXNet (there is also Zilog new frequency
they planned to open it for the Z80), but no more
that - yes, our dead man is violent, sometimes he
sweats profusely and moans loudly AY, - yes,
just doesn't get up. And he won't get up.
There are several reasons for this.
Many people call software the first. More precisely his
absence. I'll try to narrow down the problem: not enough
new games! Game-with-a-capital-G... But before-
hell of demo programs with good ones
music and coding. It can be long and tedious
pester these musicians and coders: “Here
you're so bad, but you could be like that...
then such and such a toy without straining
poke..." "Oh, draw? - they will smile
coders (after all, these guys are not evil). - Here
give us graphics: a splash screen, a menu - that’s it
We’ll convert and fix it ourselves, you give it to us
SPRITES." And a good artist-sprymay-
kera during the day with fire, unfortunately...
But ordinary users don’t care about that
and grind - no games ("Elite, UFOs? Yes by
the fifth time is somehow lazy.") - no platform
(by the way, our dead man began consciousness and
user preferences rearranged -
before him, the computer was still perceived as a
working instrument, it was Specky that became expensive
goy, but a convenient toy. How expensive? Yes
after all, we have it with assembly on the knee and
broken programs - cheap. And the bur-
zhuinov with their brand and copyrightrights -
it depends on how you look at it). And eres users buy
(also an indicator: PC is personal
computer. It turns out: the rest are perverted
tion and this is not subject to discussion) and play
day and night with breaks for work, and are happy
they are happy.
This is where we come to the second problem:
user departure. Someone wants further for-
reach for Virtu (see above), someone will buy
buys a PC for work and goes into it with a
howl (these are those very good artists - like
they usually make good designs
ry), someone has grown up (it’s somehow undignified to sit
on Spec, if you study in radio engineering, besides
it is much more convenient to print kursachi inkjet
nickname from MSWorda than on Drucker, and even
Drucker is a problem to find), someone has grown
so much so that he acquired his own seven-
to her (“Why are you staring at this box?!”
“Oh, women! You don’t understand anything.”
"We understand, we understand, it would be better to get busy
useful, not #$%#@! everyone!"). Here comes the wasp
are hiding either loyal Speccy fans (no-
where I won’t leave him, because he’s good!),
or those who are already sick with computers, but
doesn't have money for a PC (or is just lazy)
drink).
These very remaining ones (I myself refer to them)
I'm running around, at home P-7-512T - Pentagon 7MHz,
512K Turbo) actually know each other...
Well, not to your face, of course, but still in one
ZXNet hanging out. They proudly call themselves not
otherwise known as “realists” (this also has its own fi-
shka: "realists" are respected, butare looking
a little patronizingly, - after all, the “emulators” are still
more, and they are all prominent “sceners”...
That’s interesting - the man was unable to register
recommend yourself on PC, it’s just lazy there
I need to learn asm, but I haven’t found a job yet
suitable, he returned back to the Spectrum,
to where they know him, where he uses non-
to whom respect - and he is a hero-“scener”. And
"real people" get new demos if they agree
lucky, or new systems for working with a PC,
Well, why do the “realists” need them?) and that’s on them,
Slava Medno is oriented towards the “realists”
legs while working (well, I can’t walk
past the summer fact - if Slava had succeeded
get that job on PC about which "ChV-2"
could be discussed), they are the endangered ones
representatives of the Spectrum we are talking about
we are talking (sorry, but I don’t think “emu-
lyatorschikov" spektrumistov, rather an emulator
spektrumist lyators). That one is just around the corner
the day when there will be tens of them out of hundreds,
when these dozens become young users,
then there will be ten “grandfathers” left (it’s like those
sub-extinct hippies) the result is the history of Spe-
kki will end. Nostalgia will remain,
remembrance of something distant and beautiful, and
rare meetings at which we will
drinking beer and talking about life with people
us with whom Specky once brought us together...
So all we have to do is study/work, for-
go in the evenings to familiar pisishniks (at
after all, our CDs lie there), play on
"buggypisyuk" in Civ2ToT, JA2 and Q2 with bo-
tami (what I'm playing now - but
someone started remaking Civ2, where are they?
JA2 on the UFOII engine - Glory to him
you can get more than for ChV2!), evening
rum to go online, read messages, debate
talk and discuss something interesting... Bye
if all this does not become parallel, we will not ob-
we are led by family and will not go into education
children. And when they grow up, they will have
other toys, because PIII by that time was not
they will stand in computers, and in drainage tanks
in the toilet...
However, Always...
Goodbye.
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