About how I worked at WELCOME
Part 1. Getting to know each other.
It all started in 1999, when, unexpectedly for me, it closed...
The entire Logros store, which was a meeting place for Spectrumists
our city, where you could buy the latest software and simply
communicate with the authors of popular magazines at that time.
One day I got the idea to transfer games from cassettes to floppy disks,
because I didn't have many games on floppy disks at that time. Steel handle─
We can download games and dump them from the shadow monitor onto disks. Not
very convenient, of course, but I didn’t know any other way - copying─
I didn’t have any TAPE-DISKs. Pretty soon I was faced with
that some games require more memory than I have left
after starting TR-DOS. Then I started thinking about buying packages─
code block box. I read about this in ZX-REVIEW. Where to go for
software? I went to Scorpio out of habit. I stomped around and flipped through it─
Talog, chose a couple of discs and asked how much they cost? I was told─
whether that in connection with the increase in e.g. for disks, they cost 30-40 rubles─
lei (copyright programs and licensed software), and regular ones - 20
rubles Well, that's cool, they raised the prices. I'm in Logros for 13 rubles
bought disks. In general, I didn’t buy anything and went to Peters+, where
judging by the advertisements in magazines there were color catalogs of the company
WELCOME corp.
Arriving at Peters+, I found the famous color catalogs, and besides
several glass onesracks with licensed discs zhur─
cash and games. Cool. Better than Scorpio. I leafed through the catalog for a long time─
gi with games and software. Finally I chose the disk where I grouped
a lot of useful software for me, such as:
- XPLAYER universal music player
- XAS 7.447 it’s clear that
- Sprite Writer v4
- File Comparer v2
- TDCopier here it is cool TAPE-DISK COPYER
- FUTi
- MAGOS 6.3
- HRUM 3.5i and here is the code block packer
- HRUST 1.0 and here's another one
- Laser Compact 3.1 is also useful for games. In general, everything that
I needed it and it turned out to be on one disk.
In addition to the system disk, I bought a collection of the ZX-NEWS newspaper from the very
our latest issues (31-41) and a licensed copy of DEJA VU #6.
The first two discs are 14 rubles each, and DJV is 16 rubles.
I came home and launched ZX-NEWS. With great pleasure everything
I read it, but was very upset by the lack of applications on the disk, which─
which are mentioned in the newspaper. In addition, I have several articles
were not read at all. I decided to call Welcome and express my
claims. I called and explained. The man was very happy with my
called and offered to drive up to his home with the disc. Asked
take some blank disks with you to put useful stuff on it
software Okay, I take the money, floppy disks and in just an hour and a half
I'm already at Welcome's house.
The man turned out to be a gray-haired old man whose name is Evgeniy
Yurievich Buder. He had two Spectrums in his room, one ofwhich was called Scorpio, and the second was the Pentagon. On the shelves
there were numbered boxes with floppy disks, and on the floor in a large
the box contained books on Spectrum-oriented topics, as well as
printer MC 6113, which I immediately noticed and was interested in
I wondered whether the owner was using it or not. The whole point is
that I had exactly the same printer at home, but for several
For months I have been unsuccessfully looking for a print head for it - my sgo─
rela. I told E.Yu. about this. He said the printer was working and
he doesn’t want to tear it apart, but he has a spare head,
but he just doesn’t know if it’s working. Said I could pick her up
go home and check, and if it works, then give him how much money
I consider it necessary. This is great.
On the same day I bought several more discs, and much more
cheaper than in the store.
That's how I met the president of Welcome Corporation.
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