Interview.
( C ) Blast Off/Uovosibirsk.
It’s a little strange to interview myself
go yourself, but nevertheless. More likely it will be
something like an autobiography. Well, let's get started.
My name is Maxim, born in Kazakhstan
on the second of July 1984, at the time of writing
reading this text, I am 16 years old. With Spectrum
met when I was 6 years old. Played
then into some kind of space flight. By-
then in Kyiv with friends in the race. Then we-
stupid seven year break and I forgot that
I used to play on this computer. At 12
moved to Novosibirsk years ago. And a year later from
nothing to do, went to the club at school. For-
enrolled in the radio engineering and computer club
no literacy. It was a little difficult at first,
because I had to write down a lot about the team
dah SPECCY, its device, a lot more about
than. Then came practice on the computer -
pax "ZX-SPECTRUM"-48. This is such a dinosaur:
keyboard somewhere ZOx25x7 (so white) with
rubber keys, Tare Loader only.
With a clumsy processor, a crappy bus, and
constantly reset at the slightest movementNI. It was there that I learned the basics of BASIC
and playing on the computer, I still can’t
get out of the habit of controlling QAOPSpace. I bet
it even when I play on PC and count it
the most convenient. Then I met pa-
a little boy named Slava. People came to
circle and left, but we stayed together.
Then they decided to organize a group and take...
production of programs and games on ZX. All
at first it was done only at club clubs
computer, then he bought it at the factory
"North", more precisely in the Novosibirsk Technopark
Sever-48 computer with extended keyboard and
I started writing programs at home. Through some
Roy time I also bought myself 48. Now
I could play the tapes recorded at the club
and at home. Before buying my 48, I and
Slavyanom copied the cassettes (big thanks then
TF Copy). You probably imagine that
what is it like to download a program, and even if
the cassette is damaged, and then copy it
her for three others. I spent whole days in the club
days. So, they decided not to name the group
otherwise known as CircltanSoft. This turned out
name thanks to the RND command. It was created
Several games are given (Salaga, Citican). Then
we broke the Russian dictator Rodionov.
Once we messed up the encoding and he told us...
said that the program was written by Podionov Chokopai
I remember us for a long timefreaked out over it. Loma-
zeroed it and after a few hours it became
"LOXTATOP". We just changed the phrases in it
and signed an autograph about the remake of the Dictator
2 in Lokhtator. Then the person who
the computers we bought, we took two unfinished ones
controller data. Having put all the details
We missed the RF128 mikruhi. In some
newspaper found the phone number of the person who
there were these little things. It turned out to be Sobos. Zaka-
the manager of two miniatures for 40 rubles each, I calmly
soul six months later, when he finally
got it. When I brought them home, I
I discovered that one of them was scorched. Somehow
Having learned from Sobos that it can be replaced,
calling 28-17-01, I think that
everyone knows this number, and ask Ogaltsov
Sergei (how to spell his last name correctly)
The next day I did just that. Having arrived
to the Champion (at least not far to go, closer than
to Sobos) I went to Spectrum and asked
how to find it. When I'm finally satisfied
I did everything and connected the controller to my
a picture of blinking
squares. It was later that I found out that this
model, to connect the doskovert, you need
cut some tracks first. Where-
then after a week of torment, Slavyan and I
appeared on North-48 with a disk drive. Beginning
whether to buydisks in the same Technopark. U
I had disks from some kind of computer
Electronics (and disk drives from there) and we have become
Should I burn the programs on my disks for now?
to make it cheaper, but run out of your own quickly
and we began to buy systems and games on
other people's disks. During this time I often zag-
I went to Spectrum for minor repairs. Od-
Once upon a time, while sitting at the computer, we saw a running
line that the newest wheels can be bought
in the store "Arbat" or by agreeing on
meeting ont. 47-40-52. The address was here
store and who to ask on the phone. When-
driving to K. Marx Ave. I didn’t find any
th store with a similar name. Ostava-
just call me on the phone that I'm in
soon I did. The road turned out to be
close, and I don’t really care about transport
nyal. Taking tram 12 we got almost to
Bugrinskaya Grove, and only the conductor will help us
told where to get off. It was a lot to go, but this
had to be done. Having reached the 3rd house by
we started running around Komsomolskaya street
almost every entrance, looking for the right one
apartment. And soon we were already sitting
at Fikus-Pikus himself. Having pumped up the software, we
We went home with a satisfied soul. So we're talking about
We went to see him many times. Once upon a time Slavka
I bought myself something likeProfika-128, but
the same North. Scary buggy car, AY in
constant conflict with VG and something else.
After a while I changed Dandy to
Pentagon-128, but it also had to be completed
blow your mind. I didn’t turn to Ogaltsov.
to say goodbye, because he's playing like crazy, so
When I went to Ficus I asked him about
Lefon Zhelezyachnik. It turned out to be Dima's brother
(Mystery), whose name was Lech. There at Dima's
I met my friend for the first time. Cool
car, I really liked it. There was also a
cha problems with this Pentagon, I won't have them
describe everything. After a while I
hosted a color monitor, Tower case,
printer Robotron and the tailed beast, at me-
there were about 100 disks and I already learned
ASSEMBLY, for which THANK YOU SO MUCH MYSTERY
and for the hardware to his brother Lekha. Was in the yard
1999, new programs were slowly coming from
us, mainly from Slavyan. I did on
Speck only looked at the reports
demos (not only watched, but also something
tried to do it). Slowly in our
village (Severny, Kalininsky district, according to
map - to the left of m/r Rodniki, Cherupu) under-
sold floppy disks, hardware and even
cassettes. Then in the winter of 2000. happened in-
incident with the second member of our group, co-
which by that time was called GoldStar
Soft. One of the reasons for this name was
brandZ80 processor on Cebepax, and the other
GoldStar became known simply as LG.
I will tell you about this incident personally if
someone is interested. Little by little I even wrote
scripts for games to order, games mostly
there were quests, but nothing from
these scenarios did not work out. Started writing
your own story, something like horror style
Stephen King (those who have read it will understand).
So the summer of 2000 crept up unnoticed. I
sold his Pentagon-128 with the hull and engine
monitor, Mouse and printer controller. And
All I have left of my beloved Specky is
about 150 floppies, one controller with TR-DOS
5.04f (t?), a couple of cables, several cassettes
and the old North-48, well, something else. Passed and
CSP2000. Since then I began to work from under
emulsion and saw the ZX only in photographs and
SLACK DEN. I began to visit him often
sigh, and especially after buying a modem.
He started downloading something that he didn’t already have or
It hasn't arrived in the mail yet. I'm sitting here now
DN and type this text. In fact our
the group broke up and I got practically nothing
I know about Slavyan. Now I'm going to post-
to go to NSTU and therefore heavily loaded with studies
fight (more and more in honey). I'm slowly learning
I don’t even know PC programming languages
what to do with your favorite Speccy, but forget
I'm not going to, that's for sure. Time will tell
what will happen to him.By the way, you've probably already
managed to notice that there are a lot of commas in the text
you, even in some places they are superfluous, but at school
I have an A in Russian, so I could
tea and overdo it ;)))
I don’t know anything about my future, so
I won’t write anything about him.
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