ZX-Preview - The state of Spectrum affairs in Barnaul.

 State of Spectrum affairs in Barnaul              
                                          
(C) Predator/Delirium Tremens                                   
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   For greater simplicityperceptionI will divide the text into three parts:  
peoplez, soft, hard. Ntak,                                      
                                          
PEOPLEZ                              
                                          
   But the situation is not so great. Over the past year and a half  
Barnaul three groups appeared (in order of appearance):            
                                          
Dementia Corporation: Dr.  Glucker, Tiden, Alex Rostou,  
Saruman.                                                        
                                          
 Fast Group: Predator, Eraser, Jason NecrofileKrueger,  
Space, Chronos.                                                 
                                          
Elders Group: SWdZ, Parazit, ZK-Soft, O.K., ALF & may е  
some others.                                                    
                                          
   Regarding the last two, it is worth saying the following: from  
of the original composition Fast Group  only me remained, i.e.  
Predator, the rest were dumped on pts,which made it impossible to live  
saidmo easier.Eraser, Krueger, Space one way or another were  
were involved in Elders Group, but then they were dumped by a friendly crowd in  
Fast, t. The organizerElders'was and is SWdZ...ZK-Soft  
sent it too and became free coder again. Who is there now  
there are and what exactly they do - we don't know.              
                                          
   Basically,SWdZ did forSpectrum in Barnaul the following:  
gathered in a bunch of peoplewho were not members ofDementia Corp.,because they  
managed to organize themselves, and gave impetus to the development of the newspaper, and  
then the magazine  ZX-Club. I myself remember the time when everything  
were running around in an animated state (including me). But either  
due to lack of professionalismSWdZin the field of computers in general, or  
his character, either because of our personal qualities, but in the area  
5th Club friction began to appear between ZK-Soft'om and SWdZ.  
Fortunately, Eraser appeared on the local stage, who has already  
collected ZX-Club #0b. Relationships betweenElders  andDementia were  
already stretched, andFastwas dangling between them, because I don’t understand  
could whyDementiasendElders,and they sendDementia.    
                                          
 And then a really cool event happened: SWdZ gave up the reins  
board, i.e. entrusted the assembly of 7th Club Dementia Corp. Nobody  
I didn’t understand anything, but this fact aggravated the situation beyond belief.  
The younger and hotter ones sent everyone around, and the older and hotter ones  
those wise by experience pretended that this did not concern them at all.  
Well, okay, they made a Club, but SWdZ I didn't like it! 8th Club  
assembled again Eraser, but already /Fast Group! At this time the role  
editor-in-chief was "entrusted"Krueger, with which SWdZ in  
subsequently, he was happily torn apart. This is all together  
They sent away the main Elder and scored on the Club. 9th club they  
released "with our own" forces (this is half the country)...                 
                                          
   Now the situation is somewhat better, people understand who  
there is someone, the intensity has subsided greatly, the people have earned their  
projects.Recently (January 18; history has preserved this memorable  
event on the sales receipt  of the company "Komel") we teamed up with  
Dementiaand renamed  Delirium Tremens (medical  
term, translated "bullshit", (C) Dr. Glucker). Ndea  
unification has been flying in the air for a long time, but for some reason no one  
decided to say on the phone:  "Listen, Max (Kirya), why not  
can't we unite???"                                          
Elders I think they are going to publish a magazine"Hobbies"...       
                                          
 As for users: not so many, but there are some. And the mad ones  
prices for pussies not only left them on Spectrum,but also  
joined the ranks. By the way, cassette are not so few.             
                                          
                                          
SOFT                               
                                          
   So far (!)software has done little: except for Clubs and  
small dem, then this is what it is: Silicon Player, Fast Player, Techt  
Maker, Page Maker, Small Player, ZK-boot, KAT, something else, but  
I definitely won’t name those programs. NowSarumanis writing a new oneSilicon  
Player, Eraserwith the active participation ofTidenis finishingTM. 4to  
We'll see what we do next. At least there are ideas.  
I'll tell you a secret that Eraser has concocted a printer  of CHR fonts,  
on the basis of which it is supposed to make a text editor  c  
printing to a printer (a la Word, in the good sense of the word,  
although there is not much of it there). In addition, several separate people  
toys are written.                                                  
                                          
 The provision of software for users is not great, get a new one  
you can either through FIDO  (new?), or through correspondence, which  
Gamers don't need anything.                                         
                                          
HARD                               
                                          
   Over the past three years that I remember, in the only company in  
city,dealingSpectrum,on sale were: Leningrad-1,  
GRM-2+. Even earlier, they say, there were Pentagons. I know for sure that  
cassette Companions and Syntheses were at least a dime a dozen (they  
the same Synthesis 4 boards :). Then the delivery of 128GRMs  
was covered, and for more than a year in Komeleonly used were sold  
boards. But now it seems like the assembly of KAY-1024,here  
Only the prices are not too encouraging. The majority of people have everything  
There are still forty-eighth computers, and there are still a lot of cassette players. AY  
now costs $10: [, flop is about  500 rub., but the hardware is great  
the price has risen 3-3.5 times, so Spectrum - rulez. People became  
actively hook up disk drives and be interestedin memory expansion,  
which, by the way,They don’t do it in the company, but for amateurs like me it’s  
it doesn't even cost money. However, for  "our"  computers  
let's expand, in the worst case, to the Barnaul "minimum": 512 kb  
+ turbo,but it is likely that simm 2Sbk can no longer be found here, so  
                                          
   Over the past three years that I remember, in the only company in  
city dealingSpectrum,on sale were: Leningrad-1,  
GRM-2+. Even earlier, they say, there were Pentagons. I know for sure that  
cassette Companions and Syntheses were at least a dime a dozen (they  
the same Synthesis 4 boards :). Then the delivery of 128GRMs  
was covered, and for more than a year in Komeleonly used were sold  
boards. But now it seems like the assembly of KAY-1024,here  
Only the prices are not too encouraging. Uthe majority of the people  
There are still forty-eighth computers, and there are still a lot of cassette players. AY  
now costs $10: [, flop is about  500 rub., but the hardware is great  
the price has risen 3-3.5 times, so Spectrum - rulez. People became  
actively hook up disk drives and be interestedin memory expansion,  
which, by the way, the company doesn’t make, but for amateurs like me it’s  
it doesn't even cost money. However, for  "our"  computers  
let's expand, in the worst case, to the Barnaul "minimum": 512 kb  
+ turbo,but it is likely that simm 2Sbk can no longer be found here, so  
that 1 mb rulez forave.                                          
                                          
   This is the picture we have in our city. Judging by  email.  
publications from other parts of the country, things are the same, perhaps  
in Petereverything is a little better. And Spectrum never dies...