ZX-Preview - Is Spectrum alive or dead?

     SPECCY ALIVE FOREVER?      
                                          
(C) Krueger/Delirium Tremens              
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        Всем оптимистам       
        посвящается...        
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                                       
  еI wanted to touch this sick girl
we... But I was so sick of torn off
from the reality of publication in electronic
press, that I also decided to express my opinions
opinions on this issue.               
                                          
   Lately, while looking through
various electronic publications - magazines,
newspapers, I increasingly began to come across phrases
text like: "You need to drag the user from
PC on Spectrum..." or "Only Specky can-
can give real freedom of creativity...".
I would like to draw the attention of the authors of such
new pearls on the realstate of affairs.   
                                          
   To begin with, I would like to note that
user - not an idiot and not blind-deaf-mute
long-distance captain. He looks great
dit all those bells and whistles which literally
stuffed with programs for PC and 32 bit devices
tavok.  All the cries of our Spectrum patriots
that "PC - screw it up" to the user
Boko are indifferent. Yes, and he doesn’t hear it,
because you, dear ones, are shouting about it
in narrow circlesespecially dedicated, and between
so the practice of "eternal upgrade" moreover
which has acquired immeasurable proportions, but also
presented by iron manufacturers a little
maybe as a favor to the user ("You can dis-
expand your computer instead of
buy a new one...") So for now we can
ment from an economic point of view pts no
competitors... Okay, a little about this
later... The only ones capable of priv-
pay attention to games (of those that I have seen)
cases of coz) are currentlyUFO,
UFO II, Black Raven,but even here there are some
which problems are associated, rather, with
position of the platform than with the quality of the program
ram.                                     
                                          
 From all of the above
the question smoothly follows: and what,
actually, in the image of you, dears
publicists are optimists, collect-
try to take away the grateful pol-
callersWINDS and QVAKI on Spec?
With the help of clumsy "Dunes" for co-
which, it turns out, is also de-
Do you have to pay any money? Or DOOM,
which normally only goes into 
window  1/4 screen and with turbo mode-
mom?  Or vague promises
dubious pleasure from
creating programs? How
you will make the user stare at
monochrome torn with pussypicture, if
he can see the same thing, but in 256
colors and high resolution? No, today
this kind of thing won't work, with the current situation
varietyof stumps and playstations. Good
the speck lived in a herd of stillborn mu-
tants like "Specialist" and "UT 88", but those
times have passed, the user has
choice and he makes it, no matter how sad it is
not in favor of ZX.                           
                                          
                                          
   Don't thinkbad,I don’t want anything
who run into, DOOM really cool
this toy, but... no matter how you twist it, Z-80
you can't jump over. And the user is interested
not at all how cool optimized
on this program and how much time did you spend?The coder is responsible for this matter. Heis concerned about the final
result - those pictures that are displayed
on the monitor... And now all the statements about
that "this program is written in
the pinnacle of coding skill", by and large
account, don’t mean anything to anyone :(((  
                                          
   With coding  also not everything is as simple as
it seems. Here the situation is perhaps even worse
than withsoftware. First, writing a program
ramm for the average person, which is now
and is an ordinary user, there is something in between
between the search for the philosopher's stone and
going to the astral plane.  Secondly,coding is
pleasure for everyone, most everything
they prefer to use programs rather than
write them. In addition, we must remember that the computer
ter is not a cheap thing, you can’t take it to
trash if you don't like it. "And on the stump, du-
the user yells, at least I can cut myself in the croak
and steer on the Internet, as Vovka does
from the next door..."                 
And one more thing. Everyone around is shouting frantically:
"Creativity, creativity...".  Only this
please tell me, my dear opti-
mystical-minded comrades, as
zom a novice user, if he's all
I also purchased a Sinclair-compatible computer,
should I learn assembler?  Literatures not
no production, "Inforcom" successfully
bent... even though there was their "revushka" la-
Merskaya-relamerskaya, but at least something
taught beginner coders... And you? You are over-
toiling around with stupid reprints of each other
various "screen at ope interrupt
output" and "fractal algorhytms", in one layer
everything that is fashionable in the current season
not among the demo building elite, but to train
for some reason
you don't want to. And then you yourself scream: "Ah,
the lamers are sick of it! Oh, you have to crush them! Here
athis sprites flicker, but he has an algorithm
slow!" What's anomalous about this if
do you yourself produce theselamers?If human
ku has to independently study as-
sampler, write the procedure almost at random
fools if he doesn't even know half of me -
Monica?  Or have you forgotten the time when you
started coding? Fuck! Auxiliary
thread Mednonogovsky "Fool" - what's wrong -
Mersky, brake software? I'm telling you, for-
stop running into young people programmers
Comrade! How do you think it will feel
man, when his first creation, let
buggy, slow, imperfect, but
made with your own hands, all the so-called
"elite"  with a smug look  will crap,
smear it on the wall and write a conclusion:
"Hopeless lamer"? That's right, gentlemen
critics, he will tell you to fuck offall this "elite
scenes"  and buy himself a stump. So soon it will be
children enjoy in splendid isolation
a feelingof one's own greatness.And naturally
It is certain that the person who has done some
program, I want to show it not only
mom, dad, grandma and budgerigar -
Chika Keshka, but also to everyone else who else
did not leave this , overwhelmed by discord and
platform scandals... And receiving in response
not some advice or help, butkicks,
slaps and fakie,he naturally re-
shit: "And why the hell do I, in fact, care about all this
necessary?"  And then these same critics with smart video
home they talk about user outflow.But what about
the user should not run from Spectrum,if
Is there anything waiting for him there besidesmats? (Here
Damn, it brings me to tears ;)))   
                                          
 However, everything        
the above  is only a lo-
cal prerequisites and circumstances
materials that, if desire
and certain efforts
( for example, crushing everyone true
& evil  lamers) can be changed
thread.  More global poppy
roeconomic situation in
market hard`n`soft folds
much worse...                  
                              
 Let's start with the fact that pC completely captures
til the market for hardware andsoftware. Massive attack
advertising, as explicitand hidden, through
puppet publications and television programs made
Lala still did her job... Russian user
sure  100%  - better  stump maybe
only  stump.  Just remember with what
close attention and slobbering tenderness
press followed the arrival inMoscow Bill
Gates.  Take any licensed software
product of the company Microsoft - its cover
simply crammed with hidden incentives. And
in the programs themselves... And note, this is for you
non-primitive  taxuctockon  (25th frame),
which at the current level of development
technology is considered almost stone
centuryhidden advertising. There is information that
Microsoft contains a whole staff of psychologists,
specializing in subliminal regeneration
ria, which provide special love
Please note the user toVINDAM.And also, Bill Gatesnot
would become the richest man in the world,
If only users would run away from it so easily.  
                                          
 As for others com-
pewters, then at this moment
ment they are not
serious competition for
pussy.  And, as it seems to me, 
Xia, the situation is unlikely
will change for the better.
I don't want to run into the pok-
platform lovers  Amiga,
as well as on their computer
(because I just didn’t
saw), but I can say
only one - The Amiga was screwed in Russia.Company
COMMODORE  declared itself on-
our market only as a manufacturerpts-klo-
new The current owners of the computer also do not
especially strive to turn their attention to
east. Go to any newsstand
ku, and you will definitely find there "Com-
pewterra, "рС week" and many more similar
new publications. Where is your vaunted Amiga?
Why is cool,  according to you,
the computer sits somewhere far away
foreignass? Why promotion Amiga
does it use semi-basement methods? Exactly according to
due to the fact that this computer is not so widely known
ten and provided with software, pts and gets into
homes of Russian users... More
what made me laugh was the phrase from "DEJA VU
#5": "If you buy a computer, there will also be
providers..."  (I quote from memory) What if
won't appear?  So look at the beautiful
box on the table? Or maybe throw away the fee,
and a building for tomatoes for seedlings? Brad,
gentlemen, carry it.  They apparently forgot about
that wins not the best, but the strongest.
The strongest at the moment is pC. And stupid
hope that the limit will come soon
speed of silicon, andthe pisyuk will bend.
Yes, for now iNTEL gets to two gigahertz
protsers, they’ll come up with something new, so
something cheaper, but faster. And so on until
infinity...                          
                                          
               
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                                          
   р. s. Извините за идиотский стиль.     
                                          
бесконечности...                          
                                          
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                                          
 p. s. Sorry for the idiotic style.     
                                          
 p.  r.  s.Also sorry if anyone
ran over or offended.                        
                                          
 p. r. r. s. Don't you pay attention to
old pessimist. Bye!