Community - ZX Spectrum: As it was in Ryazan (1995-1997).

1995-1997
Alone Coder
 Going on a wide voyage

   The radio market was open on Saturday mornings and
Sunday.
   I hardly bought any games from the market. to me
I had enough of my own, sometimes I copied from Nick, and
sometimes my father brought it (he left home for
1995-1996).  But one day I bought
Lemmings on a whole disk with instructions on 
paper and undertook to compile a complete description─
tion. In addition, I drew a table with a couple─
meters of levels. I even wanted to take mine
description and this table to the market and change
for some new software.
   Why was there a full-disk version and not
crack fromPrestige?  I think because after─
day delivery to the market from Moscow was in 1995
year, I’m not there anything newer than Steg and Simpsons
I saw it right up to fidosh times.

   I remember that at the radio market to the left of the stage
or on the stage itself there was someone with a tiny
bell type monitor. Someone cool─
til on the Tetris monitor for ATM Turbo. U
someone posted an ad saying “I’m writing programs
to order." To the right of the stage there was a picture 
"What's wrong with your head? I love Tetris games─
army" (I never saw this picture anywhere later─
del). "Lemmings" onI bought the whole disk
from an unknown seller on the right bench.
It seemed like he had nothing else.
Usually there were radio sellers sitting on the benches─
details. And at the entrance there was a table with cassettes
(probably Dmitry Mikheev was sitting there, but I and
I never met him).

   At that time inRyazan there were such
commands:
   - Pal Palych and Sergei Biryukov
(Fomalhaut) translated games into Russian 
language. In1993 they had already mastered the appearance─
a screen sharpened for 128K (48K too
supported, but without it). Of them I died─
tal only the first, when he had already become
DJ.
   - Dmitry and Vyacheslav Mikheevs (not sconces─
tya) traded cassettes and discs with their own─
TV disk versions.  They also
made a compilation Dizzy 1-6, which didn’t dry out─
injured. As far as I remember, there was also origi─
cash, and Russification, and pictures appeared
along with a drawing strip on the border. Vya─
Cheslav Mikheev also created Qatar with Ilya─ 
gin (known for his crack Peter Pack Rat and 
unsaved boot for tape in emulation─
re) and composer Alexander Romanov
(Alex X) STR Group (or STRg, from 
wordsStrategy), who wrote and didn’t finish it─
sala black and white version of King's Bounty. De─
The version was posted inFidonet, in the future─
then the sources came to me. Vyacheslav and
Ilya were the window of the Ryazan Spectrum 
world inFido, then Dave became such a window,
then Crutch.
   - Double-Vova (Vladimir Stasurik and his
son, also Vladimir) traded floppy disks with
games and systems from different sources.
   - Triada group traded disk drives─
with printed pictures and your
emblem. Wanderer released the game through them─
ry MURKЗЗ20, MURKЗЗ27 in1995-1996.
 - More famous Atomic Destruction
Group (ADG) - Steve, Dave, Slash and department─ 
but Deckard. They made their own intros to
games (including MURK) and demo, and in
1995 joined the Russian association
Prestige. ADG orbited by Cat 
Created by Sane Gibson/Global Unnuclearis─ 
ation Group, author of the first Ryazan com─ 
computer magazine ZX Doze - Cyberdaemon,
composers Mimic (Groloson) and Listat, and
also ironworker KSA-7G and other people. C
they were connected to the radio market through Triada
group and its seller Yuri Staroverov. 

   It is interesting to note that ADG and STRg are each other
Haven't heard anything from each other.



 (map from the failed ZX-Guide #1.5)

Cyberdaemon about Double-Vova: 

The eldest was working as a driver at the time.
an ambulance.  Loved racing (games
of this genre). At work, probably not enough─
Vol was reckless... The younger one was familiar with Sla─
I eat, was fond of role-playing games and tried
write fantasy works. I'm not chi─
tal, but Slysaid he was too carried away─ 
repents with descriptions in its literary
creations. I was at their house once in passing
- wanted to sell them some of my disk drives
versions. It seems it was 96or97y. 
in winter. CoolIce led me to them.That's why 
for a time they lived onSlag,on the streetTru─
dovoy.

Wanderer about Triada group: 
   I can’t remember the names anymore after all these years─
but I didn’t know the last names, at the market at first 
there was a certain charismatic Ruslan, next to 
where 1-2 other people were hanging out (and mo─ 
maybe they were neighboring sellers). 
   If necessary, I can take a photo of the emblem at─
send - I just found a new one yesterday (good 
forgotten old) stack of floppy disks and here and there 
there is their seal. 

Cyberdaemon: 
 Ruslan's last name is Chubar. He's a man
quite famous in Ryazan. While studying─
would have beenRadikplayed in the teamKVNhimselfRa─
dika.According to other information, I studied atRSUon
History Faculty. Traded on the radio market. Man
really charismatic and practical
always smiled. Together with him on the market then─
two hardened dealers were arguing -Sasha and
Lyosha.I know nothing about them. Here are three of them─ 
tsa was called the Triad.They traded ig─ 
rami and software for the Spectrumand literature. 
At one time we collaborated with Atomic
Destruction Group- Slash customized them 
live games.
After a successful outcome from the radio market─
ka, Ruslan began working as a salesperson com─ 
CDs with games and warez for PC.Le─ 
gendarny shop was in the basement
onPervomaisky Prospekt.Many this month─ 
they knew there were almost constant neo─
official parties took place while he was
then the future wife did not disperse everyone.
Somewhere in the early 2000s he worked inSoft-
Style(there was such a large office, number
two afterDVKin size), like a storage room─ 
com. Left there due to a conflict with the boss─
yours. I don’t know what he’s doing now.
but if you are interested, I can ask
one of my friends - they constantly
we used to communicate until this friend of mine
left for permanent residence in Australia.
CrutchI communicated with them when I was trading─
shaft on the radio market.
 Some mentions of Ruslan on the Internet
(found it in a hurry)
https://forum.rzn.info/
viewtopic.php?t=3374- it is mentioned and
Soft Style
http://k.7w7.us/vk/cs9834.vkontakte.ru/
u2425385/a_1ecfcЗ8c.jpg- his photo,
quite old
http://www.list-org.com/company/2847082 -
It seems like its organization, but not sure
(possibly a namesake, but he seems to be the same
was fond of role-playing games)

Wanderer: 
   Yes, I forgot about the basement)
   They also sold Magic: the
Gathering (collectible card game) and 
played it. 
https://www.facebook.com/ruslan.chubar.9 -
maybe this is the same Ruslan) 

Dmitry Devyatkin: 
   I had a Spectrum somewhere before1997th─
yes, probably, maybe until 1998.I remember there was 
Pentagon-128 homemade, which helped 
have a cousin fromIzhevsk- he 
soldered them there. 
   I went to the radio market all the time - for now─
the software fell at the beginning. I remember a certain Denis there─ 
sa (Ed.: Carson, see above), he stood ne─ 
front of the stage, left. I think Denis worked 
almost a television operator. Dru─ 
I don’t remember them. Yes, I remember Denis too, it seems 
because he owed me something, but not 
gave. 

Cyberdaemon: 
 Denis's last name is Demyoshin. Indeed
worked (and maybe still works) out─
the second operator on Ryazan TV, it seems
on"Oke".

   In1995 to the Ryazan radio market
famous programmer Rst7 came from
Kharkov - more precisely, then he lived inMoscow near 
KANO. I didn't catch this show, but Dave/ADG 
photographs have been preserved.

Slash_AtD (ADG): 
 Yes, it was like this: after Enlight'95
Rst#7 (Dima Oparin)pogos went from St. Petersburg─ 
tit from KanO (Andrey Isaev)and there, softly 
speaking, a littlestayed away ))) I remember
that a lot of Prestige ones came out in those months
intro made by Rstshnikwith my music. 
And one day in November, I think, I, Oleg Kap─
lunov (Steve)and Valera Filyaev (Dave) poe─ 
go back to Kano.Rst was still there. 
We sat at the Amiga all night, and then I 
offered to visit Ryazan. Govo─
ryu: I'm leaving for the army in December - like a pre-
I think I'll arrange a farewell) Rstwas for)), Isaiah 
there was nothing left to do but agree)))
came to Ryazan to my home, and then
yes - they took Rst the next dayto our 
market. It was fun))

KSA-7G: 
 1995.Winterlike (snow, frost). Saturday─
ta. Either from the last pairRKEwe decided 
get lost, or it wasn’t available/canceled... 
Steve Gibson/ADG tells me: if you want, I will 
I'll show you the coolest dude on 
Speccy? Somehow he told me that, and we went─ 
... He led me on foot, along his paths, 
through the stadium... We come to the radio market, 
he hands me a ticket over the fence - 
so that I can go for free, and I see somewhere 
in the center of the market several people separately 
stand, and Steve jokingly (he generally 
was kidding) with a kick at one of them from behind─ 
di points... And that guy was dressed, 
it seems, just - maybe in a hat with earflaps, 
and unshaven, it seems... 

Dmitry Devyatkin: 
   The benches sold all sorts of spare parts.
It seems they stood to the left of the stage at one time 
men with caller IDs. Electricity, it seems, 
only on stage. On the stage itself, on the side, 
there were ROM flashers. Washed the ul─ 
trafficked and filled in another version. I’m there 
I updated myself to the version with the car editor─ 
new codes for 48 Spectrum. With his help 
I rewrote the screen printing routine─ 
shots for your IFS printer, which has 
One extreme needle did not work. I decided to try─ 
problem with the printer interface and lack of ig─ 
ly programmatically) In fact, this 
everything I wrote for the Spectrum. Started once─ 
worked on some game and abandoned itthe point is that there was no assembler yet, but writing in 
machine codes... 
   At the right entrance from the stage there was a man standing
which it was possible to buy multi-contact 
connectors.  I don’t remember why, but I have them 
bought. I also got it from somewhere 
ROM chip 271000, for the life of me I don’t remember 
how I was going to adapt it, but exactly 
to the Spectrum. 
   At that moment our software was brought fromTsa─
Ritsynsky andTushinskymarkets (MM:After
March 1993, the radio market moved from Tushino
to the Malinovka platform, straight into the forest.
Rindex:And before that he was in Opalikha, along 
stations. But the locals kicked him out of there─
bodies and cops to Malinovka so as not to interfere.
Titus:Then the market moved to Mitino, and 
the intermediate stage was on the field from the station
Knitted trains to the market.) and
copied and sold in Ryazan. New releases 
inMoscowwere twice a month. I've done it a couple of times 
went toMoscow,bought new software there and 
I sold it to ours at cost. The software was 
already expensive) 
   I also remember how I went toKutuzovskyv
Moscow to the post office for booksZX-Reviewand 
others. There was a point of that publishing house 
(Ed.: Inforcom). I read everything they wrote─
sali) 
   When I went to Moscow, this is somewhere
1995-1997, more software for Spectrum
was onTsaritsyn radio market - between 
two railway lines, sort of. These were already Russian─ 
Chinese releases, with copy protection, 
most of which I failed 
hack using existing programs. It seems like 
By that time I was already using iS-DOS 
for this. I myself went toMoscowto Inforcom 
for books - they were more accessible there, cheaper─ 
ve, it seems, because new releases in Rya─ 
Zan was not brought in so often. Or once every 
two weeks, or once a month. At least 
At least I sold what I bought a couple of times for now 
costlessness to our hucksters. Maybe it’s like that with De─Nis and met, God knows. 
   At that time I was selling newspapers, I had my own
income, so I bought all available 
books on the Spectrum - I read them all. 
   And it also flashed in my memory that about─
Did you give me any printouts?  Or maybe 
The hucksters had software catalogs - intertwined─ 
ny printoutsA4on a b/w printer? 
   I had one friend who had
Spectrum - Vadim Kolchin, from my class 
boy. And that's all ( 
   InFidoI talked with Volodya Smoley and
Pasha Baikov/3,but about Spectrum there already 
I didn't party - I had a PC. 

   At the turn of1995-1996 (then, by the way─
ti, we also started computer science at UK-NC)
my new classmateSergey Kurenkov gave
I need a few more game cassettes and a book
with a one-sided photocopy of the heap descriptions
games.  Not all games from cassettes work yet
Less managed to crack, but some catch
was. In response, I wrote him a demo with two
scrolls at the same time, with universal
loader from floppy disk and cassette. Unfortunately─
niya, and she disappeared.
   One day my father said that the upstairs neighbor
(Sergey Galishnikov) writes cool programs─ 
we. It turned out it was a text editor
onBASIC editing directly on the screen.
Galishnikov asked me how to read from 
screen pseudographics. I recommended pop─
try Beta Basic. (I myself wrote in it
minidem.)
   It was precisely to demonstrate to Galishnikov that I
December1995 began writing on the basis of─
accumulated procedures Font font editor
Editor v1.00. Galishnikov in those days had 
128K, and I saw a color version of it 
King's Bounty, developed not by STRg, but 
completely different people in a completely different world─
kind. I didn't like strategy, and when I
128K appeared, at first I just thought
try, but ended up stuck in this game
for a long time! (Then the same thing happened again with “Black
raven.") 
   I released Font Editor v2.06 in the spring
1996 at"Hacker Competition". For the sake of de─ 
monstrations Nick's friend, Alexey Bugrov
(it seems he was writing assembler then), pre─
delivered my computer. At the competition itself
I haven't seen all the works. I remember a game for two
BK-0010 (from games this computer seemed 
I'm slow) and sprite editor from Dmi─
Tria Privalov based on the book by Capulce─ 
Vich. I also saw several programs on 
PC, which I later copied to the ZX - in VI─ 
de screensaver Raduga and game Trix from the pad─
figurines made of three colored cells.
   Attending this event was
significantlyexpand my spectrum─
mov communication, because before that I knew
total10-15 people. But unfortunately I don't
thought to exchange addresses and phone numbers─
mi. I also attended the Informatics Olympiad
I didn’t do it there either (there was a dialogue
with a former spektrumist - who is already in
1996 spoke about "Sinclairs" in the past─
time).
   Other neighbors at the entrance - Seryozha Che─
Modanov and the Zorin brothers (not those who─ 
those on the floor above - those switched to PC earlier
everyone, my father could only envy
our dire financial situation) I
never managed to attract him to creativity. Spe─
Ktrumov's epic of the Zorin brothers (which
Some people liked to play Commando together and then─
We only tried to type BASIC once─
some program from some magazine and not with
our platform) ended with failure
film keyboard. I couldn't grab it─
yat. But they already had the prefix "Dandy".

   But in the fall of 1996 I went to courses
programmers at"Radika", introduced there─
sya, in particular, with musician Igor Moi─
Seev, who is with his cousin (Yuri─ 
eat?) made if not demos, then intros. At all times─ 
In any case, I was only able to surprise him...
barking through the screenand a border ball. This
There was already my other demo "48K demo". A
Moiseev's software, as well as the music he wrote
Igor, disappeared already then - he quickly pro─ 
gave the Spectrum along with floppy disks and did not inform
shield to whom.
   In1996, Galishnikov bought a PC and scored
on ZX. He didn't give his CDs to anyone - tse─
I love the mezzanine. But he gave me the book
"ZX Spectrum and TR-DOS for users and
programmers" (I still use it)
and introduced me to another student Serge─
I also play other games, one of which is 
graphic quest - I also tried to copy─
to sleep (There were a lot of other things then
copy - gaming has spread
consoles. Just Super Mario Bros. I
I started writing three times, and still almost axes─
Lil Balloon Fight 'til I got sent away
on vacation to the village. A separate story
deserves Wolfenstein 3D, which I pi─
Sal already since1995, at first with solid woks─
selami with1 FPS, then dots, then atri─
boots... released only in2004.) Sa─
the idea of copying is quite natural
relationship development "look what I have"
there is!",combined with “look how I can─
gu!" :)

   In the summer1996 I wrote at the dacha and in the de─
revne your disassembler for the monitor-otl─
daughter (I don’t even remember if I released this
disassembler) and the game "Mineweeper". Before that I
made versions of "Sapper" in BASIC, also in
In BASIC I then had the games "Space" and
"16", as well as a couple of psychological tests 
- one has survived. At the same time I tried to pi─
race with screen rotation and solver
for Pentamino (then I implemented it on
Delphi in the form of course work). In December 
In 1996, I finally dialed up "Sapper" (see
ZX-Guide #2) on dying 48K and switched to 
under-edited 128K. 

 

   But next year"Hacker Competition" 
did not take place. There was only a game of Core War.

 March 7, 1997 closed in Moscow
Spectrum retail outlets.
   The company "Inforcom" has ceased publishing
ZX-Review. 
   The magazine"Spectrophone" has closed.

   And inSt. Petersburg at this moment on─
General Sound and GMX are starting to sell.

   In1997, John Silver managed to buy
Ryazanradio market Pentagon 128 with
built-in AY from an official representative
company "Solon". The computer itself has not survived
(the model is rare, I didn’t copy the diagram back then─
shaft, there is only a photo of one side
boards from rObat fromBarnaul).

Cyberdaemon: 
 I forgot to tell you about Solon. Yes, it was
representation. Or rather, it was official
distributor. Appeared at the end of the radio market─
ka. But who is not known. In the books of Solon
spi─was printed on one of the first pages
juice distributors by city from your phone─
mi. That is, the city is such and such - the phone is that ─
someone. And then one day Ryazans appeared there─
phone. Haryshniks then all the literature─
from Moscowthey took it. I heard something like this─ 
thief, not verbatim: "I saw the Ryazans phone─
cue?- I saw it, I even called. I don't know what it is─ 
Well, you can safely buy books from them and 
don’t go to Moscow, the price difference is small─ 
shaya.  The problem is that they are also retail 
they are sold cheaper than us."As a result
all Solonovbooks on our radio market 
sold with the page with those torn out
telephones. I only had one ka─
some book where the page miraculously survived.
But all my literature on Spectrumand on 
Amigathe collection has been sold for many years─ 
no frame...

   Slash> I have the Pentagon, in my opinion, before
It's still lying around in the attic somewhere. Like 
he's even a worker. 
   Alone> Is this the board?http://
alonecoder.nedopc.com/zx/pics/
pent_ay_rObat.jpg
 It’s just that the regular Pentagon 128 does not have AY and
the housings are located differently. There are still
GRM with AY, but it’s different there too. You havesome compositions sound as if they were on─
written for the frequency AY 3.5 MHz (instead of
1.75/1.77 ). And this is only in this board.
 Slash> Listen, it looks like it)

   In the same year, the radio market was removed from the dance─
platform, and he moved to the open
place at the entrance to the park. Spectrumo sellers─
There were only two software left, or rather,
two tables with pairs of sellers - "Double-Vova"
and "Sasha and Lyosha". The software has already been given to them
enthusiasts for free. By2000, when I
last time I brought software there, I stayed
only “Double-Vova”, which she drove for miles─
tion, already for the stupid wheels...

   Around February1997 I wrote chan─
a new graphic editor, which will be discussed
separate article.
   In the spring1997, my computer was taken back─
rali for me to prepare for my final exam─
changes at school and entrance toRadik. I
I decided to study to become a programmer. Having no co─
computer, I wrote a lot of programs on paper─
kah, which I then collected only in the summer and
in the fall. It was a line procedure, overkill
moves for chess, game "Life", emulator
processor with4teams (either based on
Core War, or even earlier), another ve─ 
Wolf's radio, multicolor width24 characters─
comesta, multicolor with oblique mesh and you─
driverBMP in striped graphics mode
- ancestor R-Mode. In parallel, under the influence
Moiseev I switched to MASM, then to 
ALASM. 
   I also started going to Vyacheslav regularly
Mikheev and show him your creativity, 
until he moved to the Real Life platform.

   In the autumn1997, when I was in Radik pos─
met with Yura Sviridov and Sane/G.U.G.,
I finally wrote a packer using the Hough method─
fmana. I also wrote my first text─
senior editor for the institute's schedule.
And a 3D engine. And much more. But this is already
A completely different story.