╔════════════════──────── ─────────────────── ───════════════════╗ │ ENLIGHT'96 │ ╚════════════════──────── ─────────────────── ───════════════════╝ (C) Fedin Pavel Hello everyone! Well, I finally seem to have had a good night's sleep and I can tell you about how ENLIGHT'96 went. He walked around then. A lot of people came, and there were spektrumists there 90 percent of all. There were a bunch of guys from Ukraine - COBRA, STALKER, MAX IWAMOTO and I don’t remember who yet. But RST7 couldn’t to come because I was a little out of my mind and was sitting at home under com. People from DREAM MAKERS and DIGITAL REALITY also came. There were a lot of people from Moscow - representatives from SCORPION CLUB, MAGIC SOFT, INFORCOM, SEAMANS BEER USERS HACKERS GROUP and pro- some that I no longer remember. Naturally, there was all the sincle- rovsky St. Petersburg. The only person from St. Petersburg who I wasn’t there - this is Sergei Zonov. I saw the rest - Copper- gov, X-TRADE, XL DESIGN, GALAXY, SOFTLAND, CAPITAN NEMO... There There were also representatives of the Peters company. They developed another one cool computer - up to four megagrams of RAM (!), IDE controller and graphics physical mode 320X200 dots, 16 colors, each dot has its own color vol.The machine is port compatible with Scorpio. Here's an example a well-made upgrade - do not come up with another standard. Cool! We were even filmed there for television - on channel 31 and... Belny will be shown on the PC PLANET program. The winners at PC_SHIT They even took an interview, but not a word about us, you bastards! But that's all nonsense, because the long-awaited GENERAL SO- UND! Its sound approaches the sound of the Amiga, and all this is not for- Takes up CPU time. What pleased me most was that you can download your own program on it, according to which it will work thief. In this case, data transfer between the computer and the card occurs in both sides. Just imagine - having one more processor on 12 MHz! It can be used as a mathematical,graphical chesky coprocessor... What amazing possibilities!!! I don't resisted and decided to interview one of its authors - Slava named DANGEROUS from X-TRADE. I offer it to you attention. (K)orr: - Slava, please tell us how you got to Speccy. (D)ANGEROUS: - It was in 1990. Then I already had a good understanding of I tinkered with hardware and built my first 48K computer. By- Then things went well, over time I acquired an ATM turbo... K: - Tell me, when did you come up with the idea of creating GENERAL SOUND, how did it all start? D: - Once a friend and I were sitting at FELIXa, then we already knew each other with IBM PC and its SOUNDBLASTER. I liked it, of course. And then a friend said, just like that, out of the blue: “Let’s make SOUND BLASTER for Spectrum!" I didn't pay any attention to it then. Then I met a man who had COVOX installed on his car. Of course it would- It was better than AY, but still not up to the required level. Here I remembered my friend’s words and turned on the soldering iron... K: - When will mass production of GENERAL SOUND begin? D: - We have already come close to this moment, the boards can be at least I'm ordering now, but I just have to find a glitch in the built-in BIOS - sometimes stops playing. I think in September everything will be o.k. K: - How many channels does this device support? D: - Four. K: - What about music written for a larger number of them? D: - Elementary. Write your own player, load it into memory cards and play. K: - Tell me, do you have any other car at home? D: - I also have an Amiga, but I’m not particularly good at programming on it. pacify. K: - What did you present at this competition? D: - We made a demo as a whole company. K: - But it’s interesting. Someone from SCORPION CLUB told me that Someone is developing a video card for Speccy. What do you say about this? D: - Zonov is just spreading rumors and that’s all. Perhaps he really He's really trying to invent something, but... K: - Thank you, last question. What do you even have to say about this? competition? How do you like it? D: - Everything is great, onlythe organization is rather weak - the technology doesn't work well. They needed to spend another day setting it up. And COMPO continued. Wonderful music was presented and graphics. Then came the demos. Yes, RST7 made a cool thing, here it is only in one thing he failed - there is nothing in it except MULTICO- LOR, and this, as is known, is fraught with the fact that the deme is not judged at all Exists for computers other than Pentagon. These are the semi- results: MUSIC COMPO DEMO COMPO ───────────── ──────────── 1st place - KSA SOFTWARE (!) 1st place - RUSH. 2nd place - I don’t remember. 2nd place - X-TRADE. 3rd place - I don’t remember. 3rd place - CODEBUSTERS. GFX COMPO ─────────── 1st place - Victor (MAGIC SOFT) & LEMMINGS GFX (SCORPION CLUB). 2nd place - LEMMINGS GFX. 3rd place - I don’t remember. Unfortunately, I didn’t remember everything, but there was something to write down the table something to scrap. But the most important thing is that we, Muscovites, are the best at de- to build useful things, and CODEBUSTERS, as you can see, are not omnipotent. Poor RST7 will now probably retreat into himself again for a couple of days. Well well, from now on science - MULTICOLOR is a cool thing, but it needs to be done in moderation know. I don't know the rest of the resultsremembered because they already did not touch our Speccy, but in fairness for the sake of replacement I think I took third place in music at PC_MUST_DIE KSA. They didn't give it for him to turn around, three minutes is not enough for him. Well nothing, that's it equally those who have heard his music say that he is the best, and I... I think so. Well, that's all, ENLIGHT is finished, and with it my report. We'll wait for next year. What will happen there - time will show. Bye!!!
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