Interview
with Vasil / ChemneSoft
Well, what is a newspaper without an interview, so Lesha and I decided
arrange a debate right on the cloud with one pisishnik, but since
he didn’t come up for the “duel” - the interview was taken from another person
catcher. It’s not for nothing that I carried a voice recorder.
Vasil is one of the backbone of ChemneSoft. Sub-group
kept SPECCY alive in Ufa from the period 95-97.
- How is life, what are you doing now?
- Now I have entered into an agreement with one office, I’m sitting for my money.
- What do you have left at home from SPECCY?
- Yes, there is a sea of glands left.
- By the way, some guy came up to the last cloud,
I threw off SCORP + mouse. Do you know who it could be?
- You know, in past times, there was a party on the cloud,
about 30 people, they were all in the know, but I knew few people. All
knew each other by sight. About 15 people, it was
tough crowd, the rest from time to time. They came
hung out, drank vodka, beer :) when there was money,
and they came just for the heap.
Then someone from the nearby crowd runs up:
- Vasil, can the mother’s firmware affect the temperature of the processor?
- I have no idea at all 8-( )
The scene smoothly flows into a nearby cafe.
- Tell us how you ended up on SPECCY.
- Well, I don’t remember the year. I got "Vostok" - it's a 48
piece, our Bashkir assembly with a built-in tape recorder. I
A couple of other people sat on it for a while. First
I wrote the programs in the Vostok. By the way, the first procedure,
which I was very proud of was the multiplication procedure. Well, myself
you understand how it is on tape. I had about 5 workers
cassettes, I kept a “catalogue” of them on a piece of paper. Then they started distributing
distribute collections on cassettes. Well, naturally, they picked
software, infinite and all that. Done. I still have papers
cassette burns, a stack lying around somewhere at home.
In those days I made a small intrusion. Maybe someone saw it.
The frame and the ChemneSoft inscription are scrolled pixel by pixel. You can
select up to 6 items. 1st - 20 lives, 2nd - 60... 6th -
255. Key "0" - endless life. The whole process of infinification
we automated. A program was written that was given
There was a life storage cell, and it filled everything itself. In it
a command system was developed. After this program I
I realized that I could sit down and write my own system. :-)
- You are not familiar with such a distributor as "A & S Company",
I had a lot of itcassettes? His name was Azat, he lives on Do-
ke.
- There were a lot of wholesalers here, they were cooler at that time.
We didn't do much. We made quite a bit of money from the cassettes.
but money and decided to start distributing on floppy disks.
Scorpions at that time scattered in one fell swoop, in a day it took about
10-ok. Starting with assembled ones and ending with boards. I'm tense-
Xia and bought a Scorpio board and a disk drive. All this was lying with me
at home directly on the table without a case. We clean the floppy disks first
bought on cloud. Worked there: Max's group, Mars and the party
Baydarin Mikhail.
We were also engaged in buying 5-inch disk drives, they
at that time they were already considered obsolete on PC. I don't remember how we
contacted Moscow, I spent large sums on telephone
negotiations. All the women at the meeting point knew me. Od-
Once upon a time Misha ordered a conversation from home, we chatted, sent
MAGIC SOFT money and agreed that the parcel would arrive at the
on someone's train in such and such a carriage. Cool floppy disks arrived.
That's how business went. We don’t have intrusions on floppy disks as such.
did.
I expanded the idea of hacking programs. Now by clicking on magic
button, the program was launched, which was sitting in bank 15
Scorpio. The program took the entire work area, and the 48th
or 128th, compressed, saved registers. Docked our
a bootloader in which all the initial parameters were set,
life, energy, etc. Hacking processautomated
to the point of disgrace. All that remained was to find the cells containing
the necessary variables, lives, decrement lives, press magic and
everything.
- Who did what?
- Well, in the meantime Misha wrote a boot, I also wanted to write-
sat. At first I signed with the initials G.V.F. In a month
wrote 2nd boot. Guys who were not part of the group, but wrote
received software for free. At that time, programmers
who did something were Kogun Oleg and Belyaev Vadim, and me
a little bit.
Then AMIGA came, you know, if it had an all-Russian
support, then she would have come out. All support was excellent
Spectrum, which means naked enthusiasm, and naked enthusiasm
without money it's crap. You sit there and realize that all sorts of Unixes
much cooler, but at the same time everyone is on Windows. me
often asked how AMIGA differs, I explained - they
They said it was cool, but later they took pC. Ordinary.
What else have I written? I tried to write ChemneBase, but
the leftist reaction of the people, I was completely overwhelmed by finishing it. Under
end, I wanted to remake it in the "OP" style (oriented
programming), outwardly it certainly would not have changed. Ho-
we wanted to change the "Game Genre" menu and change the inter-
face In short, the whole matter died down due to the fact that she did not
necessary, I certainly didn’t write it for myself. I don't need it
money, I just wanted to finish it. You look inhistory,
year 1996. How many demos were made, how many games were announced,
and how many of them were released. I think somewhere at the demo level
everything breaks, no one cares about this. Maybe I'm just you-
tired, lacking determination? Now I'm all for it
I was, and I got lazy. Goals in life have become more mundane,
earn a living.
Salavat in bottle turned out great, I painted it in Art Stu-
dio from the keyboard. At first it didn’t work, but then by chance
Having placed the dots, it turned out that it looked great. Then on-
wrote 2nd bottle.
I remember that a demo (FAREWELL demo) was written for ENLIGHT'96. Vadim
inserted all his work into the first part, and Oleg sketched out
The 2nd, with the help of Vadim I made the 3rd. It should be noted that
Oleg is a good coder, a practitioner, the pictures were drawn by a Jedi. 3rd
part, as you remember, consisted of overlaying graphics on
lusphere, Vadim helped with typing lines at the bottom of the screen. When-
than, without any problems, you could drive this ball around the screen, but
For some reason we left it. Vadim saw a flying ball (ILLUSI-
ON demo), but it was already too late. We were completely exhausted, we initiated
it's over. In general, all this work was not heated
money, otherwise, I’m sure we would have had enough for more.
- Were you advertising AMIG at that time?
- Well, how did you advertise it?, I told you how cool it was, but
people still flocked to pC. Moreover, I don’t know why, but we
believed that AMIGAterribly popular all over the world, but
There are simply more of us in the country, so let's push
AMIG. Of course, everything turned out to be completely different. There was no under-
support from Moscow, she would set the tone. So I'm calling MAGIC
SOFT, like - Magic, I need a program like PiCAD, and he -
well, there is something similar, well, completely different, well, I'll give it to you
phone number After the call, of course, I swore.
- How did you order the software and invest money?
- A lot of money was spent on supporting the authors, I
I tried to push Vadimov's demos, of course, everything failed.
For some reason I was disappointed later. The most business acumen person,
This is MAGIC.
The UFO distribution then cost about 200-300 thousand. MAGIC from-
gave us the Prince Persia distribution for only 100 thousand. Why
so cheap, I don’t know, maybe he had connections or something else. C
We corresponded with Peter, and I began to understand that we
We overpay. It was a blessing to receive it along with floppy disks
ZX-FORMAT advertising leaflet, laser printed. We have
Of course there were no such opportunities, we wrapped him in
the bag and hung it on the fence on a cloud. Of course it's funny now ;)
FORMAT always sold well. All profits from St. Petersburg we
sent again to St. Petersburg. But working with MAGIC, we
the mime varied.
- What are the circulations of the software?
- With UFO-2, Peter, of course, screwed us over.Having written out 20 or 30 ko-
piy, we discovered that they had some kind of bug. Misha then post-
damn prices. And all this had to be exchanged. We
Then we lost a bunch of customers. At this time we no longer have
there were competitors, everyone gradually left. Then the competitors themselves
they came and threw off the rims, but we broke them off, we had
blank disks from St. Petersburg. The iron rule was not
Come on, be sure to exchange your disks. Although buyers
same different... There were disagreements with Misha, he bet big
prices. I was rooting for SPECCY, but he was no longer interested in all this.
He printed, I copied all night, and in the morning you go to that
chu. At night, cigarette after cigarette, coffee. As it turned out later
beer helps too ;).
Gradually the whole party moved to us, we have fresh software and
all programmers. Mars did not understand what SPECCY was, himself
I've been working on pC for a long time. SPECCY's wheels were just for him
money. When he was still our competitor, he collaborated with
SOFTSTAR, and we, respectively, with MAGIC SOFT. And these people themselves
were competitors in Moscow.
By the end we were all exhausted.
Now on a computer I can write some things in assembler
primitive things, I still haven’t fully figured it out.
That's it, the interview is over, let's talk at the end
it was difficult, the people in the cafe were noisy, and the 5th bottle of beer
started to take its toll...
The interview was taken on December 19, as it turned out, just on this
Vasil's birthday,Congratulations!!!
Interview taken by MAX SNAKE / MSD / 12/19/1999
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