Museum - about the Russification of ZX Spectrum clones.

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  In various magazines and newspapers, one way or another
otherwise dedicated to the Spectrum, enough
popular activities are nobectboba-
information about certain modifications of this
computer. We decided not to lag behind and expand
tell our readers about the most characteristic
tephom for Cherkasy clone.                
  The emergence of such a machine as "Robik"
shrouded in the darkness of history and refers to the end
80s - early 90s, responsibility
for the issue lies entirely with
one of the largest then, and now mept-
at the ROTOR plant.                        
  The branded Spectrum was taken as the basis
48K. But some changes have been made
after which Specky became independent
similar :)                                 
  Take Russification, for example.  Anyone who
tried to Russify the Spectrum device -
but, as a rule, he invented his own
new, unlike anything else.  Case
"Robika" is no exception.  To do
possible to work with Russians andLatin
letters within one line, you need to
sacrifice two control codes, but
what are they like? We decided: since we are working with dis-
This system is not planned, but only with
tape, 2 commands - MOVE and ERASE, corresponding
respectively, codes 209 and 210 were activated
Vovany for switching from Russian to
English and vice versa. In connection with this there were
measures have been taken to ensure that key tokens
keywords were always displayed normally.
  Now, in addition to the fact that keyboards have appeared
shi switch "Cyrillic" / "Latin"
([C] and [L]), other changes were made
Keyboard usage: space bar
small size, separate keys for
dot, comma, EDIT, DEL, heel keys
with Russian letters - there are more of them than
Latin, paired RES, and MF key, entered
money supposedly for subsequent expansion
opportunities (in my keyboard at her place-
those sitting the second SYMB SHIFT - is it necessary
boputb, how convenient it is!) Below is
"Robik" keyboard drawing.             












 Another interesting idea - five keys
to simulate a joystick. We are talking about Kemp-
ston-joystick, and with absolutely cor-
Direct layout for port #31.         
  Naturally, the changes did not affect
keyboards only. For example, here is the ROM -
somewhere you need to write down as many as 768
byte of the new Russian character set.
The most logical way to do this is to use
free space at the end of the address space
pahctba ROM, which was done. That's why
we suffered some damage to the compatibility
computer, but the absolute majority
Most of the programs were going well.             
  Why did they "go"? Yes, because those people
who built up Spectrum based on
"Robik", the first thing they did was throw it away
Russified ROM and soldered in its place
normal. Experience shows that the machine
I only benefited from this.                
  And this is what we have today.
Take my computer for example: 1024K, re-
connection of Pentagon/ATM memory circuits, 3 dis-
 Why did they “go”? Yes, because those people
who built up Spectrum based on
"Robika", first of all, fuck itthrew away
Russified ROM and soldered in its place
normal. Experience shows that the machine
I only benefited from this.                
  And this is what we have today.
Take my computer for example: 1024K, re-
connection of Pentagon/ATM memory circuits, 3 dis-
driver (5+5+3), AY sound, LPT - and all this
based on the good old "Robik"!        
  In conclusion - another interesting de-
tal: the "Robik" keyboard was produced in
two options: in one of them on the keyboard
the Shah appeared only in a couple of
new inscriptions, and in the other - their complete
spectrum You know, it’s an export option, though!
                                         
P.S. There are still people in our city,
who are working on further development
Spectrum technologies. Interview with the latter
from the Mohicans wait in the next issue!