Spectrum today - Spectrum is not dead, but thriving, it is much more interesting and useful than any DENDY!!!

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 (C) Time Keeper/MHCG

    Just three years ago the Spectrum could be seen
in almost every store and people went and bought this beautiful
car.  But time passed and evil people began to make their way towards us from the west.
DENDY, SEGA, ЗDO... Spectrum slowly began to disappear from
store counters. People were attracted by the ease of “operation”
these same DENDYs and the like; and they had sound and graphics
an order of magnitude higher. A large selection of games for
these consoles. The shops were simply filled to the brim with various
cartridges.  But what attracted people most of all was that in order
to play DENDY you just had to insert the cartridge
with the game and press reset, while on the Spectrum you had to
wait about five minutes to load one game, and no one
I couldn't guarantee that the game would load the first time. But
times are changing.  The Spectrum was not completely abandoned, the most
loyal spektrumists remained and continued to work on it andimprove it. Today is 1999, and the “new” Spectrum is already
not much like the "old" one. Here, I think, it’s worth clarifying: under
The term "old Spectrum" means a computer with the capacity
memory 48 kilobytes and a household tape recorder, from which
games were loading.  You can't get much out of a computer like this... :-(
"New Spectrum" - a computer with a memory capacity of at least 128
kilobyte, stereo music coprocessor, disk
interface for connecting from one to four drives. For
For those who don’t know what a disk drive is, I’ll explain: insert
floppy disk, press a couple of keys and within three to four seconds
you can play. This is the minimum configuration, if desired, you can
expand memory to a maximum of 1 megabyte (= 1024 kilobytes),
increase the processor clock frequency by two or even four times,
connect a four-channel music card with capabilities
like AMIGA. For reference, I’ll say that the sound of this board is very good.
much cooler than any Zdo, SEGA and, even more so, DENDY and even
better than some IBM_PC-compatible computer cards.
You can connect a hard drive, CD-ROM, recording devices and
human voice reproduction, recording devices and
creating videos, etc.  And the level of games on the Spectrum
increased tenfold. Not many people play EXOLON anymore,
LODE_RUNNER, etc. Hitsin recent years have become:
MORTAL_KOMBAT, UFO1, UFO2, Black Raven (analogue of Warcraft on
IBM_PC), DOOM, FIFTEENS (a logic game in which, after pro-
Walking through each level you will be shown a video with FUNNY
plot), etc. But, unlike DENDY and SEGA on the Spectrum
you can not only play. Recently, a huge
number of electronic newspapers, magazines on various topics (everything is available
from manuals for beginner cooks to PLAYBOY). And also a lot
system programs: text editors, music studios,
graphic editors, and much more.   Also active
Demo building is developing on the Spectrum.  For those who don't know
Let me explain: these are something like videos accompanied by a killer
music and amazing video effects! There were even three
international festivals dedicated to this art. Last
of which took place at the end of the summer of 1998 in Moscow. If you
Haven't seen REFRESH and FOREVER yet, then you've lost a lot.
I'm sure you had no idea that this was possible on the Spectrum
do.
    In some cities for several years
There are special networks for Spectrum-compatible machines.
The largest of them are located in St. Petersburg and Moscow. And the last ones
Spectrum has been successfully used for two years to work in such
large online communities such as Fidonet and the Internet. Todayevery second major manufacturer of software and components for
Spectrum has at least its own website on the Internet, and
some people have entire servers dedicated to Spectrum. In general,
The concept of "new Spectrum" is relative.   Similar machines
appeared in the West quite a long time ago, but here they have become
appear for some reason quite late, by that time everyone
on the third house there was a cheap Chinese DENDY lying around, and believe that
Spectrum 128k with disk drive and music. coprocessor - better, already
no one wanted to. If you are interested in everything written here,
or you still have doubts, call, write, come, we are everything to you
we will show and tell, and also help you purchase for small
money "new Spectrum", we will fix your broken one, we will improve it
the old one you still have is 48 to 128 kilobytes, let's attach it to it
disk drive and music coprocessor, and all this is almost for nothing. Remember
we don't want to make money from this, we want to show you
that the Spectrum has not died, but is thriving, it is much more interesting and
more useful than any DENDY!!!