INTERVIEW!
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Magazine editorial staff ZX-ELEMENT on the second
number interviewed the famous organ-
Nizer of the Minsk group ZX-LEGION SERGEY
STORM. The conversation took place in the apartment of the heads.
magazine editor over a glass of tea.
В> Full name, please.
O> Please. Kashinsky Sergey Alexan-
Drovich.В> Height, weight, breast volume.
O> ...Mmm yes.
В> Sorry. Profession on the Spectrum?
O> Organizer, editor-in-chief.
Q> Editor-in-Chief? This is what is already professional
has it become a ssia?
O> Well! For me this is a profession. Three
I still run newspapers and one magazine.
В> Not bad.
O> I'm trying.
В> About what year did you start getting serious?
engage in Spectrum?
О> Since October 1996.
В> And did you manage to do a lot?
O> What I expected to do was not 90%
it worked. I'm just a miserable organ-
nizator. And I can code, but I can play music.
only superficially. The schedule is a little slower
flatter, but still don’t consider myself an artist
no one
В> And that's why you organized your group
pu?
O> Absolutely right.
В> In what year did this event occur?
O> On the tenth of January 1997, it is now
The year of ZX-LEGION's formation is rushing around.
В> Who came up with this name?
O> And the devil knows. I don’t even remember anymore.
I really remember that there was a choice between Le-
gion and RMB (my favorite rave band).
But the choice fell on the Legion. Somehow more meaningful
sounded.
В> Who was part of the initial composition of the group?
py?
O> Naturally, I, SERGEY STURM, my close
closest ally of GRAY STORM, gifted mu-
zykant McMAKER (later transferred to FATALI-
TU) and TORNADO is our main encoder. Immediately
from the moment of its formation, they joined us
Xia famous SPECTRE (later escaped from
groups due to personal misunderstandings). Next
The composition of the group gradually increased. Os-
The Legion's new problem was the artist. Re-
the core composition of the group consisted of 25 people
century Finally an artist was found and he understood...
leg problems disappeared except for one thing -
ness. After a small purge in the ranks of Le-
gion, the composition of legionnaires was thinned to 13.
Bad number. If we lacked before
artists, there was now a shortage of coders.
By the way, this shortageremains to this day. This-
hour group consists of seven people:
TORNADO - main encoder
KASH - beginner coder
Dr.COP - musician and glitchy coder
NERVOUS - hacker
GRAY STORM - correspondent
SPECTRE - newly joined us
der
SERGEY STURM - actually that’s me
The main current problems of the group are
The problem is that there is a shortage of coders. TORNADO live
vet is not in Minsk, KASH is a very young coder,
without work experience, Dr. Sor most likely
will go to the PC - after leaving most of the
neck a group of people. And I've been with NERVOUS for a month now
back gave the order to throw the Spectrum and lower-
bother studying codes on a PC (he has
PENTIUM-II). As for SPECTER - he's...
just rejoined the Legion and made
there's a lot moredidn't have time.
And what the Legion could not release
planned for the production of my fault
not at all. This appears almost
each group. In any case, I tried
I did the best I could, and there’s no point in blaming me for sabotage.
also :-))).
В> Some people consider you the most
a popular personality in Minsk. How do you think
are they right?
O> In some ways, their opinion coincides with ours
them, but I note that TANKARD (beer mug
in translation) did, in my opinion, more for
Spectrum in Belarus than me.
В> Well... I won't argue. Once he came in
what a talk about popularity, give me your rating
kudos to some famous personalities and groups
memorial in Minsk.
O> Some kind of immodest request. What if
will anyone be offended by my words? Although......
Come on, I think they will understand... But I
I do this only for your beautiful
magazine...
Naturally one of the most famous
people are members of the now disbanded
FATALITY group. By the way, for me still
I have been saddened by the fact that the group
ceased to exist. So, ARS, WE-
REWOLVES, MAST, McMAKER, NICKSOFT - all
they are well known throughout Minsk, and not
only. They all made great contributions to
development of Spectrum in Belarus. TANKARD and
LAMA - they worked hard and created for themselves
image of a well-coordinated group. KAZ, DOC
and +OV - left Specky early, but managed
leave behind a great memory.
It’s clear that we don’t talk about everyone
you tell me. And so I stop my monologue.
В> What tasks does your
group?
O> Finish started projects. Next
you can’t even dream of this.
В> Everyone heard that you are going to re-
transfer from our platform to PC? This is true?O> You have reliable sources of information.
And really, I’m already hanging out with both feet
RS. There has been money for PENTIUM for a long time, yes
here's the desire to tinker with buying this
There is no "calculator". I want one last thing
do more on the Spectrum or at least
finish what you started.
Q> Why did you choose PC and not AMIG?
O> I need the computer that
well distributed and at least slightly responsive
suits my needs. AMIGA is a machine
for amateurs (of which there are in the world
much less than PC users) and sa-
my main thing is that this computer is doomed to
extinction (I mean models A500+,A600
and A1200). An architecture that is self-contained
will allow further development of these models. And one more thing
one thing - the price of the machine with components
far exceeds the norms introduced in Europe
we. With the money that I will spend on...
purchase of AMIG, which will suit me according to the technical
technical characteristics I can buy
almost two cool PiSyuks. Without a doubt AMMY
nice computer, but too long
remained in the shadows and lost competitiveness
property. I've always been surprisedpeople who
They roared with foam at the mouth: "AMIGA - RULEZ
RS MUST DIE." To my question: “Are you your own
"We've definitely seen AMIG" - the majority answered
negative. What particularly appeals to me about this
what stunk was that some of these people
They didn’t even see RS. I can say that on-
standing Amigovites would not stand in all corners
exalt your platform, chasing other
Guiu. Even when I switch to PC, I'll leave
very good and kind memory of the little one
and friendly AMIG.
В> Are you going to put together a group on PC?
O> Actually, Spectrum habits are
is constantly being used in creativity, I hope not
they will leave me on the PC, and I will succeed
assemble a worthy team.
В> Tell me, if it's not a secret, how it will be
be called a group.
O> Actually, it’s a secret, but I can only give a hint -
know that the bias will be made on psychode-
personal style. And all the works of the group,
I think they will be on the same topic.В> Very interesting what you are going to do
study on this already used board -
form?
O> Write fakie! A joke, naturally. A
seriously, then any other planned
no new plans were observed.
В> If you move to another platform, you will
Are you going to continue projects on the Spectrum?
O> How can I say this... Of course,
there won’t be any active work like now,
but continue to keep a magazine and one of the newspapers
- I can do this.
B> But I wonder what will happen to
ZX-LEGION after you left? Still
Losing an organizer is no joke.
O> There will be nothing about my work in the group
and talk. There will be too little time for
creativity. Naturally, the group is waitingdecay, since I am the main chain
coy between the rest of the Legion. But
if you look at it differently, then almost all
the group will go with me to PC - except
(to my great regret) TORNADO,
KASH and SPECTE. These are the last ones, I hope
will continue to maintain the Legion's brand.
В> In your opinion, what kind of people should
you need to be a group on the Spectrum (there is
mean profession)?
O> Well, I won’t discover anything new here.
Naturally in a normally functioning
the group must have an artist, musician, orchestra
ganizer and a couple of coders.
В> Well, just like the current composition of the Legio-
on!
O> That's for sure, but we're of little use. B
Now we are the only ones working at full capacity
TORNADO.
В> Everyone knows that ZX-LEGION is testworks with RAGE technologic (formerly Wolf-
soft). Tell me how things turned out for you
wearing.
O> Somewhere in early November 1996,
I accidentally found out from DOC that in my
there are two guys in the area who do ne-
bad adventure game. Having found out their address I
together with the big guy TORNADO showed up to them
to visit. We met and immediately became
"family" to each other. They helped me for
fill in the gaps in graphics and coding, and I
gave them valuable advice and worked with their connections
communication with the public. Like this in the test
communication and we began to work on joint
our projects. We are still working on many
not (ZX-ELEMENT, ENERGY). By the way, several
months ago (when WOLFSOFT renamed
joined RAGE), the group's composition increased by
two people: a DEMON coder and a musician with
FLYER's artistic inclinations,
decided (with my permission :-)) from Lega-
she.
В> How do you feel about additional
"bells and whistles" to the Spectrum?
O> Constantly turning up the Spectrum all-
possible gadgets, Sinclairist mentioned
for PC users. Spectrum was
made specifically inexpensive and not fancy-
so that anyone can purchase it
rest and in the future not particularly regret the sweat-
wasted money. It’s clear that I’ll connect
reading the mouse, more powerful musical
player (COVOX, SOUND DRIVE, GENERAL
SOUND), increase in hertz, memory and so on
This makes life much easier on the computer.
new nymphomaniac. But you also need to look at
on the other hand: how is it possible to install
Spectrum has uniform standards. I'll hold-
I take a neutral position. And naturally,
that this issue remains controversial and always
will be open for discussion.
В> What reasons make you think
about moving to a more powerful platform?
O> To say that the Spectrum is not satisfied
according to the technical data it’s simple
nothing to say. I definitely need
Internet connection, more powerful source
information storage, graphics and music
adding quality and what's on the PC for me
They offered me a small job.
B> And finally, your warez list for
all activities of the group.
Warez ZX-LEGION assotiation op 04/06/1998
1. Mini-demo "DIMKA".
2. Newspaper "X-FILES" one issue.
3. Program for working with fonts for after-
blowing printing on the printer
"LPRINT".
4. Program for printing pictures and all
some similar crap on the "TPRINT" printer
5. Newspaper "ENERGY" ten issues.
6. Twelve restaurant games with Inter-
neta (six intros for them).
7. Several global “hacks” of domestic
new software.
8. Newspaper "ANTI-TOR" two issues.
9. The first Belarusian magazine "ZX-ELEMENT"
two issues.
10.Newspaper "EROTIC" forty-five issues.
11.Demo "MINSK'97".
12.Demo "TALES FROM TNE CRYPT".
13.Newspaper "BUHENWALD" four issues.
14. Game "Tic-Tac-Toe".
15.BOOT with a possible description of the located
on disk programs.16.QUICK COMMADER (not a bad com-
der)
17. Newspaper wrapper: SPECTRE
VIEW.
18. Lots of artistic (and not so artistic)
fak.
19.Demo-hitting two pieces: "BORODEMO" and "GO-
PNIK."
20. A whole bunch of drunken parties with the participation of
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