Memoirs - memories of two spektrumists Diamond and Dr.Dragon.

CorvaxAREAsoftSiberian Alliance          
                                          
   I want to tell you how we
DIAMONDom playing the FOOL... or rather
"They made a FOOL."                          
   And it was all like this...                 
   Somehow, back “in those days” when we
We also used 48th computers (I’m not talking about floppy drives
I say...), DIAMOND I dug up a print somewhere
chat program on BASICe.It was textKOR-
BET's program called FOOL.From it
then it all began (let's drink to... MOOSE!).
DIAMOND said that this is "Flip Fool",
although very slow (pactycobka under-
small for at least 1 minute), but for our
There will be parties, naturally with beer. Yes
like in those distant times we were withDIAMONDom
we devoted a lot of time to promotion
SPECCY  to the masses, then by unanimous opinion
we decided to translate this "monster" into
SPECCY, since the new solution to the old problem
dew on PARTake: "What to do when everything
Are you tired of it yet?”, that’s what we usually found. And we
always tried to keep it connected
at least a little with COMPUTER (I'm not afraid
this word to say o SPECCY).     
 We couldn’t even imagine such success
they could!  It was completeRULEZ! This "dino"
saurus" won the hearts of all the homies, and that
important - our bix!  I, of course,
suggested some interest from outside
boys experienced in the game who are already
in front of each other they know who is like each other,
and some new player will contribute a share
fresh excitement at the moment when you want it
sit, holding your bixxy close to you with one hand,
who holds your cards, and with the other hand
gently holding a mug of beer that neither
under what circumstances will you not be released from
hands, perhaps only to do
make another move.  But the reality was
other.                                     
    The boys took turns playing with the computer.
di, and when the computer did win,
then they swore deliciously, affectionately calling
SPECCY: "Here, BITCH! Huh? Let me give it to him...",
but his place was already taken by another, and still
started again.                          
   Even bixes, which were previously SPECCYpossible
woke up like a red rag to a bull who
so they tried to click harder to turn off the
phone in the toilet, or press (not otherwise than
accidentally) to theRESET button,removed from
housing and hidden under the TV (then
I mean monitor).  And this, at the same time,
when you, full of determination, passed
three levels in a row and (OH GOD!) still not dry-
wounded the game on tape, or for the fifth time tortured
Are you trying to download a program that takes up the entire 48th
memory, from a semi-demagnetized cassette, the
then they started asking to download it for them FOOL-
KA,and with a delay... of breathing, naturally,
sat nearby and waited while I
or DIAMOND producedSEARCH y them under
T-shirts.                                  
   I won’t hide my feelings, I really like it -
moose :-).                                 
   But soon the users began
subtle hints to continue working with
program, namely: - Now, if the cards were drawn as in
SAMANTe...                                
 Or like this:                           
 - I would write some kind of jokes like:
"Don't cheat!" or "What if in a melon?!"...     
 In short, for people to believe in you, you need
strain and do what is required
to the masses. But then it doesn’t matter to us at all
not at all.  We were doing codes then.
russians, security hacking, immortality,
some design, but mostBESTom y
we had LOADER  with triple density
(actually MAIN-copier and code-
new bootloader). But we never released them -
whether into the world, because most of our friends
abandoned SPECCY, and some people also sat down
to a PC calculator.                        
   That's when we remembered the "monster" and
we decided to make it in assembler after all,
without touching on any perverted languages.
I want to say right away that Mednonogovsky
FOOL then it’s probably not even in my plans
it was.                                     
   How long or how short have we done?
most subroutines and the simplest logic
ku.  All we had to do was put everything together and
release into the world our "TOMAGOCHI" adult
puppy in the field of our joint sleepless
nights (our beaks began to do a little
strong hints about our inclinations), and
of course, in the most controversial disputes,
which did not end in a fight only
thanks to our instinct and ability to direct
aggression in the right direction. And we have disputes
began mainly due to different approaches
skills for programming.               
   DIAMOND wanted to reduce all subroutines
we to a minimum and generally mold them into one,
while avoiding any access to the stack.
 "The shorter, the faster,"he said. 
   I tried to make short programs
some, universal, performing every function
some specific task. I'm not particularly
I was fiddling with memory, but when debugging it was easy
but the jambs, if any, were eliminated
foxed  But most importantly, I didn’t sit down
write a program until I figure out what this program is
framework must do what resources it consumes
there is (memory, registers) and what part of it
may be useful later for another program
frames.                                    
   Of course, this is my judgment Diamond maybe
challenge with words, especially beer
(BLACK PRINCE - RULEZZzzz!:-)).           
   Eh!  Let's have a beer now! I remember those times
when we, having searched well, found
money, took beer from the hardware, at least
15 liters, vodka, about a liter (beer without
vodka - money down the drain), came to
DIAMONDy on HOUSE,and arranged PART.
Why should DIAMONDy,not be allowed to me,
you ask.  I will answer that he has a mother
I often went on flights, but mine went nowhere,
We had no plans to go beyond the dacha. And even
having left, they tried to return quickly,
what I could collect within an hour
people and have fun already. True, I didn’t allow
I wanted to leave traces of our
stay (cleaning in the morning took place at once,
two), my relatives still found some
some kind of joint like a bottle cap
under the sofa, okypka in the toilet or bra
under the mattress. You ask the question:"When will
at this pace, you also managed to writeprograms?
we all ran out of money, or when we
were preparing for a serious holiday like No-
1st Year or Birthday." And in those times-
everyone had money. Therefore in
basically all our programs came out to
some significant date. We then
did not care about the marks in the text, and the poet-
if the program did not have time for the party
about... then after that we have difficulty
could figure out what we wrote there
and for what.                               
   Okay, enough of the lyrical digressions,
let's get down to business. Where did I stop?
Xia?..                                     
   Yes, I remember, there was a conversation about the difference
our judgments.               
   So, somewhere from then on, things went well for us
division of duties. I, as a born-
organizer, was responsible for the idea, its creation
giving and initial impetus, which
was to interest
all possible participants in its development.
DIAMOND  - A practitioner with a capital P. He
can do almost anything if he
correctly formulate the problem and indicate
the first possible ways to achieve it, not
forgetting to touch ithis pride.      
   So, this glorious figure of our
time immediately found weak points in
my idea and pointed to them. I am
using my flexible mind, I immediately found
There are so many ways out of this situation. (If
You still don’t understand, then I’ll explain: I’m telling stories -
I mean here about life, not just about creation
programs, and to organize any
be cheerful, we walked along this, already otpa-
botanically, way.)                         
   Our areas of activity are also different
shared.  DIAMOND  is mainly engaged in
coding, logic (writing) and a little
graphics and muse (muse even less). I
Dr.Dragon,  I do everything: nurturing
ideas, logic (development), texts, graphics
art, design and muse (no more than
DIAMOND).                                 
   And in general, I think that compiling a complete
secret prog is only possible in a team,
where everyone has their own direction of work, and
unites everyone with a versatile person,
which can help any of the
team, and bless the whole team, and on
work on the program and on PARTeyky in unexpected
this place. If anyone can relax
tobatb several people including me, up to
let's go jointly(boys and girls)
ki:)) drinking strong drinks in
bath in the nude, as I once did
Your humble servant (DIAMOND  will not give
army - he was there too), then this man
for me will be an undeniable leader in the co-
mande.                                    
   But let's return toFOOL.We didn't have time to see him
finish - we were drafted into the army.          
   And there, you understand, there are absolutely worries
others.  I will never forget how my friend said
Chief Warrant Officer Kozykulov: "Well, rest-
zeros, there, this and that, for example, you understand
Well, you have to work! Ooh! Mafia!". And we
worked, each, of course, according to his ability
there, someone plowed in the mud, someone led
dil.                                      
   When I returned, I already saw everything
differently. The army hasn't changed me at all,
but I began to look at life from a different perspective
points.  I began to see that life is beautiful in
its natural manifestations. Not particularly
worried about losses, and didn’t really
I was happy with my acquisitions.  I became
value a person's soul more than his purpose
kid and the amount of money in your pocket. Everything ma-
material benefits are simply devalued for me
foxed I began to see things only asmeans for self-development, communication and management
control of primitive people who
energy and abilities are spent on purchasing
taking things that don't even help in any way
for someone's business, but just for show off.       
   Let's leave philosophy for now and return to...
And what am I about? OFOOL,in my opinion.        
   So, after the army it took some
time to get into the right rhythm
life.  Then some more time passed
in order to feel the craving for tbop-
honor.  That's when we decided to add
fight until you are a FOOL. MeanwhileDIAMONDpri-
gainedATMku (terribly buggy), to the load
disk drive. The only thing that was there was a hundred
The main thing is the case with the keyboard.               
   DIAMOND at that time I used PENTAGON 128,to
That's why we picked up the disc.  Your own
PENTAGON,by the way, assembled and configured
with my own hands, on which I spent a lot
a lot of effort and time, and which ultimately
he began to work like clockwork, but wasted current
less than  48th  computer, by the will of fate Iburned, accidentally supplying power 12 B, more
to the army.  After completely desoldering the board,
it turned out that only
processor from NEC.  We got it somewhere
TASM  and STS 3 more versions and finally assembled
their "ichthyosaur" and have already begun to show
it to their friends, and even gave it to their friends
army.  FOOL,of course, he was still clumsy and
little decorated, but it was already felt
what a little more and...                      
 But again, by the will of fate, we had to
break off. And all because of the bastard creatures,
that is, thieves and drug addicts who stole
in addition to ATMku with a disk drive, also all dis-
ki, even those who, due to their kosyachnos-
ty and reluctance to throw them away, they were shoved
hell knows where. And it was even more a pity that
walkers from DURAK  and some other programs,
something like "NOTEBOOK",disc
ideal, with error handling. Everything that
acquired by back-breaking labor, everything was stolen.
Fuck them in the ass, don't let your head shake -
lass!:-(FUCK! Then everything was in a fog: work,
beer, vodka, etc. (no comments) And
all over again. At some point y me-
I was born a desire to restoreFOOLand
even make it even better. I dug from
scrap metal "lENINGRADKY", found a cassette
with the old assembler GENS, and a cassette with
sources (less than 15% of what was done
by that time) and gradually began to pre-
to bat, first, of course, flipping through them
everything and a little bit confused, what are they doing-
ut and how they work.  By the time
DIAMOND I purchased a "profik",y me
a certain amount of subprograms has already accumulated
pammok.  We threw them from cassette to disk,
having lost some more
(mostly the latest) programs due to co-
100% cassette.                           
   We tinkered with them and tinkered, and
xab that we can no longer pick them up from the cassette,
they started writing new ones. DIAMOND threw
I need mine PENTAGON and a disk drive, and then things are done
went at a slightly faster pace.          
   After some time,
DIAMOND dug up an ad in some ha-
zetka, oSWAPe SOFTa for SPECCY.We have
hehho new software was needed, and so
we decided to call and find out: is it being done?
anything new for  SPECCY  or is it already
DEAD  and forgotten. And suddenly, O MIRACLE! We'll find out
that SPECCY not only not DEAD, but even
very LIVE and even PROGRESSING. Negotiated
talking about the meeting, we arrived and wrote down
yourself a bunch of new SOFTa (for a whole half a box
beer).  Having learned that we also have something
we can code, SOBOS told us about their capabilities
Loda and the developing creative group,
under the strange, as it seemed to us at first,
name - AREAsoft andoffered us bcty-
drink into their ranks. We agreed to one of the
subsequent meetings brought with them additional
80% of our "problem child" and
showed it in action.                    
   Perhaps when you read this
butor, we will already press the last button and
after all, we will release our “beast”
Well, we’ll submit it for your assessment, although,
subsequent meetings they brought with them additional
80% of our "problem child" and
showed it in action.                    
   Perhaps when you read this
butor, we will already press the last button and
after all, we will release our “beast”
Well, we’ll submit it for your assessment, although,
I think that when it does come out, then
will be hopelessly outdated.              
                                          
   Р.S.  I convey my huge greetings to all users
rams, coders, muzers, graphers, text-
rams, fakers and other...ers who haven't yet
forgot  SPECCY  and contributes in every possible way
dissemination and development of thisRULEZhth
computer and its SOFTa.                        
 R.P.S.  Those who follow the newspaper,
the faithful have already sent me to the forefathers (about
different, of course). But I'm stillalive,and
I want to stay like this in the future :-)