Com.soft (answer from V.M.)
ZXNet echo conference «zx.spectrum»
From Andrew Savichev → To All 2 November 1997
Hi, All!
Hello, Vyacheslav!
> AS> you can despise “virtuals” as much as you like,
>
> It’s just that this topic was discussed in the echo chamber six months ago. The point is that you shouldn't
>count on virtuals commercially (not a single case has been registered of a "virtual" sinclairist buying Speck software for his
emulator ;))
but on what? on flops from which nothing can be transferred to the emulsion? (i.e. not "standing up to your ears")
>
> I'm not saying that you're wrong, I just completely agree with RA. But maybe
you are right.
everyone has their own truth... you just need to try to understand someone else's truth... I
understand yours (Although I haven't created anything for the Spectrum yet, I wrote software for controllers and subsisted on it for more than 12 years ;) and I feel the antagonism of the interests of the author and the buyer (customer) with every cell :) )
>
> Note that nothing commercial has ever fallen on the grid (with the
>exception of SPF :)
That's true... that's why I started doing this :)... since at the core of my engineering,
I've been doing this all my life - creating and implementing new technologies :)
The case with SPF is not an indicator... the story is well known to everyone... just I
I AM AN OPPONENT of throwing into echoes, if only because a NON-COMMERCIAL network should not
distribute COMMERCIAL products, therefore such actions andmust be done only with SOAP! :)
>
> AS> Still, you didn’t answer the main question. What should people who live
> AS> not in Moscow, not in St. Petersburg and not in Kharkov do?
>
> a) use the services of IFC, etc.
do you know that parcels with a declared value (read with a delivery guarantee)
are stored only within Russia, I’m not saying that along the way of more than 100
versts how many asses will sit on the package and will disable floppy disks:(
> b) shake your traders to connect with the author
yeah, if there are 3.5 users in a town, do you think there is at least one trader for them;-)?
> c) use broken software
as much as you like, so WHO encourages PIRACY? ;-)
d) RUN TO OTHER PLATFORMS
which the majority do with success ;-)
>
> What kind of cool hackers are we, and so for one normal Sinclairist there are already 10
>tough hackers :(
Not hackers, but crackers... there’s a huge difference!
>
> AS> oh Slava, you shouldn’t say that... they quicker than you and other
> AS> authors
>
> It’s easy to be quicker - everything is ready.
You yourself “hand over the trump cards” to them... in general, they fill the voids that you don’t
fill... then the most arrogant ones begin to behave very aggressively.
>
> Well, it doesn’t work “in one gulp” - apparently people think for a long time“shouldn’t, shouldn’t”, and
the notification doesn’t work well.
Many don’t want a “pig in a poke”, and in the Logros store (loudly said, for those
who know) even the computer isn’t turned on, so you can look at what you’re buying, but if you put it on, people will start to crowd, and there it’s hard
to squeeze through...in the grid well, you sit in your apartment, comfortably, enjoy
demo... ugh, I don’t even want to compare... 1 m^2 of housing, thank God, is still
less than $1.5 per month, and retail (and production) space is more than $15!
And there’s no need to talk about “notification”, the grid is 10,000 times faster!
Have a good hunt everyone! Andrey AKA m@s/CENSUS GROUP