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MOSCOW SOFTWARE PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION

PRESENTS

│ RESULTS OF SURVEY #2, │
│ CONDUCTED IN APRIL 1997 │
│ IN THE ECHOES OF ZX.SPECTRUM AND SPB.SPECCY │

> Yes! It's time to publish the results of the interrogation! =)

Briefly and to the point:
1) As many as 37 (!) people responded, this is 4 times more than the first
time. Such a huge number of participants is also explained
by the fact that I promptly sent out questionnaires to all those whose letters
I had saved in the echo and who did not answer themselves. This measure had
an effect, and I can say that at least half of
those 30-odd people to whom the questionnaire was sent responded.
2) Regarding the answers. From the very beginning I warned that for each question
you can give no more than oneanswer. Some were terribly offended by this
(it’s not possible to fully express your thoughts, but understand me:
there’s also no desire to check letters 15 kilos long =). Others did not
pay any attention to this (out of spite? =) and gave
a long list of their favorite games and musicians (2AA: ;).
3) Some questions (for example, “Where do you get magazines?”), as it turned out, turned out to be of little interest and I will not indicate the answers to them - whoever needs it will look at the letters himself. Ahead
of events, I note that people have become completely insolent =), and almost no one
buys either games or magazines (exchange, Fido plus BBS - a formula for
centuries =)! Poor traders and authors! :~(
4) Unbelievable, but true! No one named any magazine, except
ZF and SPF, among the best! Of course, these 2 magazines are absolute
leaders in their element.

Well, okay, I won’t drag my feet, especially since I don’t want to write this review for four hours
. So, the following people took part in the survey (I list
in the order in which I received the letters):

01. Andrey Litvinov(LAV)/GALAXY/SOFTLAND
02. Felix Arzumanyan(Felix)/SOFTLAND
03. Vova Hex/BYTEX
04. Roman Alexandrov
05. Igor Gruzdev
06. Alexander Bibin
07. Skyer/SCORPION_CLUB
08. AndreySamoilenko
09. Fedin Pavel/API
10. Mikhail Lebedev/DAPA
11. Dmitry Grigoriev(Oldman)/STEP
12. Vyacheslav Mednonogov(Copper_Feet)
13. Yuri Matveev(Matthias)/STEP
14. Alexey Smovdarenko
15. Yuri Sorokin(Lemming)/SCORPION_CLUB
16. Max Romanov(RML)/XLD/CS
17. Roman Petrov/STAR/RDG/RPSG
18. Vladimir Kasev
19. Konstantin Vinogradov
20. Danil Ermakov
21. Roman Kontsevoy/ALLIANCE_TEAM
22. Konstantin Afendikov
23. Alexey Andreev(Flashback)
24. Eldar Korotkov
25. Valentin Kuzmin
26. Yuri Kverznev/LAKS
27. Ilya Shirinkin(Dr.Dead)/LFG
28. Nikolay Przhibysh
29. Evgeny Milun (Paul Atrides)/SOK
30. Slavik Podstrelnov
31. Sergey Novikov/STEP
32. Andrey Fedorov (Alien)
33. Alex Cristensen/VBS
34. Sergey Senerovich
35. Pavel Voronov(RAMbo)/DAPA
36. Yuri Buravtsov
37. Alex Mikhailov/OMEGA_GROUP

If you named someone incorrectly, don’t be offended!

Well, now I’ll move directly to the answers:

1. HOW OLD ARE YOU?

As Oldman noted in Online 26, Spectrum is the computer of the young. But still, the age of the respondents ranged from 14 to 38 years. Next
we look at how many for whom.

┌──────────────────── ─────────────────┐
│ AGE OF RESPONDENTS │
├────┬────────┬────Ї─ ───┬────────┬────┤
│ 14 │ ▒ │ 3% ║ 23 │ ▒▒ │ 6% │
│ 15 │ ▒▒ │ 6% ║ 24 │ ▒ │ 3% │
│ 16 │ ▒▒▒ │ 8% ║ 25 │ ▒▒ │ 6% │
│ 17 │ ▒▒▒ │ 8% ║ 26 │ ▒▒ │ 6% │
│ 18 │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒ │17% ║ 29 │ ▒ │ 3% │
│ 19 │ ▒▒ │ 6% ║ 30 │ ▒ │ 3% │
│ 20 │ ▒ │ 3% ║ 31 │ ▒▒ │ 6% │
│ 21 │ ▒▒ │ 6% ║ 38 │ ▒ │ 3% │
│ 22 │ ▒▒▒ │ 8% ║128 │ │ 0% │
└────┴────────┴────╨─ ───┴────────┴────┘

Average age: 21.371428.

2. WHERE DO YOU LIVE?

┌──────────────────────┐
│ PLACE OF RESIDENCE │
├─────────────────┬────┤
│ SAINT PETERSBURG │ 14 │
│ Moscow │ 09 │
│ Ekaterinburg │ 03 │
│ Perm │ 02 │
│ Donetsk │ 02 │
│ Yoshkar-Ola │ 02 │
│ Chisinau │ 01 │
│ Novgorod │ 01 │
│ Rostov-on-Don │ 01 │
│ Taganrog │ 01 │
│ Samara │ 01 │
└─────────────────┴────┘

3. DO YOU HAVE A LIVE SPECTRUM, OR DO YOU USE AN EMULATOR?

┌─────────────────────┐
│ SPECTRUM/EMULATOR │
├──────────┬────┬─────┤
│ IS │ 32 │ 86% │
│ Emulator │ 05 │ 14% │
└──────────┴────┴─────┘

4. WHAT’S YOUR SPECTRUM?

Oh! I didn’t expect that there were so many scorpion people in the country! But the demos still
adjust toPentagon...

┌───────────────────────────────┐
│ MODEL SPECTRUM │
├─────────────────┬────┬────────┤
│ SCORPION ZS-256 │ 17 │ 47.22% │
│ Profi 512/1024 │ 04 │ 11.11% │
│ Leningrad 128 │ 03 │ 8.333% │
│ Pentagon 128 │ 03 │ 8.333% │
│ ATM 512 │ 02 │ 5.555% │
│ Moscow 128 │ 02 │ 5.555% │
│ GRM 128 │ 01 │ 2.777% │
│ Delta 48 │ 01 │ 2.777% │
│ Master 48 │ 01 │ 2.777% │
│ Yauza 48 │ 01 │ 2.777% │
│ KAY 256 │ 01 │ 2.777% │

Now it’s clear how to find out the number of Sinclairists. You need to ask Sergei
Zonov how many computers he produced, and multiply this number by 2... =)
But almost every St. Petersburg resident has Scorpios. There are almost none in Moscow.

Regarding the memory capacity:

┌────────────────────┐
│ MEMORY CAPACITY │
├──────┬────┬────────┤
│ 1024 │ 01 │ 2.777% │
│ 512 │ 05 │ 13.88% │
│ 256 │ 18 │ 50.00% │
│ 128 │ 09 │ 25.00% │
│ 48 │ 03 │ 8.333% │
└──────┴────┴────────┘

It’s not worth writing under 48 also because among all the respondents there was
only one person who only has a 48K machine. However, it does not have a
disk drive; he is interested in BASIC and reads Computerr. It is absolutely clear that
he is not a potential buyer of newprograms.

4. WHAT DO YOU DO ON THE SPECTRUM?

┌───────────────────────────────┐
│ OCCUPATION HA SPECTRUM │
├──────────────────┬────┬───────┤
│ PROGRAMMING │ 18 │ 31.0% │
│ Games │ 11 │ 18.9% │
│ Articles/texts │ 05 │ 8.62% │
│ A little bit of everything │ 05 │ 8.62% │
│ Hacking │ 04 │ 6.88% │
│ Gamemaking │ 04 │ 6.88% │
│ Graphics │ 04 │ 6.88% │
│ Music │ 04 │ 6.88% │
│ Trade │ 02 │ 3.44% │
│ BASIC │ 01 │ 1.72% │
5. DID YOU KNOW ASSEMBLY AND HOW GOOD?

│ KNOWLEDGE OF ASSEMBLY │
├─────────────────┬────┬───────┤
│ I KNOW GOOD │ 19 │ 51.3% │
│ I know nothing │ 07 │ 18.9% │
│ I know poorly │ 07 │ 18.9% │
│ I don’t know │ 04 │ 10.8% │
└─────────────────┴────┴───────┘

Spectrum is perhaps the only computer where more than half
of users know assembler well!!!

6. DO YOU HAVE A MOUSE?

┌───────────────────┐
│ HAVING A MOUSE │
├──────┬────┬───────┤
│ YES │ 17 │ 51.5% │
│ No │ 16 │ 48.5% │
└──────┴────┴───────┘

Fifty - fifty. But since almost half of the respondents are St. Petersburg residents, and all of them have mice (almost =), thenIn the country the picture is the opposite. For a
better understanding of the situation, I will provide the following table.

│ SITUATION AROUND THE COUNTRY, WITHOUT PETER: │
├───────────────┬────┬────────
│ There is a mouse │ 08 │ 34.78% │
│ NO MOUSE │ 15 │ 65.22% │
└───────────────┴────┴────────────┘

7. HOW MUCH ARE YOU ALREADY OLD SPECTRUM?

┌────────────────────────────┐
│HOW MUCH HOW ARE YOU A SINCLAIRIST?│
├───┬────────────────────┬───┤
│ 1 │ ░░ │ 1 │
│ 2 │ │ 0 │
│ 3 │ ░░░░ │ 2 │
│ 4 │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ 4 │
│ 5 │ ██████████████████ │ 9 │
│ 6 │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ 7 │
│ 7 │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ 7 │
│ 8 │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ 4 │
│ 9 │ │ 0 │
│10 │ ░░ │ 1 │
└───┴────────────────────┴───┘

Apparently, most of the Sinclairists are already “seasoned wolves” who have worn down Spectrum has more than one pair of teeth ;) But there are no new arrivals in sight. =(

8. HOW MANY DISK DRIVES DO YOU HAVE?

┌────────────────┐
│NUMBER OF DISK DRIVES│
├───┬────┬───────┤
│ 1 │ 10 │ 31.3% │
│ 2 │ 20 │ 62.5% │
│ 3 │ 02 │ 6.25% │
└───┴────┴───────┘

As you can see, most people use two or more disk drives. Only I
is somehow behind the times =(

9. IS IT EASY IN YOURIS IT POSSIBLE TO GET NEW SOFTWARE IN THE CITY?

Perhaps only in St. Petersburg and Moscow there are no interruptions with new software, although there are
exceptions. One way or another, the majority of respondents do not have any problems with this:

┌──────────────────────────┐
│ AVAILABILITY OF NEW SOFTWARE │
├────────────Ї────Ї────────┤
│ EASY ║ 26 ║ 70.27% │
│ Difficult ║ 07 ║ 18.92% │
│ Nothing like that ║ 04 ║ 10.81% │

10. THE GAME YOU'RE MOST LOOKING FOR FOR.

│ MOST ANTICIPATED GAMES │

│ BLACK RAVEN │ 13 │ 41.9% │
│ Star Legacy 2 │ 04 │ 12.9% │
│ Dragons │ 02 │ 6.45% │
│ Dune 2 │ 02 │ 6.45% │
│ Doom │ 01 │ 3.22% │
│ Citadel │ 01 │ 3.22% │
│ Mortal Kombat │ 01 │ 3.22% │
│ Paradise Lost │ 01 │ 3.22% │
│ Special Forces │ 01 │ 3.22% │
│ Guess the melody │ 01 │ 3.22% │
│ Black Raven 2 │ 01 │ 3.22% │
│ Preference │ 01 │ 3.22% │
│ Warcraft │ 01 │ 3.22% │
│ Walker │ 01 │ 3.22% │
└─────────────────────┴────┴───────┘

Conclusion: everyone "Star Legacy 2" is still waiting, "Dune 2" disappointed many with its crooked demo.Only its author is waiting for "Walker" =). Well
the undisputed leader is “Black Raven” by Slava Mednonogov. Although
some are already waiting for its second part =)

11. YOUR FAVORITE WESTERN GAME.

│ FAVORITE WESTERN GAME │

│ ELITE (1...3) │ 9 │
│ Myth │ 5 │
│ Dizzy (1...Y) │ 5 │
│ Target Renegade │ 3 │
│ Laser Squad │ 2 │
│ R-Type │ 2 │
│ Saboteur (1...2) │ 2 │
│ Chase H.Q. │ 2 │
│ Lords of Chaos │ 1 │
│ Ikari Warriors │ 1 │
│ Dan Dare │ 1 │
│ Battle Command │ 1 │
│ Flying Shark │ 1 │
│ Zynaps │ 1 │
│ AMC 2 │ 1 │
│ Gun │ 1 │
│ Tau Ceti 2 │ 1 │
│ Total Recall │ 1 │
│ Xeno │ 1 │
│ Multi Player Soccer Manager │ 1 │
│ Stunt Car Racer │ 1 │
│ Quazatron │ 1 │
│ UN Squadron │ 1 │
│ Nether Earth │ 1 │
│ Monte Carlo Casino │ 1 │
│Continental Circus │ 1 │
│ Klax Wave │ 1 │
└─────────────────────────────┴───┘

If you put aside the little things, then everyone the third adores Elite, every fifth -
Dizzy or Myth...

12. BEST DOMESTIC GAME.

┌────────────────────────┐
│ DOMESTIC GAME │
├───────────────────┬────┤
│ STAR LEGACY │ 12 │
│ UFO 2 │ 09 │
│ UFO 1 │ 07 │
│ Land of Myths │ 01 │
│ Treasure │ 01 │
│ Dizzy Y │ 01 │
│ Double Xinox │ 01 │
│ Fool │ 01 │
│ Pinocchio │ 01 │
│ 48 irons │ 01 │
│ Winnie the Pooh │ 01 │
│ Tetris │ 01 │

13. WHAT GAMES DO YOU LIKE? ┌─────────────────────┐
│ FAVORITE GENRE │
├────────────────┬────┤
│ STRATEGIC │ 20 │
│ Dizzy-like │ 09 │
│ Arcade │ 05 │
│ Various │ 03 │
│ Simulators │ 02 │
│ Logic │ 02 │
│ Adventure │ 02 │
│ Racing │ 01 │
│ Managers │ 01 │
└────────────────┴────┘

Again, I don’t give a percentage, since managers, for example,
only one of the respondents likes, and I don’t think that it would be reasonable
to placethe figure "2.5%".

14. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT ADVENTOURS

┌──────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTITUDE TO ADVENTURE │
├────────────────┬────┬────────┤
│ GOOD/EXCELLENT │ 21 │ 56.75% │
│ Indifferent │ 10 │ 27.02% │
│ Bad/hate │ 06 │ 16.23% │

15. DO YOU THINK IT IS NECESSARY SHOULD YOU TRANSFER NEW GAMES FROM OTHER PLATFORMS
OR CREATE SOMETHING OF YOUR OWN, PRESENT ONLY TO THE SPECTRUM?

│ TRANSFER OF GAMES FROM OTHER PLATFORMS │

│ IT’S BETTER TO RIP SOMEONE ELSE’S FROM │ │ │
│ OTHER PLATFORMS │ 20 │ 54.1% │
│ Create something of your own │ 13 │ 35.1% │
│ As you like │ 04 │ 10.8% │

Supporters of the first point said that it is always problematic to come up with your own idea, so it is better to take something ready-made, especially since only the idea and graphics are borrowed, the rest you have to do yourself. In addition, the loud name of some Amiga toy speaks for itself. Well,
it’s better to make an analogue of someone else’s good game than to write your own, but it’s crooked.
I have a different opinion. I believe that it is necessary to develop games that are unique to the Spectrum - to break into those areas that are not occupied on other
platforms. For example, noneThe computer in the world cannot boast of so many Diseys. Nether Earth is extremely fascinating. Have you come across
something similar on other platforms? I don't. Let's say you made Dune 2 on Specky. Which computer will an inexperienced user choose after seeing the Spectrum and PC versions? Right. Now let's see how he reacts to the new domestic Nether Earth, created and
designed at the level of 97. Let's see who wins!
Well, someone else's games (Doom, Warcraft, Dune 2, Mortal Kombat, Kyrandia)
will still be copied by someone someday. But you have to try to do your own thing.
This is my opinion, of course. Otherwise, someone will again accuse you of imposing your
opinion. =)

16. YOUR FAVORITE MUSICIAN

So much good music, so many affectionate names... =)

┌─────────────────────────┐
│ MUSICIAN │
├────────────────────Ї────┤
│ KSA ║ 13 │
│ LAV/GLX/Softland ║ 05 │
│ Imp/DMS ║ 03 │
│ Wakson/Flash_Inc. ║ 02 │
│ IGOVAL ║ 01 │
│ JAM ║ 01 │
│ Evolver/Rush ║ 01 │
│ Visual/MGS ║ 01 │
│ Black Lord/LFG ║ 01 │
│ Vitaly Romanov/VBS ║ 01 │
│ Royal/FFC ║ 01 │
│ Arno/Omega ║ 01 │
│ Kurt/U5 ║ 01 │
│ Ziutek/ESI ║ 01 │
│ Klav/CBS ║ 01│
│ Kamikaze ║ 01 │
│ Slash/ADG/RPSG ║ 01 │
│ Kolesnik Andrei ║ 01 │
│ Exalot ║ 01 │
│ Twin S. ║ 01 │
│ Alien ║ 01 │
└────────────────────╨────┘

Yes, KSA, Of course it does! First place with a huge gap from all
others!

17. THE COOLEST DEMO

┌────────────────────────────┐
│ DEMO │
├──────────────┬─────────┬───┤
│ BRAIN CRASH │ PGS │ 5 │
│ SATISFACTION │ CBS │ 5 │
│ Insult │ CBS │ 4 │
│ Vibrations │ RUSH │ 4 │
│ Influence │ SEAMANS │ 3 │
│ Lyra 2 │ ESI │ 3 │
│ Illusion │ X-TRADE │ 3 │
│ Eye Ache │ CBS │ 2 │
│ 7th Reality │ DR │ 1 │
│ Action │ VAV │ 1 │
│ Assorty │ DMS │ 1 │
│ Echology │ BUSY │ 1 │
│ Extasy │ DMS │ 1 │
│ ZX-Stag │ TMG │ 1 │
│ Third Bred │ ??? │ 1 │
└──────────────┴─────────┴───┘

There is a degradation of Code Busters... =) Satisfaction (5), Insult (4), Eye
Ache (2)... =( Well, what else can you say? People love old stuff (Lyra 2) and that’s all
here.

18. BEST ARTIST.

┌────────────────────────────┐
│ BEST ARTIST │
├─────────────────┬──────┬───┤
│ DMITRY USMANOV │ STEP │ 6 │
│Anton Markin │ MGS │ 4 │
│ Shaman │ DMS │ 3 │
│ Lemming │ SC │ 2 │
│ Investigator │ │ 2 │
│ Fil │ SC │ 1 │
│ Viator │ RUSH │ 1 │
│ Observer │ VIRT │ 1 │
│ Dr.Dead │ LFG │ 1 │
│ Max Romanoff │ XLD │ 1 │
│ Madman │ │ 1 │
│ Aggressor │ │ 1 │
└─────────────────┴──────┴───┘

Usmanov Rulez!

19. YOUR FAVORITE MAGAZINE.

This is where passions ran high limit!

┌───────────────── ───────────────────────┐
│ ELECTRONIC MAGAZINE │
├────────────┬─────── ───────────────┬────┤
│ Spectrofon │ ████████████████████ │ 20 │
│ ZX Format │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ 15 │
└────────────┴────── ────────────────┴────┘

YES! And yet we won! And by a wide margin! Although the situation was quite precarious and threatened to change at every second!!! Nobody voted for other
magazines. And now I am 100% sure that SPF is the
best all over the planet! I even drew a picture about this: =)))

> ┌───────────────────┐
> │ є─────Ї─────────ї │
> │ ╙───ї ║ є── є───ґ │
> │ ╙───ґ ║ ╙───ґ │
> └───────╨───────────┘
>┌┌┐┌┌┐┬ │┌ ┌┐┌┐┌┐│ ┌┐
> │├┘├├┤││││├ │┐├┘││││├┘
> └││└│ ││└┘└ └┘││└┘└┘TM

20. THE BEST NEWSPAPER.

│ NEWSPAPER │
├─────────┬──────────────────┬────┤
│ ON-LINE │ ████████████████ │ 16 │
│ Zx-News │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ 10 │
│ Maximum │ ░ │ 01 │
└─────────┴──────────────────┴────┘

Also huge breakaway!

21. BEST HACKER.

┌──────────────────┬──────┬───┐
│ CRIS │ VBS │ 8 │
│ MaxI │ CBS │ 4 │
│ Nicolas Rodionov │ │ 1 │
│ OLDMAN │ STEP │ 1 │
│ KSA │ │ 1 │
│ Yuri Kverznev │ LAKS │ 1 │
│ Alex Litvinov │ LAKS │ 1 │
│ Anton Vasiliev │ │ 1 │
So, Alex Cristensen won - as LAV said, "our
national hero"!

22. BEST INTRO.

│ NAVY SEALS │ TITUS │ 4 │
│ Star Legacy │ STEP │ 2 │
│ ??? │ CBS │ 2 │
│ Lemmings │ RST#7 │ 1 │
│ Pitfighter │ MFA │ 1 │
│ Barbarian Collection │ OLDMAN │ 1 │
│ Dizzy 7 │ MGS │ 1 │
│ Snare, Peking,etc. │ FFC │ 1 │
│ ??? │ DR │ 1 │
│ PSG Wins │ RST#7 │ 1 │
│ Battle City │ FLASH │ 1 │
│ Dr. Who │ DR │ 1 │

23. THE BEST INTROMAKER.

There is complete chaos here. MKHG crawled out of oblivion... According to old memory
Code Busters prevailed...

│ CODE BUSTERS (in particular │ │
│ MaxI (1) and RST#7 (5) │ 13 │
│ Seamans/Progress │ 02 │
│ Digital Reality │ 02 │
│ Magic Soft │ 02 │
│ Prestige │ 01 │
│ OLDMAN/Step │ 01 │
│ Star Group/RPSG │ 01 │
│ KSA │ 01 │
│ Mafia │ 01 │
│ MKHG │ 01 │
│ Max Romanoff/XLD │ 01 │
24. DO YOU LOVE NOVELLS?

┌──────────────────── ─────────────────┐
│ NOVELLS │
├──────────────────── ───┬────┬────────┤
│ LOVE │ 17 │ 45.96% │
│ I have nothing against │ 06 │ 16.21% │
│ I don’t like │ 14 │ 37.83% │
└──────────────────── ───┴────┴────────┘

Hmm... they're not that popular... Now let's see who people
loveread...

┌──────────────── ────────────────────────┐
│ WHOSE STORIES DO YOU LIKE MOST? │
├──────────────────── ─────────┬────┬─────┤
│ - YURI MATVEEV/STEP │ 12 │ 60% │
│ - Robert Holdstock. The │ │ │
│ Dark Wheel (Review 93) │ 03 │ 15% │
│ - Andrey Shkolnikov+Timofey │ │ │
│ Yarovoy. The end of the great │ │ │
│ Russification (SPF 19) │ 02 │ 10% │
│ - ZX-Review (all) │ 01 │ 05% │
│ - Digital Reality. │ │ │
│ Paradise Lost (ZF#4) │ 01 │ 05% │
│ - J.C.L. Mad beast │ │ │
│ (ZX-Review 97, #1-2 │ 01 │ 05% │
└─────────────────── ──────────┴────┴─────┘

Here is an unconditional victory for Yuri Matveev!

25. WHAT GAME FROM OTHER PLATFORMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE ON THE SPECTRUM IN
IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE?

┌───────────────────────
│ THE GAME YOU WOULD LIKE │
│ SEE THE SPECKY IN THE FUTURE │
├───────────────────────
│ Heroes of Might │ │
│ & Magic (1...2) │ 7 │
│ DOOM │ 4 │
│ Worms │ 4 │
│ Command & Conquer │ 3 │
│ Cannon Fodder │ 2 │
│ Warcraft │ 2 │
│ Settlers │ 2 │
│ Dune 2 │ 2 │
│ Warlords (1...2) │ 2 │
│ SuperFrog │ 2 │
│ Aladdin │ 1 │
│ Penthouse │ 1 │
│ Quake │ 1 │
│ Blockout │ 1 │
│ Marriage │ 1 │
│ Фантасмогория │ 1 │
│ Mortal Kombat │ 1 │
│ Super Star Dust │ 1 │
│ Prehistoric 2 │ 1 │
│ Red Alert │ 1 │
│ Flashback │ 1 │
│ Megarace 2 │ 1 │
│ Death Rally │ 1 │
│ Kongo │ 1 │
│ Wing Commander │ 1 │
│ The Need for Speed │ 1 │
│ Master of Magic │ 1 │
│ F22 │ 1 │
│ Rally Championship │ 1 │
│ Mad Max │ 1 │
│ Descent │ 1 │
│ Duke 3D │ 1 │
└─────────────────────────┴───┘

Просто слов нет! Теперь выпишу из этого списка то, что, по моему мнению,
вполне возможно создать на Спектруме 128 (на заметку гейммейкерам): Cannon
Fodder, Aladdin, Warlords, Marriage, Settlers, Worms, Warcraft, Heroes
of Might & Magic 1 & 2, Prehistoric 2, Dune 2, Flashback, Death Rally,
Master of Magic... Кое-что я не упомянул, так как не видел... ;(

26. КАКИЕ ЖУРHАЛЫ ВЫ ЧИТАЛИ?

┌────────────────────────┐
│ CАМЫЕ ЧИТАЕМЫЕ ЖУРHАЛЫ │
├───────────────────┬────┤
│ SPECTROFON │ 34 │
│ ZX-Format │ 33 │
│ Faultless │ 17 │
│ Oberon │ 08 │
│ ZX-Power │ 07 │
│ Adventurer │ 07 │
│ Welcome Press │ 06 │
│ Speccy │ 04 │
│ Spectrophoby │ 03 │
│ Spectrum-Progress │ 02 │
│ Odyssey │ 02 │
│ Dune │ 01 │
│ Fly Agaric │ 01 │
│ Pioneer │ 01 │
│ Spectron │ 01 │
│ Eldorado │ 01 │
└───────────────────┴────┘

2EM: And don’t say that few people have seen Oberon - in fourth place!

Okay, with the “global” We're done with the questions - there are still a few less interesting ones left, but something needs to be said about them too. First of all, “WHETHER YOU BUY A BRANDED FLOppy DISKET FOR 11 THOUSAND OR A PIRATE ONE FOR 10.” We must pay tribute to the decency of our users: 29 of those who answered the questions
prefer original discs to pirated ones, and only 5 - vice versa.
Most people prefer to buy new programs from friends (19), some
are used to receiving new software for free (3), but still someone sometimes
buys it from authors or distributors (14), others - from pirates, but such
is a minority (2). If this were really the case and they took discs from pirates
at 7If less often, they would have gone bankrupt long ago. But no, they live. Strange...
No one cares about money for new games, but four of them are not at all interested in them.
Let's move on... 19 out of 37 people (that is, half) are members of some kind of hacker or other group, the remaining 18 work alone.
To the question "IS IT NEEDED TO CONDUCT A NEW SURVEY IN ECHO AND WHEN?" everyone answered differently. Some noticed the words “IN THE ECHO” and thought that I intended to conduct the next survey not on a soapbox, but in front of everyone. It would be stupid to do so, because everyone would know the results of the survey in advance, which weakens interest in articles of this kind. Only 1 person spoke out against the next survey - Max Romanov. Another six declined to answer. Well
the remaining 30 are both in favor of survey #3.
Now about the timing. Although the wishes were varied - from one
month to six - but there is no point in holding the third round before Inlight - the activity of the people will be small, but the results will not be much different.
Well, it goes without saying that checking dozens of letters and writing a report on them is an extremely complex and lengthy task. I spent more than 15 hours summing up this tour!!!!! =8-{= =}
That’s why “I’ve had enough.” That is, in the month of September someone else will have to deal with this matter=( Although this task is difficult, a
survey showed its necessity. Well, who's the next? Write with soap. Will you be able to do everything no worse than this time? Write, like me, a text of almost
30 kilos??? =) So what? A couple of days of hard work and... you'll see it turns out
super survey 3, from which all electronic magazines will then take an example...

HALL OF FAME

Most anticipated game: Black Raven (COPPER FEET)
Favorite Western game: Elite (TORUS & FIREBIRD)
Best domestic game: Star Legacy (STEP)
Real top musician: KSA
Coolest demos: Brain Crash (PROGRESS), Satisfaction (CODE BUSTERS)
Most talented artist: Dmitry Usmanov (STEP)
Best computer magazine: Spectrofon (STEP)
Best computer newspaper: On-line (OLDMAN)
Coolest hacker: Cris (VBS)
The Most sophisticated intro: Navy Seals (Titus)
Coolest intro maker: Code Busters Interactive Entertainment
Author of the best short stories: Yuri Matveev (STEP)

Well, is that all? Yes? Then bye! Please do not start a flame in the echo about
my article, but I will be happy to read all constructive suggestions, wishes, gratitude
and just reviews in the echo (otherwise something has been boring there lately :(

Bye!All this text and letters were either written or corrected by
Novikov Sergei/STEP Creative Group, 26 Apr 1997 A.D.

PS: If Matthias allows this article will be in Spectrofon 22 (changed, of
course)!

(c)1997 STEP. Spectrofon 22 material. Both quotations and publications
is all mass media representatives except SPF and On-Line are _FORBIDDEN_.