RVL4 (If there was no happiness, but misfortune would help)
ZXNet echo conference «zx.spectrum»
From Andrew Savichev → To All 29 October 1997
Hayushki!
I either overslept here or the article didn’t reach Pavel Fedin, but oh well
I still want to argue :)
> PF> Now let’s imagine the train of thought of the “virtual” (not mine, but 99%
> PF> of
> PF> you):
> PF> 1) If I have an emulator, then why do I need a real one? Speccy?
So there was no question and there is no question... WHILE THEY WILL BE MADE AND SELLED, we
will buy them! :) Another thing is that the question of choice is a matter of preference.
I live in St. Petersburg...the choice, as they say, is wide :) What to choose, what to buy:
Scorpio, KAY, Pentagon, Sprinter? ...here something else worries me more...
to which of these compers can I safely (and without unnecessary hemorrhage)
attach standard peripherals starting with an SVGA monitor (naturally working
in Spectrum video modes) and ending with a mouse...
You understand what I’m getting at :)... that’s it, stop relying on crappy
(even if it’s almost free periphery!)...what has been is past...Boards from our companies SHOULD BE AT THE WORLD LEVEL, not in the sense of architectural capabilities, but in the sense of quality and price. And here all the hard makers will quite rightly point out to me that they
don’t have a market for sales of at least 500,000 computers a year. And if there was at least half the market, they would do everything very cool!
What happens is a CLOSED CIRCLE. I wrote about this, but you didn’t read it carefully.
Then againI repeat: the “virtual” Spectrum is of course a more reliable
and powerful tool, but it replaces the “natural” Spectrum NOT FROM A GOOD LIFE!
Give me a natural Spectrum, which is not a shame to put on the same table with the
“virtual” (IN QUALITY, RELIABILITY) and it will stand there!
But “over the hill” they found another way out, they just “natural payment” in
IBM slot is stuck in!
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>And then, emulating something in terms of quality of work, the emulator physically cannot
be able to surpass the original.
Maybe it should, although if not purely in software, then in hardware-software.
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> PF> 2) If I have a PeeCee/Amiga, then why the hell should I race on it
> PF> emulator and be content with 16-color attribute graphics, when I
> PF> can, without any emulators, have 800x600 with 16,000,000 colors?
> PF> (follows from point 1).
>
>When changing gloves, leave the old ones, they will come in handy.
Hmmm...it seems this question has been “blown out” by everyone sides...
Children's drawing, what looks worse than Levitan's painting? You guys...
it's not about the number of colors and resolution...there are just things that
do not need many colors and a high resolution. You just need to have a sense of
what is good and what is bad for which modes. The same can be said about AY
in comparison with a sound blaster.
This is an axiom. Spectrumcompact and this is its special charm!
You need to have talent to feel the Spectrum as a unique, cool
instrument, then it will “sound” so much that people will “cry” from the fullness of feelings, “roar” with delight and just go crazy - which is what we sometimes do :)
I feel sorry for those who still haven’t understood this ;-)
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> PF> Let's sum it up and we get a dead Speccy!
Nonsense! A hundred times, nonsense! “Spectrum is still more alive than all living things, our pride, glory and
weapon...” :)
And the “virtual” Spectrum is a hundred times more tenacious ;-) it is like a virus in the human body, like a small bird feeding near a hippopotamus, like a pool with warm, fresh and nice water on a Pacific liner in the middle salty,
tasteless ocean :)
Have a good hunt everyone! Andrey AKA m@s/CENSUS