Sprinter-97

Hi, Dmitry & Yury!

Hey, where does such pessimism about the subject come from, is this a feigned influence of the West ;)
I mean your Pentiums! Well, you read your articles in your publications and everything seems so great, but now you have turned sour, you are already dreaming about piles of thousands of dollars. Well, listen, if in Moscow you have such irresponsible people
online that they download all the programs for free, then you shouldn’t think that the whole country is drowning in piracy! When you come to Enlight, then we will show you :)
what kind of beast the Sprinter is, otherwise it seems pointless to me to prove the promise of a car that
few people have seen so far. All the same, you will not change
(yet) your opinion.

Sincerely, Denis.

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The other day, June 10, 97, at 20:32, Dmitry Grigoryev wrote to Vladimir Larkov:

Hi, Dmitry.

VL>> Sprinter-97
VL>> Hardware capabilities.

DG> And not a word about compatibility with the Spectrum :(

:) Well, I thought it was Of course, how was I to know
that you would think that they are not compatible.

VL>> With best wishes, Vladimir.

DG> Sincerely, Dmitry (OLDMAN).

Friday June 13, 1997 21:36, Denis Parinov (812/08.16) wrote to Dmitry Grigoryev
& Yury Matveyev:

DP> Hi, Dmitry & Yury!

2YM: We have already been recorded as conspirators... We are some kind of Frond ;)

DP> Hey, where does such pessimism about the subject come from, is this a feigned influence
DP> of the West ;) I mean your Pentiums!

Where do you get such major optimism? A word (well, even a few) cannot be said cautiously about the subject... Any way you throw yourself ;) There is a lot of talk about unprecedented graphical capabilities and practically nothing about the shortcomings even in
technical terms. Not to mention organizational shortcomings. The discussion must
be objective. Or is the subject not negotiable? Only shouts of “rulez”?
For some reason, to all reasoned criticism and reasonable doubts, you, represented by
the Peters company, respond with general words or get offended and refuse
to talk...

And the influence is felt, of course. But the influence of many years of work with Spectrum.
Pessimism is caused by the fact that from Specky in the subject there was practically only
a command-compatible processor, as well as the unshakable belief of the Peters company that
nobody needs the rest.

DP> Well, you read your articles in your publications and everything seems to be so
DP> great,

You see them through rose-colored glasses, What are you reading? ;)

DP> but now you’ve turned something sour, you’ve already becomeI dream about stacks of thousands of dollars
DP>.

Don’t you dream about them? Just flower fields and fluttering butterflies? ;) I'm jealous...

DP> then we'll show you :) what kind of beast the Sprinter is, otherwise it seems to me
DP> pointless to prove in an echo
DP> the promise of a car that few people have seen yet. All the same, you will not change (yet) your opinion.

That is, you will not prove to us the promise of this machine? Once again you will be “offended”, and I and those who are also interested in them will not get an answer to my questions?

DP> Sincerely, Denis.

Sincerely, Dmitry (OLDMAN).

DP> :) Well, I thought it was a given, how was I to know
DP> that you would think that they are not compatible.

What goes without saying? Appeal to trdos only for #3d13? Or the “absence” of the keyboard
when interrupts are disabled? Or maybe hardware interrupts for IM2? Or
the boring format of floppy disks? Okay, let me clarify the wording: “Not a word about compatibility with existing software.” Tell me, what percentage of programs will run on Sprinter without modifications? Even if you “don’t pay” attention to the need
copying to an MSDS floppy disk (although I have more than 300 disks, I’d rather hang myself
than transfer all this...).