Polesse #19 31 марта 2001

Интервью

Interesting conversation - an interview with Alex Raider / Flash INC

           Interesting conversation



   (C) QUASAR


   Many had seen Spectrum Scene
groups and creative teams. And at the mention of the city of 
Novosibirsk, itself, is to recall the association with the 
Flash INC. We contacted on the internet with the leader of the 
group - Alexei Astafiev (Alex Raider), who

kindly agreed to answer a few
our questions.

QS> Not much time has passed since
then, when Flash INC is one of most advanced groups at Speccy. 
Is your team will never appear on the ZX-stage?


AR> disappointed in terms of ZX, Flash is probably not
will never. I will not make promises,
but maybe if it's interesting to me,
this will be a couple demos on ZX, and even then, if
Vakson agreed to write music. Since
since I reviewed for a genre demo
I have a couple of unrealized ideas. So
that all can be. Also, I can say
that if Eugene Barsky (dr.Bars) finds
time / power to engage in an emulator, then
(Probably) will be implemented is another emulator ZX. For what 
- a separate conversation. I also want to publish on the World 
Wide Web sources IRIS, some players, tools, 3D and multicolor 
editors and others, only about 10 discs. Since I have always 
had only one drive, then I have not practiced rasbros different 
parts its programs on the disk, which means

that they should have a good meet. More
addition, as a rule, everything is going just
directive "A" assembly. :)

QS> But you had created a lot of
wonderful things. What is digital
music editor at Sound Drive, and
a lot of big and small demos. Magazine. Not
to mention a fantastic amount of
CD releases games for Speccy ...

AR> the few on which the Flash
known among ZX scenery, this is just the tip of the iceberg, we 
had a lot of internal things, and especially for me since I 
experimented with graphics and always do something new. Suffice 
it to say that the drives somewhere lies about 10-15 demos, 
which were "kicked" ... 

QS> And what happened then? Why do you
chose a PC?

AR> One of the reasons for which I am somewhat
cooled to the ZX were the results of experiments
with 3D algorithms in the 1995-96 year. Graphics
drawn in a very slow, especially the texturing and shading, but 
the money on the PC I had no ...


QS> But in the end the money is found. I suppose now, Flash 
runs on pisishnoy stage. And what are the successes?


AR> In terms of PC until the flash is known only to
musical works and MCF Wakson. They
has tremendous potential, as a rule,
all who could hear their music unreservedly admit - yes, it's 
class. Promise of new tracks, I can not now MCF and Wakson want 
to move into the sphere of professional musicians, and even 
those tunes that is, you can not hear, because they

must be registered for protection
authors' rights and opportunities for further
commercial use.

   Incidentally, the public is virtually unknown mr.Nik, 
however, he there are plenty of wonderful tunes. This is mainly 
trance, dream. 

QS> And what do the rest?

AR> Eugene Barsky deals quietly
everything and nothing, as is usually obtained.
His most recent passion has been translated Anime
Russian language. Fikus-Pikus still
actively sharing programs for the ZX.
Very likely due to its
perseverance, he has now collected the most
complete collection of ZX-programs in the former
ex-USSR. As for many others -
Slack Den, Mystery, I really do not know what
they do. Den wrote for his kind
GS-fun music, Mystery also actively
yuzaet my A1200 and it seemed to compose
a text editor for ZX.

QS> Well, you personally?

AR> As for me - I work as a programmer in the banking industry, 
the creativity, demo, ZX, are sorely lacking time, although all 
of it interesting. By stage I have not lost and never lose

interest. Now I'm at the next
circuit knowledge. WinApi, C, Delphi, Oracle
PL / SQL, Interbase, Com'ActiveX for me
as a developer is already past. Ceychas for
I have valid XML, Java, JavaBeans, Asp,
Servlets, Midas, Corba, etc., turn on
Distributed Technology - WWW ... Quite
probably somewhere in the near future,
If contact with the bourgeois bear fruit -
Go in the organization game programming on the consoles. That 
is probably all ... Write to me at flashinc@mail.ru. Bye.