Interview with DESALEX'om / XPJ
(C) Mad Killer/PG/P7S
(C) scored all Cooper/RSM/P7S
Ed. Spelling and sentence structure's saved!
Mad Killer> What, where and when?
DESALEX>
For the first time I saw a computer in a distant
1986, when he studied at the vocational school after high
school. These were the "Agatha" - the red one-piece, green
monochrome graphics, and I was with a friend, as the best
specialists in the field of informatics (for programmable
calculator !!!), was mandated under the supervision of teachers
to unpack this stuff and place it on the table ... Work on them
and failed - drafted into the army. In the army several
warrants (in overland - warrant) collected his homemade
"Experts" and make up to each
electronics with a question, not whether he could ask to send a
citizen of one kind or another details of this technique -
because, say, KR580IK55 - it was a terrible shortage!
Just a couple of people strangely written digit 0 - they are
crossed out her, and when questioning proudly announced that in
the civilian world attended computer club, where they learned
BASIC!
After the army I got a good job, where all the new technology
appears immediately after being on it was somewhere said.
So, there were a couple of Vidic, video camera,
Hi (!) and two companies - electronics -
60 "BK-0010 The same BK-0010 were in
my own school - as many as 12 pieces. - A computer class.
Estesstvenno, I first played them alternately on the job, then
school will bring a little "svezhachka" n / a, a thence to and
from work, etc. Then carried away by BASIC and mastered it to
and from - until insert in BASIC computer codes. Posted in
1990-1991-th year for four games - they
occupied the entire memory, all 32 KB and appearance did not
differ from those which were written in machine code.
A nepodeleku from work at the store Detsky Mir has a small
otdelchik computer games - stood 3 TV, and to them was
podtsepleno three improvised SPEC'a. Kids were cut at all, but
I'm on lunch breaks came to stand and look at krasivennuyu
(compared to BC) graphics and an endless variety of gameplay n
/ a (at BC I was able to then about 70 toys
total). After a while a couple of bosses at work have bought
their children computers Dubna - spektrumsovmestimye only very
much the brakes - clock frequency was twice lower than
standard. Some games do not go at all, but to the TV connects
directly to the antenna input, without any alterations to own
TV. Since I was have an ace in BC (and not only - at work
there was a couple of "CAAC-2 - it was the same
teaching machine in the school KUVT86, so I have mastered it to
a level that wrote a database to BASIC with inserts machine
code), I was at work requested the authorities to collect n / a
for SPECCY children superiors. Sami heads to assist in getting
acquainted with people who have kept that computer corner in
the "Children's World" and the teacher Informatics at the
Warsaw University - and p / o Opened up the river! Naturally, a
couple of months I've found a suitable mainboard Spectrum,
collected the keyboard, power supply, plugged it all in black
and white TV - and was happy owner of Leningrad version
ZX-SPECTRUM 48 KB-cassette recorder. It was the month of March
of 1991.
At first I was just a game, wound up connection
throughout the city, sharing p / o was unthinkable
stream, began to correspond with spektrumistami from other
cities. In the summer of 1992, year began selling tapes of
games by the commission shops of the city - immediately
replicated on three tape recorders, cassettes bought boxes
(good Shostka next) to I still remember, in a box - 120 tapes
... Drawer missing for two weeks ... The bubble was
nemeryannom - bought himself just what the soul
wished regularly shook in Kharkiv on fresh n / o and I began to
notice that the tape is becoming less and less, and floppy
disks - more and more. Naturally, zabalabenil myself a new PC -
128 KB, AY, color monitor, two floppy drive - it was 1993 year,
closer to its end.
Even on tape, about the summer of 1992,
, the game became less and interest in the device more and more
games - I not satisfied, for example, that on one side of the
tape not fit 7 games and I started Games compress, I did not
like that in some games it was almost impossible to play
without an infinite life and I became the first to look for
them in the literature POKES, and then mastering the so
assembler, began to find such POKE himself. Until I still
remember that my first obessmerchennaya game - it MASTER
BLASTER - very much I liked Space Fly-shooters, and wanted to
pass this, but here further the second level - well, nothing
... I remember, using the disassembler MONS (STS'a with its
fantastic opportunities had not yet
was!) ponahodil all teams DEC A in the body of the game, sent
them on a piece of paper (such DEC A turned out to be about
three dozen), and then tried to from BASIC quench their NOPs -
and one of POK'ov did it - life ceased to diminish - that was
fun! Never thought that once I'll write about it
Memoirs ;-)!!!
More - more. The more I climbed into
game, the faster find what I wanted -
"Circular" simple toy has become a matter
10 minutes ... And throughout his
hakkerstvovaniya such toys were numbered
pieces 800 ... At the same time I started
notice that not all toys are not only
outside, but inside look "normal" -
began to distinguish between different systems and breakups
restore the game to close as possible to their corporate
version. By 1995-96, the material was enough to write his great
article rehabilitation games in printing
edition of the "ZX-REVIEW-UKRAINE" - on this topic
It was the first Russian-language paper - to
Received publication itself, it made such a
impression that they asked me to cooperate on any of my terms,
if only I wrote the article. It was written two articles -
about obessmerchivanii games and adaptation loadable games from
tape to disk, while "ZX Revue suddenly not bent.
Naturally, there was an active correspondence with
spektrumistami from all over Ukraine,
exchange of P / O and information, selling cassettes
(Continued until 1998-the year!) And floppy
(Wrote on request). In 1996, the year was invited to join the
X-PROJECT, since its base.
In the second, third and fourth rooms
ZX POWER magazine published remakes
my articles in the ZX REVIEW significant additions + article
about the new P / O, the first virus to SPECCY, etc. At the
same time Dr. Squizer drove a lot of sources not seen before in
our games (he traded in Slovakia at ENLIGHT'97) and I restore
it wrote the intro, etc.
As always, the most vpechetlyayuschee
zaparyvaetsya at the very dawn of forces ... IBM
everything was intense, pushing SPECCY. If the first 286-I
model evoked laughter (as compared with spectrum), the 486DX
with Windows'om, CD-Rom drive and MORTAL KOMBAT'om as "central"
game actually kicked the ground from under Foot SPECCY.
Spektrumisty started to leave. First casualties began somewhere
in the middle , 1993, and by the end of the century on the
Spectrum how about the computer forgot to do and only
occasionally seeing someone at home in a closet or on a dusty
closet Robic before your eyes pops up a picture - all in the
"Children's World" for these Robic, tapes n / a rake in tens
(yesterday brought into the store 20 - and now look - there
were pieces of 5) - familiar from the "Children's World said
themselves only Robic has sold thousands of
five, and before that sold more Blitz, and
How much was made of homemade ...
In my opinion, first and foremost reason that Spectrum could
not compete with the HRC does not lie in the steepness of the
software under HRC, and that it is possible to look
movies and listen to real music. The main problem was that the
time has not was adjusted powerful series production car good.
If the commercials of the year 9293-m found a strong defense
(conversion) plant, which would organize mass production of
Spectrum in a respectable (technically attractive) system unit,
good remote keyboard, maybe even mouse, 128 KB, AY, and, most
importantly, the modulator TV, so you can connect without
alteration of the TV, then I think such a device would not be
very expensive (per by a large circulation) and was able to
withstand to this day. After that we had - Robic
and their ilk, cassette, 48 kb, without decent sound, but still
need a TV remake it, and the games are not all ... Any withdraw
from a failed download from the tape and claim Rodak free TV
for viewing melodrama. But such machine, as I have described,
perhaps, now to buy a teenager as an alternative
IBM, if it was worth five times cheaper and
in the neighborhood of two or three friends the same
plowing with the 1000 th game on floppy disks ...
Well, I hope I have answered your questions. I wish you and
all the "live" spektrumistam all the best in their difficult
lives. Bye!
27/01/2004 Yours - ex.DESALEX.
