Our Anniversary - 15 years SPECCY!
57-th anniversary of the birth
Denia Sir Clive
Miles Sinclair ...
DEDICATED ...
Dear nick, coders, gfx-and music
maker'y, systems analyst, hackers, and yet all ...
That came in 1997: the year of remarkable
and welcome! It was in 1997, performed as much FIFTEEN YEARS us
all beloved Speccy! What other computer in the world (Except
AMIGA) can boast of such a long life? Yes, virtually none.
And this life, fortunately, is far from over, but on the
contrary, recent Revised breathed new energy into our with you,
"Spectrum: the first new" Spectrum we have, "such as" Scorpion
"," ATM-Turbo "and "Professional", and secondly, the
development of new sound of tricks, such as, for example, St.
Petersburg "GENERAL SOUND" (see the ZX-F # 5); Well, in the
third, is being decided now the ability to connect to the
Speccy standard modem and access to the INTERNET! Can you
imagine what spaces will be opened then! Confidentially say
that a well-known in Russia and outside the programmer NICODIM
going after the release of his "Legend of Kyrandia "tackle the
problem of connecting Speccy to the Internet right up (snag
lack Romino "Pentagon" system connector) ...
And to finish off Speccy fans at all,
I recommend reading "ZX-Format" # 5, "Iron" department, the
article "Project 'Transformer'" (section "KAY"): what do you
think about Spectrum with 33 MHz clock speed!? A
all thanks to a new processor Z-180
(Although known in Rybinsk "zhelezyachnik"
V. Khripkov the opinion that it
will use the processor Z-280) ...
This complex will be fully compatible with
older models, but will have a better,
compared with the old Speccy, graphics and
sound (4 channel General sound).
... And now let's close our eyes and
remember those sweet moments when we
rather, each of us has acquired or collected their first
"Spectrum" ... Remember? Surely, this was the 48 th
"Leningrad-1" or something like ... Remember, with which we
feeling listened to the howling and creaking loaded with a tape
recorder (probably some type of "Electronics-302-1) toys like
"BATTY" or "WDW-2" ... In which a real thrill! Personally, I
gave almost masochistic pleasure in the ship
within half an hour of some masterpiece like "TARGET RENEGADE",
and downloading, to understand I do not want to batter poor
Gopnik, then I downloaded the "TOMAHAWK", and repeated the same
story ...
Well, unless you have a never
is not it? If not, then you may have, and
Spectrum something normal had never happened
never. This spektrumist never
forget that he is "Tape loading error" in
mid download toys, which sought
half a year and always remember the difference between
"TF-copy" of "Taper" ...
Well, you're not tears of
surging nostalgia and longing for "childhood barefoot? Surely
someone with sob jumped to the old Bound
copper chest, took out a dusty,
impregnated with naphthalene (moth and viruses that have not
eaten) Spectrum-48, and gently, almost as the girl he loved, he
pressed to his chest ... Okay, guys, stop, and then break
through my own tears. Let's mentally fast forward to later
times, more precisely in the sat down to the 90's, when they
began to extend drives ...
I assume that most of it looked like this: you came to
his companion, saw the drive (I can not stand harmful imported
the word "flopper"), marveled at the speed of loading, sighed,
and went to their homes and teypovomu. Sat, lay down
sleep and dream I saw that you have a floppy drive! Well, here
it you want-not, you have to save the investment. But when
Finally bought a week went like birthday, all show and praised.
And your friends agreed, went home, sat
for teypovye, went to bed ... Well, in general, the experts in
nuclear physics and chain reactions will understand me ...
And now, finally, we come to the present time. What we
see now? Y many little two drives, do you
yet shed the hard drive, 3.5-dyuymovik (and then
and two ... Cool, perhaps, have disk drives
A, B, C and D, eh?). And some omanyachennye gentlemen (in a
good sense of the word), and in general, SPECCY in iBM-ovsky
body stuffing (and rightly so). What has changed now p / o
compared with the old import ... Of course, to the level of
Pete Cook Our gamemaker'y not quite reached, but
I believe that all lies ahead. Only in the last year dvatri
SPECCY appeared such remakes of popular on other boards
forms of games like "PRINCE OF PERSIA", "MORTAL COMBAT", "DOOM"
(!), "DUNE"; now is under a "LEGEND OF
KYRANDIA "; there are such purely Spectrum hits as" Star
legacy. "Yes and the extremely popular "UFO: Enemy Unknown" and
"UFO-2: Devils of the Abyss" are not exact copies
iBM-games-native ...
Finally, add and I hope I
will not be alone in his belief that SPECCY
is and will remain in the history of mankind
as a computer, which has won a place in the hearts of everyone
who used it at least once, and did not take it as a
cheap toy. I sincerely hope
that we will be celebrating 20, 30-year anniversary SPECCY, and
that they will not last (Let hanged himself with rage all the
"pisyuchisty" in their pi-shi). Happy anniversary you, SPECCY,
with the holiday, my friends!
