interview with titus ■ ex-mkhg
kyv ■ triumph
2006
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Well, let's start with the banal: submit please::)
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Titov, Andrei Aleksandrovich :-)
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Tell us a little about yourself (for now): age, marital
position paper.
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it is also necessary for the magazine? :-) Work as a programmer
at the firm, develops PBX.
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all of you:) you - a legend:)
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Nope, not a legend :-) just do not want to especially affect
the personal life. but what concerns Spectrum - please.
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ca. your first computer and how you became interested in general
com?
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was the first programmable moonwalker (or all-terrain vehicle,
I do not know how he called) with the buttons on the top panel.
it can be programmed for specific tasks (drive by meters
rotated by degrees, etc.). Then (in mid-80's) is
was a novelty, and I saw him one friend, zafanatel this
all-terrain vehicle.
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%), And how is it programmed? really punched cards?
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on top of the button, using them can enter the program.
by the way, zx.pk.ru zips somehow infa about this all-terrain
vehicle.
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how you got to spec?
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spectrum came only later. was first programmable calculator to
105 steps (I forgot what it is called), then in 1989 came
Radio 86rk, and then only in the 1991 Spectrum (delta-48k).
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Well, what did you do on the sinter to 94 years? :) (Or 95 th)
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up to 94 years I have been programming, as, indeed,
after. a program on ACME began back in 1989 on the RC-shke.
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Wow ... programming zx, too, began then to do?
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on the zx 91. I have the same current Speccy 1991 appeared.
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to cooperate with you mkhg produced any releases to
cake?
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in 1992 transferred to the specialist and the pK a couple of
programs. with pk music editor under pipper, and from
specialist game zoo. version made the tape, but none of them
are not distributed. as at 92 was scratched Dizzy 4 and began
writing his Dizzy-3000, which and has not been appended. by the
end of 1992 had drawn all screens, graphics, scripts, etc. but
the final gameplay has not been completed yet. ie could
resemble the screens, but things do not worked.
in 1993 made for a debugger, disassembler size of 2 kb,
subsequently, and all krekal (elite 3, etc.). in 1994
restored and made a disk version of the game black tiger. then
the end of 1994 reinstated and made the first release to the
public monty python. a couple of weeks the market went elite
three larder, I hacked it last week and made his version, after
which I was invited to star fairs hackers group, and after
another week isaychik phoned and was lured into mkhg. way to
new year 1995 I was in the mkhg.
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how and from whom you got the game, zarelizhennye
then you as a series of codemasters collection?
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in 1995 I gave them softstar.
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ECHO is interesting - where he procured them?
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:-) I do not know but I suspect that perhaps through komkod
(outland corp.) from Moldova, but they were imported from
Romania.
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why out of the game announced in preview1 miami chase did not
released. Is it true that the title picture in it was
drawn magicsoft?
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true.
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and the first question?
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right now I'll ask Vic.
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who is this ????!
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magic. He said that he could not remember :-)
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concept intro you invent yourself or take on other platforms?
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mostly to himself, but everything depends on the intro. in the
navy seals idea came partly from amigovskoy demos hardwired.
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Incidentally, in the intro navy seals 1,2 is your track? if so
- is your only Mouzon for zx?
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My, but not the only one. Proto, basically, I wrote oranzhirovki
and remixes of other people's tunes, but sometimes (as in
neviseals) come up with the music itself.
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Is it true that your loader to your release works with im2?
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I do not remember :-)
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I remember in one of your intro was the announcement
kopressora. you wrote it for yourself? want to know the
details, methods, speed compression .. etc.
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Yes, I wrote it for myself. ie especially for the great
codemasters collection. the emphasis was on speed of
extraction, which above all known compressors, with a decent
degree of compression. Methods lzw. compression speed was as
fast as I can remember where a minute or less to 30Kb.
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touch and smell these things are not real?
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no.
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for what reason you went with the cake?
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I did not go with him :-)
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but:) the last work of yours, kind of like, 97-year?
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96, as I recall. just then the Spectrum died in Moscow, and
there was no meaning nothing to write. In addition, since 1996
I have been Amigo.
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died in commercial terms?
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Well, like, yes. no more users wanting to do something for
him to acquire. the exact date of the full decline of sales in
the market - 8 March 1997.
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but what about hobbies? ie Spectrum is not a hobby for you?
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for me a hobby - programming, and every thing that is
interesting do. Spectrum is relevant until it was needed to the
masses. agree, because programs are not written for a computer,
and for the people.
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Now you're on What are you working? what components you have at
home? ;} Follows Are you the evolution pc ^ speccy ^ amiga ^
c64 scene, etc. etc. if so, what are you that you can say about
their development (decay).
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com - Pentagon 512, Delta 48, a dandy, UKNZ, agate-9, PC, Amiga
1200 and Amiga 600, and etc.
I think that the Speccy and Amiga as a massive component "dead"
remain current, enthusiasts and fans.
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you to them does not consider himself?
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no. I'd rather be a lover of the Spectrum, but not a fan.
moreover, not even Spectrum, and that park games, etc., that it
was done. plus nostalgia in some way ...
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role in your life has played the spectrum? does not happen if
such that you regret the time spent for him?
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about the time I do not regret.
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question on Amiga:) Why did not reveal his sortsy controller
keypad on the Amiga?
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I have my sources do not give anyone. In addition, the Projects
are not paid off (Pedpolagalos that at least 10 people willing
to put themselves this controller, and put all three of them,
including me).
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gee:) at the expense of your spec-file.
1. whose is the archive? =- O
2. -Are you going to ever overtake him on the PC?
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what lies I have a mixture of my and some other
mates, for example, my friend rindsoft'a. and surpass
going, of course, as would be possible and appropriate
drive (with the possibility to read demagnetized discs).
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whether you are for speccy-scene now? if so, what
command (or products) you like (remember)?
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do not watch. but remember some toys, "fire'ice",
eg.
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your attitude to people who fanaticism are spec
as an idol?
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normal. fanatics are everywhere, so they both need.
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is there any chance that you do anything at Speke?
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not excluded.
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:) What can you say (as wishes, farewell, etc.
etc.) present spektrumistam?
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not to focus on the Spectrum ... and not the fruit of a new
iron. new hardware - this is not the Spectrum, and no thought
of his prisobachivat to him.
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Thanks for the interview! we have already 3 o'clock in the
morning and go bainki.
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sentimental dreams!
