INTERVIEWS
(C) MDF HACKER
(C) RINDEX
Today we interview the Chief Editor NICRONAlekseya (name
refused to name), the Spectrum circles known under the
pseudonym MDF HACKER. Because he is the founder and editor in
chief NICRON'a, this interview will be mainly devoted to
precisely this topic.
RNX> has become a tradition to ask this question: "how are you
came to the Spectrum? "
MDF> Spectrum I got somewhere in the fourth grade.
RNX> In the fourth??
MDF> Yes.
RNX> Well, you now how much?
MDF> Twenty.
RNX> Well, the fourth grade is too long ...
MDF> Normal.
RNX> (After a little thought.) Okay, to hell with it. And you
started to do on the Spectrum, when will he come from?
MDF> Play.
RNX> In igrulki, huh?
MDF> Well.
RNX> And then?
MDF> And then again the same thing. And again, again, again ...
And this
again continued until 1994. In the 94 th year, I began to
have
break, and only then began to write small demo.
RNX> And how did the idea to make NICRON?
MDF> I just have a big pile of texts, and nowhere was their
do with it.
RNX> On the PC?
MDF> Yes.
RNX> And once you've decided to make NICRON?
MDF> Yes, and still had a bunch of pictures of pseudo-graphics,
and now I also will laugh rre MAXIMUM and ...
RNX> ... I decided to do the newspaper ...
MDF> Yes. (Short pause) This is due to the texts and crawled
out.
RNX> Interesting. And how many more will come out NICRON?
MDF> zagnetsya Not yet, although I think this will not happen.
RNX> guessing not ...
MDF> Yes, just a lot of material. And while the latter is not
BBS'ka
closes.
RNX> Wow. And in the summer?
MDF> And in the summer. In the summer, too, will come out,
well, not once a week,
but once in two.
RNX> A once a week, then, weak?
MDF> Well, who in the summer reading something? It is possible
and once a week.
RNX> What are you doing, you want to say that summer does not
read newspapers?
MDF> Why read, but NICRON is not as voluminous as this
hour.
RNX> Does anyone had the idea to cram sprites-reader?
MDF> I do not remember, swill a MERLIN'a. He released the first
demo version, and only then began her welling.
RNX> Yes, I see it is quite slow ...
MDF> Let's wait for another version of MERLIN'a.
RNX> which I hope will be a little faster.
MDF> Well.
RNX> Yes, there is not just desirable, but much faster. At least
develop the same speed as in the ZX-FORMAT'e.
MDF> (silently)
RNX> Okay. But is not it time to replace the intro, because it
shi pit after your voice.
MDF> It is better to restart the computer.
RNX> This is how to understand, reboot? Here I am her laden,
and it is starting is reminiscent hiss, and if I load it
from ZYX'sovskogo rubble, there
remain sound, which sounds in this very Bute. Neporya
Doc, however.
MDF> Yes there doing basically nothing. Just no time.
RNX> would be too long time ... We return to the reader. Do not
you think
that the newspaper do it better without the sprites, and
take
It will be much less, and then download each time for two
STI sectors somehow did not really pull. I do not allude
to that,
just a beautiful course with sprites, but ...
MDF> ... Thing ...
RNX> ... Thing. I know that thing, but this thing is taking up
too much em. This is more like a magazine, do not you
think?
MDF> Well, who does not want to download NICRON, can download
the MAXIMUM,
which is smaller. (Laughs)
RNX> MAXIMUM certainly smaller, though there is plenty of room
itself of bulk NICRON'a. And, if not secret, how many
sectors
occupies itself reader?
MDF> I do not know. You call MERLIN'u, and ask him.
RNX> Yes he as going to say 50, I was so immediately and I fall.
MDF> No, he did it on BASIC'e what?
RNX> And what awaits readers NICRON'a in the near future? Mo
can be any new partition?
MDF> Yes, they (the sections - R.) each time opened.
RNX> And what are they?
MDF> Ibid permanent, not really.
RNX> How is it not?? A "commercial", "a list of BBS". Continue?
MDF> Well, these constants, and the other to change. That's
about bombs.
RNX> Well, this is not a sect, it is considered "we stripped
from PC'yuka.
MDF> Well, if someone do not, let them read for us. That's it.
Well,
and ideas in there.
RNX> Which, if not secret?
MDF> Yes, I do not know, I'm not making this up.
RNX> And then who will? Who have you got there the main brain
of the newspaper?
MDF> Do-oo-oo. Actually, I do.
RNX> How are you? I've asked you now, what will be new in
newspaper, and you did not know.
MDF> Y, insidious question. Here WLODEK BLACK will do soon ...
RNX> And what will he do?
MDF> short thing, one word.
RNX> Well, what??
MDF> In short, the secret. All in good time.
RNX> In general, readers NICRON'a soon to expect any
what a surprise, not so right?
MDF> Yes.
RNX> I hope this will not pull off a surprise of some
another newspaper?
MDF> None. And from a newspaper?
RNX> Yes, that's the section "Search" was used in MAXIMUM'e ...
C'mon,
its people, are numbered. That poll was conducted, the
type, the best
Newspaper Network.
MDF> Everyone chooses their own style.
RNX> What, too lazy to carry out a survey, because for a long
time?
MDF> No, the survey can be carried out.
RNX> And then there are some saying that we szhuhlili. Truth now
MAXIMUM is not the same as before ...
MDF> Yes, and NICRON too ...
RNX> Yes, before NICRON ever was ... Now much better.
MDF> grows.
RNX> By the way, I watch too many anecdotes taken from the PC.
MDF> Yes.
RNX> Well I'm sorry, your jokes are much better.
MDF> Yes head swell to remember.
RNX> From good joke head is not swollen. Okay. Your
long-distance Chiyah plans. Will the move work on the
program for you
to call for free long distance?
MDF> But what there doing something. It remains to be done only
redial and
definition of [what - I did not hear - R.]. But in fact it
and so ready, and add nothing more.
RNX> I do not know, I did not call.
MDF> I have twice called.
RNX> Well, how successfully?
MDF> Yes. There must catch the moment.
RNX> What other time?
MDF> When you have amassed the first digit, there first modem
goes out,
and now at this moment to press.
RNX> Well, I hope who should be the one familiar with this
myself.
So you never answered the question about future plans.
MDF> That's going to make megademo.
RNX> Megademu? Wow, and under what name?
MDF> LABOTAMIA [correctly written? - R.].
RNX> And how is it translated.
MDF> Opening of the skull, or whatever?
RNX> I do not know. And as that name has come into your head?
MDF> I do not know.
RNX> A-ha, as well as NICRON. And incidentally translates as
NICRON?
MDF> catchy question. How better to say, there is such a film
Here is a word taken from the movie and the title of this
movie, I
forgotten.
RNX> From the film ... And what was there under the name NICRON?
MDF> It seems to be the "King of Ice". Yes, yes, yes.
RNX> "Ice King" ... Somehow this ... Hmmm ... There even add
then nothing. Hopefully, on the anniversary of which will
NICRON'a something heaped up the number, or by that time
all ...
MDF> try to make a funky number, perhaps even with
application. By the time the reader can still improve ..
RNX> Well, you still say that by 3 October and it still does
not improve??
MDF> (Laughs)
RNX> Speaking of megademe. You have decided to make it to
ENLIGHT'97?
MDF> Well, no. It basically will have all the work on sprites.
RNX> Most importantly, what would have been nice.
MDF> will be nice.
RNX> Better do not megademo that after the tenth time
not want to watch, but better to make a game, just not the
type
"Pyatnashek", "Tetris" and the like, as such, is not very
complicated,
as Mednonogov muddied UFO-2 or Raven Black, there generally
intelligence will be the enemies of abruptly than in the
UFO-2, although such
Games just a masterpiece, and simpler, but not bad, in
type DIZ ZY, she's not so complicated as those two.
MDF> Not complicated? ..
RNX> Why are you out there as soon as schedules have a lot of
paint, and
sprites display ... After all, you're in your megademe
sprites conclusions dish, here and there found only have
the benefit of the players.
MDF> Graphics, I can write, but ...
RNX> Here, draw a graph, find another quite good coder, and
do you have some high-DIZZY.
MDF> DIZZY?
RNX> So what? After all, perhaps, we have the majority of
people love it my genre of games, at least I think so.
Admit it,
DIZZY - it DIZZY, and there is nothing to add.
MDF> They are all the same type.
RNX> Why the same type? A-ah, my brain does not like to break?
MDF> Here DIZZY 5, boulders dragged hither and thither, bored.
RNX> Yes, this is the best DIZZY, better yet it was not.
MDF> I've passed everything except the fifth. I just swollen
tuscany these
cobblestones.
RNX> And you passed them as if it is no secret to the
description, or
myself think out?
MDF> Sam.
RNX> Sam ... If you had passed you would not have talked about
boulders, pull-back here ... No, you are straight some are
not
connoisseur of these games. By the way, your favorite game.
MDF> (a long time thinking) HAMMERFIST, where a man and a woman
running, and the boundary Fick nehily.
RNX> Nonsense. Here you go along, and such like, TARGET RE
NEGADE, huh?
MDF> This mura.
RNX> Okay, let's not raise this issue. You'd better tell me what
deme, or megadema, in your opinion, the best.
MDF> Yes, almost all of which are good effects.
RNX> Well, after all, is the best.
MDF> (a very long time thinking about.) On this issue I find it
difficult to give
response.
RNX> I have, in principle, it also would not answer. I do not
demos
really like what they see, as I said earlier, once
10-15 and all. Then they just get bored. It would be
better perekinu were to play on, but not "sobiri picture -
you open the
scanned photos, various kinds of "tetris" etc
MDF> In principle, correct.
That's where we ended our conversation. Until we meet again.
