4. LETTER TO THE NUMBER
From the Editor: If the reader remembers the
last issue we reported on a global survey, conducted among
spektrumistov CIS. We suggest you to read with the results.
In total 65 questionnaires were processed.
1. Age of respondents:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 count
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
27
28
29
32
33
36
37
years
As can be seen from the graph - the average age
modern, more or less active spektrumista is 21 years.
The two questionnaires, answer not wish
indicate your age.
2. Place of residence:
Geography poll came out not as extensive as hoped it, but
still pretty impressive.
St. Petersburg 7
Chernogorsk 7
Dnepropetrovsk 6
Moscow 5
Tashkent on 3
Odessa 3
Chirchik 3
Gomel 2
Donetsk 2
Apatity 2
Volgodonsk, Grodno, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Kaliningrad,
Kirov, Leningrad area, Lugansk, Mariupol, Minsk, Mozhaisk,
Nizhny Novgorod, Novomoskovsk, Novosibirsk, Obolensk, Orenburg,
Perm, Pushkin, exactly, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tula, Cherepovets,
Schekino - 1 form.
3. Possession of computer technology:
Spectrum - 61
HRC - 8
Amiga - 6
Specialist - 4
RK86 and clones - 3
Orion - 2
BC - 1
MSX - 1
Since we are interested in more
Spectrum, then look in more detail on this 61
machine (of which 20 remained unrecognized):
Compact128 - 1
Leningrad - 3
KAY - 2
GRM - 2
Composit - 1
The Pentagon - 12
Pros - 6
Scorpion - 11
Sprinter - 1
Turbo-2 + - 1
Orel - 1
Many of them have different hardware makeweights, such as:
Memory 256/512/1024K 08/13/1913
video mode 512h192 4
CMOS 4
GlukROM 2
General Sound 4
HDD 2
Cache 10
Modem 12
Mouse 1910
PC Keyboard 5
4. 64 out of 65 respondents expressed confidence in the
feasibility of further development platform ZX.
And in the priorities of the necessary software distributed
as follows:
New OS 58
Game 48
graf.redaktory 47
programming language. 46
Commanderie 44
tekst.redakt. 43
Assemblers 40
muz.redakt. 38
muz.pleyery 34
5. 57 spektrumistam just need a new, more powerful Spectrum.
What they would like it to have? Here's what:
Processor Z80/Z180/Z380 8/5/43
DMA 4 / 8 Channel 7 / 34
Interrupt Controller 1948
musical card for AY 1944
General Sound 33
DMA Sound 29
Parallel Interface 45
serial 44
IDE interface 21
Keyboard & Mouse PC 50
disk controller on the VG93 1930
Multicard RS 1936
6. Required Spectrum is currently the amount of memory. Very
interesting answers to this question. I beg to draw the
attention of those are trying to impose their views on the
inappropriate increase of RAM.
128K 1
256K 8
512K 1
1024K 4
2048K 1
4096K 1919
from 4096K to 32768K 21
More than 8 32768K
7. Vexed question. Graphics capabilities of the Spectrum:
should they improve? 62 of those surveyed believe that. But
how? The answer is obvious:
standardized modes
512h192, byte attributes for
byte pixels, etc. 19
completely new graphics
screen that is serviced by about
Spectrum core processor 1912
video card with a separate
processor 1941
use graphics
from RS 21
In the last section were asked to indicate the desired type
of tires for your graphics card. The voices of those who did it
was as as follows:
ISA 5
ISA / PCI 3
PCI 2
AGP 1
Most popular graphics resolution of 640x480 has been named
to the 8-bit color.
8. What sacrifices are willing to incur spektrumisty in
translating the above super-Spectrum:
sound AY / Covox / Sound Drive 32
multicolor 39
, Only for TR-DOS 19
9. Here we will see how many are willing to lay out his blood
for the motherboard desirable features:
$ 1 May
$ 20 May
$ 21 - $ 40 14
$ 41 - $ 60 14
$ 61 - $ 80 14
$ 81 - $ 100 5
$ 101 - $ 120 3
$ 121 - $ 200 1
10. Categories of respondents to the questionnaires, their
occupation on the platform ZX.
inactive lover 47
gamer 35
svapper (software exchange) 27
programmer, systems analyst 20
"Zhelezyachnik" 20
programmer, an applied 16
developer "iron" 15
musician 13
Artist 1911
demomeyker 9
trader 6
SysOp BBS 4
Publisher (newspaper / magazine) 3
Other 18
11. What kind of electronic networks in use constantly:
Internet 25
Fidonet 1950
ZXnet 29
SkyNet 1
I do not use 8
Editors note: what the picture a bit clearer. At least one
thing is clear - people are, and these people need more
Spectrum powerful than the one they have now.
