ABOUT PEOPLE
Began the interview, of course, beer. Beer and finished ...
In general, "Brother," as they call themselves, or Virtual
Brothers, as are all used to call them, like beer, and putting
it mildly ...:)
Duc lo, Zatar case of beer, sit
y John'a Stunner'a home, well, the interview-take a give ... :)
- Okay, let's go, - said the attacker Chris.
And went ...
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(C) Alexei Mikhailov
VIRTUAL BROTHERS
Arno: Some general issues of traditional
owls ...
Cris: (interrupting) Well, of course ... We all
the first three - it's John Stunner, Vitaly
Romanov and I am a hacker Cris ...
John: Yes, initially we had only two -
Vital came later ...
Cris: Yeah ...
Arno: You have a pretty unusual name.
Why did you decide to name it
"Virtual brothers"?
John: Once I was riding the subway and saw
on one of the handouts
word Virtual. Somehow immediately come
the idea of using it in the title
group. I called Chris, he also
likes ... At that time, and
Now, too, Chris calls all
"Brothers" ...
VR: Everyone - Brother!
John: Yes ... So it happened - Virtu
al Brothers ...
Cris: In general, VB formed somewhere in the
May 95'ogo ...
Arno: So, you've done your group. With Th
From the very beginning your joint activities
sequence?
Cris: Well, first we broke all
Only you can break ...
John: In fact, the first major pro
On the other, that Chris broke, was a UFO.
Arno: Rumor has it that you have because of this
there was a conflict with its author,
Slava Mednonogovym ...
Cris: The conflict - not the right word, just a village
le of how I broke her, she singing
wound on bbs'kah, but he certainly
camping, it's not very much ...
John: At the time, broke everything that
out of the hands, but his whole
life of traders, we have not received
penny ...
Arno: So you were breaking only for the sake of
to break, so to speak, for
feelings for their own satisfaction?
John: Yes, no "selfish" interest ...
Arno: Nevertheless, you happened to me
of, how about the coolest hacker
country. Not by chance because of echo
ZX.SPECTRUM Cris'a called hacker
year ...
Cris: Well, it is strongly preuvelichino ... Although
I was pleased.
(Laughter)
Arno: Have introshki / Infinity / loaders?
Cris: There were, but not very much ...
Arno: OK, then, seems to have appeared Vita
face?
John: Yes ... We were initially a month
only on the phone talking
about all sorts of procedures ...
VR: (looking up at the second from a bottle)
Was the case ...
John: And then I introduced him to Chris.
Cris: I come to John, and then people ka
Coy is sitting. Since they were introduced.
John: Then came the idea to invite Vitali
ka in VB. The guy he was distinct from
LIMITED, besides we have already begun to pony
mother that the time spent, and
virtually nothing has been done. And so
we have gained in the face and odnm code
pa, and a musician and artist ...
(More followed by a series of jokes, are
which boiled down to why some
Children are born healthy, and some -
tricky ... :)
Arno: And what Vitali was engaged before
became one of the "Brother"?
VR: (opening the tenth packet of nuts):
Well, kodil little music he wrote,
too little for the soul, when the crust
swarming there. I do not respect those muse
Kant, who are engaged in stamps
Coy Mouzon - monotonous music
as if she was not well written,
quickly become boring ...
John: I called Vitale and told him that
its place - in our group. He
thinking and ... Agreed.
Cris: I remember how we sat and zatsenivali
his first job - Lissajous ... For
the time when we actually
got out of the novice coders / hackers
ditch in humans, it was cool ...
John: It's time to talk about our
plans ... ;)
All: Yes Weather you with their plans ...:)
(Laughter)
Arno: In general, people say that MAX
PETROV is as though unofficial
member of the VB, and why he was not included in
The group?
Cris: Well, MAX cool guy, we do
with him in very good friendships from
respects, but when he was invited to
VB, he refused - has decided to kodit
alone, since it was originally
coder, and we - hackers ...
Arno: What do you think about computer pres
Behold, I mean the Spectrum, and
In particular Spectrofon and ZX-Format?
Cris: My opinion and the opinion of all the "Brazil
ditch, "which still makes Spectrofon
Format the content ... Obolchka in
magazine - the right thing, but contains
of important ...
VR: The level of the texts in the format of all the decay
exists and falls ...
Arno: In light of the foregoing such global
Ballroom question: Moscow and St. Petersburg. Ka
Who of these two cities more
suitable epithet "Center of the country,
In other words, what is cooler?
John: Definitely can not say. In some
Peter in front of something Moscow ...
Cris: Yeah, that's like the center demomey
King nor Peter, nor Moscow called
can not - in my opinion he is stolen
not ...
Arno: A Gomel? A Novgorod? Or Kharkov
they are not competitors?
Cris: Competitors, they were not giving
but, and I think that Kharkiv is not
surpassed ...
John: But Peter could be called the center
geymmeykinga!
VR: It is yes. And the UFO, and Irons, and Winnie the Pooh
Dizzy with all sorts as opposed to bridge
Stark Heritage ...
Cris: Moscow - city of hackers, and Peter -
coders ...
Arno: And what about music, Peter is also impres
mong. In Moscow, a KSA, in St. Petersburg
was LAV ... That is, they are now
there, but the music on Speke actually
do not write. And so, in Moscow and not wasps
talos anybody else, and in Peter
Musicians still have ...
John: About the graphics nothing can be said,
there is nothing to compare. Although Enlight wasps
talsya for Muscovites ...
Arno: By the way, at the expense of Enlight'a ... Most
Interestingly, not everyone knows about
Fast Coded ...
VR: Well, "Fast Coded" - this is our demo,
we've done on Enlight, but
by the will of the circumstances, it is not there
got ...
Arno: Duc you give details of interest
but then ...
VR: Somewhere in the three weeks before the party ever,
dil me one piece ... And a half
weeks left in the campaign. In principle,
the entire demo was done for the remaining
Xia ten days. Finish / reserves
kovyvalas it at night between the first and
Enlight'a second day, that's just
Cris, instead of stick
hard, went to a disco with
the guys from Digital Reality, came
morning in early drunk, of course
Xia, sat pack, there is then another
Bug found, had perepakovy
vat ... In short, for two hours
opazdali to deadlines for
com ...
Arno: And then what?
VR: Well, then we went to drink ...
Arno: Not in the sense that later with demos
become?
VR: We released it, gave all his friends
watch and forget about it ...
Arno: She's on the BBC lay Dyk
comments - very bestovo. IMHO, the demo
is not the last place:
would ...
VR: Thank you. Unfortunately, it appears that
it is not very dispersed ... Although, as
know ...
Arno: Are you planning to take part in
com on Enlight '97?
Cris: Yeah, probably.
Arno: since I started talking about the demo, so
question: what can be called DeMouy
the best on the Spectrum?
VR: For its time, no doubt about it
Satisfaction and Insult. While
RST7 made such as bolshins
GUT encoders that time, except
"Impossible" is not mentioned. Main -
ideas and methods of implementation. Although this
hour Code Busters'y are not the same: RST7
long ago wrote nothing, and MAXI
too much time to the Phi
to ... In order to support
his name at the level they need now
to do something, otherwise at the next
Enlayte they remain without a "vote
for the name of "... And on the Enlight '96, in my
opinion, the coolest deme - Action
by VAV. Music - simply Best. Fires
lui music - one of the main arguments
moments: cool demo synchronized
Wan with the music ...
Arno: A Vibration?
VR: All About Vibration effects can be
immediately say how they are made, and
on how to make the effect of Ac
tion'e, we should at least hearth
mother ...
Arno: Why, then, not even on the Action
fell into three?
VR: camera, bad television sets,
which point the schedule despite
las in general, a bad sound ... Incidentally
TI, said that VAV now writes
Something very cool ...
John: This is an order of magnitude higher than
E'96!
Cris: And I really like SEAMANS'ovskie
demos, in particular, Influence. Oso
especially ksashnaya music in the first hour
Thi ...
Arno: Well, how many people, so many
opinions ... Recently, a very
has become fashionable to talk about other
platforms. Amiga and PC. Opinions vir
tual Brother ...
John: I - amizhnik almost in the full sense
the word, because I like
Xia Amiga, on Monday posed
Liu currently 1200-ku, screw, and Poti
honku begin to accumulate on the axel ...
Cris: I amizhnik just in my heart: I know
that on the Amiga money is still not
enough, and I also know that sooner or
too late to put yourself PC ...
VR: In "Brother," I'm the only one who
Neutral refers to the question of
Amiga / PC 'huh ... Me, in principle,
would suit any of these companies ...
Arno: What models of the Spectrum-compatible
computers do you prefer and
what work?
VR: Oh! We have my brother, probably, two
Pentagon of three in St. Petersburg. Third,
like, the Mednonogova, but he and they are not
enjoys even ...
Cris: I've got something homemade ...
In principle, the scheme - the "zone", the truth
I did myself a little bit refined ...
Arno: And what is your configuration has
first comp?
Cris: Like most sinkleristov I
started with 48 kB tape. I have two
was, and the second is not staid and
two weeks - I'm at it 220 volts
filed ...
Arno: What if, say, compare Peters
Kie computers, in particular early
pion and Kai?
Cris: Well, my comp up to the Scorpion I
bring a couple of hours, and Kaya, if
Honestly, never seen, but because
I can not compare ...
Arno: As a rule, each team has
coders, musicians, artists, jelly
zyachniki ... Who in "Brother" to all
all of mending?
VR: Cris, who else. By the way, here at IU
AE Monitor recently broke (the village
motrel toward Cris'a) ...
Arno: Regarding your new toy
"Magic Stripes". In Moscow, she was
the second week hit number one, and in
Peter it's not even in the top ten ...
VR: Firm Welcome, on the basis of sales to
Torah compiled a hit-parade
Newskah, refused to sell our
game, claiming it to some
"Immorality" ...
Arno: I think that if not for that, Magic
Stripes would be the first line and
We, like any domestic authors
Torskaya program ...
Cris: Yes, she is in first place,
only from other vendors ...
Arno: I think our readers will be an Internet
It is interesting to find out "record"
"Brother," and when that was sdela
but from the programs, demos, utilities ...
Cris:
Jonny mega gift VB / GALAXY / HARE / HPM
May 1996
Enlight info 1/2/3 VB / TMG
Winter-Summer 1996
Fast Coded demo / VB
August 1996
Magic Stripes 128 / VB
December 1996
+ A number of systemic prog
+ Some intros for games
+ A lot of hacks and restore games
At this moment Brother is not bent
and we are preparing for more serious
work and kopim forces (but already STE
another story)
We will try in time to announce
Our work in e-newspapers and
magazines, as well as other vitrual
different methods ...
John: And now about the plans ... :)
(Laughter)
VR: Now we have one more exam to pass,
then monitor repair ... And there already
Enlight and on the nose ...
Cris: Well, of course, the beginning
large project, which is likely
likely to be completed next
fall. Sure, it would be a pain
Shai game, but let's not bu
dem about it, okay? ..
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And we all sat and sat - was beer
enough for mafone played THE PRODIGY -
group, the beloved and revered by all, "Brother", the window
was rain and a company of Red Army ...
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