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(C) MEGUS
In this article I will try to tell a little about the state
of Spectrum abroad. Much of the information obtained from
WoMoTeam - the organizers of the German club Spectrum Profi
Club (SPC). If you wish, you can write them:) Here's the
address:
Wolfgang 'Monika Haller,
Im Tannenforst 10, 51069, Koeln.
e-mail: womoteam@t-online.de
It is sad, but abroad
Spectrum dies, the influx of new users was over long ago,
leaving only Spectrum real fans, but those fans are still very,
very much! It is difficult to say in what European country
Spectrum now more common, so I will not talk about individual
countries, but about all foreign to Europe.
As expected, the overseas
use mainly proprietary Spectrum (48, 128, +2, +2 A, +3), SAM
Coupe (It is fully compatible with the Spectrum 48, but
much more powerful Spectrum 128), and that I
literally struck in Germany alive ZX81!
There is a club ZX-Team, dealing with it
ZX81, these fans are extended to his memory
1Mb (remember, ZX81 - is the ancestor of Spectrum
16), added new graphics modes,
connect the hard drive, printer, in general
made a sort of super-Spectrum. But foreigners are also
interested and Russian clones Speccy, some have the Pentagon
and the Scorpions.
For the standard disk interface in Western Europe may assume
Plus D, also meets Disciple-interface in Slovakia
and many Eastern European countries used MB-02 BS-DOS, also
distributed Opus, and there are still fans Microdrive'a! TR-DOS
is almost never used, but it was he who takes a leading place
on emulators because the main tributary of programs for Speccy
now goes from Russia.
As in Russia, half of the foreign
Spektrumistov has no home other machines
why and abroad there are different
publications devoted to Speccy, and as
electronic and printed. For example,
SPC publishes a print magazine (recently
I came to 5 numbers of the magazine as a fee for an article
about NeOS), there are many electronic newspapers and
magazines. Abroad, there is such a thing as clubs
Spektrumistov. The most famous German Clubs: SPC, ZX-Team and
SUC.
Russian Spektrumistov abroad is very
respect, one English coder said: "I
just do not understand how you Russian guys
do it! "The Russian program is actively
used, but mainly on the emulators, because Adaptation to other
disk systems is often difficult because of the love of our
programmers to all sorts of crazy protection and turbo-loader,
but even this does not stop some foreigners.
They are adapting a Russian program and translate them into
their native language. Abroad has long stopped making
commercial software, all programs have long been public domain,
ie freely distributed.
Spektrumistov using the Speccy as
networked machine, unfortunately, abroad
No, because FIDO has almost died
Europe, everyone uses the Internet, but not on
Speccy. As they say WoMo-Team, The Spectrum of
Russia is going through those times, which were in Germany in
the years 1984-1988, because overseas Spectrum appeared much
earlier than in Russia.
So that the Spectrum is alive and abroad,
though new toys there waiting, it seems, is not necessary,
because almost all the group has ever produced the game already
withdrew from the Speccy.
