A letter open to everyone
ZXNet echo conference «real.speccy»
February 2, 2000 at 08:54:09 pm: Dmitry Lomov wrote to Alex Shashkevich
February 5, 2000 at 10:13:16 am: I replied to Dmitry Lomov
AS>> Oh, and your horizons are narrow! Is this all that computers are capable of? Office and video? Hmm... Narrow. There are still
AS>> dozens of niches that the NEW Spectrum
AS>> can occupy with a normal configuration... Which ones? Hint:
AS>> home gaming computer, a replacement for all sorts of seg and dandy
DL> does not work. Will you write software for it? ;) in those
DL> quantities that are available these days. mind you, it was written by
DL> _well-coordinated_software_companies_ - they wrote it for years.
Look at THEIR games, and look at OURS. We almost have cults regarding games, but with them I went and gave away the cartridge without any remorse. Yes, and you
also chose Spec, not Sega.
AS>> (for those who can’t afford PC). In addition to games
AS>> an excellent educational computer literacy
AS>> aggregate.
DL> this cannot be taken away.
No comment.
AS>> More? Building security system.
DL> any company will write a letter - because of prestige. besides,
DL> any company has _such_ money (in writing).
Yeah... And then shell out thousands of dollars for software... Or at the local market
you saw a hacked version of the CD "Super-duper building security: cameras, elevators, toilets, etc." Ifor example no. Okay, a more real example. In Odessa, at the Main Post Office (the most important post office in Odessa), there is a Spectrum in the main hall and it is responsible for the digital display on which there is a clock, weather and other crap... Made by our Odessa company. And now she does this, although she no longer produces Spectrums as such. :(
AS>> Until recently, one of the Odessa
AS>> companies had a Spectrum and it controlled surveillance cameras. I
AS>> I don’t know that in that company now, because my friend
AS>> who worked in this company and wrote
AS>> programs for them, left it.
DL> yeah, and the company collapsed. due to the wrong approach to
DL> business ;)
If you don’t know, don’t talk. :) You have the wrong view of things.
AS>> experience. After all, less and less people get the cobs
AS>> of computer literacy on the Spectrum, and in universities and
AS>> they don’t even teach this.
DL> because the Spectrum is a machine in itself. in universities, a machine
DL> needs _work_. not zyulki, but AutoCAD with Peace ;) and
DL> Internet :-)
What I mean is that the local specialists simply won’t know which way to even
approach such a security unit. And hacking even more so. And this, IMHO, is the main thing in
such systems.
AS>> I already need another platform... Different from
AS>> Spectrum...
DL> I’m gladfor you.
Me too. But for the rest, no. Throwing away the spec and sitting behind the pisyuk yelling: Spectrum
rules, IMHO this is stupid... (nothing personal)
AS>> PS: Spectrum does not die... It’s us who are burying it alive
AS>>...
DL> no. this is a historical inevitability. it will remain -
DL> a wonderful place for dems and other zyuleks.
What the hell is historical inevitability???? Everything that is done in this world is done by people! And if the platform dies, then it does not die on its own, but
people simply abandon it - and then bury it accordingly!
AS>> zyzy: after reading the characteristics of the eZ80, I shuddered just at the
AS>> thought of what kind of car it would be, if only
AS>> the characteristics of the processor inspire such awe,
DL> but a sober approach is needed :(
Why? Besides, the eZ80 is still worse than stumps? And accordingly does not reach the
level?
AS>> A GREAT computer, I will give any money for it... Someone
AS>> will shout that there will be no software for it,
DL> yes, yes
AS>> well, let him scream
AS>> I have a head on my shoulders and a desire to write for it and I myself. be able
AS>> to feed...
DL> it's you ;)
Yes! Of course, I am not great enough to create everything and everyone, but as needed I
will be able to do what I need. And then I won’t care that I’m the only one sitting on a similar car - the rest don’tthey wanted and that’s their problem, I certainly won’t drag them down. For me it will be Speck, but grown up...
DL> ... LD..X-TRADE..
text: this... tavo... Is STORM 2 still planned to be released? Otherwise I really want to use
it... :)
Good luck Dmitry! Let's get away again!
Sincerely, Priest from Energy Minds!
*** e-mail: prie...@usa.com
... Energy Minds from Freedom & X-Project. Sinclair generation.
02 February 2000 you wrote here:
AS>> PS: Spectrum is not dying... It’s us who are burying it alive...
DL> no. this is a historical inevitability. it will remain - a wonderful place
DL> for dems and other zyulkas.
Why zyulkas? better finish Storm!
All the best.
Roman.
[ZX]
AS> Yeah... And then shell out thousands of dollars for the software... Or did you at
AS> the local market see a hacked version of the CD "Super-duper building security:
AS> cameras, elevators, toilets, etc." For example, I don't. Okay, more real
It's not thousands of bucks and that's what they do.
AS> example. In Odessa, at the Main Post Office (the most important post office in
AS> Odessa), there is a Spectrum in the main hall and it is responsible for the digital display
AS> on which there are clocks, weather and other crap... Made by our Odessa company
:-( )
Well, I also saw, only a long time ago, on cable Spectrums with iS-DOS
were used for teletext. And in one city in Ukraine (Nezhin)
the FOBOS TV channel still has a spectrum for teletext...
AS> What I mean is that the specialists there simply won’t know from which
AS> side even to approach such a security unit. And even more so to hack
AS>. And this, IMHO, is the main thing in such systems.
Anecdote:
Q: How to break an ATM?
A: For this you need a sledgehammer and a laptop.
Q: And... then what?
A: You go to the ATM, break it with a sledgehammer and take
the money and quickly get out of there.
Q: Why do I need a laptop?
A: A: A what kind of hacker are you without a laptop!
who would help with this ;) I can’t lift it, definitely. We have
no assistants in St. Petersburg and are not expected to do so :(
I have so many new interesting things to do that I have no time at all :(
Most of my time is consumed by work, and what is left I try to use to learn
something new and interesting. Spectrum is not great in this regard - I know it
thoroughly ;)
All the best.
Dmitry.
... LD..X-TRADE... [ZX]
AS>> I really want to use it... :)
DL> who would help with this ;) I can’t lift it, that’s for sure. in St. Petersburg
DL> we don’t have any assistants and don’t have any plans :( I have so many new
DL> interesting things to do that I have no time at all :( most of my time is consumed by work,
DL> and what’s left I’m trying to use to learn something new and
DL> interesting. Spectrum doesn’t do well in this regard - I know it thoroughly
DL> ;)
And I need this one storm? MA80 is on the PC, ZXASM on the Spectrum and okay...
If only someone would take on the Fido software complex on the Spectrum, at least for isdos,
at least for CP/M... We need a mailer (I don’t like everything about Dickie),
a full-fledged echo processor, an editor - that would be the minimum. slightly
extended the life of the spectrum among fidoshniks.
Once, Sat Feb 05 2000 21:00, Roman Milukov wrote to Dmitry Lomov about [Open
letter to everyone]:
AS>>> PS: Spectrum is not dying... It’s us who are burying it alive...
DL>> no. this is a historical inevitability. it will remain - a wonderful
DL>> place for dems and other zyulkas.
RM> Why zyulkas? Better finish Storm!
So that others can write bad things on it? :-)
DL>> There are no assistants in St. Petersburg and are not expected :( I have
DL>> so many new interesting things to do that I have no time at all :( the main
DL>> time is consumed by work, and what’s left I’m trying to use
DL>> to learn something new and interesting. The Spectrum is not
DL>> great in this regard - I know it thoroughly ;)
KF> Do I need this storm?
I still need it, and mostly not for me :(
KF> MA80 is on the PC, ZXASM on the Spectrum and
KF> okay...
MA80 - IMHO, inconvenient for debugging (I don’t know the details about it).
ZXASM twitches, and the text input there is incorrect :-)
Here is Storm in the emulator - rules, it’s even framed there ;) and at the same time the mail
swings.
DL> MA80 - IMHO, inconvenient for debugging (I don’t know details about it).
MA80 is as convenient as possible, especially for large projects, there are features for
this. Plus it generates a symbol table for the debugger, only
the debugger spits at it and says that it is a demo version (SPM).
DL> ZXASM twitches, and the text input there is incorrect :-)
What's the difference? Everything on your PC is twitching...
Entering text there is more correct - text, but in the storm it is more
reminiscent of BASIC-48. It’s not difficult for me to press an extra button or wait
while it’s assembled, I write much longer.
DL> Storm in the emulator rules, it’s even frame-based ;) and in parallel
DL> the mail is downloading.
On the PC it’s more logical to use programs for the PC. Yes, and they are clearly better,
but there is no need to compare with Mednogogov’s Asm, it’s more glitched than the
storm...
One day, Tue Feb 08 2000 04:52, Kirill Frolov wrote to Dmitry Lomov about [Open
letter to everyone]:
DL>> ZXASM twitches, and the text input there is incorrect :-)
KF> What's the difference? Everything on your PC is twitching...
the windows move smoothly ;) and the Spectrum hardly twitches in the emulator.
Damn, for example, when I saw Storm 1.5 years ago, I
got hooked on it and will never switch to another, and I’m
not the only one, Lord, and therefore the question of necessity
is removed.
KF> Well, forget about it.
I remember DL promised to finish it, so you have to answer for your words
and if you can’t do it, At least he didn’t deceive people.
That's all. Bye, Dmitry
NewArt/N-DISCOVERY group
E-mail: Vyacheslav_K...@zxnet.spb.ru
VK> I remember DL promised to finish it, so you have to answer for your words
VK> and if you can’t, at least not deceive people.
There are a lot of echo assemblers on the offtopic site.
And scrolling can be done not in a frame, but 10 times faster - it just depends on
the speed of the keyboard. Well, why such torment with all sorts of
storms?