Interface - News from: Placebo, Brain- wave, Phantom Family, Volga Soft, Studio Stall, Gogin, Anarchia, Image Crew, Hackerz 'Design Software, Peters +, Fatal Snipe, Ellipse.

<b>Interface</b> - News from: Placebo, Brain-
wave, Phantom Family, Volga Soft, Studio Stall, Gogin, Anarchia, Image Crew, Hackerz 'Design Software, Peters +, Fatal Snipe, Ellipse.

     (C) elph / cpu


     News is never enough ... How much would
they may be, I always want more. Information
like a drug, falling directly into the brain
and generating images that allow to reside on top of the energy
flow. Here's a little more, to stimulate the mind ...


     Placebo - One of the most powerful demobrigad on stage is 
not going to collapse their activities, that's what he said

DMan:


           

d-man> The main work at the moment
goes over the 20-th number Buzz'a. On the timing of
Released not presume to say, the process moved forward. Now 
it's our main project, and all the cast is at him. As for other 
projects, they are before the Buzz'a frozen! In

plans concrete participation in SS'2oo2, if any, will be held! 
Autumn of the year 2oo1 We opened ZpiXel - Portal Spectrum 
Graphics (http://zpixel.by.ru) 


     Can not but rejoice that soon we
probably get a new number one
my most anticipated books, do not forget
adjust them to the material as we have already done.


     Yet another demoscene killers - Brainwave / X-Project, 
practically the only team, continue to support this

TM-quality releases, both in terms of
dem and crack cocaine in recent years aimed at gamemaking, more 
specifically says Megus: 


        <Roman.Petrov@p169.f4.n5052.z2.fidonet.org>

Megus> Our young coder, Vortex (which
first place in the 4K intro to CC'1 won)
conceived toys from the PC to transfer amusing.
Jump'Bump said. Toy on the idea
similar to our same Chopper Duel, ie
game for multiple players (on PC up to 4)
deathmatch. We are now at the Warsaw University, this
toy computer audience mad
popular - as issued
free time, rubimsya 3 people
:) The essence of the game is simple - on the screen jump
a few rabbits and trying to one another
kill zaprygnuv top. Simple, yet playable and terribly fun:)


     Takzhe, is working on another
global game design, but the timing of its
implementation in the more distant future.


     One of the best gaming projects
presented at the CC01, was undoubtedly
Arcanoid by Phantom Family (not yet
I understand why he has not won first place
in the game compo). We honestly have expected was to get him 
away this issue, but from Maddy / PHF were

very disappointing news in the next
again demonstrating the arbitrariness of fucking authorities:


           <mad_vins@chuvsu.ru>

Maddy> From Drv even a circus ... Case
were as follows: sbatsal it at home portal
such type of intranet Vse well as it should be
forum / chat / download and etc etc ... work through Vse months 
3 - the end of September - The beginning of December. And then, 
one fine evening collapses to him police patrol in the 
leadership of "P" and say - "a dick you got ???!!! a modem is 
registered ???!!" - Followed by unceremonious removal of all 
equipment, disks, and all that they have caused even the 
slightest hint of "Personal Computer IBM PC AT ":))) Why AT - a 
clear answer, they never gave;) - but looking at brand building 
(!), where was written ATX.huj.znaet. (!) With meaningful views 
tyknuv there said - "Uh! Dak is-Well what we want!":)) And

what's interesting - Speck did not have! ;) Further
went grebannye delays in different types of bins and the police 
department svyaznadzora - opened case. Papers and all sorts of 
other shit started. At this point, like Vse was settled - Drv 
now working to register the modem (also a hemorrhoid that exist 
yet), so Let us hope that the PC end of January Vse same back 
.. And since all the sources for Arkanoid have been on the 
screw, .... ostaetsya only hope that these monsters are not rub 
guess there anything ... 

     Here's a story:)

     I told him that should be encrypted
:)


     But not all so sad in PHF - as
many already know, the newly created Maddy
daughter! Realizing that the time for cracks now will be 
considerably less, we wish the whole family healthy and happy, 
and despite lain on his shoulders the responsibility

try in the future as well go to party and make high-quality 
releases, growing in the face of her daughter full support! 


     Not the best band is now in
life of another team - Volga Soft.
The old structure is almost not active now, but Research / VS 
is far from lost interest in coding, which we can judge

their latest work Love Gun, was originally conceived as a 
celebration of Volga Soft five years on air. Just RenKo

(Ex-Beavis) continues its work,
but mostly as grafician on pc. About
Some current projects rather recounts Research:


           <research@pisem.net>

Research> It is parallel with the study I
finishing with a loss of compressor animation
quality, which showed good results
(It was started immediately after the LG). Now
work on the compressor is suspended,
because I have not written uzhimalku transformed frames. 
Modified Huffman gave a pretty good result, but the compressors 
Dr. Hroomer'a even so my cooler (Of course!). But it strikes me 
Huffman vector graphics from LG (white noise) by 20%! LZW 
algorithm, I do not torture, once it became. 

     Around the same time, having produced a fee
Pentagon, I was trying to revive it in its
ATX case, but it came to nothing resulted.
Therefore still nenachem fixed. This
was and is the main cause of inhibitory
our demo progress.

     Then, a little later, I took the
encryption algorithms with a public key -
was a very interesting path. If
the reader will be interested, I'll tell you about
all this crap, electronic signatures and
etc.

     Well algorithms algorithms, and sometimes
want to play .. That took chopped
the elite! A che, cool! Game soon 20 years
a worthy competitor is still not (as
pisyukovomu and Starcraft). Since the elite
medlennovato works, then I certainly
climbed in and began to repeat the steps of millions. The gap 
where many protsedurki, but as the reinventing the wheel 
lazily, I ask If anyone has some material to throw them on my 
soap, can be disperse a masterpiece and make it flooded.

Sorry Awaken.

     So the time has flown down from September to December. 
Seven years, the office, I noted the purchase of a guitar 
processor and is now going to do more serious music. Beavis 
Nitsche does not, he burned down the monitor, stung telly, even 
those images that which he did for the SS001 (they finished 1st 
and 3rd place in the pisyuke) were made on Monica, borrowed 
five (!!!) days. Then he added one more bad luck - he

found myself biting my aunt:))

     Dr. STS - a creative prosratsii,
mostly drinking beer and going to work,
sometimes something podelyvaya on pisyuke.

     In principle, the last SS I
noted that in St. Petersburg but I still have some one doing 
something under the Z80. Sadly, fact. Now that's like 2 months 
written scenario for the next demos, but no bytes

have not yet done. I do not want to repeat punctures LG, which 
fixed a at the Pentagon to 72,000 ticks per frame (the only

which was similar to the Pentagon), and in which there is only 
one image that You can call the picture. Punctures and 
distorted to create LG was the mass, enough for the whole 
article. 

     If anybody can throw up a picture
muzonchik or for demos (and now artists and musicians more than 
the coders), then welcome to the soap:)) And as long as the 
materials do not, I'll be ready to mp3 compo. 

     By the way, all the toys in the freezer -
make no sense, because no one to play them
will not. But shuffling demos still brings me some pleasure. 
Yes, that's Atlant good news now, with some

group (15 people) wrote RPG, the truth is on
pisyuke:) As for me - for me the HRC
just horseradish synthesizer and Starcraft.

     Oh, and if someone from St. Petersburg
can adjust, sell, collect the Pentagon, or at least-cost, write 
to plc. Not let die Spectrum scene

their city.


     In the Studio Stall has been a change
since the CC01, they have already released
some things, update the structure, thus showing that their 
pretty little touched stagnation, many exciting team closer to 
winter, when almost does not pass any party:



            

Stan Lee Stall> Passed TSTS'01. Approached
the end of the fourth year of our existence,
and slowly began the fifth. We still refuses to write and 
publish demos newspaper / magazine. Well, this is not our 
profile. So do not support the newfangled youth

During the scenery. We - not a scene, we are - game 'system 
industry. Recently moved towards the game was nearly matched 
by, but sistemki again took the lead. 

     In three and a half months of the fifth year of our 
existence we have managed: to release 'Stuck-Un (c2h5oh)' and 
thorough rewrite of the group. 

     Now the studio Stall - is:

     Paul 'Capry' Stakhov: still kodit
times, although more and more time to Gamez on a PC. Verifies 
our Mylnikov, and if a lot of ranting is not necessary, he 
responds to the letter. After Glass refused further

though time to write music, even under pain of
smetri.

     Stanislav 'Stanly' Aristov: Well, I
As usual, I draw a little. After the success of
/ IC to whip up some riveted
screens, and in the near future going to
throw them into different party. In addition, answer all emails 
that require a large amount of text, sling ink Wikipedia here 
and there and wondered what would happen next: I put a PC or go 
to army.


     Alex 'Ret' Aristov: newly coder already nakodivshy glass 
and slowly finishing Curved Copier. Bad habits does not yet 
have and nonsense is not involved, except that

confiscated Nuts'a source Gamez a-la Nether Earth, so that you 
can safely do not wait This product is not on Nuts'a nor on 
Ret'a. Although we are alone with him have twists in the source 
cases. 

     Elena 'Depsy' Pavlova: the only
girl in the group, as well as the only
nonresident. In principle, listed as an artist, but actually 
engaged in pikselingom :). Already has a few good works in the

stock, which I'm going to porastryasti
at the same party. I hope it start
will not like me. However, at
now its nowhere to be seen and not heard. For all sorts of 
provocative questions, like 'Well? " answers 'no' or not

less meaningful 'I study'.

     More could be mentioned Artem
'Blazer' Kirdjashkin as our musician, but his company still 
does not have (more than six months), and I doubt there ever 
will be. So in fact it no.


     Here we are. It is noticeable that we do Get with the 
music, so we are slowly kontachim with musicians, hoping if 
necessary to strip off their track or two. 

     Our future plans: I will personally
participate in all the party, as the spring,
and summer. In connection with the termination of geek
pack up a suitcase in the army, little hope that will carry. 
Ret to the ears busy Gamez. Depsy studies. We have a couple of 
Capry bezdelstvuem, otmazyvayas all talk like 'we do not 
advertise our projects, so as not to jinx it. " Slowly begin to 
blame, for short. This does not mean that we are so committed 
and gone, but serious projects from us as there was, never will 
be. Probably. 

     Well all, perhaps.

     Enjoy all the holidays.


     Gogin - impressed us with Dizzy, about
the process of creating kotorgo we do not
knew his next project will not
overlooked on our part. Information on this subject can be 
podcherpnut of an interview with him, and what progress to 
date, you will learn here: 


             <gogin@mail.ru>

Gogin> My project SUPER MARIO BROS. ready
approximately 50%. Already written per-pixel full-screen scroll 
- RULEZZZZ :))). More on the Speccy was not like this ... made

control unit by Mario, now gradually into the game fits 
avtoupravlenie all enemies. Still need to draw a lot of

graphs and do simple design -
Then (maybe) will be ready first
demo version (it's not earlier than in
the end of March).


     Anarchia - young, is gaining momentum group, mainly due to
Zx-Guide and other projects that are published
usually in its application. Released last we shall have to 
wait, but the current state of affairs can be found right now: 


          

Alco> I recently can not get a break from all the requests - 
that is, for example, now write the intro to Body (although at 
the time We publish it will be nothing new).

And as usual set of: ACE, 8COL, WOLF. Here
to last a few days ago Shiru Otaku (former
Shurik Program) sent a schedule - MORE
Thanks to him! 8COL now fixed at
Scorpion with 224 ticks. Of course, a complete fixation can not 
be expected - not Pentagon Vse again, yes and no, I entih

Scorpion:] For other _mnogo_ say
I can not. I'm afraid to offend;)

     KSA-7G collects PAL-coders.

     Nikphe Mr.Event and prepare a small
publication of a group of Kish.

     Ldir and Chekist (he Chapa, also known as
Victor Spiridonov) will release a magazine, or maybe a 
newspaper. In short, the first time in 2 years this project has 
moved from a dead point, mainly due to Ldir'ovu Acad. Now he is 
learning again: ( 

     Dissonator is in Moscow, so
He occasionally travels.

     Basil serves and learns in Ryazan, his
can be found at home, but it is impossible to stir.

     John (his brother) wrote the music for ZXGuide, slowly, 
but with taste. ZX-Guide, when promised, and then cook (ie

June). Although, of course, as usual, did not have time *).


     Many people remember the good initiative
Image Crew - Project X-Dos (if you have forgotten
read the article Nuts'a in the interface),
No news / releases we have not seen
quite a long time, how things are at
actually says Boh:


             

Boh> Unfortunately, things in the group now
situation so that more or less active only
I alone. There is a view on the Spectrum, on the same pisyuke 
other members of our group was make a website 
(www.imagecrew.narod.ru). 

     Therefore, I will speak only for myself.

     X-Dos, more precisely its current version
1.51, not further developed. Since I
concluded that the existing system
does not satisfy the requirements, not exactly
has the capacity to what was used
needed. Yes, and memory for improvements there.

     However, from time to time, I try
do XDos2. My own minimum
wishes to him: normal memory management, interrupts, devices, 
system drivers and libraries, and nevytesnyayuschaya

multitasking.

     And the first, second and last part, has long been written 
up and running. 

     Sounds, of course, beautiful and alluring ... But in 
reality ... I understand perfectly all other "osepisateley.


     As for other projects ... I
coder, predominantly systemic
coder (the exception is a game Figus),
and for any project need and
"Generator of ideas and the designer / artist and
musician. And if we talk about system
project, it is not really guess
need it now. Html-viewer? IMHO not.


     Hackerz 'Design Software, is also not
often brings any news about
their projects, but this does not mean that
team is not active, they just do not like
to publicize their ongoing development. Here
what is the reality:


              

Bugsy> My group is active only 50%
(As it sadly). BOSS entire tuition, VIPER went to the north 
(g.Tarkasale) earn money with your bratelloy

SPAWN'om. But, in principle, they work particularly do not slow 
down, it's just pC SUPPORT, and I'm at work dURON 750

is ... And now the projects:

     FIRESTARTER - to finish his igruhu
CAVE MASTER (demo version is available at
http://www.bugsy.narod.ru), but apparently in
While working on the game, he gradually
lost interest in the project. And it would seem the time has 
come finish the game, but you fuck ... Well, in short, I am a 
bratellu FIRESTARTER'a podpinyvayu periodically, and very soon 
igruha be completed yet. LEVEL DESIGN'om engaged brother 
BOSS'a, he also did the levels in FIRESTARTER GIFT'e. 

     BUGSY - that concerns me, it is plagued
in the work (and debauchery:), but nonetheless true, and doing 
hard turn-based strategy. And so a lot of plans for the group, 
but Many will remain until the words.

For example, I did almost the conversion ATOMIC BOMBERMAN'a 
with pC, but with his Pure Siberian scale I do not take into 
account the limited capacity of ZX, and make a game inhibitory, 
as are many other BOMBER ' s, I would not, therefore, had to 
leave the source alone. 


     Still remembered and loved Deja Vu, perhaps waiting for 
the next number (after the pre release site Playgear me too

there was hope that all is not lost), but in reality things are 
not as good as I would like to: 


     <zepagan@cmail.info.kuzbass.net>

Zepagan> Playgear not currently
active and, surely, will never be active: (Now all appeared
Hemp, so that the time for the magazine nor the
who do not, and the job is not too allows you to have free time 
.. The magazine is ready only a third ...


     Spectrum was devoted considerable time and energy:) and he 
will always remain the BEST computer The all time! 


     Recently, Esme almost
ceased publication on the Sprinter,
beginning of the impression that
project does not develop (plus the absence of
demonstration machine in the last party), I
thought that it would be nice to know all
directly from the making of his team:


         

Sprinterteam> We are happy to share information with all who 
are interested in theme 8-bit computers, which include Our 
Sprinter (Sprinter). We have a relationship and with the 
Petersburg journalists (professsionalami and amateurs) as well 
as from other cities in the CIS. I think some of the 
publications on Sprinter you've come to see the links here on 
our website (http://www.petersplus.com). With regard to the 
conquest of foreign markets, then, yes, we have a large number 
of orders from spektrumistov from Spain, Italy, Germany, Czech 
Republic, Slovakia, Poland, England, Holland, Argentina and

Sweden. A home buyers is much smaller and this is due to the 
impression that we have focused exclusively on the "West." No, 
we continue to correspond with anyone who

interested in sprinters, including through the FIDO. The 
decline of interest in the project can be attributed only to 
domestic buyers, and even then, it is necessary to take into 
account in the 99-2000 years the project was frozen.

Its revival began with the beginning of 2001
year when the department was established, further work on 
developing and selling boards for computer Sprinter. For the 
year was done a great job, but a serious

breakthrough in commercial terms to talk more
early. This is due to the still insufficient
Sprinter appeal for untrained users, not past
Spectrum School. We understand this is not
conceal that work on the project continues, Sprinter can not 
immediately after purchasing it to ensure the familiar working 
environment, along with the PC. But then software, which has

our computer system now allows you to play and edit data files 
with PC without any conversions (texts in

KOI-8, the graphics as BMP, sound
files in the format WAVe). Besides Sprinter lets you play audio 
CD (c CD-ROM, of course), watch the video in its

format, the use of modern ISA modems (there is a terminal 
program) and printers. Computers (and cards) sold enough that 
would continue to work on the project, he's a commercial 
course. With software for sprinters can be briefly viewed on 
our website. With regard to development, then February will be 
released first BIOS update sprint. Continues

work on the first full-fledged editor
for sprinters - ASCEdit. Continue research on the output video 
signal from the Sprinter on SVGA monitor. Finish

a new version of the documentation for users and programmers. A 
lot of work on all directions.



     News of yet another hardware project
recently appeared on most spectrum
related resources, I think, for more information on this topic 
will not prevent: 


            

Sly> Size 25x40 cm on board all dorobotki: CMOS Clock on 
Gluk'u, Kempton mouse, AY, Hayes modem, Turbo (all int Pentagon 
71,680 cycles, but Turbe amounts to 136,000 cycles), the 
controller drive - turbo-SH and Beta-HD, CACHE32K,

m / s 580VV55 allows a Kempston joystick and printer interface. 
Memory - SIMM 1mb. Standards at the ports - Pentagon and Profi.


     When vklyuchenoy upper memory becomes dastupen RAM-disk, 
which when not RESET'e sbrasuvaetsya. Working with the RAM-disk 
id m by VG'shku. In 512 ROM - MADRE - A full fly! (For those 
who do not know what STE for garbage explain: shell sewn

at 0 Page ROM from which the quick access to all PZUhe, from 48
BASIC to clean RAM-disk. It is also very
Commanderie convenient to the viewer of text and pictures. Any 
boot'ory are simply useless. And most interestnoe, which is not 
in other development _на_плате_Встроеный_DMA_Ultrasound_! _ 3 
slots for what you want, IDE-devices can be connected to 
IDE-controller (expansion card), modem - Under the Hayes modem 
is already a slot. Video Output: RGB, ss, ks (RGB digital), 
bright - this is the connector DIN 7pin. And mixed Video, under 
the RCA jack. Fee intermeddle only "Great Tower". Screw holes 
are not match!


About to buy. STE well worth 20 bucks
in the form of payment. Dealer until we have,
so that e-mail, or come. About
mail, we have not decided yet. Our address:


     93108

     Petrenko, Vitaly "Sly".

     Ukraine, Luhansk region.,

     Lisichansk Str. October d.308
kv.31

     Tel. (251) after 07/02/1938 18.00


     This would virtually everything If I had not crazy 
phreaker - Fatal Snipe / Fenomen. Remember, probably some time 
flew back prog Freaker by PSB / Halloween? So, they have this 
thing really works (hell, this nishtyak passes

me ...), so that we can very
receive timely news from Belarus, extracted Snipe'om!

Fatal Snipe> According to the Sinus / ZGR / SVR it
continues to work on their e-paper Target,
10th issue of which is due out soon. So he is going to put on 
the Twilight game compo his new igruhu codenamed "Kill Dj

Psych ", directed against the total
alcoholism, but during the project creation
He realized that this kind of extreme doping virtually 
eradicate (especially in Belorussia) and decided to make it so 
that it is impossible to win;). So he, like people close to the 
organizers, in once again dispelled the rumors of the demise

Twilight demoparty.


     Dj Psych / Psycho, graced us with news about the conduct 
of a fairly successful organization Millenium 1902: already 
have sponsors, we seek a global venue for hidden part, indeed 
the party too Cooler thought up a very steep heaped

voting system on cards with encrypted codes (?!). Psych 
promised to try to pull on the party Weird and Cyril Kolpakov 
(zx stealth), with whom they are very cool booze at MRS. Most

of-town (except for Belarusians;))
They promise a host of huts.
Sami Psycho Team gather support
Wild Demo compo his clip on carbon monoxide
megahit "I want to get drunk ', for creating
which will be benefited from
Last Millenium. Also, as you know,
they recently released e-paper on the pc, with the main part of 
making people practically totzhe that in olden times to Speke - 
DJ Psych - edition, Wolf viewer code, which is naturally 
reflected in the content - a considerable part of the newspaper 
is devoted to Spectrum.


Seth / Ellipse told about what is happening in their group in 
Minsk ZX-Net in general: 

     Brom makes a variety of system software
by zx-net.

     Midnight focuses mainly on the fact
writes MOD'y on pc. The main activities of Ellipse still aims 
to support zx-net, in particular the holding pointovok (total 
alkougar). Despite a small activity, they almost completed the 
promised another CC000 adventyurnuyu igruhu of alcoholics 
Mihalich, the process slows down only Wrecker, who promised to 
schedule their breaks off in full program.



     That's all for now. Do not forget that
Contact addresses are given precisely in order
that you read about some upcoming
project and the difficulties of its implementation
could contact the author and offer
their assistance (ideas / music / gfx / code / design / 
anything ...).