Optron #25 19 апреля 1999

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ZX-waggons - Overview of electronic media: Fanzine 7, Kr News, 7 February Polesie, ZX-News in 1945, Don News 4.

{} Tertius Gaudens


     Throwing pebbles into the water, look at the torsion
     w, they formed, otherwise such a bro
     description of a pastime to be empty.


                           Kozma bars.


  Fanzine | 7, 12/11/1998

  Minsk

  Editor in Chief - Mentat

  The amount of text - 30K


  Unlike others, this newspaper - his
sort of digest of contemporary fiction. And,
though it is designed for book lovers Minsk,
think it will be interested and Lviv
"Feng fans."



  Kr.News | 7, 01/16/1999

  Krasnodar

  Published since 01.1998, irregularly

  Editor - Maxim Zharnikov (Maxx)

  Publisher - Group Techno Lab

  The amount of text - 62.3K


  Maybe the top
{} Maxx, Viper, 3.7K


  "You then pour the vodka be?" - And
etc.


  New Games
{} Maxx, 5K


  Description of the game "Homer Simpson in Russia,"
Kolobok Zoom, 2 "12 secret book."


  View from Platform
{} KASP, 4.4K


  Category dedicated to soft'u wait'ovyh
companies, which include "Krasnodar".
We consider the game Last Hero.


  Refinement ZX Disassembler
{} Viper, 2,7 K


  The author points out the shortcomings of the program
of the supplement to the magazine ZX Power # 2, and describes 
his improvements to it. 


  Microprocessors
{} Mark Gerets, 3,7 K


  Reprint from Byte | September, 1985: History
creation of microprocessors.


  Krasnodar - a delicate matter
{} VTS, 3,6 K


  About modem connections to machines with separate fields of 
memory (the type of Krasnodar, Momentum, Amstrad +2 A, +3) and 
how it overcome. The problem - in the abnormal

software specific model.
(In the Lions, for example, a field memory is not less than 
"separated" than the "Krasnodar", but the application software 
does not prevents communication between the various versions of 
Spectrum.) 


  Monster Land Verrrry Easy
{} MAKS, 6.9K


  Ways to overcome problems in the game Monsterland.


  Ferrum
{} Mr.Linker, 4.3K


  A device for wiretapping - VHF-FM transmitter that plugs
to break the wire telephone network. Shows the schematic 
diagram. 

  There is also a scheme of alterations in the PC-mouse
Kempston mouse.


  Talents
{} BLAZ, 1.2K


  Poems about the burnt Modem: "Killed modem
stopped on the spot ... "


  Enoch
{} Robert Bloch, 28.2K


  Fantasy-horror (apparently borrowed from a network).



  Polesie | 2. 06.02.99

  Gomel Information Bulletin

  Editor in Chief - Kvazar

  29.3K


  Newspaper - still quite young (in all
senses), but the editor is already threatening to stop its 
release, if no one will respond to offer of cooperation. Do not 
despair - all the newspapers so you started. 

  Published news stories may be of interest mainly only Gomel 
spektrumistam (but note the frank admission, in Gomel, void 
sumnyashesya enjoy cracked versions of games). 

  A description of the passing game Monsterland (Mission 3).

  There are a few 'trial pen' (such as "Horror
school cafeteria) and a bit of advertising.



  ZX-News | 45, 19/02/1999


  From the Editor

  5.5K


  Review of developments in the world for Spectrum
Last year: games, development ZX-Net, release
Sprinter'a and GMX - video for Scorpio, the improvement 
package. 1998-th estimated as the year of awakening from 
hibernation and reviving the creative life of the world's 
Spectrum. 

  Authors of future projects are encouraged to actively 
cooperate with the press. 

  After an absence of the December issue
again sulitsya weekly output "Newskah.


  News ZX-ON

  9.1K


  Review of new games - Russified remixes Land of Shadow, Super 
Laser Squad and "Hell Land", arcade Kolobok Zoom II,

Role Playing Game "12 secret books," and tazhe
new tools for creating software-prosmotrischikov text.


  Presentation

  4.3K


  New development under the General Sound of
Petersburg group ASG.


  View

  8.4K


  The classification of the ZX-games - in the form
table, which identifies the genre and game type, and
as the names of specific games.


  It turns out ...

  4.4K


  The benefits of searching for Spectrum websites.


  Details

  6.7K


  On the CD-ROM to the Speccy.


  Interview (continued)

  16.4K


  On the history of the emergence of V. Speccy Mednonogova, A. 
Savicheva, and others. 



    Don News as a mirror spektrumizma


  Don News | 4 (7.02.99) | 5 (16/02/1999) interesting in that 
they contain material to make some generalizations about the 
series of ZX-newspapers. 


  What cost the repair of the printer?


  The author and the protagonist of the story, published
a | 5, Semen, carried out as a workshop
printer - and met a police outfit.
Well, as usual, - "What are talking about?" The result: an hour 
sitting in the station (well though, the printer returned).


  Many Lvov can tell you something
like.

  For example, carrying people in the studio
Spectrum and ... You know. Only
plot had a chance to spend the whole night, but for
Speccy week like - so that was returned.
Plus inspection (if without a warrant - hence
not a search) in the workshop and the neighbors. But
More: man was walking with a birthday, past master, anything 
with a bore no ... In short - fined according to the Decree of 
1985 - Gorbachev, alcohol (and it was in last year!).


  So that we can comfort Semen'a: Rostov police officers, 
compared with Lviv - mere angels ...


  Who said life spektrumista in our "rule of law" is not 
complete risk and adventure?



  Alien modem - a bad modem!


  The same author in the same | 5 shares his
impressions of one article in the journal
Faultless, whose authors completely unfounded hayut existing 
modems - so to emphasize the advantages of their own.


  But in each city - its own problems: a PBX, the production of 
components etc. And to compare similar development

with each other - all the same that defend
benefits tampaksa to sneakers.

  Semen rightly points
the inadmissibility of such - every now and then
encountered - an approach reminiscent of
the current TV advertising washing powders.


  And now, unfortunately, from the materials
delight the eye, will have to go to,
that is the opposite emotion.


  And we've changed your mind!


  Release history Don News - very typical.

  Initially been promised to the magazine. Instead it
newspaper appeared - with well defined
"Person" as one could tell from her | 1:
something like a monthly review spektrumistskih news.

  Then there were | | 2-5 - with polutoranedelnym intervals, 
and with the 'face', does not coincide with the | 1. And in 
each the rooms were promised that soon they will have 
such-and-so. But ... You understand ... 

  In the "Preface" to the | 5, it was stated that
this issue last ... maybe ... Because in the future will be 
produced magazine. In one of the same materials of the same

| 5 called forward to continuing in the following
rooms. And in the "Afterword," it was said:
"Similarly, the last time!"

  Well, what to believe? Wait | 6 with a message
"And we have once again changed their minds? Involuntarily 
creeps seditious thought: "Maybe the other materials of this 
newspaper is not be trusted? But at the same time - and other

ZX-newspapers? "

  It seems that the readers themselves will be able to remember 
how this or that newspaper ZX-way or otherwise deceived their 
expectations. 


  The BS


  "How many times asserted the world" - and in networks, and in 
letters to newspapers: "Stop depict their booze! - "But things 
are out there. "That's a | | 4, 5 is the same: you start reading

- Like, about something interesting - spektrumistskih groups in 
Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog, Izhevsk, and continue reading, and ... 

  It's not about that, saying, "Drunkenness -
fight! "It is something else - that often
published material of interest only
its author and two or three of his closest friends. And that, 
for the sake of the need to create and distribute the newspaper?


  At the same time characterized by a desire by all means
at any cost to make the newspaper poobemistey.
But by what?

  In Don News came up with a novel solution. There, each room 
has a preface, which says: "Before you - | 4. Before

a | 3, and then wait | 5. Same
repeated in the "afterword." And advertising?
Almost after every ad persistently
repeats: "Ask the editors of the newspaper." That this phrase 
could not write only once? Such simple tastes, apparently, and 
has led to that in one of the ads, instead of the journal

"ZX REVIEW" was given a "ZX REVU".

  A "profanity"? "What are you
mate swearing like little children? "-
used to say in this case, an obscure army thinker.


  Responsibility of the reader


  Not much goes to spektrumistskom world of newspapers - and 
yet for many, many spektrumistov they are often

the only sources of information about
ZX-news. The higher should be the responsibility of the editor 
to the reader, who are eagerly awaiting the release of

the next issue of his newspaper.