Optron #30 03 сентября 1999

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Lit. Page - Three gay letters: feedback to the newspaper.

  From the Editor:

  Since a significant part of the "jubilee" Optron "devoted 
reader reviews, then in "Litstranichke" used one of the

them.

  It reflected a reaction to the April
"Optron" typical "programmer", which finds simple solutions (eg,
to lend a hand behind the mirror, or there, a reference book) 
demeaning to himself, and instead This month's flame spreads in 
a network or sits down at the drawing up of very long decoding 
program. 



            Three gay characters

{} Basil Nosikov / Gerbert, 1999


       I "Optron" | 26 in the emulsion started -

       everything upside down. Then on the Spectrum

       - The same thing! How does it read,

       where the secret button?

                    Kirill Frolov (Moscow)


       No ...

                 Vyacheslav Mednonogov (St. Petersburg)


       This is not a glitch, but when April Fools
       count, probably. No one guessed

       zastavky read with a mirror?

                   Alexei Ivanov (Moscow)


       Your April Fool's joke, I consider
       kusil five minutes.

                        Igor Matza (Lviv)


  Hello, Optron!

  The newspaper you're good, you can read, and
design does not disappoint. And get mad at you, like some other 
publications, I was not necessary.


  Everything changed aprelsky room - the first
my reaction was quite unpleasant and
for my computer, and your creators.

  Only then I appreciated the joke by presenting
themselves, as hundreds of people who do not guessed the 
puzzle, drag their monitors, mirrors and begins to read.


  Describe how to read "Optron" | 26 I. (Invent something 
privru, but with whom the writers are not happen?)


  After a hike on the radio market and the ensuing sleepless 
night spent in the battles with the ruthless military truck, I

exhaust a little and I lay down to rest.
Dreams of the day I have bright, sunny, refreshing in memory of 
all recently experienced. Therefore, no surprise there was that 
I saw a man that writes the fresh "Optron" visitors to the 
radio market ... 

  Then, on the market, it is somehow strange and
even as a sinister smile, holding out
my floppy disk with the "svezhatinkoy. And now, in
my little sleepy nightmare, he circled
around me in the black gloom, swinging an object of a square ...

  I woke up a little bit overwhelmed, and immediately
climbed to a computer - like something
read, clean the brains of Dreaming delirium.

  And I have not yet ochuhavshis after a nap, I see how loaded 
"Optron" as the splash image is displayed, and how to screen 
appear mysterious box ... In one - a strange and funny compass 
in the other - Some shaped as letters, and the third ...


  "What kind of nonsense?" - I thought, trying to
understand what is inverted, it is generally
wrapped back to me strange characters.
I vaguely remember my first experiments
with assembler, when I tried to deduce
mirror image of the window. Found what to do, we did it 
ourselves and so long "Perepoprohodili" in various clever book!


  The content of this warped text box, I did not attach special 
significance. Well, they wrote for fun some greeting. Well, 
right, and I went to write program for processing of images. 
Costs! 

  I press "Enter". Again the window. But the usual
saver "4Kb from Editor in Chief" does not appear in the first, 
as usual, but in the last row. I want something to run, shake 
"A", and the arrow flies to confidently the upper edge of the 
screen. 

  I began frantically flipping pages
filled with cryptic symbols - and I began to break through a 
cold sweat. 

  It was necessary to urgently do something (not in vain
I went to the radio market), but even using mirrors to solve 
this puzzle seemed to me too shameful for this programmer.


  "And if you ship the text on the disc? Hardly
Funny, these (at this word, my mouth
as a something of itself in disdainful grimace
grimace) and done the research! "

  Somehow shipped in field conditions, the inverted text, I 
simply could not read, because together with the cheerful rooms 
in my humble abode and entered other trouble: for no reason, no 
reason at all, for some reason, showered immediately, two 
system drives, and I do not have any though as a working 
editor. Shells, offer similar features, too, was not found.


  And here in my head - I confess - came
a terrible idea: to take and on some
directory to see how the symbols correspond to codes in which I 
received the file. AND so brick for brick, read

the whole "Optron.

  It was evening when I successfully rejected this idea, I 
realized what was happening. Those most "three gay characters 
in one of the windows -" ARR "- reminded me of a hilarious 
April holiday. And, as in the good old Games with 
"immortality", pressing the keys led to a truly amazing results.


  I do not know what makes other readers. I only know that it 
made them at least, to think and laugh,

or just to annoy - but did not leave indifferent. And so getting
good April Fool's joke, though a bit angry ...