On-Line #70 26 января 1997

Игры

HOT GAMES - Hacker's plans for the first half of 1997.

(C) MAGIC SOFT


   Hello, dear readers! We want to share with you
our plans and not only our work in the first half
1997 year. Well, let's start from the beginning.


   In the near future we will sell in just three of the
from the group PERESTROIKA from Tver: everybody knows DUNE II: 
The Battle For Arrakis, and two toys - one of them is a strategy

another - a fight in the style of STREET FIGHTER 2, but cooler. 
All games will take on a whole disk. 


   After these games we are planning to release the game 
"RETURN TO HOME", all known from the demo version, published in 
spectrophone. We are currently negotiating with the author of 
the game on the spread. 


   As assured us EXPLODER (organizer of the group MEGACODE), 
work over the legendary DIZZY-XX again resumed and conducted 
with more greater force - perhaps the game will be released by 
the end of March. Suspension of the game was associated with 
the departure of a group of artists and the lack of graphics. 
Now, all returned to normal - in group has a new artist and the 
work on the game continues! Also parallel the guys are planning 
to release another game and multisystem commander, could not 
only work with disk (copy, etc.), but also view and edit

texts in any format, to view the schedule: screens, sprites,
animation, and play as chip-, and digital-music compiled and 
uncompiled form. Future versions will support MS-DOS-format. In 
addition, MEGACODE engaged in the development of new eurodemo, 
which they believe will exceed all shown in ENLIGHT'e and 
released after. In group has plans and cooperation with MAGIC 
SOFT in terms of registration release'ov western games 
90-93-ies, not represented in the Russian market.



   Also planned to produce such monsters as "Black Crow"
(UFO-3), "Star Heritage 2" and "SPECIAL FORCES" from COPPER FEET
and STEP, respectively. According to some reports, the 
development of the game "Black Raven" has already invested 
about $ 700. Hopefully in the near future time we see these 
games. 


   Group DIGITAL REALITY / RPSG from Novgorod plans prosto 
flunk in 1997 year-om all users SPECCY its high-quality work 
(hopefully it will be so): have been released demo versions of 
games such as "PARADISE LOST", "DOOM", "MEGABALL". Tak is in 
the plans of releasing a game "GOBLINS" and set release'ov 
western games. 


   Possible return of RED ltd. / RPSG on SPECCY-scene. Now, 
work on a universal music player'om that will play both 
compiled and nekompilirovannye modules will support everything 
that exist and appear in the future muz.faylov standards 
through a system libraries, the ability to compile, recompile, 
and decompilation in any of the standards available in 
libraries. In general, in our opinion, the thing is very useful 
and interesting and useful not only programmers and musicians.



   CODEBUSTERS headed MAX IWAMOTO, apparently, will occupy only 
the trades and the release of release'ov Western toys 
"Download" with INTERNET'a. 


   DELIRIUM HG from Kazan, who planned to exit "dumovidnoy" game
"A LAST HERO OF THE LIGHT FORCE" 96-om year, reported that all
still working on it and soon everyone will see the second demo.


   In this half may go out of games such as "MORTAL
KOMBAT "(according JOKER / MAFIA, work on the game was almost 
finished)," Little Town "," ROBO 2 "," SMAGLY 3 "," SQUARDS "," 
TOP SECRET "," FEARTALLS "," CRIME SANTA CLAUS part 2 "," BOLO 
", "OPERATION RED REFREGERATOR", etc. We ask authors who 
develop these and other software products, contact us and 
report in more detail about the work on them and possibly send 
the demo version. 


   Will continue to go out and well-known computer magazines. 
The most popular in the country "ZX-FORMAT" will not stop going 
out and in the 97th, more and more increasing in popularity. 
Resumed output and SPECTROFON'a "not coming out over six 
months. Already released the 20 th and 21 th numbers. Now we 
are working on the 22nd. As noticed the readers of this 
magazine has changed the composition of the team in charge of 
production. Now part of the code deals with OLDMAN, a graphics 
- TRACER / MAGIC SOFT. Because with this an order of magnitude 
improved design of the magazine and graphic quality (This is 
especially noticeable on 21-of number)! We hope that in what 
the journal will undergo changes for the better and depart from 
its policy of bedrock conservatism. Will continue to go out and 
"SPECTROPHOBY", published by the group "SLIDERS" from the Volga 
(Volgograd region).. While the magazine tries to find its image 
and the team is experimenting. Hope they do depart from all the 
old opostylevshego spektrofonovskogo style and come up with 
something more interesting than the shell, developed as far 
back as 93 cm year. Kharkov "FAULTLESS" from MAFIA may go no 
more - the editors screaming that their magazine no one is 
interested and it does not justify the labor expended. 


   At this point we want to finish our little review and 
continue it in the next room. If you have any questions or 
suggestions, please contact us by phone or address listed 
below. Thank you for your attention. 

                    LOOKER / MS! (Victor Moskalev)
                        phone (095) 267-69-76
                        ZXNet: 095/401.5
                         INET: zxnet@deol.ru
                           FIDO: 5020/677.18

       post: 107082, Moscow, Perevedenovsky lane., 12, kv.87