#Z80 #05 09 марта 1999

Sites Review - Review of the Spectrum site.

              Sites Review 4



(C) Diver/4D


  Greets, netpeople! Hola, speccy freaks!


  Much time has passed from the time when I did
recent review of the events, respectively, occurred
too much. To begin with, that has done a more
noise.



            VIRTUAL TR-DOS

            http://zx.da.ru/ or

  http://www.fortunecity.com/underworld/worms/43/

        maintained by Paul Pavlov / AMD


  The site was opened in late November 1998, with
beginning to the middle of winter it is regularly updated,
has been redesigned, added new sections.
Originally there were only games, sorted
alphabetically, with the size in sectors, the
output, the producer firms and title breaks
team. Then there was the added section Warez. It
you could find some fresh programs. Often here
fell games and magazines are still in
commercial distribution, for which the site is acquired
pirate glory. Here you can find a polygonal
"Mirror" (not completely broken "by the way, but
traversed, sorry, Final Kut Wrecker flogged). Here
a pirate's Last Hero, broken Black Raven,
Rybak, broken Headball, MostrLand, Operation Red
Refrigerator, Mortal Kombat, etc. - Almost everything
gaming heart desires. Log in abundance -
DejaVu # 6, # 7, Oberon # 5, jagged Spectrum
Expert # 2, ZX Format # 8, etc. Would like here to say
that not everything in Varese stolen / broken, but:) how
turns out to be - there is no clear boundary, there
there is, say, a spectrum
(Spectrum:) software: from openly pirated (type
Last Hero, and Mirror) to the normal non-commercially
implemented full-fledged games (Kolobok Zoom 2
White Eagle: Comrade known, Homer Simpson in
Russia) in between are simply keygen
and remixes that I did not even know how
describe:). Type the fact that MK / Mafia and
Twilight is already outdated enough that they can
was a hack and reliznut anew, and Avenger and
even more so out of date even though release of the Mayhem is 
very so cute:).


  But alas, the updates stopped because Paul Pavlov
again dropped out of Inet'a, and will not know whether
all over again. Warez after he introduced the sections WhatsNew
and the Press. The press thought of Paul to gather all
electronic publications, ever went out to
Speke. Much he could collect, but alas, it's good
initiative was interrupted his blade from Ineta ... On
Sorry, the website is quite good,
nonrenewable archive of an old and relatively
fresh software, but without novya. Blog Archive
placed earlier in the Ascendancy FTP (was there
VT such a directory at the root, if anyone remembers:)
ZX-MUSEUM FTP and UNREAL FTP. Then UREAL
FTP was apparently covered (Unreal is currently down,
as it was written by VT), on the Ascendancy FTP was
produced radical reconstruction and directory VT
was reorganized, ie, simply speaking, software from
He hung in other sections. Now jump to the
Virtual TR-DOS is only two places:
FortuneCity (immediate location
site) and the ZX-MUSEUM FTP. About ASCENDANCY FTP and
ZX-MUSEUM FTP read below:).

  Yes, I almost forgot, since Paul apparently planned
make the site further, we see why he killed
old AMD HomePage, which is a pity there were not bad
Emulsion consoles:).



            World Of Spectrum

     http://www.void.demon.nl/spectrum.html

         maintained by Martijn Hejde


  Here are two news: a new update (January 18) and
Move the archive site to another servak.

  The first thing I hope to explain not need software to
inkominge accumulated abound, so as
is found somewhere in every six years old, Martin made a
update archive. Now on WOS'e your service
Games (5686), adventyury (1022), demos (501)
educational program (501) Utilities (1068), different
trash (304) well, and the list of missing persons (1435)
and he also updated:).

  The second news, I think requires some
explanations. The fact that the earlier the entire archive WOS
located on the FTP server group GETRONICS (in
and that includes Martijn Hejde), but in recent
time management team decided to clean up
servak ​​from all that is irrelevant
directly to the work of the group (roughly
porn clean up:), but who knew that Martin
there is not porn lay, and the global archive
software for the cake:) In short, the leadership nachhat:
Nitsche not know, clean, and Martin had to look
New servak ​​for the move. The new server has been found
15th of February - the company's server Intermax BV in
Rotterdam, and soon he moved the entire archive.
Now all the software WOS is at:
ftp://ftp.wos.intermax.nl/. Created as the "shadow"
copy of the web site: http://145.13.42.3/ ~ mheide /. That's all
at the same Intermakse in the Netherlands. Maximum
number of FTP connections increased from 50 to 100,
still a maximum of 5 connections to the user.

  As well it should be noted that the search
highly improved: now you simply enter
keyword, and then to see the results
General search for all files, ie You are looking at once
in several archives and to all sections, and not as
before: either by program name plus
necessarily the type of program or by company name
Manufacturer ... In short, the search has become much more 
convenient! 


  Well, you can still add here that there was a
such an interesting thing ...



            Spectrum Webring


  Perhaps you've seen other rings, but if not
seen, then explain: ring - a ring, if
literally translated, and if in our, just
association sites. This is probably the next step
After linking to each other - what's the point
keep at each site links to all other
if you can just combine everything in the ring? Ring
allows the push of a buttons on the main
page go to next / previous
Site ringside view spisochek 5
previous / next ring or a list of sites
of the ring, and for the perverts are random site of
ring:)

  Homepage of Spectrum Webring:


  http://www.breezer.demon.co.uk/spec/webring.html


  Avtorom vebringa is John Garner
(John@breezer.demon.co.uk). And he stirred this mess in the
July 1998.

  Especially here no events going on with this
Ringo:). Except for two things:

  1) Select the logo Spectrum Webring, on the homepage
offered several options for voting.

  2) The accession of new sites to the ring. Now
already in the ring is composed of 36 sites:


  1. ZX Spectrum Hardware DIY

  http://members.tripod.com/ ~ piters / zx.htm

  Various projects to bloat iron
Spectrum.


  2. Jontydog's Spectrum Emulation Station

  http://www.tilley.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm

  Small saytik on good old
Games.


  3. The PieCafe Spectrum Collection

  http://www.piecafe.demon.co.uk/sinc.htm

  A rare collection of homemade spekovskih games
written in the 80th.


  4. Spectrum Help Zone

  http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Garage/
/ 3986/index.html

  Site devoted to the finer points of passing game.


  5. COWL Spectrum Site

  http://www.cowl.co.uk/spectrum/

  Just a site with a certain number of emulsions and
software in the TAP format, equipped with full
instructions.


  6. Spectrum Screenshot Heaven

  http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/sun/738/tk/

  The collection of screenshots from the game: the initial 
screens, Screenshots made during the game and the final

pictures.


  7. The Congraturations Archive

  http://www.arcticfox.freeserve.co.uk/congrat/
/ Congrat.htm

  Here are collected all sorts of final Kuta
spekovskih classic games.


  8. cOnvergence - Jon Nixon's Home Page

  http://www.bigfoot.com/ ~ jon.nixon / spectrum /
/ Index.html

  Site of John Nixon, author of Games and Gnasher
Startrek, which can be downloaded immediately:).


  9. ZX-Spectrum und Sam Coupe Hompage

  http://home.t-online.de/home/JVogtschmidt/
/ Homepage.htm

  Small German site with information about
hardware projects, and about ihnem club
Speccy.


  10. The Sinclair Spectrum Shoot 'em Up Shrine

  http://www.nelsona.freeserve.co.uk/

  Site with reviews of classic games spekovskih
genre of "kill them all":)


  11. Dave's ZX Spectrum Game Zone

  http://surf.to/speccy/

  A regularly updated site dedicated to favorite
games of some of Dave:), with screenshots and infoy on
them, as well as with the emulsion.


  12. Hob - Java based ZX-Spectrum Emulator

  http://www.engis.co.uk/stuff/hob/

  Spectrum 48k emulator in Java. Required
browser Java1.1 (Netscape4.x/IExplorer4.x)


  13. Ozzy's Computer Emulation Page

  http://welcome.to/8-bits/

  This site contains information about emulation
and various 8-16ti-bit computers, a selection
the most easy to use emulators for
Windows and DOS, links to programming resources for
these emulators.


  14. Your Sinclair: A Celebration

  http://www.bigfoot.com/ ~ ysac /

  Site devoted to the various jokes related
with the magazine "Your Sinclair".


  15. Russian Spectrum

  http://univer.omsk.su/students/GOBUZOV/rs.htm

  The first Russian member vebringa:). Rashn stuff ONLY!
Demos, Gamez, sistemki.


  16. Anam

  http://www.anam.demon.co.uk/spectrum/spectrum.htm

  Home PC conversions of games The Lords
of Midnight and Doomdark's Revenge, except that here
a lot of information about the Spectrum.


  17. The Sinclair Archives

  http://www.ellis-online.co.uk/sinclair

  This site is dedicated to Clive Sinclair, and all of its
inventions, including the Spectrum.


  18. Another tribute to ZX Spectrum ...

  http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Portal/6986/

  Swedish site about Spectrum with games
written for the Spectrum in Sweden.


  19. The Spectrum Games Archive

  http://www.soton.ac.uk/ ~ doug1/Spectrum/Menu.htm

  Review of more than 500 games available immediately for
downloading, in addition various utilities
emulators, and more.


  20. Sinclair ZX Spectrum CS

  http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Battlefield/
/ 1467/spectrum.html

  This site is dedicated to the Spectrum scene
former Czechoslovakia.


  21. Zx Spectrum 48K

  http://www.terravista.pt/nazare/1408/zxspectr.htm

  Games, emulsion, links - it has everything you
want:)


  22. The Raww Arse Archive

  http://www.ethree.demon.co.uk/

  Full archive groups Extacy-3, Yolpa Brothers and
Raww Arse.


  23. Sinclair Nostalgia Products

  http://surf.to/zx

  Ppribambasy for People nostalgics
SPECA: screensavers, MIDI files, tsiferki for
saytovyh counters [Come out pzushnogo font:)]
snapshots and more.


  24. 100% ZX Spectrum

  http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/pascoe/633/

  "... I am with cakes since 1984. My web page
devoted to the Sinclair Spectrum 48k and 128k / +2 / +3,
here are my own reviews, news, tips for
games, etc. .. "


  25. The Spectrum Graphics Editor

  http://www.spider-man.demon.co.uk

  Site SGE, a place where you can download
Spectrum Graphics Editor (SGE) for
DOS / Windows / Amiga. The PC version was written by the author
site and the author of Amiga version is Chris Young.
Windows version of the editor being developed now and
is soon to come.


  26. Retro Trauma

  http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/delacroix/184/
/ Index.htm

  This site - is still only a sketch
Encyclopedia of video games. For each game, which he
You can download, is attached in a separate article. Until
there is little more than 50 articles, constantly added
new, but slowly ... Good people, help those who
they can.


  27. Brand New Games

  http://www.brandnewco.org/games/

  Completely new and re-implemented game
utilities and much more.


  28. Alistair Nelson's Home Page

  http://fly.to/r-type/

  This site as you have guessed at
devoted to a steep eight-shooter R-Type.


  29. The Spectrum Tape Loader

  http://perso.club-internet.fr/jgibart/spectl/
/ Spectl.html

  This is the main site of Spectrum Tape Loader, here
a program to create TZX files for Windows95
straight from the tape through the sound card.


  30. Spectrum Hardware Page

  http://www.xsite.ltd.uk/pj/index.html

  Website of Spectrum gland. A catalog of all
peripherals Spectrum. Features
iron, various reviews and pictures to them.


  31. CRASH - The Online Edition

  http://www.mjwilson.demon.co.uk/crash/

  Materials from the magazine CRASH.


  32. The World of Spectrum

  http://www.void.demon.nl/spectrum.html

  The official world archive of Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
Any program ever written for the
Spectrum, all existing emulators and utilities.
[Loudly, but at least it is in fact not
so, but that such a goal set and if not
take into account software produced in
ex-USSS for TRDOS, then this goal has been achieved
almost 100%]


  33. XZX - A Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for
UNIX

  http://www.philosys.de/ ~ kunze / xzx /

  HomePage XZX (Spectrum emulator for Unix),
ZxLink (network utilities for the Spectrum and Unix) and
many other materials on the Spectrum.


  34. Zacks' Speccy Page

  http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/ ~ djm / spectrum /

  Information on the three utilities and DiSCDOS Slowdos,
Snapshots of programs written Zack'om and
examples of assembly programming for the Z80.


  35. Dizzy Collection Homepage

  http://website.lineone.net/ ~ pteal / dizzy /

  The site is completely dedicated to Dizzy, there is
all games in this series ever made on the
Spectrum, as well as descriptions of them, tips and
cheats. Well of course they're all available for
downloading right then and there.


  36. Speccy Demos / PD, Usergroups / Clubs, 'Techy

  http://www.breezer.demon.co.uk/spec/

  This site contains webring homepage and
lots of information about Spectrum
producing programs, various clubs and
groups. Also, there is technical information on
hardware, programming in assembler as well as
C and BASIC. There is also a section download'a.


  [Opisuhi sites translated in a hurry, so that
strongly for inaccuracies or berate yourself:)]



            FATALITY ARCHIVE

            http://ftl.da.ru or

         http:/i-connect.ru/ ~ fatality /

          maintained by Ars / FTL


  Ars, fellow tries. Makes site updates.
Vatsnyu registers (mid November), in this
section appears the news is not just an update
site, but about life and Belarusian Fatality scene
at all! From site updates: collection Mouzon
Masta increased 2-fold, to complete your collection
Scrin Verevolvesa ... Added a new section -
Hardware. In vatsnyu hangs koming Song Pussy:).

  ACS now lies not i-connect, as well as all
site and elsewhere:


  http://193.233.226.19/Fatality/BBS/


  Since the i-connect sometimes does not work, then
I recommend to remember the address just the BBC. ACS is not
ftpovaya, and the Web, although without an index, well short
as ftp only via ftp it is not Will you come:), well
a normal thing, because Tut is a very interesting
vestchi: all types of insanity Verevolvesa plus any
his stories:) and fun, sorry News 5 ciphers,
rips all saying, well, new softinkoy there.
There are also some unique type TRMSHOB:) I'm more
nowhere have not seen him, well, still din, one was new,
Demo of a MIDNIGHT DREAMS by ADG'95:), shorter
is that the download:)



                ZEROIA

       http://members.xoom.com/ZeroIA/

         maintained by Zhenya/Zer0


  Zhenya has reached his hands to make the site their
group. Someone says that leymovy site, type
the fact that there was no point in doing it. Truth in
This is because You can read the entire site
just a minute and a half, it was such volumes
information embedded in it, and even pornobannery
flashed before my eyes ... Why would it? Design
in ZEROINFO, only on a white background. Two Zhenya
Mouzon, and two link sites, one of which
moved and the address of the second to forget just
impossible:). Everything. Although attributed to: People, 
please send me email with links! If the case goes, it is 
possible site and will be popular. But to do this somehow does 
not lack of disk imaging group, releases ... Even though it

trivial, but I think it is necessary for site
group.



         X-AGON'S MEGAPHUB SITE

       http://www.fi.muni.cz/ ~ xhotarek /

        maintained by X-Agon/NC ^ PHT


  What's new at Krisagona ... He still
engaged in burglary trdosovskih downloaders with
to adapt our programs for their disk
systems. This is an extensive section devoted to -
Hobetacracking. Even at the site appeared embedded
Page - by Pol / PHT, while there is only a description
FoxMon'a:). In the link seems to be nothing new
appeared, but some links have been updated. For example,
Here I learned a new page address ESA.

  The most interesting thing on the site Krisagona,
In my opinion, is a list of active spektrumistov.
Anyone coming to the site can put yourself in this
list, this should be right on the page
introduce the minimum information: alias / group, type of
computer, e-mail, if available. This list thing
seemingly simple and uninviting at first
glance, but actually on this list can be
judge very much! Immediately evident Who attends
site, who have some iron, by e-mail'am and
Computers can already draw some
geographical picture:) Although the current
number (75 on 9th March) is not enough to
to try to identify any statistical
regularities, but with each passing day the list grows!
These data are undoubtedly of great
interest and in the future, can easily serve as a
excellent material for study.



            CLAW HOME PAGE

  http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/emacs/49/

       Maintained by Buster / Claw ^ Love


  One of the most interesting and well-designed
"Group" sites. I especially like
visual bells and whistles: it's just the sight of the menu and
rotating stars in the background, just
increasing labels. Design, in general, at a height.
Recently that's changed the design again, Buster, that
here to say ... beautiful! dynamic html rules:) it must be
see. Now the site has complete information about
groups and projects, a separate section on
Lazarus Complex Compo, links, and not only
Spectrum and programming in general, on
graphics and music. In general, I always like
look for Buster to the site, even if updates
no. And when they are ... In short, not so long ago
expanded section download'a and added another
several sections. Download now divided into
several parts: the software produced
Exodus / Claw / Reaction, collaborations
Exodus / Claw / Reaction (here also includes remixes 128k
Western dem made Jordan'om), followed by collection
works by the members of these groups to
they have formed these groups are well and, finally,
the most extensive section - just demos made
other people, everything is sorted by country:
Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Germany,
Denmark, Hungary and Rashsha well:) But this is only ZX
Spectrum related download, else I will not describe.


  By the way, the people, gfx and music maker, you
participate in a Complex Compo?? No? But in vain.
Musicians have the opportunity to compete Silenko
with the entire Western musical elite. Well
artists ... what artists? Scored all the pancake
bastards:), the schedule seems to involve only PhF, PHT
and 4D. Weakly eh other artists
high-quality screen and draw on the e-mail
throw? Hurry Up! Deadline is 20/03/99!



    ASCENDANCY CREATIVE LABS HOME PAGE

      http://www.telecom.grodno.by/win1251/

      / Link / acl_site / Ascendancy_site.htm

     or http://www.ascendancy.homepad.com/

         maintained by MiniSoft / ACL


  What's new on the site ACL? Well firstly, as
you can see, there was a shadow legkozapominayuschiysya
address. Secondly, since the last
(November) the review page has completely changed
its form. Were added to an extensive section Gallery,
Updated Links. The new section WhatsNew
Now you can read about all the updates
software appearing on the FTP
site Ascendancy. In the section on party HackersTop
You can find a great article about the party - stories
Many members of the party itself,
illustrated with photographs:)

  At the ftp archive (ftp://ftp.telecom.grodno.by/), I
already said, there was a total upgrade.
Appeared all that was at VT. Plus MiniSoft
collects all sorts materialchiki the scene, such as
screenshots of famous artists and scenery pictures. So
ACL also conduct surveys of the people: Questionnaire for
SCENE EXPLORER. And like all ...



              Brief News


  As I wrote above, from the Link page on your site
Krisagona I learned about the new site address ESA:

  http://per3.zlin.vutbr.cz/ ~ factor6 /


  In addition to Perseus'e (servak ​​in Zlín / Czech Republic)
there was still a couple of pages:


  http://per3.zlin.vutbr.cz/ ~ tdm_k3l / - second
Page TDM, a musician from K3L Corp., though it
in Czech:), its first page -
http://www.cybernet.cz/zx/ - has undergone some
change: the mass was added photos
various demoparti.


  http://per3.zlin.vutbr.cz/ ~ dron_k3l / - Dron/K3L:
Patizone Attack. Page Dron'a. Alas, too, to
Czech.


  Page appeared DoxyCon'99 - see link on
ESA HP. Third DoxyCon will take place in less than
half a year. On a page you can read
information about the upcoming festival, the list of components
and answers to all sorts of organizational issues.


  Until Ineta and IRC now reached Technology
(TNL) of Ulyanovsk. Their page:


  http://people.ulstu.ru/ ~ maxwell /


  Somewhere had happened to the site of Illusion
(Http://free.polbox.pl/m/malyrule).


  Acid Nature changed the location. Alas,
new address until the AN is unknown to me ...:( According
Depredator'a Acid Nature soon moved to
worm.airbaltic.lv


  Sweet Confusion FTP (temporarily?) Ceased
exist in connection with a Trouble in Point'a with
inete ...:( But according Point'a he does not stop
updating the site with new prog and possibly server
More resumes.


  Maddy Vins also said that shortly
open site Phantom Family
(Http://members.xoom.com/phantom_fam/). Site in
Basically there now, but until there is empty.



             ZX Museum FTP

          ftp://zx-museum.org.ru/


  If you're not looking nove, and you need something
from the old one, you should go here. As far as I know, it's
very huge archive of prog under trdos. There is
mirrors almost all known ftp sites. Mirrors
not the newest, but still. And the connection with this
site is much better than the ACL / AN / WOS, well, by
At least for us. This ftp the most stable, I
never saw that he was lost somewhere:), in
While the rest of things happen:)


  Well, like everything, it happens. Sometimes it is useful to
just download it and type rambler SX
Spectrum ... in English, of course:).