Aspect #09 21 мая 1998

Пресса

under a microscope - Preview Magazine: Spectrum Expert.

 The articles, which will publish e-under
this title, we will try to detail and as objectively as 
possible to talk about some new product software on kaihlibo 
notable events, interesting humans. That is to say, look at 
them under a microscope ... ;) 


 Long time, long before
SPbZXNet, St. Petersburg sinkleristy learned about
events occurring in the Spectrum of the world of electronic 
journals. "Serious" publications were only two: SPECTROFON yes 
ZX FORMAT. Periodically appeared, so to speak, magazines-lived, 
or rather, "odnonomerovki. How many kinds CHAOS'ov, WELCOME 
PRESS'ov, SPECTRUM PROGRESS'ov ... Maybe they're still alive, 
the only species not fed. ;) In any case, neither one of them 
could compare with the two "Monsters". By velichyshemu 
Unfortunately the Russian (and not only Russian) sinkleristov 
"Dinosaurs became extinct. : ( Releasing 23 rooms SPECTROFON'a 
Group STEP ceased to exist, and FORMAT

slowly in agony ... You can not underestimate the benefits 
brought by such publications, and therefore needed an 
alternative dying elders. Until the last moment, imho, no one 
believed in what will be the receiver. But ... Miracles do 
happen. :) And Here in St. Petersburg emptying trays software 
vendors an entirely new e-zine: 


              SPECTRUM EXPERT

 Releases his St Petersburg group X-TRADE.
Many are probably already familiar with the contents of the 
first issue. More recently came the second. In this article I 
will offer your opinion about this important, in my opinion,

novelty.

 Now, having read both numbers and analyze the information 
received, I can say with certainty - the name of the magazine 
fit "for one hundred percent." :) See for yourself - in expert 
group assembled magazine people worthy nazyvatsya 
professionals: Sergei Zonov, Dmitry Lomov, Vyacheslav NEMO ... 
Editor-in rather well-known (in his field, of course) people - 
Saraf Glory better known under the pseudonym DANGEROUS.

Me, an ordinary sinklerista, insanely happy
that build such a team, because these
People familiar with the actual situation
Spectrum Affairs at the scene, and can give
detailed and really professional
answer almost any question.:) We
hope that they will "justify extended to them
high trust. ")))
 So, drive with EXPERT'om in diskokrute, pressed
ENTER and ... immediately find "glyuchok"
- TURBO Mode booting properly. Thank God, the authors of this 
obaruzhili "Bug" and the second number is working perfectly.

 Pleasantly surprised at the music loading'e -
effect, in essence, a simple, but in recent
time, something I have rarely met such
downloaders ...
 Went "intrushka" - the screen turned round lovely "piece of 
iron" (apparently, the detail from acclaimed DANGEROUS'om 
torpedoes .. ;) And I immediately skeptical twisted his mouth - 
Color fragments overlapped images, as often happens in Speke, 
and the screen turned distinguished red-green mess. : (Rebyata!

If you can not make the animation or image color, better leave 
the monochromatic than to issue such kashmar ...

 By clicking the "failure" went to download the main block, and 
appeared on the screen a nice guy, fun twisting the handle 
barrel organ, vaguely reminiscent of the drive. Lovely, in 
general, Animation, but the same trouble - the imposition of 
flowers. I do not know what guided by the authors when creating 
this masterpiece in the style of Salvador Dali, but I would is 
in your program is not inserted. :) Well Okay, it's trivia.

 Naturally, the first run of the journal
first to pay attention not to the expert group, and on 
clearance. Main Menu magazine was presented as "panels" with 
the names of the articles located on the background "plasma". 
The screen was raging not Sea, not the eruption of the volcano 
... :) This cute "plasma" I did a demo,

like, not seen. Admire
element;) load the page. Very
The original interface was pleased the eye.
No "vindozopodobnyh buttons - all
simple and almost self-explanatory. :) I am a long time
could understand why you would need a function
"Reducing the number of lines on the screen."
Then (when I read HELP;), realized that
fewer lines, the higher the speed
scrolling (and inconvenient to read;) that
should be useful to owners of "brake"
computers. "Buttons" are drawn simply
(Almost too easy ...: (), and when leads to some of them the 
cursor "Button" the fun begins to tremble, as

if in anticipation of pressing. ;) The right of
text is the so-called "scrollbar" - an indicator showing the 
total amount of text, the volume of reading and the position

cursor in the text. Pleased that he
also not made "in Windows'e", and on
own, original and simple. Summary:
interface like (to me anyway
:). But, as the saying goes: "the main thing is not the form, 
and content "- respectively, to him and

turn. :)
 So, let me comment on some articles of the first issue of the 
SPECTRUM EXPERT'a.




               Games under GS.

 In this article, the main GENERAL'izator
Peter (and exUSSR, perhaps:) - Mike Blum
details about the adaptation technologies
Spectrum programs under the sound card
GENERAL SOUND. Very, very, imho, helpful articles. I would 
recommend it to anyone who engaged making'om and remaking'om 
programs. Surely, even the most ancient and bezhitrostnye game, 
after alterations by GS gain a second life! And it is precisely 
from this article you will learn how to give this life. :))) 



        Enlight - A sober look.

 Even those who visited the Enlight'97, not to
end know "how it was." After reading this
article you can see the "underside" of the
high-profile events last year in Spectrum world.



            Enlight - Conversation.

 This article talks between Sergey
Zonal, KANO and RST7, which occurred at
Enlight'97. The article, in principle, interesting
and necessary, but such detailed
details, imho, is a bust. This
more like an article from the "yellow"
press, where they like to describe in detail "who,
whom and in what position, "...: (It is not so
guys! Of course, freedom of speech, CAN
say anything, but it does not mean that
Need to say everything.



                   GMX.

 Kratenkaya little article describing the port
working version Graphix Memory eXpander,
developed by SCORPION. Easley who
interested in this topic - read.



                 Toys.

 Chief GAME'ved, Mike Blum, spoke about
new games entered the market in the firm
WELCOME. With pictures! :)



                 ZX BUS.

 Oh how much have skzano on this subject, and
how much more will be said! Yes, no
normal buferezirovanoy data bus
gives the owners of the "left" a lot of cars
trouble when it comes to connectivity
peripheral devices! In this article, and LD
DANGEROUS detailed and thoroughly explained why this bus, 
analyzed existing machines with a bus architecture,

rssmotreli and the pros of cons. RULEZ,
just RULEZ! :) The owners of "leftists" - is
for you!



              Spectrum + 3D.

 Contrary to popular belief, the ZX is quite
possible to create dynamic 3D objects
just need to know how to do them. :) In this
article (or rather, a series of articles) professional 
programmers STS (VS) and DARK (X-TRADE) tell us about the art 
of creating a dynamic 3D graphics on Speke. This series 
Articles will be useful not only had very novice coders, but 
also quite professional programmers. Detailed analysis 
algorithms, a visual explanation of the main rules for 
constructing three-dimensional graphics - all This makes it 
difficult, in fact, the material understandable even to the 
beginner. 



                  STORM.

 Amended description of the work with the new assembler STORM 
(by X-TRADE). 



         Music - PRO TRACKER 3.01

 Description of a new version of the famous music editor for a 
music coprocessor AY. 



          Music - RIFF TRACKER.

 A detailed description of the music
a map editor GENERAL SOUND. The description is the author of 
the program. 



                  Fomin.

 Well, the headline could only go
humor. :) Very funny stories. One
"But." Humor there entirely
PTseshny ... : (Do not just sign sinklerist
with Dr.Web. or knows about the virtues of installation
Windows .. But in general, nothing. :)
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 Very nice set, is not it, right? :)
Contents of application is also a pleasant surprise. Judge for 
yourself:  LITTLE COMPUTER PIOPLE - the game, the progenitor of 
Tamagotchi  BOOGABOO - crazy 'skipping rope'

 PROTRACKER - popular music editor
 STORM - a new assembler by X-TRADE

 Thus, despite the small "glyuchki with
graphics, and more-olshie "glitches" with the spelling
;), I believe that the first "pancake" turned
quite decent. :) Do not know about you, but
I was very happy. You probably
thought it was the end of the article? And do not
hope! Thanks to Dmitry Lomov (aka
LD / X-TRADE), I have the opportunity to tell
You and the second edition of SPECTRUM EXPERT'a!
:) In St. Petersburg he had already sold a couple of weeks,
but to the distant ends of our vast
country, I think, is not "flown". And
Many Petrograders probably still
deliberate - to buy or not. Well,
Read on and we'll help you make
choice. :)

 So, what do you find the second edition
SPECTRUM EXPERTA:

 First, you'll see best'ovuyu animation in
the spirit of the Lumiere brothers.;) In the sense that
the screen will "run" train. Making
virtually unchanged, only
"Plasma" appeared the picture - the letters "SE",
yes "buttons" better drawn.
 I will not bore you a long description (as
You can picture the words, for example, to describe?
;), And turn to the announcement of the articles.
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                From the Editor.

 No comment.



                   Mail.

 Responses to letters to come. Yes!
Letters! Them for two! ;)



             Toys - What's New.

 As always - Mike Blum, a selection of "svezhachka. :)



              Toys - L.C.P.

 Attention fans LITTLE COMPUTER PIOPLE!
In this article you will find a huge list
words that can meet you in
game. :)



              HARD - ZX-BUS.

 The continued publication of the data bus.
If in the last issue of the journal LD ​​and
DANGEROUS explained in detail why it
need to do something in this room, they
tell you how to do it.



            HARD - constructs.

 Did you know that it is important not only as
your computer is running, but then, as he
structurally executed? Not sure? Then
This article is for you!



           SOFT - Sectrum + 3D.

 It turns out that in order to make
dynamic 3D graphics, you need to know not
only assembly, but also descriptive
geometry! :) The article is for professionals and
those who are trying to become established.



             SOFT - Hi-soft.

 Assembler world is large enough!
After all, there are many high-level languages
programming. In some situations
it will be easier and more practical to write a small procedure 
in Pascal than to climb into the jungle XAS'a ... A detailed 
description of the compilers languages, "PASCAL" and "C".




                 Music.

 Do not replace the electronic sound
live instruments. And this is not a mere
assertion and fact. Read this and Satya
will understand.



                 Opinion.

 And here I would like to "slow down".
In this article comes to our old
familiar - SPRINTER'e. As the owner of this
computer, I can declare with confidence -
what with such pathos tells
the author is not always true! Generally,
paper to get the original - in all
beauty, they say, "meat", are described
disadvantages computer, very rude
the author speaks about the company policy
Peters, and then modestly so, declares:
"Sprinter is the coolest Spectrum. Who believe in it, after 
such a douche shit, indeed! : (On the original technical 
solutions, greatly facilitating the work of the programmer, the 
author does not even stammered. Leaving somewhere in the side 
benefits of the machine, the author arranged auto-da-fe, 
intimidating potential buyers. I would like to draw my 
attention to a couple incorrect points:

 - With regard to the fact that bought Sprinter
"Forced every day to change the firmware
BIOS. "Strange, is not noticed for a
such. :) And the author, apparently, forgotten,
that "to change the BIOS firmware" on
Sprinter'e, does not mean "to change the ROM chip. Just pick 
and download firmware from a disk or hard drive! Takes

a few seconds, and there is no danger poveredit some chips.
 - According to the fact that the "fee gives crosstalk
on FM ". I did not realize there was a view that
uhudashaetsya reception quality on the FM band? With my old 
computer was so trouble. So can the distinguished author of 
this opus explain to me unreasonable, why my

Sino-Tibetan receiver uncertain date of birth, with a broken in 
three places the antenna and standing directly on the body 
Sprinter'a perfectly catches the "Europa Plus"? Or the author 
of something else meant?  - With regard to the fact that "only 
planned write a Norton-like shell for

Sprintera ". By this phrase, I realized that
author have not in the know the company, because
This shell dovolko long done and how
not seem strange to you, even works;).

 The list of inaccuracies and outright
nedogovorok can continue indefinitely. AND
I would like to draw attention to this
Editor! When a person writes that when
Debugging the computer "a" glitch "clean -
there are new, and it does not lead
no examples, for some people
formed a definite opinion about
author (and, respectively, and the publication,
publish this material ...). But, the editor knows better ...



                  Fomin.

 Again, humor, and again PTseshny. : (Although,
true, there was a place for the Speccy. :)
But such things can not recite them
need to read yourself! Conclusion - forward to
DISTRIBUTORS! ;)))
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           Briefly about the application:

 HI-SOFT - C. COMPILER v1.1B - compiler
language "C"
 ANARCHY - "evil" blend "shooter" with "logic"
 CAPT. PLANETS - cool textured action
 IRON ATTACK - demo of a new strategy game by ZX-STUDIO
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 That's the whole announcement. :) Of course, in this article, 
you hardly, if managed make your own opinion, but I do not

To do this, it wrote. :) I recommend you buy this magazine and 
what they say, "check out". :) 


                         (C) Alexey Guryev.


  The author thanks Dmitry Lomov for providing materials.