ZX-News #16 26 ноября 1996

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Glitches and rumors - Coming soon TASM 5.0 Glitches in TASM 4.0, DSQ-4, Art Studio 128K.

              Glitches, rumors ...



         (C) CREATOR WARE PRODUCT

              VIRT GROUP '96



  There will be (if there), describes different
rumors that circulate among the programmers, hackers, coders, 
shorter working on Spectrum'e people in St. Petersburg, and

various bugs found in various programs.


             So nachnem's:


  TASM 5.0 by XLD - interface has not changed
compared with other TASM'ami, speed
assemble a couple bars of more than
y XAS'a through specific technology
(Which, if you wish, you can
tell). Planned out between the 5th
and the second ZX-FORMAT'om. In the assembly will
Russian language, but only in the comment box, and it looks 
like Russian font itself will be included after the ";". 
Already have a version that can work. Makes TASM v5.0 mr. 
SPARKER. 


  TASM 4.0 by XLD (TRIP). During the withdrawal
folder of your drive do not try to push on
BREAK, and then paid dearly - after
TASM will kill this text in your program,
located in memory. The same thing sometimes
happens at the assembly, so that
BREAK TASM'e in general it is better not to touch ...


  If, after assembling press ENTER
several times, TASM can spoil
object code. Hence morality - upload
code immediately after assembly.


  DSQ-4 (TRIP). It turns out that the displacement of 2
bytes is not enough! To do a 5 byte. If
do not understand, explain: During the recording of the 
compressed code is requested "START ADRESS (-2)". This mean 
that you must enter the address to which will be located and run

compressed code, and it (the address) must be less than the 
address to which the code will be decompressed to 2 bytes (and 
it is necessary for 5-Bayt). 


  For example, you have a prog to address
49152. You have to squeeze in a DSQ-4, and recording, and the 
question of START ADRESS (-2) enter number 5 bytes smaller than 
the address of the program after unpacking in our sample 49147 
(49152-5). 


  P.S. This bug manifests itself mainly
when the source code of more than 16384.


  ART-STUDIO 128k (TRIP). Have you ever
asked yourself the question: "Why ART-STUDIO
so slow in writing? "


  Because it makes checking account
every time something writes. This
voobshe not a glitch, but interferes with the work to correct 
enough to change 1 byte in Fail studio_m, that is, take the STS 
v4.1 and Found about a piece of code:



              LD A, # FF

              LD (# 5CF9), A

              LD C, # 0E

                   ....


  Replace "LD C, # 0E" to "LD C, # 0F" and
Fail ship our back. On this inhibition
end.


  ZxNews - ONE BIG TRIP - explain
impossible:)


  G-SOFT (WARCRAFT demo in ZF 4.5), postponed
this game and started another, something like a UFO
+ MECHWAR's.


  X-TRADE make your modem, which will be
able to raise and lower the tube avtodozvanivatsya, etc., but 
compatibility with other modems in question. By the way, 
GENERAL SOUND like a ready ... ;) 


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