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   We were very pleased to receive and read your letters. 
Unfortunately, not all of them we are able to publish. This is 
due to various reasons. For example,

we now have is a letter that came out already by the time of 
imposition magazine. We did not even have time to read.


   But the letter is, and it pleases us. Some of the wishes 
expressed by the authors, we have already achieved over the 
remaining work. 

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   The first letter came to our
Address for fidonet, contains the following:


   I do not know whether the already poured in
Your address stream of enthusiastic responses and thanks, I'm 
sure - posypletsya soon! Bought today

(11/18/1995) you have (in Logros'e)
Journal ZX-Format. Frankly -
surprise! Just great! Done at the highest level.
One menu system that costs.
Selection of materials is also excellent.
Compared with the ZX-Format'om
SPECTROFON looks just miserable. Well done! The only thing
You can wish for - try to illustrate the magazine. And the rest 
- just 5 points! 

   I wish you great creative
success to all who worked on
with this product.

             Yours sincerely

                  Slava Sokolov.


ZF: Thank you, Thank for your kind words addressed to us, we 
are delighted that we need people. As for the misery

SPECTROFON'a, we would not have become so
critical of the level of
its implementation. After all, it was
the only decent information product in Russia before the 
release of ZF and, besides, he vsetaki in something still ahead 
us. Namely, in terms of illustrating the absence of a You, 
Glory, so subtly hinted us.

The answer: we're working on it
question.

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   The following letter from Sergei
Lebedev has been more critical in nature:

SL: Hi, creators of the ZX-Format'a.


   Not a bad thing happened, but I
genuinely offended when my
128 Pentagon, I saw the gorgeous screen saver, which admired 
the owners of the Scorpion. 

ZF: We do not quite understand about
What exactly is meant. If a
initial introshke, it is not because a particular type of
computer, and because of the unstable
of the data bus and a lack of
Port # FF, or rather non-existent data port to port # FF.
We have redesigned a system to identify the mouse, and now this 
problem has disappeared. 

   If Sergei had in mind
jokes over the buttons Magic and RESET in Scorpio, then in 
order to eliminate disparities, we have found opportunity to 
demonstrate our shadow businesses and owners of the 128th

machines. But he is called, naturally, quite different way, and
just click the fire in the lower
left corner of the screen when finding
On the Tools menu.

SL: Scrolling text also does not
brilliant - would have done at least in increments of 2 pixels 
and poshustree pls. 

ZF: Unfortunately, in the presence of graphics and colors 
per-pixel Scrolling seems unrealistic, or rather impossible. 
That As for speed, then we increase it, but if you become more 
comfortable on this? E-mail. 

SL: Spelling is almost brilliant,
By the way, it would be good to upload articles to disk (which
do not mind) in the format ZX-Word'a.

ZF: With this "almost", we strongly
fighting, and about the unloading of the texts on Disk answer:

  1. It's not about greed, but rather

  that the texts are stored in the original
  tional format, so the ZX-Word

  dropped as a class.

  2.Vygruzka disk is needed for

  continued listing on the principle
  cluster, but no print

  utility does not support our

  format text with graphics.

   Given two points, we decided to
create a universal tool
print texts for our
meet all the owners
printers. But this takes time.

SL: But in general excellent, waiting for the next release.

                Bye!

                 Sergey Lebedev.


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   Author of the following, very critical, though not in our 
address, writing anonymously, one it clear reasons.


   We carry out his request and
publish his appeal to programmers.

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    Arguments on application


          programs.



   Since that time, as the market
applications began to appear
programs written by domestic programmers, I see a strange scene 
- version replace one another, and errors in

They remain the same. Take
well-known editor ZXWord. Is already a version 2.6,
but I do not use it. Why?
Eye pity. I have a good monitor, but still 64 characters in
line - is a mockery. It is clear that the use of
printer is desirable to see the whole
text to be printed,
but why not borrow
system output from the TLW 2 (42, 51,
64, 80 characters)?

   Well, in a word processor is somehow understandable,
but why those same 64 characters in
assembler? My experience in
TASM has shown that the maximum
string length 40, and the average value is less than 20. And 
why programmers must spend their talent and not the first 
freshness sight, figuring out the differences in shape of the 
letters H, M and W? 

   Here recently Spectrofon'e
I saw a demo MASM. Uploaded, and that
see? Again, the magic number -
64. Perhaps the authors had been bribed
sverhkachestvennyh manufacturers of monitors and TVs?

   I once caught a new assembler for Scorpio AFS256.
Looked at the envelope - finally, I think, appeared normal 
assembler. Alas, the editor was extremely flawed, and himself 
an assembler, as says slow. Had

back to TASM. Need
Eyewear - went by the authors.

ZF: some truth in the argument
our readers certainly are,
although with some ideas and we
disagree. And therefore look forward to your
response to this, pretty sick
For many, the subject.

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 Editorial note: for obvious
reasons we can not publish all incoming messages, but
This does not mean that the rest of
Shadow of the correspondence we
uninteresting. We look
We welcome letters and other postal and non-mail items to
responses to the second issue of our
and your zhurnala.Esli you have
ideas or specific proposals
to improve our offspring or interesting to a wide
readership topic for discussion - write, call, go!
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