ZX-News #45 18 февраля 1999

Игры

News - of updates: Twilight: Land of Shadow, Kolobok Zoom 2 12 Secret Book, Text Maker v0.17b.

             News ZX-ON



  Today's news more like to
survey software - although heading straight to rename them. :) 
So, there is the emergence of high-quality mixes at a level 
similar to the author's games. It seems that the creative team 
beginning to understand that better than a great remix existing 
Spectrum games as responsible and, therefore, highly unlikely

Project distillation at Spectrum inoplatformennyh "games. In 
general, the Speccy is as the original game programs,

which can be processed under the modern
level, if necessary, Russify etc.
that the attempt to convert skilled and talented hackers coders 
from other games platforms is folly.



  Therefore, serious remix some
Spectrum masterpiece testifies
a reasonably good mind of its creator, who knows how to direct 
their creativity and time in the case, which comes to him fame 
and respect. 


  However, it is time to move on to our review
new programs. =)


  ZX-GAMES:


  ■ In the New Year's Days of Minsk
Group Fatality (Belarus) introduced the
light of his new remix Russified -
Twilight: Land of Shadow - a great
quest from the Czech firm Ultrasoft. This game
was written in 1995 (ie almost at the same time as the 
"Zv.nasledie":)) and refers to a rare Gendre on the Spectrum

- Quest. So stunning animation demo entry (and it was already 
established 95-m!) And then we see the game - best! Beautiful 
graphics, a modern user interface and an original idea - all it 
is capable of any interested player! So, the story is this: You 
are in the distant future (2801), after two hundred years of 
the cybernetic dream, back to Arcturus by native land. What it 
is during your absence? What happened over those 200 years on 
Earth? These things and you have to figure out - vysyadyas on 
the planet among the unseen landscape and obscure units with 
different devices, you go on path - toward mystery and 
adventure! 


  ■ Also, the New Year has a new exciting game - Arcade, pure 
and simple: Kolobok Zoom II (C) 1998 by Fatality, which the 
authors distributed free of charge networks and it all took on 
the "Hurrah!". Success This program explains Vyacheslav 
Mednonogov one sentence: "The organization makes is made with 
love." And in fact, unique graphics and design, which once you 
learn the game, a high current level programming and ... 
something designation is not, but it can be called conditionally

charm or spirit of the game - that is, then, thanks
which it wants to "cut" again and
again ... =) So, you - Gingerbread Man, who
must rescue his sweetheart (kolobochihu?). In the introductory 
animation states (and show) that she had stolen

a Sinister, the abode of which you and go. The castle 
Gingerbread met with a variety of byakami - in fact, the game

is a continuous dismantling them. :) And you have to destroy 
them all! In addition, in the game there are different bonuses 
- like moving up the balloons, shooting for which the program 
is sometimes may mercifully reward you by the letter (and

deign to emerge if the letters in the word (not
short), then the player gets lost
life and new glasses), big-eyed creatures,
shmakayuschih mouth - for the murder of the add, you become the 
owner of any bells and whistles, ranging from long-distance 
shooting and finishing increased speed, as there are wooden 
crates, breaking that, you get Bolt - they can run the "pa 
galave" enemies. :-) By the way, among the enemy, there is one 
bespectacled vredina that appears - where would you think? - 
Outside the game screen! Ie brazenly gnaws a hole in the title 
game, crawls through it and begins to to run on the restricted 
(and unattainable) zone, dumping on you all sorts of household 
items such as iron, which takes the lives (and

all three of them) when hit. In game 30
levels, but on the 27 th until no one
managed to climb - so go for it! =)


  ■ "12 secret books" - a new domestic
RPG, created based on old Slavic
pagan traditions, written by Alexei Shirokov from Kovrova 
(Vladimir region., Russia) by well-known "Examination

investigation "and" Svyatogora. "As can be seen,
succeeding in adventyurnom fact, he began
a genre of Role Playing Game, and now any
Everybody can purchase the Russian-speaking
RPG language by mail directly from the author (601908, Vladimir 
region., G.Kovrov8, 16, kv.73. Shirokov - 20 rubles per copy). 


  ■ Appeared interesting remix of the famous
strategic game Nether Earth - Kovrovskaya group Eternity 
Industry (Vladimir region., Russia) has released a new version 
titled "Hell Land" (Advanced Nether Earth). It has good 
graphics, final 'dead cut, and a detailed description with 
illustrations and the possibility of shipping to any (!) time

playing time. In general, the work is done
brilliantly and is a good example as a model for the rest of 
the restorers. :) Only there is still a "but": play with the 
turbo-loader'om, and therefore the screw will not start - when 
you consider that now many spektrumistov have hard drives that 
have already It is high time to provide a choice of boot: # 
3D13/no. 


  ■ At the mention of two words - Laser Squad
y spektrumistov eyes widen and they
flashing lights of Napoleon. ;) A
What would happen if say about the Super Laser
Squad? :) Yes, it was under this name out version of this game 
from Chip'Chap and ZS-VEC from Pavlograd (Dnepropetrovsk

reg., Ukraine), with seven completely new
missions and different twists in them.
By the way, you asked yourself the question: what
will be when you cross "Laser Squad with
"Star saboteurs? :) No, not at all
"Laser marasmus" ;-) and Super Laser Squad
- Because the mission of the remixes are a mixture of ideas / 
graphics Rebel Star I'II and proprietary scripting Laser Squad. 
And now briefly tell you about interesting naibolee

scenarios.


  In the mission "Blue Planet" takes place in 2247, during the 
public insanity on cybernetics and the results

which will have to disentangle, as always, you - landed with 
his commando the planet and, passing a gunfight with 
ohrenevshimi robots, you must destroy the bank data. By the 
way, you thought about toilets? I am of those that in the game. 
;-) So, the authors of the remix, it seems, think again - 
because of what the script had such a necessary item, as ... 
teleportation bowls. :-) The poor inhabitants of the bases, 
huh? ;-) More is an entertaining mission "Rise of the Alien" 
with the best graphics of all scenarios, there you are, 
according to the authors, "must clear their castle from them." 
:) Next, attention deserves "Coal Corporation - it

You and your squad are engaged in vandalism, ie, they must kill 
ten control analyzers, located in

different parts of the countryside. By the jokes include 
drilling machines - they can climb any saboteur and with 
delight to destroy the walls of mines, hardly erected by the 
enemy. :-) And finally, the last mission - "Biological 
warfare." In fact, it is a corporate scenario

"The Assassin", but with new elements
such as the breeding biomass, fires, and
etc. mischief. :)


  Finally it is worth mentioning some
Annoying glitch in the game: if you go to the place occupied by 
another soldier, then occasionally You can get 255 units. 
course, in addition sometimes the explosion of any bomb

working window clean swept all the details
landscape. But given that rare ointment without a spoon of tar, 
then this remix of the legendary game worth playing!




  ZX-SYSTEMS:


  ■ In addition to the continuous development of new versions 
of network software, appeared on the horizon and new tools for 
working with texts and more precisely, to create 
software-prosmotrischikov thereof. This is a Text Maker (C) 
1998 by Fast Group (Barnaul, Russia). The latest version, 
currently known - 0.17b, which allows you to edit

and rasskrasit text and even insert the
sprites (!) that then it all turned into something of a type 
similar to the newspaper. ;-) So now the authors can not

bother to create the viewer to describe their program - they 
just use the above utility, and business in a hat! By the way, 
thanks to this program, heaped in SPbZXNet arose such a 
phenomenon Net Pages, which in Russian means "web pages" 
(although, until singular, but ... Snow had already tumbled 
from the mountain ;-)). In the future the authors plan to 
create a valuable tool for sozdnaniya viewer with a 
magazine-like cover (ie, with menus, prompts, etc.). 



  ZX-PRESS:


  "And the news for today is no more!" (C)
Ivan Demidov. ;-)


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