ZX-News #45 18 февраля 1999

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Opinion - The classification of games for the Spectrum.

              It turns out ...



  Once, pochityvaya fidoshnuyu ehokonferentsiyu REAL.SPECCY, we 
suddenly came upon next UUE-code and a postscript to it: "Do not

indicates whether it is that the bourgeoisie was
Speck from CD? ". I was surprised to run the program and see 
the following text (below is free translation in Russian):



            THE CD GAMES PACK!


      CHOOSE WHICH PORT TO LOAD FROM

        'K' TO LOAD FROM KEMPSTON

       'S' TO LOAD FROM SINCLAIR 2


               DEVELOPED BY

                TED CARRON

             RICHARD DARLING

              PHILIP OLIVER


        ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT BY

     P. WILLIAMSON A. OLIVER I. DUNLOP

(Package CD-games! Choose a port for downloading: "K" - for 
download of Kemstona; "S" - from Sinclair 2. Development Ted 
Caron, Richard Darling and Philip Oliver. Additional 
improvements P. Williamson, A. Oliver and J. Dunlop.) 


  Push the "S" and read a new messagu:


     PLUG CABLE INTO CD AND SINCLAIR

       AND PRESS ENTER TO CONTINUE

(Cables are connected to the CD and Sinclair, port and
Press ENTER to continue.)


  Due to the lack of cable and the very CD, perform the "press 
enter" and sozretsaem new business-treatment program:



     PRESS SPACE BAR TO SET CD VOLUME


      PRESS Q U I T KEYS TOGETHER TO

               PLAY A GAME!

(Press SPACE to set the volume CD or press
together key "QUIT" to start the game!)


  Eksperimentskim permeated with the spirit, click
space and see the following:


          PLAY TRACK 1 ON THE CD

       TURN VOLUME TO ZERO AND THEN

        ADJUST UNTIL THE BORDER IS

      TOTALLY GREEN FINALLY TURN THE

        VOLUME UP A LITTLE HIGHER

        PRESS SPACE TO FINISH TEST


(Run a track on the CD, adjust volume, starting from zero, as 
long as the boarder will not be fully green. Finally, adjust 
the volume to a small height [audio]. By end of the test please 
click SPACE.) 


  Once at this point, we note that Border, without any 
manipulation of the non-existent CD-Rom drive, obediently 
turned green (?). :-) Satisfied, we return back to

the penultimate part of the press and the very
"QUIT":


       SELECT AND PLAY TRACK ON CD


           WHEN PLAYING A GAME

       PRESS Q U I T KEYS TOGETHER

        TO LOAD A DIFFERENT GAME!


  (Choose and run track on the CD. To download a different game
press together the keys "QUIT" during the current game! ")


  After careful contemplation of the
letters, which evolved into an incredible information, we 
immediately contacted the author of this letter, Leonid 
Mishankovym / LEO (Style Group), who told an instructive story 
about the benefits of searching for Spectrum sites on the 
Internet - but however, give a word to himself:


LEO: In general, it was like this ... As a dank autumn evening 
I was sitting at his drugana - Anton Popov and merged with his 
PC Spectrum Software, which Anton downloaded

per night and-net. Houses one of the disks
I found this prog in ". tap"-format and
immediately skonvertil it. What was my
surprise when I discovered in British
inscriptions of the word "CD"! Reply born later
hour after sending the bend in the echo - it turns out, they 
sidyuk served in the same drive as the tape, ie with the same 
speed (and possibly more) and the principle of only quality 
downloads very high. And loaded it this way: sidyuk stuck in 
port Sinclair or Kempstondzhoystika (it uses a 1-bit), user 
selects the desired track (ie, the particular game) and presses 
PLAY. This is how ... 

ZXN: Thank you for your clarification, LEO! Well
Well, finally figured out. :)


  So, in England, CD-ROM drive has already served as 
information for the Spectrum. What are we, By the way, was not 
known (at least mention of this in the press did not occur). 
Interestingly, and perhaps there were other device for the 
Spectrum, which we also still do not know? So that pay more 
attention to the various technical Prices Spectrum firms (and

it can be not only texts but also the special promotional 
programs) - a chance "Extract" something new, hitherto unknown 
to us, and who knows, maybe, and useful? .. 


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