ZX-News #48 09 июня 1999

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News - of updates: Gambit v2.2, Sherwood, C-Warp, Pkunzip v1.0, Voyager 3.

               Software News



                 ZX-GAMES


  ■ A new version of dial-up Chess: Gambit v2.2 (C) 1999 
Discovery Group (St. Petersburg). Fixed bugs in it and

to realize the wishes spektrumistov, played the previous 
version. Now in Gambit can play everything - from beginners to 
grandmasters of chess! :) 


  ■ Minsk Group Fatality, the one who gave the world the 
Russian language version of Twilight'a, released their new 
remix - Sherwood (C) 1992 DSA Computer Graphics' UltraSoft 
(Czech Republic). This program is a kind of mixture of 
strategy, quest, it can be attributed to a mixed Gendre 
strategy - ie, an indeterminate. :) So, you become Robin Hood 
and go to Sherwood Forest to protect the poor, the oppressed 
and the weak-minded ... In other words, you start to rob, in 
order to pay for all the nasty things that are enemies of 
Robin's time to mess things up. In the course of the game to 
you will be joining various types, a childhood dream of the 
robbery - but for this need to actively use the services of 
Pilot (theirs tavern) and ... dense forest, this inexhaustible 
supplier of coins and bandits.



  In appearance the strategy is
a plan, a map and a menu with possible actions (as in Ember 
Wars). Also present are shiny arcade inserts that will be 
issued as the story progresses, depending on the steps of the 
player. For example, in one of them you need to compete in

Archery, another rescue prisoner
- Through the arduous duel with the guard.
(And where Fatality manages to dig up such masterpieces =))


  The gameplay is this: you move with Robin Machem on the map 
periodically navedyvayas in pilot and other places designated 
in menu, not forgetting all this plunder, to have the funds to 
purchase weapons, mostly of arrows. During this

free life program periodically inform you about any 
developments on the to be suitable to react.



  In Peter Sherwood'a split yet no one has even slashing her. 
Moreover, the beta testers - and they did not pass it up end, 
not enough points. So this the game is still a tough nut to 
crack. 


                ZX-SYSTEMS


  ■ RST7 finished work on their compiler "C", which we 
mentioned in a previous numbers ZX-News. However, it author, 
for unknown reasons until distributes the program. If there are 
any details, we will continue to keep you informed. 


  ■ While on RST'ovskim "C" floating clouds mysteries in 
computer networks came another, the actual compiler of this 
language! This C-Wrap (C) 1994 by A. Demidov (Pskov). Drew 
attention to the copyright date? That's it - this system, which 
many lacked was already written five years ago! The author made 
it available after the talks in ZX.SPECTRUM about being wanted 
"C"-compiler, dug up the program in your records. I wonder how 
many more such useful utilities that do not leave the limits of 
their authors disketnits? .. At the moment C-Wrap are going to 
improve some of the coders (with permission), so expect a 
modern remix of the compiler. 


  ■ A new text editor -
Modern Word (C) 1998 by Demiurge Ash (carpet). This is a remix 
of the popular Eliseevsky ZX-Word'a. It has new features, but

Alas, due to the use of non-standard entry points TR-DOS, half 
(if not more) of potential users to work with the Modern Word 
will not. Always looking to provide choice of mode disk access: 
# 3D13/no, today it is a necessity, since the hard drive - a 
common phenomenon. Finally we do not understand why was based 
on version 2.1, not 2.5 with a more convenient and a nice 
interface? 


  ■ The latest version PKUnZip'a to this
time - 1.0. According to the author, blizayshee time he will 
not dimmed her. Well, the fact that it has now - quite enough.



  Now on the Spectrum needs unpacking
RAR-archives. If someone is already working
on this, please contact the editorial office.


  ■ What do you think, whether in the field
system software to create masterpieces? Answer: Yes! By this 
view, we have come, when they saw something out of the ordinary 
- BestView (C) 1998-1999 by Ivan Roshin (Moscow). The author 
called this program study of virtually all the information 
dosdostatochno modestly - "viewer / boot". Thus, What can she 
do? Um, even easier to say What she can not. :) We describe the 
possibilities latest version - 2.8: It can play music in 
formats Sound Tracker, S.T. Pro, Super Sonic, ASC Sound Master,

Pro Tracker, Pro Sound Creator, Global
Tracker and SQ Tracker; view the text, fonts, and graphics 
programs in BASIC and listings in the format of assembler GENS,

PASM, TASM, MASM, ZXASM, ALASM, XAS. Incidentally, all of the 
above can be stored in packed (!) - BestView automatically 
decompresses them. So now that you can "razzipovat" their files 
and process them a code wrapper that with facilities to work 
with them directly from the viewer. 


  But that's not all! (C) TV store. :) In
program is something that the author calls
"Analyzer, content files and disks. With this option, you can 
get into some clever file with "B"

and incomprehensible rubbish inside to retrieve
out all the screens and packaged units codes, as well as listen 
to the hidden music! And all this without leaving the house, I 
mean the viewer! Truly, appeared on the Spectrum tool that 
promises to grow in the future in a system for an elegant work 
with any information on your disk. This means that any 
spektrumist feel the real master of your computer. 


                 ZX-PRESS


  ■ Released the third issue of the journal Tula
Voyager (C) 1999 Dio-Gen. Distributed
yet in the mail by the authors themselves. Very neat magazine, 
we hope that numbers will more than a couple a year. :)



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