Buzz #17 10 апреля 1999

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Review sistemok - Overview of system software: Text Maker v0.12c, Excess Sample Editor v1.4, Best View v2.6, DOS2DOS COPYv2.0, Excess Deluxe Paint v1.0 demo, Laser Compact v5.0, Consul Commander v3.33, DCM Protection KIT v4.1b, Modern Word v1.3, E-Mage Work Statio, PKZIP.

(C) Paracels


   Hello, dear readers. That came as expected by all Satanists 
new year. Why are Satanists? Because that among the 1999 has 
three nines - and turn it all yourself understand. However, I 
am sitting here and writing this article does not Satanists 
(although it would not hurt to read, and then, I suppose, 
except Satanic Bible and anything they do not know), but for 
people who every day wake up with the idea of ​​the best 8-bit 
platformeSpektrum. 

   So, before the 2000th year, there were only-nothing, but it 
would not hurt learn from what we came to this turn of the 
millennium (or the millennium), that the newcomer has appeared 
in the disposal of our coders, musicians, artists and users. 
Well. Declare almost a regular section on the Review of the 
software programs officially open ... 


   By this number, Buzz, we have collected as many as 12 
software programs for a review.


   It is safe to say that last year was supportive of the 
artists, for all sorts of programs to draw there were many. 
Some of them now will be described in our review, and one even 
found in the annex! Slightly less fortunate coders, though it 
wiser life people do not have anything except for the 
assembler, STS'a and, perhaps, bottles of beer:) Just left out 
our review will be musicians, but they have not avoided this 
year: the guys from the group E-Mage, Golden Disk, and Global 
Corp have released their music editors: PSC v1.06 (c00l!), Pro 
Tracker v3.01 and Global Tracker v1.0 sootvetstvenno.Bolshe 
same all fortunate simple user - the people rejoicing any 
program. 

   Well, Happy New Year 1999 the Year YOU! Read this review and
Do not judge strictly.


                      TEXT MAKER v0.12c

                     (C) 1998 Fast Group


   Another product of the city, known for its magazine and a 
number of people living ZXClub Dima Pyankov. 

   Text Maker, created by FAST Group, is to be commended. Use 
this program very useful. And it needs to create 
horoshooformlennyh HELP / emails or simply interesting texts. 
People who read the help of this program and knowing that in 
the TM used my "turbo-dryver, my praise may seem pure flattery. 
Think so, permanent our readers - your constitutionally 
guaranteed right, by a wish to assure you that this is not 
true. Interface is very friendly TM'a: you fly inverted cursor 
on the windows and partitions to are all written in Russian, so 
that problems with understanding those or other functions 
should not be. The program has a built-in text editor (ZX-Ibm), 
vyrezalkoy sprites, etc. In Generally, all at your fingertips. 
It is possible to change the font, the arrows piktogrammok and 
at its discretion. The work resulted in the Text Maker may be 
ready to use file, which is a artistically decorated your text. 
However, mastery of design depends entirely on your design 
abilities. 

   Among the programs of this type Text Maker can be called one 
of the best.



                   EXCESS SAMPLE EDITOR v1.4

                     (C) 1998 Excess Team


   Continued wonderful program for working with digital
sounds, which became a real blockbuster in the area. In one
of back issues Buzz'a we have described an earlier version of 
this program created by the guys from the Kazan team Excess 
Team, therefore, the description of this version let me confine

a story about some new features.

   Now you have an opportunity to make fun of the sound with
using HF FILTER'a and functions ROBOTIC (c00l). Greatly 
expanded menu conversion. This version supposedly has support 
for ESE General Sound'a (devaysa thereof have, unfortunately, 
not, therefore, can not say for sure), and exactly - support 
the coolest zvukovyvodyaschego device in history humanity - 
powerful BEEPer or simply - beep'er. There awesome, in their 
size, setup, a possibility we walked the window. 

   Yeah! Everything makes me happy in this program. And 
especially the fact that The authors finally seems (???), fixed 
disk driver, that error so snarled drive that is not in itself 
has become, and the drive was sorry. 


                         BEST VIEW v2.6

                      (C) 1998 Ivan Roshchin


   Last, at the moment, the editors of this remarkable 
universal smotrelki texts, images, fonts, etc., created Ivan 
Roschin living in first-throned. With version 2.0, published in 
ZF # 8, BV noticeably prettier. Briefly describe some of the 
innovations, which, by the way will be said, very a lot.


   Now you can not just watch the texts of all (except STORM)
assemblers, but also use BV as a universal converter: just 
download the file asmovsky in BV, it is his perekonvertit in 
the text, and then accomplish your goal the result to disk. 
About what kind of unsubscribe button text on the disc, 
unfortunately, I do not remember, but it is written in the 
help. Finally, you can watch files with long (up to 80 
characters) lines. BV them, however, does not carry as Burst 
Eyes, but that's nothing. Appeared in such fashion Recently, 
bells and whistles, like a scroll bar (aka scroll bar'y). Now 
the forces of Best View You can learn almost everything about 
the packed block from the form Cruncher (and they recognize a 
great many), and ending with autostart. Moreover, now Hrust'om 
packed files automatically uncompressed before viewing. Also in 
this version appeared screen graber. Except that now looks even 
ZIP BV and ASC LZ-files! 

   Yes, .. Ivan Roshchin set to work creating a better 
smotrelki with most resolute intentions, and, in my opinion, he 
did it perfectly happened.



                 EXCESS DELUXE PAINT v1.0 demo

                     (C) 1998 Excess Team


   And again, the product of Excess Team, and certainly the 
future blockbuster. This, as you probably already guessed, the 
new demo graphics editor. And the word "demo" even once, and 
not suited to this program, because already it can completely

easy to draw cool graphics.

   The most that neither has a graphical interface just happy
eyes, but every now and then vary depending on the selected 
function cursors is a pleasant job. Is to say that this editor 
is really superior to Art Studio, and it is - so far only the 
only type of notable programs of this sort! In edit mode, there 
are all kinds increase, when the cursor borders of the screen, 
the image starts automatically scrolled, ... and a bunch of any 
nice things waiting for you in EDP. Already a quick job with 
the disc can not be said about the speed of a snail Art Studio, 
pleasantly pleased. Wonderfully drawn piktogrammki please any 
artist, but the greatest of them set that characterizes the 
amount of any functions, makes proud of this editor. Of the 
amazing features you can select grayscale, wash out 'disaring, 
work with two bitplanami and etc.


   EDP ​​are the most pleasant experience, even for such a 
picky artist (from the word "evil"), as I do. Colleagues! Look 
for this program, and you will not regret it. In addition, we 
are waiting for a sequel, because it is - just a demo version 
(which can be taken for a full :))). 


                      LASER COMPACT v5.0

                   (C) 1998 Dmitry Pyankov


   LC! Well, who are not familiar with this program and its 
author, who created sensational as the movie TITANIC, packer 
HRUST. Rejoice, people. This is a continuation of the steep 
packer picture LASER COMPACT by Dmitry Pyankov! If you 
remember, we have described LC v4.0, therefore, by tradition, 
confine listing of new features and bloat. 

   As expected, the pictures in this version of LC packed
even stronger. "What could be stronger?" - You will say. It 
turns out there! Yes, from the DP can expect anything. For 
example, in this version you can pack an entire group of files 
using "file-descriptor", which should list the names of all 
files you want to shrink. Now, in the LC have 3 types of 
depakera and you can choose. And in version 5.1 is planned to 
increase the speed of compression mode BEST 3-5 times! 

   Laser Compact v5.0 has a real gift in the past year
for all lovers of kranchinga.


                           PC ZIP

        (C) 1997-98 Michael Kondratyev 'Gavrilov Roman


   People who do not have a PC or close contact with this 
platform, this software may not be necessary. But we liked it. 
Need it to unpack PC'shnyk. ZIP files on the Spectrum. And, as 
we discovered, the files clamped pisishnym zip'om take up less 
space than files zip'om clamped on the Spectrum. However, this 
was expected. We've already popolzovavshis this program for you 
and we were pleased with her work, and what you wish. It is a 
pity that the next version of PC ZIP'a under great question, 
because the author goes into all of us a "favorite" Army RF. 
However, PC ZIP distributed with their own sources in XAS'e, so 
there is a chance that there are activists who are able to 
continue the good work. Hopefully. 


                   DCM protection kit v4.1b

                     (C) 1998 Sat / Extreme


   Fans can enjoy all kinds of tread - this program
for you. Very original 2-sectored zaschitka burglary, written 
by a very friendly person we Sat'om of Extreme (hello, Max!). 
Personally, I enjoyed her break, and eventually I was 
satisfied. The only pity is that the protected DCM programs 
refuse to work from many boot'ov. Although this is only 
beta-version, and besides, freeware, so no complaints. 

   In general, programmulinka even very good, and I, as a lover 
of protections liking. We will continue to wait. 


                    Consul Commander v3.33

                 (C) 1998 Phantom Family Corp.


   The next version of one of the best commanders of the 
Cheboksary Phantom Family. In a previous issue we described the 
CC v3.00, and now briefly explain the main differences this 
version. 

   Consul now supports extended memory, namely: Scorpion 
256-1024, Pentagon 256-512, Profi 256-1024, ATM turbo 512, 
Turbo 2 + 1024. Happy owners of Scorpion is now at the touch of 
RESET'a can go back to the commander (if in the process of 
running the program, it certainly was not destroyed). Discs 
formatted in a CC quickly and easily be read on PC. As promised 
the authors, this version is implemented Commander STEEP mask 
(what it escarpment suggest themselves to understand). In 
addition, now you can write off on Setup disk with all of your 
settings. 

   As expected, the clipboard to copy, though not 
significantly, but still decreased from 491 sectors to 488 + / 
-1 sector. Dr. Sioux, a he is the author of CC, is likely going 
to continue to "promote" their commander, which gives us the 
right to wait for the next, not less sharp, Version Consul 
Commander'a. 


                     DOS 2 DOS COPY v2.0

             (C) 1998 Red Limited Drunkards Group


   Very useful program from Red Ltd. from Yoshkar-Ola. Need it
for quick and easy transfer of files to Ms-Dos to Tr-Dos and 
back, as well as for formatting disks in Ms-Dos. DOS2DOS with 
those their duties quite good job. 

   When transferring files it is possible to record in two 
formats: Ms-Dos and Hobeta. Ms-Dos disks can be formatted as 
360kb, and at 720kb. There is a possibility of cutting the 
files on disk MsDos if their length exceeds 65,280 bytes. 

   The new version will make a full window-turnout interface. 
In general, it is very convenient in its use, and should be 
useful vsem, who deals with the transfer of files from Ms-Dos 
to Tr-Dos. Not all the same life Zx-Word'om yes IsDos'om enjoy! 



                       Modern WorD v1.3

                     (C) source Eliseev

                     (C) rmx Demiurge Ash


   In the 16 th issue of Buzz, I have already described the MWD 
v1.00b. Since then, many pieces have already appeared this 
serila. If I remember correctly was the MWD v1.12, 1.13, 1.14, 
1.2 and now appeared Modern WorD v1.3!!! What's new in this 
version? 

   It is now possible to switch encodings YAVERTY and
QWERTY. By the line scrolling text Speeding at least 2 times 
that I personally like very much. Now you can quickly Output 
from the main menu in the edit mode by pressing SPACE. During 
the editing process in place, where before it was written the 
word File, you can watch a character code, which is cursor. New 
function to delete a row by pressing combinations of keys and 
then EXTEND L. Especially for those who wrote texts in the 42 
characters in the ZX-Word'e, introduced the possibility of 
including attribute markings to do this, simply press the 
EXTEND, and then Y. Starting with version 1.2 in MWD a built 
ASCII converter pictures, written SaiR00s'om. Also you can now 
change the embedded font on your own. To this end, the disk 
must be written to file wordfont, length of 2048 bytes.


   MWD generally very pleasant to use. That is why all
My article in this issue written by the editor. Already
to light a new version of MWD v1.4 beta and MWD v2.0 alfa, in
which appeared even more bells and whistles. We'll wait for the 
full version. 


                      E-Mage WorkStation

                       (C) 1999 E-Mage


   Something completely new from the field commanders decided 
to present a well-known group of Grodno E-Mage. EWS - really 
different from all I've seen Cmdr. As the authors themselves 
write, EWS is based on the graphical user interface, an analog 
that has on the Amiga in the program File Master.


   A remarkable, in my opinion is a feature odnofreymovaya work 
with windows (using izpolzovaniya second screen window appears 
behind the frame). And the opportunity to work with kemspton 
mouse can not but rejoice. From non-standard approaches to the 
Spectrum to the different functions of the commanders in the 
EWS mozhno highlight The following interesting things:


√ work with two file panels;
√ scrollbars of frame files (ulet!);
√ function of preserving the directory in the file;
√ function MOVE - analog pc'shnoy (file transfer);
√ work with groups of files, DELETE and RENAME;
√ viewing of labeled images;
√ The original manager overlays.


   In general, the program leaves the most pleasant experience. 
S very easy to use, especially if you have a mouse. But

and QAOP, M, SPACE can handle (sorry SINCLAIR is not involved). 
All work with turbo drive, but the recording quality for the 
preservation of information is made in normal mode. 

   I do not know whether you want to write, but still want to 
warn you. At EWS we have seen very, very nasty bug. Maybe he's 
seen only here because of the turbo-WG, but you do not well to 
know about it. So, if you copy or optimization Disk EWS mozhet 
(we this happened quite frequently) to spoil 1 st sector of any 
(!) File. Read it will be great, but Here is information on it 
will be lost. What is the reason for this phenomenon is 
unknown. Hopefully, the guys from E-Mage will see this review 
and fix this bug, and then just a sin not to have such a 
wonderful program! 
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-------------    That, dear readers, and reached the end of my 
review. I want to just add that at this point is already out 
Hrust v2.1 by Hrumer aka Dmitry Pyankov, but this next time. 

   That's all. Getting to wait for the end of the world;))) See 
you later, maybe ... 


                            Torn apart by fear in the face of 
grya                             vious ARMAGEDDON'a, but still


                                          with respect, 
Paracels.