Buzz #03 09 апреля 1997

RANTS & RAVES - On the development of viewer newspaper.

(C) PARACELS


  Hello dear readers! Today I will tell you, as always (I hope) 
something interesting. Davayteka touch on the problem of 
conversations that go around the viewer our paper ...



  We received a few critical, but not evil, remark -
tions about the convenience of our viewer text of the newspaper.
Realizing the correct words of critics, we tried to improve and
rather accelerate our VIEWER, after all it's not like it
readers-low speed viewer. We understand your frustration, but 
you understand us, because the per-pixel scrolling text was 
created specifically for that you have been pleasant - It read 
a newspaper. Hoping that you replace the smoothness of the 
velocity, We are deeply mistaken, for which we apologize. 
Understand that smooth scrolling eliminates the high-speed 
browsing, because even in such well-known demo as INSULT viewer 
scrolls not the text (?), and one big, giant sprite - exactly 
what store the text in the introduction to INSULT'u. Create a 
sprite size full text of our newspaper just does not allow the 
memory, we could would use the memory page, but then it will be 
frank - nym marasmus - an electronic newspaper for 128K ONLY!!! 
In the end, we are not geniuses programming (not yet, I think), 
as For example, RST 7, STALKER, IMP, KSA 'etc, so do not judge 
us very severely, but if you do you still want to VIEWER in our 
newspaper has been replaced by a standard (such as in ON-LINE 
and ZX-PILOT 48), but pretty quick - write to the editor and, 
if such letters typed a lot, we will have Change VIEWER, after 
all, the reader's desire above all else! 


  In one case, some people offered to write for us
VIEWER such as in the ON-LINE ... We thank them for such care,
but we want to say that the editors are not so helpless in a 
standard viewer, and we may well own it use.



  Yes, somehow sad we have today, everything turned out, well, 
never mind! The most important thing is not in VIEWER'e, and 
that has the newspaper, there is grateful readers, for whom all 
this is done, so - what will not lose heart, and will abruptly 
come off! 


  Lastly, I want to say hello to our colleagues and new friends 
from INTEGRAL GROUP: VELSOTF'u, MIKOSOFT'u and WHISTLESOFT'u! 
It was a pleasure to meet you as well as I want to thank all 
the readers for what they are! 


                    C YA IN NEXT "BUZZ"!!!


             With gratitude and respect PARACELS (Alexander).