Polesse #17 31 мая 2000

Обзор

Navezli novya - Battle Ship + Modem, Stagger, Clickmania, Seaquest, PiFormat, MicroAdapter, Laser Compact 5.2, TAP -> TR-DOS 0.3, Quick Commander 2.6.

             NAVEZLI NOVYA


(C) KVAZAR



   Summer we do not indulge too much on new
software. A couple of toys, a few demos
one magazine, "Fan-2. With newspapers, the situation
some better, but also did not sugar. For
last month, arrived in Gomel: "PILOT36 and 37", "SINCLAIR 
CLUB-2", "OPTRON-36" "ZXNEWS-51. Due to the fact that the editor

"Polesie" temporarily (hopefully) gone out in the
Fido, novya not very much as though
and news. Yet, we were able to find a couple of interesting new 
products that deserve attention. Meet. 



            BATTLE SHIP + MODEM

              Fenomen '2000

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   Do you like "Battleship"? If yes, then you certainly 
remember this old toys, where the field was 20x20 cells, the 
ships could put on the diagonal, and skirmishes were 
accompanied by plaintive howls moving on you aircraft. Cool 
toy, but now with Computer play is not in rush, and another 
call is not always obtained. Not a problem! Mogilev team 
Fenomen released dial-up version of "Battle Ship", with the 
driver under CDOS-modem. Now safely call his best friend and 
arrange him a paragraph in the middle of the night, I mean 
carnage on the phone. Modem option is decorated quite nicely, 
there is a simple terminal mode, everything is done on the 
level. In addition, in this version maintained the possibility 
of bezmodemnoy game, so enjoy it can any spektrumist.




                 STAGGER

          Fenomen 'Monarch '2000

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   Another joint release promising Mogilev Groups
Homel Monarch freestyle artist. At this time, your attention is 
invited odnointovaya mini-game - Shooting. At Minsk demopati 
Millennium she took a well-deserved first place. Graphics very 
respectable, carefully traced. Coding is made on a very high 
level - try to stay within a single interrupt. By controlling 
the spacecraft and collecting towards a variety of prizes, need 
to break through the enemy barrage positions to the ship-womb 
and kill it. Simple and yet, a good way to relax after a hard 
day's work. 



                CLICKMANIA

           Optical Brothers'2000

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   Finally she saw the light! The game, which this newspaper is 
literally endured at his hands. And here, at the Minsk pati 
Millennium, Spectre I solemnly handed proprietary floppy disk 
with the latest release of Brotherhood wearing glasses:). Who 
does not know its ancestor on the PC, for those it says - is a 
logic game in style: Pass level, open an image. Stop, do not 
rush to spit! Firstly, tchotchke quite playable, unlike their 
counterparts, pathology. Need to clear the playing field, 
removing him from the cubic one color. You will help prevent 
stones and missiles, which have bomb explodes. All this is 
accompanied by beautiful animation and characteristic sounds. 
Pictures are also not simple. They all, without exception, are 
drawn by hand, at this very carefully. For fans of 
"strawberries" - there is a section with the girls in the style 
of Japanese anime. Scores are unloaded to disk, which can be 
welcome. Overall - a great puzzle toy which will bring you many 
pleasant moments. 



                 SEAQUEST

            Taras' Fisher '98

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   Graphic adventyura performed in the style of "Star Heritage" 
and "Mirrors." The only difference is the use of scanned, 
dvuhplanovoy graphics, on the one hand - a new step in the 
development of such games, and the other a little bit tired 
eyes. Here, you acted as a sailor on the submarine, which

to save the world, miraculously prevent the third World
war. Apparently, the plot is based on the eponymous TV series, 
but vouch for it can not.


   Go tell - we see a demo version, but as the authors say, 
fully playable. What, though, let's see how this statement is 
true. 

   From the first action, even the most unassuming player notes 
outright stupidity game story. Scenario not only thought, but 
also contains glaring errors. For example, as you talking 
dolphin, who considers himself a fish? Or do you take off the 
table Commander card, and then, looking at the table you can 
see her there, again. Got out of hand cleaner, which must 
necessarily (!) come up with dirty socks, totally unfamiliar to 
you a flask, you immediately determine that it is a virus. But 
most of all pins Terminator (well still have not Robocop) 
forced to rest after each step. About a lot of mistakes and 
typos, after this, we can not mention. 

   The game literally nashpigovanna glitches, ranging from
looping the disk to hang in a variety of situations. Just try 
to shoot a midshipman cigarette, take a cleaner, mop, or relax 
by the open "door number three." 

   As clear that even this deme is not only not completed yet, 
but frankly cheese, from the script and ending coding. Graphics 
on the order of magnitude better, but too conspicuous apparent 
discrepancies image text. Passage of this technique in 
Basically, a simple toy, now under the heading "Weakly pass?". 



               PiFORMAT 2.3

                 Picon'99

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   Plain formatter disk with a very unusual but extremely
useful function - Restoration of bad floppies. A similar
opportunity available in popular tools FUT, but this program
running order of magnitude faster, and takes much less
place. Interface window and cursory, with support 
kempston-mouse. 



             MICROADAPTER 2.0i

                 Orc '2000

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   An interesting tool to help those who work with dvuhplanovoy
graphics. It allows you to select from any standard color
the background image, burn it to disk, to put it on the second 
screen. Thus, we can convert monotonous schedule - in 
dvuhplanovuyu, shimmering, moving screens one pixel. 
Illustration of the work shown in the splash picture of the 
program, for which we used the work of our artist Monarch'a. 



             LASER COMPACT 5.2

            Dmitry Pyankov'2000

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   The next version of the graphic compressor. The program used 
a new efficient algorithm, resulting in compression increased 
significantly. The author claims that immaterial Loss           
                     grysh can only be compared  The original 
image 6912 27 with version 4.0. In the course of numerous Laser 
Compact 5.2 2554 10 lennyh tests it was noticed that  Laser 
Compact 5.0 2576 11 shows a similar decrease  Laser Compact 4.0 
2639 11, only in the case of very small  Laser Compact 3.2 2644 
11 images, where too many empty Quick Screen View 2688 11 of 
the seats, for example, solid  Lazy pack 1.2 2689 11 black 
background. For all other  Zxzip 1.2 3008 12 parameters and a 
rich set  Mspack 1.0 3267 13 service functions, this program

 Hrust 1.2 3348 14 is the best in its class.

                               Pay attention to the results
one of the tests, where the Packers ZIP, MsPACK and HRUST shows
for comparison. Now, hopefully, before you do not will face the 
problem choice among the mass of graphic compressors. LC 5.2 - 
the best! 



              TAP-> TR-DOS 0.3

           Denis Tsigancov '2000

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   The main purpose of this product is converting. Tzx and. Tap 
files into a set of blocks with a view of files dropped from 
the tape using the copyist tape> drive. Once launched, is 
expected to press any key, and then read the disk directory and 
sought the source file name. After that, the fun begins the 
conversion process that exists in the specified file ... If the 
converted file. Tzx - the screen will Displays information 
about all its perverted, ie, All infoshki, etc. but the disk 
will be written only what would be similar to block codes. In 
the prog is possible to upload the log to disk. Suggestions / 
proposals, please send the author at 2:469 / 133.21. 



            QUICK COMMANDER 2.6

              Spectre / OB '2000

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   If you have not seen before, this commander, you're pretty 
much lost. To date, the only program of its kind on the tricked 
out features that can compete with Real Commander'om. The 
distinguishing feature - a very high speed of the disc at all 
stages: from formatting before copying. Set of features is 
truly impressive, it's easier to say something here not 
supported by the mouse, the upper memory is full text viewer 
and music player. Present in virtually all known features, 
except perhaps the disk-doctor. 

   Interface is original, although adherents CONVERpodobnyh 
shells (as well as author of these lines), it might seem 
uncomfortable. Still, the commander deserves to be take their 
rightful place on your system drive.