Spectrofon #14
23 августа 1995 |
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C world to bat - the answers to readers' letters.
From the world of bat So what do we write our readers? Sim OLEG (Volgograd): Received recently the new number of your magazine and I hasten to share thoughts, until they fled. Your very amused instruction on writing "MEGADEMY. The nail on the head! From themselves want to add something else. Many of the "adapters" game programs make the screens of our monitors in the field of battle, where sent to all greetings, insult, and advertised the author ie to each game we offer a mini-demo. If I I'm not mistaken, the race this began Anton Vasiliev of PETERSBURG ... "S": We seems that it began even earlier - in Poland. Sim OLEG: The movement is growing, growing and already carries a catastrophic nature. Informativeness scrolling dangles near zero and understandable only who wrote to friends. The bet is that the user capable of shamelessly "Kill" the wretched DeMouy maybe pity the game and will be years witness the titanic task of any SOFTa. Among other stand their candidates in "Champions" of the genre. First - LPV, past master of rastranzhirovaniyu our disk space. Games, freed from his boot with full-screen initials are very 'lose to the sectors. " So also want to note the Eldar Agayev and especially "BUMPY NEW". Why should I, a regular user, to look at a painfully familiar scroller plucked from games and read a long list of personal loyalties and antipathies Eldar and I can not even stop to this outrage, as the computer only responds to Reset. I also hope that after the alteration DIZZY 6.5 Eldar still learned how to spell the name of our beloved computer (see title screen DIZZY 6.5). Scrolling can be infinite, because name them - are legion. Gone those times when the work of Hacker reported modest inscription "CRACKED BY BILL GILBERT" or "DISKED BY ANDY CHERNIKOV 92. We can not say about the texts. Humor humor, but that all should be a limit. Look at "Intro" new Voronezh programmers (game Tainum +; Chiron +; Express +). Text on Behind the level of student elementary school for Down descend to vulgar abuse, and number of spelling errors twice in the the text that you have brought to "Instructions". In short, it is necessary, it is something do. Us such a "SERVICE" IS NOT NECESSARY! I think it's time to call Hacker to order and start company "pure play". If anyone likes to kill time "Demos", even kill, we will buy and see. And leave it, or No - already our business. But meanwhile I was very time-consuming release games on these Gadgets. By the way, Your journal publishes mainly "Clean" program, for which you special thanks. "S": On this score, some expressed a different opinion. In two words, it sounds like: "We pull out the game themselves, paying for them intermediaries, restore, adapt under the TR-DOS, and, therefore, have every right to write in the loader all deem fit. " It is logical, is not it right? Only if reasoned, then all others (and programmers and users Vatel and Hacker) also take out the game yourself - bought in markets, stores, can be rewritten Ute friends, etc. AND They have a full model a natural right (if follow the logic of our opponents) to treat for these games, too, as his Property: Back to remake them, pereadaptirovat, erase the old loaders, write its, etc. Feel like we quickly reach the point of absurdity? And what that logic ultimately leads? Across the country are beginning to walk dozens of versions of the the same games with hundreds of fleeing lines, which are seething with serious passion and rage the whole meetings. "This is my scrolling! - yells one run with one edge of the screen to another. "You gadenysh, want to arrogate to itself fame to produce novya!? "- heard a thin voice, from another program." Fuck you everything! "- shouts someone else entirely unknown, but going loudly announce themselves with another demonstration. And now And then it begins a complete chaos ... Has grown up a generation Hacker raised on these notorious running lines. In Russian, they had almost do not understand and write only on English. And the English have they do not shine. When the lexical British stock of foul language at them ends these so-called Hacker, go in broken Russian. Spared to users. But no! Editor of the magazine is literally flooded with letters from please describe the three pillars megademostroeniya: how to insert music, how to write a running line and how to integrate this delirium with any program, preferably in a BASIC file. These readers also want to participate in a general landfill. MAY STOP? Sim OLEG: A few weeks ago A friend of mine was walking by Mitinskoe radio market, loaded with a list of programs, mainly applied, and had to this issue briefly conversation with Mr SHISOFT'om, who kindly informed that virtually all, of course, is, but not for sale. Amazing situation when the Russian backwoods suffocating from lack of new products - in the center they are, but they do not like. In my opinion, this is the wrong policy. You can, of course, argue that the program of list INFORKOMa "best buy it from them, but getting their price, and looking at prices, it is reasonable to assume that Mitino all of these programs can be found, and at least 50% cheaper. Stand out programs related to defense. They all desperately need. Especially those who are like you, something makes himself. And those who spend all their time and all free money to support "Speccy", wander to distant lands for news and rushes back to where it is waiting for free-kopirovalschiki and ruin at the root of the work recent enthusiasts - Kommersant. The situation here is almost comical: a thief a thief steals the club. Problems with the civilized distribution of programs for Spectrum will not go away ever, for anyway, and the Spectrum - is a computer and not the poor should forget it. Want example? Please. Of all variety of IS-DOS disk, I OFFICIALLY acquired only a "starter kit" in a nice bag and all. And the rest is purchased for IskraSoft'ovskoy third of the price of cost considerations. That's right, simple and trite. Is it not better adhere to the economic policy of Sir Clive Sinclair (as By the way it accounts for example)? Income producers should not bear the price of space, narrows the range of users and the volume of sales (available for all (!) price). By the way, at Volgograd market prices are lower than in Moscow, although a couple of years ago, they exceeded their three-fold. AND The reason is simple: many Our users have long break head, which would shove povygodney 210 MB screw and buy another 400 MB. Those who can not afford it, can not afford to purchase and TASM 3.0 or Fast Block Packer for 1 / 6 the price of the motherboard AT 286. Sad? Of course, but to delay the extinction, we must be flexible. Otherwise you'll have to start trading with linoleum and carpet coatings, and many fans Spectrum shall remain in full isolation and are likely to become extinct as a class, as well as amateurs "PK-86", "Agatha", etc. "S": Well, started for the health, and finished for the peace. Respected Sim, Oleg, and you do not feel contradictions in their arguments? The fact that the outlet of the creative team "STEP" on the radio market in Mitino not circulate author programs going on channels, "Inforkoma (except their own and, until recently, foreign) - it seems to be understood. We're still trying their policies to help domestic authors. You're criticizing Volgograd pirates arrive in Moscow not to official Distributors of domestic software (Inforkom) and go to the market in search of pirated versions of the Moscow Hacker. And here you have yourself become for us the same free-kopirovalschikom, as for you Volgograd Hacker. Well, someone Now to blame? We once wrote that yes, foreign games is nothing do not - the whole country is in pirated copies, and neither of which copyright is not can be no question. None of Sherlock Holmes will not find here all. And the authors of many imported programs may already and completely forgot his work at Speccy. The thing that most Western programs under the Spectrum platform it is in those times when the copyright in our country and not muddled. AND by connoisseurs of the invention Sir Clive Sinclair, they are still remained at almost 1 / 6 of terrestrial planet. But here is finally starting, and we write something decent - but the pirates have already pull your hands to it, the new developments. When the like and the times have changed and the law on copyright written. Another possible easy to understand user who buys the program from a pirate in order to save money. He buys it for himself and does not intend to engage in copying and selling. But when the "merchant-enthusiastic" rushing to Moscow for the new "free" programs, and then wrote a letter to criticisms about the lack of such, and even brings under this business philosophy "Poor people" - here I beg your pardon. And about the price ... Here, everything is clear - one of Moscow's most expensive cities in Russia. Yes, and new program concentrated mostly here. We think it is clear that if a Moscow prices were at the level of Volgograd - Spectrum here hardly anyone was doing. Since many of those who have them now engaged, is the main source of income. A revenue as You know, should provide some sort, at least the minimum subsistence level (certainly not the one that established our dear government). Therefore, prices in Moscow on the program Volgograd above three times is not because that is not in Volgograd know where to shove "screw on 210 MB '(Moscow does not know where shove AT 386 with a screw at 400 MB), but because life is so. And by the way, the price of the program Mitino virtually identical from "Inforkomovskih. Thus, any novelty for the Speccy Mitino worth not less than as you write, "1 / 6 maternal Boards AT286 "... And about the principles of Sir Clive Sinclair, as in our country they have long been subject to to any software. Whether it is or aybiemovskoe Spectrum. Suffice it to compare prices on branded versions in Britain and the United States and our piracy in Russia. Where else cheaper? How much can you write about that, gentlemen, that as we learn to appreciate the work of authors - nothing good for us and more never will be. Can lead example with our "Star Heritage". Price from oficial distributors in Moscow (Inforkom, STEP) fifteen thousand rubles. A lot or a little? May to be a lot of Volgograd, but for Moscow - the usual price new program. But already in Received run the letter: "We are waiting not wait for the full version Games will come to us in the N-C.. Certainly could order it in the "INFORKOMe, but we will be cheaper ..." Well, that would be cheaper but the authors have lost all desire to engage in the creation of games Platform Speccy, spit-covered Hacker, with the filing of these same users. We are now discussing is absolutely banal things. The only thing I want to say, ladies and gentlemen, that worrying about how to prolong life Speccy, we must first take care of the authors, those who writing new programs. For any computer without program - piece of iron, but any piece of iron with the program - a computer. You should not forget this ... Maybe for someone to our opinions seem controversial, well, ready to to continue this conversation in the next issue. Gagarin, A., Litvin, (Mr. Perm, Russia): On the computer, "PROFI". This is mainly to reflect information for the firm "Condor", which they developed and released. It seems to us that the firm had not quite the right decision taking a reference to the system CP / M. This system now has no do not use, but computers "ROBOTRON", on which it was installed, has long given way to "IBM". Much better and was more profitable to write programs that would use resources "PROFI" (Memory and screen) from SINCLAIR - regime. After all, insert "profsky" The screen can be even from BASIC. For example, St. Petersburg people who developed the "SCORPION", probably already write under his program, and this in turn, increases the interest to the car. As for "PROFI", then so far, apart from the editor "WRITE 3" Yes ADJ-player is nothing good for him there (and for ADJ COVOX need to install), and a machine appeared long ago. To view the PCX-images You can use the "IBM PRINT SCREEN "for the Speccy (perhaps he not quite so called), clovarik for is-DOS is made to better than the English-Russian dictionary for "PROFI", except that the mode of translation of text files in it is absent, and "GRAND GROIX" is only on color machines, but and he leaves much to be desired. So it is possible and quite loose this a good computer, because that the few toys that He wrote on Speccy does not look worse. We would advise us "Condor" does not work in CP / M, and SINCLAIR, because with such volume Memory can make a very good program, and if still connected and the screen ... (Although the address in it counts - fun below average). Now about the is-DOS. What leshego it works only with 48 KB of memory? All the time "to drive a crawl, but still something there to record breaks! We, of course, know that the regime of virtual memory is at IBM, but the rate access to the screw and the drive a little different - is not it? And it comes to that to move a couple of familiarity picture in the "PICASSO", has wait 30-40 seconds! Yes, we are better in ART STUDIO porisuem! Developers is-DOS! Operate under 128-e machines, and even better for memory "PROFI". "S": It would be interesting to hear opinion the developers themselves is-DOS, the firm ISKRASOFT, as well as Developer "PROFI", firm "Condor". If they are, of course, read "SPECTROFON". Gagarin, A., Litvin: Now on your journal. In it we are all satisfied, except for one: a very too long to wait for a whole month, until come next issue. We suggest you make it the frequency at least twice a month. What is done, ask You, if we still somehow do not have time? Very simply, we answer, if you seek assistance from the all sinkleristam country. Let they are doing their versions of the magazine, ie, All sections (except "C PEACE ON bat, of course), let make a beautiful design and send to you. Then you browse the received materials, select those blocks and those sections which are its quality as you have made to collect one diskette, put the issue of the journal, and after the compensation paid to the author. Think that in our country there are people willing to participate in our common cause. An experiment and see the pages magazine with such a proposal. Let's see what happens. "S": add on a few words. The proposed form of our correspondents bringing us closer to the creation of a Correspondence club amateur computer "ZX-SPECTRUM" and we are ready undertake the implementation of this and many other ideas that have sinklerista all in abundance. Firstly, in order to the proposed scheme worked, need to define the shape of submission of the authors prepared materials. We have arranged the following procedure. If the author writes any article, preferably in the editor is-DOS. For us, this is the most the best option. Further, all pictures that accompany the text written on this as a floppy disk in a separate directory. Musical compositions should be sent in a convenient form, so that we could easily and without too much trouble to hang music any address. And even if you send us a game description, it is desirable to attach and game. This is the case if the Our collection does not prove it. Secondly: payment. To date, the editorial board, the following rates: One kilobyte of text descriptions game or the system software: P 2500. Color full-screen image: P 10000. Black and white picture: 3500 p. Musical composition: 7000 p. Separately discuss the question about payment COPYRIGHT programs. Here we have the following approach. If you decide that your program for "free Distribution or such other shareware - mark this separately. In the case of publishing your programs in our magazine - we give in "AD" Your Address for voluntary payments of grateful users who are likely to encourage you to explore new feats. Incidentally, the address for such payments You can type in the game. If your game and COMMERCIAL You want to get away for it fee - write to: payment after publication of your choice. In this case, if the game will go down in next issue, we will pay you fee by postal money order to Your name. The fees depend on the quality of the program, its sizes, etc. At present, day our ceiling - about a hundred fifty thousand. If You are not satisfied with the amount of payment, recommend to offer its program in the firm of Inforkom. In this case, your program will go on sale within the "author program. Disc version of the foreign Games and Russified foreign games we are interested less total. An exception can only represent a novelty. There is another form of payment Your work. Editorial Board can offer you a copy of the license (without protection, c right distribution) of recent issues our magazine and our other development. If you have such a form suits - stipulate that in cover letter. Third: Each work must be accompanied by a brief commentary and information about the author - return address, phone number. Fourth: Floppy send according to our editorial address desirable letters. Experience shows that parcels and parcels (Despite its reliability Plan security diskette) are longer, and we receive them do not very convenient - too much must fill in all sorts of different papers. Easier for you and for us will, if you send a floppy letter in an envelope. To better safety, insert the floppy disk cardboard envelope. Here, perhaps, and all that we wanted to say before start our experiment. If this proposal would not be supported - We will look for other options. We still have other ideas in this regard. In the meantime, we will waiting for your responses. TIMOTHY (St. Petersburg): The first all I want to tell you thank you for "SPECTROFON". Magazine above all praise! Now about the "Star Heritage": the game is certainly remarkable; pleases interesting scenario without everyone there spells and other bredyatiny magic, but I do not very much on the soul had mixing adventyury with D'D and RPG, prishlepyvaniem here the parameters of health, strength, and others. In my opinion, it's all too much! And the rest - wonderful. A bit of Is-Dos. Operating system worthwhile, a lot of drivers, utilities, such as slowly begin IskraSOFT'ovtsy her inside and cover, appeared not only delusional WAREHOUSE, Finance and others, but ASSEMBLER, DATALOG, PICASSO! And yet, people like a wolf howling: little, you see ... What you need, people?? After all, assembler is, albeit brief, description of system functions also have (see, for example, "Programming in Is-Dos "IskraSoft 1994 or the same HELP'y in the basic version), but importantly - a head-ie! Naplodili also a whole bunch of MINER'ov and COLOR LINES'ov, and now, as You, gentlemen, and predicted intend to create a huge number adventyur (at least in St. Petersburg is full of programmers). Plus, it should be take into account that one IskraSoft'u unleash all not forces, as if they did not want to, but it seems, and not particularly desirable. No, of course, far more pleasant chew over the same ideas, but produce MEGADEMO, steep which only the eggs and do happen, and even then not always! ABOUT THE GAMES Yuri Moroz (Timashevsk): Very like the game "SPACE CRUSADE ", but I do not work 128-I version and I have play in the 48 th, giving up all the charms of 128 KB. I want to share their discoveries: 1. I dreadnought six defensive capsules. 2. Force of the explosion at the neighboring cells is not reduced. I built cyborgs and bummed out by it Flares - killing all. 3. The most interesting - the number of "RE-FIRE" is not accidental - it's residual power shot, ie, if you shot at orku force three, which you can kill two, then you write: "1 RE-FIRE" and you can still kill gretchina. If you force three shots by killer, which can kill the power of 4, you have it, of course, not kill, and get the message "3 RE-FIRE "and can kill an orc and gretchina or three gretchinov, shooting at each in turn. Now I understand why better to put the sight on the plasmoid, not the gamma-ray generator? Now about the "Star Heritage". The demo version should be short and a small, but what you wrote is called a game. So do not Try to create a hit century release the full version as soon as possible - it all can not wait. "S": Already released - see Overview section. YURI FROST: If it would be better what do you call DEMO - it will be a thing can even abruptly "ELITE". The game is thoroughly planned: a special was delighted when I killed the old woman and seized the key of the house, got in and burned down the house along with him. Such trifles very important. No less interesting was to try to carry away a picture Jameson out of the shop or to burn it blaster ... "S": Oh if it has run about "Star Heritage, want to limit dupredit: pirated copies of games might not work properly, asked about this pretend studied did not show. Say only one - to pass counterfeit version of the impossible. Be attention are positive - 1.4, 1.5 - pi ratskie and buy them we do not you not recommended. And please attention - sometimes under the form house full ver these sold old demo version, which has already been pub lished in the journal channel of "SPECTRO FON ". 3. If you have not purchased a branded copy of the game, we suggest consulting firm "Inforkom or come to the radio market in Mitino, seat A-37. To date, get well-working version You can only listed under "ADVERTISING" addresses. We have several letters from questions about our second development - strategy game "SPECIAL FORCES" (see "S" N13). Let's say right away - out of this game scheduled no earlier than October 1995. So please patience. In general, much will depend on how successful (and profitable) turns out to be our first project - Star HERITAGE-1: The Black Cobra ". If the result is positive, then we will continue to produce original games. And then its output will have to wait another Two of our project: Star HERITAGE-2: Beyond the Universe "as well as the original fantastic game, "Virtual Syndrome. "But that is plans. More repeat that the release of new games depends on how pay for itself "Star Heritage". Andrei Gagarin (Perm): On Game VP Mednonogova "UFO - Enemy unknown. It is made very well, we are already all gone. I would like to just stay on that did not suit us. In the original battle organized by type "LASER SQUAD". In the Spectrum version of UFO - mode battlefield, we see a purely arcade Shoot. Yes, yet another life, one shot from the stun and helluva lot-helluva lot of basking weapons. Because with this question for You: Will there be in Moscow promised to the editor "LASER SQUAD", by which any of Hacker could significantly bring the "UFO" to the original? "S": We have two editors to program "LASER SQUAD", but Before joining the bulldog with rhinoceros, let's think. Firstly, in our view, only B. Mednonogov can change something at their own game. And it's his right. Secondly, we think, very difficult to connect the two completely different programs. A what he thinks about it himself author - let's ask him. PAPUSHIN SERGEI (Yaroslavl): I want to share their discoveries in the games. First "KAYLETH": 1. Cartridges are inserted into the command "INSERT", and removed "REMOVE". 2. AZAP CHAMBER - it teleportator. To teleport, type AZAP CODE and three letters code. 3. With Yagmokom need to talk with an empty slot. 4. Message Yagmoka can be decoded if all the letters replaced preceded them alphabetically. 5. If you ask about Yagmoka key, then it will give you an object with which you can get into his house. 6. To remove the door on the beach need to become a robot-shredders and shoot at the door by the plasma. 7. Behind the door is a room with set of necessary items. 8. Suit will protect you from acid in the sea. 9. Mutant DRIBBLE very hungry try to feed him kakuyunibud local food. 10. Of the trap will help you get a bright flash of light. 11. To return home Yagmoka, have something to do with ring, one vospolzovivshis sentence of his message. 12. In the pit you can fall, becoming a supervisor and wearing a COAT. 13. Extracted ore to be placed in CHUTE PRIOR and press start button. 14. Bicapital MOKKI RAY very does not like bars, especially if they rotate (ROTATE). 15. If you use the code, found in the house Yagmoka, you find yourself in a new play area, but here the road blocks the treacherous tree, which instantly cracked down on the main character. For MOKKY-RAY is a tree with carved on it the door. Here something to do, but that - it is not clear. Remained unused objects: tube, steel ball, composb, lenses, silver cube, piramida. Secondly, recommendations for fans of the game "ROBIN OF SHERWOOD ". If you tore Lady Marion from the hands of Sir Simon, a boldly Go scour the woods around the farm Lyford. You'll find a cave that runs under farm. In this cave is hidden thief Siward, who strongly scared and not want for you to go team SAY FOLLOW. Then you cheeky grab him and drag GET with him. After you grab a cart of hay and sleep in it. Then come out of it late at night in Nottingham. Quickly go to bedroom, the sheriff and let go of it Siward. He walks to the trunk with treasures and quietly opens him. Now I suggest to kill Siward, since he, as a true thief steals from the trunk all money. So you look around the chest and ... Next, I think, figure it out. It remains to find just one stone, and most likely he is on a farm Lyford. This farm belongs to the father of Marion. Need that she somehow stole it. But how is this done? "S": We think that readers will help you to pass through these wonderful games. PAPUSHIN SERGEI: A question on the game "DIZZY Y": I'm stuck in the second Part of this game, in the location of Fire Hall. Next I will not let the big fire. Nearby lies empty bucket, and the top splash spring. Seemingly - everything is simple: filling a bucket with water from a spring and pour flames. But the trouble is to get a bucket till spring, you need to climb to prominence in the wall, and Dizzy under any circumstances does not want to jump on him. What is it - the error in the program or are looking for a special subject? Help deal with this problem! "S": You need a rock lying in a cave inhabited by a Draconid. Boulder lies in the corner of the cave, close to the magic cross. But you take it easy so can not. Will have to show the wonders of acrobatics. Burnaev CONSTANTINE (Belgorod): I want to say a few words about "Tau Ceti": 1. Dyurium crystals easy to recognize. They can be obtained in those libraries, where there is no stock. Also, crystals can be pulled from its hiding place under the accession number IN211. 2. The logbook is good to use in the library: visited map of the city and recorded where that is. Usually recorded only the location of the reactor, Libraries and supply centers (Relative to the center of town). 3. The libraries are always contained plans for the city, about suburbs - and related outposts cities. 4. The city is always the same reactor One library and one base (Support center). At the gate - only reactor. In the "WORM IN PARADISE", to to get home to find Transport System and to say "home" (say: "home"). Then you delivered to your apartment. By the way, there can take a shower. Must go into the room with nozzle1 and ... remove tradclads, say nozzle ... Question: Why is that? And who needs Dagget? And where the register to get a job? Where to buy ticket? "S": Answers to these questions will look for all the world ... In conclusion, the present conversation, we publish a letter our readers from the city of Ufa, which affects our look very interesting topic. Shayakhmetov BR (Ufa): If each of us look back, on overgrown with weeds time thorny path, the aggregate which is the way via computer worlds that looked closer to the ground, from which the pret weed, with surprise, and even with horror, finds nepoddatlivom loam crust of blood, and under black stones charred bone those with such a methodical and decimating the obstinacy we have than one year. I'm not talking about thousands of different "Shooter", but I'm talking about "Wonderful" programs with which we live and will live. About those things that we love. Man sitting at the game was the real killer, but no such which usually represent a murderer, and more monstrous: Total Death is guaranteed and inevitable destruction are not only the planet (!), but entire civilizations. About eighty percent of the games one way or somehow connected with the war. In the killer sometimes transformed and innocuous "Dizzy." What is it? Preparations for the Third World War or immediately to the battle of Armageddon? Only here at Which side? "S": There is something to ponder. Let's discuss this topic in one of the upcoming issues. Until next time!
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