Echo #05 31 августа 1998

Игры

Review warez'a - Overview of new products ON: The mirror, Nenther Earth +, The Mission, Fisherman, Puzzle, The Last Courier, Operation, RR, Wizard of Oz, Sexmine Sniper, Fox Hunter, Lady in Love, Aany Tank, CLV-Copier v1.0, STS v6.2, Digital Studio Record, ZASM v3.10, Sample Studio.

              Overview warez'a


(C) DarkMax / RS


   Thus, the air DarkMax with your review
software lately.

   Greetings to all the fans loved
SPECCY! Recently, the situation with the new program is very 
disappointing. Normal games and software programs out all less, 
and glitches in them anymore. I did I can not understand why, 
despite numerous requests, some (if not many) vendors do not 
care that would work on their creation

other machines? They do not think that
a two-field machine, which is
slow memory, and I just shoved the vector
into it. As a result, Dunno machine stops working loader for 
lockup DOS'a. Many Russian program somehow determine that I 
have a 128K, stubbornly ignoring the presence of my car

256K. How does this happen? After expansion
I have supplied as standard, a sixth
Bit # 7FFD. Or maybe it's not standard?
Why, then, well, for example, the magazine "Oberon" still finds 
those same 256K? 

   Well, Che-I sold today. In
general overview of software today would be
somewhat different character than usual. I
try to address some of the program with
in terms of their glyuchnosti and let their authors do not take 
offense to my criticism, and will note of it ...




                  Games.



        MIRROR by ART WORK GROUP


   Finally there was the game-cool
adventyura with cool graphics and design. The interface is very 
easy to use, and play This game-a real pleasure. All fans

adventyurnogo genre, this game will
taste. In addition, the game is very interesting and
thought-out plot. You'll have a lot of poraskinut brains, 
before passing it. 

   The game takes up the entire disk.


              NETHER EARTH +

        reliz by ETERNITY INDUSTRE


   I doubt that anyone knows
this great (for her age)
game. But if all does someone knows something
I strongly advise Rocco and play, because this
Toy nothing like REALTIME strategy that can build robots that 
give them orders, as well as to control one of them. On top of 
this reliz has an excellent design. Necessarily

remove this game and you will not regret it!


             PUZZLE by TARAS


   Such a bad toy. Your task
is to assemble a picture from
pieces for which it is broken. Zoom
(Scanned) You can choose before the game, the choice of a rather
great. The game has a nice myzyka by AY and
otsifrovochki good that you can listen to both the 
co-processor, and on COVOX'e. In general, the game leaves a good

impression, but for some reason I have is buggy
HELP: it freezes, then resets. May
any bad disc?

   The game takes the whole disk.


         FISHERMEN by DEATH MOROZ


   Something new and original. You are a fisherman
athlete decided to go fishing. It would be nice on the way to 
jump in the shop. Because it sold so dear to

Heart fisherman things like fishing rods, hooks,
floats, fishing line, baits, bait and other
tackle. Sitting at the keyboard, you feel almost the same 
voltage as in real fishing. Apparently the author himself a 
fisherman, that is to recreated in the game is almost an exact 
picture of fishing. Not happy about just what is not working 
loader. Probably because of the vector in the slow memory, 
because when it all off will function normally.


   The game takes up the entire disk.


    THE MISSION by TECHNOSPACE SOFTWARE


   Something DOOM'ovidnoe. Do you go for some maze to find and 
destroy a reactor or something in this kind. Along the way you 
found lethal traps, laser fences, etc. The primitive graphics 
and storyline, as well as the boredom of walking through the 
maze of leaves the game is no chance of winning the user (this, 
of course, purely my opinion). 

   The game takes up the entire disk.


   THE LAST COURIER by PERSPECTIVE GROUP


   Another puzzle game. Your zadachaupravlyaya young person to 
get to to exit the level. It's not so easy

because the path is blocked by all sorts of obstacles in
as nagromozhleny stones, which, incidentally, can detonate 
bombs found earlier. But before anything blow up, think! After 
all, it can lead to inability to reach the exit. 

   The game is rather poor interface and
clearance. Also during the game there is no music, which is a 
big minus. However, this is somewhat softened by the smooth and

beautiful graphics move the hero (as in
PRINCE OF PERSIA).


         OPERATION PP by GALAXY


   Not a bad gift for all fans dizzyatiny. Game napominaes is 
well known to all "48 IRON" Despite the fact that about 
"Operation PP" say that it is steeper than the "48 IRON, it 
seems to me that the latter still better as a design and 
graphics. But this is purely my opinion. Though the game pretty 
good and will interest all who loves poraskinut brains.



          Wizard of Oz

        by FAMOUS FACES FACTORY


   The game based on the book "The Wizard of Oz." Made in the 
style of DIZZI. You control a girl who must get to a wizard to 
help her return home. Along the way she meets

Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion
and other heroes of the above-mentioned book.

   The game does not shine in coolness, but to play
possible.


         SEX MINE SWEEPER by ALEX


   Ordinary engineer, but the passage of the level you open the 
scanned pornokartinka. Good design, pictures and otsifrovochki 
make this game very attractive. 

   The game takes up the entire disk.


            FOX HUNT by SIRIUS


   Again, logic game. Foxhunting
is this: there is a field broken down into squares. Opening a 
box, you will see in it the number of foxes, which are on the 
intersecting lines of this box. Based on these data, you must 
find all the foxes for a limited number of moves.

After playing it for about an hour, I had not caught the 
algorithm to find the fox. It seemed to me, the game is more 
based on the method spear, than on logic.


   Posmomotrev on the design of the game, I
impression that it is written in
BASIC.


       LADY IN LOVE by CRYSTAL DREAM

              (DEMO-version)


   This is a game I have included in this review because,
that she is the epitome of glyuchnosti.

   The game reminds everyone knows XONIX,
but cut the pieces you interfere with any skull
and floppy disks, which move along peacefully
playing field for as long as you do not want to cut away a 
piece. Then monster flies to you with the speed of sound

notch and all attempts at its root. In general,
complete insanity. And no pornographic
images or digital music does not make
I play this game. By the way pictures
otskaneny very lousy, and the mode of 512 points, which they 
may look better, there's not all. If you want to play such a 
game, get better SEX XONIX-perfect example of this genre. 

   Now, on of programming bug: during the
game, if a monster comes in the top third
playing field, it disappears! Disappears, because no time is 
drawn, in time of the beam at the top of the screen. T.

Exact time in the game since there are no complicated 
calculations, causing tormoznyak, this glitch can be explained 
only by the high unprofessional encoder. The same 
interpretation simple effect of INTRO, which is also

brakes.

   And do not say that I have a buggy
computer. On it with no brakes were ten times more cool effects 
... 


   ANY TANK by OPTICAL BROS. / ZX-LEGION


   And last season hit ANY TANK. Super 3D
ACTION Strategy! Born in the vapor of alcohol, the game is a 
top koderskogo skill. And the creators have made a hitherto 
unknown: the game is controlled with just one button! 

   Describe the meaning of the game will not. See
themselves. I can only say that my last record was 9 minutes. 
17 sec. It is unclear just as the program calculates the time. 
After if the numbers in the upper right corner indicate the 
second (but I have had more than 900), then how come 9 minutes??


   The game has nice music, well, and playability just an 
amateur ... -) 



                  SYSTEMS



     CLV-COPIER v1.0 by CLEVERS GROUP


   According to the author's sharp copier.
Supports all disk drives as well as extended memory so 1M. Here 
and there first bummer. Zakruziv copyist, I discovered that my 
128K, not 256 as it was recently. Lifted the company, I

convinced that the memory like on the spot, and
RAM TEST sort of gave 256K. It only remains
guess, through that this copyist
defined memory.

   Let's go further: the author, with delight and admiration 
writes that the copier is located in the display area (why? ") 
And sucked at one time as much 240k (subject to availability 
256K). Looking at the total lack of interface, I vspomnis your 
favorite REAL COPY by Pawel was still / NHG, which has

beautiful design, perfect music, menu
settings and also copies the 240k one tyk.
In addition, he works with all types of extended memory.


        DIGITAL SOUND RECORDER

            by CLEVERS GROUP


   The program is designed for recording in
digitized sounds from a tape input
(Who should be single-bit quality?). Apparently
vector or the program itself is in slow memory more 
independently, but sound quality is disgusting. Just 
Notdetectable Notdetectable presence 256K.



                ZASM 3.10


   Well this new version of the well-known assembly. And it is 
not much like the old. There are many different bells and 
whistles, until the built-in games. But all this negates the 
interrupt table is located in the slow memory to poetomy 
two-field machines, this is not cool prog work. : - (((



            STS 6.2 by STALKER


   Come here and say nothing. Who does not
knows STS!?!? The new version is bigger and
even more convenient. No glitches not found, so that working 
with the program one pleasure.

Pawel / RS> Actually, there is a glitch, but it appears only on 
the TR-DOS 5.043, lies in the fact that STS did not correctly 
record on the disc, often information is written completely on 
the wrong track, where it should be. Apparently this is 
happening due to lack of a pause in the positioning. By the way 
STS 4.1 no such Gluck, Owners and Brest controllers must use 
this version. I hope STALKER, read these lines and take this 
into account in future versions.




           SAMPLE STUDIO v1.1

          by POWER HACKERS GROUP


   Finally appeared normal editor
sounds for the AY. All previous programs are not
have no chance to compete with
SAMPLE STUDIO. User-friendly interface, the ability to operate 
a mouse do the work in editor, fast and easy.




                 MAGAZINES



   In recent months, to us it to Brest
quite a lot of computer magazines. Say anything about them I 
will not. Assess their own. 

 ADVENTURER 8
 ZX-FORMAT 8
 DEPTH 2
 ZX-ELEMENT 2
 FAULTLESS 8,9
 ZX-NEWS 3
 DEJA VU 4 (already released 5 th)
 SPECTRUM EXPERT 1
 X-FILES 2
 MIRACLE 2


   Well, that's all I wanted to tell you
dear reader. Until next time.


                   BYE!!!

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