Revival #04 20 октября 1997

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News - Inforcom - current status. What is the "ZX-REVIEW N3, 4": A detailed description of the facilities.

                    Inforkom: dead or alive?



   Finally clarified the situation with Inforkomom. To start
The complete text of his farewell inforkomovskoy leaflets, which
They sent out along with another price list:


 Dear friends! Forced with regret to announce
 untimely death of Frunze Commercial banks, which
 buried under the rubble of her all your money for a 
subscription  1997, many of our publishing plans, as well as 
both  you know the company. In this regard, reports the 
following: 

 1. All financial obligations to the subscribers will
 We made regardless of circumstances. We hope that in
 situation we will be forgiven some internally
 changes in our work and possible replacement of the announced
 earlier products.

 2. ZX REVIEW will go further. But now we
 release it on floppy disks that will please some readers,
 but some very upset. Available due to owners
 tape recorders. (I do not know what the owners can drive
 happy transformation of the printed magazine in another
 E - Ed.). They bring special apology and ask that
 Contact us to determine compensation. Although the new
 shell magazine is that not only allows
 print the article in text mode, but also to rewrite
 them to tape.

 3. Subscribe to the ZX REVIEW do not plan to pursue. Will
 announce in the current price lists only the next issue.

 4. As you know the company no longer exists, please
 in letters, and, more importantly, remittances are not
 indicate their names - your departure in this case
 reached the addressee. All correspondence and payments will 
now be  conducted by individual entrepreneurs, addresses

 which you will find the appropriate sections.

 5. In accordance with the above, stops and
 a temporary phone, published in the previous price list. All 
questions, requests, articles, programs, etc.  sent to the 
address 121019, Moscow, POBox 16, Anfimova EV 

 We hope for a favorable resolution of the problems that
 almost 100% dependent on you, lovers ZX SPECTRUM!



   Despite the above difficulties could inforkomovtsam
release following paired release revyushki - ZX-Review # 3 +4 
'97. Bravo!



   It is true this time numbers, no matter how absurd it seems, 
came in electronic form. Because of this lost all the charm 
Revue as print edition. Of course, compete with such monsters

as spectrophone or ZX-Format, e revyushke not afford.
It remains to rely only on the activity of readers and 
publishers themselves, no less important.



   What is the Revue # 3 +4? 1544 sectors on the disk.
Shell + graphics + articles = half) + everything else - the 
fruits work of one man - Ivan Roshchina from Moscow, the famous

their programs Floppy Format and ABCDcopy. Of course, for one
man this is very good, but ... By the way, there is no music at 
all, Graphics, in fact, too. Texts hardly painted ... But all

us not to judge strictly log - only the first number in
new form.


   Shell rather nakruchena. Done a lot of
interesting features, such as writing text on the disc and the 
so-called "Scroll" - scrollbar. The latter allows the keys

up-down to select the desired portion of text, and then 
instantly it move.



   What is the content? Lists topics along the way something
commenting.


 Authoring


   GENERAL SOUND - Multimedia for the ZX SPECTRUM!


   [Information on the General Sound.]


 New programs


   I. Roshchin. HELP_Z80.


   [This program - which has no analogues Command Reference

   Z80. She will give you all the information on the 1136 teams

   microprocessor, including the undocumented.]


   Davydov. CATALOG'S BASE v1.8.


   [The program is designed for automatic compilation

   filing software stored on floppy disks TR-DOS.]


 Calling card


   Introducing the new electronic journal "MAJOR WARES"

   (C) CODEBUSTERS 'V.M.G.


   [Advertising KodBasterovskogo magazine, which is already 
known 

   when he should quit.]


 TR-DOS for Beginners


   [Continuation of the story of Vladimir Sirotkin TR-DOS'e. At 
this time 

   It's about programming VGshki.


 Reader-reader


   I. Roshchin. Display driver for the computer, "Pentagon-128.


   V. Sirotkin. Protection program (look at the problem).


   [Author's thoughts about the various protections to

   Spectrum.]


 Etudes


   [Something in the recent so-called "Pearl" and "diamonds"

   from the "Etudes" are more like a cheap knockoff. Although

   The first procedure is still nothing.]


   A. Urzha. The procedure for drawing a circle.


   E. Volchkov. Improvement of sub address calculation in

   file system on display.


   [Lamerskaya tip on how to reduce routine

   address calculation system on display file (published in

   God knows when inforkomovskoy published a book on the 
schedule) by 2 

   bytes. Very useful.]


   M. Lazutov:


    ∙ The modernization program font.


   [Well, it's just full of flies. The reader brings to them 
torn 

   from one of the boot process, making a font

   thickened lower part! This is certainly cool. It is clear 
that 

   one would expect from an author who can not write such

   the procedure itself. But this is not important. But the 
main thing is that this same 

   procedure has already been printed in the first revyushke 
for 93 (!) year. 

   Apparently, inforkomovtsy did not even test it ...]


    ∙ Program encode / decode block codes.


   [Another "sketch" a talented author. This "program" -

   Elementary ksorka which inverts the bits with daunting

   undocumented commands CPL. Not only known from

   pulled out the procedure at this time.]


    ∙ The effect of the attributes.


    [Well, it is generally rulez ...]


   O. Smolyankin:


    ∙ Procedures for cleaning the screen.


   [Compared with the previous author of obvious progress.]


    ∙ Output of text messages on the screen.


   [No, this revyushka - just something! That's another Maxim

   Lazutov ...]


   A. Savinov:


    ∙ The procedure to display double-width characters.


   [The truth table of contents said the withdrawal of a double-

   height. So you do not know whom to believe: whether section

   "Content", or article.]


    ∙ Procedure "dissolution" of characters.


   [... plucked from Lode Runner'a ... ;)) Looks like 
inforkomovtsy 

   due to the excess material decided to dig in old letters

   "Not passed" the year that way in 93 ...]


   E. Frost. Running line.


   V. Sirotkin. Program checksum.


   [Of course, I respect Comrade Sirotkin, who wrote the book

   of TR-DOS, but ... but ... This procedure of counting CRC 
file ... 

   Oh yeah, she's also taken from Radio magazine in 1992 ...

   Very difficult case. Somehow, a simple procedure

   implemented as early as Stryker'e (see review), here 
presented as 

   huge, hulking monster. Why?]


   I. Roshchin. Two graphic effect.


   [Ivan Roshchin again saves the day. He, in addition to the 
shell, 

   had to pull and half revyushnyh sections.]


   I. Komandin. The program display screen.


 Retro


   Dzh.Hardman, E. Hyuzon. Top 40 procedures.


   [Continued reprints antediluvian books of poor Andrew

   Hewson, founder of Hewson Consultants.]


 Forum


   A. Strelnikov. Prospects of development of Spectrum.


   M. Bekarev. The calculation of the address display area of 
​​familiarity and vice versa.



   S. Astrov. Pseudorandom number generator.


   Group 'Light'. Music processor ZX-Speccy.


   D. Fedorov:


    ∙ Prints images with a mask with pixel precision.


    ∙ algorithm for calculating the addresses of the 
coordinates up to pixel.



   A. Gura. Code programmer.


   I. Roshchin. Sharing ZX ASM 3.0 and STS 5.1.


   VP Fedin. Refinement Profi for conflict-free connection
periphery.


   Davydov. According to materials published in the ZX-REVIEW:


    ∙ Some issues related to autostart BASIC programs;


    ∙ 'Redefine keys';


    ∙ how to print 42 characters per line;


    ∙ procedure multiplication HL = B * C;


    ∙ completion cloning downloaders;


    ∙ mini driver disk.


 Forum Games


   INSULT MEGADEMO


   [Say what, the game century), but that's nothing compared

   that was published in _zhurnale_ (!) under this heading.

   I would venture to reprint the whole note, so as not to 
deprive you of the chance 

   prosmeyatsya the evening ...]

 Forum Games 'Insult Megademo'
IFC: A small tip holders Insult Megademo gives Dmitry
Timokhin from Moscow. (Moscow, Moscow - how can you not 
ashamed! - ed.)


Reporter: As you know, after the section 3200 Sin-Dots is a 
scroller, where you are asked to press RESET. If not to touch 
anything and wait THE END until the message is not scrolled 20 
times, appear the words HAVE A NICE DAY! and start downloading 
the remaining parts actually written to the limit of Spectrum.

 Unabridged Stylistics saved


   CATCH 23


   LIVINGSTONE


   [Under this name hides a SOLUTION to the game Livingstone 
2.2] 


   ROCK STAR ATE MY HAMSTER


   UFO-2: THE DEVIL OF THE ABYSS


   TERMINATOR 2


   VENTURAMA


   THE SPIRITS


   NIPPER


   SWEEWOS'S WORLD


   KING'S BOUNTY-2


   HACKER 2


   BLACK MAGIC


   SATCOM


   Star Heritage


 Crossroads


   SHERLOCK


   APOLLO


   SHADOWS OF MORDOR


   RIGEL'S REVENGE


   TEMPLE OF TERROR


   ID


   THAT'S THE SPIRIT


   RETURN TO ITHAKA


 Crossroads Dragons


   [An interesting story about some Adventura (AVALON, CASTLE OF

   DREAMS, ERIK THE VIKING, EUREKA!, EYE OF BAIN and KENTILLA) 
in 

   within the book by Ovechkin.]


 Expert Tips


   I. Komandin. STONKERS.


   B. Kekuh. CASTLE MASTER.


   Bragin Yu. FIRELORD.


 Computer novel


   Berezin. The tradition of chivalry times (for the game 
Knight Lore). 


   I. Komandin. Crazy story (the game Heartbroken).



   That's it. The magazine turned out good. Look it is worth
not least because it used two such concepts as "Revyushka and
"E-zine," seemed to be incompatible. Hurry to see
in reverse.