Interface - letters from readers: Black Raven, The Secret Game NEW DIZZY, On the errors of the game APOLLO, a new debugger Veros STS 6.2, How to beat the game Svyatogor.

<b>Interface</b> - letters from readers: Black Raven, The Secret Game NEW DIZZY, On the errors of the game APOLLO, a new debugger Veros STS 6.2, How to beat the game Svyatogor.

     Welcome to the "interface", our dear readers. By this
number of issues it can not be said
that large, but still a decent amount of emails from you and 
from you, well in general from all of you. Many of them

meets constructive criticism
improve the shell of the journal, see our
experiments have not been in vain. It is likely that some of 
your proposals will see life in the next issues of our 
magazine, who knows? 

     Of course, not all of you are engaged in
only criticism, there are those who simply
decided to reflect on certain topics. Well
well, that we just privetsvuem. Here, for
example, one of these letters. We are not going to comment on 
it, so as not to violate flight of ideas:).



     Hello, edited by one of the most
coolest magazines in Russia - "Adventurer"!
Blaz wrote you out of the city of Novorossiysk.
That's goin 'with little thought and decided to write a letter. 
I want to tell this letter about the two topics, the thoughts 
that I concerned. I'll start from the beginning. One of the 
most ruleznyh games 98-year can be considered poravu "Black 
Crow", and why namely 98-th?? This game of all time

people (do not want to compare with
Warcraft 2 and Starcraft on pC). Of course, one would expect 
that the game will be great, and there will be a small boom. 
Therefore, and the price should have been like to be more

Standard 10 rubles. But what happened
This game is not caused by a very large, but
same excitement in the world of gaming, and under this guise it
began to sell at a cool pirate, sometimes double, drive on the 
pC. So it will not go! Me (probably most others) like the most

one of the features ZX SPECTRUM - the price of the
companies and products. They were not only
acceptable in terms of price to quality,
but were often at fancy prices!
So I think if you will, "Raven Black 2", then it will be sold 
at least at the old price, but you see it yet and will 
increase. So close to the price of a license Disk pC (hell, and 
what I'm all the time compare Zx and pC: - {). Oh, and the 
second little thought about what has appeared and is gaining

turnover trend to the death of a simple
user. Although, like, at first glance, there
nothing serious, but it is at
first sight! I'll admit myself to compare
pC and Zx for greater clarity. What we see on the pC? Yes, 
almost all users are either nick or, in extreme case, 
experienced an experienced user. About hackers will not speak. 
And, of course, is order a large number of groups of foreign 
and Russian, producing software. I it seems that pC leader 
because of a large number of users. That's what I

see in the world pC. Of course, many disagree, and rightly so, 
because the person err is human, but in general my

perception is accurate. But what is happening
on the Speccy. Of course, everyone has long
known that a severe blow dealt to our
Speccy is still the same West. Stopping the release of software 
has led to a departure from Zx Many people, including this were

immortal programmers and all of the same user. It was like a 
test for resistance fans of Zx. So, now survive in

Zx can only release on this platform
anything + sharing. That is, lead an active life. What can the 
user, except as yuzit all the same hardware. Of course, there 
is, if there is a lot of money, and if they are not always the 
person to stay afloat. That is, go nick in pC or just a video 
deck. The motto "They all engaged in work on Resuscitation 
Speccy "I think not quite correct. I think one of the measures

Speccy will revive it to attract all the unloved users. I'm not 
saying that you should at least keep the old. Well, sort of, 
everything I've already laid out his load. Those who disagree 
or have another point of view, ask to speak, since there 
magazines (thanks Adventurer) and can be topstitch amplitude.


     P. S. I still have a few questions: Do you know about 
"Taganrog-128 + AY" and its full compatibility with Speccy or 
completion? 

     ADV: Unfortunately not, since this
computer in our town is not common. Try to sort out in a matter 
of other publications.


     Blaz: Do you know, something happened abruptly "Art Studio 
128"? 

     ADV: At the moment, no. But there is
information that the groups that make
Rush is a new graphical editor State Of The Art.

     Blaz: Still wondering whether you
hold competitions at the pictures on
Spectrum 's again, or not?

     ADV: While we have not decided yet, but you
can send your graphics in the new
section "Gallery" on public display
admiration and -).

     Blaz: Well, on this and all respects, Blaz.


     The following letter will be a little more serious, 
because it did not come from anyone:) but on ... 


     Hello, Dear Editors,
magazine "ADVENTURER"!

     Ivan wrote you Roshchin from Moscow. For
Lately there have been some developments on the
which I consider necessary to inform:

     1. I've got a debugger STS 6.2.
Pleased with the new features: choice
cursor file from a directory, job
[P] / [SS + P] on the basis of the stack and the fact that
STS is only one page of memory instead of two. Is a function to 
measure the average run-time routines, but not very convenient 
that every time it is called the address routines have

dial again. This function is for some reason
hangs the computer if subroutine
located in ROM and a 48-m mode
everything works.

     Another disadvantage of STS, is not so
obvious - the inability to properly
trace commands like LD A, (HL) in
ROM TR-DOS. Some encoders take advantage of this and defend 
their programs from view pereksorivaya them with content

Rom.

     In version 6. 2 disappeared very necessary
function changes the position and size of the editing window 
(for debugging programs, use and the 0-th and 1 st screen, they 
were irreplaceable). So you have

sometimes upload STS 5.1, although there
those functions are not quite so
as it should. For example, when you start the STS or
after reaching the breakpoint occurred copying information from 
the 0-th screen in the 1 st, but that was a 1-m screen 
disappeared. Generally, if so there is an additional memory, 
why not use it as a screen buffer? That is, when you start

debugger, it remembers the contents of the 1 st
screen buffer, and he uses a 1-second screen, the user can see
content and the 0-th and 1 st screen program being debugged, 
and when you run this program previously memorized the 1 st 
screen restored.


     I immediately switched to
STS 6.2 with ASM assembler ZX 3.0.
To this end, had to make some changes in the STS and write a 
special loader.


     Oh, and about the ZX ASM 'and: he
does not issue an error message when compiling such 
non-existent commands as "JR M, address" and "JR P, address, 
and in object code on their site generates commands" JR C, e ". 

     2. My copier "ABCDcopy" is widely known, but few know of 
the existence of modifications to copy Disk MS-DOS (720K) and 
IS-DOS (800K), who can use the same driver

to work with additional memory, that
and "ABCDcopy 1. 1." . Copyist
MS-DOS disks (720copy) was written quite some time, but the 
copyist IS-DOS disks (IS-COPY) I wrote at the request of Alexis 
Letaeva recently. 

     I would like to apply through your
Journal of the authors of electronic newspapers with this idea: 
it is often forced to read at once Several issues of the 
newspaper in a row, and for This requires the ability to 
automatically starting next issue. That is, I finished reading 
a newspaper, press special key, and the disc is loaded the next 
room (if there is one). 

     And what about the numbers already released? Here, 
apparently, to help special boot, which operates as follows: 
for start the selected program writes it

name (or number) of unused sectors on 0-track disc, and when
user re-runs this boot,
hold some key
will automatically run the next program on this disk. This boot
useful not only for the consistent viewing of electronic 
newspapers, but also in Anyway, when you need to queue to see 
all the programs on the disk. 

     Another interesting question: it is known that in various 
assemblers differently calculates the arithmetic

expressions. In MASM, TASM, ZX ASM uses a simplified algorithm, 
without priorities of the operations of multiplication and 
division: For example, 2 +2 / 2 is 2, not 3. A

STORM turbo assembler in an expression
will be calculated correctly. In some
assemblers have special operations
(Emphasis junior or senior bytes
result, etc.) and built-in macros (like DOWN HL). So if someone
get down to writing the text converter
format from one assembly to another,
all this should be taken into account, otherwise it may happen 
that the object code resulting from compiling the converted 
text will be incorrect, or text generally can not be compiled.


     P. S. And what if ADVENTURER 'e
will be a new section "Demomaking" (review
demo, the story of the various
effects, as already known and new
with examples of programs)?

     ADV: The idea, of course, a good way,
it's quite a long time ago the magazine
"Deja Vu" from Kemerovo. We are waiting for advice on this 
issue, write. 

     corr.: And in the "system" can be
add new sub-section, which describes to about detected glitch 
in different programs - so on this occasion each

there is something to say.

     ADV: It would have been probably the most intense section 
of the magazine: -). Although might, indeed, is it worth to 
implement in our publication? If anyone wants to each

number to learn more glitches than he knows, in programs that 
are used every day, then write. On the other hand there is 
another question whether generally use such programs.

Imagine that you know of a couple of glitches in the prog, but 
here you say that she is buggy, which

light not seen before.

     corr.: And now I will have a small claim. I read once
"ADVENTURER" # 6, and saw in the section
System description of its program
"FLOPPY FORMAT UTILITY v1. 00." Quote
quote from "ADVENTURER'a": "FFU thing
good, there is a description (but to him at
my gripe - I do not know what garbage
do shell descriptions, but in the end lost
in an unknown direction .... "The point
that the description of this program is written in the form of 
a file "FF. DOC <W>" size of 26,571 bytes, so I do not quite 
understand the words "the end lost to an unknown direction. 
"Nevertheless, fully admit that FLOPPY FORMAT got to you, so to 
speak, not in its original form. 

     ADV: Yes, quite right. Was so
case, we bring our apologies for the mistake committed.


     The following letter sent to us Slack
Den from Flash.


     S. D.: I read your magazine here recently ADV # 7 and 
decided to write. The magazine is excellent, especially pleased 
with the shell-rock! But there is one small netochnostv section 
"Presentation" is written to Speaking of E. T. : "Flash Tracker 
- can not listen to the whole melody (only

patterns). "So, as you have not tried
song'a after loading into memory and return to the
Edit menu click "CS + E" for
PLAY ALL SONG or "CS + R" for PLAY
SONG + broach the music?

     ADV: Yes, we repent, we did not try, we know.

     S. D.: Well, Extreme Tracker - read about it in Flash Time 
# 1. Or here For example, I should Soundrive v1.51

and in the mode Stereo covox E. T. plays
better than in the mode of SD. Also on
my PULSAR 's 128 in the absence of a musical sheet music in the 
PLAY mode of the dynamics of hear scary flicks, plus all this 
and the inability to turn off any channel in SD, since E. T. 
starts throwing muse in port # FE, accompanying a 1-bit sound 
for SD. All This applies to the Extreme Tracker v1.32.

The editor I liked except for the aforementioned glitches, and 
if the authors to fix it or are already fixed, then this is the 
best editor to SD on SPECCY. I've heard that E. T. do

or are going to do under the GS. Like
to see, because at the moment I
it yuzayu (GS).

     ADV: We also heard, but no more
order.


     Here's another letter, this time from
gaming themes. Wrote to us Glotov Sergey from Cherepovets.


     corr.: Hello, dear authors of the journal "Adventurer"! 
Long wanted to write you, but I'm broke Scorp and six months, I 
was the "horseless". 

     Here are some tips for the games can
who may come in handy:

     In New Dizzy need a candle grease
lock, then the door opens and there can be
take anigilyator and extinguished the torch. Kindle
torch I could not, so I opened
the game and replaced it with a "torch".
With him I went down to the basement, opened the door
and took videkassetu, who gave his grandmother.

     Game Svyatogor "I went (except
One moment): you need to take an ax, the hryvnia, and a stick 
in the woods. Cross the river, buy a sword smith. Cut down the 
tree and kill Nightingale the Robber. Corpse robber

give the dogs in the garden, and they miss you. In the garden, 
take a rejuvenating apple tow and steel. Apple to the prince 
and he will give you a sword kladenets. Sword-kladentsom

to kill a snake, to light a torch (flashlight = stick + tow) 
and enter the cave. There, take the cup. At the exit of the 
cave is "Undead." As remove it, I do not know. If you know, 
tell me. I changed the offloading unit, and jumped it. Baba 
Yaga Cup pay. She will break-grass. Razryvtravoy topple

stone, and under him to take his armor. Armor
to dress and go to the sorcerer (he north-east of the witch). 
After a battle with witch down to the basement, save the girl 
and run until the tower collapsed. 

     In the game "Apollo" - I found 2 errors permitted:

     1) You can not go into the command bay.
I got there just changing the offloading
block. When you come out of the compartment, you find yourself
in the corridor, while trying to get back together
Command Module you find yourself in another corridor 
(incorrectly linked location). 

     2) From the command module you get in
boat, picks up Sam and take off. However, where would you not 
fly, you still die, unable to find his ship. In fact, the ship 
is in the north. I it is found, revealing the offloading unit.


     Well, on this and finish up
Goodbye.


     Yes, unfortunately, on that note would have to finish and 
to us - Editorial "Adventurer'a, we stubbornly wait for new 
emails and try to properly analyze all the foregoing material. 
If someone does not understand why, then write, the editorial 
office can be found at the same site (see "Author").



   Yes, in a rush, we almost forgot
material came to us recently. It was necessary, and insert it 
(we do not dare that not to do).




      (C) RAY / AURYN / CPU


     I would like to comment on the letter
some CRAKS from Myshkin, published in ADV # 7. According to 
him, ADVENTURER represents a "computer-related

Fiction. "According to him," the court of
WIN'95, and soon WIN'98 "- an impression o lamer, well-read
cheap pro-PC 'shnoy press, type "Computerra." And his statement 
that "IBM PC - cool car "is the impression translates into 
uverennost.Ochen want to ask: "Have you worked on the PC long 
enough? WIN'95 - cool? Have you seen anything like it on other 
platforms? "Oh, yes - you have the same PC "no ..." How can you 
judge o the platform is not working on it SERIOUSLY. Next CRAKS 
laments the absence in the journal Materials for coders and 
demomeykerov. On this occasion I can say this: the materials 
are, but it is in Basically, the ideas, not finished the 
procedure. If a person has a head on his shoulders,

then he able to write a procedure
get the idea. And to publish the finished procedure, especially 
for dem, - is the fruit of lamerskie demos with identical 
effects, although, on the other hand, we all doing something

learned, whether it's the same ZX-REVIEW chtoto and more. After 
all, as they say, must learn from their mistakes, but you can 
on others (To speed up the learning process).

After demo - this is the exam's ability to do something truly 
cool. So let them do the people have reached a certain level of 
skill. 

     Well all I have done.