Interface - Letters from readers: Dawid Willis, Ivan Roshchin, Cav Inc. (Competition for the best name for your sound card, glitches in HRUST v1.0 and XAS v9.06 +)

<b>Interface</b> - Letters from readers: Dawid Willis, Ivan Roshchin, Cav Inc. (Competition for the best name for your sound card, glitches in HRUST v1.0 and XAS v9.06 +)

     Good health to wish everyone who has dared to look at this 
interesting and instructive chapter. Despite all the 
difficulties of life, we met again on magazine "ADVENTURER".


     Today we look at a few letters that came in already 
familiar to many the editorial office. Pleases variety of 
topics, affected by our readers, apparently, most spektrumistov 
still somewhat interested in it again (hmm)

pleases. Perhaps this makes us spektrumistami fanatically 
fighting for our favorite computer.


     Well, we go directly to the
letters.


     Hi all Editor
"ADVENTURER"!

     Wrote you an ardent admirer of Speccy
from the city of Dnepropetrovsk, "nicknamed"
David Willis. Making all possible I mite
in creating such a steep magazine wanted
thank RAY 'a paper for the eighth issue of the Amiga and 
Spectrum. After read me build confidence in the

ruleznosti Amiga, and completely disappeared
oopaseniya in the bending of the Spectrum. Indeed, some leave, 
others come on scene. As well as RAY wrote about the need to 
develop Speccy in terms of iron, improved video and audio.


     So, I can confidently state that finally invented
sound card, which is designed to produce a revolution in sound 
in Speccy (and not only in the sound). (More on this see the 
section titled "Iron" - Ed.) 

     Could announce the
best name for the card, I suggest
name "ULTRAVOX".


     ADV: Indeed, dear readers,
Take part in this competition can
you will do all a great service by inventing
What a cool name.


     Corr.: Still able to announce news -
recently emerged on the Spectrum Dnipropetrovsk NEW LINE Group 
has released a new graphics editor with GRAPHIC STATION

loadable, so called tools. The authors have done a few basic
instruments. At this point, you can
say that the editor is already
exceed ART STUDIO possible.

     Well that's all for now.


     ADV: Thanks for useful information.
A reader suggested still look
(Who has not already done) to the newly appeared in our 
magazine section of "Iron". 



     And here is another letter from Ivan Roshchina with rather 
alarming start: 



     Corr.: WARNING! In the packer HRUST
1.0, which is considered the best in the degree
compression, found a glitch! Appears at
compressed file containing enough
large sequence of zeros. If
pack, for example, such a file: the first
# 100 bytes - the contents of ROM to zero
address, then # 4000 bytes of zeros, then
Again # 100 bytes - the contents of ROM address zero. It seems 
that the file should have a good pack, but in reality is as 
follows: package completes normally (except that for a moment, 
turn the 2 nd screen), but after recording the packed file 
HRUST hangs! Naturally, extract the recorded file

fails. This, of course, a specially selected sample, and in 
fact I encountered this when packaged software code block 
BestView. Between Incidentally, HRUM 3.5i copes

with such units.


     ADV: Yes, yes, yes! Exactly. With this
glitches we've encountered, and in such circumstances, when the 
road was every second is precious time - we

hurry with their demos on FT'98, but
Gluck reason above, we first
had to understand the reason, so to speak, non-functioning 
demos, and then Packing it all over again. Well utrahalis same

we! That's not too late.


     Corr.: When I wrote BestView, to
was to write a piece of software: at the entrance of the 
battery can be a character code "0 .. 9", "a.. F" or "A.. F", 
and its output - should be appropriate HEX-number:

# 00 .. # 0F. A little thought, I is appropriate
This fragment is just 10 bytes of data:


        RES 5, A

       BIT 6, A

       JR NZ, $ +4

       ADD A, # 27

       SUB # 37


     With a length of 10 bytes of the fragment
can be implemented in several ways, but less likely to do 
anymore. 


     ADV: Yeah, cool.


     Corr.: Here inaccuracies
in the Overview sistemok (description
STRANGE PLAYER v2.10). Written: "The player
can play all the compiled modules
Version Sound Tracker 'a, Pro Tracker' a,
and nekompilirovannye ins Pro
Tracker 'a (Pro Tracker should be
version 2.xx) ". Let it be known that
Pro Tracker 2.x and 3.x when writing to disk
automatically compiles music
module, and reading, respectively,
decompile. So no nekompilirovannyh modules do not exist.


     ADV: Yes, really. What a bastard is written? :-) Oh yeah! 
Looks good does not hurt Cav suffered a move in Kemerovo and 
foolishness, and, perhaps, depressed about it

struck here (to be honest - not only here)
all nonsense. And maybe the guys from Deja
Vu - our colleagues gave him until he lost
consciousness, and poor Sanya with a heavy heart
Pangs of conscience dictated filled
this provocative information? Maybe
he was badly in school writing essays and decided
compensate for lost time? Okay, enough
joking. We, of course, consider this
remark at our address and we will try not
pass disinformation to the pages of the magazine.

     It may looks strange, but
Here is information on the offender:


     Cav Inc.: Recently I have done one thing
and found one very creepy bug in me
favorite XAS 'e. It's about versions
9.6 +. Glitch is that if
when you write to a protected drive (read
only) in response xas' and the impossibility of writing on it, 
change the disc in the drive and press the R (retry), it will 
overwrite the catalog on the disk, which was before that! So I 
was killed Drive with source games.



     Here is another letter that we
now consider.


     Corr.: Good afternoon, evening and night!
Long time I wanted to write a letter and this
Finally ...


     ADV: ... has given birth!


     Corr.: I want to introduce myself: my name is FANAT from 
VGA STUDIO, and I want to offer my new toy "ZONE The last 
stalker ". 


     ADV: Well, divorced as those stalkers! :-)


     Corr.: This toy is a graphical Adventura very convenient 
(for my opinion) an interface pointer (with

support for Kempston mouse, Joystick, etc.
etc.). In order to do something, you need to
just choose the right mouse button to click and ... and all. 
The demo version is almost ready, the texts are filled, the 
program is written, music, graphics, everything is there, left 
all it Skydan in a pot and cook on

simmer ... In general soon see.
The delay came because of the unexpected
session. Well at the moment all the problems
solved, and work continued. With the release of
Full Version not going to hesitate. Little about the game: the 
game is a development of the plot described in the book "Picnic 
on the sidelines. "Who did not read it explained: near future. 
After visiting aliens on earth were areas where they located, 
in which strange things happen. Your hero - an ordinary 
researcher and part-time is a stalker. Stalkers - people who 
are illegally enrolled in the area for artifacts that were left 
E. T. They have great value. In general, do you

their own affairs, and suddenly find out that ... Read the rest 
in the INTRO to the game. 


     ADV: Well, thank you for nothing. Oh yeah,
Now, look, our dear readers.



     Corr.: Yes, by the way filled raskazik here, I downloaded 
from the net. Frankly, author's name I never remembered, but 
still equal to thank him. If you typed in the heading OTTYAG, 
I'll be very happy! 


     ADV: OTTYAG "swollen", well, think of something.


     Corr.: Well, see you in my development. If anyone wants me 
svyazatsyapishite at: 


     456317 Chelyabinsk Region.

            Miass-4 PO Box 334

(This is the address of my parents, and I myself live
in Chelyabinsk, but to write better on this
address, so true). Write just
or if you want to work together
development of new programs, particularly
if you live in the Chelyabinsk region!
Write, can not wait! Yet!


     ADV: bye!


     But a letter from ours, so to speak,
Cherepovets Bureau CPU from Davos' and from
Horrorsoft.


     Corr.: Hi, I want to tell all
a glitch in PT 3.31 (PT3.4 remix):


     1. In PT 3.31 on the Scorpion is lost
arrow at the top of the screen (PT 3.4r
this glitch was killed);

     2. If the disc menu, scroll
directory of files into multiple Mouzon down
and then leave the cursor on any
file and read the catalog of the "hot button 1", the directory 
re-read. Effect see for yourself.


     3. Serious bug: transposition.
A concrete example: suppose that in the pattern of 2000 is 
necessary to lift the melody to 7 semitones up with notes 48 
and note 63. Pointing pattern notes (from 48 to 63) and 
transposition 7, zhamkaem on transpositions. Comp says that the 
operation complete. Consider: nothing happened: (. Note: in 
PT3.4 remix this bug is alive and well.


     4. Disk option: if the disk net
places, then when you try to write to him Mouzon PT will give: 
"No file!" . : O 

     5. The new editor, glitches old: a
some of the muses, when playing them in the editor slides up 
(down) play, "as planned" in compiling the same Mouzon slides 
may sound wrong. ;-( 


     Total:


     1. Gluck was killed.

     2. Work does not interfere (you may use only the cursor)

     3. Need to catch this bug!

     4. Nothing serious.

     5. Gluck lives to this day.


     A few words about Samara version
PT - Pro Tracker 'e v 3.4r. In principle,
it is the same PT v3.31, but changed
appearance (the best), added
Table Real Sound, so the editor stopped last tune. Glyuchki in
PT3.4 still has - from PT3.31.


     ADV: Here's what it is - a person engaged in a steep 
useful, writes as see good music and faces

such glitches, which not everyone
destined to witnesses.


     Well, it seems, Pishel same inevitable end, which we all 
so afraid. On this we have to say goodbye, Yes and no rubber 
disc. All the while.