Adventurer #05 30 ноября 1996

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Interface - Letters from readers: Igor Galuza, Garkushin Alexei Inozemtsev Andrey, Potolovsky Viktor Nikolaevich.

     Hello dear readers! You
see a fifth, we can say, anniversary
issue of our magazine. We are very pleased
receiving your letter. But osoboenno was pleased to learn that 
our magazine is read not only in the Yaroslavl region, but also 
far beyond its borders, and even abroad - in Ukraine. What is 
especially nice - it Like the readers!


     Well, then do not we work for nothing.
We will try not to disappoint our
readers and more. By the way, almost
All the letters we have received, starts like this: "When I saw 
the first the release of your zhurnala, I thought - here,


Another erundovina. But when my
his eyes caught the third issue - my opinion
dramatically changed !!!..." It seems it's time
to explain the situation. The first issue ADVENTURER'a we do 
not believe the magazine in general, so the demo version or ad 
COMING SOON. A magazine as the publication begins,

actually, with the second issue. And further
it grows and develops with us.
He had already ceased to be, so to speak, a child
only AURYN GROUP - we are like the parents,
and the magazine a lot of friends.
Want to know who "begat" this issue?
Check out the "Author!".

     And we'll post.


     Hello, dear editors of "ADVENTURER"!

     Write to you as much from the Ukraine, a small town Zuhres 
Donetsk area, two fan SPECCY: MASTER SAW and ALIS.


     Well, what can I say? Progressing from room to room ... 
Continue In the same spirit. However, there is one question.


Why not in ADVENTURER'e Rubruka hardware? Think you still have 
enthusiasts who are doing something for the Spectrum. There 
must be some kind of development (Though not great) that could

to publish in your journal.

ADV: Generally speaking, such a topic of
we have, but such people is almost gone. True, the situation 
could radically way to change, because we met

hackers from the city of Cherepovets. Among them,
there are fans Spectrum hardware and
they promised to help us. So wait!

Reporter: ... To begin, we will send you a diagram
RAM-disk'a, maybe you have it,
yet we dare to offer.

ADV: And here all grasped a huge bummer! The fact that the 
distinguished correspondents sent "bare" scheme, with 
absolutely no description. It is unclear to what it is a 
computer and how this RAM-disk'om 

use (or even as a team?) So we have a huge request to all: if
you send us your design, it is not
Take the time, gave a detailed description of the calculation 
for a man who has not very deep knowledge in circuitry. We

can not publish the scheme in the hope that
readers themselves, they say, will be dismantled.

Reporter: We are, in principle, we write here on what
occasion. In the second issue was
Published online game "OCTOPUS", and was declared a "Storm". 
The game is not so complicated and (At least in the beginning) 
as it may seem at first glance. But one difficulty still 
exists. 

     In this game, all things necessary to give the characters 
only in certain places. To be honest, we tolerate can not 
(let's not just us), when in games this type is such debility

(Sorry) zamorochki. Do you agree with
us?

ADV: O, Ye-e-ee ...

Reporter:

     So, the first level.

     Walking the streets of an unknown city,
pick up a pipe and a coin. Coin pay
master cobra (slightly to the right from the very
snakes). Instead of coins, he gives us a small key that you 
want to use the door at the restaurant. Outside the door there 
is a card (as we understand), here also take a glass of 
champagne ... 

ADV: Actually, this is not a card and gold Faberge egg, by the 
way, false. So, at least in the movie. 

Reporter: At the egg we go to the casino,
where we use it near playing dice (they fall 7 points), and 
they give we drink with the bones. We throw them

win. Now go change the chips on
bucks (it is to the left of the two men who drink wine). Get 
into a taxi. 

Enjoying a little cartoon like us insolently
rob. We are waiting for downloading the following items level
and we bang: "SPUST MAGNETOFON"!

     You have submitted an expression of our faces?

ADV: When we read these lines, we have,
certainly, it was the same.

Reporter: In general, it is not fully processed under the 
TR-DOS version of the tape, or (better yet) generally 
incomplete version. And as a toy nothing. We are waiting for a 
full, working version. 

ADV: Ay-ya-yay. Wow! But versiyato from FFC COMPUTERS and 
SOFTSTAR. Or SOFTSTAR found an incomplete version or FFC

COMPUTERS did not have anything to
make a normal or even disketizatsiyu
what reasons. The facts are as follows:


   LOOKING FOR THE FULL VERSION OF THE GAME "OCTOPUS"!


         Who has - come!

Reporter: Could you write a release date
Log into the light. And last, a small
please. Publish please, a few programs in your journal, such
as:
 1) G.A.C. "Graphic Adventure Creator" (at
Russian);
 2) P.A.W.S. "Professional Adventure
Writing System "(unless, of course, you ee
found);
 3) Cad +3 D-Plot;
 4) ANIMATION v3.0.


     Sincerely:

MASTER SAW-Potolovsky Viktor Nikolaevich
ALIS - Inozemtsev Andrey.

ADV: Regarding the release date - we point out, sometimes on 
the splash screen, sometimes in the scroll. Look closely! 

     About the GAC in Russian. Not
should write to GAC'e! This is absolutely reliable, because I 
(RAY) with him very well 

met when he wrote "Talisman".
Better check out the "Presentation" and
"APPENDIX", where you'll find something interesting.

     PAWS has not yet been found.

     CAD +3 D ​​PLOT found, but in the absence of the normal 
description, we have not yet can publish.


     Package ANIMATION occupies an entire drive.
Therefore, it published in the magazine is simply impossible. 
In addition, it needs to permission of its author. Try to 
contact him at: 


  454081, Chelyabinsk, st. Turbine, 25

             Velichutinu NV


     And another thing: we have received several emails just 
this content: "Hi, I have what you are looking for.

Please send disks. Can you send something new. "That's it! And, 
besides, Corresponding lives well so far.



     Guys, let's trust each other!
If you have something there - send us, but
We, in turn, do not forget about you -
download the latest issue of the journal you
suit? And another thing: if you want to
Your letter was published - send it on diskette. If you just 
want to express their views or to contact - write on paper. But 
even if send a floppy disk - drop a few lines

and on paper, because drive may be damaged in transit. While 
the big problems did not arise, but with some discs, the 
information was almost illegible. 


     Next pismo also from abroad.

Igor Galuza (resp.Belarus, Minsk):

     Looking through the letters and ads
published in journals on computer
theme, we've seen that many players
often can not deal with any
game and actively send a letter requesting
assistance, as amended, referring to the impossibility
sequence to answer all questions, send
them to readers and in consequence to them
no longer be returned. In addition, there
letters from naive players who are on the contrary, offer their 
help, and received a pile of letters can not help (know as

kept sending them letters). So we (me and my
friends) decided to try to discover something
such as help desk for assistance stuck to the players and for 
this we give an advertisement in which the pledge to respond to 
all send us a letter (or rather, received

us ...)

     Someone may ask: "And you can
answer all the questions? "
And we firmly replied: "YES!"
About Us: We are all in 19 years. Minimum
experience with SPECCY - 5 years maximum - 10. Almost all of 
the free time in his life we ​​have given the game (mostly on 
SPECCY ...). During this time, we have accumulated a library of 
books on gaming themes. In addition, most of it consists of 
material written by us 

during the passage of a toy. They are: maps, detailed and not 
very description, text translation of the games. In addition, 
together we can make progress in almost every game ...


ADV: Excellent! Maybe your experience will help
spare the nerves to the player stuck in
difficult game ...

Reporter: By sending a question as detailed as possible
Describe your actions to a problem (error
could be used to ...) Also, please
send a floppy disk with the game, because we can
not to be her or her disk version. Except
addition, your version might be broken
and buggy ... (The disc is necessarily true.)
In addition, the disc will be sent (if
is) a good version of the game, more information (in the format 
ZX-word). And most important: have sent the drive will be to 
test DEMO-version of our first big game

"DUNE" which is not difficult to guess
written based on the same NF-Roma
F. Herbert. Sending us the results
test will be significant benefits for the purchase of the game.

     Well, at the end of not very good:
so we expect a large number of
letters, we have to ask to invest in
envelope amount of money $ 1-2, ie
5.10 rubles, which will be used to pay
postal and other costs associated with
the answer to your question. ($ 1 - for letters,
$ 2 - to describe QUEST'a because large
volume, and forward packets more expensive).

ADV: the ad itself, and its coordinates
the authors refer to "AD".

Yevgeniy Yakovlev (Kiev):

     Reader wrote to you all coming to
us to Odessa electronic journals. I myself
fell on Wednesday SPECCY recently. I moved
DENDY with SEGA and because of lack of strategy games.

ADV: It is the right decision!

Eugene: ... I'm trying to learn assembler
Although the book is not enough and BASIC, I do not know ...

ADV: We can advise you to contact
the firm "Inforkom (Moscow). They publish and
mailed literature SPECCY.
Enclose a letter envelope with your return address and send to:

           121019, Moscow, G-19

            PO Box 16, Inforkom.
You send the price list with a list of literature and software. 
Or try to find distributors "Inforkoma in your area. 

Eugene: While I do not really like adventyurnye game, but "Ivan 
Tsarevich" and "Last Raider "I liked it, although I have the 
procedure simply the latest ... 

ADV: No wonder. Last Raider -
rather dashing twirled and adventyura
does not easily surrender. On it is written in
"ZX-REVIEW" N 6'96. We are also ready to help

for everyone to go through this difficult
game. E-mail - discuss!

Eugene: About the UFO-2: I can not get it
pass. I do not want to give the study:
- A large ship;
- One medium-ship;
- MS controls;
and I can not take kaltsinita. Help!

ADV: Kaltsinita can capture thermal shock (though half dead). 
But first grab and explore akvatoida-medic. A large ship can be 
studied only after examining all the rest. A

about the research: If the box is completely obstructed 
investigations, the new research does not give. Some studies 
can only be answered if you took a certain type of alien, or 
had some research. Unfortunately, more just can not say. Can 
help readers? 

Garkushin Alex (Krasnodar)

    Here, yesterday bought your magazine. Honestly
I confess - I liked it very much (otherwise I would not write).

ADV: After these words I want to work
even better!

Alex: ... Now little idea about the game
NAVY SEALS PART 1. Table Records
Enter CLUBBING SEASON. During the game
click: W - change weapon,

         ENTER - change level.

ADV: in Rybinsk, this game goes to boot from PRESTIGE, 
resulting in only works on PENTAGON'e. A table we need to 
introduce PRESTIGE R GODS, and then it same.


Alex: I read about the game STARGLIDER, behold,
I think enough of, and it - does not boot!
I do not know whose fault is it: yours or hackers
but I'm very upset.

ADV: We ran version of this program
from the application PENTAGON, SCORPION, ATMTURBO 2 - 
everything is working fine. Unfortunately, "Krasnodar" we do 
not, so that What about this nothing can not say.

Perhaps you simply poor quality copy.

     And by the way, here's another thing: we do not
official distributor nor in Krasnodar, in any field. So your 
version of the magazine - a pirate, and claims we in theory, 
should not take. But we will not to swear, but better do this: 
send a person (or firm), where you bought ADVENTURER, please 
contact us. We can offer them a mutually beneficial

collaboration, give their ads (and our
The journal is read from Siberia to Ukraine - see
above). It would be better than selling
stolen.

Alex: As for the magazine. I liked all the entries, but 
something was missing. 

Long thought, what, and got it! COMPETITION
you have to declare!

ADV: No problem. Competition, because competition!


       WARNING! Journal ADVENTURER


     announces a contest for the most beautiful
computer image. Send us your
work as a standard SPECTRUM'ovskih
screens. The competition will run for two
categories: black and white graphics and color
schedule. The best works will be used
for registration of the following issues of the journal
(With permission, so if your
Work sent only to the contest - enter it). Are accepted ONLY
OWN painted pictures or
stylized lettering. Subject - any.
Not permitted scanned, digitized or overinflated with other 
platforms image. Allowed to repaint paintings, photographs, 
etc., but manually! 

In the picture you must specify the author.
And so you understand the difference between a picture, drawn 
by hand from those obtained otherwise way - compare with the 
intro of the journal menu. Screensaver converted to IBM, then 
to finish in the ART-STUDIO, the second is from beginning to 
end was drawn by hand. Feel the difference!


     Work will also be evaluated by readers, the winner will be 
announced one who attains majority.




     The following letter - from Rybinsk. The author asked not 
to be named. Why? Ask yourself the same question after reading 
the following letter ... 


      So we are cool, do you think?



     After watching yet another demo
DOOM'a or DUNE-2, you are likely to decide:
"For how heights up genius SNG'ovoy Spectrum programmer thought 
and skill. NA da hell that IBM needs! "Frankly, I pity those 
friends (or gentlemen) who will, dripping saliva, wait for the 
release of the full versions of these programs, thinking that 
that they will play much higher than

firm, at least the mid 80's.

     You are mistaken, my home "users", "hackers" and others! 
You will receive an amount of space ocherednoy "poludohly and 
unplayable masterpiece such as Prince of Persia or feel for 
themselves the "dostoinst Va a new class of games that 
characterize that can be so called - "igralkitormozilki. Those 
who wish to get acquainted with "Igralkami-Lagsters" may look

on demo versions of games like: Mortal Kombat, DUNE-2, DOOM. 
After this you will understand that the owner feels AMIGA 500 
(or 600), playing in the DUNE-2 on the eighth level.

It's time to have long realized that the Speccy is impossible 
to make DOOM at least from a distance resembles the original, 
for the simple and banal because of - 3.5 MHz to 
eight-processor - is not 50 MHz to 32-bit and boasted skill of 
our programmers while pouring only at different demoshki whose 
main purpose - is the satisfaction (see Satisfaction megademo) 
own vanity - "Here you are, say, get the fact that the Code 
Busters - the most cool! "And in this same Code Busters,

except RST 7, no one ever did track itself to light is not 
produced, not Considering kryaknuty games and heaps of 
greetings worldwide in intruhah to them. 


     There are, of course, and pleasant exceptions
among the programmers who make really good (but not more) toys
and applications (very good).
But such skill as Pete Cooke,
Code Masters or Ocean, and none of our
foreign programmers have not yet reached,
and hardly reach.

     So it's not worth taking in the head
thought DOOM'e or DUNE'e - neither programmers nor users. 
Better to do harder things, and do not head in the clouds. 


                           Goodwiller.

P.S. Those who doubt the above arguments, I recommend to 
conduct an experiment. Start the demo DUNE-2 produce a dozen 
soldiers and send them all at the same time in another corner 
of the map. At the same time Think about how decreased velocity 
of a soldier compared with the same process for one

soldier.

Note: the original IBM-or-native
AMIGA-vskoy versions can simultaneously
move a few hundred soldiers and
machines and, while still running the program logic block, 
counting the moves the enemy, then there is not a demo version.


ADV: Well? Those wishing to express their
views can write to the editor.
Just, please, argue their case.