Letters - letters from readers.

     (C) Music: Alos jnr. / Spark


     Hello, dear readers. In
connection with the departure RAY 'I'm in another city
this section and to respond to letters
Readers will we: CAV and ELF. Yes,
Of course, the bad, when they leave comrades and how it was 
written, I do not remember in what, Spectrofon 'e: "a person or 
program firm changes with the departure of one of the founding 
fathers - founders. "Our magazine is also changing.

So, with the departure of FLEX 'and the army has changed
menyuha (we never know what FLEX prepared for the fifth 
number), with a spallation RAY 'I may have to change the style 
of the journal (To be more errors ;-() Journal become more 
diverse. But we will not deviate from its case and we have not 
just to please you. 


     We apologize for the delay in the release rates, but the 
circumstances so there were ... 


     Letters from our readers continue to
come from all corners of our country. AND
Here is one of them. Wrote to us GAS 13 inc. of
Krasnodar.


     GAS 13 inc.:

     Hello, dear

     editors 'ADVENTURER'.


     A week ago, bought a 5-th issue of the journal
and immediately shared his opinion about it:


     1. Section 'interface': the music is so similar to the 
original that you would think that 'Agatha Christie' also wrote 
the music for 'SPECCY'. Please write Who wrote the music.



     ADV: Music by D. J. MUSIC SOFT
from Yaroslavl, but unfortunately, he went to
another city, and now we will not hear it
work.


     GAS 13 inc.:

      2. Trying to find OCTOPUS. Found
version JOKER 'a.Proshel on your instructions ... Effect is the 
same - 'SPUST ... ' 



     ADV: Well, that's no comment ...
Although perhaps we still will own
version OCTOPUS 'a.


     GAS 13 inc.:

      3. Thank you very much CHASM 'y for NAVY
MOVES 2 (especially for the Russification of the
stupid language).


     ADV: Did you ask about Spanish
Russian.


     GAS 13 inc.:

      4. I keep forgetting to ask: why your
group is called 'AURYN'?


     ADV: This is easily able to answer true lovers adventyur 
... 



     GAS 13 inc.:

      5. MACH_PRN - especially convenient cursor control with 
immediate withdrawal letters, but in a mode SWEEMING program 
through a letter imposes not just a shadow sometimes too far 
departs from the letter. I understand that you do not know 
about the existence of the author's program for printing - THE 
SCREEN MAKER v1. 7 



     ADV: Frankly, we did not expect
MACH like that - glitches in its sea.
And about the glitch with shadow, so this is a printer driver 
so prints (CAV Inc. Wanted to include in the rooms are archived 
sources MACH 'a, but not enough space). And what about The 
Screen Maker 'a: yes, do not know. In this connection,

once again call on all trader 's: "Guys, try to completely burn 
prog, uncut! 



     GAS 13 inc.: And yet, I have
idea: how about that ob'yavit
"Championship among viruses 2" (as
once made SPECTROFON)?


     ADV: This championship is conducted
newspaper ON-LINE, why repeat it?



     GAS 13 inc.:

      P. S.

     Where in the ZX-WORD 'e letters H, W, G lowercase?


     ADV: Actually, it seems, depends
the version of Word 'and, to be precise, from the file
FONT. While those versions, which are at
We like our problems net.V versions
is: h SS + A

     W SS + F

     u SS + G
In shutdown mode CAPS LOCK.



     GAS 13 inc.:

      P. P. S. If there is a version
INTERNATIONAL SOCCER 'and with the shipment to
drive, please post it. Think
many people love this game, but in the absence of
Shipping erased it (like me).


     ADV: We do not have the disk version, we hope that readers 
will help you with this. 



     The following letter came from our
colleagues, rather, from the editor
Journal SPECTROPHOBY - KVANT SOFT 'a of
SLIDERS CREATIVE - HACKERS GROUP.


     Corr.:

     I must say that issued your
magazine is even better than SPECTROFON, not to mention the 
ZX-FORMAT 'EM Yes, and on the information part of it is not 
inferior to these monsters. But I have nothing against 
SPECTROFON 'a and ZX-FORMAT' as well. Some may seem that the 
trifling issue of the journal case, but as a writer and editor 
in chief his journal, I will tell you that it is very

simple matter. Here also eliminated
"Journalists" for which the journal was a way to express 
themselves, for which log was just another demoy. But such

magazines as ADVENTURER, OBERON (with the third number is the 
best 'Eshaya thing), yet ODYSSEY is gaining momentum. So, let's 
focus primarily on these quality products and fully support the 
authors. 

     Well, spoke about the magazines, now I want little tell 
about myself and about their own.


     SPECTROPHOBY, apparently, will be published every six 
months, but now We got a little updating, and probably, the 
material will cook faster. 

     And about the BOLO you have not forgotten? After the game
written and, perhaps, by the end of the summer will be 
released. At the moment, is almost everything is ready, it 
remains only to eliminate some bugs and a bug even rewrite. 

     Also, soon vydet game "CONAN.
Dancing GOD "(" CONAE. Dancing God ").
This will be a text game genre game
book (such as paper in Inforkom 'e).
The shell is written, the texts are processed, exploited 
glitches. 

     And now I decided to write a data logger. As planned, it 
will be naikruteyshy archive, there will be a whole library 
pakuyuschih procedures. Now I would like to obtain permission 
from the authors of these packers as MS_PACK, POWERFULL (by KSA 
), LZSS (by Sendetski), TRUSH. Archive disk (which will come 
with package) will have a format 800K (as in iS-DOS),

so you can be in proportion spachit
2: 1, for example, two spectrophone 'and the
one disc. By the way, because spectrophone 's with
4-th number Zaksor, and therefore is not packed, and I climbed 
up and raskoril them all. Now they are well pachatsya. I would 
also like turn to others: do not Ksor

magazines! Better Package the best packer. For example PCD 6.1 
(by KSA), by the way, REVIEW not written in a small restriction

work wrapper: it can take only small files (up to 100 sectors, 
approximately). A small files it pachit awesome! 

     A bit of advertising. In the seventh room
SPECTROPHOBY will be a big section of ASSEMBLER. As well as the 
continuation of the story "Virtual reality".


     And finally, I would like to convey
greetings SPEED CO. And personally M.M.A.
SOFT 'y, STARS OF KELADAN (forward WINWORD
formatting), CHEMNE SOFT +, ACCEPT
CORP. and, of course, AURYN GROUP, and personally ELF 'y.

     At the same time I want to finish. If that does not
so, do not kick, but rather tell me, what is not
so.

     Repnikov Yuri (KVANT SOFT / SLIDERS
CHG), Volga, 12. 05. 1997.


     P. S. Nobody wants to make SPACE
CRUSADE 2? After a cool toy. Or
make a map editor, heroes, jobs,
e. t. c. ..



     The following letter came to us from Chelyabinsk - the 
city, famous for his Spektrumistami. Letter, we present an 
almost completely (with a few comments).



     STEEL RAT:

     Dear Editors, "ADVENTURER'a"!


     Wrote to you S. R. from Chelly-city.
My joy for 15 years and I recently Speccy (recently threw DENDY 
and mend your Compaq). 


     ADV: creditable, praiseworthy .....


     S. R.: I would like to express their opinions about
your journal:

     CLASS! Well done guys! Keep it up!
Speccy rulezz forever! In your journal
everything's cool! I was particularly pins
Subheading OTTYAG.


     ADV: Duc, for this and tried ....


     S. R.:

     My joy I would like to read (and not
only me) in the next ADVENTURER 'e of
Games WARCRAFT, BLACK RAVEN, R.T.H.-5,
DUNE. When it finally come out full
version?


     ADV: WARCRAFT - there were rumors that
its not worth waiting for (and sorry). And as
BLACK RAVEN ... This should be Slava Mednonogova ask. DUNE 2 of 
PERESTROIKA SOFTWARE such as has been done, but nothing

really unknown, but R.T.H. - 5 may be released in late spring.


     S. R.:

     About Only 128K. I'm for! (Hands
and legs). Personally, I do not know one
user 'a, who would be the 48 th with a floppy drive!

     By the way, I almost forgot. ROAD FIGHTER
I liked him, and I look forward to
FULL version (that broke some crazy DENDYman 's).

     Big request: publish more
cheat 's and pokes.


     ADV: And this is to readers. Well,
lads, we'll write a few lines in the log
Adventurer?


     Pleased us a letter from the GDV of
Sheksna-2 (almost countrymen). Letter from the very
volumetric, so we'll publish the most
interesting parts.


     GDV: I am writing you from a distant village
urban Sheksna-2. PC
Scorpion pulled out only after the New Year. And got into this 
wonderful world of Spectrum in a strange way. In addition I 
have a village, there is another Scorp:

my friend. Set-have whether other disc machines failed. True,
heaps of people have a diskless PC.
Now, imagine at what level is the development of human thought 
(which blurted out he did not understand :-)).


     Okay enough about sad. Having
once in the nearby city (Cherepovets)
came finally to the store that sells software for the Speccy 
(Eh! We have a happiness ... ca. edition). I bought ADVENTURER 
# 5. I must say that before this I saw three magazines, even 
four. Well Now, I woke up somewhere in the second hour

night. The first phrase: "Cool!" , No - it
second. The first was "not weak!" . Until
you - the best e-zine.


     ADV: Well, I would not say that we are the best, but we 
aspire to it. 


     GDV: Such a steep magazine I have
not seen. Is that Spectrofon # 21.


     ADV: Another ZX-Format is.


     GDV: And here the other day, drugan Adventurer # 6 
brought. What can I say! "Kaif! . One thing, perhaps, for 
"four". So hurt you monoplanar jokes. Well

nothing, I think, if I did not, while others are
fix.


     ADV: Well, as they say,
tastes do not. Judging by the letters
readers under the heading "OTTYAG" is the most contradictory 
responses. 


     GDV: In the fifth number you have typed
Quill without copyright. So, digging in
SexMachine I stumbled upon the inscription: Quill
ADVENTURE SYSTEM WRITTEN by G. Y. 1983
GILSOFT. Perhaps this is the author of the program. It was the 
first. Second: Apollo. Sam must give blaster and bronepantsyr,

and faster. From the second cyborg can be removed any number of 
blasters and armor. I was stuck in a place where there is 
cyborg, which does not soak the blaster. One such I Pryshyb 
grenade, but along with him. Yet managed to establish that 
somewhere in the ceiling of a staircase. Failed to apply 
infrokristal .... 


     ADV: The information quite interesting,
perhaps someone from readers come in handy.


     GDV: Why not revive old and did not tell about the old 
games. Example of "Total Eclipse 2. The graphics may not be 
much, but the idea of greater These countless demos DOOM 's.



     ADV: At Total Eclipse Information
was in a magazine Sinclair Town # 1, but actually we 
occasionally highlight good old program (see # 1, # 3, # 6). 


     GDV: I would like to propose a new
Field - "party" or something. Whatever may be
was to pass greetings to a friend or acquaintance. Just to be 
address, name and computer.



     ADV: Maybe this subsection will be
in the "interface", it is the place.


     GDV: your idea of the transition at 128 K
endorse and support. Octopus' a and
P.A.W.S. 'A not yet nashel. Very much like
would read about artificial intelligence, ie
since this topic is almost never covered. Inforkom going to 
print in "FORUM # 3", but all the bummer. It's a shame!


     I hope that my writings contain,
at least some information you need.


     ADV: About Artificial Intelligence
You can podcherpnut some information from the
Journal ZX FORMAT # 5, # 6, and PAWS
You can find there.


     GDV: P.S. By the way, where you can get
back issues Adventurer 'as well. In Cherepovets, I found only 5 
or 6 rooms. 


     ADV: Well, finally can .... It's also natural, if you want 
to get any numbers Adventurer 'a write to the editor ... We did 
not ask for a lot of money. 



     And this letter from Saratov:


     O2-S:

     Hello, dear editors of "ADVENTURER". I am writing you on 
behalf of the Saratov group O2-S ". Generally speaking, have 
long been tempted to write to you, but hands do not reach. And 
now there is a reason. I send you a demo of our new games

"Labyrinth of Death".



     ADV: See "Presentation" and "Application". A Actually, we 
liked the demo. 



     O2-S:

     Currently, the total output
version of the game slows down just a sound. It seems
that we have in Saratov there are no musicians (working on 
SPECCY). 


     ADV: On the effects and music, we try to help.


     O2-S: Finally I want to share our experience when you try 
to go to the assembly "ALASM. 2 8. First impression - pretty 
cool. But then it turned out that Driver PROFI not do (in the 
form in which he suggested). Incidentally, this is the second 
case, with which we face in determining the type of computer as 
PROFI believed that his memory megabytes. And by the way, this 
sin is precisely Kharkiv. The first case was a "Perfect 
commander 'ohm'. If you are interested, then PROFI more often 
512K of memory. Everything alia, on the PROFI also often the 
case that pages are not consecutive, but with gaps.

The second weird thing is to
the absence of a "ALASM" shipment ob'ektnogo
code. The question arises, why do then need this assembly? 
Apparently the author believed that the code needed to unload 
ob'ektny of STS 'well. In my - it's crap. By the way,

by STS 'a: version 5.1 announced as 512,
but, as we have seen, it works only
as the 128-th (perhaps it is targeted at port
Pentagon 'a).


     ADV: STS 5.1 really is targeted
on the Pentagon, but here everything is not gladko.A
such a strange feature ALASM'a in shipment ob'ektnogo code 
explains the few people that can ALASM assemble a page. But, in 
my opinion, make the entire shipment of memory with the pages 
is easy. 


     O2-S:

     Compared with the previous version, the
STS has a hefty negative - when the teams "SetUP" and 
disassembling the disk, the resident must be set to address # 
8000. In this case, the resident information under a no 
vosstanavliet. In general, we decided to wait until This 
package is not finish until the end. 


     ADV: Yes, the eternal problem of compatibility. We have a 
version of the STS 5.1 works without having to reinstall the 
resident (or at least case of ELF 'a and CAV' and / Pentagon /).




     When the number is typeset it yet
one letter ... We decided to bring it
in full and without comment (though CAV and
very tempted to).


     Reporter:

     Expensive Edition (?). CRAKS writing to you
of Myshkina. Recently I was going to write to you, but all 
hands are not reached. But after reading the sixth issue ... I 
was amazed. And I decided to make everything about you think.


     Yes, of course, with each number you
"Kruteete. But here's the content ... You
that a computer magazine or what? I do not
I find you have almost nothing to me
interested. A CAV you really oburel, comes over to just anyone. 
You would think he knows everything and all videl.A this, his 
dead monster RT-11, but anyone interested, that there was, when 
the yard WIN'95, and WIN'98 soon will be. In general, IBM PC

tachka.Pravda cool, yet I have none,
but I hope to buy or build. Now back to the magazine. Something 
you skomkany stuff - you do not understand that where, as a 
"review" and "system" so it's all nonsense. All together and 
dumped junk and nove. Could make a separate heading. I would 
also like to see more materials for coders and demomeykerov. 
Tricky procedure which - somewhere. A then you have a magazine 
like okolokomyuternoe Fiction.


     To enable this to take leave.


     12. 08. 97


     CRAKS



     P.S. I think my letter you will not print.



     The following letter is too, so
say abusive in nature, but unlike the previous one, has a 
sensible proposal. So we wrote SerzhSoft from Shadrinsk.



     Reporter:

     Then I recently watched your journal
Adventurer # 6, and suddenly decided to write this
letter. The magazine itself is very even
not bad, but I have made some
observations, perhaps wishes, etc.


     ADV: It has long be so, and then all the "mom"
Yes, "Mother" (a phrase from the cartoon).


     Reporter:

     I'll start with the principal - to glitches! So
Here ... As is known, it is possible to see the whole picture, 
over which appears the main menu. To this end, the cursor is 
displayed above all the items and pressed "Fire". The picture 
is even nothing, but But if push at this time any

Hotkey one of the menus,
something unexpected happened ... Right on
background - a picture that we see,
go pencil, underlining the specified
click the picture and the port, and then we find ourselves in 
such a way the marked section. A menu-it did not appear ... 
That such glyuchok small. Probably not in the park the

noticed?


     ADV: repent, there really is a glitch, but we did not know 
about it until then letter. We even did not occur to check the 
menu on this glitch. Will continue carefully.



     Reporter:

     Suggestions ... Why do not you go to the turnout 
interface. Abruptly ZX - Format 'a.Gde support Kempston Mouse?

What can bloat: several kursorchikov: arrow, an hourglass, a 
torch, the the same pencil, then ... And to all kursorchiki 
changed in realtime. When viewing a section, just needed the 
opportunity scrolling is not for whole pages, and on one line 
up / down. 


     ADV: How do you this number?


     Reporter:

     Good idea to embed graphics in the article,
where possible and dynamic. I would very much
in good stead as the "scroll bar" ...
All these features are not so difficult
realize, and I wonder why even
ZX-Format still does not insert moving pictures into text. And 
I'm not trying to either in any case speak maliciously, because 
it all really REALLY can be done.



     ADV: In this we agree, you can. Topics
more of these ideas has been implemented in
Welcome Press and SPECTRUM PROGRESS.


     Here is another letter, but from
the city of Chelyabinsk. Wrote to us FANAT / VGA
STUDIO (Golovatenko Andrew).


     Hello!

     Congratulations to all editors ADVENTURER '
and the exit number # 6 (the anniversary) and
15 th anniversary SPECCY.


     ADV: Well spasibochki. Very nice.


     Reporter: I totally agree with the editors of the magazine 
and readers about the fact Spectrum that is alive and will 
continue to live. After reading an article in the second 
ADVENTURER, shed tears, remembering her first rubber (48th) 
SPECCY, bought for 1165 rubles, a bunch of tapes, the first 
drive 128 cars assembled on the knees (navesuhoy)

connect music CPU and
Finally, the assembly of my TURBO 2 + (by the way,
bad machine). Yes ... In PC never
will be a romance. Verified by experiment. In our hostel there 
are a number of IBM (PENTIUM 120) and SCORPION 256. After 
playing in all sorts of DOOM 's, DUKE' and, WARCRAFT ' s, etc., 
I turned away from the expensive monitor and sat at home 
SPECTRUM - clave. So, make your conclusions. Why am I

all? Besides, that was SPECCY, SPECCY
there, SPECCY will have :-).

     Although we in the city of Chelyabinsk situation, we can 
say is catastrophic. Where something happened to our Hacker, 
gamemaker'y, trader'ov and what little remained. Have not

out our magazine "SPECCY" (can you know
a).


     ADV: Yes, although "SPECCY" and covered,
but, as far as we know, you have a new magazine "MIRACLE" and 
came have at least two rooms.



     Reporter: In general, the need to save the situation. What 
we (me and my new band VGA STUDIO), and we want to do. There 
are many ideas, now we must implement them.



     ADV: Good luck in your work.


     Reporter: Well, something I was interested. Extend the 
main thing. Few disagree with the those readers who believe 
that any type of lotion to SPECCY IBM - claves, mouse, sound 
cards, etc. spoil Spectrum. I enjoyed working on

IBM - claves, to finish the mouse prilyapal
COVOX and want prisobachit 3'5 - inch
drive. I believe that such gadgets
easier to work, contribute to the further development of the 
Spectrum. 


     ADV: Well, how many people, so many opinions. In fact, our 
journal and aims to cover all possible views and point of view.



     Reporter: By the way, wanted to ask what
Heard about the project GENERAL SOUND, if
you know anything please write.


      ADV: GENERAL SOUND vengeance develops. At the moment 
there are programs that support GENERAL SOUND. Written by a 
music editor. But more about this project you can learn from 
the St. Petersburg newspaper and magazine ZX-FORMAT. 


     Reporter: Your magazine we read regularly. We really like 
it! Well done, guys! Your magazine is probably the only one 
that I read "from cover to cover." We look forward to the next 
room. May be in one of them will be my crazy

article.


     ADV: Well, like - got it. A
Seriously, we always welcome your letters.