Born Dead #06 17 февраля 1999

Игры

Review - Overview of new products: Kolobok Zoom II, White Eagle: unknown companion, Twilight: The Land of Shadows, Quadrax, The Gate, Deja Vu # 7, Twin World, CSC-2: Deja Vu, CBSpeccy v0.19b.

                           REVIEW SOFT'A


(C) UnBEL! EVER ^ SPEED co. ^ XTM

Software to Samara ever rolled a lot, and almost
for every taste, color and budget. Much probably you have 
already see / buy the book market in Samara, but something

special, EXTREM'alno freshly brought me from a trip to
Country. So ...


                        KOL0BOK ZOOM II

                  (C) ASPHIXIA 'FATALITY'98

                       SIZE: 994 sectors

About this game is already much has been written, but it is so 
good what to do without her review, I just can not! So, this 
game can be characterized not otherwise Realtime Dendy Action. 
On 8-bit game consoles, such programs are dominant, but

on the Spectrum ... Not that they were not there before, of 
course analogs were (same BUBBLE BOBBLE) but the gameplay was 
under their the big question.


KOL0BOK ZOOM II is mad frame'ovy action. From colorful
decorated background, you will learn the essence of the game. 
Next is just get comfortable with the management and .... 
watering these snakes! All process is divided into three 
stages, each of which has 10 levels. The logical conclusion of 
the 30 levels is a shambles with itself Schroeder (the one from 
cheburashek ninja). 

The game has a built-in cheat - hold APX at boot (founded
by MMCM), which undoubtedly facilitates passage. However, even
without him I managed a couple of days to get to level 15. So
do not rush to include immortality!

Unfortunately, available in all versions of several beaten, and 
hangs after GAME OVER'a. I hope the authors are not breaking 
off and release Revised. Ah! Here is what came to mind: Was 
there a KOL0BOK 1? I remember the demo, but have not seen the 
full version ... 


                  WHITE EAGLE: Comrade KNOWN

                        (C) FATALITY'98

                      SIZE: 249 sectors

Well, if KOL0BOK ZOOM II was steep, the front of the White 
Eagle, I just get lost in definitions. FREEMAN outdid himself in

realtime action dendy game!

Although the program itself is not a complete game, and
more New Year's joke, it does not reduce its
values. Simply incomparable design, graphics and music are 
exactly the theme! Describe the feeling of playing the 
impossible - it must be seen himself.



                  TWILIGHT: The Land Of Shadows

                         (C) UltraSoft'95

                    DISK VERSION: FATALITY'98

                        SIZE: 987 sectors

KOL0BOK and White Eagle delivered to the ears of all lovers 
ponazhimat buttons, but the thinking part of TWILIGHT forced 
users strain gyrus. A detailed account of one of our readers

passage of this game, you can read below. From himself
add that unique Shadowland on Spektume was not. This
a hybrid of Star Heritage and THUNDERBIRDS'ov with absolutely
unprecedented concept of an interface. Special rulez shines
holders KEMPSTON MOUSE.

By the way, TWILIGHT is made in Slovakia and is probably
the largest of bourgeois toy since the collapse of companies 
and publishers manufacturers of software which has happened in 
92-93 years. But not frightened, FATALITY good job - the game 
completely russified!


One scary - a wild indifference to the problem KEMPSTON 
JOYSTICK'a! On machines with incorrectly implemented in 
KEMPSTON'om MARGO (toy written FATALITY) was unable to read the 
text HELP'a. This obviously learned nothing from the authors 
and they inserted TWILIGHT help with the same buggy survey. As 
a result, after choosing paragraph about, on my machine the 
text to scroll automatically at Recent pages and hard standing 
there. Must somehow more serious with survey of the most 
KEMPSTON'ov; that joysticks, mice that! 


                            QUADRAX

                       (C) UltraSoft'95


    DISK VERSION: FLASH INC. '98 DISK VERSION: FATALITY'98

    SIZE: 178 sectors SIZE: 194 sectors

QUADRAX, again, from Slovakia, will appeal to all those who are 
in the mold will strongly think that the pass TWILIGHT, but 
also to the level of "Koloboks" do not want to fall. This is 
such a wonderful puzzle toy, where two wild explorer hang out 
on the pyramid in search nekiih treasures. And you can play 
both together and one, in turn driving the characters. A total 
of 50 levels of play. 

Although QUADRAX was first unreleased in early summer, but in 
the versions (FLASH INC.) game was practically unchanged - the

is in the Slovak language, which is somewhat spoiled by the 
impression and strained. Version of FATALITY translated into a 
readable English, AY-equipped music and cool intro with cog

a la intro to DOOM by Flying / DR. And everything is good, but 
after a few days, many games have reached an absolutely 
impassable Level VYTAH. The logic of a man simply lost before 
this level. Version of the FLASH while in Samara was not. 
Sergius Puzzler / PXM, the last in its time the whole game 
until the end and published codes of levels in the newspaper 
PILOT29, writes on this about this:


"As it turned out, version of the FTL impassable. Lifts unable
lifting inanimate objects. In that version, which I
successfully, everything works fine. So FTL'y planted
real pig, or a bomb, if you want.
My advice - play in its original version, and FTL though not 
climb without need to bend or distort them "


Here are these glitches! FATALITY version of uniquely better at
all parameters, but ... impassable. A FLASH INC. which
Recently voobshe lazy and sometimes even releases of software
Doing basic modifications, proved to be a winner. I hope
FATALITY pofixennuyu release version, but somewhere in the 
loader write in large letters, that she was not buggy. Although 
now predlagaetsya method of treatment: it is necessary before 
the start of JP # 8C00 add entry in the # FB38 the following 
bytes: # C2, # 8C, # ED, # 1E, # FF. However, I doubt that it 
is easy to understand simple nick:)



                            DEJA VU # 7

                 BINARY DIMENSION ASSOCIATION'99

New number DEJA VU did not wait and came out with an enviable
speed straight shortly after the New Year. We can read,
material in bulk, and virtually any topic. APPENDIX
places in doubt, but the two bourgeois toys, not
form has BOOVIE 2, PIGGY, totally brightens
impression. Ah! More MARIO BROTHERS, though a demo version, but 
wildly cool. God forbid, its authors, will bring the game to 
the end, it's better MARIO from OHG, what is ...


Together with the new issue of the journal BD'shniki finally 
decided to release the first version of its compact disc for 
soft'om SPECCY. Drive I examined in detail, the thing dampness, 
but it is very interesting. Moreover, this disc probably is not 
my rival CD-collection, as an alternative. Only now is this

Alternatively, expensive ... CD has an excellent
printing design, and on the back side of the box label,
that it is your hard drive (unless you bought it officially).
So if you're not constrained in finance, I recommend to support 
the BD'shnikov and buy their CD. Perhaps one of these days they 
will release updated version, retouched and enlarged.


In addition to CD and DEJA VU # 7, from Kemerovo appeared:


                       THE GATE (video disk)

                        (C) PLAYGEAR / BDA '99

A new kind of software - video disk. Buy a disk is inserted 
into the drive, and then a movie! True dumb and short enough ...

How short, you ask? So how perversely
stored footage of this video!


    Features THE GATE: 474 personnel, 4-bit chunks, 7 fps

A little over a minute of real, sight! With 7 fps'ov
is not as slow as it might seem. Yes, and the
the fact that a minute on the screen all the flies, changes
explodes, etc. just fascinating! True, the impression
slightly spoils the conversion of poor quality, but justifies 
DANIEL is the fact that everything was done in a few hours to a 
proliferation never intended.


In general, the idea of ​​video disk'a very interested. By this 
we ALK'om decided to strike back (sm.NOVOSTI). It seems to me

that will soon be a sufficiently large number of similar works
as long as this trend is new and unstudied. By the way, THE
GATE - this is the beginning (as many as fit on a disk) from a 
large film entirely sostoyashego of computer animation. Full

the name of THE GATE TO THE MIND'S EYE, if I am not
memory.


                 CSC-2: DEJA VU (commercial)

                       (C) 1998 RUSH 'BIS

Also, one might say, VIDEO DISK:), in the sense opredennom
Of course! ETC GROUP make another attempt to advertise their
offspring (the game is the continuation CRIME SANTA) is created 
now the first year (probably the most long awaited project in 
general, well Of course, after SCENERGY:). Once launched, you 
can in five minutes to enjoy a view of how the protagonist goes 
on locations and do different neosmyslennye action. And as I

understand the drive is not very "engine" of the game (or else 
someone will steal) and is ready to animation, to throw off HR. 
In the process demonstration is Podgruzka the music - if you 
have 128k, and in machines where the brain more, all or nearly 
all loads at one time! Just do not forget to do before 
downloading USR 0; is not it podvisnet: (



                          TWIN WORLD

                   (C) CLAW + ILLUSION + NOP'98

                  DISK VERSION: UnBEL! EVER'99

Here, diskofitsiroval here the other day one of the latest 
gourmet demos. Just do not confuse it with the TWIN WORLD'om, 
who was of EXODUS, is quite another. All three parts are 
written under 48K, and the 128K loaded with RAM-DISK'a. Demo, 
in principle, done by for classical bourgeois pattern: two or 
three simple effect beautiful picture and digital Mouzon. But 
the most interesting located in the bowels of the code of this 
program! When you create a disk version, I tried to unzip one 
of the blocks and found the following piece of code:



         ....

       LD A, I

       JP PE, # C4B3

       LD A, I

       JP PE, # C4B3

         ....
# C4B3


    O What does this mean? Yes, that became a sensation "bug
Z-80 ', found and documented by Ivan Roschin giving
an invaluable opportunity to trace the program execution under
emulator, has been known for several years now those suckers! A 
pity that Laura explorer and discoverer of this most enigmatic 
and probably the last secrets of the Z-80 does not fully belong 
to Mr. Roshchin ... By the way, Ivan has released a fresh 
version of the utility BEST VIEW, already 2.6! Additions and 
improvements made to the program may only please ... BEST VIEW 
firmly took the position of best universal "glyadelschika" 
files and is not going to pass! 


                 -=  =
          ZX-Spectrum 128k emulator + TR-DOS file system

                Copyright (C) 1997-99 Code Busters

                   Written by Rst7 'Max Iwamoto

CodeBuster'y do not get tired to please amizhnikov new versions 
of its emulator. Since the time of v0.13b that we considered in 
the fifth BORN DEAD, a lot has changed for the better! Most 
importantly, is the appearance of support for all existing 
types of joysticks and KEMPSTON mouse! Now under the emulator 
you can play the demo WALKER'a just like on this AMIGA - one 
hand controls sight with the aid of a mouse, joystick and the 
other goes walker'om! It seems like there was emulation 
border'a, although he still did not see and tell how it really 
can not. 

Finally and irrevocably, along with images of the TR-DOS disks
format *. TRD, supported and popular "bourgeois" formats
*. TAP, *. SNA, *. Z80 (version 1.54, 2.01 '3.00), *. TZX (Not 
full, wait next version), as well as Hobeta (napryamuyu!) and 
*. SCL (new more advanced than Hobeta, format). As in most

emulators on the PC, now you can "glue" to their CBSpeccy
Images PZU'shek as BASIC48/128 and TR-DOS. Improved emulation
VG93 allows you to run ZX-FORMAT and REFRESH! Special
utility that comes with the emulator now allows you to take your
*. Trd files with regular tr-DOS floppies.

However, the emulator is still far from soveshenstva. More
, it turned out that the current version is efficient only on 
the CPU 68030, and at a steep 68040/60 simply will not work 
because differences in the architecture MMU. Obviously, this 
misunderstanding soon will be overcome ... Also, while a 
muffled quality emulation AY. It turns out that even if AY and 
will be 100% emulate that, then only in versions for MC68060.


And here's another glitch leads to sad thoughts about the 
quality of emulation Z80: none newspaper BUZZ, starting with 13 
and did not want to run! PARACELS / EI freaks out there kind of 
protection that "Flunked" an emulator of the RST # 7 ... At 
least hung Version 0.18b! Describes the version I have not had 
time to test but as it is written in help'e: Add all DDCB z80 
instructions emulation for more compatibility. So maybe now all

DC

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