Open Letter - An Open Letter OLDMAN'u about creating newspapers ...

<b>Open Letter</b> - An Open Letter OLDMAN'u about creating newspapers ...


        An Open Letter OLDMAN'u

           Chief Editor

       e-newspaper ON-LINE


(C) VfNG / NEW


   Hi OLDMAN! Other ON-LINE'ovtsy, of course, too. Very 
grateful that you published my letter in your newspaper and

supported our initiative, and very happy
now you can see firsthand what
what we promised. Here such it turned out,
e-newspaper Echo ... And it seems that
quite different from other
similar publications. For better or worse, is you to judge.


   In fact, consider whether the Echo newspaper, a moot point. 
The main thing that sets the newspaper from the magazine - it 
is efficiency. Period, output ON-LINE only two weeks that 
possible to create a narrower, probably, more sixty-quality and 
interesting rooms. This has not been on the Spectrum! 
Congratulations on an outstanding result! Echo same will be 
issued less frequently, because we No dial-up network for the 
Spectrum, and hence in newspapers will be collected for longer. 
But we will try to compensate for our 'Ping' the quality of 
published information, its quantity, the overall usability 
interface controls the newspaper. 


   You, OLDMAN, offered to start a discussion
on what should be the electronic newspaper. Well, it seems that 
as fast as ON-LINE, but a little more colorful and comfortable. 
You're worried that the volume of the interface with music and 
graphics will very large. We do it takes about

25 sectors, the amount of text the same (very cool spakovannyh, 
by the way) about 300 sectors. It turns out that your 
recommendations What about the fact that the amount of useful 
information should be 10 times more than the volume of the 
interface are satisfied. Assembling the newspaper is also a bit 
of time: just a must replace the assemblerovskom sheet music 
file name, the number of articles, fonts, and their size in 
sectors, pack, pour in one block and all! It takes a maximum

five hours, most of the time-on package. I
I think the reader will be pleased to listen to good music, 
scroll text like a keyboard or joystick, load the text from the 
disk of the same listalkoy, not three.



   We have already proposed, by the way, as you
afraid to hang a picture. Apparently, when the total volume of 
texts than 500 sectors, we will gain. In fact be nice! There 
are already proposals for publishing programs in an 
application, write a separate 128-th interface (all that now 
you can see a fully working in the 48K, hence the twitching of 
the text when scrolling). Many now called Echo magazine. But by

At least I do not know how the others do not
I want to turn the Echo to the log. This glupozanimat entire 
disc. Will be hard to write sea of music, draw a lot of 
graphics required for the magazine. There ZX-FORMAT, 
SPECTROFON. They are unique. So do not instead of a good (maybe 
soon you will think so) to produce a mediocre newspaper 
magazine. However, some deviations from the rules we do. I am 
sure you will appreciate the dignity of our innovations in the 
newspaper business. 


   This is basically everything. Happy New Year to you!
Perhaps, it may take a little time, and
You, in Moscow, will be with the same interest
wait Echo, as we have, in Brest, expect
ON-LINE. We will try!