Business Card - Introducing the new electronic journal "Major Wares" (c) Codebusters & VMG

<b>Business Card</b> - Introducing the new electronic journal

      BUSINESS CARD



           MAJOR WARES

    (C) CODEBUSTERS 'V.M.G.


     Introducing the new electronic journal "Major Wares",
leaving in the southern capital of the country
SPECCY Kharkov (under the North
Capital should be understood Peter
and between them - Moscow).

     WARES (written and WAREZ),
think everybody understands - software
and hardware, but the British
MAJOR translated word is not
only as "more important", "major" but as "adult." Maybe there 
was a mind that it, unlike some of these publications, produced 
no teenagers, but serious, known in the Spectrum community 
people - CODEBUSTERS (Max Iwamoto 'Rst7). Section "Hardware" 
Kharkov is the main circuitry SPECCY - V.M.G. 

     Despite the "respectable" age of the authors, the magazine 
itself is still young and is focused mainly on the younger 
user. The basis of ideology is the principle "Nothing more" 
from first to the last file is all about SPECCY,

SPECCY and for the sake of SPECCY.
The principle is based on three pillars: the new and 
well-forgotten old programs (mostly games), the description and 
the secrets of gaming, the improvement of the computer and 
knowledge about it. The Journal lots of good fresh music,

expanding shell.

     Editorial tends to pentagonoyazychnoy audience, but also 
preparing surprises for owners of the Scorpions and other 
versions of the machine. 

     With regard to relations with
edited by another Kharkov
the electronic journal "ZX Power",
something in life we are friends, sometimes
even collaborators, but also on the market -
competitors. This natural
for any two groups, the fact of delay, of course, a certain
imprint on the mood, but
makes working with enhanced
energy. We hope to maintain
mutual goodwill.

     Pages of the magazine "Major
Wares "may be granted
to set out the position of any
Kharkov and other cities to the author. The only natural
requirement - the article should be
written with respect for its readers: a simple and interesting 
language without offending audiences (Type "Connectors," 
"playful pens and similar gems; caused by such methods a 
negative bias to the author extended to the whole magazine).


     Particularly grateful for the edition will be sent to 
describe the game, found hidden passwords, valuable advice on 
the passage. Use with your permission, copyright graphics. The 
ideal option Correspondence - floppy disk (can "barter").


     In this issue of "ZX
Review "You can read the typographic version of the most 
controversial article," Prospects SPECCY "from the upcoming 
first numbers "Major Wares".



     OUTLOOK "SPECCY".
 Editorial of the "Major

  Wares "# 1, 1997. (C) V.M.G.


     SPECCY no longer just a computer, a movement of 
like-minded. They are united, perhaps, a love of simple and 
elegant, like nature itself, and a dislike of tricked and 
clumsy, as the IBM PC.


     SPECCY has become our (and
yours) national computer
just as the Italian
Pizza has become a national pride of Americans. Americans 
somehow do not lead discussions on According to Old Italian 
pizza recipes, and we all still holding on with both hands 
behind Sir Clive Sinclair's pants, as

if we hope for the revival
Spectrum boom in Europe.

     Talk about some of their models according to firm
prototype - the last refuge
concerned with the thought "but I
it is better (faster, higher,
stronger). "destiny of such people -
IBM PC, which they do hayut of
envy.

    There are also sincere fundamentalists, especially among
a simple guy. They told me would be
far more likeable, if
did not worship idols blindly and
did not require the destruction of dissent.

    SPECCY now experiencing is not
the best of times, though, judging by
the number of your letters and calls, the crisis was over and 
there is a noticeable rise of interest in this platform (I 
associate this rise to the mass exodus of users from "DENDY" 
and "SEGA". After playing enough, our man first, unsuccessfully 
seeking the keyboard on these things, and then is a screwdriver 
...). How many hold on a second wave of interest and whether a 
third, now depends on us. 

     Gone are the days when
could with impunity every
month to start a new revision
in the rapid whirlpool of market
SPECCY and see: take root
or ottorgnetsya. Now on
Whirlpool was a small stream, and perhaps there is a difference
between a drop of petrol, adding, say, in the Volga or in a cup
tea.

    I am sometimes asked: why did the last two years I almost
do not publish new developments for
SPECCY, not whether it is connected, by chance, with the 
gradual development senile dementia (sadly

just kidding) or loss of interest in
this machine? The answer is: no, no
connected. A whole bunch of new and existing
tested in hardware improvements are buried in my nightstand
not because of the miserly knight syndrome, but in pursuance of 
the commandment "Do no harm!". Like you, dear

Readers, I hope to implement global revolutionary project, and 
plastic surgery and cosmetic repairs

not able to do more than make the usual "Pentium" from
XT.

     Have, of course, opens the locker, when I want
eat or ask, for example,
quickly connect the modem company (see article in "Major Wares"
and "ZX Power"), but the opening
tables - this is not the discovery of America.

     I would like to participate in discussions about ways to 
develop SPECCY. 

     I hope that my opinion (and
can be co-operation) will be useful to other developers, 
because I've tried it on his Many of the computer only

projected their lotions (DMA,
14MHz, audio and video accelerators, graphics expansion, 
uncommittable page RAM, etc. and etc.) and, frankly, was

with the conviction that all this is not
TO.

     Implement the same larger project to one person, of 
course, not on forces. 

     So the first thing you need to do everything, including me,
to save SPECCY - is to leave his ambitions with the "genius" 
before the gates of hell (in the sense of impending hell of 
work), objective, balanced evaluation of all proposed projects 
and stay on the single.


     Second. Since the first paragraph is absolutely 
unrealistic, at least would reveal their plans to warn about 
the standards being used to divide the area of force 
application, in order not to reinvent a bike twice.


    Third. If the laws of the market,
borders and shovels past will not let us make even point "2", 
then try to force myself to at least tolerant of others'

way of thinking.

     Now for the schematic
side of the problem. I contend
that for the revival SPECCY need to do just two steps, and
the first of them is already half
passed. Ask any user: "What is missing SPECCY?", And
He certainly will respond, "Music and
graphics "and not" performance
CPU and RAM. "captured, where I'm going?" Absolutely, I propose 
to go AMIGi on the way, not IBM PC - are not

massively turbocharged (as
sounds short, you guessed it) "motherboard", and make
"Intelligent" peripherals.

     The first step, I was talking about, it's GENERAL SOUND - 
now almost ready "intellectual" saundkarta about which all know.


     The second step - 3D VIDEOPROCESSOR - almost already think 
"smart" card, which no one knows anything. 

     Under the intelligence (not to be confused with "Intel 
inside") cards here means that the processor Z80 enough TIME IN

PREYVANIE give commands video card such as "scroll background a 
right on one point," "scroll background 2-right on two points, 
"" sprite No. 5 to move up by 4 points, "" sprite number 999 
display on the screen from a position of such and such "

"Rotate the sprite", "scale sprite", "hold the line"
"Do a fill, etc.

     Then 256K + 7MHz to "motherboard" will not find it!

     I agree with many thoughts Nemo, but about the project
"TRANSFORMER" wants to argue.

     Dear Captain, your attitude to the way IBM PC we know, so 
why do you offer the same path for SPECCY? Okay,

well if Z180 has been kind of turbo Z80, but
You yourself in an appreciable loss of their diverging 
architectures themselves honestly what happens in general, other

machine. Really need to throw a good old SPECCY? Even
if we ignore the sentimental
sense, it is real whether such an upgrade from an economic 
point of view, or will have, both at home computer?


     An article in the "ZX Format'e # 5 is not
only the level but also on the tone
raises serious objections.

     Criticized another - it means it's time to praise yourself:
my proposed route does not require a change in tire computer
and hence the change of the machine itself!

     The reader waits for a response: so
Where is this infamous video processor? There will be two 
pieces of news: First the bad, then good. 

     Ready in the video processor
sleeve I do not, do not have it in
my bedside table (I'm not talking about your head!). The good: 
it will create an order of magnitude less time than a new 
computer OS. Recipe for something like this: take a cheap SVGA

map, add to it the processor (Z80, a high-speed 
microcontroller, Z180, i386, 68000, "Pentium" - the choice to 
taste, but the Z180 works best), then the ROM and RAM, all of 
this connect on a single board and

insert into (no, Rzhevskii,
no!) system connector Scorpion'a, KAY, PROFI, "the Pentagon"
(If you can find there connector) or
another good computer.

    Anticipate your questions and their
answers to them.

    About the price. Try to make
SVGA graphics on SPECCY for more
a lower price, or you believe
a ball?

    On the performance. Not quite
AMIGA, but DOOM color in the window
cope.

    On the quality. Requires rigorous evaluations. While I can 
not guarantee work on television, each point of the color of the

256, a palette 262 thousand colors, bitplanovye high resolution 
and fast text mode Hardware scrolls. Possible mode of operation 
and Monitor what's important in light of current certification 
requirements. 

    On compatibility. On discharge,
Naturally, access to the emulator
sinklerovskogo screen with virtually no restrictions on the 
software. Position, and length INT'a You may wish to make 
programmable. 

    On the software.
Backward compatibility is, and then - to adapt a couple of 
tough games, and the process will go on: there is soft - there 
is demand, there is a demand - buy a lotion, a lotion -

write a new software (for the video, even a child can
write a cool game, say
BASIC'e would be convertible from the sprites and backgrounds).

    There are other recipes VPU: Reduced, cool and exotic. To 
the first I would mention: a pair of video modes + Z180 + 
loadable "intelligence", ie work with the screen simply passed 
Z180, for which the user himself wrote the program. To the 
second - hardware scaling and other functions that will be 
envied AMIGA, but now is not the time and beyond their means. 
The most exotic option - use as a video processor ... 
motherboard IBM PC / AT 286/386 - sounds marazmatichno and

even insulting, but it turns out cheaply and without 
sverhusily. In addition, we have "a goose" keyboard controller, 
interrupt, DMA, clock, space for RAM.)


   When (if) the work on the video processor is finished,
You can think about mathematical,
communications (modem, hard drive, CD ROM) and other "smart"
maps.

   Want to hear expert
evaluation of the project, particularly from professionals, 
especially from St. Petersburg (if possible, without annoying 
already misanthropy). If assessment is positive, then

it's time to roll up our sleeves and go
declared by you and us
appeals - to a real union in the name of the future of 
transnational computer. 

     Those from whom a high heat of my pathetic flame
lines of getting the last tear in
as moral damages
let some of the planned undocumented commands
New GPU:


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