ZX Format #07 05 декабря 1997

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Mail - A masterpiece. Another interesting letter - "the majority of applications and system software - complete nonsense, and Labuda!

   Software
 to
 ZX-Spectrum.


   Andrew Gura (EAGLE SOFT)
 Kurgan
music by COOPER
_

The purpose of this article is chtobty all
programmers and users finally realized that most of the 
applications and system software (or anyone not want to offend) 
- Complete nonsense, and Labuda. And keeping these programs, 
they spend what ever and no who lacks - it's natural volume

(Place on disks, etc.)

Graficheaskie editors
music by _

Many versions of the store 100 Editors
ARTSTUDIO and ARTIST. If you have just such a situation, it is 
not so all fired. Because you are easily 'll find ARTSTUDIO 
version 128k (if you have these same "k") and remove all

remaining.
 You may ask: - Is that all? and more powerful
Editor will not?

 - Do not be! I will answer. And would not it
because 
ARTSTUDIO_и_так_является_самым__мощным__графическим_редактором. 
Even IBM'schiki would like to have an editor,

rather than the Paint Brush, etc.

 And for those who sit all day, scratching his head, wondering 
what would be cool create for the Speccy, I say that quite

not be superfluous editors and vector
three-dimensional graphics. But I really beg you,
If you think of the above described categories of people, then 
you do not even try create these editors, because neither

then separately you will not succeed. This
applies also to those who are computer
"I saw for the first time."

 Incidentally, the editor of a three-dimensional graphics, with 
it made the game DRILLER, DARK SIDE, CARRIER COMMAND, etc.


 Just want to add all known font editor simply remove (as are 
many of them, PROFESSIONAL FONT EDITOR one them), because fonts 
you can do and ARTSTUDIO. Repeat for the sprite generators and 
editors. Need Once the program with which you can easily cut 
the sprites (As in Artstudio when working with windows), about

the rest will take care of, certainly not without your help, 
editor Artstudio. 

 Assemblers
 _

 This is the most painful subject ZX-Spectrum.
The fact that no Speccy Assembler. You just have a question:
 - And how GENS, TASM, MASM, etc? AND
as it appeared all the games, demos, and various prikladnuhi?
 Apparently our programmers are not very present, what is the 
assembler and naklepalibeschislennyeTASM'y, XAS'y, ZXASSM'y. In 
fact, it's just text editors with the ability to assemble text, 
assembly proceeds rapidly, but how effective

These assemblers. They have an enormous number of shortcomings: 
the texts of all these "assemblers" are incompatible, the 
number of labels and macros is limited, very limited arithmetic 
capabilities, line numbering (it is impeding in creating 
large-volume software, length marks no more than 8 characters, 
etc. And check that the speed of assembly - not important!


 From all the above can be done
one conclusion - this is assembled
program should look like this (the example assembler M80): a 
separate program that assembles text typed in standard text

editor; could work with a lot of tags and macros, work with 
arithmetic functions, the length of labels to 14 characters 
(you can, but do not hold the race for the length of labels), 
the presence of the directive REPT. For those who do not know 
what REPT is explained. REPT - reduction of

REPEAT, which means repeat.
By dialing a simple combination:

 REPT 32
 LDI
 ENDM

you save yourself from the tedious dialing 32
LDI lines and save a lot of time.

 And those who still do not understand or
Conversely wanted to learn more about the assembly M80, I 
suggest reading the description. You'll be amazed at all the 
features: global tags opportunity use procedures that you

long and are written in another file
(Podlkyuchaemye files) and many others

 PS: The owners of computers already PROFI
long benefited from M80 in the mode of CP / M. AND
ry happy.

 Music editors
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 There are two types of editors: INTERUPT and DIGITAL.

 By type INTERRUPT include editors
ASM, SUOND TRACKER, SOUND TRACKER PRO. From
are the most powerful editor is ec
  naturally SOUND TRACKER PRO.

 By type of DIGITAL include editors DIGITAL STUDIO, INSTRUMENT 
and DMM. INSTRUMENT no compiler, so its use in the programs is 
excluded. I'm more naravitsya editor DIGITAL STUDIO. But I 
believe that the future of digital music on the ZX-Spectrum 
not, because playing music is almost 100% performance Z80. A 
GENERAL SOUND is not such a cool invention, as it is described 
in the ZX-FORMAT, and many programmers and circuitry

understand it.

 Other programs


 At Spectrum'e have several text
editors, it TLW, ZX-WORD, etc. But
standard on the ZX-Spectrum editor must take Speccy write. He 
has a lot of good characteristics: working with KOI and ALT; 
opportunity format text on your own;

the presence of all the characters in Russian and Latin 
alphabet, as well as graphic symbols. 

 Good programs designed for printing text and images on a 
printer, too small. Their weaknesses are generally identical: 
the inability to work with the printer via an external driver, 
the inconvenience of work incompatibility.


 There are many programs for the compression of graphic images, 
but the coefficient of contraction is usually small. The best 
program for compression of images is program COMPRES +. Feature 
it is that it compresses the image in 4 ways and

chooses the best for a given image.

 Well that's all. I think that after reading this article you 
will not loose a little space on their dizskah. And for those 
who wants to know more about the assembly of the M80 and

PC Profi, or just decided to write give their contact 
information: 

 640011 Kurgan,

   ul.Dostoevskogo 76a-18,
 EAGLE SOFT


  PS: If I offended anyone, then blaming!

PSS: I in any case, right!

 _

 The impression is that people dug in their drives
10-year-old and declared: I've seen everything there is to
 Spectrum and I know it sucks!

 Author of this opus can only sympathize, but wish to read more 
instructions to the new (and old too) program. 

P.S. Author's spelling as possible
preserved.