ACNews #70 02 мая 2018

News - Karbo came back and wrote new music, Freeman is in Ukraine now, in Odessa (left there before the Maidan, to the sea, for health reasons), sculpts games for mobile phones, Mythos codes firmware for BMW on outsourcing and is engaged.

                              News
                        by Alone Coder

I have finished my huge report at work. There will be
corrections after reviews, but there is a pause for the new
issue of the newspaper :)

The epidemic continues. My children caught it, Hippiman's too.
Nitrofurano writes that this winter he had flu three times. 

John Silver generates some very powerful bass for future mixes 
and looks for software to automatically twist the phases of
harmonics. Now he's twisting by hand. No finished music yet.

But Karbo came back and wrote new music!

Hippiman drew attention to an unusual release: 
Certain zx-чекан from Lancashire, England made a game for the
birthday of Speccy, using PGD engine (similar to Manic Miner).
http://stonechatproductions.co.uk/zxgames/OPZ%28RU%29.tap.zip
In principle, an unremarkable game, except that it has normal
complexity and it is pleasant to play.
This comrade himself posted it on zx-pk, he writes in Russian,
not well, but he said he tries to learn the language.
Foreigners rarely release games in Russian and at our forums!

Nikolay Amosov wrote memories about game clubs (press "3" ). He 
has sold his Scorpion to Belarus. Now it's bad with the Speccy
in Belarus.
Wolf/Rage writes: 
Freeman is in Ukraine now, in Odessa (left there before the 
Maidan, to the sea, for health reasons), sculpts games for 
mobile phones, decently earns. I (Wolf/R-Age) create 
simulators, also with solid profit. Mythos codes firmware for 
BMW on outsourcing and is engaged in other low-level 
programming, Ars and Mast are selling hardware, through their 
own firm in Moscow. I do not know the fate of Kaz and Neon, 
like they were going to emigrate. Paul Pavlov drinks a lot... 
Dien has passed away. 

Maksagor has called again. He says that he will not have major 
political projects in near future (his employer is the Communist
Party of the Russian Federation), so he will tightly work on the
TASiS operating system. Maksagor codes on real hardware. 
ATM Turbo 3 from Zorel (see Info Guide #12 ) is still at the 
stage of fixing the bugs (for example, the disk interface), so
Maksagor sits at ATM2+. 

DimkaM made a version of TASiS for ZX Evo, at the same time 
assembled an image of the system for installation to the SD-card
with a bunch of utilities under TASiS and music for TurboSound
FM. He also wrote a utility for TASiS to copy files from the 
SD card to the TASiS file system. And at the same time he
released the utility to build the emulator image of an SD-card.
See the links to the releases in the logs of#mhm channel at
04/26/2018, 04/04/2018, and01-02/05/2018: irclog.dimkam.ru/?c=1 
He is also involved in a Telnet client for ZXNetUSB. (Maksagor
writes a terminal in TASiS for COM-port.)

DJ Dron has implemented saving in UnrealSpeccy Portable 
emulator. Fyrex immediately made its own branch of the emulator,
which added support for ATM2+ memory (so far only in the upper
window).

In my spare time, I finally figured out how to implement more or
less nicely a cross betweenLisp and Forth, for a scripting
language. The idea is that the script can be edited
during the execution of the program. But the responses came
negative, so this project, apparently, will not take place - I
will just describe it here in general terms. I call itListh
(press "5" ).