Oberon Creative Rask
(C) 1998 MAX
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So I got the vaunted program for
cheeky name "ZX-WinWord v2.1". Yes...
My predictions for it were correct by approximately
half or a little more. First of all
I was interested in the capabilities of this program
for use in my journal. As chief
and the only editor of "Black Crow", and
also the main coder and writer, important to me
it was (and still is) to have something like this
software at hand, so as not to run around different
programs in search of an acceptable service and
bells and whistles. And here he is. I'm used to being pessimistic
look at things honestly, that's why the mood
before studying this package was exactly the same
coy. And he didn't let me down...
First of all, the similarity is striking
with a well-known txt editor and assembler
produced by Mr. Khokhlov, who
abandoned the Spectrum, but before that I gave it away
listings of your programs to everyone. These
"those who wish"immediately began to produce new ver-
these in the form ZX-ASM v3.xx and the like. Not
I will reproach the creators ofZX-WinWord`a
plagiarism, but claims to their software
there are, and considerable ones. Basically they dealt
use a text editor, because "carver
sprites" I don’t need due to inconsistency
implementation of standards in "Raven"and "Oberon".
Working with any editor starts with
downloads. Five seconds - normal flight.
Next, you must enter text, otherwise
what did you get here for? Five seconds - still le-
Tim. But you can’t enter the 43rd character anymore. A
sorry. I need to enter 64 characters of text
and then color it, but the program for this
won't allow it. The flight is crappy - it shakes. By
Help shows that there are three fonts.
Let's connect... I don't understand. One more time... Again
misunderstandings. Why have three identical ones?
by font size? And there's no way
upload some of your own, even more perverted
whelped. Lightning flashed behind the porthole,
but we are still flying...
The further into the forest, the more firewood. All
in my life I have encountered a situation
whenyou are working with some text that
This is located on two pages. How
It’s inconvenient to flip a sheet of paper back and forth. But
here is the same as on the paper version
magazine: page-by-page viewing of the text. And
no compromises. But the txt mode is
lali. Well, at least there was the possibility of fox-
become a scroller. But that was not the case... Bark
ner gave a list to the left side, but the flight is still
continues.
The text is located on the pages and has
It is 48Kb in size (thank God it’s not 20!!!).
But I need to “cut” it somehow, because... in
"Black Crow", "ZX-Format`e" and many
in other electronic magazines the text is also
lives on the pages, but in a compressed form
video is loaded from disk. Naive desire
I'll tell you. There is no special "carver"
The only option left is the block method. So I de-
I bark in all other editors. I celebrate
block of text and another common one immediately popped up
pathology for all editors - no and in
mention of a size indicator marked
block! ONLY"MicroEd" Kovalevsky in
the service line displays this parameter.
NOBODY ELSE :-( Oh well - “by eye”
let's try to catch the size within 16 ki-
lobyte - no longer used to it. Got it. Nowyou need to write the marked block to disk.
Obana! And this mode is in the disk menu
no operations! Fucked up the plane.
This is the editor written by the guys from
Samara... And they also boasted that from the prototype
pa (ZX/iBM Editor) not a single command
took. It would be better to take it. Not a couple of teams,
motherfucker, the whole editor would have been redone.
There, by the way, these above
there are no shortcomings. So take a seat
for the assembler and kill all the holes on
which I indicated. Otherwise the country is forced
suffer and write Oberon-like programs
we. It wouldn't hurt to make it possible
setup`installation/replacement of tokens.
And now I give the floor to the authors of the package.
The text, as well as the music with all the glitches,
kami, taken from the magazine ZX-Format #7. This
the magazine "lost" the package in its application,
that's why I think it's possible to rip out the article
from them, rewrite it under "Black Crow" in
all references to the printed publication and
place it at home. So we read the author-
English text:(C) 1997 Atrides & Noman
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We, Evgeniy Milun (Paul Atrides) and
Alexey Kurzanov (Noman ABK) from "Star`s
of Keladan HG" (Samara), welcome
to welcome all readers of the magazine "Black
Crow #2". We would like to present to your
trial our development package Oberon Creative
Rask, consisting of two programs: ZX-
WinWord and Sprite Cuter.
"ZX-WinWord"
(C) Paul Atrides.
It all started about a year and a half ago
ago when I found out that it turns out
on BC there is a program somewhat reminiscent
iBMWord for Windowsand allows
make, for example, all sorts of posters, calendars
(oneI saw the calendar myself - it’s impressive).
You can imagine how upset I felt for
"fatherland" - the good old Spectrum? This
first reason. The second one is more down to earth:
we started publishing our own magazine
Oberon and we needed some
merging tool
text and graphics. And it would be good if
it was possible to color these texts.
This is how the idea of the first one came about
`ZXWinWord`a. I started working on it.
Along the way, while working on Oberon #1
it turned out that typing texts in one
program, format in another,
coloring in the third is very inconvenient. And
helpful imagination immediately suggested - and
why not make a full-fledged text
editor that allows you to see and
edit not just “naked” text, but
text combined with graphics and even
colored?! Moreover, at the same time
a lot of electronic
magazines and newspapers. If the program exits
good, then this will be a good help -
to the editors of these magazines and newspapers.
Let it be called ZX-Word,
he turned out very similaron your
IBM's brother. Oh no - like that
The program already exists, it’s a shame. Well then
let it beZX-WinWord. So be it.
The basis for the appearance of the command set and
keys (i.e. user interface)
the program we liked so much was taken
ZX/iBM Editor. Everyone liked this one
editor, except for one “but” - text length
no more than 2ZKb. Here's another "bell"
future ZX-WinWord - maximum length
there should be as much text as possible.
For example, 48 kilobytes. You can still take
for graphics about 32 kilobytes. Why not
and no? The only drawback is the program
will not work on computers with
memory less than 128 KB. This is of course
It’s a shame, but how else can we implement such
volumes?!
The first version was ready by the fall of 1996
years. But since at that time I did not yet know
Mu, besides us, we need this editor and pos-
Since during the development of the 1st version I
pursued goals somewhat different from
beautiful design and stunning
speed. This was a beta version. Bye
the first version began to be distributed throughout
country, I found out that in Samara this program
a lot of people liked it and I started making it
nextversion. The first ones started arriving
suggestions about what needs to be changed or
add. First of all, it was increased
speed of some procedures, added
more file operations, killed some
glitches.
A year has passed. It is now autumn 1997.
It's been almost a year since ZX-WinWord
used in Samara. All texts for
of our magazine are stuffed and designed
exactly in it. And the editor himself suffered
already significant changes. Now it's not
just some kind of utility, but quite normal
a powerful text editor that allows you to
for example, format texts,
color them in everything imaginable and inconceivable -
wash colors, change the font in the text. And one more thing
a lot of things. And now thanks to "Black
Raven" and you can look at this
editor. And perhaps, who knows, he will give you
will help in some way. For example, if you want
publish your own newspaper or magazine. A
if not, maybe you just want to
color some text.
To view the full description
download ZXWinWord and enter the menu File,
nowDoc. select file with cursor
winw.doc and read. The pages are turning
using the "TRUE VIDEO" and "INV.VIDEO" keys.
"Sprite Cutter"
(C) Noman
Well, okay, another reader will say, well
I haveWinWord, but why do I need sprites?
do? And everything is very simple. Sprites
can be drawn in any graphic editor,
which you have on hand, and then
are cut out from the resulting picture from
with the power of this program.
The first version of this program was written
a long time ago, around 1994. It was made
E. Milun (Paul Atrides) "for myself", i.e.
was non-profit and represented
a simple utility with a simple menu,
allowing you to: upload pictures, cut
of whichsprites, add sprites to tables
tsu. When did work on ZX- begin?
WinWordit became clear that it was necessary
make a completely new version. For this
I took over the matter. In the most recent version,
which you will find in the application, in addition to
"standard" functions (loading screen,
cutting sprites, viewing/deleting any
go sprite from the table) are implemented and but
New: the ability to cut sprites in different
formats - not only for WinWord`a,
but also for any developed by you
programs; scroll the sprite (more precisely, it
image) up down left right;
overlay sprites on the screen from a table and
much more. Unfortunately, it has not yet been realized
support is called Kempston Mouse, I have it
it just wasn't there. But already in the next version
this will be fixed.! More details
read inhelp`e included with the program
file in the formatZX-WinWord`of the document
cop.
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In conclusion I want to say,what a pain
By all accounts, the editor is more or less good.
Even despite all the shortcomings, that's all
better than nothing at all. All texts in
the second issue of "Black Crow"were stuffed,
"painted" and formatted in ZX-WinWord
v2.1. We are waiting for a new version of the package with more
sophisticated possibilities. I wanted more
wish adaptation to greater than 128K pa-
crumpled, but scary - hell knows what
they're sitting there... So it's better than 128. For now.
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