The final issue features practical Z80 assembly techniques, including clock speed measurement algorithms and efficient 42-column text printing with font compression. Developers will find a TR-DOS disk copy-protection guide using the VG93 controller, while hardware enthusiasts get schematics and PCB layouts for connecting a Kempston mouse via the 8255 PPI. The overview section covers recent software releases alongside satirical takes on 2000s hip-hop culture, humor, fiction, and a dictionary of text emoticons. Source code and utilities from the author are also included.
Issue contents:
- From the author - final issue.
- Programmers - Counting cycles.
- Programmers - An interesting algorithm for printing text with 42 characters per line.
- Programmers - The hacker club: Protected from copying.
- Crazy hands - Kempston mouse on BB55 with printed circuit board layout.
- White_parrot - Programmer_wife-3
- White_parrot - Collection of jokes.
- Our music - Hip-hop culture.
- Our music - Just a song.
- Review - new arrivals: Super Tetris, Acid Paper, Rip 12, ZX-Club 9, ZX-Guide 3, Never Noised, Mega Tetris 2000.
- Explanatory Dictionary - Official dictionary of smiles (emoticons).
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