ZX-Review - a guide on how to make a magazine on the Spectrum.

            
            
            
            
            
            
            
                                          
music:Midisoft/Energy Minds               
(C) Krueger/Delirium Tremens              
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     В некотором царстве...  убил...
    женил... принц... демон... царь-
    батюшка...     война...    КАЩЕЯ
UBNLN!!!...good to make money...
 score money... CYKN!         
                       
                       
                                          
                                       
lately on the Spectrum stage
began to appear more and more times
of this kindelectronic publications.With one hundred
rony, this is of course good - without magazines and
newspapers so beloved by all of us Spectrum already
It would have been bent long ago. But... Amazing and frightening
not the fact that many publications are made in
very, verylow level.Shells are very
they look ugly, the pictures are tasteless, but what
home-grown jours are doing with the Russian language
nalists, this is just some kind of horror... View
rub, for example, on ourmagazine... Creepy!     
 I, as an experienced editor (one project already
failed and ruined, now here's another one to-
I'm breaking... ;-)),I would like to give it to beginners
magbuildersome useful tips.
And if anyone, having read them even a little
improve the quality of my magazine, I will not-
said glad.                             
                                          
 SOME COMMON        
     RULES OF JOURNALISM.    
                                          
 1. _NEVER_  not
contact
this hard labor.    
                  
 2. If there is a connection - 
If you want, do it
quiet - look,
no one has replaced-
tit.              
                  
 3.If someone
already found out about yours
intentions, give
him a bottle of vodka
and ask for-
chat, otherwise don't let me
God someone
will hear.          
                  
 4. Accumulate more-
more money - they
you will need.                         
                                          
 5. Get ready for the freewaredistribution
understanding of your product. Even if you do
don't want to.                                
                                          
 6. Don’t even think about protecting the magazine from being copied.
roving - some goat buggy opening
No, but they will blame you.                                          
 7. After the final assembly of the first
copy of the journal, format all texts, use
shell walkers, and then the copy of the journal itself
nala.                                     
                                          
 8. Never copy your pro-
product. Just show me. Only a floppy disk, not
taking it out of the pocket  (if it is 5.25) and
don't show it at all if it 3.5.        
                                          
 9. Never give your address or
state your real name. May be
beat.                                     
                                          
                                          
 INTERFACE            
                                          
                                          
 At the moment the most   
progressive are two  
interface type - inconvenient   
and steamed. Personally, I re-   
I recommend you the latter. Here is   
its some provisions.        
                                
 1. The more icons of incomprehensible
values the better.                       
                                          
 2. Their functions should not be documented
Vans.                                     
                                          
 3. At least one of the icons
should kill the disk.                      
                                          
 4. All icons associated withflipping through
should completely destroy the system.        
                                          
 5. The counter in the leaflet should lie.      
                                          
 6. Names of articles, both in the menu and in
Le pictograms should be mixed up.     
                                          
 7. The arrow cursor shouldflicker.Flicker
sprites are not a glitch, but a realtime effect.   
                                          
 8. To confirm the selection of the article,
The drawer must require a numeric code of 128
(one hundred twenty-eight) characters.           
                                          
                                          
RAM                
                                          
 Rememberthis season expression andextremes. Either 16 Kb, or 4 MB and no
intermediate standard options such as:
"128 kilo-
byte of RAM..." Keep up
from time to time!                               
If you still decide to 
such a banal step as sub-
support  standard volumes
memory, then don’t bother yourself
writing autoconfigurators.
Let the user  enter the volume himself
██████████ memory, number of clock cycles in
interrupt and versionTR-DOS in his machine.
 Additional tip - whenfirst
error on the part of the user system here
should be reset and formatted
disk.                                     
                                          
 TEXT FORMAT          
                                          
 Be  original!  Come up with your own!
Imagine the situation - the user saves
text in the hope of pulling out some source
any procedure, convert and use
vat. He loads some kind of
married ZX/IBM... and... immeasurably breaking-
yes! Do you find it funny? Me too. But the user does not
very. And that's right -let him take a piece of paper,
pencil and rewrite by hand. Otherwise
they've ruined the fashion, you know...                 
                                          
                                          
 MUSIC              
                                          
 1. Music is a mustbe written in MUSIC BOX.       
 
 2. Text viewing mode and re-
The music listening mode should
be separated.                  
                                          
 3. When listening to music the screen should
clear so that the user does not have the opportunity
simultaneously read the text and listen to music.
Oversaturation of the brain with data can lead to
to a nervous breakdown!                         
                                          
 4. The music listening mode should be
away from killing the shell.                   
                                          
 5. Music should be as less as possible
pleasant.                                 
                                          
 6. If you don't have MUSIC BOX 128,write
in another editor, but remember - the sound must
female "swim". Together with  real-time effects
effects on the arrow this will give amazing
result.                                
                                          
                                          
LOADER              
                                          
                                   
 1. The opinion that the main 
 function loader  load data 
 new for a long time outdated! In  loader 
 the main thing is that it was there!             
                                   
 2. After loading each sector loader
must solve some other problem.
For example, find for a matrix of dimension
256x256 reverse. With verification!  Implement
true multitasking!!!               
                                          
 3. It is desirable that loading be carried out
only from a specific disk.Best -
drive D.                                   
                                          
                                          
VIEWER               
Cool page - 90% success. Here are the main ones
postulates for writing cool viewers:    
                                          
 1. Flipper does not need to - 
should fit into 
interrupt.  I know 
some people, 
which when you see 
this standard 
ope interrupt 
scroll`a hand pulls - 
to the reset button.   
 
 2. The best - if text printing
happens right before the eyes of the user. It's true
beautiful!                                  
                                          
 3. Aerobatics construction viewer is
the leafless page flies! This is so ek-
wacky and original!               
                                          
                                          
FONT                
                                          
                                     
Best of all - written, 8x8.Also
looks good 16x16,which can
use in special editions for
deaf and visually impaired. However, the highest
the degree of skill isGothic
font with 4x8 matrix.            
                                     
                                     
                                          
CRUNCHING             
                                          
Crunching... it's so vulgar and banal that
I don't even know what to advise you...
I came up with it! It will be very original xpahe-
writing text screen filesand compression
compressing these files with a compressor, attaching
Let's go to the editorARTIST.                 
                                          
                                          
OPTIMIZATION          
 Must be optimized
... What do you think,
what?   No, that's not correct.
Optimization must be subjected to 
write text of articles.  For
This is best used -
call abbreviations. Or, in
worst case, abbreviations.
Here is an example of such an opti
mization - abbreviation
of this entire section: Odp... Kvd, h? N, np.
Odpts.  Dalvia.   I,vhs,s.   Vvpto - aver:
Impressive, isn't it? Of course, it's convenient
readability decreases, but what can’t be done?
you bark in the name of optimization.              
                                          
GLITCHES               
                                          
 If youfollowed all our advice,then
catching glitches makes no sense - no one and
will not noticeagainst the background of the above described bells and whistles
Comrade One (radical) method of removal
bugs are described in the next section.         
                                          
                                          
 RELEASE!!!            
                                          
 The most pleasant part of creating a magazine.
However, to carry it out coolly and without unnecessary
them gotchas, you should follow next
rules:                                 
                                          
 1. Highly not recommended - 
relaxingwalk
along the street - troubles from me -there are inevitable.          
 
 2. Beer is cool,and vodka is 
kulney.                 
                         
 3. If you drink...  in
I mean, you will release
at home, move away
documents for the apartment. U
we already had a case when one such...
for my birthday  I drank the apartment away.
                                          
 4. The final act of the presentation is
the dukta should become Ritual of Burning... no,
not corpses, but just a single copy
documents for the apartment. UWe already had a case when one such...
for my birthday  I drank the apartment away.
                                          
 4. The final act of the presentation is
the dukta should become Ritual of Burning... not,
not corpses, but just a single copy
your magazine. (Attention, if you do not follow
given our advice, then do this
evil ritual _CATEGORICALLY_ not recommended
sulking. Better send a copy of your magazine
us.) This is the promised radical change
de-gluing system.                       
                                          
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
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