ZX-Review - interview with the creator of the program for creating newspapers Page Maker.

                    
                    
                    
                                          
   По мотивам Text Maker & Page Maker...  
                                          
music:Midisoft/Energy Minds               
(C) Eraser/Delirium Tremens               
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  ак я понял по отзывам народа о данных
прогах   (в   частности   первой),   весчи
оказались  нужными  (ну  я прямо рад!). Ко
мне  поступило  аж  6  писем  по поводу ТМ
(имеется  ввиду  по простой почте). А если
считать  еще  и Fido, then...:) Thanx...
Although I was able to respond not to all letters,but
sorry :(                                    
   I recently came across a newspaper
ZX-Hard #01.I was very shocked when
saw native shell from Page Maker
0.06;)  Did someone really decide with this  crap
take advantage :) I even sympathized
the creator of this newspaper (at the moment I
I will not discuss the contents of the newspaper, because...
in iron I am a complete teapot). After all
inRM 0.06, as I counted, discovered by me
at least 7 bugs!!!!  By the way, even about them
is mentioned in EI (see below).        
   Because  questions for me are asked in the section
Intro,  then I  decided  tothem  partially
answer...                               
 Hello, VTS!!!:                           
                                          
VTS> - VTS                               
 E> - Eraser                              
                                          
VTS> I convey great gratitude Fast
Groupfor their cool programs TM/RM.         
E>  Thanx;),  and not Fast Group, but
Delirium Tremens now.                  
                                          
VTS>  Just to add a couple more things:
for reducing loads caching the disk
with memory >128;                          
E>  Oh!  Probably this won't happen - I already
Even I guess what kind of  bugs there will be,  not
considering autoconfig...                    
                                          
VTS> nested menus; the ability to create
subsections consisting ofseveral
texts  and one music (as in electronic
newspapers like KrNews, only with the possibility
create nested menus)                 
E>  This is already  done in March in mine
program  Delirium Professional Page
Maker (DPPM v.1.0). Although it hasa glitch -
the program was written taking into account the mouse, even
before starting there is autodetect, but because
myinattention,  she is not there  naxaet;)
Probably I'll fix it, if the program is like this
needed.                                    
                                          
VTS> ... and loading simultaneously
(let's say severalsmalltexts can
fit in memory at the same time).        
E>  Well, as they say,  "the lip is no fool";)
Although this is not so necessary, becauseDPPM
works with the disk through the turbo driver.    
                                          
VTS>  If we take a deeper look at this issue,
then the system should be carefully thought through
caching  (including 128kb) and
simultaneous loading  of several blocks
data (descriptordownloaded together
blocks can be specified when working in RM).
It is also advisable to implementan arbitrary
linking music files, texts and
sprites.   That is music X1 linked to
texts  Y3, Y7;  Sprites Z2 are linked to
texts Y2, Y5..., etc.                  
E> As I already understood, you want to use
Page Maker  and further...  Well, that's good news;)
About arbitrary binding... Big troubles
with memory...                              
                                          
VTS>  However,  the designer contains one explicit
bug in color mode. Not lethal,
but   spoils my nerves.Consists in
impossibilityit’s normal to use ink 2, and again
from time ink 1: the designer places it incorrectly
control codes (wrong position).
If you use  ZX/ibm  editor
(ext,16;ext,2...), and set them manually,
that's all ok.                                
E> I don’t even have this version TM;) But
bug  I remember perfectly :)  He's also on my nerves
spoilt.                                 
                                          
VTS> In general, the package is cool!            
E> =)                                     
                                          
VTS>  Here I am linked to  Page
Maker etc. a couple more days and some
the glitches got me.  Therefore they are required
declassify  and it would also be desirable
fix.                                
E> Always ready;)                         
                                          
VTS>  Sound Tracker Pro does not go toKAE,
hanging on disk operations - all versions
except Barnaulskaya 48k  (but here is another
format, unpacked).                    
E>  By the way, I also have KAY. Me too
like you, suffered with STPro.  A feature
is as follows:  drive A
becomes drive C, B - D, C - A.
Cool, isn't it.  So what is needed
select disk driveC for A and drive D for
B;)  The same bug exists in ZASM 3.0i. Although
I didn’t understand why this was happening. 
                                          
VTS>  But that was just the beginning. Now
I came turn to find out how to display
offset playback muzak in TM/RM. Method
scientific poking showed:  NOTHING AT ALL.
Long hours of research revealed: it
ALWAYS EQUAL +5 FOR ALL ARTICLES!  AND
it doesn’t matter that you put  in TM (however
background music in the main menu in RM
is configured correctly.).                    
   And this despite the fact that Iall Mouzons
And this despite the fact that I all Mouzons
compiled in RT2.1 :-( , and communication with PT3
didn't bode well. SlavaPhF,
exists RT2.4 ;) . (It's good that Hrust
such a fast compressor...)              
E>  Bah!  I didn’t know that, so 7+1=8
:)                                        
                                          
VTS>  And for  dessert  had to be forced
TM/RM show me the sprites in 4th article.
It turned out to be very simple: when setting up
to disk in RM you need to sayYES for FIFTH
articles!                                  
E> Well, you didn't surprise me - old glitch;)   
                                          
VTS> Another joke:  TM  unloads
sprites with extension .$, a RM need as
and written in the help, .S                    
E>  Well, what did you want? In TM sprites
not packed  (.$),  but for  RM  are needed
packed  (.S).  So that there is no
confusion,variousextensions were introduced.