New magazine - Magazine for users.

MAGAZINE FOR USERS                  

The editorial team welcomes everyone
spectrumists and congratulates readers on
with the release of the first issue of the new electronic
 of the new magazine "Passion"!              
The name quite accurately reflects the approach
to the choice of journal topics, since each
This section of the main menu is one of the
treatment of any member of the editorial board.
So, each member of the editorial board is a
the leader of his section is, as it were,
editor-in-chief of his mini-magazine and,
therefore, is fully responsible for co-
holding and designing your brainchild, and
also - for timely submission of material
to the beginning of the layout of the main collection.  Yes,
magazine "Hobbies" is essentially
a collection of thematic sections that
may not have any
there were no points of contact.  But I connect-
the magazine still has a major strength - it is
treatment of each author of his section
topic. The above can be contained in one
well, a succinct phrase: there is a leader - there is a time
cases, no leader - no section.  Since
among usno any advanced
programmers and ace circuit designers, then
relevant sections in the magazine so far
no.  However, this does not mean at all that
they will never exist or that they will not exist
maybe.  There will be people willing to open a new one
section - you are welcome!  But, read above,
We advise you to seriously think about your step, so
how are we going to release periodicals?
edition.  The purpose of the magazine is to attract
interest in creative work not only of those who
can write the original procedure in
assembler or leave it to the reader to judge
lay out a scheme for improving the computer, but also any
th Spectrum user who has in his
some hobby in life, be it fi-
lately or fishing, hunting or astronomy.
The main thing is the ability and desire to talk about
your passion, share your experience and knowledge
meetings with other people.                   
  Some technical information for those
who decides to open a section in our magazine
le.                                       
  Requirements for text files.  Width
lines - 42 characters. If the text is typed
in the ZX/IBM Editor, then ship
it must be with the mode turned on      
          SetUp|EOLN code|CR/LF.          
If the text contains illustrations, then
In my text it is necessary to conditionally show in which
this is where the drawings will be located:
fig. 1, fig. 2, etc.The drawings themselves should
be recorded on disk in the form of screen
files with the corresponding names: pic1,
pic2, etc. Since they are inserted into the text
sprites, then drawings do not necessarily have to
be full screen, but you need to record them
as screen files - 6912 bytes (extra from
will throw when cutting the sprite). In extreme
illustrations can be sent by
magician, but preferably with a clear depiction
all the details.                             
  If a section contains several
articles or sections with a large number of nested
details, then be sure to send a diagram of the me-
nude with the names of sections, articles and parts.
The diagram can be drawn on a sheet of paper,
so as not to bother with pseudo-graphics.
Example:                                   

Section menu Menu "Category 1"            
+----------+ +--------------+            
|Category 1 |  |Article 1 |            
+----------+ +--------------+            
|Category 2 |  |Article 2 |            
+----------+ +--------------+            
|Article |  |Department 1 |            
+----------+ +--------------+            
              |Article 3 |            
              +--------------+            

Menu "Department 1" Menu "Article 2"           
+------------+ +-------------+|Article 4 |  |Part 1 |           
+------------+ +------------+           
|Article 5 |  |Part 2 |           
+------------+ +------------+           
                |Part 3 |           
                +-------------+           

Naturally, instead of conditional ones, in the menu
must be valid ruble names
Rick, articles and parts.  Maximum width
menu lines - 29 characters.  In any way
way for each article and part it is necessary
dimo specify the name of the text file on
disk (so as not to get confused when assembling the logs)
nala, that is, this information is used
jelly).                                  
  So, dear readers, everything is very
simple: come up with your own name
section, think over its content and
Join the ranks of the authors of our magazine! 

 Especially warm words of gratitude are considered
We have a duty to say something to our
friend Kirill Aleksandrovich Trofimov,
who wrote the Techt Maker program, from
with the power of which the entire text was prepared
new material of sections.                    

 All the best and have a nice time -
seeing off!                              

Best regards,                              
Editorial Board of the magazine "Hobbies"