Info Guide #08

Diskmag (electronic magazine)

30 Nov 2005 Download

  • Info Guide #08
  • Info Guide #08

This issue focuses on practical software development, hardware modifications, and the technical architecture of the platform. Featured guides cover building a CD video player, optimizing Z80 assembly code, programming the Turbo Sound chip, and implementing custom 16-color video modes. Additional articles explore disk system architectures, hard drive utilities, vacuum tube amplifier schematics, and the development history of the arcade game Pang.

Issue contents:

  1. Inferno - The authors of the magazine.
  2. Inferno - Entered from the editor.
  3. Inferno - Errors in the previous numbers.
  4. Inferno - On the shell.
  5. Iron - CD-ROM - a device and Tricks connection.
  6. For Coderz - CD video on the ZX. How to write a video player with CD-ROM.
  7. Softinka - Technical Reference disk system DISCiPLE / + D.
  8. For Coderz - Small programmers' tricks.
  9. Mathematics - The history of the solution of Fermat's theorem.
  10. Gameland - Game Shestnashki.
  11. Softinka - a description and history of the program to work with hard disk HDDoctor v0.9.
  12. Secrets - The X button in different applications: Wolfenstein'2004, IG # 5, ACEdit, DNA OS, Wild Disk Copier.
  13. Softinka - Improved graphics converter Gigascreen.
  14. Sound - tube amplifier. Stereo lampochnik 2x5 Tues of old TVs.
  15. Iron - Overview of cassette players.
  16. Inferno - Letters to the Editor.
  17. Gamedev - The history of the game Pang.
  18. Gamedev - Tips for writing an arcade game.
  19. Advertising - Ads by Roman Chuunin.
  20. Advertising - Ads by Alexei Zhabina.
  21. Advertising - Ads by V. Bogdanovich.
  22. Interview - Interview with Nikolay Rodionov, author of popular books for the ZX Spectrum
  23. For Coderz - The calculation of trigonometric and algebraic functions in a high-level languages.
  24. DIY - scheme of 16-color video mode v1.1 for the Pentagon.
  25. Iron - Description of Products K555TL2.
  26. For Coderz - Programming device sound generation Turbo Sound.
  27. Softinka - 384x304 viewer. program allows you to view color pictures, is larger than the screen.
  28. Softinka - ZX Spectrum emulator for ZX Spectrum.

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