Mail - letters to the newspaper from: Vladimir Karrenko, Nikolaj Amosov, Black Cat, C-Jeff, Vladimir Ostalcev, Nikolaou Abdrafikov, Sergey Murashov, Vladimir Ivannikov.

                                          
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 He took a pencil and a blank sheet of paper...  
                      I opened my email program and started writing...
                                                                
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 This time it may not have come to us
as many letters as I would like, but
realizing that there are a lot of spektrumists
our people are lazy, we were still very
Every letter is welcome.     I would like to
thank everyone who supported usland
wrote to us.   Your words warmed our hearts
and pushed for the release of the next numberra.
Oddly enough, but how-libo
nobody wrote any significant criticism.
Perhaps this indicates that our
the newspaper has finally reached the level where
which we can be proud of.            
   This time I answered all letters
mainly Himik,since it is his
e-mail was indicated as a possible means
communications.   Still, you will find mine here and there
answers.                                   
    Read our newspaper!  Rate her!
Write us letters, because it is important for us to know
your opinion!   And we will try to take everything into account
your wishes!                           
                                          
 Further in the text:    
zxz> Himik's ZXZ   
nvs> NoViS                                
rtd> RTD                                  
                                          
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From: Vladimir Karpenko 
                                          
 I read a new subject here!    Yes 
severalcomments!                      
                                          
 What kind of bad intro? Where are the spectropubbies!
Give me spectropubbies!                     
    
zxz> Spectropusies died of silenceinia
scenes.                                    
                                       
rtd> It's been blowing me away lately. I want
write a toy.    Accordingly, everything
the rest has to be beaten out of me
by force.   Spectropubies shouldn't be buried
Look, they'll wake up.  I hope.          
                                          
Where is the new cool screensaver?            
                                          
zxz> After 70 seconds it appears on the screen.   
                                          
What the hell is in Rulezniki?                
zxz> This is to the authors, read below :)    
                                          
rtd> There are glitches in Rulezniki.                  
                                       
And everything is just right!                   
                                          
zxz> Thank you for your kind words. As I understand it,
there are no downsides :)                        
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From : Nikolaj Amosov <2:5030/978.14>
                                          
I'm not a scribbler, but here's what I want to tell you:    
                                          
1. It was not possible to start without USR 0.        
                                          
zxz>  Yes, this is my omission.   Completenbut
I forgot about the users who work  on
Pentagon-like computers.   I myself  on
The pro did everything, there is a direct outputodto
TR-DOS.   I hope there are problems in this issue
there will be no such thing anymore.                       
                                          
2.   It is necessary to make it possible to skip
screensavers, otherwise after three viewings already
tired...                                
                                          
zxz>  I agree!  So it will be.   I personally don't
I thought it would be watched three times :)   
                                          
3. The new shell is very comfortable!           
                                          
zxz> It seems to me that this was a plus? :)    
                                          
4.Why are there no articles uploading? Because of thisoth
the value of articles decreases, because readats
I don't like the screen - I have a printer.  
                                          
zxz>  This issue contains a shipment of articles.
So, I hope you pleased?                 
                                          
5. It's funny, but in Turbo mode when scrolling
forward beam cuts the text in the middle
screen.  Strange!  Usually, if the leaflet
frame, then turning on the turbo does not lead to
to the effects of turning it off...              
                                          
zxz>  This is just news for me! I
tested the shell on different intax,
computers, turbo modes - everything was in order.
I don't even know what to say.                
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Black Sat/NRGXXL                         
03/10/2003                                
                                          
Hi!                                       
    I read the long-awaited issue of IzhNews13.
Immediately after reading it I wanted to say
a lot, but 4 days have already passed, and among
them - March 8.  I don’t know who is what, but I’m mine
I gave my wife a trip to French manicure.
Now I'll collect the remnants of my drunken mind
:) and I’ll try to remember what I wanted
report.  Well, first of all, they haven’t forgotten you,
and they were waiting for you ;)))    
    
zxz> This pleases and tickles our pridee! 
                                       
--- Shell                              
 Decent viewer (for newspaper)
level.    As they say, critical
minimum: everything you need, nothing extra. But
There is still one serious remark.
Need toIt is _OBLIGATORY_ to provide support
switching color/black and white mode.   
    On my b/w monitor sometimes
I had to strain to see
text.  I don't think it's a switch
very difficult to do.                     
                                          
zxz>  Well, I listened to you :) Tepery
There is a switch to black and white mode. Fmi
button wig 'W'.                             
   
--- Texts                                
 In your own words,
sorry for the redirection, read
there is something, but nothing phenomenal.  Although
I was pleased, I won’t hide it.  Especially me, like
interested person, pleased with the section
Destroyer.   About the review of PL#2 -
harsh but fair.  Although I’m not with everything
I can agree.                         
    You know, I began to notice a long time ago
trend in press reviews.  Unfortunately,
This also manifested itself in your publication.  Two
main provisionsthis trend:    
    1) Taken into account firsted
professionalism in terms of shell, musickand,
graphics, and only then - semantic loadingnarrow.
Imho, this is incorrect.                    
    2) Accusations of leftist excess
material.  You forget that spektrumists
- these, oddly enough, are also people :) They have
I have other interests besides computers.
    Here, take a look at the ordinary press, there
is considered normal if on the last
printed on the pages of a news publication
crosswords, jokes, etc.               
                                          
nvs>  I think in your words, Black Sat,
there is some truth, I personally don’t
I like it when press reviews havepor
is done on the quality of the shell.  But, dumayu,
I guess why the authors of similarns
reviews do just that. I eachYes,
this happens for the simple reason that
modern press on zx, has dropped
in terms of the level of materials so much that about something
or other than the shell,
there is nothing to say.  And, moreover, many
spektrumists look at esmi with their eyes
coders, because it is the coders on our
scene majority, at least that's how it is
it was before.  Perhaps I am guilty of this too?   
   Regarding the accusations in connection with "left"
material, then these are not accusations at all.
Simply, if the Spectrum newspaper is more
than 50% consists of similar royes
materials, sometimes drawn from thetey
or any other sources, then tofrom
this is definitely incorrect, and,in
additives, stupid.    Who needs delusional
reprints of stories about something unclear?
Most often this is exactly what happens, and personally
It's not that I don't like it, for
it's just for me nonsense some kind.   I
for having this “leftist” material
within reasonable limits!                      
                                          
--- Media                                 
 Well, everything is OK with the graphics, the same thing
concerns music.  I was especially pleasantly surprised
diversity of authors: it turns out not
only C-Jeff is writing music now!        
    
zxz> Oh, how many wonderful discoveries we have... :)  
                                       
--- Appendix                            
 This is completely out of whack.  Everything is cool! And
however, I will always find what to do
find fault.                               
    1) Guys, don’t be lazy to throw on disks
boot!  How do you order to drive your floppy disk,
if you left one sector for boot?
And filelists wouldn't hurt either.      
                                          
zxz>  Here we argued for a long time whether to be or not
be.     Simply, Noviset was impatient
divide the software into all sorts of stripes.   I don't
started to become perverted, just did something wrong
file, and it occupies an entire sector.  And thatkthem
There are a lot of separators.  That's about [FAN]ali
place for bottles   I hope this number is note
everything will be ok.                             
                                          
 2) The following note does not apply
only to you, but also to everyone who cooks
releases.   Let's at least say a few lines about
what kind of game is it and what should you do in it.      
                                          
zxz>  I agree with you.  This is necessary.
We will try!                          
                                          
 Well, that seems to be all that bothers me.
I'll finish.                         
    
zxz> It won't be enough :)   
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From: "c-jeff" 
                                          
 Well done!!!                          
    Just kewl!    Lots of interesting
information, although some is not much
outdated. Well, nothing :)                  
                                          
zxz>  Indeed, there is information
a little old, but it couldn’t have been
just throw it away?                          
                                          
 The page is good, the music is pleasant,
graphics are a real highlight :) )    
    rtd literally killed me titlenoh
picture!!!    Why at the party redko
is he exhibiting???                    
                                          
zxz>  For him, drawing a picture is
long and measured work. At the party he
participates, though only on ours -
ASCii. Perhaps we'll breed him to participate
inCAFe'03.                                
                                          
 I was very excited about the music of 95-96
y Dreamer. I liked it.              
                                          
zxz> That's why I inserted it. Novis,
True, I was indignant and didn’t want to put it on - 
ReDisk-A.                                 
                                          
 In general, in one word - Excellent!!!     
    I'm looking forward to the next numberom.
If you need anything, write!!!                   
                                          
zxz> If you are reading this, the new number is already
came out, all that remains is to finish reading it
end, and again send a review.     
                                          
 ps.  Himik.  You don't know how it's possible
contact the war lord???  Or just
tell him - with music for psyxor I can
help.  But only in reasonable quantities
:) )) Let him write to me then.            
                                          
zxz>  We have already discussed this, to what extentaboutI
I remember.                                    
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From : Vladimir Ostalcev <2:5050/125.4>
                                          
 Very, very impressed with the new
publication. In general, I liked it.           
    But most of all I was filled with laughter
about the story of the party in whichThe following people were present: Rin, Adam
Bazaroff, KIM, Himik, etc.               
    Hmm... fed me some jokes. :)          
                                          
zxz>  capacious content of this letter
simply amazing :) Yes, indeed, we
When they read it themselves, they burst out laughing.     
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From : Nickolay Abdrafikov <2:5050/11.67>
                                          
 I read IN#0D, some thoughts appeared:
I decided to write. Maybe it's strange that I
I'm posting this in the reviews section, but I think...
this would be more correct, because participation in
I did not take part in the creation of the 13th issue and to IN
I have a very strong attitude now
mediocre, why are children on the street,
when they see me, they point a finger at me disapprovingly.
my direction.                         
    I would like to be happy for the newspaper, it
is clearly progressing, and at the same timetime
to be sad, because she is no longer the same, although
at first glance, fundamentally nothing and  not
has changed, it seems that the publication is onlybko
overgrown with material, people, thicktreeand
has become heavier, but it is no longer that heated
craft, not pieces of text in a shell,  
which, for some reason, still works.      
    Now it is a full-fledged product,
which will clearly appear in the reviews
most other magazines and newspapers.
Now a newspaper (I don’t know how much
now this name is appropriate) they do not
some unfinished brc, now
professionals put their hand to it.  Not even
applied, PoS-WT picked up the newspaper from the ground and
canceled the contract with the funeral home.
Now, most likely, you can no longer write
about holes in cookies.                   
    The newspaper has lost its locality,mnot
it seems that she no longer belongs to thosewho
actually, he doesn’t know about the stage and sceners.
    She becamesome kind of big, adult,
now she must be respected, the weight has changed
category.   It seems good, but something
This seems wrong to me.             
    Now they are not allowed in texts
grammatical errors, shell now
you can't glitch, readers now have something
expect responsibility from the newspaper
appears. I don't know if this is good or bad.
                                          
zxz> Hmm... Nostalgia will eat you alive!
Of course, I thought, even hoped thato
in this issue we will see something from
you... Not fate...    
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From : Sergey Murashov <2:5050/125.2>
                                          
 What I want and what I insist on: so that
the newspaper did not blend in with the mass of similar ones,
had her own face (it seems, it turns out);  was
"mobile" - "democratic" -
"free" instyle and design (in
within reasonable limits, of course)
not boring;    informative (not only
news, but also classic specifics -
asm, glands, etc.);   represented
different points of view; was honest; nyand
also like this and like this ;) It seems to me thateti
the requirements are almost met, but everythinggyes
something is missing (and it is always missinglo). 
                                          
 The disadvantages include the fact that
a small part of the texts did not pass verification
and contains errors, and also that part
the material is morally outdated.   More
There's really nothing to complain about.               
                                          
 I hope the newspaper doesn't get stale from
of his greatness, will receive a portion of criticism and
many positive reviews and will remain
Lively, diverse, open, own
among friends, will bring positivity.       
    
And our job is to interfere with everythingee
by hook or by crook to their articlesandand
ideas. :)   
 I hope the newspaper doesn't get stale from
of his greatness, will receive a portion of criticism and
many positive reviews and will remain
Lively, diverse, open, own
among friends, will bring positivity.       
                                          
 And our job is to interfere with her with everything
by hook or by crook with their articles and
ideas. :)                                 
                                          
zxz>  The main thing, Seryoga, is faith in
the necessity of what you do!       
                                          
rtd>  =) I didn't expect to see my writingy. 
                                          
Read on...   
                                          
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From : Vladimir Ivannikov <2:5036/45.49>
                                          
 Hello, _IzhNews_.                 
    I read your magazine and decided to write.
But first about myself ;) I'm a beginner at
Spectrum.   Perhaps that's why you will
This letter is interesting :) So, what did I want?
say?   First, support: zhurnal
cool, pisish ones never dreamed of this :) andI
I hope that we (i.e. your readers) willdeat
continue to read it.   Unfortunatelyyu,I
I watched it from under the emulator and therefore
I still couldn’t avoid some glitches, but
these are glitches, rather, of the emulator (old,
Shalaeva, version 1_with_something_there :) But how
they say, there was a fly in the ointment...
First, some oversights and shortcomings
(otherwise I’ll praise you more :)                                          
 So, the first thing is that I didn’t understand what was there
Did you mess up the fonts?   Why some
articles were written in small
square font?  You yourself wrote,
that it is necessary to protect the eyesight of readers in the reviewore
other magazines... Although, in principlepe,
tolerable, but still uncomfortable to read.     
   
zxz>  Most of the texts were written by the 42nd
font, but there are some in 64 font.  And this,
I think it’s not bad, because...  diversity and
Brain tension is sometimes also necessary
person :)                                
                                          
 Second - PLEASE DO
SLIDER!!!   Well, at least, at worst,
stick percentages somewhere in the corner
read.  Otherwise you'll understand in what way
where you are in the text.               
                                          
zxz> Currentlytime this vopros
still open.  There might be a slider. Eto
technical point.                       
                                       
 I also don’t understand why some
The articles are divided into several parts, although
within the meaning they should be in one.   Forced
assume that this is due either to
limitation of the Spectrum (for example, its
file system), or the program itself. But not
Is it because of a lack of material? ;)         
                                          
zxz>  There are some
restrictions, but you're probably talking about
Destroyer.  We decided to divide it into three articles
because it somehow turned out ugly
would be a section in which there is only one articleI. 
                                          
That's it, the shortcomings are over, heatery
Let's move on to requests and wishes:                                            
 Please make a section for beginners :) 
In general, this is probably my personal request,
because, probably, they are not like that on the Spectrum
too much :( But still...             
                                          
zxz> Return to the origins of the Spectrum? :)       
                                          
 To my surprise and disappointment I did not find it
section "Coding" (well, or whatever it is called) i.e.
section dedicated specifically to the creation
prog.  It's a pity...                            
    
zxz> I was promised that in this room there would bedet
article about coding.                      
                                       
nvs>  Rejoice, code lovers!  B
in this issue it was not
the worst system coder - Himik,
therefore, there is something to read from the sphere of asm.
This is just for beginnersthese materials
most likely won't fit. But, by the way, who
knows, who knows...                       
                                          
 Also, the section is not visible
dedicated to aski art.  Not good, gentlemen
sceners, not good :)                       
                                          
zxz>  NOT SCENES!   Just specrumts.
How should we conduct this section if net
ASCII artists among us???             
                                       
nvs>  To all ascii artists who wish
share your knowledge from the pages
our newspaper, we will be very happy.   Here
there are no takers yet, but we are waiting and
we hope!                                 
                                          
 I suggest the programs lying on the disk
run directly from the shell (at least
at least games).  This is done, for example, in
Gothiq (or something like this :)          
                                          
zxz> This is not always convenient, because application
happens on different disks.  Although there isnhell
than to think.                             
                                          
 Unfortunately, your wonderful (probablybut ;)
I can’t listen to music because of my mule
succeeded, but when will I get the real one?
spec (and I’ll probably buy it for sure :)),
then I will enjoy your magazine to the fullest
at least... By the way, which one would you recommend?  
                                          
zxz> Profi-1024. With int-Pentagon firmware.
                                          
 I liked your review of the destroyer (why-
then in three parts ;) It’s a pity, no
links to group sites or at least there,
where can I download these logs? Of course
I would like to have a rating at the endka.
Ideally, of course, so that for this price
there would be 2-3 people standing.                   
   
zxz>  Novis!  Do you understand the person??? for you
remark.                                
                                          
nvs>  I can only evaluate the press
subjectively, which is what I have been doing for years
several numbers.  Nothing about ratings
I can’t say, because I have no right to bet
anyone's ratings.  I think that's enough
that I'm just writing my opinion and be
maybe someone has this opinion
listens.   And download everything that I
I describe it in a press review, you can here:
www.pos.fmshop.ru    
                                          
I really liked the article about musicy
section "Lyrics", it seems.  But IMHO, itis not in
you need lyrics, but in “Secrets of the Masters”.  Ah,
Is there no such section yet? Well, create it ;)
But seriously, you can put it there like
once interviews with coders,artists,
musicians, etc.   And I would also really like
I wanted to know about them, for example,
hobbies, what kind of music they listen to, how
gain inspiration, how much they work in
day, etc., etc.    In general, think
decide - I’ll give you ideas. ;)            
                                          
zxz> Well, there was such a section.   Rough
speaking - the working atmosphere is speckrtumista.
The last issue was about music.  In thistom
there too.                                
                                       
 That's it, let's move on to the sweet stuff -
congratulations and boasts (although they are already
were a little bit ;)                         
    Yes, the magazine really turned out
cool.  Right now I would like to say that it seems
“I haven’t seen this for a long time”... But in
in reality it won't be quite
truth - this is the first magazine (by the way, than
What's the difference between a magazine and a newspaper?   volume
text? or the coolness of the shell?), which
I actually saw it on spec (well, okay - on
mule), and almost the first program that
I launched (in the same place :) Actually,cool,hthen
more to say?   Work, no, createte,
good luck to you... And thank you forvash
magazine.                                
                                          
zxz>  Thank you too!  Now if only everything
readers were such writers, it would be
much more pleasant to work with.                
                                          
 PS: yes, by the way, what is the shell written on?
I believe that 90% of software on ZX is written in
asme... If this is the case (i.e. the shell is on
asme written), then I bow to
Chemist...                                
                                          
zxz> Well, it's not so cool :) Yes, the shell
written in assembler, and perhaps 99.9%
normal software is written on it.      
                                          
nvs>  I agree with you, Vladimir, Himik
really well done, and this time,
thanks to him, the newspaper viewer has become even more
better.                                    
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From: Z-Man 
                                          
Hello!                                   
                                          
 I read it with great pleasure
IzhNews #0d.   Honestly.   It's just nice.
It all looks especially good against the background
that flow of feces that they are trying to expelandt
our heads from all sides.             
    
zxz>  I agree here.  Nowadays salese ne
Lamergy, but newspapers just come out with a bunch of
manureinside :(                           
                                          
 But I’m just not smart enough
understand one thing.   Just one simple thought:
"WHY?"      Is it really in the environment?
in reality all this slop and
redneck?   Why drag these (not the best)
attributes of real life on spec?   Maybe
Is it time to think?     Maybe it's better
post such “materials” in
"specially allocated and sprinkled with dust
places"? And I wholeheartedly supportvay
Himik, who refused to post on his website
site similar "crafts".                 
   
zxz>  Indeed, I do not allow access to the site
such publications.   I myself am tired of
there is a lot of this in my vocabulary
mate, I’m not trying to drag him out for review
everyone.                                     
                                          
nvs>  Basically, about the same thing
I wrote in "ESMInets" in the last issue.
Indeed, it's time to think about it.   But,to
Unfortunately, the situation has not yet changed.     
                                          
 But I got distracted.  After all, actually
This does not apply to IzhNews #0d.   Bysle
reading the magazine leaves only pleasantns
impressions. Why a magazine? Yes, something Izyk
I don’t dare call it fromtributee
newspaper.  And it's not just a matter of volume.  If
the first issues were the newspaper, then to
the latest issues of the publication significantly  
has grown.   Both in quantity and in
the quality of the materials presented.       
                                          
nvs> It's nice to know that our
they read the newspaper, follow it, and maybe
maybe they even love it.   For us this is very
nice...                                
                                          
 Overall, the last number left me in the shower
an extremely pleasant experience.       
    Lots of interesting materials. Yeshthen
read overthan to think.  And designnie
this number has become significantlybettere
previous ones.     The shell is made very
high quality, despite Himik's promises
"terrible glitches."  Sounds very on topic
music.     The only thing is a little
annoying - the image is too bright
lower left corner.   I had to apply
"hardware solution" in the form of a book,
attached to the monitor ;)               
                                          
zxz> This is already RTD! Seryoga! Did you hear?    
                                          
rtd> Cool! ;) Sorry for the bug on the right in this
number.                                   
                                          
 In general, everything is great!  Keep it like thistb,
guys!  I'll be looking forward to theouta
bottom left corner.   I had to apply
"hardware solution" in the form of a book,
assigned tomonitor ;)               
                                          
zxz> This is already RTD! Seryoga! Did you hear?    
                                          
rtd> Cool! ;) Sorry for the bug on the right in this
number.                                   
                                          
 In general, everything is great!  Keep it up
guys!  I'm looking forward to the release
next number. And I hope I'm not alone.
So, don't delay this matter!     
    
zxz> We try as best we can.         
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