This issue features detailed rules and strategies for the card game «Kozel» tailored for computer enthusiasts. Programmers can explore a collection of assembly routines by 3M designed for fast screen scrolling, sprite manipulation, and math operations. The hardware section outlines a project for an RS-232 parallel port controller using the WD8250 chip with modem and IM2 interrupt support. Additionally, the release includes a report on testing a custom hard drive controller for the iS-DOS environment.
Issue contents:
- Contents - Today's issue.
- Games - rules of the card game Goat.
- Programming - procedures: screen scrolling, multiplication, stringing to a binary number, preparing a sprite for printing with pixel accuracy, calculating the screen address, calculating the address of the next line in the screen area.
- Iron - parallel RS-232 port to ZX-SPECTRUM.
- iS-DOS - 3M and SERG visiting the creator of the hard drive controller (iS-DOS).
- Advertisements - and advertising.
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