News - a letter from Neftekamsk from Ruslanych, a letter from Chelyabinsk from the Triumph group.

                              
                 LET'S BE ENLIGHTENED 
                              

              News.


 Hello everyone, the most important news:
MSD newspaper ceases to be monthly,
and from now on her status is assigned
irregular publication. The reason is simple:
we cannot find material and synchronization
connect this with a calendar. That is,
the newspaper will be published as received
material.

 There are problems with the multimap. April 26,
the Chernobyl virus produced an atrocity -
- formatting hard drive from source
kami of the divorced board. Of course we are upset
We were nervous, but decided not to give up.
 Unfortunately, almost all the work needs to be
start from scratch. Follow the information.

 MSD Windows continues to write ALEX, on
the found ones are currently being corrected
glitches. Version 1.5 was the last one until
One problem was not reported.
Procedure AutoConfig from the log
ZX-FORMAT #5 hangs when defining
memory on 1 Mb Scorpio (Memory dis-
wide according to KAY standard).So, according to
Apparently, the digit of the version number
MSD Windows will increase further.
 After publishing the sources Windows
Manager in the last release, they began to
questions arise: “Well, I unziped,
what should we do with them?" Such
We didn't expect the question.
 Gentlemen users, do you want to write
programs with a user-friendly interface,
but you don't want to get into the details
systems?  This is impossible.
 New systemMSD Windows (c) MSD
created to replace the old one. Here
in the new system it is possible to design programs
We don’t really understand it much. If you
lazy, wait for the new system. Possibly
the program will go beyond a simple goal
program design. Let's wait and see...

 3M departed in an unknown direction for
undergoing military training. Whole month
he will have to live in a tent, there is an army
food and jump up in the middle of the night
anxiety. In this regard, to view
we used old newspapers
shell and promised graphics support in
Unfortunately, there are no newspaper articles.
 Due to the absence of 3M, the entire team
MSD group offers him its condolences
vaniya.

 TDD wired the board Vicomm modem, and
now the broad masses of userscan
purchase this device. Look
read more article.

 Pink Panther has received orders for re-
deal of 48 cars in Scorpio. When
absence of 3M Panther is given the title
chief iron worker, and now he is half-
very busy with work. Rework
consists of simply replacing board 48 with
board Scorpio 256, sometimes it works
squeeze into the 48th building. Procedure
takes a few days and costs
to the customer up to 350 rubles.

 A very unpleasant topic. Unfortunately
filled out and handed over to me the application form in total
two people. Gentlemen, I am saddened...

 Since the end of April, our group has been conducting
an unprecedented event in our city.On the radio
the market was taken out by Scorpio with black and white
monitor and amplifier 6x2 W. ate
This is all from a 20 kg battery. We hope
We hope you will appreciate this civic feat,
After all, you have to carry it all by hand.
 The reaction to this is very different. Abandoned
Spectrum and suddenly seeing new demos
They immediately come up and ask what’s new
appeared since the time of "Star Legacy"
and "UFO 2". PC - brothers who did not expect
such from old Specky, nervously
asks about news in hardware
Spectrum, and with bewilderment finds out that
it has a mouse, hard drive, modem and music
cal card.Still others look sideways with disgust
towards something that makes “squeaks” and pass
by. The fourth bring their 48 cars
for upgrading to Scorpio.
 We would like to say with great confidence,
that this action attracted, but rather
awakened more people than the appearance
new software for Spectrum in our city
de.
 This method is highly recommended
to all groups supporting Spectrum-
Movskaya life in their cities.

  On the fourth of June the official
newsending off to the armyone of the always-
thai Sunday parties at the radio market -
- Desyatkina Egor. Appearing on the radio
market last fall, he
showed high knowledge of iron and strong
aspirations in mastering the Z80 assembler.
 During this time hebecame a friend to us,
it’s a pity that we didn’t have time to finish the newspaper
before his departure. More detailed article
written by Pink Panther about the past
"evening", you can read in this you
release.

 Dear Ufa Spectrumists, it turns out
We (MSD) are not the only group in Bash-
kortostan. From Mr. Shirokov A. to us
it became known that in the glorious city
Neftekamskthere is a Spectrumis group
Comrade We managed to find out only a short composition
groups and information that the team
published three magazines. For release of four-
the group distributes the first issue
text with an appeal to support them with articles
and everyone else. Below is
excerpt from a letter to Mr. Shirokov and text from
call for support.



15 March 2000 17:17:32

Hello, Alexey!
It's me again, Ruslanych. Here I am sitting at Scorp and in Editor
I'm typing the text. And as you correctly noted in your last
writing, there is absolutely no time for anything else. Not yet
on vacation, you need to do a bunch of different things on your computer, and
then users from other parts of the country started asking questions:
"When will the promised -=RST#4=- be released?" And I only have it on
stage of development of the viewer... ;-( That's why I'm sitting now without
go out to the computer in assembly language and code, code, code...
I’ll probably finish the work only at the end of March, beginning of April.
But I think the magazine will be just what we need. Cool, just like
his previous, third brother.
Our club has undergone fundamental changes. And now in co-
The group consists of only four people. But the most
loyal Specca fans. It’s with them that I make my programs.

Let me introduce the whole team (if you're not interested, you can
skip this paragraph):

              -= REAL SYSTEM =-Ruslanych - Well, it’s me, then. Coder, Organizer, GFXer, well
and everything else related to publishing, distribution
and connections with the “outside” world. (e-mail: ruslanich@mail.ru)

Dr.Virus - Oh, and this is our local hacker. Breaks and Debugs
anything that makes AY sounds. They say he codes well, but so far
For now, none of the club members noticed this. In addition, Virus
translates well from English into Russian and vice versa.

MK - Hard worker. The only one for the entire club. Therefore, we
We take care of it as best we can. And then who will repair the Scorps for us?
will it be? MK also codes well, but has absolutely no command
language, so there is very little text in his programs.

Max - Music maker. Composer, Digitizer. Vobshem, writes musical
We are on everything that can produce music. True, the last one
Max is overcome by the thought of leaving the stage. What are we going to do?
to play without a music maker... :-(

Well, yes, that seems to be all about us. Let me just note that now we
We are actively looking for new team members to work on the magazine
and other projects of the group. So if you know anyone who
Would you like to join our glorious company? Tell me.


6 March 2000 17:57:43

        OFFICIAL PART

 Good afternoon (morning, evening, night:)! Neftekamsk Spec League
drumists "SinclairClub" announces the opening of the 2000 Season and
invites everyone who is not indifferent to the fate of Speccy to accept
participation in the creation of a new electronic journal "RST". Koto-
ry will be released at threeforms:
  1) Internet version;
  2) version for emulators;
  3) original (disc version).
 We will enter into cooperation with any currently operating
groups, developers, like-minded people. We will also accept
for publication any materials relating to the ZX-Spectrum and
groups working on the ZX scene.
 At the moment, a pilot version is being prepared, which
will be released in mid to late March. You can still make it! Us
we need bright heads and golden hands. Wanted: music makers
(Pro-Tracker), Hard browsers, Soft browsers, coders
(for maintaining the relevant sections) and all those who are interested
interested in the development of the ZX scene.
 Attention, from March 20, the “pilot” release of “RST” and some more
-what :) ... on the Sinclair Club website:

   www.chat.ru/~sin_club

 All questions and suggestions should be addressed to:
ruslanich@mail.ru or
452688 Neftekamsk Lenin Ave. 76 apt. 8 (Ruslanych)


Well, now let's talk unofficially! Hello, Guys! It's again
I, Ruslanych! From the Sinclair Club. I decided this way
to begin its 2000 year of existence :) and therefore decided to invite
to force everyone, everyone, everyone without exception to take part in the grand
controversial project (well, like the Inforcom ZX-Review). I'll be glad
everyone. Offer your ideas, thoughts and all that. And in
Tom, we will publish a cool magazine together. That's all, I'm waiting
your letters.
                                      Ruslanych
       Thank you for your attention!



That's actually all that we know.
Naturally I - MAX SNAKE, as the head
our group, could not ignore
this call. I described our group and
requested information from our "colleagues" from
Neftekamsk. We will wait for a response from
sincere hope for further cooperation
nihilism. According to unverified data, the composition
their team has undergone changes, so
It is known that the site is at this address
no. Follow the information.


 Triumph group from Chelyabinsk with which
we correspond regularly.
This is what they write in the last letter.


                        HiLow

    Here in Chelly everything moves as usual, people are...
given for projects, then falls into melancholy and does nothing -
et. But work is progressing, albeit slowly. By the way, for the last
Time's up on us: Navy Moves for General Sound, Freaker
v0.5 /authors of the Halloween group from Miass, we are constantly with them
but we keep in touch and help each other as much as we can/, a bunch of releases
toys and dem rolled through Inet. And also, 06.16.00
The game eXisTenZ: the crazy delfox will be presented to the people.Space shooter by me. The whole game is completely ready/co-
yes, graphics, music/, all that remains is to produce some
cosmetic operations. Intro made today, like nothing
looks ok. Actually, the game was not written from scratch. Some
what was taken from the raw materials of X-Raizor's UNreleased game
'Imperio of Dreams', as well as from an old Delfox toy /o
as you can guess from the name of the game :)/.

    Steelz seems to be doing Psychoz again. And we also
we wanted to release a certain creation: project: BeZSiL. I'm talking about him
I'll keep quiet for now. In general, people are moving, doing... Chip'n'Dale
has become a frame... And by the end of July, expect from us ~SOME
A SPECIAL SECRET PROJECT~, work on which has been carried out for the last
six months!

    Miracle #04 is being prepared, most of the articles have already been typed,
half of them remain to be processed. But the shell is written
by 60 percent... In short, by autumn, winter (there are
special reasons).

    Well, okay, I signed something here in earnest :)

    A HUGE GREETING TO ALL UFA SPECTRUMISTS!!!

    bye!

OutDate: 13/06/2e3 ice'di/triumph



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