FIRST CONTACT
My phone rang.
- "Who's talking?"
- "Anton."
Prelude.
At the end of March I got vicomm-mo-
dem. Gave it to me TDD (Anton) for beta-
-testing. In general, Ufa-ZX-no lives
For a long time, however, we owned a modem
so far only gentlemen of the iron industry, these are:
3M,TDD and Boris. And it somehow got around me
went by. And here it is on my table
scarf measuring 5x5 cm, from which the top
wiring chat, you can immediately see - test va-
Puaht.
Connect.
Save & Load from BASIC showed good
results, and we decided to run Macro
modem. Version 2.20 is in ZF#6. Just
great, at top speed
2400 there was an error-free data exchange
nym. Even in the terminal, dial friend
other phrases were possible without reducing speed -
ty and without fear that sym-
oxen. We sent files back and forth. All
latest versions of MATRIX and Win-printers
Boots instantly appeared on TDD's table.
I'm tired of chasing files, and here I remembered
Neil about modem games. Of course right away
I remembered the game X-Reversy, but the game
turned out to use its own disk format,
and Macro Modem can transmitby sector
TR-DOS disk only. GAMBIT (chess) -
cool! Here are just the Vicomm-mode driver
For some reason it had the extension ".S". I'm for-
threw GAMBIT TDD, we are together nepeumehoba-
whether the extension is ".x", set it to SE-
TUP whose modem will transmit first, and
started.
Fight to the death.
The classic move E2-E4 - that's exactly how I do it
went white. In response, my pro-
the shirt has changed. Smile and answer
it didn't take long to move the pawn
wait. By rearranging the figures, we together de-
We pretended that we knew how to play chess. And
here's the climax: I'm driving
poor guy in the corner. I choose from a menu with ro-
press the slyly smiling face of the winner
with a cigar in his teeth and wearing dark glasses. On
for you, I place the archer on the desired diagonal
and that's all.
I don’t know how to do TDD, but I played by loading in
SETUP image of figures as sprites
from Black Raven: pawns are peasants,
the queen is a wizard, and his queen is hukpo-
manta
Nostalgia.
We also tried to play Laser Squad
from an old Spectrofon #9. Game of something
I didn’t want to connect. By the way, for now
The game title was copyrighted by Baiderin Mi-
Khaila and Vasim V., as well as Dan Ufimsky
phone. The world is really small. Not so
is it?
Advertising.
You can indulge yourself toopiece-
coy. All you need is desire. If
you cannot assemble the modem yourself, we will help you
We’ll help and connect you at the same time. Contact us
You can get in touch through me, my phone number is you,
you probably know.
The future.
Yes, my optimism suggests that
The modem has a great future. First of all,
Because, of course, prompt exchange of information
mation. Perhaps we will create from one
machines, something like a server. If only
only the modem could pick up the phone itself.
Then anyone could call at night and say
provide the necessary information. Well, now
I will help anyone who calls manually
regime, that is, first you need a contract
roar with voice. Secondly, this is, of course,
games. Well, here my imagination can take me far
take away. Dream for yourself. No matter how you look
There was, for example, the game "Black Raven" for
two via modem, eh?
MAX SNAKE 05/25/2000
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