The debut issue of the Samara electronic magazine offers an alternative perspective on ZX Spectrum software and hardware. This issue features detailed bug analyses and restoration methods for tactical games Space Crusade and Rebel Star, alongside an evaluation of the ZX IBM Editor v1.0 text editor. Development tools like STS, TASM 128, Animation 2.0, and commercial software from Inforcom face critical review. Gamers get access to cheats and hints for UFO: Enemy Unknown and Star Heritage, while developers can explore best programming practices and a technical analysis of port #FF behavior on Pentagon-128.
Issue contents:
- Introduction - This is not a joke, you are really reading the Samara Electronic Magazine!
- Scroll - review of new programs: Space Crusade, Rebel Star 1-3.
- Scroll - text editor review: ZX IBM Editor v1.0
- Review - review of new programs: Animation 2.0, Land of Myths, Insult Megademo.
- Review - analysis of proprietary programs distributed by Inforcom: STS v2.6, TASM 128 v3.0, FWORD FOR GENS v1.0, VIRUS 1-2, The Regeners.
- About everything - the fruits of a “hacker’s brainstorm” on some games: Sea Action, UFO Enemy Unknown, Star Legacy. Excerpt from a letter to the STEP group.
- Educational program - about the rules of good manners in programming.
- Iron - port of #FF in Russian Spectrum clones.
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