Our answer - the whole truth about the Faultless magazine and its creators.

 FAULTLESS or GLUKFULL ?         
           (disassembly of spans)            
                                          
   Demonstration of black and white magic with    
       by its subsequent exposure.      
                                          
                                          
          M.M.A / SPEED CO.'96            
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
So, it didn't pass and   
two weeks from the moment -   
th edition Kharkov-   
ского   электронного    
журнала "FAULTLESS",    
как  он дошёл до Са-    
мары, и  узкие  кру-    
ги  широкой  общест-    
венности  смогли оз-    
накомиться с его так    
называемым "содержа-                      
нием".                      рис.1         
                 Человек, прочитавший всю 
                 the truth about FAULTLESS #4 
                                          
 This magazine has irritated me before, but the 4th
number became  the last  drop of salt on
the wound of my inflamed consciousness. Everything that
will follow below - this is not an attack or even a com-
mentary is the truth and only the truth. B
basically this article is almost useless, so
how progressive minds already know where
gentlemen IMPETUS LED and JOKER took the material
ly for the fourth issue of the magazine, but still
does not reach some people, and it is for them that it is recommended
I recommend reading this article.       
                                          
And the reason for everything was the inclusion of OBERON
and SPECTROPHOBY (magazine published in
our friends - SLIDERS GROUP - from Volzhsky)
to the category of PIONER's, PLATINUM's and others -
wow, really not very high quality
electronic journal construction. At first, I wanted to forgive IMPETUS LED'and
JOKER'a (hereinafter I+J), since they are probably
as seen at the time of writing  article
only the first number ofOBERON. Yes, the first
the number was not entirely successful. But then not
it was me! Well, the second number, where I’m already
showed up, turned out to be of much better quality
nom.  Although, if you compare the first numbers
OBERON and FAULTLESS - still unknown
who will win!                                 
                                          
But from empty matters let's move on to the word, the word
printed, which, as is known,DEBUGGER'om
do not otTrace'it. Below are the names
introduction of all sections of the fourth-
th issueFAULTLESS'a, their brief contents
tion and my detailed commentary.1) DISCUSSION                              
                                          
                                          
In the "Discussion" section, someone V. Alexander and
O. Andrey explain their thoughts about
everything that happens around the publication of your
and  other  electronic journals.  Also
letters from readers are “considered”.       
                                          
                                          
Let's start with the names and surnames of the authors. Since
according to my assumptions the surname is "Alexander"
and “Andrey” does not exist in nature, it’s logical
assume that these are names! In that case
surnames are “V.” and “O.”, respectively. Not
reminds me of the fairy tale about Winnie the Pooh?      
                          "To outsiders V."
                                          
 I am not in Russian (as well as in Ukrainian)
specialist, and I haven’t studied record keeping
chal.  But to mythe illiterate look was worth it
would write "Vorozhkin A." and "Odintsov A."
or sign only with first names! Well or
as  I - with my TM (for lamers - trade
mark).                                    
                                          
Although it can be assumed that the above described
just a minor glitch, I insist on
pay attention to this, because in the light of
of the events described, this fact can play
decisive role.  It's very easy to subscribe
"V. Alexander", "and when the time comes
payments on bills"blame others
gogo - also "V. Alexandra"!               
                                          
So, what did the gentlemen tell us about I+J 
this article?  Yes about a lot!  Not everything right away
remember!                                 
                                          
Here is an example excerpt: "... this is for you
it may be “cool”, but you are not alone - understand
this!"                                     
                                          
This is an excerpt from a moralparagraph,
dedicated to the authors of others (not FAULTLESS)
magazines.  Yes, you yourself, gentlemen I+J,
considered this phrase in relation to se-
be?  That's right - you are not alone, and it is not for you
to decide whether YOUR magazine is “cool” or NOT.          
                                          
"... because nothing similar was observed" , and this
already  from the history of the creation of FAULTLESS.
                                          
Yes, indeed - up to you, such magazines -
fishing  was not observed!  Huge application
nie, literally two words about each program-
frame included in it, a bunch of torn
articles, an unlimited number of torn pictures
etc. etc. And someone else shouted that it was necessary
look for artists and musicians. Well music
then you have your own - not tattered, but what will it be like?
children to the authors whose melodies are played in the articles,
completely reprinted from"ZX Spectrum and
TR-DOS for users and programmers"?
"... we  respect and appreciate ZX-FORMAT,
  FAULTLESS, ADVENTURER, SPECTROFON..."
                                          
                                          
Penial!   I also respect ZX-FORMAT,
OBERON , ADVENTURER , SPECTROFON ......   
                                          
(who didn’t get it, re-read both again
statements!)                            
                                          
Well, this section seems to be over!     
 Let's move on - the most interesting part is there! 
                                          
                                          
2) AVAILABLE                              
                                          
"After  six  months  after  exit
WINDOWS'95 ...."                          
                                          
"... APPLE pleased us with the first servers -
mi based on the AIX operating system ...." 
                                          
"Dec will respond to cost reduction
DRAM ...."                                
                                          
And so on and so forth!  And written off
these unnecessary pseudo-news from one of
PC'newspapers.  Well, who cares what
there for 14 discs released for the 95th wine
How fast is OS AIX ? Yes I am
I can churn out tons of such news!   
                                          
Here I take something from waste paper that carries a
name"COMPUTER WEEKLY"
COMPUTER" and start rewriting:       
                                          
"Borlabd Ibterbatiobal and Sybase entered into
agreement oncarrying out joint development
botok and marketing in the field of databases on
desktop and development tools
bot client/server products that
Borlabd is used, and client applications of the company
Sybase company."                            
                                          
It seems I succeeded! Cool news!
  Right at the level of MAFIOS giantsI+J!  
                                          
Okay, you should have written about AMIG'u, so you just-
then you rewrite some nonsense from the first
a random newspaper or magazine.            
                                          
But the fun is just beginning.
Immediately after the above nonsense come the words:
"To all our readers..........about takeoffs
and falls experienced... by the creator Clay-
vom Sinclair". Next 4-5 kilobytes
text are a complete reprint of the article
from the already mentioned book by A. LARCHENKO and
N. RODIONOV. For those who don't believe, I bring
page numbers - pp. 4-6.               
  One word -
 
3) OPENING                               
                                          
I won’t retell this section, so
how it simply defies retelling! Also
insanity, also rolled up from some magazine.
And it’s not even clear on what platform
The described package works.               
                                          
4) NEWS                                
                                          
The only really interesting and
useful section.  But once you criticize, then
criticize EVERYTHING!                          
                                          
In the section title we read: "How are you?
"SpeccyMabs"                         
                                          
I'm crazy, dear editors! Even a schoolboy
knows that the word MAN in English is "man"rank". Plural form, that is, "men-
us" or "people", is not formed
adding "s",as they try to rub in us I+J
and by writing a new word - MEN  through
letter "E" !                               
                                          
 Dear friend! In addition to the artist and musician
but to create a magazine you still need at least
There are at least two editors-in-chief: one
part of the Russian language, the other - English.
                                          
My language skills are not very good. But for that
and an editor to read my texts and
correct errors in them.                  
                                          
5) AND3 OUT                                 
                                          
In this section, you, dear reader, can-
You can read ibterviewwith JOKER HIMSELF!
                                          
Probably you, my dears, have been talking about this all your lifedreamed!                                  
                                          
The only thing that is not clear is the name
section.  It would be more logical to call him
"THE CONVERSATION WITH YOURSELF"or "FROM THE INSIDE"!   
                                          
What pleases is the fact that this
section, unlike others, is not written off from
any   book or magazine. What not
tell me about the next section.              
                                          
6) FOR USERS                          
                                          
          "ZX Spectrum and TR-DOS           
   for users and programmers."    
                                          
      A. LARCHENKO N. RODIONOV "PETER"      
                                          
                 1994                  
                                          
In text order, taken from:   
p.  8 - 11 (the paragraph “To the author of this
the book was successful...")                        
                                          
p. 11 - 13                            
                                          
p. 14                                   
                                          
No comments needed!                      
                                          
7) PRESENTATION                            
                                          
Well, finally we got to the section
la, who will tell us what he found
is shown in the APPENDIX.                       
                                          
But what is this! Yes in the books "500 games for ZX -
SPECTRUM"more space for each program
was given. The most interesting thing is that even with
presence of two or three sentences in the description
one program can make a mistake, yes
what else!                               
                                          
"DIESIRAE - .... not just demo, but DEMO
  MADE IN ENGLAND."            
                                          
And after such a statement, these gentlemen (I+J)
claim to be the main mafiosi, who
ry know "news not only in individual
cities, but also influence the weather of the entire region."
                                          
How can you confuse the Polish team
EXODUS with British coders! Who doesn't believe
rit - read the scroller in the last hour -
you until the end! What a scroller! Already by
the music could be understood that it was Polish
what a dema, not MADE IN ENGLAND.          
                                          
                                          
Or how do you like this request: "... that they say our
The magazine is poorly distributed and not very useful.
is in demand. We know very well that the
cash is selling out and is in demand...."
                                          
Naturally, you can’t praise yourself - no one
will praise!  But   the fact that  FAULTLESS
really enjoys weak popularity
authenticity, scientifically proven and confirmed. Zag-
please look at least inSPECTROFON #20,where pub-
rejoiced absolutely independent MAGAZINE TOP
from the city of Odessa. FAULTLESS occupies it
only sixth place! Yes, and communicating with
Samara software distributors, I understand
nil that FAULTLESS  is not   not  "included in
top three according to SNP."                    
                                          
                                          
8) CPU FOR YOU                            
                                          
In this section, gentlemen I+J told us about
all the tricks of the jobcommands Z80 - LDIR. 
Of course, for novice programmers this
very useful article, but... I still have
there is a feeling that this literary work is
The information is taken from some book.        
                                          
9) ADVERTISING                                
                                          
Well, it would seem, what could be wrong
be in ADVERTISING? But if there are glitches in everyone
other articles, then they should be here too
you simply must!                           
                                          
And here are the glitches themselves: scroll through all ADVERTISING-
MU to the end, and the text will be gray
(CYAN) colors. Now, being at the very
last page, go up and
all text instead of gray will be purple
(MGNTA),that is, the way the text was
last line on the last page ADVERTISING-
WE.                                       
                                          
And although this glitch is small in size, it
he says aboutthat all FAULTLESS is done
at a very low technical level. No
sprites in the text, no loading of texts in
within one article, is not used until
additional memory 128,256,512,1024 KB
and so on..........                     
                                          
           Five minutes have passed!             
                                          
I tried loading FAULTLESS from 48KB and
I got it!                             
                                          
Wow!  So your magazine is also 48KB
doesn't want to work! Give him 128!       
                                          
Well, now I understand the phrase:"among the top three
the best   in   SNP".  Only  two  magazine
la, ZX-FORMAT  and WELCOME PRESS work
only from 128KB, and now there is also
third -FAULTLESS!                       
                                          
Do you at least understand, gentlemenI+Jwhat it means
wants to work only from 128KB? A means
this is what your magazine should have smoothly
pixel-by-pixel dual-screen multicolor
scrolling, RAM DISK for articles, coolest
greater design (and not the bunch of scrollers that
I think you are passing off this design) and much more
much more.                            
                                          
By the way, I’m very interested to know: what
compressors  was  compressed
FAULTLESS #4?The second number of OBERON is
sweeps 1101sector without an application and at the same time
consists of 9 headings, which should be replacedtit, are loaded repeatedly (each
uploading - 20K compressed article).
FAULTLESS #4 also consists of 9 headings and
occupies a similar number of sectors(1090),but
At the same time, articles do not have downloads.       
                                          
                                          
The following conclusion suggests itself:FAULTLESS
#4 is much less informative (in the sense
volume of information) than OBERON #2, but why
it also takes up so much
places?  And why 128KB obly!           
                                          
                                          
And finally, let's discuss the main trump card of the state
under I+J - a voluminous APPLICATION containing
only new.                             
                                          
New is certainly cool, especially if it
a lot! But new is new, and the magazine is a magazine!
As SPECTROFON's publishers used to say:
"I read it and played it!" And in FAULTLESS'e
turns out "I read one - played another -
go!"  Certainly,maybe your magazine is like that
thought about it, but at least a kilobyte of description
for each program from the application you can
was to highlight!                           
                                          
Even MAX IWAMOTO, which simply released
disk version of the game TITANIC BLINKIS, not
I forgot to insert a short, but very
Useful help on the passage. And you, respect-
we I+J, even got lazy with this help in the journal
cash reprint! But not every user
will allow you to press the "S" key while logging
ruzki MAXI INTRO,and then also read
using ZX-WORD the resulting text.     
                                          
In a word, a large amount of new
Applications  - this is good. But is it necessary when
this is a magazine in which they say about this new thing -
but literally two words?                   
                                          
Yes, for our application we do not use the most
new programs.However, disk versions
these programs, which are placed in the BOX-
KU   OBERON are completely new, corrected
new, supplemented, adapted, etc.   
                                          
In addition, we provide a detailed description
for each program. We care about your use
rah, and users care about our wallets! 
                                          
And  do not   need to  "scare" people by closing
FAULTLESS's.  The fewer magazines in the country
fishing, the more everyone will be paid
to a well-chosen magazine publisher.          
                                          
                                          
On this I’ll probably finish telling
THE TRUTH about FAULTLESS and say goodbye to you
mi, my dear readers.                 
                                          
                                          
                                          
P.S. Pospoda IMPETUS LED and JOKER! I hope
you took criticism soberly
and took note of the current moment. I neither
in no case did I want to offend you in any way
child, just if the person himself doesn’t notice
own lamerism, then it is simply necessary
Please point this out to him.                  
                                          
I did not, and will never consider, that
MAFIA is some great force in
modern SINCLAIR-movement. At the same time
I must admit that MAFIA is
largest  center  by   forwarding   and
distribution of software for SPECCY. In this plan
not you can be put on par with MAGIC
SOFT (Moscow) and FIKUS-PIKUS of FLASH ibc. 
(Novosibirsk).  But it’s one thing to be cool
you in this matter, and it’s a completely different matter
- don't climb intoyour field (publishing a journal
fishing!).                                    
                                          
 Therefore, I wish every success to IMPETUS
LED and JOKER in their difficult hacking
work, and most importantly, I wish them
listen to my comments and do
really   cool  and interesting
FAULTLESS #5.                             
                                          
                                          
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