M.M.A / SPEED CO.
".... I drink my morning juice and write again in
OBERON..."
(from advertising)
Probably many of you, dear readers,
Have you ever felt the desire at least once in your life?
write to one or another email (or
not an electronic magazine at all. Tell me
honestly, what stopped you?
Well, first you need to find paper, then hand-
ku, make sure the second one leaves traces
on the first and write, write, write. Oshi-
fight, cross out, crumple and crumple paper -
gu, throwing it into the nearest trash can.
Well, what if a written masterpiece came out?
from your pen, then you need to go to the post office,
buy an envelope, search long and hard
editor's address.....
Then comes a long and persistent wait,
and finally, after 6-9 months you receive
you read the next issue of the magazine and see there
your opus. And it’s good if it’s signed by you
your first and last name, otherwise it happens....
I know all this from my experience of communicating with
editors of magazines "ZX-REVIEW" and
"SPECTROFON". And if the first one is even more
she treats her readers normally,
then the second, at least at the time
STEP (there are rumors that STEP broke up and
SPECTROFON is managed by OLDMAN), often
used the materials sent, but did not
the words did not mention their authors.
If you, dear readers, have at least some
my little desire to write to "OBERON"
article, then you will be surprised
an interesting opportunity. Similar
You haven't seen anything yet! The only journalist
cash, whichallowed his readers to
write an article from start to finish with your own
hands - ADVENTURER. But there are readers
had to write articles in ready-made form
block of codes where the text was sitting, the “reader” and
music. Obviously, with this approach
each author must be partly (and even
moreover) a programmer. Well, since
Everyone wants to write: both gamers and hackers,
both encoders and lamers, then .....
Writing an article in OBERON is much easier!
First, try to find the nearest
flea market any version of our editor
ZX-WINWORD. (At the time of writing this article
Version 1.3 is being prepared for sale, as well as
rewritten sprite cutter.)
Having this editor in your hands,
will allow you to get a full-fledged article, which
which will be ready for printing in more than
90 percent. If this editor
you couldn’t find it, then dial yours
text in any other. Personally I recommend
IS-EDITOR (in the IS-DOS environment), but if from
IS-DOS is easy for youfeel sick, then you can recover
use the old manZX-WORD'om.
The magazine currently supports
only one text format - 42 characters per
line. Perhaps we will soon switch to multi-
format, but for now I advise you to type
your texts with exactly this (42) number
characters in a line.
If you want to insert any
illustration, there are two possibilities:
1)
if your illustrations are whole scenes
earlier files. then just write b
text a small message like : "Screen
file - obz1.asc". (where obz.asc is the name of your
pictures). Record the screens themselves on the same
disk. where the article itself will be located.
2) If you want to include not only integers
pictures. but also separatesprites are not possible
rarely b text. then I advise you again
purchase ZX-WINWORD and further
design the text using it. For
First read help. which is loading
by issuing the LOAD DOC command. File name. b co-
the torus contains a description of the program -
"winw.doc". Next bam will need to be cut
the sprites themselves. using CUT program
SPRITE and then bctabutb their b text. exactly
following the instructions. Maximum volume a-
neck articles should not exceed 23-24 kilo-
bytes (including compressed images
and spriteob). If you have crossed this mark.
then you need to organize a second DOC file. This.
as you already guessed habephoe. will be under
load b magazine.
The advantage of ZX-WINWORD over others
editors (in terms of writing articles in
"OBERON") is that you can
color the text yourself. Painting produced
It is displayed in TXT mode. By pressing the EXT.MODE key
(CAPS SHIFT + SYMB.SHIFT) you enter a number
16, and exercise is printed on the screen. symbol. Yes-
Next, you press EXT.MODE again and enter
those number from 1 to 7, which is that
the very color you wantset for
text.[note: btopoe number is nothing
to others. as a color attribute code]
When preparing an article in ZX-WINWORD, follow
should take into account an important fact: for each
go to the new page, the very first character
must be code 16 and color INK. Observing
this is the rule, you make our life easier and
you are disrupting the release of the next issue of the magazine.
If you or your friends suddenly
musical talent has awakened, we will
We are only happy to accept it along with the article itself
your own music. Naturally, the music should
to be not stolen, but your own (don’t need us
deceive!). It is advisable to write melodies in
SOUND TRACKER PRO (BY KSA), but possible
use of any other music editor
tora.
Now let's agree on standard
extensions for text, graphics, music and
sprites. The file name must consist of two
positions: "myth.txt."
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actual name and extension
(4 characters) (3 characters)
You come up with the file name yourself, but the dis-
the width should be standard. In principle
We ourselves are not fools and the text from the music is from
we can tell, but the whole point of this article is
to explain to you how to help us.
List of standard extensions used
in defense engineering:
Graphics:
.scr - standard graphic file
with a measure of 6912 or 6144 (without attribute
comrade).
.asc - standard graphic file, dropped
forged compressor SCREEN
CRASHER.
.msp - standard graphic file, dropped
forged compressor MAXSOFT
SCREEN PACKER in mode
DECOMPRESS: SLOW .spr - file created by the CUT program,
containing sprites using -
in your article.
Sending us already compressed graphics
ku, again you save our time and more
You are more involved in the creation of OBERON.
Just keep in mind that before compressing the e-
wounds can be optimized using pro-
gram SCREEN OPTIMIZER v4.2 (SO v4.2) -
compression quality can be improved by
account of this.
By creating an article using sprites in
ZX-WINWORD, don't forget to burn it to disk
the sprite file itself. Of course these sprites
already in the text, but who knows what might
happen!
Texts:
.txt - text typed in IS-DOS EDITOR
(or ZX/IBM-EDITOR).
.zxw - text typed in ZX-WORD or
another editor using two
line feed codes #0A and #0D.
Texts from ZX-WORD have such an extension
them instead of the standard "" name -
has its own extension "".
.doc - texts (or rather documents)
prepared in the ZXWINWORD editor
.tlw - texts typed in THE editor
LAST WORD 2
.tsw - texts typed in the radiator
TASWORD
Naturally, the most acceptable format for us is
swearing is .doc, the most unacceptable are two
the latter. But the text in TLW is better than non-
legible scribbles on paper, absolutely
unscannable and unrecognizable.
Music:
.dtm - compiled sobg, made in editing
торе PRO TRACKER
.stm - compiled sobg, сделанный в редак-
торе SOUND TRACKER PRO
.stЗ - compiled sobg, сделанный в редак-
торе SOUND TRACKER 3.0 (BY KSA)
.st! - compiled sobg, сделанный в обыч-
ном SOUND TRACKER'е.
Музыку присылайте в виде исходного текста,
который можно загрузить в редактор. Также
прикладывайте эту же мелодию в откомпили-
рованном виде с одним из выше описанных
расширений. Убедительная просьба использо-
вать только стандартные компиляторы.
Итак, вы написали статью, записали на диск
вместе с музыкой (возможно) иgraphics
(preferably). Now take some
a modern commander who doesn't care
are there files with the same names on the disk?
or not (MONSTER COMMANDER).Copy all
files to the same disk. Thus, on
same disk the same files are repeated -
Xia twice. It will help us if there are
disk glitches. Well, now produce
last operation: save using
still the same modern disk shell,
zero track on the 159th.
Now you can safely run to the post office and
send a letter (in a large envelope with
cardboard spacers) or parcel post
editorial address. In the next room, no
doubt your article will be published
vana!
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