The fourth issue of the Oberon electronic magazine opens with an announcement of the project's suspension while delivering a substantial collection of articles. The gaming section features detailed breakdowns of classic hits such as Chaos, PI*R2, and Doc The Destroyer, a walkthrough for the adventure game Kayleth, reviews of dozens of ZX Spectrum titles, and an exclusive preview of Vyacheslav Mednonogov's upcoming RTS Black Raven. Technical and hardware guides cover Hayes and C-DOS modem integration, 3.5-inch floppy drive installations, single-sector bootloader coding, and a comparison of top Z80 assemblers. Additionally, the issue documents the Enlight 97 demoparty, the launch of Samara's SamZxNet network, the history of FidoNet, and the evolution of personal computing from Altair 8800 to Sinclair Z88.
Issue contents:
- Editor's note - Oberon magazine will be frozen.
- Scroll - a detailed description of the game Chaos.
- Scroll - a detailed description of the game PI* R2.
- Scroll - a detailed description of the game Doc The Destroyer.
- Review - review of toys: Komando 2, Wrestling Superstar, Tag Team Wrestling, Captain Planet.
- Review - review of toys: Stryker in the crypts of trogan, Phileas Fogg's balloon battles, Survival, Gyron Necroopolis, Technodrom.
- Review - review of toys: Boovie, Motor Massacre, Soccer Pinball, Huxley 1 & 2.
- Review - review of toys: Little Computer People, Lost caves and the doom, Tomb, 750cc grand prix.
- Review - overview of modern assemblers: Alasm 3.8, Tasm 4.12, XAS 7.4, ZASM 3.10.
- About everything - the Spectrum network SamZxNet opened in Samara.
- About everything - party zone: MMA report on the trip to Enlight 97 - day one.
- About everything - party zone: MMA report on the trip to Enlight 97 - day two.
- About everything - letters from readers: Peace User, Stranger, Best Hackers Group.
- About everything - letters from readers: a detailed analysis of the adventure game Kayleth.
- About everything - how to write a Boot that is 1 sector long (256 bytes).
- About everything - masterpieces of digital graphomania: the history of the emergence of computers.
- About everything - masterpieces of digital graphomania: the history of the world's first Personal Computer "Altair".
- About everything - masterpieces of digital graphomania: In the new world there is almost no place left for programmers-artists, eccentrics and anchorites who created only by inspiration...
- About everything - pages of history: the history of the Sinclair's Z88 mobile computer.
- About everything - Problems of the software market for the Spectrum. Who is to blame and what to do?
- Announcement - a new game from Vyacheslav Mednonogov - Black Raven.
- Announcement - new games and software: Gallows, RGB Aggression, ZX-WinWord v2.l, Hanoi Tower, Sprite Cutter vl.0.
- Educational program - Fido: big brother of the Internet.
- Iron - connecting the "ALEGRO" (C-DOS) modem to the Spectrum.
- Iron - connecting the "Hayes" modem to the Spectrum.
- Hardware - connection to the Spectrum 3'5 drive.
- Let's get drunk - The fox threw.
- Let's Pogurm - MMA'lysh and Carlson.
- Advertising - the latest programs in Samara for the Spectrum! Games, systems, magazines and newspapers.
- Advertising - purchase, sale, exchange of Amiga computers.
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