Thoughts about... - Inifinition lives... to be or not to be.

 "INFINITE LIVES"        
               OR              
       "TO BE OR NOT TO BE"       
                                
greets to all readers of the magazine
"Pioneer".   Sbrodov Anatoly
offers a chat on
the eternal theme of life and death. But
don't be alarmed, we'll talk about
life and death, so to speak
virtual.    Namely about
"LOADERA'ah"and "INFINITE
LIVES'ah".                      
   Surely many of you
read the magazine "sPECTROFON"and not
times you noticed their attitude towards
immortal games. And also their
fierce hatred for "LOADERs".
Although starting from the 12th issue
they themselves began to “stick” to
your magazine "brand name".
In the first issues this was still
ok, but when it's the samethe music began to repeat itself
rooms to rooms... It's good that in
In issue 15 they came up with the idea
make a survey "SPACE" - for
interrupting its "INTRO".  But
Enough about the sad stuff.              
   In this article I would like
express your personal opinion on
this account.   I myself am
user ZX-SPECTRUM'a with
1989.   Started out like
most from the 48th computer,
after a while I
the 128th "box"appeared, though
still without a disk drive.  Next
acquisition (and still
the last one) was "SCORPION ZS-256
TURBO".   But I digress
the main topic of our conversation.
Personally I think:                 
   1. Game without  "LOADER" - not
game.                           
   2.  "LOADER" without "INFINITE" -
not "LOADER".                    
   Who doesn't agree with this -
write in "PIONEER"and express
your point of view.   And for me
let me continue.           
   If before the majority
"LOADERs"were the same type
reworkings of Polish musical songs,
Anton was especially successful in this
Vasiliev, then recently
appears more and more
original "LOADERs",
which in terms of quality of writing
superior to the games themselves. And it's not
exaggeration.  For example, I can
bring some gaming
programs such as: "TOM &
JERRY", "BACK TO THE FUTURE2",
"EXTERMINATOR"etc.  Play
these games are almost impossible
because of the terrible stupidity of these
programs.  But at the same time,
these toys are wonderful
downloaders, watch and listen
which are a pleasure. And
alreadyfor quite a long time I,
and, presumably, not only me,
I buy new programs
solely for the sake of those very
"LOADERs".                    
   It's 1996, and without
the game loses a good loader
its integrity, because
writing "LOADER" has already become
tradition.      Not at all
I doubt that I respect everyone
yourself HACKER or a programmer
wrote in my life at least
one "LOADER". HORRORSOFT puts
its goal is widespread
LOADER'ization  of all existing
programs for SPECTRUM.         
   Regarding immortality in
games I can only say one thing: no
if you want to live forever - so
die every 5 minutes, and
don't interfere with others' enjoyment
atmosphere of impunity.     
   A very big contribution to this
the case is brought in by the company "INFORCOM",
which publishes on the pages
ZX-REVIEW endless lists
"POKE".  But not everyone is
great hackers, and not everyone
there are "SCORPION",
that's why our group is active
works in this direction.    
   Attached to your attention
immortalized proposed
"TETRIS-2".  And this is not nonsense at all
crazy!   After all, the game is very
difficult, and without immortality to pass
it's practically impossible. Yes
or otherwise, some hackers have
still unknown to me
reasons, hands do not reach (or
I'm not smart enough) put
immortality into another toy. 
   If you want to immortalize
any toy then
contact us directly, i.e. in
company "HORRORSOFT".          
   And in conclusion I wanted
I would like to apologize to those
readers who purchased
first issue of the magazine
protected form and could not
run it on your machines.
The point is that when writing
protections were not taken into account by us
some features TR-DOS. And
As a result, the program is protected
this protection was launched
only on that drive
which it was delivered. Without knowingWe gave protection about this to T.G.
"ATEK", and thus installed them
in an awkward position. We are very
It's a pity that this happened. But how
You learn from mistakes.
That's basically all I wanted
I would say.                    
          Goodbye.         
© 1996 Sbrodov A.A. &  HORRORSOFT