Letters

Letters

Due to the delayed shipping of Issue 4, only two letters reached the editorial team before the deadline:

Dear L.C.D.,

Many thanks for your letters and the issues of SCENE. Sorry not to have written sooner, but I've been very busy of late.

Unfortunately, the BLOCKMAKER animation system can't make use of compressed code as it stands, but the actual animation routine itself comes from the program BLOCKMOVER (also PD), if you want to have a look at it. I've enclosed a disk with both programs.

Keep up the good work, and long live the Speccy!

Bye for now,
Miles Kinloch (England)

Hello Miles,

Thank you for the letter and disc. Unfortunately, my animations wouldn't fit into Spectrum 48 memory if not compressed. Vision has developed a screen part compressor that works faster than LDIR, but he does not answer me.

I'm still trying to do good work on Speccy. I hope the Speccy will live longer than I.

L.C.D.

Hi Tigerkralle,

Excuse me for not getting in touch for so long, but things have been truly chaotic around here. In the meantime, I was able to test the IFF converter myself, and the results look very tempting indeed; enclosed I am sending you a few of my pictures for the gallery.

According to an independent source, you have started retyping your book in Tasword II — is that true? If so, I'd like to have a share in it as well. Meanwhile, I've started writing a game. I never thought it could be so difficult, so I would like to ask you for a few tips and some help. In part, I'm using your StoryTeller, but only partly, because the most crucial program routines come from me. It will be an adventure game with multiple-choice decision making, based on an animated cartoon series.

Cat's Eye (Austria)

Hello Katzenauge,

Thanks for the letter! Don't worry about taking your time. What you heard from your "independent source" is partly true: I am transferring the manuscript onto disk whenever I find the time. The finished product will then be submitted to several publishers and will contribute toward funding the Spectrum; perhaps I will also print an excerpt of it in SCENE. At the moment, I am still quite busy programming Legacy.

Awesome, go ahead and write a game, I definitely don't mind! On the disk I'm sending you, you will find several tools that I work with. May I take a guess? Is your game based either on Cat's Eye (the three Japanese art thieves) or on Thundercats? Can I have the game for SCENE once it is finished?

Your pictures look very much like mine and will definitely be included in the gallery. Did you also use Personal Paint to do the shading?

L.C.D.