Presentation - a short story based on the game "BOLO".

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 Hello friends!  We are opening
another new section. You, on-
that's right, you want to know what's different
"PREMIERE" and "PRESENTATION"
I "... In theory it's the same thing,
but in this section we will cover
to protect our new developments. A in
"PREMIER" - strangers.             
 So, today we want
present a demo version for your consideration
this is our first toy -
"BOLO".                         
 About the history of the game. Sob-
We fought somehow, and for fun
someone (I don’t even remember who)
suggested making a game "BOLO"
It would be more accurate to translate from the PC "AGAT".
Diman was not on duty or on duty.
crazy how we think like ee
do.                        
And then I tell him: “Well,
you will write codes." And he agreedwas trying (what else was left for him?
elk...).                       
 Well, in about a couple of months-
a demo version was prepared
these games.                       
 And more about the history of appearance
this short story that you are now
you will read.                  
 We were returning to tpam-
ve from the station with the next par-
of new PROG'S from MAGIC
SOFt'a, as Lech suggested writing
write a novella based on the game, they say, to de-
mo-versions need to write something.
We immediately discussed the plot line
story, and in a couple of days he
wrote what you will now
read.                         
                                
 That's probably all. It was
saying, short story will be bnepe-
di.                             
Sharmanov Alexey, 1996          
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Volzhsky, 1996                  
                                
 They sent one single
               a proven ship, and that one
               rushed over the peakspeace. And
               when they saw that people
               fled, terrible anger seized
               til them. And they burned everything -
               empty houses and abandoned
               parks and silent lakes.
               They burned everything.            
Screen Garrity.
                              "Armageddon"
                                          
                                          
 - Damn big piece of real estate!  
                                          
The US President's statement when he installed
I heard that a huge amount has been opened
parallel worlds.                        
                                          
                                          
THE MESS.           
                                
 Dr. Thomas Solden sat in his la-
laboratories and grumbling something in their native language
I was putting together some kind of diagram in German. Us-
having installed all microcircuits and other parts in
pre-soldered sockets, he examined his
work and a feeling of obvious satisfaction
I inserted the assembled board into my computer.
Having turned on the computer, he alreadywas about to launch
roll the rest of the devices when it is accessed
cried his friend Martin O'Neill, it was pa-
Ren, who looked like he could be aged
twenty.                                 
 - Hello Doc! Well, will you allow me some more?
sit in virtual reality?        
 - Oh Martin Martin, when I was your age I studied
studied physics and mathematics, and did not waste time
long hours in virtual reality
chasing after all sorts of monsters.                
 - Times are changing, doc. Why do
physics and, as you also called it, in my opinion
mathematics, if there are machines for this.  
                                          
 - Remember Martin, no machine can
to invent anything, she can only transform
download data. Well, okay, I won’t score
blow your young head. Well, now because
sorry, but I can't borrow my computer
ter, I need him for my experiment,
which may make me the most
famous scientists in the world.                    
 - And what kind of experiment is this, doc?      
 - I'm not sure, but I think I opened the passage
to other worlds.                            
 - What are these, all sorts of different parallel
worlds?                                     
 - To be honest, I don’t know. Perhaps this is also
parallel worlds, or maybe just different planes
nets and galaxies.                         
 - Cool! Doc, can we take a walk there?       
 - Where?                                   
 - Well, in these very worlds.                 
 - Of course you can, but provided that there
there will be an atmosphere suitable for breathing.
I discovered all this last week, already
then I was able to send various non-
large items. And today I'll try
increase the size of the "input" and, abandoning the analysis
congestion, check the atmosphere, and if it is
If the child is suitable, I will go there myself. EU-
if you want you can come with me too.   
 - Of course I’ll go with you, doc, that’s just
how do we get back?                    
 - Elementary.  The passage is two hundred
ronnym and you can not only enter it, but
and exit. - Great. So when do we leave?     
 - Right now. - said with a smile on his face
Thomas and pressed the button that activates everything
the rest of his apparatus is in the laboratory.     
 Seven attempts to find a world with a suitable at-
atmosphere were not successful and only
eighth time analyzer pulled from Pro-
move for the rope tied to him, showed
the atmosphere coincides with the earth's by 99%. One
the percentage difference was more than
heavy pollution with exhaust gases
than on Earth.                             
 - Well Martin, I set the timer to
one hour. I think we have enough time
to look at everything there.                
 - Of course, doc. - Martin said and closed
eyes followed the doctor into the unknown
news...                              
                                          
The first thing Martin saw when he came out
"Passage", there were walls and a long corridor
leading in both directions.  Suddenly someone
touched his shoulder. Martin screamed
and turned around, Thomas was standing behind him.           
- Sorry Martin, I didn’t want to scare you-
bya.  Let's go, we need to explore as much as possible
more and have time to return.                
 - Yes, you're right, Doc. Which way will we go?
 - I'm thinking to the right. And all the way
we'll stick to the right wall.     
 - But why? - Martin asked in bewilderment.  
 - I don’t know, but it seems to me that we are in
some kind of labyrinth and I'm afraid that we will get lost-
Let's have fun.                                    
 - As you want the dock, but for the labyrinth here
There is too much distance between the walls. 
 - Okay, let's just go and take a look.
“Everything is here,” said the doc and went first.    
                                          
 Having wandered through the labyrinth (and as it turned out
it really was something like a labyrinth
rinta) about twenty minutes, they decided
go back.                          
 - Surprisingly, doc, but no matter how much we walk,
or, we didn’t meet a single living soul. Mo-
Maybe everyone here is already extinct?                
 - Or someone helped them. Die.      
 - Where did you get the idea?                      
 - Walls. They have potholes, as if in
they were hit by shells or something else
this kind of thing...                              
 Their conversation was interrupted by a rumble coming from
from around the corner.                               
 - What is this dock?                          
 - I don’t know, but I think we’ll see now. Rather
all in all it's a big machine running on
internal combustion engine.           
 It really was a CAR! But move-
She walked quite slowly. Expand
Having woken up, she headed towards the people.
The only thing about her that looked scary was
what's more is what adorned her in front
a hefty gun barrel. Suddenly there was a
some strange sound, and it flew out of the barrel
fireball. Martin and Thomas fell to the ground
lyu, afraid that the ball would hit them. But the ball
flew a good two meters above them.   
 - Hurry up Martin, let's run to the "passage", this is
the world is too dangerous.                      
 - You won’t believe it, Doc, but I’m with you half-
nessI agree.                          
 Thomas and Martin ran as fast as they could, but
the car continued to pursue them at the same time
constantly maintaining contact with the base: "Automatically"
chelic Glider serial number GT-470,
I'm chasing two unregistered objects,
movement speed is greater than my maximum
small, more rapid support is required
growth systems."                          
                                          
 "Glider GT-470, support is close, ob-
objects scanned, object value
great, the order to take a living form without damaging
div central processor."               
                                          
 - Doc! This thing stopped shooting, maybe
Maybe they changed their mind about killing us?           
 - Most likely they want to take us alive-
mi, Martin. So we better hurry.  
 There were about five hundred left before the “passage”
meters, when another one flew out from around the corner
a glider shaped like a trident. B
differences from the first one, this one moved
much faster and chances to escape from the new
Martin and Thomas did not have a glider.      
 - Martin,-said Thomas, “I have
good plan, we need to split up.- And
before Martin could say anything
Well, Thomas turned the corner, "Trident"
followed him.  Martin stopped and
looked around, no one was chasing him, so
how the first glider disappeared somewhere. Oblock-
staring at the wall, Martin decided to translate
breathing.  Suddenly, in the distance, a soul was heard -
Thomas's tearing scream and then everything went silent
lo.  Realizing that now they will hunt for
Martin jumped up sharply, but suddenly
his eyes darkened and he lost consciousness
nie...                                    
                                          
                                          
 When Martin woke up, he looked around and realized that
is in the same place, that meant
that he had not yet been found or was not looked for at all.
  - Damn, I was offline for fifteen minutes -
“Ke,” Martin said out loud to himself as he looked
roaring at the clock.  But suddenly another thought
flashed in his head. - Passage!
he shouted out loud. “He’s going to stop now.”
rummaging!                                   
 Jumping up, Martin ran as fast as he could,
occasionally glancing at the clock. Before closing
"passage" remained one minute. When until
the “passage” remained about ten meters
the "passage" began to slowly decrease in diameter
meter Having donethe last push Martin jumped-
zero into the suction funnel of the “passage”...   
                                          
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 Mr. Alex Smith sat in his cubicle -
they simply began to boil with anger. Reason
such overheating was the president's call,
who promised to “eat” his ID
nie and “snack” him with a pension if he
his intelligence service will also be inactive.
 “Of course,” he said to himself, “despise-
Dent is not interested in the fact that I’m already sweating
killed half of his people, he was also not
I'm interested in what the M-16 is intended for
destruction of enemy personnel and that
for flying tanks it’s the same as a co-
mar for elephant. And what did he answer to my
request for a couple of tanks? We,
you see, we'll destroy the whole city. But if
so quibble, then these flying things
they will do it much faster than us. And where from
Are these the only things taken? It's not from the sky
do they fall?                            
 At that very moment the main
Smith's crook who started working
only recently and his name is not Alex yet
I remember.  - To be honest sir, you are not far from using
Tina. - said the assistant, most likely
hearing the question Smith asked himself.
 “What do you mean?” Smith muttered.  
                                          
 - Because sir, we have witnesses who
who saw one of these appear
death machines.                             
 - Well, what did they say?              
 - I think it’s better for you to see for yourself.    
 - So this is also filmed? - Smith shouted,
to whom the new assistant is increasingly and
liked it more, "He'll need to raise
salary, someday,” thought Smith.  
 - Exactly sir! Just a young couple walking
was walking along the beach, so they decided to take pictures
ourselves on camera and accidentally filmed this thing
ku.                                       
 - Excellent! Show me quickly.            
 - Yes sir!.. - he said loudly and clearly
swindler, but then he put on his face a non-
which is confusion.  - Well, what's the matter?                       
 - Sir. I hope we have a VCR
for 8mm cassettes.                           
 - We have everything! That's why we are a special service.
But oddly enough, such VCRs
it didn't turn out. Smith was simply furious.
                                          
He was ready to destroy the entire building, and how
promised to dismiss at least half of the staff
pour.  In the end, after three or four hours
The VCR was still found...            
 - Well, what is this? - said Mr. Smith
looking with irritation at how on the screen
a pretty girl made faces in front of the camera
swarm.                                      
 - Now sir, there is very little left.   
 - How do you know? Did you watch this one?
cassette before?                           
 - Yes sir. After all, I couldn’t provide
untested material for you.                
 - Where did you watch it, if we are several
couldn't find a watch in this damn establishment
Denianormal VCR?         
 - In the hospital sir, where the guy ended up
filming this girl.                    
 - Where is the girl herself?                    
 - Direct hit sir, I'm surprised that
the guy remained unharmed... Look sir, here
the most interesting thing.  -And the assistant pointed to
screen on which a girl with a pensive look
the house was looking out to the sea, and the guy with the camera
gradually moved away from the girl. Suddenly in
The camera lens got hit by some kind of funnel.
The guy most likely noticed her too and
tried to make a close-up, as well as focus
bite the image by how much it poses
a portable video camera was screaming. And now
the whole screen was filled with this funnel hanging in
ten meters above the water. Suddenly out of
ronki something began to appear. How did
elk it was one of the death machines according to the formula
me reminiscent of a bottle that sometimes
appeared near big cities and shot
or on everything that moved. From the place where
this vehicle, in theory, contained a gun,
flames burst out. Two seconds later
where the girl was standing, there was an explosion and
almost at the same moment the camera began to show
call for some kind of chaotic movement, but a little
later it stopped showing completely... - Hmmm, yes. - all that Smith could say while looking
to a blank screen.                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
 - The only thing that makes me happy, sir, is that this
the shooting "bottle" did not have time to reach
city: she was “taken out” from a bazooka by one of the
our employees.                          
 - I think it’s better for me to show it all
to the president.                               
 - Great solution! Sir.                 
The second visit to the president turned out to be more
successful. After watching the film several times and
shocked by the firepower of these "machines"
death," the president reluctantly gave permission
decision to use heavy equipment and
artillery, but only outside cities.
 “Great!” - the first thing Smith said upon entering
to your office. - Well, now we’ll show this
assholes what the United Army is capable of
New States.                               
 - This is of course good, sir, but it would be better not to
transfer battles to enemy territory.
 - Do you have any suggestions?            
 - Not really sir. Just today at lunch
I was talking to one of my friends. Yes
here, to his mental hospital
One guy recently arrived. Mine first
friend thought he was crazy on virtual
reality, but when he described in detail
one of these “death machines”, and after a week
lyu began the appearance of similar machines on
streets of Detroit, then my friend decided to advise
hang out with me.                         
 - What good will it do us if we
know what they look like?                   
 - Yes, the main thing is not this, but the fact that this guy
claims he knows how to get there.   
 - That's it, get me this
guy. What do you say his name is?         
 - Martin O'Neill, sir.                      
 - Yes... My father also said: “Son
trust the Irish"...                     
                                          
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 Martin O'Neill stood in Smith's office andlooked at the photographs hanging on the walls.
 - So, son, what can you tell us?
talk about everything that's happening that we haven't yet
do we know?                                    
                                          
 - I have already said many times that I know from-
where do these things come from and I know how to get there
get in.                                  
 - So where do they come from?           
 - I'm not sure, but in my opinion one of the parallel
worlds.  You see, there was a war there too, and
the inhabitants of that world all died fighting about
tive of these cars. And the same awaits you and me
fate.                                   
 - Well, we'll see about that later. Since you are
you say, can you get there to see them?          
 - Very simple. To the address I gave you
already mentioned, the cost of the equipment allows -
to open a passage between our worlds.
Yes, and also, all the parameters that are set on
computer, I would not recommend changing it, otherwise
why you can end up in an unknown place.     
                                          
                                          
 - Do you know how this thing works?    
 - Actually no, but I hope your people
figure it out.                              
 - I hope too...                      
                                          
 A month of work allowed scientists to figure it out
with the operating principle of Solden equipment.
Then an attempt was made to transfer
Abrams type tank.  At the appointed time
the tank did not return.                       
 A month later there was
a joint activity agreement was signed
to destroy "death machines". Americans
provided Russia with a device that allows
open a passage between worlds, and the Russians
in turn provided a new model
unmanned tank T-90, thus
by opening a small passage it was possible to control
fight with a tank without risking people's lives.      
 The main advantages of the tank were the speed
growth and a powerful weapon, but at the same time it comes
decided to sacrifice armor, which allowed
destroy this tank with one shot.
  The Americans quickly established serial production
launch the T-90, but transfer the entire army of training
they did not advise it, as it could cause damage
sew balance between worlds and one god
we know what thenhappened. And therefore
had to transfer one tank at a time
and only in case of loss of this transfer-
get a new one.                               
 - Sir, some Russian has arrived, th-
He says he will control our tanks.  
 - I thought that the Russians were just like that
They don’t give away their ideas. Yes, my father is also
said: “Son, don’t trust the Russians... And ir-
Landers..."                               
                                          
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 From this moment you will enter
naete into the game. In the demo version you
for now you can only drive around
labyrinths and that's it.               
 A little about what will be in
full version:                  
enemy aircraft;            
bases (they are in the demo, but they are
as if not);                  
dashboard;               
180 labyrinths: 9 levels of difficulty
of fighting enemy tanks
ka, and 5 levels of difficulty labi-
rints. And that’s 5*9=45, and even more
4 versions of each level, which
will be selected by RND.        
 About the distribution of this game.
License for replication soon
in total will be sold to 'MAGIC'
SOFt' in Moscow. If there is a wish-
in other cities - please contact
follow our editorial ad-
resu.                           
                                
 That's probably all. Bye!   
ZX-FOREVER!