The debut issue explores the magazine creation background, interface navigation, and a critical analysis of the Enlight '97 festival. It features hardware developer interviews and reviews of notable games. The technical section delivers tutorials on 3D graphics and Z80 assembly programming, alongside software spotlights for the Storm turbo-assembler and music trackers. Hardware articles cover the ZX Spectrum bus architecture and the GMX video card for Scorpion, rounding out with tech-themed humor and satires.
Issue contents:
- Shell - description of the journal shell.
- Introduction - we managed to make the magazine absolutely “from scratch” in just a month and a half, starting with reflection and ending with sale.
- From the editor - we shoulder the difficult burden of producing a high-quality and interesting Spectrum magazine.
- Enlight 1997 - Are we going the right way, comrades? The collapse of Enlight'97.
- Interview - Kano VS RST7: A true story about how elite representatives of the Spectrum scene could not understand each other.
- Games - description of games: Bogaboo, Towdie, Delta, Score 3020, Konami Tennis, Hyper Sports, Para Academy, Run for gold, Centurions, Atrog, Little computer people.
- Programming - 3D on the Spectrum: rotation of a wire object (without cutting off lines that go off the screen).
- Programming - implementation in Z80 assembler: multiplication, compositional division, COS/SIN calculation, Bresenham/Horn line drawing.
- Soft - description of the new assembler - Storm.
- Software - description of innovations and improvements in the music editor Pro Tracker 3.31
- Software - description of the music editor for "GS" RIFF TRACKER v 2.9
- Programming - adaptation of game programs to the General Sound music card.
- Hardware - GMX: video card for ZS Scropion.
- Iron - ZX BUS - Bus on Spectrum: The apparent simplicity of Sinclair's iron is extremely deceptive.
- Humor - Doctor Fomin to the rescue!
- Humor - a humorous review of computer games.
- Advertising - Our company offers software for the ZX-SPECTRUM.
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