C O R O T C O O M N O G O M
. . .
Apparently, "Black Raven" is still not
will be Slava Mednonogov's last game on
Spectrum.
Almost immediately after the game went on sale,
Slava stated online that if users
will prefer to buy a hacked version of "Black
Crow", then he will stop writing new programs.
frames for Speccy. The only thing he can do
to please gamers who are not spoiled by new products,
in this case, these are new levels to the CV.
It is unknown how consciously they behaved
users, but it seems they can avoid punishment
will not succeed - “Mednonogov” is “moving” to
PC!" - several excitedly told us
echo conference subscribers.
But now, “StarCraft” and Slava appeared on the PC
took up writing "Black Crow 2". Now
spektrumists will have to continue the war between
people and kungs in space. If you think
that the Kungs became extinct in the distant past, then you
you are deeply mistaken, according to Slava, in
in space they are “like uncut dogs.”
. . .
There is no General Sound emulator for PC.
That's why in the cool game "Black Raven"
there is no cool sound that pleases sound owners
kovy card in other, not so cool games.
As Slava (Dangerous) said with regret,
lack of mutual understanding on this issue with
Glory(Copper Feet), led to the emergence of
demo versions of the game GS settings menu... nothing
actually didn't configure it. By the way, you have already
Have you increased the RAM on your card?
. . .
INFORCOM ordered to live long.
For a long time I didn’t want to believe it. But it comes-
Xia. And we didn’t believe it when it passed
rumor about the bankruptcy of the bank where the company held
their capital, and when INFORCOM did not take Cher-
Nogo Raven" for distribution. Although... perhaps
no one will be upset by this disappearance, at all
in any case, those who believe that the leadership
INFORCOM has not recently carried out any
from Moscow, and from St. Petersburg...
. . .
And Spectrum Expert has a good future.
They say it's a good omen when you don't recognize
yut or identified. We don’t know where, but in Pit-
re this is so. Judge for yourself. In February, Mikhail Aki-
mov (LOGROS) gave us an envelope in which
it turned out to be a letter... for the editors of the magazine
Spectrum Expert! We returned the letter, of course.
Misha, we laughed a little and then remembered an incident
tea a year ago, when Mikhail advertised
shaft in my store has just appeared -
Our magazine is like... ZX-Progress! Maybe it's
such a good tradition? Well, be that as it may,
and our magazine is published no matter what
difficulties. We wish the same for Spectrum Expert!
. . .
"The Legend of Kyrandia" will never appear on
Speccy.
Anywaycase in the next two years. From-
famous Yaroslavl programmer Roman Romanov
(Nicodim) has been serving urgently since the fall of last year
service in the Russian Army. According to Alexey
Lebedeva (Condorsoft), Nicodim is not left to anyone
forged the developments of the game (and he had them), which
Paradise promised to be interesting. There's nothing to it
surprising, considering that the Spectrum
The market in Yaroslavl has practically withered away.
. . .
RTH-5 will not be... similar to RTH-4.
RTH-5 simply won't happen.
Another sad news from Yaroslavl. By
at least for those who liked the game
"Return to home 4". Continuations of the game about which
we talked about rum in the second issue of the magazine,
probably won't. Project "Return to home 5" -
suspended. As we know, Andrey
Kazakov, author of the RTH-4 program, practically
I received nothing from the sale of my products.
ta. $20 from XL-Design, and even less from sales in
Yaroslavl. It is clear that playing a new game
without expecting any return from it, he has no desire.
We can say that the problem of establishing di-
dealer network has stood up as an insurmountable wall in front of
another spektrumist programmer.
. . .
Samara is entangled in a Spectrum computer
network.
After the release of the fourth issue of the magazine Obe-
ron author-hacker group of spektrumists
Samara decided to seriously take on individual
al projects, suspended foruncertain
deadline for working on the magazine. One can expect the appearance
next versions will be released soon
famous Samara programs. The only thing is
today unites all progressive
the most powerful people of this city - this is SamZxNet -
the first Spectrum computer in Samara
network. Samara residents use Hayes mode for communication.
us, since it is the only one available to them
device of this kind. Although, according to our information,
representatives of Samara hackers had serious
New intention to purchase a batch of XTR modems.
Fame Dangerous denies that any of Sa-
Mary was in negotiations with the X-Trade group about
anything like that. Probably not organized
enough.
. . .
Sprinter started, but...
A computer that gives hope that
spektrumists will finally get more or less
a modern car, already on sale. On sale from
December 31, 1997 (according to the Peters-
tsev - this is not a joke). But probably not difficult
note that the promised wide advertising campaign
there is no sign of a panic. According to experts
PETERS company, they just can’t come to
final, iron (in both
sense) version of the car. For example, they decide
the problem of ensuring reliable operation with CD-ROM.
In such a situation, they consider it wrong to
rocko advertise a computer. But nevertheless
Yes, Sprinter can be purchased now. Forsold out in the first four months of this year...
12 cars. Is “the best the enemy of the good”?
. . .
Norton Commander on Sprinter.
Yes, dear readers, painfully familiar
(for those who saw it on PC) the shell is now available on
Spectrum compatible car. Moreover, in maxi-
very similar design. As much as possible
you want to talk about the need for your own
faces, that is, software, for a new car, but I agree
Say that “without fish, there’s only cancer.” Auto-
the rum of this useful product is Denis
Parinov, who wrote for Sprinter a little earlier
the first and only text editor so far.
This editor does not claim to be complete.
capabilities delivered to the user. In it
there are not enough block operations, for example, but
type text, edit it in a convenient
80 character format and then output to
printer, you can always. Now consider-
it becomes possible to connect to the creation of a following
the next full-fledged version of the editor is still
one programmer. Then things will work out
faster. In the meantime, Denis is working on creating
graphic editor for a new car, I have
shchey, as you know, great graphic capabilities
possibilities. We hope to tell you about this in-
interesting project in the next issue.
─────
Share your thoughts about the article