This issue features a TR-DOS file input driver for sequential and direct access modes, alongside an overview of screen compression tools and a guide to packing code blocks with HRUM v3.5i. The hardware section details the GMX controller upgrade for ZS Scorpion 2000. News coverage includes tasks from the 1997 Barnaul Computer Science Olympiad, an author software distribution initiative by Komel, and updates on the combat virus contest. Completing the issue are profiles of Barnaul developers, reader letters, a humorous piece, a sci-fi story, and comprehensive coverage of the game Bismark, including a novella, user guide, and glossary.
Issue contents:
- From the Editor - ZX-CLUB growing and evolving.
- Soft group - Driver input modes consistent and direct access from the file system TR-DOS. How to use driver.
- Hard group - ZS Scorpion 2000 - on the GMX-controller.
- Users group - File Compression Screen: Overview of the software. Discography. Analysis of the results of compression.
- Users group - Compression code blocks - work with HRUM v3.5.
- News - Barnaul Olympiad in Informatics 1997.
- News - Barnaul firm Komel decided podderzhkeavtorskih programs.
- News - contest for the best virus continues.
- Dossier - On the activity of Barnaul programmers: Krotov Oleg Mayatsky Vitali, Rostov Alexander Kovalev Roman (DJ RUSH), Norton Commander (NC).
- ZX-Potpourri - Letters from readers from Magadan and carpet, Voronezh, and Cheboksary.
- Enjoy - How to Marry a programmer.
- Fantasy - A Tale VA Petersburg "The Fourteenth Dimension".
- Toys - Novella to the game "BISMARK".
- Toys - a description of the game "BISMARK".
- Toys - Dictionary of the game "BISMARK".
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