This issue provides extensive coverage of the St. Petersburg demoparty ENLiGHT '97, featuring a comprehensive event report and interviews with prominent demoscene members and developers like Vyacheslav Mednonogov. Hardware sections detail the GMX expansion board for Scorpion, the production outlook for KAY-256 systems, and custom audio amplifiers. Technical content for programmers includes Z80 assembly guides, a look at Beta-Basic, and a breakdown of MOD formats for General Sound. Additionally, the magazine offers reviews of classic games and adventures such as Tai-Pan alongside previews of new software tools and editors.
Issue contents:
- From the authors - a few words about the next issue.
- Ator magazine - ZX-Format No.7
- Content - short contents of the magazine ZX-Format No.7
- Toys - an overview of new products: Los Angeles Drugs Bust, Jungle Warfare, Dragonia, 3D Starfighter, Rock star ate my hamster, Star Cobtrol, Malstese joe's pool challenge, Dynamite dux, Blood Brodthers, Galactic Games, Motor Masscre, International Kickboxing.
- Toys - Tai-Pan: a masterpiece of classic ZX Spectrum. The game that combines the quest and the manager. Interesting story and a rather detailed description.
- Toys - Operation R.R. Opening a new graphic novel from quest'u GALAXY.
- Toys - Adventyury: description of the game-parody "Bored of the ring" - "sick of the Rings" can be used as a description, but can simply be read as a parody of JRR Tolkien.
- Toys - 3D construction kit: a detailed description of the editor of 3D games such as Castle Master. The article describes the internal language sistemmy, which in fact, makes a set of locations and objects in a full game.
- Programmers - Basic - 7: The End of the description of Beta-Basic.
- Programmers - library of mathematical procedures. Series of articles for those wishing to learn how to program in assembly language.
- Programmers - algorithms and examples of procedures for quick calculations on asemblere: multiplication and division of 3-byte numbers
- Programmers - Mod Format files. Describe the format of the standard MOD file used in the General Sound.
- Programmers - BMC 2. Esche few words about the conversion of PC-shnyh images in 3-color.
- Review - An overview of the passage of the regular Demo-party ENLiGHT 1997 with photographs of some of the guests.
- Review - A few moments with the exhibition of video and audio Video FAIR, held in autumn in Saint-Petersburg.
- Iron - Captain Nemo invites to share technology KAY all willing to do production.
- Iron - Information on a new project by Scorpion - motherboard expansion graphics and memory GMX.
- Iron - An article about the audio amplifier and a price list (for those wishing to buy a ready-amp or kit assembly).
- animated cartoon - Description of a new turbo-assembler from STORM X-Trade.
- animated cartoon - Riff Tracker New Music Editor for General sound.
- animated cartoon - Description tekstovgo editor of ZX-Winword, allowing to make graphical inserts in the text, and its utility Sprite Cutter - Cutting these insertions.
- animated cartoon - Head Ball - Golovobol: Description of a new game.
- Interview - interviews with participants ENLiGHT'97: Digital Reality.
- Interview - interviews with participants ENLiGHT'97: Extreme.
- Interview - interviews with participants ENLiGHT'97: MMA, ALK.
- Interview - interviews with participants ENLiGHT'97: Flash inc.
- Interview - interviews with participants ENLiGHT'97: Progress.
- Interview - interviews with participants ENLiGHT'97: Felix / Softland.
- Interview - interviews with participants ENLiGHT'97: Slash.
- Interview - interviews with participants ENLiGHT'97: Vyacheslav Mednonogov.
- It was you - Lord of the teeth - 2. Continuation of the adventures of the brave Hobbits.
- It was you - Switch - A small philosophical parable.
- Mail - A masterpiece. Another interesting letter - "the majority of applications and system software - complete nonsense, and Labuda!
- Mail - readers' letters: Nikolai Sergeyev, Jobman, Nikolai Parfenov, Dmitry Zalissky.
- Mail - free advertising and announcements.
- Miscellaneous - prospects for the software. A new RPG game from Odessa Group "Oberon" - an unknown world.
- Miscellaneous - prospects for the software. STATE OF THE ART: a new graphical editor for the Spectrum.
- Miscellaneous - Electronic Samizdat: A few words about a new kind of software - Electronic books.
- Amiga Club - A new article of the former Spektrumista Max Petrov on Amiga.
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