The issue offers a selection of reviews of new games and text adventures, supplemented by literary novellas and humorous pieces. Programmers will find Z80 assembly tutorials, effect breakdowns, computational methods, and guides on digital sound creation. Hardware sections detail the characteristics of the KAY-1024 computer, IDE controller schematics, and peripherals. The issue also features premiere descriptions of utility programs and music trackers, updates on the IS-DOS operating system, and an interview with the creators of iconic adventures.
Issue contents:
- From the authors - Once again after a long break you are reading an “editorial column”.
- Magazine Authors - ZX-Format No.8
- Issue Contents - summary of ZX-Format No.8 magazine
- Toys - review of new products: Stryker In The Grypts Of Trogan, Black Beard, Wizard Wars, Panther, Mario Bros, Ole. Toro!, Flip It!, Corners, Battlefield Germany.
- Toys - Adventures: The Boggit. He's a swamper. Dedicated to the memory of the deceased printed version of the ZX-Review...
- Toys - Adventures: Details. Thoughts on near-adventure topics.
- Toys - Lone Wolf: A novella based on the game.
- Toys - On the shelves: Black Raven - description of the episodes.
- Programmers - Basic - 8: End of description of Beta-Basic. Mega-Basic and Laser-Basic or what can be done on regular Basic.
- Programmers - Coding for beginners: “Immersion in movement.” Part two.
- Programmers - Arithmetic II: We continue to introduce you to mathematical procedures. We will talk about methods of raising to any degree and extracting any root.
- Programmers - IRIS: Description and analysis of the effect.
- Programmers - Digital sound on the Spectrum: How to make SPECCY play digitized sounds.
- IS-DOS - News: What's new in Is-Dos since January 1997 to May 1998
- IS-DOS - Faq: Answers to frequently asked questions.
- Iron - KAY-1024: Characteristics and description.
- Hardware - IDE HDD for iS-Dos: circuit diagram of an IDE hard drive controller manufactured by (C)Nemo, for computers with a Nemo-bus type system bus.
- Hardware - IDE-BUS: description of the IDE bus and HDD commands.
- Iron - For dummies: Boot-Selector. A device for “switching places” 3 and 5 inch drives.
- Premiere - Pro Tracker 3.31: Music editor, characteristics, description.
- Premiere - Sprite Master 5.11: Description of a multifunctional graphics utility for working with sprites.
- Premiere - Best view 1.0: A program with which you can view text, graphic and font files, as well as files in ZX-ASM 3.0 assembler format.
- Premiere - Flash Tracker Song Compiler: A compiler for translating the working module into a digestible form that can already be used in programs of all kinds.
- Interview - Well-known facts from the history of DELTA 4 (in three chapters with a prologue and epilogue).
- You were here - Lord of the Teeth - 3. The end of the adventures of the company of brave hobbits.
- You were here - Masks: A little tragic story...
- Mail - letters from readers: Sergey Prosvirov, Vitaly Glushets, Cyrah/Cross Worlds.
- Mail - free advertising and announcements.
- Miscellaneous - Retrospective: We decided to remember what the past year marked in the history of Spectrum.
- Miscellaneous - software perspectives. Black Raven - 2, Mirror, Mega Tetris 2000.
- Miscellaneous - Epic: Diary of the development of one program.
- Miscellaneous - Competition: Computer jokes from readers.
- Amiga New`s - Some news from hardware manufacturers - Phase5 and Blittersoft.
- Life Line - Almost all manufacturers say that Spectrum is commercially dead. The task of "Life Line" is to confirm or refute this.
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