Hurray!!! Finally the next issue is out
our newspaperZX-Light #0B.We bring it right away
my apologies for the unplanned topmo-
for the release of this issue. These brakes
happened due to the fact that the main re-
newspaper editor (nowexeditor)
left the group AREAsoft. More precisely
speaking, he left the world altogether Speccy. Well
since Sobos was preparing everyone
materials forZX-Light,then we are
but they were lost. And finally - not in the summer
I really like to sit at the computer. And then-
new there are all sorts of dachas, vegetable gardens, potatoes...
:(.
Okay, stop making excuses :), we
after all, they released another issue.
Having overcome all the difficulties that arose in our
On our way we have completed this work and now
we invite you to relax while reading alone -
eleventh issueZX-Light. By the way, two
number ZX-Light will come out in about
month.
If you compare this newspaper issue with
you will probably notice in the previous numbers
there are significant differences between them.
Bo firstly the volume has increased significantly
useful information, although about the usefulness of su-
It’s not our fault, but there’s more writing :)
Bo secondly the newspaper has an application
(let's hope it doesn't disappear)
children :)). True, the application has one su-
A significant drawback is that it is ZIPobahoe...
Well, nothingZXUNZIP v1.02there will probably be
y everyone.
Thirdly has changed again
shell (more precisely, it is almost completely re-
written). Now there is an opportunity to
text text in three different fonts. Possibly
output sprites of any size. B turbo
scroll mode works in the frame, and
the turbo should be no lower 1. 45. Since I
thought thatScorpion the most braking car
on, then the scroll was written under it. As it turned out,
later, there is still a huge pile of cars
much more sluggish :). Therefore on
Turbo 2+ and some Profi`kah,and also on
In non-turbocharged cars, scrolling will be two
frame:(.
Well,fourthlythe approach to
creating the next issue of the newspaper. Nap-
example to the contents of this issue one way or another
Otherwise, the entire staff of AREAsoft had a hand.
Well, we boasted a little, now it’s time
time to talk about shell management.
The shell uses the most common
arrow window :) interface. Management
arrow is carried out from:
Kempston mouse (rulezzz :))
Kempston joy
Sinclair joy
Keyboadr QAOPSpace In the viewer you can control the text with
using Cursor joystyk.
Use the arrow to select the desired item in the window and
press the fire - the text is loaded :). Or open
another window opens :). You can remove it
by clicking Cancel on the mouse or Break/EDIT on
keyboard, or by pressing Fireoutside
windows. After loading text management
is done using the icons located -
located in the top lines of the screen. There on-
There are icons END and MENU. Using per-
howl you can exit into the shell (at the same
the place where they left :). With the help of the second you-
This is the additional menu.
SAVE TEXT - writing text to the current disk-
This article is filtered from the post managers
investigations and is written to disk.
SAVE SCREEN - recordscreen - the most
regular spec screen length 6912
byte.
TEXT COLOR ON/OFF - color/black text
nowhite.
TEXT BRIGHT ON/OFF - on/off high-
no brightness in the text (made for computers y
which have such a glitch as black color with
increased brightness, for example KAY :)).
MUSIC ON/OFF - as you want and partition
Enjoy this point :).
Well, that's all the points :). One has only to note
note that all disk operations use
read/write turbo driver. Therefore, su-
There is one limitation - only for
TR-DOS 5. 03, 5. 04. Well, or any others
version of DOS, the main thing is that it’s not too much
perverted :).
And one more thing. The mouse is of course tested, but
You never know - you can turn it off in the intruch. Ana-
it is logical that this is the case withKempston joystick-
com. This is done with the buttons 1 and 2 corresponding
responsibly.
Now it remains to name the programs, with the help
by whom all this miracle was done:
Alasm v4. 1
STS 6.2
Hrust 1. 2
Hrum 3.5i
Art Studio 128
Artwork
ZX Word v2. 5m
Text Maker v1. 10f
Chr Print
SEDfinal
Consul commander v3. 33
Perfect commander v1. 5
We express our deep gratitude to the authors
software product data.
In addition, the following subroutines were used:
Arrow Library - (c) Sergey Kolotov
Mouse driver - (c) Andrey Rachkin
The hardware on which the newspaper was tested:
Scorpion ZS256 Turbo+
Profi 512
Pentagon 512
Who did what:
Eraser - wrote, edited and colored
texts, coded, ARTIST and
much more;
Corvax - wrote a lot of texts;
Diamond - wrote texts and repainted
what Eraser painted gave
valuable advice, corrected
texts and tested the shell;
Sayman - wrote the muse.
Timon - also wrote the text and caught ita bunch of glitches on my Turbo2+.
Brain - became the main culprit in the appearance
application.
If you would like to contact us at
any questions regarding Speccy then
write to:
630124 Novosibirsk-124
Tolbukhina 41/2-37
Chichkanev Konstantin
Or call:
(383-2) 61-95-38
We will try to give answers to your
questions and will publish them in the next issue
re.
Well, that's all. We hope that our newspaper
you'll like it.
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