ZX-News #17

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03 Dec 1996 Download

  • ZX-News #17

This issue of ZX-News covers the active St. Petersburg demoscene and local BBS networks, featuring a schedule of BBS stations and network news. Technical articles offer a guide to repairing the Scorpion ZS256 Turbo+ computer and explain how to intercept the Reset signal on 128K ZX Spectrum machines using an example from Double Xinox. The edition also includes an overview of Soviet ZX Spectrum clones, TR-DOS utility programs for text files, a sales chart of top software by Welcome, the history of the amateur radio code 73, and FidoNet humor.

Issue contents:

  1. Ot author - Fidoshnye column in the ZX-News.
  2. Information - What is the code '73 '.
  3. Letters - What are ZX'y ... : 48K, Moscow, Baltic, Moscow, 128K, Leningrad 1, Pentagon 48.
  4. Programmers - Catching Reset'a on 128k machines (for example, the game Doble Xinox).
  5. Advertising - Advertisements and announcements ...
  6. Network News - Schedule BBS'ok.
  7. System Program - Translator (BBS Utilites) - replacement of the letters H, P, V on Latin. Killer - pruning mussora tekstovgo at the end of the file. Adder - "stitches" the files into one.
  8. Scorpio-256 - Repair Scorpion with his own hands (part 2)
  9. Hit Parade - the top 10 programs on the basis of sales of firm Welcome.
  10. Humor - Fidoshny humor - Dictionary lamer.

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