[0/3] Phileas Fogg's Balloon Battles — ZXNet «zx.spectrum»

From Igor Gruzdev To All 25 October 1997

Hello, Sergei!

It’s quiet outside the window, and I’m sitting and writing a response to a letter written from Sergei Novikov to
All Sat Oct 25, 1997 at 10:17 am...

SN> Yes! Finally finished it...

Did it really need to be finished?

With all sorts of regards and wishes.
Igor.

... Life is given once, and, as a rule, at the most inopportune moment.

From Alex Kolesnikov To All 26 October 1997

Hey, we meet again, D(ea)r. Sergei !

Sergei Novikov wrote to All...

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SN> Name: Phileas Fogg's Balloon Battles
SN> From: Zeppelin Games 1991
SN> Import, conversion, intro ('Every pixel must have its own color!'), font
SN> in intro, internal trainer & version by me =) Music in intro: DOC/NS/PSG
SN> (Licenced to STEP)
А на эмуле by Shalaev v3.01 pаботает ? У меня что-то не пошло дальше каpтинки
после интpы. :(

I want to believe... Sergei.

/E-mail/: ze...@sub.kirov.ru [Team Mira Furlan]
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From Sergei Novikov To All 27 October 1997

Hiya Igor! Answering a message marked with the following:
From: Igor Gruzdev (2:5030/399.12); To: Sergei Novikov;
Date: Saturday, 25.10.97; Time: 11:41; Subj: "[0/3] Phileas Fogg's Balloon
Battles"

SN>> Yes! Hаконец-то доделал...

IG> А pазве ее надо было доделывать?

...доделал версию :)

With God's blessing, Sergei Novikov AKA Spirit/STEP

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Phone: (095) 952-46-19 [16.00-18.00]

... Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my Soul to keep.

From Oleg Bashtenko To All 27 October 1997

SN> ...finished the version :)
But it still arrived broken... =)

Oleg

... I saw reality in a dream. What a relief I woke up with!

From Max Lanskih To All 27 October 1997

SN> Name: Phileas Fogg's Balloon Battles
SN> From: Zeppelin Games 1991
SN> Import, conversion, intro ('Every pixel must have its own color!'), font
SN> in intro, internal trainer & version by me =) Music in intro: DOC/NS/PSG
SN> (Licenced to STEP)

From Sergei Novikov To All 28 October 1997

With God's blessing, Sergei Novikov AKA Spirit/STEP

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Phone: (095) 952-46-19 [16.00-18.00]

... Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my Soul to keep.

From Dmitry Zubarev To All 29 October 1997

But it won’t be anywhere - I thought that it was some kind of trick with a checksum for
khobeta - but no - having remade it with my utility on the Spectrum, it still didn't work - unpacking is to blame for everything, IMHO. I looked at the loader, the direct
reading seems to be correct. Repack!

The most interesting thing is that both ZxTools and hobeta crash into DOS after trying to
write part of the file, and the whole file is not completed... :)

C u l8r,
Dmitry aka ZDW.

From Sergei Novikov To All 30 October 1997

With God's blessing, Sergei Novikov AKA Spirit/STEP

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Phone: (095) 952-46-19 [16.00-18.00]

... Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my Soul to keep.

From Vladimir Frunze To All 30 October 1997

Dear Mr. Novikov!
Quoting your message dated 30 Oct 1997 (14:04)....

DZ>> I looked at the loader, the direct reading seems to be correct there.
DZ>> Repack!

SN> ZXC, ZXC, ZXC...

²All: use the previous option - "view_img", it pulls out nicely and without
glitches.

Yours truly, Vladimir Frunze AKA Hexman/BYTEX.
[Team ZX ASM] [Team Metallica] [Team Art Works]

From Vitaly Samoylov To All 31 October 1997

DZ> amount for hobeta - but no - having remade it with my utility on the Spectrum,
DZ> it still didn’t work - unpacking is to blame for everything, IMHO. I
DZ> looked at the loader, the direct reading there seems to be correct. Repack!

The whole point is that the file was incorrectly transferred to the 'hobeta' format, it should be
17 bytes of description + 123 sectors long, but it is 17 b long + 122 sectors + 1 incomplete
sector. Here !!! That's the whole point, ZXTools is buggy - it crashes into DOS, and
YUDIN'S EMULATOR FLOWS, and only RESET will help!!!
^^^^^^^^ that is, the computer itself hangs (Pentium)!

DZ> PS The most interesting thing is that both ZxTools and hobeta crash into DOS after
DZ> trying to record a part file, and the whole thing is not completed... :)
And the one thrown into the echo again works fine without glitches.

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