power up (inlight demo from fileha)

ZXNet echo conference «zx.spectrum»

From Igor Gruzdev To All 2 September 1997


Hello, Vladimir!

It’s quiet outside the window, and I’m sitting and writing a response to a letter written from Vladimir Larkov to
Igor Gruzdev Tue Sep 02 1997 at 03:03...

IG>> And the second question - on Scorpio, everything after the part where the man is against the background
IG>> of the setting sun and trees are not visible. In the message, the music is playing, but the screen
IG>> is black. Why? Everything works on the crappy emulator, but on the Spectrum, even with
IG>> the 7ffd port disabled?!
VL> Everything works for me. Complaints about the hatcher.

Do you have an in-light version? Give it to me, will you? And finally, to be honest, I’m somehow
not delighted with the distribution of demos that are announced as inlight,
although the release date is far from pre-inlight. :( Vova, are you going to distribute _all_ the demos? Or will the ones that came via faha no longer go as duplication?
Damn... I don’t even know what’s better: the demo shown on the inlay, or the same demo from the
authors, with fixed glitches (if there were any) and fixed under
scorp/pent/emul... I still, I am more impressed (after receiving the subject) by the really inlight demos that were shown at the demo party... Whatever
they were...


With all sorts of regards and wishes.
Igor.

... When he was born, his father threw bricks at the stork for a long time.

From Dmitry Zubarev To All 4 September 1997

I have Scorpio - everything works! Although I have it special - initially there was no monitor on it, it was flashed and the board was redesigned later, then I changed the capacitor
for INT... I have very few multicolors that work normally unless there is a specific
adjustment during operation - and the top part along the beam does not coincide with
the very bottom, no matter how you configure it - there are always small stripes :(
And here, IMHO, it depends on the drive - there because it starts to work terribly ;)

ps. I just wrote it and decided to take another look - and it didn’t work on you!
The disk was sealed - damage was excluded... %-P I tried four times - useless!
Then I thought of trying it with another drive - and OB! True, then the disk back
to A: I had to rearrange it - so this is due to poor reading IMHO. It will be necessary
to restore the disk, it seems to be a standard format...

C u l8r,
Dmitry aka ZDW.


From Igor Gruzdev To All 5 September 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
Igor Gruzdev Wed Sep 03 1997 at 01:41...

IG>> Two questions: why not in .trd or, at worst, in .fdi? Why in
IG>> the TV disc?
SN> Because, IMHO, they thought of protecting the dema.

Nope. Laziness, probably. Because I drove it into the tractor and it was fine. And he distilled it into hobeta. And I packed and unpacked it with zxzip and everything works.

From Igor Gruzdev To All 5 September 1997


Hello, Artem!

It’s quiet outside the window, and I’m sitting and writing a response to a letter written from Artem Kharitonov to
Igor Gruzdev Thu Sep 04 1997 at 23:25...

IG>> will it work as a duplication? Damn... I don’t even know what’s better: the demo
IG>> shown on inlight, or the same demo from the authors, with fixed glitches
IG>> (if there were any) and fixed for scorp/pent/emulsion... Still, I’m more impressed by
IG>> (after receiving the subject) really inlight demos,
IG>> which were shown at the demo party... Whatever they are...
AH> This is stupid! All demo maker teams on all platforms release a post
AH> party version. Because usually a demo is assembled at the last moment and a more
AH> less normal version has to be made later. Our demo, for example,
AH> was assembled just 5 hours before the comp...

But it worked! But the subject doesn’t work on my computer. And it's a shame. A
inlaytovskaya works for Vova on the scorp. So what should we do now? Keep the demo in your collection, knowing that it does not work properly? Or have a non-release
inlight version, but a working one?

From Aleksander Senilov To All 5 September 1997

Yes, there seems to be no protection there, I freely copied it to another disk later.
By the way, of all the demos that have come down to us, I liked this one the most.
Especially the effect with non-attributed plasmas - a cool idea!
MegaCode is not lucky in winning prizes: that year Action in this Power Up!

Aleksander


From Stanislav Galanev To All 7 September 1997


IG> And the second question - on Scorpio, everything after the part where the man is on
IG> against the backdrop of the setting sun and trees is not visible. In the text message the music is playing, but
IG> the screen is black. Why? Everything works on the crappy emulator, but on the Spectrum
IG> it doesn’t work even with the 7ffd port disabled?!