New soft
Enlight - not the only thing that worries me. Something
unpleasant is happening now with the new software. I do not
mean our geymmeykerov they fellows and work in sweat (with rare
exceptions). But here in the west nove ... Stop! What nove? All
nove in full sense of the word has been received to our
country. Left rather, old ones that no one just because it's -
trash.
All of this affluence "novya" one common source - the
Norwegian The Internet server ftp.nvg.unit.no. Anyone who has
modem and Internet access, has access to hundreds of megabytes
of such kind of "novya. All he had left - to convert the file to
Speccy (which is done in 5-10 minutes). That is why the issue
now this kind of software are just a few groups.
Firstly, it is Digital Reality. These guys are really
value their reputation, so try to produce only
Software decent quality. In all their work is necessarily
present cheat mode (of course, when necessary) and the original
intro. Immediately clear - the group is not hack-work.
Secondly, Flash Inc. "Nove" they seem to pull
from there, and doing it Odysseus / Flash. Unlike
the first group, fleshevtsy produce everything: through their
hands are as valuable toys (see Appendix) and frank
garbage. Restoration of games, they seem to not get carried
away - not before, we must look for work, and even raw software
heap.
Flash intro with a fairly original and beautiful, so it is
can compete with DR'ovskimi. That is why in the annex to
this number, you can find 5 most common fleshevskih intro
the last time. There's just intro a la Tarzan Goes Ape and
Muncher Eats Chewits, which I hope everyone saw.
Third, we should note a new Minsk Group Fatality. She
released software is not of inferior quality than the DR, but
the issue intro shows great diversity (well, and the phrase =).
By number released novya group that and look overtake DR,
although the leader this issue - Flash.
And finally, we must not forget groups such as Phantasy,
Prophecy, Ascendancy, Perestroika, etc. They also are
contributing to the process of issuing new versions. Compete
with the first three groups were not yet in force, but see what
happens.
As I already said, everything is new - it is well forgotten
old. But as large stocks of "novya" as soon as it stops
flow? The other day I spent 6 hours online and download the
order 20 MB unknown to me games. Percent, 15 of them were
Adventura, which do not interest me. Another 50 percent - of
clean water debris, which look terrible. The remaining 35
percent - good toys 85-90's. release. Here is their something
now and distilled under the above mentioned TR-DOS Spectrum
Group. It remains to such programs on the server, not a
Norwegian five hundred (I must say that in this Internet based
server (Ftp.nvg.unit.no) collected almost all western games,
and there about seven thousand). That is "novya" remained on
the force for a year ...
Something I digress. What was it? Ah yes, now ex-USSR
There are three major suppliers of new products on the Russian
market. On the quality of its leading software Digital Reality,
by the number and steepness of the intro - Flash.
Now that worries me. The hell tired of looking at
Modern releases of any debris. Even Dupanov + + Vasilyev
Chernikov not reach such a time! Let's look at
recent releases Flash: Aladdin's Cave, Crazy Castles,
Pulsator, Sword Slayer, Oink, Titan, The Secret of Levitation,
Survival, Twintris, Glider, Meltdown, etc. Even the legendary
Jet Set Willy, probably looks better than some of the toys
from this list! But if you still really want to publish
game of this quality (and so that was!), then why stick to it
elegant intro? It is clear how ridiculous it looks, complete
with playing the 83rd year. This neighborhood is not only
undermines the reputation of group, but arhiskverno (as Lenin
would say grandpa;) acts on the gamer. After all, if a player
has bought CD, come on It just a bunch of stuff, then he will
be fit to think: Is not it time "Dumping" on another platform?
And the blame will not traders all in a row, just to make a
profit, and Group relizyaschie garbage.
Continues the theme. Or may not be mod'u cheat? Of course
yes. A now what? For most games lack the infinite lives, and
very few essential invulnerability. Thus,
trainer must possess _minimumom_ functions required for
successful _zaversheniya_ game.
Many games are easily traversed without the trainers
(Draconus, Myth, Capitan Trueno 1, etc.) is inserted into them
cheat mode - just crime. This can easily discourage interest in
the game. Same applies to toys that do not have a logical end
(Tetris, Galaxians), and some strategic games or
managers (Sim City, Samurai, 1st Division Manager). However,
For many of them will be enough to increase the initial capital
or the starting number of lives. You can go even further and
make a choice in the type of trainers play:
Easy Game (20 lives, five keys)
Normal Game (10 lives, two keys)
Hard Game (3 lives, no keys - firm mode)
Cheat Mode (infinite lives' keys)
The selected item, ideally, should affect the number of
scores, which then fall into the high scores table,
that it is desirable to keep on disk. In this case, the maximum
number of points must be awarded to the player who has chosen
Hard Game, mean - the one who will choose the Normal Game. Least
points (say, 1 / 4) is set to the one who chose Easy.
Imposter (who chooses "Cheat Mode"), respectively, did not
assumed a single point - in the table of records he will not be
ever. In short, everything must be done in order to
toy was fun and people wanted to return to her
again and again.
For examples of "extra" cheats not far to seek. This is the
same R-Type (Nicolas Rodionov - invulnerability at all stages
of the transition at any level), Saint Dragon (Max Iwamoto,
invulnerability) Darius (Fatality, infinite energy =
invulnerability), Draconus (Seamans, all cheats + View the
final cut'a from the menu), etc. Examples of lead can be much,
but the latter - it is generally Harassment: When you know what
awaits you in the end, it makes no sense play.
There are games where cheating is clearly not enough, for
example R-Type +8 128K (Codemonsters, endless life on 6 and 7
levels, invulnerability on the 8th). This is no less bullying,
because for such sophisticated toys require at least the
endless life all eight stages, and for the most - an
opportunity not to die first and the second time.
By the way, if a trainer has something to choose on the
basis of YEP / NOP, it is better to initially set the active
YEP, as cheaters we have still more (it's already been used
successfully in some intra-Flash).
That said, I cite the names of those who, in my
point of view, are currently the leader in one way or another
Spectrum of activity:
Best ...
musician: Voxon / Flash (for the music in the intro)
intromeyker: Flash Inc. (See annex)
demomeyker: Enigma (for Over the Top)
Artist: Den / Mafia (of Mortal Kombat)
geymmeyker: Copper Feet (UFO-2)
Best Group: Digital Reality (for all)
and also:
Journal: spectrophone # 23
Western Game: Myth
Western demo: Dies Irae (Exodus)
Russian Game: Star Heritage
If you have a different opinion, and I can publish it. Only
note: I'm only interested people who are still working on
ZX-stage (ie, all kinds of KSA will not go).
At the end of this topic will bring tekstik that caught me
Internet based on a single server. It lists all of the
Novgorod group Digital Reality:
__. __. ___ __ __ __ __. ___
|__)|(__,| | (--)(__ ((_-'(--)(__,| | '-)
Warez list:
Releases: Demos:
Squad Quick Reaction 7Th Reality
UFO + v 1.4 w / trainer More Gifts
Star Inheritance 1
The Turn +
ZX-Format + 1,2,3,4.5,5
Welcome Press + 1 Systems:
Dizzy Editor +
Xenon full Micro Editor + Utilites (crack)
Open It! + 10 Fingers
48 Irons + w / t Direct Commander v 3.04 (coming soon v 4.0)
Pirates + Sprite Land v 1.19
Myth's Land + Clutch Protection System (for copier close)
Winny-Puhh Adventure + Inertia Player Demo
Ring Wars Orion Protection System v 1.6
Street Gang 7th Reality Bug Fixer
Miami Cobra
Brat Attck
Tilt
Dark Star +
Weclemans
Space Crusaders
Mario Bros.
Unused +
Road Balster
Apollo +
Spiting Image
Elite Super Trux
Passiance
Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters
Pang
Auf Wiedersehen Monty
Destiny Mission +
Super Seymour Save The Planet
United Nation Squadron
Paradise Lost Playable Demo +
Doom Playable Demo
The Amazing Captain America and
Spider-Man in Doctor's Doom Revenge +
MegaBall Playable Demo v. 1.1
Altered Beast
Dr'Who: Dalek Attack
Power Of Play
Dizzy 1'2 Crash Special Edition
Summer Games Part 1
Vampire's Empire
H.A.T.E. +
Magic Stripes
Spectrum Progress # 1
Here's a list. Errors in the names of games did not correct,
so do not blame me in ignorance.
