Inforkom: dead or alive?
Finally clarified the situation with Inforkomom. To start
The complete text of his farewell inforkomovskoy leaflets, which
They sent out along with another price list:
Dear friends! Forced with regret to announce
untimely death of Frunze Commercial banks, which
buried under the rubble of her all your money for a
subscription 1997, many of our publishing plans, as well as
both you know the company. In this regard, reports the
following:
1. All financial obligations to the subscribers will
We made regardless of circumstances. We hope that in
situation we will be forgiven some internally
changes in our work and possible replacement of the announced
earlier products.
2. ZX REVIEW will go further. But now we
release it on floppy disks that will please some readers,
but some very upset. Available due to owners
tape recorders. (I do not know what the owners can drive
happy transformation of the printed magazine in another
E - Ed.). They bring special apology and ask that
Contact us to determine compensation. Although the new
shell magazine is that not only allows
print the article in text mode, but also to rewrite
them to tape.
3. Subscribe to the ZX REVIEW do not plan to pursue. Will
announce in the current price lists only the next issue.
4. As you know the company no longer exists, please
in letters, and, more importantly, remittances are not
indicate their names - your departure in this case
reached the addressee. All correspondence and payments will
now be conducted by individual entrepreneurs, addresses
which you will find the appropriate sections.
5. In accordance with the above, stops and
a temporary phone, published in the previous price list. All
questions, requests, articles, programs, etc. sent to the
address 121019, Moscow, POBox 16, Anfimova EV
We hope for a favorable resolution of the problems that
almost 100% dependent on you, lovers ZX SPECTRUM!
Despite the above difficulties could inforkomovtsam
release following paired release revyushki - ZX-Review # 3 +4
'97. Bravo!
It is true this time numbers, no matter how absurd it seems,
came in electronic form. Because of this lost all the charm
Revue as print edition. Of course, compete with such monsters
as spectrophone or ZX-Format, e revyushke not afford.
It remains to rely only on the activity of readers and
publishers themselves, no less important.
What is the Revue # 3 +4? 1544 sectors on the disk.
Shell + graphics + articles = half) + everything else - the
fruits work of one man - Ivan Roshchina from Moscow, the famous
their programs Floppy Format and ABCDcopy. Of course, for one
man this is very good, but ... By the way, there is no music at
all, Graphics, in fact, too. Texts hardly painted ... But all
us not to judge strictly log - only the first number in
new form.
Shell rather nakruchena. Done a lot of
interesting features, such as writing text on the disc and the
so-called "Scroll" - scrollbar. The latter allows the keys
up-down to select the desired portion of text, and then
instantly it move.
What is the content? Lists topics along the way something
commenting.
Authoring
GENERAL SOUND - Multimedia for the ZX SPECTRUM!
[Information on the General Sound.]
New programs
I. Roshchin. HELP_Z80.
[This program - which has no analogues Command Reference
Z80. She will give you all the information on the 1136 teams
microprocessor, including the undocumented.]
Davydov. CATALOG'S BASE v1.8.
[The program is designed for automatic compilation
filing software stored on floppy disks TR-DOS.]
Calling card
Introducing the new electronic journal "MAJOR WARES"
(C) CODEBUSTERS 'V.M.G.
[Advertising KodBasterovskogo magazine, which is already
known
when he should quit.]
TR-DOS for Beginners
[Continuation of the story of Vladimir Sirotkin TR-DOS'e. At
this time
It's about programming VGshki.
Reader-reader
I. Roshchin. Display driver for the computer, "Pentagon-128.
V. Sirotkin. Protection program (look at the problem).
[Author's thoughts about the various protections to
Spectrum.]
Etudes
[Something in the recent so-called "Pearl" and "diamonds"
from the "Etudes" are more like a cheap knockoff. Although
The first procedure is still nothing.]
A. Urzha. The procedure for drawing a circle.
E. Volchkov. Improvement of sub address calculation in
file system on display.
[Lamerskaya tip on how to reduce routine
address calculation system on display file (published in
God knows when inforkomovskoy published a book on the
schedule) by 2
bytes. Very useful.]
M. Lazutov:
∙ The modernization program font.
[Well, it's just full of flies. The reader brings to them
torn
from one of the boot process, making a font
thickened lower part! This is certainly cool. It is clear
that
one would expect from an author who can not write such
the procedure itself. But this is not important. But the
main thing is that this same
procedure has already been printed in the first revyushke
for 93 (!) year.
Apparently, inforkomovtsy did not even test it ...]
∙ Program encode / decode block codes.
[Another "sketch" a talented author. This "program" -
Elementary ksorka which inverts the bits with daunting
undocumented commands CPL. Not only known from
pulled out the procedure at this time.]
∙ The effect of the attributes.
[Well, it is generally rulez ...]
O. Smolyankin:
∙ Procedures for cleaning the screen.
[Compared with the previous author of obvious progress.]
∙ Output of text messages on the screen.
[No, this revyushka - just something! That's another Maxim
Lazutov ...]
A. Savinov:
∙ The procedure to display double-width characters.
[The truth table of contents said the withdrawal of a double-
height. So you do not know whom to believe: whether section
"Content", or article.]
∙ Procedure "dissolution" of characters.
[... plucked from Lode Runner'a ... ;)) Looks like
inforkomovtsy
due to the excess material decided to dig in old letters
"Not passed" the year that way in 93 ...]
E. Frost. Running line.
V. Sirotkin. Program checksum.
[Of course, I respect Comrade Sirotkin, who wrote the book
of TR-DOS, but ... but ... This procedure of counting CRC
file ...
Oh yeah, she's also taken from Radio magazine in 1992 ...
Very difficult case. Somehow, a simple procedure
implemented as early as Stryker'e (see review), here
presented as
huge, hulking monster. Why?]
I. Roshchin. Two graphic effect.
[Ivan Roshchin again saves the day. He, in addition to the
shell,
had to pull and half revyushnyh sections.]
I. Komandin. The program display screen.
Retro
Dzh.Hardman, E. Hyuzon. Top 40 procedures.
[Continued reprints antediluvian books of poor Andrew
Hewson, founder of Hewson Consultants.]
Forum
A. Strelnikov. Prospects of development of Spectrum.
M. Bekarev. The calculation of the address display area of
familiarity and vice versa.
S. Astrov. Pseudorandom number generator.
Group 'Light'. Music processor ZX-Speccy.
D. Fedorov:
∙ Prints images with a mask with pixel precision.
∙ algorithm for calculating the addresses of the
coordinates up to pixel.
A. Gura. Code programmer.
I. Roshchin. Sharing ZX ASM 3.0 and STS 5.1.
VP Fedin. Refinement Profi for conflict-free connection
periphery.
Davydov. According to materials published in the ZX-REVIEW:
∙ Some issues related to autostart BASIC programs;
∙ 'Redefine keys';
∙ how to print 42 characters per line;
∙ procedure multiplication HL = B * C;
∙ completion cloning downloaders;
∙ mini driver disk.
Forum Games
INSULT MEGADEMO
[Say what, the game century), but that's nothing compared
that was published in _zhurnale_ (!) under this heading.
I would venture to reprint the whole note, so as not to
deprive you of the chance
prosmeyatsya the evening ...]
Forum Games 'Insult Megademo'
IFC: A small tip holders Insult Megademo gives Dmitry
Timokhin from Moscow. (Moscow, Moscow - how can you not
ashamed! - ed.)
Reporter: As you know, after the section 3200 Sin-Dots is a
scroller, where you are asked to press RESET. If not to touch
anything and wait THE END until the message is not scrolled 20
times, appear the words HAVE A NICE DAY! and start downloading
the remaining parts actually written to the limit of Spectrum.
Unabridged Stylistics saved
CATCH 23
LIVINGSTONE
[Under this name hides a SOLUTION to the game Livingstone
2.2]
ROCK STAR ATE MY HAMSTER
UFO-2: THE DEVIL OF THE ABYSS
TERMINATOR 2
VENTURAMA
THE SPIRITS
NIPPER
SWEEWOS'S WORLD
KING'S BOUNTY-2
HACKER 2
BLACK MAGIC
SATCOM
Star Heritage
Crossroads
SHERLOCK
APOLLO
SHADOWS OF MORDOR
RIGEL'S REVENGE
TEMPLE OF TERROR
ID
THAT'S THE SPIRIT
RETURN TO ITHAKA
Crossroads Dragons
[An interesting story about some Adventura (AVALON, CASTLE OF
DREAMS, ERIK THE VIKING, EUREKA!, EYE OF BAIN and KENTILLA)
in
within the book by Ovechkin.]
Expert Tips
I. Komandin. STONKERS.
B. Kekuh. CASTLE MASTER.
Bragin Yu. FIRELORD.
Computer novel
Berezin. The tradition of chivalry times (for the game
Knight Lore).
I. Komandin. Crazy story (the game Heartbroken).
That's it. The magazine turned out good. Look it is worth
not least because it used two such concepts as "Revyushka and
"E-zine," seemed to be incompatible. Hurry to see
in reverse.
