Letters from readers.
music by COOPER
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Hello, our dear readers.
Here again, despite all the gloomy
predictions, we are together. To begin with - to answer the
most popular questions:
Where can I buy a legal copy of ZF is
St. Petersburg?
By mail - from firms Nemo, Logros, Scorpion,
Inforkom. Not in the mail - from our official distributors.
(Official distributors are listed in the ad unit, or, since
ZF-6, has at least, exist a standard ad banner with the seal
ZF. )
Very popular question - where and how to buy / get ZF cheaper?
There is one way to get the ZF, not platya
Money: write us some
article. In every category: from the "toys" and
"Programmer" to "Here was you" and "Amiga club". Author of
published material receives a number of his article free of
charge.
And now we go strictly to the letters.
Our reader from Yaroslavl, Nikolai Sergeyev wrote:
NA> I am very interested in developing
firm "Nemo" "KAY-256". If you do not complicate, answer me a
few questions about this computer:
1. General specifications and
board size.
2. What peripherals can be connected to
"KAY-256" 3SLT (and what 3SLT).
3. What is its fundamental difference from
"SCORPION-256".
ZF> 1. - In general - as in the Scorpion, differences - the
standard connectors on the board for Printer and Claudia - type
SNP_101, Kempston Joystick Sinclair joystick and a tape
recorder. Board size - 1.86 * 1.55 * 2.9 dm ^ 2. - Floppy
controller (included in fee) is stuck in the slot. 2.
Peripherals Scorp and Kay compatible. 3SLT actually means - 3
slots. 3. Pomimo lack of shadow businesses - maintaining
synchronization in turbo mode. (Very clearly seen in taktometre)
Very mixed reactions caused
publication of our article "Problems of the market"
The first option followed by the reaction of the reader from
St. Petersburg, did not wish Subscribe:
?> If in the previous 6-rooms and you have behaved quite
normally, in This room showed their respect I
to the average user.
I buy a left-discs, but did not plead
an accomplice, because I'm not them, and do it completely from
other considerations.
Other considerations (in 2 pages)
consisted in the fact that in the event of damage to the disc
he has to go out and buy a new one!
ZF> It seems that people have never heard of that in S-Pb any
Licensed discs (especially local
production) can be exchanged when
arbitrarily in the absence of physical
disc injuries.
Another variant of the reaction was as follows:
Writing off and read the "Left" ZF-6 people
sent to us for the money. (Just in - minus the retail margin,
minus the drive and minus record), adding to this letter
fragment of which we give here:
JOBMAN> I read your article about the market
cake and very disappointed ..: (
Your article, I think, in any case it was impossible to
publish! You broke hearts of many true spektrumistov!
Why say that all bad? Why
writing that the Spectrum has died? Thus, you
conversely worsens the position of the Spectrum!
Such nastiness is writing everywhere! AND
thus only inspire useru that time
move to another platform!
ZF> We felt that not Spectrum'istam
would hurt the knowledge of the main reasons
provisions, which now turned out to be
Speccy. The main feature of this market
that it is purely domestic. No
poderzhkoy freebie from the west to be un-
Maybe because of what the market is held by domestic producers.
Think - Do want to do something programmer
hearing that the user is talking about his
Product: No, it's too expensive. I
wait until the broken will / download
its bibieski.
Nikolai Parfenov asked:
NP> Write me how to use the compiled melody Protracker
V2.01 in their programs. How to do it
at least in BASIC?
ZF> PT melody can be played from the code, interrupt. To do
this in loop supply interruption CALL
at play (as specified in
compilation). Use a background melody
in BASIC impossible.
And lastly for today a letter from Dmitri
Zalisskogo, encoder from Kiev-hail that
in Ukraine.
RS> you just do not be criticized,
except that I would like to see in the "ZF"
more information about native and system programs, but I
certainly understand that the magazine "for all", and focus on
one thing you can not (and sorry).
ZF> Of course, we could have more
highlight any particular issue,
if you knew - exactly what you want to know. E-mail your
questions.
DZ> These lines are not the only thing I
wrote - I also wrote a demo of his first big project (or
rather, not the first, but only as a floppy disk which failed
to go all the way from idea to working version in a readable
state)
Name of my firstborn "TET-A-TET", which is apparently supposed
to mean "unexpected pleasant meeting with a stranger under a
lime tree on Elm Street, having only afford a gun for tying
diplomatic relations, ie duel. "
Like any game, this also needs a publisher and I hope that
watching demos will undermine any of the distributors Software,
and someone will respond.
ZF> Unfortunately, the game falls short
our criteria for a civilized product
and therefore we would advise you to bring
game to the condition.
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Whereupon we were finishing our review of the mail. If
you are having any questions - write. If you want to know
something - write. E-mail if you want something publish. We
read all the letters.
