H A R T S T O L I
(C) ZK SYSTEM
Hello to all readers of the newspaper ZX Pilot!
In this article I, ZK System, want to tell you about our
group Excess team, it projects to date and for the future.
Many have probably seen our successful
programs that were released recently -
Game A Last Hero of the Light Force, the editor of digital
audio Excess Sample Editor, demo Excess de Luxe Paint and other
program. The aim of all our programs is always high quality and
convenience work.
I would like to tell a little about the
large and complex projects at present
day - a new graphical editor
Excess de Luxe Paint (hereafter simply EDP),
demo version of which appeared six months ago, many have
probably already thought that this project is ordered to live a
long time due to the fact that no new demos. Actually
Work continues on the editor and his
release is scheduled for January-February of 2000
year.
Before you start writing the editor, I set a goal - to
maximize comfort, especially in the mode of Magnify, since most
of the time the artist is held in it. In the EDP to use
interface that is used in Excess Sample Editor v1.4 with
significant internal changes. The interface allows a user with
the highest convenience of working with the program. Another
innovation was the introduction of user palette, allowing a
twenty frequently applied color attributes and call
they use two or three keys.
The main difference from all other EDP redaktorov image is
that the main program is a core to which are connected
so-called plug-in modules, whose claim to nucleus occurs
through the kernal. The user, knowing the basic commands
nucleus (the description will be attached to a licensed copy of
the program) will be able to write himself everything he
needed. Convenience configuring the system achieved by the fact
that For example, if you want to change the whole set
Cursors (arrows) do not need to change any of the sprites, just
download a special file as a normal standard screen and make
changes.
Also in the editor it is possible to download the background
music to create a mask for Sprites, print the image on the
printer and much more.
It should be noted that the EDP in contrast to
all previous programs will not be free, ie shareware,
approximate price a licensed copy of the detailed description
will be $ 03.04, and it's worth it!
Next news certainly disappoint fans of the game Last Hero.
The second episode games, probably will not be because
SIV Blader, the author of this game, left the Spectrum.
Another enjoyable moment it may be that RA (exPanther) with
Twin'om of Global Corp. scheduled to make a game, which will be
announced in the near future.
Once I wrote a few good software programs, I felt the lack
of a standard Speccy - kakoynibud heaped operating system, such
as Windows, Amiga OS, etc. I decided to seriously address this
issue, knowing that there are more and more operational system,
but there is a small but! None from Spectrum Systems has no
graphical interface to facilitate writing new program under
this system, they only support a standard filesystem!
Moreover, these systems take a hefty chunk of RAM, etc. (An
exception is NeOS).
My operating system is installed in a computer as a small
circuit board with a 3-4-chips. OS kernel Cybershell (tm) is
located in a special Flash memory, which size is 128Kb and at
any time can be reprogrammed by a special program without
removing from the board. Management is carried out through one
port. When you install the corresponding bit in the port main
ROM is disabled and instead connects Flash BIOS. In general,
this project is still in its early stages, so I expect you,
dear users ZX-Spectrum'a, do not leave this project without
attention and offer their ideas.
Propose that all further discussion of the new operating
system on hold pages ZX-Pilot'a.
Well, like all of what I wanted to tell at this time.
Regards,
ZK System.
All the wants and wishes concerning programs Excess Team can
be sent to:
e-mail: excess_team@mail.ru
marked "to ZK System"
mail: 420,052,
Kazan,
ul.Godovikova, 14, kv.114,
Constantine Zuykov.
