Contents

Contents of Issue 10/96 (#10)

D: Articles

As promised, Article 1 describes the meeting in Filderstadt. The corresponding pictures can be found in PV (Picture Viewer) nos. 10 and 11.

Article 2 is the description of the PD program MORBUS GRAVIS with some harmless pictures.

Preview for the next issue: The translation of an article from ZX Land 5, the fastest PLOT routine for the Spectrum.

E: Pictures

11 PVs with a total of exactly 120 pictures from a wide variety of areas:

• PV 1 to 6: exactly 66 pictures from the movie "The Empire Strikes Back".
• PV 7: 2 more pictures from "Empire" as well as 3 Star Trek pictures, 7 cliparts, and a "Doom" picture.
• PV 8: 2 lizards, 1 airplane, 1 fantasy picture, 5 cliparts, 3 girls (fantasy).
• PV 9: 2 girls, helicopter, insect, lion, space, and 5 cliparts.
• PV 10: 9 pictures from Filderstadt.
• PV 11: 5 more pictures from Filderstadt, as well as 3 fantasy and 1 clipart.

Oh yes! When I write fantasy, that does not mean sex like with most PD vendors, but rather something along the lines of "Das Schwarze Auge". Sex pictures are referred to as "Porno"!

F: Demos

Royal Fun 1 and 2 are two porno (now the bad word appears!) animations from Holland. You can tell they were artificially generated from still images, but whatever. Before starting, a password is requested. If you are an adult and there is still no number on the disk label, you can ask for it by phone (see hotline number in the editorial section). This measure is necessary to prevent the dear little children from watching the demo. For a skilled hacker, however, this protection is no problem.

Satisfaction: The last part of the Russian megademo. For everyone who doesn't have a Pentagon and still wants to listen to the music in the part MAGIC FLY at normal speed, I found out the following:

Rewrite the BASIC part of the part so that the next part is not loaded, meaning just delete the Load instruction. Write new lines:

4 STOP
5 RANDOMIZE USR 38348: PAUSE 1: GO TO 5

Then load the code after the demo has started—meaning when the music can be heard, press SPACE and enter GO TO 5. By the way, the fastest ST-Player was used in this part, as Jordan of Exodus assured me.

When the music gets boring, simply press BREAK and enter GO TO 3.

G: Games

Sprint Royal, a brain-teaser against the computer. It came about during a competition initiated by Helge Keller; the task was to write a computer strategy. Exactly four people from all three clubs (SPC, SUC, and SGG) took part. As far as I can remember, two from Germany and two from Austria, including of course myself with the shortest and simultaneously worst strategy (actually there were two!), which was based on chance, but sometimes played better than my brother. In SGG, the strategies were then combined into a single game: SPRINT ROYAL.

C'' la vie, no, not the new hit by the Pet Shop Boys, but a treasure hunt on two islands. You have to finance a treasure hunt with a small sum of money, buying companions, weapons, grub, etc. The whole game is in German. Quite a nice little game!

Hollywood, on the other hand, is a platform game like many other similar ones that only differ in screen layout, title, and enemy sprites, and which will soon be available to admire here too. My opinion on it: someone clearly went overboard there. Controls: Sinclair Joystick and similar standard controllers.

Kamelreiten, a desert race over 200 miles, but don't ride your darling to death (meant differently than you thought, nothing perverse!). Very interesting, and in German to boot.

H: Miscellaneous

Spectrum D is a very special program that outputs all standard Spectrum error messages in German. Many thanks WoMo, for this program. Naturally, disk error messages are not taken into account.

Shadow Nemesis Part 2 begins right where the last part left off. Vahanara's first appearance as evil