Pyza on the Delay of ZX Land #5 and the Postponed 128K Conversion Article

PROLOGUE

At the beginning, I should explain why this issue is late again. It is entirely my (Pyza’s) fault that the fifth issue has only appeared now (and whichever way you look at it, it’s a jubilee issue). The reason was a lack of time to type in the articles. After all, it’s more than 80 kB of packed text! I won’t hide the fact that putting it all together also took quite a lot of time...

And there was plenty to do!

Scalman took care of that, though, and I think he did a pretty decent job. But what’s done is done! I hope this “big” issue will satisfy everyone.

There are also a few things I’d like to address...

First, I want to apologise to everyone who was offended by the mistake in issue four, where I wrote “spectrómowców.” It’s an unforgivable error. I’ll excuse myself by saying that I wrote it at night and, unfortunately, my mind wasn’t working properly. Please also forgive all the other mistakes, both spelling and stylistic. Nobody is perfect (and I certainly am not), and everyone makes one mistake or another from time to time.

The second matter is the article about the 128K conversion, promised in the previous issue. Unfortunately, things turned out a little differently than I expected, and I’m not including the article for the simple reason that I don’t have it! I think it should appear in the next issue, though.

Another thing is the irregular appearance of ZX LAND. The situation is that I have very little time and can’t find a way to get down to it. I’ve included a simple but adequate text editor with this issue, in which articles can be written directly. If, however, someone would prefer pen and paper, please send it to me. The less I have to type in, the more often ZX LAND will appear, because putting everything together shouldn’t be a problem anymore (Scalman will take care of that, anyway—and he’s a solid outfit).

The next problem is the intro to issue three, which can’t be exited on some machines. Maniu found the bug and made the necessary corrections, for which I thank him very much. In the intro block (ZXLAND3.1), enter the value 94 at address 42641 (packed), or, after unpacking, use POKE 42697,94.

We won’t have a “In the next issue” section, because we don’t know what the pigeon (the mail from you) will bring us, and we don’t want to have to explain ourselves again for promises we haven’t fulfilled.

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