"Optocoupler" - 1997-98

CONTENTS electronic newspaper "Optron" for 1997-98 (issue 1-21) FESTIVALS Enlight'97 Gendalf 1 Member Notes Farewell Enlight? V.Bulchukei 3 Funtop'98 Hello Funtop! V.Bulchukei 3 Official information V. Bulchukei 12 Notes from participant S. Filimonov 17 Mitino - rainy day calendar S. Filimonov 17 Demo Compo Gendalf 18,19 Gfx Compo Infarkh 19 Music Compo P. Danilyuk 19 Briefly about the past, details about the future I. Bozhenko 19 How it was done formerly M. Bulgakov 19 PAGES OF HISTORY So who's first? V. Klimus, (Interview with Yu. Dobush) S. Filimonov 6 Pioneers of domestic - S. Filimonov 15 of the Spectrum (inter- view with O. Starostenko) IRON Modems From the history of CDOS A. Stegnitsky 1 in Lviv Briefly about the main thing S. Filimonov 3 About modems and more T. Nikolaychuk 4 Gluck T. Nikolaychuk 8 Web on Spectrum? S.Gritsyuk 11 The birth of the modem S. Filimonov 18 ZX vs PC Apple + Microsoft = ? L.Kehoe 2 Commentary on Gandalf, Rasp 2 article by L.Kehoe Letter from afar J.Ciemgals, Gendalf, Rasp 4 Discussion continues Ex-Speccy User,Gendalf, Rasp 7 Isn't it time to call Protein 11 Uncle Freud? Z80 Registers So how much? S.Tyatin 4 /NNI, /INT and others V. Klimov 6 Mico-Best Part I Walker 7 Part II Rasp 8 With STS in hands I.Bugai 21 Kemston mouse Part I Rasp, S. Filimonov 13 Part II Rasp 14 "Lviv Vari- Rasp 5 ant": 512K ! Responses to reader Rasp 6 Once again about Turbo, Me- Twinsoft 9 ga and Multi Power ZX A.Nelson 14 Your first IDE wine - T.Arbaev 15 chester TR-DOS Black Color Fox 17 Many functions - in A. Krutko 21 one body (Caller ID) Floppy disks: tested SunLion 21 practice RUBRIC X (review of ZX news and software) Iron Falcons Walker, Gendalf 2 Eureka!!! Gendalf 2 10 games from Filimonov 2.12 News from Walker 7,8 Demomaking: Back to the Future Gendalf 9 A few words from Gandalf 10,12,13 Encyclopedia Rasp 10 Games Super Laser Squad Gendalf 5 The Last Courier Ranger 7 Fiendish Freddy's Walker 8Power Drift Walker 8 Biff Walker 8 Draconus Walker 8 Black Abyss Gendalf 10 Operation R.R. Gendalf 13 The Puzzle Gendalf 13 Bovie Gendalf 13 Towdie Gendalf 13 The system is a software product from Power Diamond Software Emulator MK-61 S. Gritsyuk 9 Transcoders st files in IBM- format and back A. Boloshin 9 ALL LIFE GAME Gendalf (game novels) Knights of the New Land 10 The Wizard of Oz 13 Operation R.R. 16.17 OPINION In short, Sklifosovsky! T.Gaudens 12 Standards: Rest in Pe- ace?.. M.Isaev 15 No more living like this... Lzya Rasp 16 And in iron there is a soul SunLion 20 Excerpt from incomplete text - S. Filimonov 20 toboggan ZX-OBOS T.Gaudens (ZX press review) Nicron 16.21 C-Net-Week 16.21 RIP 17 Proton 17 Deja Vu 20 Pilot 21 Plutonium 21 Born Dead 21Maximum 21 LIKBEZ Assembler: a look from afar Infarkh 20.21 FEEDBACK Letter from reader P. Makovsky 6 What they write and say T.Gaudens 20 to us and about us (selection and editing) COMPETITIONS 3,7,10,14,21 QUESTIONNAIRE 5,7,11,12 SUBSCRIBE 17 LIFE PAGE Night shift S.King 1.3-8 Fable by A. Gorshko 2 Fight against drunkenness P. Vysotsky 9 Half headache Howell's cowberry Protein 10-13 The beginning of the end of Gandalf, Protein 14 Glory! Glory! Glory! Protein 15 Stamp "Y" (Diaries of Yu. Zimkovich 15,16, J.Scalpiv) 18.20 LVIVSKI JOKERS Ranger 3.7-9 POEMS Protein 9.11, 14-17.21 Gendalf 18