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CHRISTMAS 2002/Issue 3

Contents 2002: IIRC 2002 has been a good year for Spectrum playing games and writing BASIC, just like fans - fitting since it's been the 20th they used to. And I hope they're showing all Seven pages of Spectrum news p5 anniversary of Sir Clive's much-loved this to their kids and letting them experiment machine. We've seen the emulation scene too. After all, when the Spectrum hits its 100th taken to a whole new with such anniversary in 80 years time we want innovative releases as SPIN, Klive, somebody around then to at least Your comments and feedback on ZXF02 p12 Es.pectrum and Spectaculator; we have a acknowledge this, don't we? brand new ROM to play with in Andrew And, naturally, I hope also that many of you Owen's SE BASIC - now very close to will consider ZXF to have been a good thing to Martijn van der Heide on the World of Spectrum p14 completion (and let's not forget Geoff have happened to the Spectrum scene in Wearmouth's 'Sea Change' ROM, which is Andrew Owen on the ZX Spectrum SE p18 2002. This issue in particular has seen the now complete); we've seen new PC utilities greatest amount of collaboration in it's (brief) released (eg, SevenuP); we've seen new history so far, which is exactly what I'd hoped Back to the Spectrum: Part 2 p26 hardware concepts evolve (eg, the ZXSE). In for when planning issue 1. I've learnt over the the meantime, the resources we're all familiar Spectrum utilities you never knew existed p28 past few months that the best way to get with have continued to exapnd and evolve. people to contribute is to ask them directly, so WOS, for example, has a new chat room I'll be doing a bit more of that in the coming service to compliment its increasingly popular Some Christmas puzzles to tide you over the PTBP p30 year. discussion forum. Is there no end to this The story of Warajevo p34 site's capacity? The recent decision to host From this point onwards, ZXF will be relaxing the entire collection of CRASH issue recently its publishing shedule to three issues per year, Retro Computer Mart: How it came to be p37 scanned by Stephen Stuttard would suggest so you can expect to see ZXF04 (material for Fact Files Update: Some 24th century toilet humour p38 not. which is already being accumulated) in April. I feel I've put a lot into getting this ball rolling Furthermore, 2002 appears to have been a over the last 6 months and would like to year in which retro-computing has taken establish now a regular routine that is both large steps towards mainstream culture. sustainable for me and gives everyone who Shaun bebbington's now regular retro slot in wishes to a fair chance to contribute. the weekly Micro Mart springs immediately to mind, as does 's 'e-mailerplus' And so to 2003 - what will await us there? For telephone/email system, with its built-in now, at least, if you're celebrating a festival Spectrum games compatibility. Perhaps this season, I hope it is a peaceful one. On more significant still are magazine releases the subject of peace, we might not be so lucky TM If you enjoy ZXF and you want it to continue then consider yourself such as 'games ' - issue one of which next year: read the story of 'Warajevo' and you duty bound to let me know this ([email protected]). All other dedicated over 25 pages to retro material. will be reminded that those drawn into distant feedback will be gratefully received also - criticisms (please be kind), improvement suggestions and notifications of any errors you think And is it just me, or do there appear to be wars are not so dissimilar to us as we might you've spotted are essential for this sort of project to succeed. more and more 'newbies' announcing sometimes find ourselves assuming. themselves to comp.sys.sinclair these days. If you would like to contribute to future issues of ZXF - even if it's just Until next time. to write a letter - please do; contact me again by the email address Certainly the price of Spectrums on ebay - above. and they're hardly in short supply - would Editor: Colin Woodcock ([email protected]) seem to indicate that there are plenty of Colin Woodcock Website: www.zxf.cjb.net people out there who want to own a Spectrum. Are these all just 'investors'? Contributors this issue: Martijn van der Heide, Andrew Owen, [email protected] Equinox Tetrachloride, Shaun Bebbington, Samir Ribic, John King, Personally I hope the answer to this question Thomas Eberle and all my letter writers. Thanks everyone. You is 'no'. I hope that at least some of these make the difference. buyers are plugging their prizes into TVs and ZXF/03 page 5 ZXF/03 page 6

zx-spectrum.wz.cz/ and you can also goodies as a considerable amount of memory download the software - of course - from and Compact Flash card support. WOS at www.worldofspectrum.org/ utilities.html. CSS FAQ under review 8-bit show host to Shaun Bebbington'sweekly Retro Computer Mart column (see the read section And, on the subject of graphics, Jamie The bible of comp.sys.sinclair is to be SINTECH, one of the very last suppliers of for more about this) has embarked upon a Tejedor Gómez (aka Metalbrain) has just reviewed, if you hadn'theard already. To do Spectrum hardware and software (see advert, popstars-esque knockout contest to released version 0.71 of his rather splendid this the CSS FAQ Maintenance Team need page 2) are hoping to organise an 8-bit determine the greatest ever . SevenuP editor, which you can get from your feedback on what must be one of the extravaganza in Stuttgart next year. The Pitting 16 popular formats against each other, www.speccy.org/metalbrain. most comprehensive FAQs on the net event, which will welcome Spectrum, C-64, the battle commenced in issue 723 with our already. The following questions have been Amstrad and Atari users, will include a soccer favourite argued for by yours truely versus the ZX Digest issued for you to answer - in as much or as tournament with teams for each computer Oric Atmos supported by Mickael Pointier. little detail as you desire - and then post off to is the name of a new Spectrum magazine (don'tworry - Alan Sugar will not be involved) Needless to say, the Spectrum romped [email protected] (please edited by Andy Ryals. At a cost of just €10 alongside all the usual range of computing through to the next round, taking just over 60 include with this information also your or £5 (and that can barely cover the postage, and drinking activities. per cent of the online voting at the Micro Mart browser type and version). can it?) a subscription will get you 3 colour forums, however the actual numbers of votes SINTECH want to know what sort of support issues of the mag plus a CD-ROM of all the 1) As a general rule, do you find the current cast were a bit on the low side; more will be there will be for such an event and have latest spectrum games/utils/etc from 2000 content of the FAQ to be accurate? needed to see the Spectrum win against its asked for help and suggestions; as always, onwards. Subscrbers also get emailed next opponent in round two: The Vic 20. 2) Do you find the current style and layout of the bottom line is that if you want to see it newsletter and CD-ROM updates. More the FAQ adequate, or would you prefer a new happen you have to let them know. If you missed the articles, their complete text information is available from Andy'swebsite design? [email protected] is how you do this. can be found online at the Micro Mart site at www.zxdigest.dsl.pipex.com/ (you need to register, but it'sfree to do so). 3) Do you use the Offline version of the FAQ? RZX Archive Chloe comes home Should the Offline version be "plain", with an Disk Preservation enhanced version (same content) available RZX is now starting to firm up its status as The concept of the 'SuperSpectrum,'it would Online? the new standard in input recording, with Hot on the heels of the Spectrum Tape appear, is far from dead. Whilst images of a Spin, Es.pectrum and RealSpectrum now Preservation project comes the Spectrum marzipan covered Loki might have been the 4) Which sections of the FAQ do you find supporting this format on a Win/DOS PC and Disk Preservation (SDP) Project, the closest we ever got in the 80s (barring - ok - most useful, most of the time? Fuse taking up the honours for Unix. purpose of which is to gather perfect EDSK the SAM Coupé), today'shobbyists have not 5) Which sections of the FAQ do you feel are Suitably, then, a new archive for complete (extended DSK image - a file format designed yet given up on the idea. Mike Wynne has unnecessary, or need significant work to game recordings has now gone online at to describe copy-protected floppy disk been working on his SpeccyBob project for become useful? www.rzxarchive.co.uk, courtesy of Daren software) images for disks that aren'talready some time now (www.speccybob.2y.net), Pearcy, and it'snow starting to fill up with a available on The .TZX Vault or World of the Lite version being a Spectrum facsimilie 6) Would you prefer that a smaller, number of titles for you to view from begining Spectrum. This latest project to preserve all you can pretty much build from off-the-shelf completely overhauled FAQ be released to end; from those very first, virgin shots to those +3 software releases is the joint work of components (yes - even the ULA); the 'full' initially, with existing and updated/expanded that final, exhausted, blood-drenched victory Andy Barker and Steve Brown, and can be version, however (some way from completion content progressively added as it is verified? cry. Who needs DVDs this Christmas? found at www.worldofspectrum.org/sdp/. yet, I gather) promises much more, including If so, which sections do you believe are most Of course they'llneed your help; if you own selection video modes, IDE interface, and up important to have available immediately? How much? any +3 titles you can find out if they'reneeded to 4Mb RAM. at the site and also how to convert them into 7) Are commonly used peripherals (Interface Amazing ebay price of the month award must But applause of the moment is due to the the EDSK format. I, Interface II, ZX Printer, ZX Microdrives, go to the recent auction of 250,000 eight bit Andrew Owen, whose ZX Spectrum SE Kempston Joystick/Printer interfaces, etc. games in new or sealed condition, including (ZXSE) machine - a modified Timex Portugal Graphic stuff etc.) adequately covered, or should more such titles as Lord of the Rings, , TC2048 - got its smack on the backside and information be included with links where Trashman and Dun Darach. Starting at just Pavel Plíva has clearly been a rather busy first real lungfulls of air in October, mere days necessary to external resources? £2.00 for the lot, the bidding swiftly rose into chap as of late. In the last few weeks he's after ZXF02 'wentto press'.You can read the hundreds, then thousands of pounds, not only updated his Windows utility ZX more about this in this issue'sint section. 8) Are non-Sinclair/Amstrad machines finally peaking at an astonishing £4,600. to version 1.6, he'salso Screen Snapper But it ends not there. Sami Vehmaa, creator adequately covered (Timex variants, etc.) ? released two more entirely new titles for the of the ZXATASP IDE interfaces reported on 9) Should a more distinct section be created Micro wars platform, ZX Maps Creator, and ZX last issue has now published his own plans and maintained for current developments (SE Screens. Pavel'ssite is at http:// Time for a shameless self-plug. Micro Mart, for a Spectrum +5, which will feature such ZXF/03 page 7 ZXF/03 page 8

Basic, Spectrum SE, , etc.) including a time flagship publication right down to the title CRASH on CD to buy summary of ongoing hardware projects and fonts. There'seven a feature by Lloyd current upgrades, with appropriate links? Mangram... Stephen Stuttard has been a very busy bod. Oh yes. Over the last six months or so he's 10) Which site do you usually visit to read the The featured computer this issue is, perhaps scanned every last issue of Newsfield'sCRASH magazine - my own personal favourite of the FAQ? unsurprisingly, the ZX Spectrum, which is Spectrum magazines - and burned them onto 5 CDs for you and I to buy for less than the cost accompanied by a number of retrospective of the work he'sput into this. Yes, you heard me right - every page of every issue. He'seven WOS 7 years young game reviews (across all formats) and articles, thrown in sample issues of other Newsfield mags (ZZap!64, Amtix, etc; even the special and reprints of a couple of old game adverts preview copy of LM given away with CRASH 36, although no copies of FEAR) and other The World of Spectrum website passed the (Pyjamarama and ) - which is a Spectrum mags (Your Sinclair and Sinclair User). And - yes - the set also includes the seventh anniversary of its creation at the end nice touch. Clearly the focus here is on retro infamous recalled issue 19, complete with the offending Sinclair User parody, Unclear User of November. The birthday treat hinted at by and nostalgia, and I could find no references (it'sactually not all that funny). in his interview (this Martijn van der Heide to any of the new stuff going on in the 8-bit issue - see int) about his site is a new world (not even a reference to emulation, Stephen'sa bit of a die-hard fan of the Tamara Knight, Terminal Man, etc, sagas chatroom service to compliment his existing which seems an astonishing omission), but Newsfield publications, having already all gathered together into their own forums area. the section makes for a very pleasant read performed this monstrous feet of endurance directories for easy viewing; a special WOS forums has been growing steadily in its and its choice of presentation style gives you for the entire ZZap!64 collection as well as directory with scans showing how the popularity over the last few months, to the a definate warm, fuzzy feeling. participating in the ZZap!64 issue 107 project computing press covered the collapse of extent that some have suggested it to have (a brand new issue of the Commodore Newsfield; and so on. And did I mention that Is this a sign that interest in retro computing is become place on the net for magazine). The especially good news is that every single covertape has also been the on the increase? Well clearly it'sa sign that Spectrum-related discussion, where previously he'snow thinking of converting some of the included? All this will set you back a mere there is a perception that it is. How well the the newsgroup has always other Spectrum titles, such as YS. £20. comp.sys.sinclair magazine sells will be the determiner of how held this title (there has recently been quite a accurate that perception is, I guess. Issue 2 The CRASH CDs contain all 98 issues of the In case you hadn'tnoticed, I'mrather bit of debate on css about the intrusiveness of of games TM is out on 23 January. magazine, with issues 1-20 covered on CD1, impressed by this piece of work. If, like me, off-topic posting, which has ranged from the 21-40 on CD2, 41-60 on CD3, 61-80 on CD4 you threw out your entire CRASH collection usual "my-favourite-eighties-crisps- ZX VGA and 81-98 on CD5. What you get is very years ago when, shiny new 286 on your brand-was..." sort of discussion to a far more straightforward - each issue has its own desk, you decided the Spectrum to be a vitriolic debate on the suitabiity of the death More from , who are now taking Sintech directory with each page stored there in JPEG thing of the past; if, like me, you cannot face penalty for the late Myra Hindley). Until now orders for a new product, a VGA-Box for the format (and, in the rather unlikely event that the horror of what a replacement set via the main congregation point for online Spectrum which will allow you to plug your ebay might end up costing; if, like me, you Spectrum chat has been the channel Spectrum in to a PC monitor. For 128/+2 #Speccy fear divorce proceedings would be an on , which required dedicated IRC owners, the box connects straight to the RGB astrolink inevitability if you ever did get hold of a software; it will be interesting to see how port on your machine; 48/+3/+2A users will replacement set, then this collection of CDs popular WOS Chat becomes now that the have to take their signal direct from the will be a blessing from the heavens above. need for this has been removed... modulator, however. It comes with its own power supply (UK users will need to get hold If you want to get your hands on a set, mail New retro of a UK mains adaptor - simple enough) and Stephen at [email protected] and he'll looks set to cost €49(about £30). Sintech then let you know the address to send your TM is a new multi-format magazine games need to know first the sort of demand there is cheque to. from which hit the UK Paragon Publishing likely to be for these items, so if you think high streets in the final week of November. And if £20 is a bit of a stretch at the moment, you'llbe needing one, get over to The larger part of this is dedicated to new what with crimbo here to see every last www.sintech-shop.de and email them from releases on the PS2, the GameCube, the penny out of your pocket, you'llbe delighted there. and so on. There is also, however, a to know that Martijn van der Heide will be very meaty retro section - 27 pages in all - and BAS2TAP hosting the entire collection at WOS (see Spectrum fans will be delighted to hear that ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/ this particular issue, at least, is pretty much From ThunderWare Research Centre, pub/sinclair/magazines/Crash/). But use presented as an issue of CRASH magazine. BAS2TAP, The utility to convert `BASIC in an you don'thave a graphics program capable of this resource sensibly or it'llsoon be gone Starting with a recycled Oliver Frey front cover ASCII file'to a TAP tape image file, has now viewing JPEG images, one has been provided (as was the case when Stephen tried to (the original CRASH issue 1 cover, in fact) hit version 2.0. The download (DOS, Linux or for you on CD1). Each CD also has a number web-publish his ZZap!64 scans, in fact). If and the CRASH logo itself re-worded as Amiga; or the C source) is at WOS. of extra features: the other magazine scans you want the whole lot, buy the CDs. 'retro,'the layout mimicks Newsfield'sone mentioned earlier, for example; the Jetman, ZXF/03 page 9 ZXF/03 page 10

SE BASIC gets serious Andrew, "when a new version of SE Basic is released you can just drop it in the vbSpec A lot has happened to Andrew Owen's directory and use it straight away". Now you update to Sinclair BASIC since last issue. can©task for more than that. Emulator news Now close to a 1.0 release, SE BASIC has So now there really is no excuse for not become a lot more visible and a great deal having a look at this very exciting upgrade. easier to access. Apart from all the bug fixes and the hardware VBSPEC most painless way about at the moment to Previously only available via email or by support, the editor is just so much better, get going with this new BASIC (The version downloading an IPS patch to apply to your with new commands to play with as well as Another update for vbSpec, Chris Cowley©s of SE BASIC included is 0.93e, however, Spectrum ROM, SE BASIC can now be enhancements to many of the old ones. 100 per cent Visual Basic Spectrum which does not include working ZX Printer downloaded direct from Andrew©snew site Single keypress commands are now a thing emulator. Version 1.60 has set out in new support, so to get everything working (which amalgamates both of his old pages on of the past and there©seven a trendy new directions, adding in support for the ZX together you©lleither have to wait for version SE BASIC and the ZX Spectrum SE - see int font which is much easier on the eye than Printer and also for the Kempston Mouse. 1.0 of SE BASIC or get hold of an earlier for more on the latter) at the Sinclair ©classic©. The ZX Printer, as we shall see, seems to version of the ROM in which Printer support www.worldofspectrum.org/sinclairbasic/. And there©smore. SE BASIC now has its be the new darling of the emulators, worked). The 16k ROM file up for download will slot very own discussion forum at WOS forums, stepping up to take the place of the Currah straight into emulators such as SPIN which Finally, something I should have mentioned and judging from the number of views Micro Speech (see last issue). In the view allow you to choose different ROMs for each previously is that vbSpec has supported the Andrew©sposts have had, there©sa great of this humble commentator, this has not of the Spectrum models emulated - in this Timex TC2048 since version 1.30, giving you deal of interest in this upgrade. Recently happened a moment too soon. I like the ZX case the file can be used as a replacement the possibility of playing around with those Andrew announced there that he intends to Printer. A lot. for the standard 48k ROM. extra graphic modes that the Spectrum never split the project in two: SE BASIC will vbSpec©simplementation of Sinclair©sprinter got to see. Once again, select this from the SE BASIC is more than just a 48k ROM continue to be his own baby, whilst Sinclair outputs the... erm... output as a graphic in a General Settings option in the Options menu. replacement, however, and has been Extended Basic will become an Open separate window, line by line, black ©ink©on http://freestuff.grok.co.uk/vbspec/ designed to run in all Spectrum models. Source project to be hosted at grey (silver) paper - just like it was in the old Without wishing to go into too much detail http://sourceforge.net/. It sounds like days (but without the grinding noise); there©s SPIN here (we will take a much more in depth look there©splenty more to come. even a handy little form feed button on the at SE BASIC next issue), an emulated 128 window to advance the paper with. And Strange and mysterious; SPIN©smain new Spectrum will need to have one of its ROMs AY RIDERS release when you©redone you can save your output feature (version 0.4; a 0.41 bug fix has since (there were two for the original 128 and the Never mind Gareth Gates, the as a BMP file and clear the roll to start been released) is also ZX Printer emulation, Plus 2; four for the +3/+2A) replaced with SE AY RIDERS are a collaboration of top tune programmers again. So if you©reafter a text output to however the idea just ocurred to co-author BASIC. There are two ways of doing this - for the Spectrum 128©sAY sound chip. And feed into a word processor, you will be Paul Dunn - and at around about the same one is to get the IPS patches from Andrew©s they have just released an album, no less. disappointed (although I suppose you could time as it did to Chris Cowley. No ©Patches©page and create the ROMs yourself always try putting the bitmap file through an collaboration here, just plain old coincidence, (and even this is much easier now than OCR program), but then RealSpectrum has although I suspect that the added Kempston previously, since Andrew now provides supported printing to a file for some time mouse support (also a new feature of patches for the 32k and 64k ROM files used now for that job. No, the ZX Printer is there vbSpec) and support for SE BASIC stretches by many emulators for +2 and +3/+2A for one reason and one reason only: it looks the coincidence a little too far... emulation respectively - ie, the two/four ROMs cool. As a final touch there©seven the combined into a single file - rather than just a option to toggle between ZX Printer output Whatever. SPIN©simplementation of the line 16k ROM patch which you then have to and Alphacom 32 output (the latter being printer does not include vbSpec©sAlphacom concatenate with the other ROM(s) in order to blue text on a white background rather than 32 button (hardly a difficult feature to add, I make it ©emulatorfriendly©),the other way is to Available as a set of free MP3 downloads for black on a silver background). suppose) or its form feed button; other than download the very latest version of either you to burn onto CD if you desire (there©s that there©snot much to choose between this SPIN or vbSpec and select the SE BASIC even cover artwork to download too), You A further addition to vbSpec is support for and vbSpec on this front. option there. Yes it really is as easy as that Are Adult contains 20 tracks from Andrew Owen©sSinclair SE BASIC, which can be switched on from the General On the issue of the Kempston mouse, there (guess which method I use); both of these contributors that include Gasman and TDM. are a few programs availible which support emulators will now patch in SE BASIC there Settings option in the Options menu. This www.ayriders.prv.pl will work with all models of Spectrum this, I understand; I have an incomplete and then for you, whichever variant of knowledge of these (anyone who would like Spectrum you©reusing. What©smore, says emulated and the ROM file itself is included in the download, making this probably the to provide a list would be very welcome). Xcellent Software©sThe Artisit is reported to, ZXF/03 page 11 ZXF/03 page 12

Send your letters to [email protected], with 'ZXF letter' in the subject line. Emulator news I've nothing to complain about this issue! Firstly, I must congratulate you on another First, some feedback the article on making excellent issue of ZXF, and I look forward to the next one. a loading screen that featured in the last but I haven'thad any success with this ZX-EMUL particular title myself yet. Rainbird'sArt issue of ZXF. Thanks everyone. Secondly, as the BMP to SCREEN$ article focused on a method of creating Spectrum Studio is also a supposed supporter, although ZX-Emul is a 48k Spectrum emulator I know you'llneed a copy of Simon Owen'sLensKey very little about, except that it'swritten by screen images on a Windows PC, I wanted to give my two Rolos and very quickly run (see last issue) to get past the Lenslok Vladimir Yudin and has just been released Man, I´ve read the latest ZXF Issue, and it is security screen. Ikari Warriors is purported in a Windows flavour (version 0.03b). The great, just one information: through how to achieve a similar effect on the Amiga (WB3+): to be, although I can'tfind this on WOS. emulator is heavy on the debugging stuff and BMP2SCR has a build in Screen Editor too. , however, I both found and accepts snapshot files (.SNA and .Z80) only. Okay, it is not so complex like 7up, but it is 1. Find your picture, it doesn'tmatter which ran with the Kempston mouse, and it worked You can also use with this emulator good for touch up these little nasty attribute size it is or which format it is in as long as you a treat. alternative 16k ROMs for the 48k machine, overflows. You can even convert the SCR to have a Datatype which will read it. For best such as SE BASIC or Geoff Wearmouth's The simplest demonstration of the mouse I TAP from the viewer (Yesss, it is true) :). results make sure it has approximately the Sea Change ROM mentioned last issue. could find was this short BASIC program right aspect ratio, and seriously boost the ZX-Emul can be downloaded from The screen editor is a less known piece of provided to CRASH magazine (issue 48) by colour and contrast with PPaint. www.worldofspectrum.org/emulators.html BMP2SCR, even some friends in Germany Andrew Haslam. This is a little drawing in the PC / RUSSIAN section of this page. were surprised as I show it to them, that is 2. Using PDHFIC (www.unsatisfactory routine, where the left button lifts the 'pen'off because nobody reads instructions... software.co.uk/ppmtoscr/) load the picture in the screen and the right button clears the and set the output format to TAP. Select the display. To access it, just go to the SCR Viewer (First destination filename and then click on option after loading), then load a screen and "Convert!". It is often better to set the output press "p" for Paint. format to SCR initially because the resulting I know, that this is a bit complicated, but the image can be checked in Multiview with the BMP2SCR Adv. version 2.00 will be fully SCR datatype. When you are happy it looks redesigned and will also have a better access OK, swizzle the format back to TAP, or load to this screen editor. the slightly dodgy SCR into PPaint to clean it up and then run it back through PDHFIC to Puzzle answers To get this to work you'llneed to enable the Greetings reconvert it. Kempston Mouse in the SPIN Control options Look away if you don'twant to know... LCD - Leszek Chmielewski box; once the program is running you can 3. Erm, that'sit. If you save the loader and then activate mouse control by pressing Anagrams Although the method you detail in issue 2 of main program code as separate TAP files Home on your PC keyboard (and pressing 1. FORMAT; RANDOMIZE; BORDER; LLIST. ZXF does convert images to Spectrum (ZXAM saves TAPs), these can be joined Home again turns the Kempston Mouse off). They are all BASIC keywords. screens, I prefer using bmp2spec with the together easily with the JOIN command (eg. GIMP to convert images as I think it generates 2. Nightmare Room; Orangery; Cold Store; Wine better images on the Spectrum. join loader.tap screen.tap code.tap as Since the last round-up of emulator news last Cellar. They are all locations in Jet Set Willy. program.tap) to create the full tape image. issue, SPIN has also incorporated OpenGL 3. Psygnosis; Gremlin Graphics; Rainbow Arts; I'vewritten a small tutorial on how I used this support for its rendering of the Spectrum Software Projects. They are all software houses. to create the loading screen for Top Shelf Hope this is of some use to your readers. screen. You'llneed a pretty quick computer ZX Crossword Challenge 3 for the CSSCGC 2002 and put it Chris to make use of this feature (and if you don't on my website. You can find it here: have one you are able to turn this off), but the Across: 3 Hungry Horace; 6 DIM; 8 Anarchy; 9 I want to thank you your efforts doing the ZXF Players; 12 Chess; 13 Dice; 15 Make-A-Chip; 18 http://rivet.50megs.com/bmp2spectut/ result is the closest I'veseen yet to a real TV Protek; 20 Away from all this; 21 Statement lost; 22 bmp2spectut.html magazine, one of the few new things maded screen. EastEnders. for our beloved Spectrum. It'sreally good, and Great mag by the way. it has very usefull sections, like the One final SPIN issue is that the project is to Down: 1 ; 2 Cyan; 4 Abbey; 5 Address; 7 Match Point; 10 Raffaele; 11 Mirrorsoft; 14 instructions to made a SCART adapter for the become Open Source, probably using the Cheers, Backgammon; 16 Gauntlet; 17 VERIFY; 19 Hollis. +2a/+3. GNU General Public License (GPL). The unclued answers are all games released by Derek Jolly Psion. But I've,written to you to make you a little http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.dunn4/Spin.zip correction: In page 7, you speak about my ZXF/03 page 13 ZXF/03 page 14

If it were possible to crown someone Defender of the Spectrum Flame then the first of spectrum emulator "Es.pectrum" (Thanks :), along with items in which I am interested. We this issue's interviewees would be the logical current candidate for the title. His website, and say that you cannot format a disc. By all have other fields of interests apart from The World of Spectrum has won awards from around the globe; it is almost certainly the default, all disc images are write-protected in Spectrums like you say, but those are the largest, most comprehensive and most well organised site of its type anywhere on the my emu. If you go to menu bar, and select fields in which we differ! Little chance that we planet. And unlike many other sites, it just continues to grow and develop on an almost "Files"->"Discs" you©llsee a checked mark on share more than 1 hobby? So I©msorry to say daily basis. In many ways, WOS encompases all that the Internet should be - and how "Protected". If you remove that, then you can that I do not like the pages with your "reads". write or format discs. Not only +3DOS, but But publishing such along other stuff is your wonderful it is that the inspiration for all this should be our favourite 8-bit micro. also CP/M and some other no-standard privilege, and I will respect this. And the quality Ladies and gentlemen, please be upstanding for... formats. I think it©sa bit useless, since disk is not bad. Did you ever think of turning your images are not saved until you told so, but I ©stories©into adventure games for Speccy? want to emulate the little mark in the 3" disks. ©Crash©seemes perfect for such because there is atmosphere and a surprising ©outcome©as Thanks for reading this mail, and I hope you©ll rewarding end? continue making such a good magazine :). Martijn van der Heide What do I expect from Spectrum nowadays? Javier Chocano Where we all do our travelling in a modern car Thanks for the correction Javier. on one hand, but we fancy a trip on a Harley Davidson Liberator on a warm sunny day on the other hand. There is no need to explain the Thank you for letting me and others share attraction of such ride or of that machine. Nor First off, I have to express my sincere standard page everyone made in their life your works, in fact ZXF 1 and 2. And for free, is there need to explain the pleasures of admiration and gratitude for The World of when joining the Internet :-) It must have this is the spirit I like and appreciate. In return camping, indeed. So Spectrum will bring me Spectrum. It is an awesome been running the original NCSA httpd server I hereby react and comment your ©zine©.I©m nowhere, as I use it for no real purpose. But achievement; a site few others on the on a Sun Sparc 5 running Solaris 2.4. I ran surprised to see the number of reactions you being "in charge" of that machine still gives me web (and we're talking all sites here, not night shifts in the NOC at Getronics at that had on issue 1. Not every reader is ready to a good feeling. just Spectrum sites) can measure up to in time and was merely investigating this thing so many aspects - its size, its breadth, its called webhosting, which was new and scary react, this is my own experience, so the What work is there to be done on Spectrum. longevity: your ongoing commitment to at that time. number of downloads must be much larger. Plenty I think. There are fields in which still its development is astonishing. What I liked very much is the listing in issue 1, new challences for ingenuity can be found. I Games downloads didn©tappear before the no proper magazine can go without such. I will give some examples. *blush* first week of January 1997. See my original learned a lot from this kind of "programming" message in comp.sys.sinclair for its Mobile phones have an elaborate menu Just how long has WOS been going for in the old days. I still have pages torn from announcement (opposite). through which you ©walk©with only three keys now and what did it look like when you magazines lying around, that hold "exciting" and which displays only one line of text. I think started? Until that time, I scoured the ©netfor progs that I "one day" like to type in. Your there is room for developping a similar (but downloads to get as many games catalogued listing will be on that pile. What I©mtrying to WoS started on 30 November 1995 (so more graphic?) system for Spectrum, in the as possible. This was all done in those say is that although of little practical value we©reup for our 7th birthday soon!), just as a two lower screen lines. dreaded night shifts - I used to download (sorry), the presence of a listing still feels single page to host my database program some 3 floppy disks worth per shift and good to me. The extra-ROM in the Spec-128 could be used SGD. I don©thave a copy of it anymore, would sort these as soon as I got home, to devellop a Better Basic, even at the cost of unfortunately... even the What©sNew archive As my interests (and everybody©sI suppose) before going to sleep. The entire NVG the specific 128 stuff. I think that ©BetaBasic© doesn©tgo back further than 1997. All I recall go along the same lines as yours (to give it a archive was thus ©takencare of©,which is how under your fingertips has more charm is that it had a medium blue background. I got in touch with Lee Tonks (Blood), its name: "what is done on spectrum nowadays nowadays than the silly 128 editor. and what new possibilities can be found") I It very soon got some other bits on it, such maintainer at that time. He also took care of read all with pleasure. I suppose that your Keep up the good work, as a links list and I believe some emulators - my SGD updates on NVG. purpose and the joy you had in collecting this all on the same single page. As this was my Roelof . h. Where did the passion come from that knowledge shines through. first own page and the WWW was relatively drove all this work? new itself, it was riddled with animated GIFs I personally hate it when "alien" matter comes and javascript rubbish. Pretty much the Originally it was the Spectrum itself, the ZXF/03 page 15 ZXF/03 page 16

machine, as it was my only computer from start of Linux. Still interested in hardware, I side projects keep me busy. A great (The YS Rock'n'RollYears) became a very 1983 to 1991. Like Sir Clive intended, it started kernel hacking on Solaris, at work and example is the copyrights project. It's good friend. We inter-linked our sites as seriously triggered my interest in computers on Linux, at home. Since WoS runs on Linux seriously cool to be able to talk to the actual much as possible, thus providing the visitors ever since the first day I had it (and the ZX81 (since 1997), I started investigating its core programmers of Speccy games. I'dnever with the wealth of information. Another before it). In fact, I like to think the Spectrum system, its TCP/IP protocol and the various have guessed that I could even directly superb project is from Jim Grimwood: was the main reason why I decided to study services that are needed to run a site such as speak with Richard Darling of Codemasters, SPOT*ON (its name was chosen wisely), the Computer Science to begin with! I was always WoS. Lucky for me, we had just started being for example. Amazing! magazine index database. Without this a hardware guy, with no real interest in games an ISP at work (1995) and I was the (only) enormous database, WoS wouldn'thave had Not forgetting of course all of these great (this hasn'tchanged at all, by the way). The system administrator on it. Abuse started to so much detailed information on programs in people that help out. I wouldn'tbe able to let Speccy was the grow, and I the Sinclair Infoseek search engine. Lastly, WoS grow so fast without the vast amount of ultimate machine rewrote several there'sthe thrilling new site The Tipshop, From: Martijn van der Heide ([email protected]) uploads and database corrections. And let's for me to do system services from Nick Humphries and Gerard Sweeney, not forget my dear friendswho help maintain hardware related Subject: New games site such as FTP, to which aims at helping out gamers with hints, projects and give advice (such as Andy projects with and Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair withstand it. All tips, cheats and complete walkthroughs. it also allowed of the Barker, Steve I'vebeen lucky in determining who to work me to program Date: 1997/01/03 experience from Brown, Phil Kendall, Lee Tonks and Juan with. I'veseen plenty of sites that started and the machine on that time is Pablo López-Grao). This joint-effort feeling is most of them have faded away after a couple its core level, in used on WoS. what keeps it interesting every day. easy Z80 Hi fellow speccy-lovers, Over time, I of months. Only very few are run by serious machine code. I can announce that our Spectrum download site will be all learned more So at what point did you begin to Spectrum enthusiasts and these are the ones I've up and running somewhere next week. and more, such visualise the enormity of WOS today? that continue to update to this day. People When did the site stop becoming just such as Ronald Raaijen also provided me experimented a This will be _the_ site to get Spectrum software. as on-line lot with GUI searching. I another site you could download games with tons of database information (in fact, the programming We will start off with around 4000 titles, excluding utilities. added a first from and start becoming (in your plans) current MIA list was created mostly when checking his database!), not forgetting the and networking There will be NO duplicates whatsoever, so I bet this will be search engine *the* resource on the Internet for with this the largest site on the net (over 100Mb). on WoS, which Spectrum downloads? huge amount of corrections I got from the machine. One of was pretty daft actual game authors I contacted over time for Best of all, all software is fully sorted and can be downloaded I'vehad this vision ever from the start, pretty the copyrights project. the results was by point and click on a game name. (written in shell much wanting to bring anything and SlingNET, which and awk), not to everything on-line about the Spectrum era. I Of course, having the financial possibility to I did with my And as this is the home of SGD (Spectrum Games mention s-l-o-w! Database), you can always get the latest version here. always wanted to provide as much host a site such as WoS and the time to roommate at the I restarted the information as possible. write all necessary (web)tools oneself is also time (Jeroen Feel welcome at: project in C. a big plus :-) If you look at the comp.sys.sinclair message Kwast). This was WWW: http://pampus.gns.getronics.nl/~mheide/ These days, the I provided earlier, and the following ones, I You mentioned earlier the thrill of a network that spectrum.html Sinclair connected the Infoseek started saying that from the first day I hosted communicating with original program parallel port from FTP: ftp://ftp.gns.getronics.nl/pub/os/sinclair database that is downloads :-) authors - how hard has it been to track these people down and what sort of an Opus Enjoy! the core of There wasn'ta proper archive site at that Discovery with WoS, is a fully responses have you received from them? Martijn van der Heide time; NVG was highly disorganised (sorry, an Amiga. relational Lee) and I wanted to take over the job. After Finding them is very hard, as many don't Inspired by the database. Its all, I had been cataloging games forever have an e-mail address or don'thave their Amiga, I decided engine is (since 1986) and had a relatively big address published on the web. When I have I wanted a similar GUI on the PC as well and written entirely in C, without any third-party database already - not by today'sstandards, lot of time to spare, I tend to just enter I wrote Workbench!, the GUI that is used by package being used (no Oracle, SQL or only some 5000 entries, but I thought it was names from the WoS database into various SGD and later also TAPER. SGD was written whatever, it'sall my own code). I'mstill huge at the time anyway. search engine and see what pops up. As just because I needed it and nothing else learning every day, especially in the abuse some names are relatively common, the existed at that time that could be used to fighting department (which is also part of my Games help pages and magazine result can be hundreds of links, which I then catalog games. Of course, once you have a dayjob). references and reviews were on my to-do list check. A tedious job indeed! database, you want to share it with others. as well. I was pleasantly surprised one day, So the drive for WoS is mostly an educational This was the start of WoS. to see that other folks were working on Luckily, these days they more often find me, one for myself, like it has been from the start. magazine sites, such as the legendary YS, through WoS :-) These days, my focus is different (shock!). Of course this is not the only thing. All of the Crash and later SU sites. Especially Nick While at Uni, I started using Unix and saw the So far, the response has been ZXF/03 page 17 ZXF/03 page 18

overwhelmingly positive - I haven©thad any the TZX file format and its wide adoption. deny from single authors (only from a small Will there be a WOS in 5 years time? In number of software houses). 10 years time? What do you imagine it Apart from a ©yes©or ©no©,they tend to share might look like? We're not imagining it; Andrew Owen is really here. And then some. Over bits of information about how their games I©dlike to continue with WoS as long as the last few months, both of Andrew's two main projects - SE BASIC and the were perceived, how they were written, what possible. So far I©vethoroughly enjoyed they do these days, etc. This was one of the ZX Spectrum SE - have taken gigantic leaps in their development. Next issue working on it and there doesn©tappear to be reasons why I decided to make their we'll be looking at SE BASIC in detail; for now it's the turn of the ZXSE, the an end to it in the near future. messages available from the permits pages. hardware project of the two. In between all his work on SE BASIC, Andrew Sometimes they even go so far as to provide We©vegone from some 3,500 unique titles to has taken the time to answer a few of my questions about his new Super us with (scans of) material used to develop close to 10,000 ones and there are hundreds games; see the ton of pictures (if not thousands) that we don©tyet even Spectrum; this is what he's had to say. (games-extras) that Mark R. Jones sent, know about. And that©s"only" games images. containing the original drawings and How about inlays, adverts and instructions? graphics grids, for example. If possible, they Or TZX/DSK images of the lot? And how try to help out providing missing (MIA/STP) about contacting the remaining 4,500 authors games, either by making a TZX file in the database for permission and correcting The ZX Spectrum SE themselves or loaning us tapes. Of course it credit information? Thanks to Juan Pablo works both ways. I©veseen quite a bit of Lopez-Grao, we made a start to also cover replies from authors saying how glad they the Spanish Spectrum history. But how about were to find their work in the archive, as they the Spectrum in other coutries? Work for The ZX Spectrum SE. Just so we're clear, software sides were separated again. To be lost their own copies. years to come, I tell you! Lovely! :-) There©s this is completely different from SE BASIC clear on the naming, the SE in ZX Spectrum so much work left to be done that we shelved I can tell you that all of this is highly (see news section) insofar as it is a SE and SE Basic mean two very different many projects over time and took up only the motivating to keep going! hardware rather than software (or things. The ZX Spectrum SE is so called most ©urgent©ones. We©llwant to pick up the firmware, if you will) project - but I take it because I thought to myself; what if Amstrad What about the man himself: have you shelved projects again at some point. the ZX Spectrum SE is intended as a host had never bought Sinclair, and Sinclair had ever communicated with Sir Clive The generous uploads don©tseem to dry up, for SE BASIC? Actually, I have to confess followed Apple©snaming strategy. First there Sinclair? thankfully; in fact, I still see it increase. that I initially confused the two projects as was the Mac, then the Mac Plus, then the I©mafraid not, although I©dbe thrilled to. It©s being one and the same thing (an ordinary Mac SE. Sinclair had already made a ZX Our beloved Speccy has not been forgotten partly due to the fact that I live in another Spectrum running SE BASIC would Spectrum and a ZX Spectrum Plus, so a ZX at all! I get the impression that retro-gaming country (even though it©sjust half an hour functionally be an extended Spectrum Spectrum SE would have been the next as a whole is still gaining popularity. flight to London), but also because I don©t because of its new capabilities, therefore I logical step. So in answer to those who ask want to bother him with it. He did mention a WoS changes have also been driven by - erroneously - took it that 'ZX Spectrum me what the SE in ZX Spectrum SE stands desinterest in his past projects... visitor requests and developments on the SE' was just another name for SE BASIC). for, all I can say is: I don©tknow - ask Apple! Internet. Who knows what will happen in the Tell us about the ZX Spectrum SE - is this You are right that the new hardware was Is he aware of your efforts - or, indeed, future? Things will likely get more interactive the project you originally codenamed originally intended as a platform for the new any part of the modern Spectrum scene? over time, although I can©tforesee how at this 'Chloe'? Basic, but when it became clear that the hardware would be finished first, I needed a I honestly have no idea. moment. Perhaps everyone will have Well, your confusion is understandable since different name for the Basic. Although the broadband - or whatever will follow it up - at the ZX Spectrum SE, which is still codenamed As some one who has been at the heart original Basic is often referred to as Spectrum some point, making it feasible to add more ©Chloe©after ZeDex82©sdaughter (who is now of the Spectrum scene over the last few Basic, its proper name is Sinclair Basic. And graphical things. 2.5 years old) was going to be the name of years, what do you think have been the it©snot the first version. That was Sinclair the ROMs I was working on. Turning it into a most significant developments over this Or yet faster CPUs, making perfect Integer Basic on the ZX80, which was hardware project was a later idea. But since I period and what do you hope for in the emulation through Java Spectrum emulators followed by Sinclair Floating Point Basic on was having difficulties in getting any support it future? possible? And full-screen at that? the ZX81. Again, I thought to myself, what was going to be an emulated hardware would the next version have been called if So much happened, I don©tknow where to Also, don©tforget that we celebrate WoS©s project, then I made contact with a Polish standard naming strategies were followed and start. The things must crucial for the 7th birthday on the 30th this month! The genius called Jarek Adamski who was able to of course the answer was Sinclair Extended emulation scene must be the discovery of celebration treat is about ready too... realise many of my ideas for a new hardware Basic. 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control over the use of the name of the new the various video modes. Basic in derivative products, and I didn©tlike The question that comes to mind when I the sound of SX Basic. So it became SE visit your site is ©howexactly do I get to Basic. I know it©sconfusing, but since there©s have one of these?©Jarek'ssite is only one ZX Spectrum SE I don©tthink it will technically very impressive from the point January February March be too much of a problem. of view of his achievements - but I guess a As for the machine itself, the ZX Spectrum SE ©consciouslyincompetent non-techie like M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S is a modified Timex Portugal TC2048. One of myself needs a page there titled ©ZX my main requirements for a new machine was Spectrum SE©there. Or have I missed a 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 1 2 that it had more video modes. I came unstuck point? Is the Spectrum SE something we 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 trying to figure out how to do this in hardware, are expected to build from schematics (in 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 but fortunately for me, some of the modes I which case where are they) or is this 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 something Jarek builds and sells (in which wanted had already been developed at Timex 27 28 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 in 1983. As a result I was able to buy a case, where are the links to order)? 31 machine which already had them Jarek sells a range of add-ons for various implemented. Timex did a lot of modifications Sinclair, Timex and Amstrad machines. If you when they launched the TS2068 in the US, it want a ZX Spectrum SE you need to buy a was the first Spectrum compatible to include Timex TC2048, TC2068 or TS2068 an AY sound chip and joystick ports. It also (depending on your country) from somewhere. had a horizontal MMU (Memory Management Then you just email him and tell him you©dlike Unit) for managing its own extended BASIC it converted into a ZX Spectrum SE and ask and a 64K cartridge dock. But it had severe for a price. I©mnot sure exactly what it would compatibility problems. Timex Portugal cost as I supplied several of the components launched a PAL version called the TC2068, like the SRAM (ordered cheap from the US but they also launched a cut down version, which is not possible in Poland), and the AY the TC2048. The 2048 had no AY chip, no (from a dead Spectrum 128) myself. Oh, and TS2068 joystick ports (but one Kempston he can©tsupply the keyboard or the mouse, compatible) and nothing connected to the you have to source those yourself. I got both horizontal MMU. It also had almost exactly the from online stores. same version of Basic as the original Spectrum (with a few extra bytes to set the The custom ROM that you wrote for the ZX correct screen mode on reset). This seemed Spectrum SE - this is different from SE like a good base machine to modify. After BASIC (which we will look at in more detail asking around I managed to find a supplier in next issue)? Are you able to/will you be Portugal and bought one in good condition. It able to pull out the custom Spectrum SE sat around for a year while I was in Australia. ROM and replace it with a ROM modified Then shortly after I got back I got in touch with SE BASIC? with Jarek and started talking about The custom ROM on the ZX Spectrum SE is modifications. He©salready created a range of a socketed 64K EPROM. You can indeed hardware mods for various different replace it with SE Basic, although I©m Spectrums, so a lot of the ground work was July August September currently using SE Basic by loading it into the there already. In fact the only things unique to sideways RAM. I©vealso written a Timex 2068 the ZXSE are the 128K of sideways RAM M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S emulator that works by using the sideways connected to the horizontal MMU and the RAM. I probably won©tbother replacing the custom ROM (a 128K editor ROM modified to 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 EPROM though since I©mgoing to be adding reset the default resolution, and use the a ZXATASP IDE interface with a 512K SRAM 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 original 48 Basic instead of the modified one which sits in place of the normal EPROM. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 from the 128). The machine has a total of That wil be set to default to SE Basic. The 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 280K of RAM available to it, 27K of which can ROM that is currently in there is a copy of the 28 29 30 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 29 30 be used by the SCLD (ULA replacement) for ZXF/03 page 22

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UK128 Editor with a three byte call to test Portuguese one then Johnny Red (of Timex code in the 128 Basic ROM replaced with Computer World - check it out on google) may three bytes that reset the Timex display be able to help. As for Poland, you could ask modes, combined with a copy of the original Jarek to keep an eye out for one. If you can©t April May June Spectrum ROM. This means it is more get hold of a Timex machine but you©re compatible with pre-128 software than a competent at electronics, Mike Wynne©s M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S genuine 128. It will run Bomb Jack for a start, SpeccyBob design can be expanded to meet even in 128 mode! the ZX Spectrum SE specification. 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 1 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 The ZXATASP IDE hard disk interface is a You use a separate notebook keyboard for separate creation of Sami Vehmaa. There©sa the Chloe - any particular reason for that? 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 website here: http://home.sol.se/ 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Yeah, I©ma professional writer so I type quite amiga/zxata.html. Sami can supply these to fast on a decent keyboard. The Timex 28 29 30 26 27 28 29 30 31 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 people. Jarek is working on his own IDE keyboard is far superior to the original Sinclair 30 interface, but it isn©tfinished yet. SE Basic one, but the keys don©treally suit a speed should be able to work on any IDE interface typist like me. Also, if you©rerunning SE Basic, though, although it will probably require you don©tneed to know where the TOKENs modification to work with some of them. SE are, and you get some useful Macros like Basic doesn©thave to be modified to access LOAD "", etc. Plus the built-in keyboard the ZXATASP interface because it uses a doesn©thave separate cursors or a delete key. shadow ROM, like the Interface 1. The interface includes a 128K or 512K SRAM. So - just for the sake of clarity - the This is paged in 16K chunks in place of the external keyboard is an ©extraoption©and normal ROMs. When you are installing you the SE works without it? get an option to use the standard ROM or a third party ROM, so you just select SE Basic. Yes. However, there will be some benefits to Sami and Garry are both using SE Basic with having a PC keyboard attached if you©reusing their ZXATASPs, which is handy for me, SE Basic. The key-mapping used by the because I haven©tgot mine yet. ProFace-AT doesn©tquite match up to the characters printed on the keyboard. A case in Picking up a point you made earlier, I had point is the symbols on the number keys. The no idea that PAL versions of the Timex ZX Spectrum SE version of SE Basic machines were manufactured - so you reassigns all the characters so (with one or answered my planned question about two unavoidable exceptions) they all show up Timex machines and European TVs where they should do (e.g. a quote mark on without my having to ask it! How easy is it the ©2©key). The ProFace-AT maps four to get hold of these machines today? You tokens to the function keys F5-F8. In the SE mentioned a supplier in Portugal. Basic I©vetrapped these tokens and replaced them with macros so now I have I would say that eBay is probably you©rebest LOAD""[ENTER] available at one key-press. bet, but don©tpay more than you feel is a Then there are the HOME, END, PG UP and October November December reasonable price. Unlike some Sinclair stuff PG DN keys. At present these are mapped to that comes up for auction, TC2048s are <=, >=, TRUE VID, INV VID. However, in SE M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S actually quite . (Lowest production run of Basic they will actually do what they say on all Spectrum compatible machines). However the key. So no, you don©thave to have the the mod can be performed on a TC2068 and 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 keyboard, but then most of the modifications they are quite plentiful, although you do lose 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 in the ZX Spectrum SE are self contained the external DOCK and the ability to run 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 circuits so you can pick and choose what you TS2068 software if you go for the conversion. 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 want. For instance, you could upgrade a plain The European Timexes were sold exclusively 27 28 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 29 30 31 old 48K Spectrum to the ZX Spectrum SE in Portugal and Poland. If you want a ZXF/03 page 23 ZXF/03 page 24

specification and all you©dbe missing would applications, etc) now that it©scomplete? be the Timex video modes and the 128K of Of course. SE Basic is taking up a lot of my sideways RAM. Jarek has a circuit for the 48K time but the first ZXSE application is already machine that will increase the RAM to 256, it©s written. It©sa Timex 2068 emulator, written just paged differently. with help from Alvin Albrecht. It uses the And the ZXSE can access this 256k of sideways RAM to install a modified version of RAM? I think that, for most people, the TS2068 ROMs. It even has a certain upgrading a standard 48k Spectrum is amount of support for Timex cartridges, likely to be the most viable route to a although the only one I©vetested so far is ZXSE, even if it means sacrificing the extra OS64. I also have plans for a psuedo- video modes. I don©tknow about anyone multi-taksing program which will allow you to else, but a rubber keyed 256k Spectrum have three 48K programs in memory at once just by itself sounds fantastic to me. and switch between them using the NMI button. That©sa little way off yet, but it©s Well, the RAMdisk drivers for SE Basic will be simple in theory. On the games front I really in software rather than as a direct part of the want to do a scrolling shoot-em up using ROM so it should be easy to add a driver to hi-colour mode. However, I don©tknow if it the support the extra RAM of the ZXSE, Jarek©s screen can be updated quickly enough to 256K upgrade, or the standard 128K. Of make it playable. I do have a game idea for course someone has to write the driver, but if hi-colour mode that isn©tdependent on no-one else does it I©llget around to it in the frequent updates, but I can©treally go into it end. now. The other idea I have is for a graphic You mention on your site that you would adventure game. It©spossible to switch like to see the SE supported by emulators - resolutions mid-display on the Timex any sign of this happening? hardware, so the idea is that part of the screen will be in hi-colour mode, and the other Gunter Woijk was going to add ZX Spectrum part will be in hi-res mode, with the switch SE support to his zxsp emulator. There©seven timed via the maskable interrupt. The text will The ZX Spectrum SE a ©Chloe©option on the menu in the version for be 80 or 85 columns, and the pictures will be Mac OS 9. However, all that does is use a 24-bit BMPs rendered to hi-colour by LCD©s different set of ROMs. It©sa start though. I excellent BMP2SCR program. didn©tthink Timex emulation was ever going to Codename: Chloe take off, but ever since I persuaded Chris Here©sa screenshot of split-screen mode, I/N: TC2280 Cowley to add a TC2048 mode to vbSpec a although it relies on having the colour turned lot more emulators are supporting it. From an down: CPU: Z80A @ 3.528Mhz emulator author©spoint of view, if your Total RAM: 280K emulator already supports the Spectrum 128 and the Timex TC2048, then ZX Spectrum SE Video RAM: 27K emulation isn©tvery complicated to add. ROM: 32K Stop press: ZX Spectrum SE emulation is Sound: AY-3-8910 pencilled in for possible inclusion in MacFuse although it won©tbe in the first public release. Keyboard: Cherry PS/2 notebook I guess it©sworth pointing out here that Mouse: Amiga 2-button you and Chris have both written demos showing off the TC2048©shigh colour Joystick: Kempston mode (available from the vbSpec site). Do Extra video modes: Hi-resolution (512x192 pixel) 2 colour you have any plans to develop any software for the ZXSE (games, Hi-colour 6144 byte attribute area (no vertical colour clash) ZXF/03 page 26

SPECTRUM +3 SOFTWARE AND SPARES Back to the Spectrum

Part Two. A look at some of the ©addedextras©that come with modern Spectrum emulators.

So far we©velooked at emulation from the actually seeing it done. Previously this point of view of how all the stuff you used to involved finding a suitably skilled friend and do is implemented in virtual terms. But many peering over his/her (ok - let©sbe honest - emulators also have additional features - they probably his) shoulder. The modern offer you tools which are in addition to the equivalent of this is input recording, the hardware and software features being function of which is to record all the things emulated (so you can do things now which you do whilst using your emulated Spectrum you couldn©tdo then). (key presses and joystick waggles, that is; they don©trecord brewing a cup of tea whilst Let©sstart with POKEs. Although, strictly waiting for a game to load or cheering on the speaking, of course, POKEing an address, little matchstick men in Football Manager) for HARDWARE: for example to give you infinite lives in a future playback - when you then do so the game, was something you could do on your 3 inch 180K disc drive for +3. Reconditioned with 3 months warranty emulated Spectrum will old hardware, but £10 each. These drives can be supplied with cream coloured facias in appear to work all by often not without going itself - as though place of the black facias if wanted -- just ask. to an awful lot of instructed by an trouble. It©smuch Belts for the 3 inch drive £1 each. New. Loads available. (Just send a invisible user - simpler on Spectrum S.A.E. with order to cover postage -- correct for up to 20 belts). replicating your every emulators, a number move in the game you of which offer the Monitor lead to convert +3, +2 and +2A to use an Amstrad CTM644 recorded. In this way a direct entry of a POKE colour monitor. £4 each. personal best into the game performance can be 3 INCH DISCS: currently running via kept for posterity and an option from one of Second-hand good quality Amsoft or Maxell only shared around for 3 inch Blank discs: the main menus. A others to learn from. It supplied. All have been reformatted, verfied and relabelled. 80 pence good example of this works well on most each or £7-50 for ten. Larger quantities available 100 for £65, 1000 for is SPIN©s Above: SPIN©sPokes and Tips feature games, where the £450. implementation, which movement of alien not only gives you direct POKE access, but beasties is pre-determined in one way or Sometimes available new 3 inch discs at £1 each, please ask. also allows you to build up a database of another, but on those where hostile activity is POKEs and other hints and tips for the randomly generated, disaster is not far away. games you enjoy playing. Where do you get JOHN R P KING all this information from in the first place? Apart from self-admiration and helping out a 26, GUYSFIELD DRIVE, SOUTH HORNCHURCH, RAINHAM, ESSEX. Visit Gerard Sweeney and Nick Humphries© friend in need, input recording is used on an RMI3 7AJ The Tipshop (www.the-tipshop.co.uk) for annual basis for the Speccy Games the largest online collection of hints, POKEs Tournament, in which ZX enthusiasts TEL: 01708 630477 [email protected] and tips for Spectrum games. compete against each other for the highest www.pcwking.freeserve.co.uk score on a selected range of titles. Usually Input recording an ©official©snapshot file of each of the games Of course written hints and tips on how to get is prepared by the competition administrator through a games are a poor substitute for and distributed to all participants, who then ZXF/03 page 27 ZXF/03 page 28

play the games and submit the input in these formats is that the files created will recordings they made whilst doing so; it©sa play on much older PCs than the current fair, reasonably non-corruptable, way of ©standard.©And you could always use ZX Utilities of Yesteryear ensuring everybody is competing on a level additional tools to convert them into - say - playing field and that nobody can pass off MPG/MP3 files; conceivably you could even grossly exaggerated figures as their own high encode and burn video onto a DVD if you so Sir Clive didn©tslave away on the the Spectrum just so you could screw up score. It also allows players to learn from desired and watch it on your TV (there©sfull your education playing RoboCop instead of doing your homework properly. others©successes. circle for you) - so then the recipient of your There was more to the Spectrum than games. Here Equinox Tetrachloride recording wouldn©teven have to own a The two input recording file formats in use investigates some of the lesser known utilities. If only we©dspent a little time computer, let alone a Spectrum emulator. are .AIR and .RZX, with the latter introduced with these we might be better people today... as the successor to the former. The problem Graphics with AIR files was that they could only be If all that sounds a bit too exotic for your played back on the emulator which created needs, there are, of course, options on most Ever heard of The Home Knitter or Wizard for anything as complex as the creation of them: this meant in the past that all emulators to create standard Windows Prang'sHeadache Mantra? stand-alone code. competitors in games tournaments had to graphics files. Quite a number allow you to use the same emulator (usually We©veall squinted at the tiny text in Tasword Audiogenic©sIcon Graphix (year unknown) is save screenshots as .BMP (Windows bitmap) RealSpectrum); even if your own preferred Two, and most of us have experimented with an art package with icons instead of text files - and have done for some time - for emulator supported AIR file recording, one one of the Jet Set Willy editors. Moreover, it menus. Drawing and colouring are done editing in a standard graphics package (where created by another emulator would not work is an indisputable fact that anyone who has separately, and the panels of icons force you you could convert to - say - GIF format for (you were even more excluded if you used a ever been to a car-boot sale has at least two to ©drag©the page to reach the screen edge, publication on a web page) and just recently different platform, such as RiscOs, where a copies of Make-a-Chip. but it would be quite passable if only it was BMP export has also been created for the ZX more stable. As it is, Icon Graphix almost RealSpectrum AIR file - for example - would All the same, we don©ttend to remember Printer, so you can now print from your invariably crashes after an hour©swork. Still, then become completely inaccessible utility programs as fondly or as vividly as emulated Spectrum to an emulated ZX Printer Sinclair User liked it enough to include it on because the emulator is not available for that games. Utilities are software tools, not and save the printer©soutput as a BMP file. their cover tape. platform). RZX, on the other hand, works playthings, and the gradual obsolescence of across emulators, so all programs which And what about doing it the other way around the Spectrum made most of its utilities Codemasters©CD Loader (1990) is another support this format (regardless of their - wouldn©tit be cool to turn a Windows BMP obsolete too. piece of technology that garnered attention platform) should be able to run any RZX file into a Spectrum screen? Z80, the shareware from the magazines. Stored on cassette, this Of course, there©sstill a handful of demo created by any emulator (so an RZX file Spectrum emulator by Gerton Lunter, has program gave you the ability to load games groups making music and graphics with created with RealSpectrum should play back offered a BMP import feature for several from an audio CD via the joystick port. ("The Soundtracker and Art Studio, and I wouldn©t equally well on SPIN for Windows or Philip years now, although the control this option Codies©system bears little resemblance to be surprised if Tornado or Zeus is compiling Kendall©sFuse for Unix). offers you is quite limited. A much better way CD-ROMs," Your Sinclair explained. "The someone©sZ80 code at this very moment; is using the .SCR file format - essentially a CD-ROM involves piles of expensive Audio/Video but there are dozens of lesser-known utilities graphics format for Spectrum screens that is equipment and is really only of any use to that, in the twenty-first century, can only be Input recording is fine if you want to show off supported by most emlators today. SCRs boring businesses and things.") to friends with a Spectrum emulator, but it is cannot be edited by standard Windows described as quaint toys or historical just possible, of course, that you might want graphics packages, but there are a whole host footnotes for the curious. Games loaded from the Codemasters CD in about 30 seconds, and you could press something portable that can play on a of freeware programs that can - and these will I number myself among the curious, so I Q-U-I-T to return to the loader and switch to computer without such software installed. also convert bitmaps into SCRs for you (see ventured into the World of Spectrum archive another game. Unfortunately, most .AVI and .WAV files are - as you are no last issue©stutorial on creating a Spectrum to dust off the cases of some of the more households with CD players had also bought doubt already aware - standard Windows loading screen for an example of how this can interesting titles. formats for video and audio respectively, and be done). a more up-to-date computer, and both are supported by RealSpectrum (the Macro for Construction and Animation Codemasters never repeated the experiment. Which brings us nicely to the next part of this (1983) is a rudimentary programming most comprehensive of the Spectrum What about utilities that are designed to guide: the many PC utilities in existence to language for creating animated stories. The emulators - for the moment, at least). facilitate a non-computer hobby? Well, support and enhance your Spectrum lengthy introduction demonstrates the use of They©recertainly not the most efficient of file there©sThe Home Knitter (1984), which asks experience. That©swhat we©llexplore next text, sound, and various moving characters. formats for these purposes - not by a very you some questions about the desired issue. It©sslow, but charming: the MCA interpreter is long stretch - but an advantage of recording garment (round or vee neck? how many written in BASIC and certainly not intended buttons down the front?) and then produces a ZXF/03 page 29 ZXF/03 page 30

table of measurements and instructions. "Be ever felt anxious about the TV exploding?" with you in a tick," the program advises as it "Do you own a battery-driven pepper mill?" does its calculations. Wade through enough of these questions The Post-Turkey Boredom Period (PTBP) is approaching. Fear and you are presented with a mystifying bar Informal language and entertaining sonic and not: this issue'sread brings you distractions aplenty to fill the gap graph. visual feedback were quite common in utility between the Queen'sspeech and the suicide-inducing broadcast programs of the 1980s, when home If you'drather measure your intellect than computing was new and users were more your anxiety levels, you might prefer the known as The Eastenders Christmas Special. My thanks to Equinox willingly amused (and more easily Cattell IIIA Intelligence Tests (year Tetrachloride for providing the anagrams and crossword (answers in intimidated!) by the software they bought. unknown). Endorsed by Professor Cattell Emulator News). Clippit, the dancing paperclip assistant who himself, this program puts you through a was recently ditched by the Office multiple-choice marathon designed to gauge team, was not by any means the first your mental aptitude. The interface is very animated annoyance in a utility program. slick for its time. Did I mention the time limit? Computer Cookery (1984) rewards incorrect Moving from the general to the specialised: keypresses with cheeky error messages - Audio Frequency Generator (1989) ZX ANAGRAMS including "Cosmic colanders! You have got it produces sixty seconds of pure tone at any of wrong!" and "Press the right key or I'llhave to six frequencies, just like it says on the tin, sue!" - along with a crazy zapping noise that while Wizard Prang'sHeadache Mantra (year would be more at home in a shoot-'em-up unknown) is a sound-and-fury routine for use Unscramble each set of anagrams to find a group of related words or phrases having game. On the other hand, if you behave then in your own BASIC programs. You can try it something to do with the Spectrum. the program will behave, serving up recipes in out by guiding a hapless figure under a falling imperial or metric for a specified number of object. guests. It even adds accented characters to 1 But the Golden Solar-Powered Torch award - the Sinclair font: fancy some Chicken Sauté for forgetting that 'utility'means 'usefulness'- Of tram (6) Bercy or Duck à l'Orange? must go to Car Seating Arrangement I damn zero (9) If you'rethinking that no modern program Designer (1991), "a seating arrangement could be so flippant, have a look at Prime compiler for the Renault Espace". Enter the Red Rob (6) Number Generator (2001). It offers six names of up to five passengers, and the Still (5) options, including Prime Factorisation, computer randomly decides who gets which Goldbach Conjecture, and Do Something seat. It'sguaranteed to settle your Espace Less Sad (also known as Quit). The scrolling seating squabbles forever, and to top it all 2 message is even better: "This program there'sa three-channel musical introduction. should never have been written in BASIC and Roaming mother (9,4) employs no clever algorithms to make it The utility that brings back memories for me Anger Roy (8) faster." is Superfile 128. It was bundled with the Spectrum +2 as a token database program, Closed rot (4,5) Kids can have utilities, too. My Secret File and my sister and I used to play with it when (1984) is a "do-it-yourself dossier for your we were nine and seven years old. We'dgo We'llrace in (4,6) darkest thoughts", based on the Puffin book through all the menu options, change the by children'sillustrator John Astrop. A very system colours, and invent meanings for blocky spy requests your password before mysterious terms like 'microdrive'and 3 allowing you to view and edit such 'transaction'.It'sa good thing we didn'thave Spying S.O.S. (9) confidential documents as My Favourite Activision'sHacker 2, or we'dreally have Relations and Ten Descriptions of Mum. Aw, thought we were onto something. Charring glimpse (7,8) bless. Find Spectrum utilities online at A brat is worn (7,4) The Real You (year unknown) is a www.worldofspectrum.org/utils/ pointer-driven multiload that analyses your Jaws force protest (8,8) views, personality, and love life based on © 2002 Equinox Tetrachloride your responses to a number of quizzes. Am I a high-tech person? That depends. "Have you ZXF/03 page 31 ZXF/03 page 32

The ULTIMATE wordsearch 14 games to find... ZX CROSSWORD

The unclued answers share a common theme.

Across 3 ? (6,6) 6 BASIC keyword that definitely isn©tBRIGHT (3) 8 Hewson puzzler, something like Chaos? (7) 9 A software house, or its target audience (7) 12 ? (5) 13 game with no egg in it! (4) 15 ? (4-1-4) 18 Joystick manufacturer (6) 20 : "My hero! Take me ____" (4,4,3,4) 21 Error N, or a problem in court (9,4) 22 Macsen arcade game involving soap? (10

Down 1 Ultimate classic: Dark Justice, say? (6,4) 2 Colour five (4) 4 Forgotten location in Jet Set Willy (5) 5 At which one would write to a byte? (7) 7 ? (5,5) 10 ____ Cecco, author of Cybernoid and Stormlord (8) 11 They published Dynamite Dan and (10) 14 ? (10) 16 Challenging game that you might throw down (8) 17 BASIC keyword found in a river, if you please! (7) 19 John ____, Aquaplane author ZXF/03 page 33 ZXF/03 page 34

Warajevo Warajevo was one of the first ever PC Spectrum emulators. As emulators go, it©spretty comprehensive, although it©snot been updated for a long, long while. What makes this emulator special are the conditions under which it was developed - in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. With permission from Samir Ribic (co-author of Warajevo with Zeljko Juric), the fascinating story of it©sdevelopment is reprinted here (taken originally from www.worldofspectrum.org/ warajevo/Story.html). Required reading. ZXF/03 page 35 ZXF/03 page 36

Maybe this program is not too an improvised generator, with a voltage that varied from 150 V to 300 V! It was in fact car battle tasks, he developed the compression puchased 486SX-33 board, 4 Mb of RAM and 400 interesting in itself, but it is a fact that this engine without carburator, connected to natural algorythm. He spent more than 30 days in Mb hard disc. Zeljko continued development on his program comes from Bosnia and Herzegovina, from gas pipeline. This car engine was tied with developing algorythm, analysing of some old 286 machine, but Samir had now enough the city of Sarajevo which has been surrounded for shunted electromotor giving about 30 kW for 100 archivers, optimizing compression speed (it is still power to compile programs using extended more than three years. After reading this story, you rooms. slow, but acceptable), and he worked mostly on memory and we released version 1.5 (in July 1996) will understand why this emulator has such strange paper, because it was days mainly without any after Samir's graduating and getting job. In this name "Warajevo"... It was often situation that when one user switch electric power, water and food. Keep in mind that release, utilities ZXTOOLS and ZXSHELL are not caffe aparat on, Samir's computer resets itself. in this period we lost about 1 kg weekly! separate tools. Instead, they are integrated into the Even in our secondary school days, about ten years UPS? What is this??? As you can expect, such environment of the emulator. before, we began to build an interest in computers 'stable' voltage distroyed Samir's hard disc... In November 1993, reading some newspapers that thanks to the ZX Spectrum. For this reason, we are a came from the enemy's territory, we got some Release 2.0 was developed in much better bit sentimentally tied with this computer. This Zeljko's task was mainly writting of the emulator information about the emulator 'Z80', written by conditions. The war is finished, but the economical computer reminds us of all of the times when, in our kernel, and Samir's task was to write conversion Gerton Lunter. The fact that we didn't hear about situation is terrible. Our payments was under 50 neighbourhoods, the life was nice and normal. and tape file utilities. So, he used Turbo Pascal Lunter's 'Z80' earlier is a fortune for today DM. However, Zeljko succeed to purchase faster 5.5. First version of such utility was called Warajevo users, because we very probably would computer, and he finally had goal to develop When we bought AT 286 computers at the end of ZXTOOLS, and existed up to release 1.5. In this not even start this project if we have had accurate speed version of the Warajevo kernel. So, 1990, we did not forget our Spectrums however. We situation, we decided that our tape file format will information that a good quality Spectrum emulator we worked on Pentium 133 MHz/1.2 Gb disc and had great interest when, in June 1991, we got a be compressed, as we had not enough diskettes, already exists. But, in even worse winter Pentium 100 MHz/1.6 Gb hard disc, both with 16 Spectrum emulator, which, without underestimating nor we belived that we will ever have money for conditions, we continued the development (in the Mb of RAM, Sound Blaster cards and VGA anybody's work, had very bad characteristics (it was puchasing bigger hard disc. rooms where we slept the water was frozen), graphic card (this is mainly our today configuration slow, quite incompatible with the original machine, hoping to get this emulator to compare our too). First real-time release of Warajevo, release with unpractical emulation of the tape recorder etc.). As Zeljko has real Spectrum 128, we made cable program and his program. 2.0, was uploaded in February 1998. As you can It's origin is unknown to us (we suppose, in for transfering Spectrum software using RS232. see, Warajevo 2.0 is uploaded after a long delay according to some newspapers, that the program is During times when we was free of army activities, In 1994, one Samir's friend who worked with him (about nearly 1.5 year) from previous release. This from the Slovenia Republic, and that the author is Samir visited the last Spectrum software pirate in in the army put his own hard disc (40M) into the is mainly consequence of adaptation to post-war Peter Kroselj), and when starting it displays the Sarajevo and borrowed casettes. But, this pirate computer , and Samir developed ZXSHELL (the conditions. Finishing of the war brings a lot of new copyright message '(C) 1991. Roman & easy inc.'. was located in one of the most dangerous places database program for the emulator written in problems which took a lot of our time, so When the war started in our country, we wanted to in the city, practically on the first front line. He Clipper). In April 1994, the foundation Sorosh developing of the emulator was stopped for a remove the dark thoughts from our heads as much had to use a river bed (instead of streets) for opened the first electronic mail in Sarajevo. We while... as possible. So, in April 1993, we started the moving, to skip continous sniper's fire. So, Samir sent a general request and in June 1994, we got development of our Spectrum emulator, symbolically risked his life to bring up Spectrum software! Lunter's emulator. From documentation we got The last release of Warajevo is currently Warajevo called 'Warajevo Spectrum emulator' which should Later he transfered programs using RS232, mainly information about many Spectrum emulators 2.51. Recently, a number of new emulators have have much better characteristics. We should mention in the army camp. around Europe, but we thought that our program appeared. Some of them are very good, especially that we were known as quite good programmers, was surely better than all the others, except maybe X128 by James McKay, and there are a number of especially in assembly language. Lunter's program. We think that it is a great emulators for the Windows platform (we want to success, considering the conditions where the point out ZX32 by Vaggelis Kapartzianis and The program was developed in The program was developed in program was developed and the quality of Gerton's MultiMachine by Paul Hodgson). However, we still horrible conditions. The grenades program. When we contacted Gerton, he had the think that Warajevo 2.51. is the best emulator for fell everywhere, there was little horrible conditions. The same opinion about it. pure DOS. We want to tell you that the Warajevo electrical power (at one time even emulator still does not have a good emulation of the hospitals didn't have power for grenades fell everywhere. The first public release of the Warajevo emulator the video system like in the ZX32 emulator two months!). When we had was sent to the world at end of 1994 (release 1.0). (although it is much better than in release 2.0. electricity it was only for 2-3 hours during the night. The summer of 1993 was the worst period during Other releases made during war was 1.1 (March which was a considerable improvment itself over However, we did not quit and caught every moment the whole Bosnian war, 1 kg of sugar had price of 1995), and 1.11 (May 1995). This was just a release 1.5.), perfect emulation of the bits 3 and 5 when the electricity was on to develop the program. even 60 DM, and about 3000-4000 grenades fall bugfixes of release 1.1 with slight improvements. in the F register, emulation of the disc interfaces, Zeljko worked at home on his 80286/12 MHz, 1.44" every day on the town. This was a period when Multiface 128, AMX mouse, full emulation of the floppy, 40 Mb hard disc, Hercules card and Citizen only miracle saved Sarajevo of fall. However, we Dayton peace came (November 1995), and we was RS232 socket or emulation of the Spectrum +3, 180D printer. He used TASM assembler. It was very progressed very well... released from army. Release 1.2 was prepared for which are supported in some other emulators. interesting waiting for days of electricity. Samir uploading. It was 1.1 with a new design of utility Zeljko catched every second of presence of However, we want to emphasize that Warajevo still worked mainly in army camp barack on 80286/16 ZXTOOLS. This release was finished in December electrical power to finish the emulator kernel, and has a lot of features which make it unique. For MHz, 5,25" + 1.44" floppy, 2400 bps modem, VGA 1995. But, Samir decided to improve the emulator Samir hed not even leave the army building to be his graduate thesis (Zeljko already finished more details see: www.worldofspectrum.org/ mono monitor, WITHOUT HARD DISC because it during this period. While he waited for a new crashed. The power generator in the army camp was study, he graduated in January 1995), and he warajevo/Features.html ZXF/03 page 37 ZXF/03 page 38

Well, what do you think, after this story, about from all 6 continents (Argentina, Australia, Austria, Let us skip a few years. Last year (2001) issue of R.C.T, printed it out and handed it today MS Windows programs that require 100 Mb Canada, Czech, Croatia, Danish, France, Germany, around May or June, I noticed a letter filled with around the office. He said that everyone was for relative simple task??? Obviously, the Great Britain, Netherlands, Hungary, India, Italy, news of current Amiga developments in the very impressed with my work (I thought he Spectrum times were the best computer times. Latvia, Macedonia, Norway, Portugal, Romania, magazine Micro Mart. I was surprised that a PC was being nice) and asked if I could write a Nowadays, for playing a game in a PC you need a Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, magazine would pay such attention to a non-PC retro feature for Micro Mart on a weekly basis. Pentium 200 MHz, 32 Mb of RAM and a fast Sweden, USA, Uruguay, Yugoslavia), with platform, so I emailed the editor (and everyone At first I was a little taken back. Simon said graphic card. If you haven'tgot these greetings, questions, new ideas and bug remarks. listed as editorial) enthusiastically telling them that I did sound a little surprised at the time of requirements, you can`t play the game. But, with We apologise if any message remain unanswered about my slghtly upgraded Commodore, which the phone call. My main concern was writing the Spectrum everything was quite different. The because E-MAIL in Sarajevo is still sometimes has a 20Mhz accelerator, 1.6mb 3.5" disk and to a high enough standard for a professional Spectrum wasn'tupgradeable and the unstable so it doesn'twork from time to time. 20mb or RAM (among other things) and publication, after all (although it does not programmers had to make big efforts to develope suggesting to them that it would be a good idea affect my reading and writing too much IF YOU LIKE THE WARAJEVO EMULATOR, a very good game. And the games were also to start a column supporting all old computers nowadays) I am dyslexic. AND IF YOU ARE FROM A COUNTRY NOT cheaper than the PC ones... on the basis of "Okay, so you remember the LISTED ABOVE, PLEASE SEND AN E-MAIL TO I excepted an eight week trial, which soon C64, well today you can....." rather than just US!!! turned into a "can you carry it on for a while Between April 1995 and December 1997 we "Remember the C64? Well so do we. Here is longer" and is not virtually a perminant fixture received E-MAIL messages from 28 countries, what we remember....." I, of course, offered my in the magazine. So, from my vast knowledge services to write about my beloved of the Commodore 64 I now write about and Commodore. The reply I recieved was a simple own a really broad range of technologies (I "we'llthink about it.." At the time, I was happy am almost multi-lingual). This is also where I not to be totally ignored. Retro Computer Mart need your help. Working full time in the public A short time later, I had given up on Micro Mart sector (I wont mention names) and writing the 8-bit computing is alive and well in the mainstream press, thanks to even starting any further columns beyond their column, as well as being very disorganised Shaun Bebbington, whose weekly column in Micro Mart covers all the Linux, Amiga and of course PC articles. On like many dyslexics, I have little time, or at latest developments in the retro computing world. Here Shaun New Years eve 2001, I decided to take matters least I struggle with the concept of time. into my own hands, and Retro Computing Please, if you know of any Sinclair describes how he brought the Spectrum and its peers back to the pages Today was thought up to support all platforms developments (for the real machines), or you of something you can browse in WHSmith. except PC's.I then went to work on a have any opinions on the column, or you just demonstration issue, after a good initial want to talk all things "retro", please drop me response to my ideas. Unfortunately, the a line. My email address should appear Nine years ago now. I had recently left school New software for the Commodore! Obviously, magazine depended on pre-orders to exsist. I elsewhere in this publication. I will support and started work. It was late spring, and I this helped to fill a few pages, and spark couldn'tafford the printing costs unless I had at you, could you also return the favour? found myself in my local newsagents. There I something as the next issue contained news of least 250 people who where willing to pay for a was, and for the first time in a long time I was twenty-six new software developments and (for copy of the first issue. This was not time and © 2002 Shaun Bebbington by the magazine section. There I saw Your the first time that year) four new games work wasted though. Simon Brew, managing [email protected] Sinclair and more importantly Commodore reviewed! Slowly, news came through of editor of Micro Mart, downloaded the sample Force. Obviously, being a Commodore hardware upgrades for the Commodore 64 and enthusiast it was Commodore Force that 128, 4GB hard drives, dedicated intelligent interested me. I purchased 2 copies of issue mice, 3.5" disk drives, ram expansions upto 7, and the last 2 issues of YS. From then on, I 16mb and more. It seemed the Commodore would buy Commodore Scene until its final 64'srevival had turned into a revolution. Fact Files Update issue. Unfortunately, poor sales led to higher prices. An unbreakable circle - the UK importer needed Did anyone else here collect The Star Trek Fact Files until the bitter end? Time passed. I worked, then started college to a mass order to bring the price down, but Boy, did that publication go on. Now that it©sfinally finished, a bit of fun start a part time job, and in 1994 I purchased because of the initial price there was no mass a Commodore 64c, a machine that would that I wrote a few years ago seems timely... order forthcoming! Despite this, GEOS serve me well. I also purchased a Spectrum (Graphical Environment Operating System) was 48k, which died. However, in May 1994 Yesterday, the final issue of The Star Trek Fact a large amount of official star trek information a limited sucess some time after. something changed. , the Files went on sale in all good newsagents. never made it to the peel-away pages of this final commercial Commodore publication for Why do you need to know all of this? This is, Whilst cubic measurements approaching the weekly publication. The following article is a the UK had become sparse of new after all a Sinclair publication... Now to my size of a small portacabin are often cited in small taster of the material. Other titles developments, that is until the April issue point. discussions over the storage of a complete include: when they had a preview of Penguin Towers. collection, you might be surprised to know that ZXF/03 page 39 After Ceaucescu©s death in 1990 over 120,000 children were discovered living in grim institutions. In the county of Jud Bihor in Western Romania, children who had been assessed as ©mentally - Door sounds: 2292 - 2341 Klingon comforts retarded©at the age of three were sent to an institution in the country village of Cadea. They were housed in old buildings that had broken - Kirk and shoelaces Least appreciative of the ERU are Klingons. windows and no heating or plumbing. It was dark and dirty and for the Klingons, who have 37 different words to - Warp nacelles and particle beams: majority of the time the children were confined to their cots. Most of describe a bowel movement, feel that the ERU Freudian imagery in the 24th century them were tied to the bars by strips of cloth tied tightly around their robs the process of its honour and refuse to wrists and ankles. USS ENTERPRISE NCC 1701-D: Lavatories make use of the technology. This has led to the development of Klingon Flatulence The children were always dirty, hungry and cold - sixty to seventy died Jokes about the Captain©slog aside, toilets Compensators (KFCs) for use in situations every winter. Their original ©retardation©was the result of early illnesses aboard the Enterprise D are at the cutting where Starfleet personnel are required to work such as pneumonia and bronchitis, and years of confinement at Cadea edge of Starfleet technology. The traditional alongside their Klingon counterparts. Even only compounded the problem. When they were finally released in bowl design maintained on previous starships Worf, the Klingon posted on the Enterprise D, January 1991, many could neither walk nor speak. All of the children has been replaced in all Galaxy-class vessels has been known to protest strongly against the rocked backwards and forwards in their distress; their eyes were glazed by a waste removal unit that puts transporter ubiquity of ERUs on the ship, stating on more and unseeing. On release, many of the children were sent to hospital technology to a new and innovative use. than one occasion, "A Klingon considers that a buildings in the mountain villages of Remeti and Bratca. It is here that Uniforms stay put P©Ta[good dump] should be a challenging and the White Cross started assisting the local Romanian staff in their care. character building experience," (TNG: Since the White Cross has been working with the children, over 600 The Enterprise D©stoilets work by transporting Retention), and "The TorPChi [fart] is a most human waste out of their bodies to the ship©s people have travelled with the Mission to Romania. Some have only effective weapon in the Klingon warrior©sclose been able to give a few days of concentrated work, most average two Central Matter Container, where it is stored combat armoury," (DS9: Easy does it). for eventual reprocessing into Klingon months and one stayed for four years! Some work with the children, delicacies for the food replicators. Thanks to Developing technology others repair the buildings and yet others deliver goods. Every transporter accuracy, crew members no longer volunteer is special. They raise their own money for air and train fares, Nonetheless, the ERU has been rated the have to remove clothing in order to relieve insurance, food and electricity and more than half of them do it all over most popular new invention since the themselves, so the old association of privacy again and go out for a second or even third time. Old or young, with or holodeck doorlock and is set to be is long forgotten. In fact, Excretion Removal without qualifications, the combined work and presence of these many developed into yet more areas of personal Units (ERUs) can be built into almost any chair different people has had an amazing impact on the children. hygiene and sanitation. Proposals on the - including those at workstations - and drawing board include manicure, hair styling Children with blank, unseeing eyes, rocking in a world of their own are programmed to remove waste as and when and nose dirt removal subroutines. It has also now healthy, laughing and boisterous. The accumulative effect of the necessary, without any bystanders knowing been suggested by the Vulcans that a modified White Cross volunteers with their mixture of naivety and experience, that the process is in operation. The ERU could serve as a highly efficient their energy, their perseverance, their hopes, their dreams and their incorporation of such chairs into the Enterprise replacement for the mating process, but, many different ways of showing love has created a rainbow effect of D©smain bridge has resulted in a marked surprisingly, it wasn©tjust the Klingons that bouncy, confident and individual children. reduction in distracting odours known to occur protested against that one. when, for example, a Romulan Warbird drops Fundatia Crucea Alba has helped White Cross Mission with the out of hyperspace with its weapons targeted The ERU has turned excretion into a legalities of purchasing small farms, employing assistants and moving on your ship©swarp core. convenient, dignified and painless process. children from the mental institutions in order to live a normal family Whilst its history has not been without village life. We intend that these farms will be the children©shomes for Early problems complications it looks set to remain an as long as they need. All their lives if necessary. Developed at the lavatory laboratory at Utopia essential part of a starship©sequipment Buying the farms is only the beginning of a lifetime commitment to Fleet Yards on Mars, the ERU was not an compliment for many years to come. those children we take out of State care. Without a regular financial immediate success. Early versions, designed Other cards in this file: safety net we would be irresponsible if we established too many specifically for humans, failed to carry a homes. We do, however, believe that this is the only way forward and warning notice and there are many stories of Operation of the ERU in a shipwide power are desperate for substantial funding. non-human personnel or visiting dignitaries failure losing their lower intestines after sitting on Bowel re-training for undercover what looked to them like a comfortable seat. The White Cross Mission is a Charitable Trust Registered in England No operatives in ERU-free environments Modern ERUs are adapted for all known 1021176 anatomies, however great care still has to be How to re-program ERU waste 52, Gwel-an-nans, Probus, Cornwall, TR2 4ND, United Kingdom taken in the seating arrangements for any first destinations, or ©Theturd in the Captain©s Tel (+44) (0)1726 884344 Fax (+44) (0)1726 884345 Mob (+44) (0)7775700893 contact meetings with a new species. chair©scenario Email [email protected] www.the-white-cross.ndirect.co.uk