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ZXF/03 page 4

CHRISTMAS 2002/Issue 3

2002: IIRC

Contents

2002 has been a good year for Spectrum

fans - fitting since it's been the 20th

anniversary of Sir Clive's much-loved

machine. We've seen the emulation scene

taken to a whole new level with such

innovative releases as SPIN, Klive,

Es.pectrum and Spectaculator; we have a

brand new ROM to play with in Andrew

Owen's SE BASIC - now very close to

completion (and let's not forget Geoff

Wearmouth's 'Sea Change' ROM, which is

now complete); we've seen new PC utilities

released (eg, SevenuP); we've seen new

hardware concepts evolve (eg, the ZXSE). In

the meantime, the resources we're all familiar

with have continued to exapnd and evolve.

WOS, for example, has a new chat room

service to compliment its increasingly popular

discussion forum. Is there no end to this

site's capacity? The recent decision to host

the entire collection of CRASH issue recently

scanned by Stephen Stuttard would suggest

not.

Furthermore, 2002 appears to have been a

year in which retro-computing has taken

large steps towards mainstream culture.

Shaun bebbington's now regular retro slot in

the weekly Micro Mart springs immediately to

mind, as does Amstrad's 'e-mailerplus'

telephone/email system, with its built-in

Spectrum games compatibility. Perhaps

more significant still are magazine releases

such as 'games TM ' - issue one of which

dedicated over 25 pages to retro material.

And is it just me, or do there appear to be

more and more 'newbies' announcing

themselves to comp.sys.sinclair these days.

Certainly the price of Spectrums on ebay -

and they're hardly in short supply - would

seem to indicate that there are plenty of

people out there who want to own a

Spectrum. Are these all just 'investors'?

Personally I hope the answer to this question

is 'no'. I hope that at least some of these

buyers are plugging their prizes into TVs and

playing games and writing BASIC, just like

they used to. And I hope they're showing all

this to their kids and letting them experiment

too. After all, when the Spectrum hits its 100th

anniversary in 80 years time we want

somebody around then to at least

acknowledge this, don't we?

And, naturally, I hope also that many of you

will consider ZXF to have been a good thing to

have happened to the Spectrum scene in

2002. This issue in particular has seen the

greatest amount of collaboration in it's (brief)

history so far, which is exactly what I'd hoped

for when planning issue 1. I've learnt over the

past few months that the best way to get

people to contribute is to ask them directly, so

I'll be doing a bit more of that in the coming

year.

From this point onwards, ZXF will be relaxing

its publishing shedule to three issues per year,

so you can expect to see ZXF04 (material for

which is already being accumulated) in April. I

feel I've put a lot into getting this ball rolling

over the last 6 months and would like to

establish now a regular routine that is both

sustainable for me and gives everyone who

wishes to a fair chance to contribute.

And so to 2003 - what will await us there? For

now, at least, if you're celebrating a festival

this season, I hope it is a peaceful one. On

the subject of peace, we might not be so lucky

next year: read the story of 'Warajevo' and you

will be reminded that those drawn into distant

wars are not so dissimilar to us as we might

sometimes find ourselves assuming.

Until next time.

Seven pages of Spectrum news p5

Your comments and feedback on ZXF02 p12

Martijn van der Heide on the World of Spectrum p14

Andrew Owen on the ZX Spectrum SE p18

Back to the Spectrum: Part 2 p26

Spectrum utilities you never knew existed p28

Some Christmas puzzles to tide you over the PTBP p30

The story of Warajevo p34

Retro Computer Mart : How it came to be p37

Fact Files Update: Some 24th century toilet humour p38

If you enjoy ZXF and you want it to continue then consider yourself

duty bound to let me know this (mail@cwoodcock.co.uk). All other

feedback will be gratefully received also - criticisms (please be kind),

improvement suggestions and notifications of any errors you think

you've spotted are essential for this sort of project to succeed.

If you would like to contribute to future issues of ZXF - even if it's just

to write a letter - please do ; contact me again by the email address

above.

Editor: Colin Woodcock (mail@cwoodcock.co.uk)

Website: www.zxf.cjb.net

Contributors this issue: Martijn van der Heide, Andrew Owen,

Equinox Tetrachloride, Shaun Bebbington, Samir Ribic, John King,

Thomas Eberle and all my letter writers. Thanks everyone. You

make the difference.

Colin Woodcock

mail@cwoodcock.co.uk

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zx-spectrum.wz.cz/ and you can also

download the software - of course - from

WOS at www.worldofspectrum.org/

utilities.html .

And, on the subject of graphics, Jamie

Tejedor Gómez (aka Metalbrain) has just

released version 0.71 of his rather splendid

SevenuP editor, which you can get from

www.speccy.org/metalbrain.

ZX Digest

is the name of a new Spectrum magazine

edited by Andy Ryals. At a cost of just €10

or £5 (and that can barely cover the postage,

can it?) a subscription will get you 3 colour

issues of the mag plus a CD-ROM of all the

latest spectrum games/utils/etc from 2000

onwards. Subscrbers also get emailed

newsletter and CD-ROM updates. More

information is available from Andy'swebsite

at www.zxdigest.dsl.pipex.com/

Chloe comes home

The concept of the 'SuperSpectrum,'it would

appear, is far from dead. Whilst images of a

marzipan covered Loki might have been the

closest we ever got in the 80s (barring - ok -

the SAM Coupé), today'shobbyists have not

yet given up on the idea. Mike Wynne has

been working on his SpeccyBob project for

some time now ( www.speccybob.2y.net ),

the Lite version being a Spectrum facsimilie

you can pretty much build from off-the-shelf

components (yes - even the ULA); the 'full'

version, however (some way from completion

yet, I gather) promises much more, including

selection video modes, IDE interface, and up

to 4Mb RAM.

But applause of the moment is due to

Andrew Owen, whose ZX Spectrum SE

(ZXSE) machine - a modified Timex Portugal

TC2048 - got its smack on the backside and

first real lungfulls of air in October, mere days

after ZXF02 'wento press'.You can read

more about this in this issue's int section.

But it ends not there. Sami Vehmaa, creator

of the ZXATASP IDE interfaces reported on

last issue has now published his own plans

for a Spectrum +5 , which will feature such

goodies as a considerable amount of memory

and Compact Flash card support.

CSS FAQ under review

The bible of comp.sys.sinclair is to be

reviewed, if you hadn'theard already. To do

this the CSS FAQ Maintenance Team need

your feedback on what must be one of the

most comprehensive FAQs on the net

already. The following questions have been

issued for you to answer - in as much or as

little detail as you desire - and then post off to

cssfaq@worldofspectrum.org (please

include with this information also your

browser type and version).

1) As a general rule , do you find the current

content of the FAQ to be accurate?

2) Do you find the current style and layout of

the FAQ adequate, or would you prefer a new

design?

3) Do you use the Offline version of the FAQ?

Should the Offline version be "plain", with an

enhanced version (same content) available

Online?

4) Which sections of the FAQ do you find

most useful, most of the time?

5) Which sections of the FAQ do you feel are

unnecessary, or need significant work to

become useful?

6) Would you prefer that a smaller,

completely overhauled FAQ be released

initially, with existing and updated/expanded

content progressively added as it is verified?

If so, which sections do you believe are most

important to have available immediately?

7) Are commonly used peripherals (Interface

I, Interface II, ZX Printer, ZX Microdrives,

Kempston Joystick/Printer interfaces, etc.

etc.) adequately covered, or should more

information be included with links where

necessary to external resources?

8) Are non-Sinclair/Amstrad machines

adequately covered (Timex variants, etc.) ?

9) Should a more distinct section be created

and maintained for current developments (SE

8-bit show

SINTECH , one of the very last suppliers of

Spectrum hardware and software (see advert,

page 2) are hoping to organise an 8-bit

extravaganza in Stuttgart next year. The

event, which will welcome Spectrum, C-64,

Amstrad and Atari users, will include a soccer

tournament with teams for each computer

(don'tworry - Alan Sugar will not be involved)

alongside all the usual range of computing

and drinking activities.

SINTECH want to know what sort of support

there will be for such an event and have

asked for help and suggestions; as always,

the bottom line is that if you want to see it

happen you have to let them know.

sintech@online.de is how you do this.

RZX Archive

RZX is now starting to firm up its status as

the new standard in input recording, with

Spin, Es.pectrum and RealSpectrum now

supporting this format on a Win/DOS PC and

Fuse taking up the honours for Unix.

Suitably, then, a new archive for complete

game recordings has now gone online at

www.rzxarchive.co.uk , courtesy of Daren

Pearcy , and it'snow starting to fill up with a

number of titles for you to view from begining

to end; from those very first, virgin shots to

that final, exhausted, blood-drenched victory

cry. Who needs DVDs this Christmas?

How much?

Amazing ebay price of the month award must

go to the recent auction of 250,000 eight bit

games in new or sealed condition, including

such titles as Lord of the Rings, Manic Miner,

Trashman and Dun Darach. Starting at just

£2.00 for the lot, the bidding swiftly rose into

the hundreds, then thousands of pounds,

finally peaking at an astonishing £4,600.

Micro wars

Time for a shameless self-plug. Micro Mart ,

host to Shaun Bebbington'sweekly Retro

Computer Mart column (see the read section

for more about this) has embarked upon a

popstars-esque knockout contest to

determine the greatest ever home computer.

Pitting 16 popular formats against each other,

the battle commenced in issue 723 with our

favourite argued for by yours truely versus the

Oric Atmos supported by Mickael Pointier.

Needless to say, the Spectrum romped

through to the next round, taking just over 60

per cent of the online voting at the Micro Mart

forums, however the actual numbers of votes

cast were a bit on the low side; more will be

needed to see the Spectrum win against its

next opponent in round two: The Vic 20.

If you missed the articles, their complete text

can be found online at the Micro Mart site

(you need to register, but it'sfree to do so).

Disk Preservation

Hot on the heels of the Spectrum Tape

Preservation project comes the Spectrum

Disk Preservation (SDP) Project , the

purpose of which is to gather perfect EDSK

(extended DSK image - a file format designed

to describe copy-protected floppy disk

software) images for disks that aren'talready

available on The .TZX Vault or World of

Spectrum . This latest project to preserve all

those +3 software releases is the joint work of

Andy Barker and Steve Brown, and can be

found at www.worldofspectrum.org/sdp/ .

Of course they'llneed your help; if you own

any +3 titles you can find out if they'reneeded

at the site and also how to convert them into

the the EDSK format.

Graphic stuff

Pavel Plíva has clearly been a rather busy

chap as of late. In the last few weeks he's

not only updated his Windows utility ZX

Screen Snapper to version 1.6, he'salso

released two more entirely new titles for the

platform, ZX Maps Creator , and ZX

Screens . Pavel'ssite is at http://

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Basic, Spectrum SE, Sprinter, etc.) including a

summary of ongoing hardware projects and

current upgrades, with appropriate links?

10) Which site do you usually visit to read the

FAQ?

WOS 7 years young

The World of Spectrum website passed the

seventh anniversary of its creation at the end

of November. The birthday treat hinted at by

Martijn van der Heide in his interview (this

issue - see int ) about his site is a new

chatroom service to compliment his existing

forums area.

WOS forums has been growing steadily in its

popularity over the last few months, to the

extent that some have suggested it to have

become the place on the net for

Spectrum-related discussion, where previously

the newsgroup comp.sys.sinclair has always

held this title (there has recently been quite a

bit of debate on css about the intrusiveness of

off-topic posting, which has ranged from the

usual "my-favourite-eighties-crisps-

brand-was..." sort of discussion to a far more

vitriolic debate on the suitabiity of the death

penalty for the late Myra Hindley). Until now

the main congregation point for online

Spectrum chat has been the #Speccy channel

on astrolink , which required dedicated IRC

software; it will be interesting to see how

popular WOS Chat becomes now that the

need for this has been removed...

New retro

games TM is a new multi-format magazine

from Paragon Publishing which hit the UK

high streets in the final week of November.

The larger part of this is dedicated to new

releases on the PS2, the GameCube, the

Xbox and so on. There is also, however, a

very meaty retro section - 27 pages in all - and

Spectrum fans will be delighted to hear that

this particular issue, at least, is pretty much

presented as an issue of CRASH magazine.

Starting with a recycled Oliver Frey front cover

(the original CRASH issue 1 cover, in fact)

and the CRASH logo itself re-worded as

'retr,'the layout mimicks Newsfield'sone

time flagship publication right down to the title

fonts. There'seven a feature by Lloyd

Mangram ...

The featured computer this issue is, perhaps

unsurprisingly, the ZX Spectrum, which is

accompanied by a number of retrospective

game reviews (across all formats) and articles,

and reprints of a couple of old game adverts

( Pyjamarama and Jet Set Willy ) - which is a

nice touch. Clearly the focus here is on retro

and nostalgia, and I could find no references

to any of the new stuff going on in the 8-bit

world (not even a reference to emulation,

which seems an astonishing omission), but

the section makes for a very pleasant read

and its choice of presentation style gives you

a definate warm, fuzzy feeling.

Is this a sign that interest in retro computing is

on the increase? Well clearly it'sa sign that

there is a perception that it is. How well the

magazine sells will be the determiner of how

accurate that perception is, I guess. Issue 2

of games TM is out on 23 January.

ZX VGA

More from Sintech , who are now taking

orders for a new product, a VGA-Box for the

Spectrum which will allow you to plug your

Spectrum in to a PC monitor. For 128/+2

owners, the box connects straight to the RGB

port on your machine; 48/+3/+2A users will

have to take their signal direct from the

modulator, however. It comes with its own

power supply (UK users will need to get hold

of a UK mains adaptor - simple enough) and

looks set to cost €49(about £30). Sintech

need to know first the sort of demand there is

likely to be for these items, so if you think

you'llbe needing one, get over to

www.sintech-shop.de and email them from

there.

BAS2TAP

From ThunderWare Research Centre,

BAS2TAP, The utility to convert `BASIC in an

ASCII file'to a TAP tape image file, has now

hit version 2.0. The download (DOS, Linux or

Amiga; or the C source) is at WOS .

CRASH on CD to buy

Stephen Stuttard has been a very busy bod. Oh yes. Over the last six months or so he's

scanned every last issue of Newsfield's CRASH magazine - my own personal favourite of the

Spectrum magazines - and burned them onto 5 CDs for you and I to buy for less than the cost

of the work he'sput into this. Yes, you heard me right - every page of every issue. He'seven

thrown in sample issues of other Newsfield mags ( ZZap!64 , Amtix , etc; even the special

preview copy of LM given away with CRASH 36, although no copies of FEAR ) and other

Spectrum mags ( Your Sinclair and Sinclair User ). And - yes - the set also includes the

infamous recalled issue 19, complete with the offending Sinclair User parody, Unclear User

(it'sactually not all that funny).

Stephen'sa bit of a die-hard fan of the

Newsfield publications, having already

performed this monstrous feet of endurance

for the entire ZZap!64 collection as well as

participating in the ZZap!64 issue 107 project

(a brand new issue of the Commodore

magazine). The especially good news is that

he'snow thinking of converting some of the

other Spectrum titles, such as YS.

The CRASH CDs contain all 98 issues of the

magazine, with issues 1-20 covered on CD1,

21-40 on CD2, 41-60 on CD3, 61-80 on CD4

and 81-98 on CD5. What you get is very

straightforward - each issue has its own

directory with each page stored there in JPEG

format (and, in the rather unlikely event that

Tamara Knight , Terminal Man , etc, sagas

all gathered together into their own

directories for easy viewing; a special

directory with scans showing how the

computing press covered the collapse of

Newsfield; and so on. And did I mention that

every single covertape has also been

included? All this will set you back a mere

£20.

In case you hadn'tnoticed, I'mrather

impressed by this piece of work. If, like me,

you threw out your entire CRASH collection

years ago when, shiny new 286 on your

desk, you decided the Spectrum to be a

thing of the past; if, like me, you cannot face

the horror of what a replacement set via

ebay might end up costing; if, like me, you

fear divorce proceedings would be an

inevitability if you ever did get hold of a

replacement set, then this collection of CDs

will be a blessing from the heavens above.

If you want to get your hands on a set, mail

Stephen at sstuttard@yahoo.co.uk and he'll

then let you know the address to send your

cheque to.

And if £20 is a bit of a stretch at the moment,

what with crimbo here to see every last

penny out of your pocket, you'llbe delighted

to know that Martijn van der Heide will be

hosting the entire collection at WOS (see

ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/

pub/sinclair/magazines/Crash/ ). But use

this resource sensibly or it'llsoon be gone

(as was the case when Stephen tried to

web-publish his ZZap!64 scans, in fact). If

you want the whole lot, buy the CDs.

you don'thave a graphics program capable of

viewing JPEG images, one has been provided

for you on CD1). Each CD also has a number

of extra features: the other magazine scans

mentioned earlier, for example; the Jetman ,

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SE BASIC gets serious

A lot has happened to Andrew Owen's

update to Sinclair BASIC since last issue.

Now close to a 1.0 release, SE BASIC has

become a lot more visible and a great deal

easier to access.

Previously only available via email or by

downloading an IPS patch to apply to your

Spectrum ROM, SE BASIC can now be

downloaded direct from Andrew'snew site

(which amalgamates both of his old pages on

SE BASIC and the ZX Spectrum SE - see int

for more on the latter) at

www.worldofspectrum.org/sinclairbasic/ .

The 16k ROM file up for download will slot

straight into emulators such as SPIN which

allow you to choose different ROMs for each

of the Spectrum models emulated - in this

case the file can be used as a replacement

for the standard 48k ROM.

SE BASIC is more than just a 48k ROM

replacement, however, and has been

designed to run in all Spectrum models.

Without wishing to go into too much detail

here (we will take a much more in depth look

at SE BASIC next issue), an emulated 128

Spectrum will need to have one of its ROMs

(there were two for the original 128 and the

Plus 2; four for the +3/+2A) replaced with SE

BASIC. There are two ways of doing this -

one is to get the IPS patches from Andrew's

'Patchespage and create the ROMs yourself

(and even this is much easier now than

previously, since Andrew now provides

patches for the 32k and 64k ROM files used

by many emulators for +2 and +3/+2A

emulation respectively - ie, the two/four ROMs

combined into a single file - rather than just a

16k ROM patch which you then have to

concatenate with the other ROM(s) in order to

make it 'emulatofriendly')the other way is to

download the very latest version of either

SPIN or vbSpec and select the SE BASIC

option there. Yes it really is as easy as that

(guess which method I use); both of these

emulators will now patch in SE BASIC there

and then for you, whichever variant of

Spectrum you'reusing. What'smore, says

Andrew, "when a new version of SE Basic is

released you can just drop it in the vbSpec

directory and use it straight away". Now you

can'task for more than that.

So now there really is no excuse for not

having a look at this very exciting upgrade.

Apart from all the bug fixes and the hardware

support, the editor is just so much better,

with new commands to play with as well as

enhancements to many of the old ones.

Single keypress commands are now a thing

of the past and there'seven a trendy new

font which is much easier on the eye than

the Sinclair 'classic'.

And there'smore. SE BASIC now has its

very own discussion forum at WOS forums ,

and judging from the number of views

Andrew'sposts have had, there'sa great

deal of interest in this upgrade. Recently

Andrew announced there that he intends to

split the project in two: SE BASIC will

continue to be his own baby, whilst Sinclair

Extended Basic will become an Open

Source project to be hosted at

http://sourceforge.net/ . It sounds like

there'splenty more to come.

AY RIDERS release

Never mind Gareth Gates, the AY RIDERS

are a collaboration of top tune programmers

for the Spectrum 128'sAY sound chip. And

they have just released an album, no less.

Emulator news

VBSPEC

Another update for vbSpec , Chris Cowley's

100 per cent Visual Basic Spectrum

emulator. Version 1.60 has set out in new

directions, adding in support for the ZX

Printer and also for the Kempston Mouse.

The ZX Printer, as we shall see, seems to

be the new darling of the emulators,

stepping up to take the place of the Currah

Micro Speech (see last issue). In the view

of this humble commentator, this has not

happened a moment too soon. I like the ZX

Printer. A lot.

vbSpec'simplementation of Sinclair'sprinter

outputs the... erm... output as a graphic in a

separate window, line by line, black 'inkon

grey (silver) paper - just like it was in the old

days (but without the grinding noise); there's

even a handy little form feed button on the

window to advance the paper with. And

when you'redone you can save your output

as a BMP file and clear the roll to start

again. So if you'reafter a text output to

feed into a word processor, you will be

disappointed (although I suppose you could

always try putting the bitmap file through an

OCR program), but then RealSpectrum has

supported printing to a file for some time

now for that job. No, the ZX Printer is there

for one reason and one reason only: it looks

cool. As a final touch there'seven the

option to toggle between ZX Printer output

and Alphacom 32 output (the latter being

blue text on a white background rather than

black on a silver background).

A further addition to vbSpec is support for

Andrew Owen'sSinclair SE BASIC, which

can be switched on from the General

Settings option in the Options menu. This

will work with all models of Spectrum

emulated and the ROM file itself is included

in the download, making this probably the

most painless way about at the moment to

get going with this new BASIC (The version

of SE BASIC included is 0.93e, however,

which does not include working ZX Printer

support, so to get everything working

together you'lleither have to wait for version

1.0 of SE BASIC or get hold of an earlier

version of the ROM in which Printer support

worked).

Finally, something I should have mentioned

previously is that vbSpec has supported the

Timex TC2048 since version 1.30, giving you

the possibility of playing around with those

extra graphic modes that the Spectrum never

got to see. Once again, select this from the

General Settings option in the Options menu.

http://freestuff.grok.co.uk/vbspec/

SPIN

Strange and mysterious; SPIN'smain new

feature (version 0.4; a 0.41 bug fix has since

been released) is also ZX Printer emulation,

however the idea just ocurred to co-author

Paul Dunn - and at around about the same

time as it did to Chris Cowley. No

collaboration here, just plain old coincidence,

although I suspect that the added Kempston

mouse support (also a new feature of

vbSpec) and support for SE BASIC stretches

the coincidence a little too far...

Whatever. SPIN'simplementation of the line

printer does not include vbSpec'sAlphacom

32 button (hardly a difficult feature to add, I

suppose) or its form feed button; other than

that there'snot much to choose between this

and vbSpec on this front.

On the issue of the Kempston mouse, there

are a few programs availible which support

this, I understand; I have an incomplete

knowledge of these (anyone who would like

to provide a list would be very welcome).

Xcellent Software's The Artisit is reported to,

Available as a set of free MP3 downloads for

you to burn onto CD if you desire (there's

even cover artwork to download too), You

Are Adult contains 20 tracks from

contributors that include Gasman and TDM .

www.ayriders.prv.pl

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