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Infused Bytes was the name of a Russian diskmag (it claims to be the first Russian diskmag of all). It was published by the group Realm Of Illusion and it was 100% in English. Two issues were released. They can be downloaded from scene.org (about 300 downloads per issue) and will work on your modern PC if you use DOSBox.


Infused Bytes #1

Infused Bytes #1 was released in May 1994. It must be started with "start!.exe", otherwise it might crash. The engine was textmode-based. It was coded by Coderipper, who also made the graphics and edited the mag. The music was made by Bigbug and Andrew Zabolotny. It was a very small mag with only seven texts, which could be selected from the main menu. Before the main menu a not too impressive intro and the credits could be seen. The contents were news and rumours, interviews with Andrew Zabolotny and Patson, advertisements, three articles about piracy, and charts. Some characters such as the question mark and the exclamation mark were animated, which looked quite strange. All in all this mag was not too special.

ok one for a first issue

there were several diskmagz on speccy in early nineties. infused bytes was not first. maybe first in english language and first to be devoted to scene only, not games and such.

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