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(C) Andrey Andreev / Lone Wolf
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At the junction of the three worlds
Working simultaneously on different computer platforms with
different ideologies, often catch myself thinking, what about
all on: glitches, megahertz, and Soup
prices.
If before (after selling my Pentagon), constant
communication was limited to
only the PC and Amiga, then more recently
time reappeared Speccy, RA
zumeetsya, virtual. With the advent of
it Emulator CBSPECCY 0.18b from Co
de Busters there was a long-awaited
opportunity to compare the work of an emu
fields at the two older platforms - PC and Amiga.
Frankly - Code Busters tried very well. If they still make a
full release with support for processors 040/060/RRS, holders
will receive almost real Amigo Pentagon-128, but in the
meantime to try it out can only amizhniki with 030 from MMU.
(However, just in this configuration, Amigo
we have in Russia a lot.)
Compare the emulator: CBSPECCY
(AMIGA) and UKV, SHALAEV, Pent128 (PC). Testing was conducted
using the demos to FunTop'98 and several fresh toys (Fisher,
DOOM, Monsterland, etc., only 10 pcs.) Except for minor bugs
landslide victory won by the emulsion Code Busters. (BRAVO!!)
Gentlemen creators of emulators on the PC, improve their
programs - not pozortes!
With regard to the platforms on which to conduct this unique
test , the incidents are also missing.
Recently, with a break in a few days glyuknuli both
representatives of these platforms (:-().
The first flew . Can not boot Word. No attempt to
return it to Life did not bring success: CrashGuard 3.0
plaintive cry that the program unrecoverable
errors that it can not be eliminated. Three
reinstall the entire package of MS OFFICE'98
no effect, given all the components
This package worked fine, but Word,
Well in any! With the feeling I holodeyuschim
understand that you have to do a complete reinstallation
windows'98. But I did not want to do it. In conversations with
pisishnikami I had a source of pride - - Win'98
without reinstalling with the moment of installation - six
months! (Still, a licensed version!) And, besides, was quite an
extensive package of programs reinstall which takes up
36-plus hours. If successful coincidence
circumstances. Of them - 2 hours is
Installation sample in 1998 (?).
Full installation was successful
After 34 h 56 m 14 s. - A record! However, had soon to make a
second reinstallation because of what did not work
either Internet Explorer, or Outlook Express, or HyperTerminal,
- then there I could not get in and do not. More was spent half
an hour. After installation I accidentally looked into the
folder windows, and when calculated its size, it was about a
very surprised: lost weight at 234Mb!
That is, six months had accumulated so many megabytes of junk!
This is not a temporal files (There are some I delete
regularly), and various libraries. DLL! So do not believe
Advertising win'98 and norton utilities 3.0 `98.
Their "special wizard to uninstall the program> simply do not
work! A registry error The windows were, and remain, and they
must be corrected manually. Statement by microsoft that fixes
itself win'98 registry errors and delete all the components of
unnecessary applications is, to say the least, _ _ desirable,
but not really!
No sooner had the storm of emotions subside due to
how unexpectedly <flew> Amiga.
When you turn on your computer just looking for something on
the HDD. Quarter Back Tools (program control ) analyzed
the situation and brought a message that the 1300 files have
the wrong date, because today (At the time of the accident), it
was - 01/01/1980 city (:-() Then it turned out that the battery
has to internal clock. Well, it is standard (as some electronic
clocks) - you can buy in any store. But wait
the process of correcting the wrong date was
a very long time, I entered the command line:
date 23-02-99. By the way, QB Tools reacted to it immediately -
said that the dates are in order (on-line!). Delighted, I did
not wait for the end of the test, the hard drive. However,
after rebooting the Amiga all as suspiciously long rustling
screw as if not logged in Workbench, and win'98
(:-)). Had to re-download QBTools.
While walking a full test drive, I worked on
and totally not looking at the screen
Ammy, and in vain. Amiga squeaked by announcing the end of the
test. I looked at the screen and very was surprised: instead of
200MB of free space on the screw, Amiga found 350Mb! But at
what cost? At full HDD test, she found directory and
delete them. This was whack - I started frantically sort out
catalogs in search of the lost. was removed
entire Page Stream, along with two layout
AR2'98 and AR1'99, as well as archive images
(:-(). As a result, is likely to be a slight delay in the
issuance of the log (approximately two weeks). Sources and of
the layout were stored on another computer. Deciding that more
such troubles me no longer needed, I reformatted the hard drive
and put a new advanced file system, AFS instead of the standard
(FFS). Now, these problems simply will not.
Since AFS has built-in avtovalidatsii (partitioning). So, I got
by Amiga another useful lesson (though much
a very high price) that should be put
progressive things on your computer in advance, not
waiting for serious problems, which are
still be forced to take this step, only
large losses. In conclusion, I want to say that life at the
junction of three computer worlds is very interesting, but most
importantly - allows you to compare platforms, objectively.
That's all the news.
With respect to the supporters of other platforms
Andreev, AG (Lonewolf)
