"What's new?
-All the old!
Talking neighbors.
This article is of interest to the lucky owners of
ZX-Spectrum with disk system. Its purpose is to
explanation of techniques and methods
Some problems that appear in the process of communicating with
disk system. Total
article focuses on the unsophisticated user and contains
minimum of technical information
and the terms necessary for understanding and opportunities
Flash svezhepriobretennymi
knowledge with your friends. Affected by the problem of rapid
creation of backup and business copies servisnogo Service
floppy disks. Recommendations on
Use Software
software.
# B1Obschie position.
-What should I do?
Chernyshevsky.
If you have recently purchased
ZX-Spectrum with the drive, then
(Almost certainly) have not encountered problems brought by
their masters to the invention
human genius. The first time brings the pleasure of loading
speed of games and an unwillingness to delve into all the
intricacies the new system. But better to be
trained and meet challenges with good preparation and
software.
# B1Kopirovanie floppies.
-A good man will sit,
smoke, and copies
something.
Falshivomanetchik.
Now imagine this situation: Your most most beloved one
floppy disk (no matter with what) was corrupt by unknown forces
(especially as hard ply rumors about new and new viruses, even
on the beloved ZX - Spectrum). After that, the sadistic beat up
yourself ears on the cheeks, rhetorical exclamations about the
lack of backup, and the solemn oath of neprenebrezhenii further
redundancy. Or this: after a number of complex combinations in
your hands on some time has got a lot of
floppy disks with the games and now have only to rewrite them.
Very well, if you have already been in this situation and have
a concept of necessary: formatting
floppy disks before use, the availability of special programs -
copyist disk backup
copying, and much more. But
Even with such a huge margin
knowledge, you are provided with: a sleepless night,
zamorochennaya head and convulsive twitching of the hands of
by rearranging many
floppy disks. And in general: many
programs are "giants
thoughts "and their use allows you to fully feel" fathers of
Russian democracy. " Maybe someone and inspire them to use, but
we decided to "go another way: write a program that facilitates
maximum user and its so hard
life. However, for all the good
need to pay: our program
copies the entire disk, but it is very
quickly. However, she defines herself: how much you drive
(Some users have a lot of wealthy drives and
sometimes even use them)
how much memory in your computer, where
is copied disc (its
it is desirable to protect the label from
record, as they say, from sin
away "), whether you want to format the" target "(on that copy)
wheels and more. A nice feature of our program can be
considered quality control of recorded information, which gives
some confidence in the performance
writing the floppy on the following
day. For yet bourgeoisified
users with a single drive
and a limited number of kilobytes
memory there are two very useful
New features: 1) may enable compression (memory
computer is "more"
than it actually is) that
can reduce the number of permutations of floppy disks. However,
such a regime significantly increases the time
Copy and inappropriate to apply in the presence of large
memory or two drives. 2)
Possibly including "tracking" the changing diskettes in the
drive. That is, you set to copy a floppy disk in the drive,
press a button shaped as letters "G"
and after a while get the result: the program, remembering all
that you can remember, like to draw your attention to the words
"Change disk" (removable disc). When the motor drive
continues to rotate. From you
required: to open the door (drive), remove the copied disk, put
the target to close door. The program is aware of changing
floppy disks, and will continue to the right
case. By the appearance of the already known
inscriptions repeat already described
operation is only swapping the target and the copied discs.
For conservative users
provides less Intelligent mode: after changing disks
you have to do click on any
button (keyboard). Please
users' attention to the following feature: Trying to copy the
disks in one drive in "tracking" with a strong
tremor in the hands can lead to
psychedelic songs: well-known problem of the "number of trees
in the grove" may not be solved at the software level.
For a richer program
demonstrate a high speed (the fastest of all speeds, which
we know) and the ability to copy multiple drives (up to
three) at once. We are not fundamentally
give any figures: hope
that you will be interested by
make a comparative test of our copyist.
# B1Obsluzhivanie floppies.
-What izvolite's, sir?
Gentleman Shaw.
Now imagine this situation: yours, again - again, most
beloved floppy disk with the games naizaboynymi (slang, there
was from the English Game - a game means the software product
intended for
free time without any
use) suddenly become a matter of
violent disgust at the drive. In
boot process appear
sound, causing an instinctive
drawing hand to the door and drive reminiscent of the scramble
Cat trapped in chimney
(We do not hear, but very
like). In this situation, you
can help out such an operation:
Copy your disk to another format and overwrite the old data in
place. However, this method for large
the number of disks will
only lip service and
which is very likely, a loss of some or valuable information.
Much better to use a special utility (from the English Utility
- easy means program designed to make life easier for the user)
for restoringa (slang, from the English Restore - restore,
means the recovery operation floppy disks by reading,
formatting, recording and verifying the quality of information
on a floppy disk for each track)
Your floppy disk. After four or five minutes of the processed
floppy disk will be almost like new.
For an entire pack of floppy disks restoringa need a little
less than an hour, And if a few packets of disks,
or even more? Here again no
do without our copyist:
version (# b1ne below 3.3T) ensures the recovery diskette for
two - three minutes, which is significantly less time to work
in other (Known) programs. Sometimes
Users interested in: to be
Does this crash a floppy disk or
not restore it or leave later? Or her general
would be cheaper to paint and throw it away? You can, of
course, consistently load all programs on disk, and listen
sensitively to the sounds coming from the drive (an experienced
user immediately determine the need for prevention), but this
method of little use for the following reasons: Is it possible
the transmission of some bad files are now with their then
followed by Bounce (Remember the law of Murphy: "An event that
most expected, the least likely"); interruption is possible
because not a bad read, but because - the bad character of the
game (That is the story of an incomplete
compatibility of our "branded"
computers with ihnimi "), and besides,
a lot of time can take a
process (only saint otvleketsya a couple, three minutes -
play, there's more that in these
situations often come across games,
which are "long and hard searching,
but they do not fall on the eyes ").
Better to keep pace with the times and
use the software chekingom (slang, from the English Check
- Checking means checking
diskette for readability). Especially because in this situation
you will rescue our copier: it checks the disk more quickly than
other (known to us) in the case of fault detection will
Directory of bad files, as well as
offer a choice: to restore
the entire disk, bad sector or not
do nothing. True, in our
program this option is called "Verify", that in principle one
and the same. For more on "in
Secrets "Disk special
interest may be the ability to format with rasformatirovaniem,
as well as high-speed MSY (slang, from English "Move" - a
moving, means the process of liberation
space occupied by deleted files, for future use). The essence
of high-speed format with the possibility rasformatirovaniya
boils down to this: when you run the program does (if you can)
up the track, the very same disk does not formats, but only
verifies the absence of errors and the first
when those really
starts to format, while
copy of the old road system
can be used (if necessary) to restore
incorrectly formatted floppy disk (the program automatically
eliminates erased files further information). Speed MSY is:
determine the available computer memory, compiling job "which,
how and where to move; Well, the process itself and then
displays the changes in your drive. At the same time everything
is handled with the greatest possible speed, for which he has
to pay: Any interruption of the procedure to correct directory
due to power failure, pranks neighborhood children from the
breaker switch on the landing, or even your reluctance further
communication with the program lead to the need
part with (possibly) very
valuable information. It is better to follow the famous
proverb: 'in for a penny, in for a pound " (Ie do not stop muva,
unlikely (and not just - too) starting
it). You can also use
appropriate standard command TR-DOS'a providing
higher reliability, but a running fantastically well
long. As the saying goes: "Think
themselves, decide for yourself ... "
# B1Chto choose?
-Sam praises -
no praise.
Inner voice.
At the moment the market
disk utilities is wide enough, you can find Disk Control
Utility Nikolai Rodionov (from the DCU 1.01 to DCU 2.31); and
Advansed Disk Service (before version
2.0), and Floppy Disk Utility; and
Honey Comander Andrew Honicha; and
much, much more. Each
program is good for its bells and whistles (slang occurred
Neznamov from what, means different
things, the possibility of program
or hardware products). Thus,
For example, ADS 2.0 allows us to determine the presence of - or
"Nonstandard" on a floppy disk, almost
certainly is the label of the copy protection. Honey
Comander, made in the image and
likeness of the well-known Norton
Comander `a widely used
on an IBM-compatible computers, allows for more - less well-off
users (at least 128 kb.
memory and patched pezeushka
(Slang, derived from the ROM-only memory,
means the chip with some
program is changed by using a special device -
programmer), which is quite
rarely) feel civilized by the user. We
(Again - yet) decided to "go
his way of "creating your own software (slang, derived from
English Software - software used
along with "hard" - Hardware -
hardware (as well
"Iron")) for all these actions, the more so
failed to implement many
new ideas will dramatically
increase productivity and facilitate the dialogue with
the user, as well as implement some of the features are
completely absent in other programs. These include:
1) Automatic
your computer's memory. The program "goes" anywhere:
Spectrum 48, Spectrum 128,
Scorpion 256, ATM 512, etc. 2)
Automatically detect the location of the copied and the target
floppy without any user intervention. 3) Automatic
determination of the need to format the target floppy disks.
Formatting includes itself as soon as necessary. 4) High speed,
and many Other bells and whistles.
# B1Usloviya distribution.
-Free is only
cheese in a mousetrap.
Cat Vaska.
As already mentioned above:
to pay for everything. So our
program does not extend over
"Thank you", while for the corresponding
remuneration. Absolutely
distributed free of charge
only version to 3.0T, the rest can be purchased by contacting
the recording studio "Engineers" (at the time of writing this
book their products appear in a tent near the park Culture.
Kalinin, and in-store "Accord" that the avenue World) or from
the authors by contacting by phone 44-04-21 (U. of K.)
and 47-12-63 (PSW). (price is equivalent to two dollars at the
exchange rate exchange offices, which is about
equal to the price of two diskettes (one
the author) is not very high quality). And, although this
treatise included the latest version program, perhaps your
friends or friends will be without interest to buy ee.Mesta its
acquisition described above.
The authors are well aware of the prevalence of hackers
(slang, from the English Hacker-lomatel,
oposhlyatel means the class of Paul -
transducer, which delivers
pleasure "open" multimode -
syachnuyu programming job, and
writing "I was here! most
I'm the best from all whom I have
I know !!!", the wide spread
light), and harbor no illusions about
the future of the program.
However:
# B1AVTORY of a regular DO NOT WARRANT THE PROGRAM, rewritten
without their knowledge!
Who we are.
"Who's there?
-This is me - a postman Pechkin.
Three of Prostokvashino.
In writing this program have been actively involved
two eccentric. One is called PSW,
and the second U. of K. The first provides for: the generation
of new ideas, Comments to the program
with or without cause, the development of
basic algorithms, offers
to complement and develop this
software product. On the shoulders of
second incident: writing
own program, study
general concept, the implementation of ideas
PSW and prevention programs from
expansion in breadth. Thus
Our "style company" in about half
years worked and released in
light six versions of a Copy
under the common name "COPY".
The first two of them were beta versions (slang, origin not
known, means the version of the software product, released on
court users to identify hidden errors) and had
name "COPY2.4B" and
"COPY2.5B". After implementing some of the ideas have been
issued "COPY3.0 T" and "COPY3.1T" - high-speed copiers with
protection from copying. The implementation of follow-up of
ideas and the Spring beriberi led to the creation version
"COPY3.2T" - black spots on
our reputation, "Kompashki. Following the significant staffing
shuffles the light of day out "COPY3.3T" - copier with
add disk procedures
(Formatting rasformatirovaniem, restoring, cheking, MSY and
etc.) Coy, and strongly recommend that all users. Substantial
support implemented Student Incognito, for which he
expressed # b1BLAGODARNOST.
C Best wishes.
U. of K. 'PSW 1995 ..
