It turns out ...
Once, pochityvaya fidoshnuyu ehokonferentsiyu REAL.SPECCY, we
suddenly came upon next UUE-code and a postscript to it: "Do not
indicates whether it is that the bourgeoisie was
Speck from CD? ". I was surprised to run the program and see
the following text (below is free translation in Russian):
THE CD GAMES PACK!
CHOOSE WHICH PORT TO LOAD FROM
'K' TO LOAD FROM KEMPSTON
'S' TO LOAD FROM SINCLAIR 2
DEVELOPED BY
TED CARRON
RICHARD DARLING
PHILIP OLIVER
ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT BY
P. WILLIAMSON A. OLIVER I. DUNLOP
(Package CD-games! Choose a port for downloading: "K" - for
download of Kemstona; "S" - from Sinclair 2. Development Ted
Caron, Richard Darling and Philip Oliver. Additional
improvements P. Williamson, A. Oliver and J. Dunlop.)
Push the "S" and read a new messagu:
PLUG CABLE INTO CD AND SINCLAIR
AND PRESS ENTER TO CONTINUE
(Cables are connected to the CD and Sinclair, port and
Press ENTER to continue.)
Due to the lack of cable and the very CD, perform the "press
enter" and sozretsaem new business-treatment program:
PRESS SPACE BAR TO SET CD VOLUME
PRESS Q U I T KEYS TOGETHER TO
PLAY A GAME!
(Press SPACE to set the volume CD or press
together key "QUIT" to start the game!)
Eksperimentskim permeated with the spirit, click
space and see the following:
PLAY TRACK 1 ON THE CD
TURN VOLUME TO ZERO AND THEN
ADJUST UNTIL THE BORDER IS
TOTALLY GREEN FINALLY TURN THE
VOLUME UP A LITTLE HIGHER
PRESS SPACE TO FINISH TEST
(Run a track on the CD, adjust volume, starting from zero, as
long as the boarder will not be fully green. Finally, adjust
the volume to a small height [audio]. By end of the test please
click SPACE.)
Once at this point, we note that Border, without any
manipulation of the non-existent CD-Rom drive, obediently
turned green (?). :-) Satisfied, we return back to
the penultimate part of the press and the very
"QUIT":
SELECT AND PLAY TRACK ON CD
WHEN PLAYING A GAME
PRESS Q U I T KEYS TOGETHER
TO LOAD A DIFFERENT GAME!
(Choose and run track on the CD. To download a different game
press together the keys "QUIT" during the current game! ")
After careful contemplation of the
letters, which evolved into an incredible information, we
immediately contacted the author of this letter, Leonid
Mishankovym / LEO (Style Group), who told an instructive story
about the benefits of searching for Spectrum sites on the
Internet - but however, give a word to himself:
LEO: In general, it was like this ... As a dank autumn evening
I was sitting at his drugana - Anton Popov and merged with his
PC Spectrum Software, which Anton downloaded
per night and-net. Houses one of the disks
I found this prog in ". tap"-format and
immediately skonvertil it. What was my
surprise when I discovered in British
inscriptions of the word "CD"! Reply born later
hour after sending the bend in the echo - it turns out, they
sidyuk served in the same drive as the tape, ie with the same
speed (and possibly more) and the principle of only quality
downloads very high. And loaded it this way: sidyuk stuck in
port Sinclair or Kempstondzhoystika (it uses a 1-bit), user
selects the desired track (ie, the particular game) and presses
PLAY. This is how ...
ZXN: Thank you for your clarification, LEO! Well
Well, finally figured out. :)
So, in England, CD-ROM drive has already served as
information for the Spectrum. What are we, By the way, was not
known (at least mention of this in the press did not occur).
Interestingly, and perhaps there were other device for the
Spectrum, which we also still do not know? So that pay more
attention to the various technical Prices Spectrum firms (and
it can be not only texts but also the special promotional
programs) - a chance "Extract" something new, hitherto unknown
to us, and who knows, maybe, and useful? ..
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