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Excuse me... That is, sorry already, All...! === Cut === ─ Specky - rulez! (2:5020/2065.462) ───────────────────────────── ZX.SPECTRUM ─ Np/p: 52 out of 103 From: Alexander Karpov 2:5011/59.32 25 Sep 01 01:34:29 To: All 27 Sep 01 20:29:01 Subject: Interesting ─────────────────── ──────────────────── ──────────────────── ──────────────────── How are you, All? http://romov.dotnet.lv/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=23 Old tales about the main thing #1 Hello Anatoly, I was reading old news on your portal. And I noticed how Your love for small computers describes a variety of news. me touched :))) Honestly... > For me, all computers and consoles are equal ;) > This is my approach. You need to write for everyone and this is the only one > the way is to love > all > :)) Well, I understand you perfectly, half of my storage devices are full. Emulators and documentation about small computers and consoles.;))) I generally don’t often I've been doing this lately. But I’ll look at all this and... I’ll remember... You'll laugh, but I'm thinking about getting an MSX2 out of the closet student's, blow off the dust and give it to my son. And sometimes you suddenly want to spend $150 on an A1200 or maybe an A600. Suma get off... :)Would you like me to tell you another one of my “old ages” ;) I remembered it while reading an article about some AmstradCPC emulator. You probably don't know, but around 1991-92 when I returned from army. And when the whole country began to get carried away with zx-spectrum soldering. By the way I I put my hand to it too, I remember when no one knew anything about AY-89-10, Spectrum music chip. I managed to put it together at random emulator, it was a monster on 26 chips, it used NMI processor... In general it worked! :))) Well, then I got my hands on the AmstradCPC computer, I liked it BASIC and in general it was not bad. I then found a certain Usikov in Moscow Valera, who brought games to him from the west. And he himself had just worked Polaroid opens. I then decided since there are games, I need this Amstrad repeat. In general, there was only a 2.5-inch drive and the disk format was one side CPM format. In short, I built a computer and, with the help of friends, wrote a bunch of software on it. He was called Alesta. There was such a toy on MSX. So the computer was mmm somewhere on 80 microcircuits, and 100% compatible with Amstrad. But as always there were improvements. Well, there is more memory 512KB, graphics are doubled more colors, 3.5-inch drive with FAT16 format, clock with battery, and a slot with DMA support. But the funny thing is that we are on itported MSX-DOS ;)))) What a miracle...!!! We ported to it and DiskFxer, and DBG, and TOR are all programs of the notorious Baraz. And absolutely no one could believe that our 4 MHz machine could emulate MSX-2 computer and the KingValey-2 games worked quite playably, VampireKiller, FireBird and some others. I also made a scarf for Alesta’s slot and wrote the s3m_player program. And this The miracle produced s3m files with ease and high quality. :)))) In this PCs played them only through covox... You know, it was a good time, no matter what you say. Here are the people now nostalgic for old cars and tinkering with emulators. And because remember that it was interesting!!! When I worked at Apple, a buyer came to us and said, “If you If you say that the Macintosh has a spectrum emulator, I’ll buy a Macintosh!” :)))) Quite seriously!!! In total, about 100 of these alests were sold. By that time SEGA had appeared and PC-AT, in general, the manufacturer began to sell them... :) And refused production of its iron. Here's the story. > I was already moved... :-) To be honest, me too. :) > I haven’t heard such heartfelt stories for a long time! You can have this > "old age" publish > on the site? No problem if you find something to publish here. Of course...Then we turned to Radio, but they refused us, and secretly told us that they are completely focused on Orion-128, I think that’s what it was called. > We had a DemoParty over the weekend. > There was a Speccy in a case from 8086 with 2x5'25 + 3'5, > there was some French Speccy clone called Alice, > there were Amigas (1200 and > 1200 in PC PowerTower with 68030 axel), was my Atari65XE > with Docking Station > for emulation of external hardware, there were several Commodore > 64, > was... external > modem 2400! Ours is in the bins of our homeland. Here are the Finns so > the Swedes had fun with > our hardware ;))) :))))))))))) By the way, I can tell you more. One of my friends, working in some Novosibirsk company which is located in the academy town. He brought it and showed it to me, by the way, around the same time 1990, computer symbiosis MSX and Spectrum. He wasn't bad made structurally, shoved into the UKNC body. There was an ordinary Spectrum, with added graphics. The addition made it possible to do the color is not in a familiar place, but in every 8 horizontal points. And color encoding is not only 1133-bifb (blink,intens.,foreg.,backgr.), and 44-fb like the MSX-1. 2 slots were made MSX compatible. In addition to BASIC, the ROM included BIOS and MSX-BASIC. The program in BIOS simulated VDP and the entire MSX architecture on BIOS call level (not hardware). And it worked! Moreover if you plug a standard MSX drive controller into the slot then MSX-DOS starts, isn't it funny? I don't know about fate this platform, but my friend’s answer is that it’s still a miracle it's been at home for a while now! Unfortunately it's just worth it. System and applications from MSX and Spectrum toys. Another interesting thing is the company where I worked in those days It was called very funny Patisonik. She still does called but sells PC. They sold Spectrums based on the simplest Leningrad version, but for yourself sharpened. And they sold games on cassettes and disks and drive controllers. And a lot of people had complaints about cassettes are not read often. They made a simple diagram serial ROM of 32, 64 and 128 kB. Well there multiplexer register, something very simple. And in BASIC made corrections, so that in addition to the usual tape recorder Spectrum could, WITHOUT FAILURES OR ERROR, and also quickly read toys from this ROM through the tape connector. They put the ROMs in some salt shakers or boxes for spices :)))) There was a piece of cable and a plug sticking out of it popular as line input output. And these cartridges They sold everything in the store. And everything is as it should be theresmall boot and menu, select the game, a couple of seconds and it works. Really clever? And in general, our people are savvy :))))))) - --- Best regards Valery Best regards, Alexander Karpov. -+- I APPROVED. MSG editor captain rank 2.5 Gold Dedovich for DOS + Origin: Or maybe he has fallen behind the throne? 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