Commanders or boots

Hello Lennon I know, I know him! In Klaipeda (Lithuania) in those early years he also often met! Although he was not the only one or even the main one...

Hello, All And so, I’m opening another thread dedicated to the description of bootTov commanders, written for ZX-Spectrum. This section is intended to publish detailed description of both the commander himself and his history (creation and use). It seems to me that each habitat of the ZX-Spectrum had its favorite and common commanders. Therefore, it would be great if everyone an inhabitant of his habitat (ZX-Spectrum subculture) would describe his commander. Of course, you can still look at the various commanders and give them detailed information. description, but I would like a story Although in the future, when all the stories have been exhausted, you can simply give descriptions without history. We kindly ask you not to negotiate in the thread, express admiration and indignation. Only descriptions + maximum additions! I look forward to interesting stories from you, because we have a lot of talented people on our forum! :v2_clapp:

Hello Lennon len> In addition to the progress bars, four letters run horizontally on the screen len> ABCD, apparently you need to use them to determine whether the computer is frozen or not len> when copying, if the letters run, then everything is hockey. Not at all. letters abcd - select the destination disk. the desired letter is highlighted red. when copying on one drive, two inscriptions appear - insert input disk and insert output disk Another feature of this commander is that it can record several files with the same name, and also the fact that when copying it in parallel makes appropriate changes to the zero track. thus, if there is not enough space on the destination disk, then what was overwritten before, will remain. this is how it differs from, for example, shell (1990, should have me on the old mugs, haven’t seen it on the internet), which makes changes to the zero track only after complete recording has been completed. as a consequence, if There is not enough space, you will have to copy again

Hello Lennon len> I looked through it quickly... There are a lot of bottles that are a stretch len> can be called booties... these are more like demos and their place is in your demos. len> And being there is like an extra. special effect :) boot is a program that can run a basic file. Nothing more from her required. So all these effects are a visual bloat of the bottle, and not on the contrary. If the program can operate with files (copying, deleting and etc.) - this is already a commander. The ability to run basic puts even initially non-bottle ones in the category of boot programs (BestView, Littie Viewer...)

Hello, alexeenko ale> I'm posting a small collection of boot; Viewed; quickly... There are a lot of bottles that can hardly be call them boot... these are more like demos and their place is in your demos. And being there as additional special effect :). I liked Rodionov’s bottle and Norton... I remember in the 1st year I dreamed of making Norton, never got around to it. And here it is implemented with a great degree of similarity! More I liked Dandy, I saw it at Baikonur... Very beautiful and almost like in original, except for the color scheme. By the way, on my first cassette Dandy there was just such a file manager. Returning to the Volgodosk archive, there are a lot of bottles there, and if I remember correctly visual memory, then there are a lot of butts that weren’t there and you can also smell them users' addiction to several types! Not a bad collection from Samara. In general, I prefer our little blue one! There is nothing superfluous in it. I met several bottles on a black background, which are somewhat reminiscent of a blue one, the location of the files and the shape of the marker, its size. There is a feeling that some kind of continuity was possible. Still, I wonder who was the author of that buta that I described... Since you recognized it, it was unlikely that it was our Baikonur product and therefore you can find the ends of who wrote it and when. And maybe Turbinov is not the author, he just completed something there and called himself the author,changing the version of the program... I had older versions, there were also consisting of one file, the so-called mono loader. However, nothing preserved, since the archive from Baikonur was lost, and I accidentally got this boot remained in the archive with one of the emulators, I abandoned it to make it easier run proper emulation tests. P.S. As I understand it, everyone had a favorite bottle, and there’s nothing to add? :v2_lol; Or; did you have continuous demoboots? :v2_wink2:

Hello, SAM style I haven’t looked at the above archive, but I’ll remind you about my boot - Program Box 2.0 (http://abzac.retropc.ru/files/ProgramBox2_0.zip). Present in the bottle imitation of Windows, if anyone doesn’t remember :)

Hello bugsy > Someone promised to make a boot site. I wonder who? :D http://zxboot.narod.ru