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From Victor Drozd To All 30 September 2006

Hello, All In some thread there was a conversation about databases (on PC). Meanwhile, there are decent databases and on SpectrumTe. For some reason they don't talk much about them. Maybe not everything is known? I bring to your attention the BEST (I'm sure) database on the ZX C disk manager DM2 vers.2. I've been using it for a long time. A very reliable tool. Allows contain a huge volume of disk information - no less than 900 disks. I don’t know exactly what the limit is DM2_2. Today I am posting DM2_2 containing ALL Volgodonsk collection by Alexeenko C 544 discs (from N001 to N538, plus NN0, 275b, 304a, 451b, 477a, 478b). In total there are 5900-odd programs in the collection (see. option Information, boot and other exe files that begin with lowercase letters, the program omits). What's it like? There is no time now, but be patient a little and I will I will add ALL (about 250) game discs from Fikus Collection to this file. They will definitely fit. For me the only question is whether DM2_2 plus these two game databases and a musical part from Fikus (140 discs). Let's try. In general, I highly recommend it, especially to owners of large collections. DM2_2 allows you to: search for programs in the collection by a combination of 2 and more letters, displays system information about the contents of each disk, etc. you will understand for yourself. Some tips: 1. For DM2_2 to work correctly, disk information must be correct (trk 0, sect. 8).2. For ease of use, you should arrange the disk names in the best way assign them numerical values (001, etc. You can start numbering the music boxes with M001, system Ts S001, etc.). 3. The hotkey survey does not require any special explanation. 4. To speed up the reading of information, the program implements auto-polling floppy drive (it worked for me once on a real ZX, not in any emulator that I I use it, it doesn’t work). Autodetect is installed by default, so For emulator developers, when typing their own database, I recommend disabling it (key 5 in Information menu. In the same place, use the keys 1 T 4 to select the drive). That's it, that's enough. If anything is unclear, please contact me and I will explain. I'm waiting for responses. -+--------------------- Well, I tried it for the first time (8-10 times) and it’s a bummer... Got this: Warning; mkdir():; SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 20153 is not allowed to access /var/www/zx.pk.ru/htdocs/customattachments/1/6/7 owned by uid 33 in /includes/functions_file.php on line 112 -+-------------------------- I am sending DM2_2 Alexeenko by e-mail and asking you to post it on the website along with The Volgodonsk collection will be convenient for people to use.

From Victor Drozd To All 30 September 2006

Hello, Viktor Drozd Vik> For correct operation of DM2_2, disk information must be Vik> correct (trk 0, sect. 8). In my file containing the Volgodonsk database, this is exactly what happened: 1) summary information on disks is shown incorrectly (the database contains 544 disks, and in info - 489); 2) In the file search mode by name, the names of individual disks are displayed incorrectly. The failure occurred due to reading incorrect information for DM22 from some disks (I already found 4 pieces). I created TRD images with two different programs - maybe therefore. The system information itself (name and number of programs, etc.) for each disk is correct, so that in viewing mode you can examine the contents of all 544 disks (in the menu - hotkey I, enter the name of the disk you are interested in, then scroll through the disks up and down the keyboard. 8, 9).