[0/3] S-Tosser v0.1 (new tosser for ZED)

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* Forwarded by Tim Kelly (2:465/157.15)
* Area : ZX.SPECTRUM (ZX.SPECTRUM)
* From : Evgeny Milun, 2:5057/18.73 (Thu May 21 1998 14:14)
* To : All
* Subj : [0/3] S-Tosser v0.1 (new tosser for ZED)
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Hello All !

2 Tim Kelly: Please forward all this to your echo REAL.SPECCY

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> 2 All: If you will in one way or another distribute
> this program (and it is completely FREEWARE), please do not
> forget to attach the existing file with help.
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So, here is the same tosser that I have promised for so long to some
realists. :) It is designed for 128Kb ONLY. To avoid conflicts between ZED and BASIC-128, a new boot is included. The main distinguishing features are: speed (all other things being equal, S-Tosser works two times faster!!!) and processing of disk errors. There are a lot of small differences and innovations. There are small "backgrounds"
to support downlinks and additional settings. All details can
be found in the attached help file and during direct work.

This version is not completetested, so I cannot vouch 100% for its bug-free nature. Although, personally, I did not observe a single failure during the week. At first, I recommend making a kind of “double” of ZED - recording ZED and this tosser on another floppy disk. If you find any
glitch, immediately notify me about it (it is advisable to save the .pkt
on which everything glitched).

What else can I say? As is clear from the version number - 0.1 - this is not a “final release”. In particular, I hope to further speed up the tossing itself, and further
optimize disk access (namely, the lion's share of tossing time is spent on disk operations), to support .pkt files with a length greater than
255 sectors (however, for now, with this ZED architecture impossible)
etc. In general, there are still ideas.

Well, for now, use this and write what else you would like to see here.

P.S. Perhaps (more precisely, most likely) the next in line for “update”
will be ZED’s viewer/editor.

Good luck! Evgeny.

■ The night is shorter than the day... The day will kill me... The world of illusions burns down in it. (C) Aria.

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Greetings from the bottom of my heart, All!

Get a new tosser!

Hasta la vista.
Tim Kelly