Every self-respecting spektrumist wants to have a Pentagon scan

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From Yuri Voynalovich To All 7 June 2000


Hi *All*!

I wonder, are there many owners of such a previously very widespread miracle as Leningrad-1, who still cannot
watch multicolors and their demos slow down/twitch/reset?

It’s just that I once wrote in ZX.SPECTRUM how I converted my Leninist into a full-fledged Pentagon, but I thought that not all local inhabitants read this echo...
If anyone else is interested, write.

Always yours Combin8or/PH7


From Sergey Ignatov To All 8 June 2000

Greetings, Yuri!

Somehow Wednesday June 7, 2000 at 13:30:46 I saw that
Yuri Voynalovich and All were talking on the topic Every self-respecting spektrumist wants
to have a Pentagon scan
YV> Subject: Every self-respecting spektrumist wants to have
YV> Pentagon scan


YV> Hi *All*!
YV>
YV> I wonder how many owners there are of such previously very
YV> widespread miracle as Leningrad-1, who still p
YV> cannot
YV> watch multicolors and their demos
YV> slow down/twitch/reset?

YV> I just once wrote in ZX.SPECTRUM how I converted
YV> my Leninist
YV> into a full-fledged Pentagon, but I thought that not all local
YV> inhabitants of
YV> read this echo...
YV> If anyone else is interested - write.

I saw that letter. I also did this myself in 98, when
I saw rotating colored sectors in RAGE, and then in the info
I read that they rotate on the border, and that letters
also run along the border.
I followed the same path, but in the RC-chain I installed a tuning resistor for more accurate setting of INT.
But for me I didn’t like the broken lines on the border. In Lenin, border values ​​are written in clock cycles, just like attributes,
but in Pentagon the border is not clocked.
On TM2 and LA3 I switched the clockingKP13'x: when the border is active, then on the 11th leg of KP13 the frequency is 4-8 times higher. And it would also be possible to replace KP11, from which they come
RGB, with two KP12s (just like in the Pentagon). Then the switch is not needed.


Good luck.
Sergey.


From Yuri Voynalovich To All 9 June 2000


Hi *Sergey*!

And it all started on 08-Jun-00 at 21:22:49, when Sergey Ignatov
talked with Yuri Voynalovich about Every self-respecting spektrumist wants
to have a Pentagon scan

[...]
YV>> I just once wrote in ZX.SPECTRUM how I converted my
YV>> Leninist into a full-fledged Pentagon, but I thought that not all local
YV>> inhabitants read this echo... If anyone else is interested, write.
SI> I saw that letter. I also did this myself in 98, when I saw
SI> in RAGE rotating colored sectors, and then I read in the info that
SI> they spin on the border, and that there are also letters running along the border.
SI> I followed the same path, but in the RC circuit I installed a trimmer
SI> resistor for more accurate setting of INT.
Well, this goes without saying at first, but then it’s still better to measure and
cut the usual one ;) Here, after all, it depends on the specific assembly - for some
everything for example, on 1533, in others you can find 133 ;)

SI> But I didn’t like the broken lines on the border.
Hehe, who liked them ;)

SI> In Lenin, border values are written
SI> by clock cycle, as well as attributes, and in The Pentagon border is not
SI> clocked. On TM2 and LA3 I switched the timing of
SI> KP13'x: when the border is active, then on the 11th leg of KP13 the
SI> frequency is supplied to4-8 times larger. And it would also be possible to replace KP11, with
SI> which comes with RGB, with two KP12 (just like in the Pentagon). Then
SI> a switch is not needed.
I did it a little cumbersomely, but it was useful for
512x192 (I soldered it like IP35 and cut a bunch of tracks), so I
didn’t bother to improve the border sampling. Submit your option -
there are probably still people who are still suffering.

p.s. Dems at the Pentagon are crazy! I will never forget how happy I was
when I finally rebuilt the computer and watched all the demos,
for them it was like a second life, full and beautiful..


Always yours Combin8or/PH7