ZXA

Once Fri 26 Jan 2001 at 05:14:57 Evgeny and Dmitriy were arguing on the topic of ZXA

EG> If we remove the associative factor, then both options
EG> are equally
EG> not justified. Do you agree?

By the way, you didn’t offer your own option :)

and this is fueling a dispute?

I would have written my opinion about this code.

Sincerely yours, Yuri /I \
[No RAR allowed] [SoHm] [Conceptual minimalism] \ZX/

28 Jan 01 07:35, Dmitriy Nesmachny typed for Kirill Frolov:

DN> It works, but how? I used an excellent editor,
DN> so f-k-l-m-n... Cool of course, if not for the wild swapping
DN> constant...
On your car (I wrote this especially for smart people with protein memory) what,
memory is 48 kilograms? Already at 64 the swap will practically disappear, and at 128 it will not
not exist.

Sincerely, Yura AKA d00RsFan
[ZX] [D00RS] [IRCNet#Z80]
np: quartet of coolers

01/27/2001 at 12:11 Dmitriy Nesmachny wrote to Sergey Kulkov:

SK>> Marking with a space and a graph.
DN> Ah... Well, don’t forget that in ZXZIP marking with ENTER
DN> is done... ;-)))

There is a gap there.

DN> And of course GRAPH is unambiguous!

Why is this so? For the count I need to press two buttons - it’s inconvenient.

[the rat chewed it off]

SK>> Let the help read it right away before using it. And you can on
DN> Yeah... And remembers all the programs by heart...

Yes, there are not so many of them, for which you need to memorize too much... Of the systems, you
don’t use all that are there.

SK>> throw out one line of information from the screen during the
SK>> loading process.
DN> In my opinion, it’s more convenient for everything to be determined by itself...

Well, then, only two Basiks...

Well, that seems to be all for now. Happy!

... I went to bed early in the morning, in the evenings I kept calling someone... (C) "Spleen"

SK> Why is this so? For the graph I need to press two buttons - it’s inconvenient.

What do you have to the right of Delete? Insert? End? So your keyboard means it’s not from the same computer.

YY> On your car (I wrote this especially for smart people with
YY> protein memory) what,
YY> memory is 48 kilograms? Already at 64 the swap will practically disappear, but
YY> at 128 it will not exist.

No, I have 128k there, maybe something was configured wrong, but I don't
copy everything to the ram disk, at least the editor doesn't fit there. If you teach
how to work in IS-DOS without brakes, I will thank you.

Sincerely, Dmitriy.

KF> What do you have to the right of Delete? Insert? End? So your keyboard
KF> means it’s not from the same computer.

But what if my keyboard is a normal Spekov 40-key keyboard? What's on my right hand?

KF> + Origin: I am the Absolute Monarch and the stars obey me...

And logic?

are you *02/07/01* *8:17:50* wrote in the aria *REAL.SPECCY* to *Yura Yakimuk* on
the theme *"ZXA"*?

YY>> what, 48 kilograms of memory? Already at 64 the swap will practically disappear, but at 128
YY>> it will not exist.
DN> No, I have 128k there, maybe something was configured wrong, but I don’t
DN> copy everything to the ram disk, at least the editor doesn’t fit there. If
DN> you teach me how to work in IS-DOS without any brakes, I’ll thank you.

=8-[ ] and a 128 KB ramdisk editor won’t fit????
I could fit an editor, and a bunch of utilities, a bat processor, all the text editors
necessary for the system, menus, I don’t remember what else, and there were still blocks left to work with
120!

PS: True, as far as I remember, I packed some comas into SFX packs ;-)

* For simm everything... Squeak...*
Nikolay G.Arhipoff

09 Feb 01 20:07, Nikolay G Arhipoff typed for Dmitriy Nesmachny:

NA> =8-[ ] and the 128 KB ramdisk editor won’t fit????
NA> I could fit the editor, and a bunch of other utilities, but the processor, all
NA> text files necessary for the system, menus, I don’t remember what else, and
NA> there were still 120 blocks left to work on!
I never liked menus (although the authors made them very well); everything is on hot
keys. I recently loaded the isdos - I still remember everything.
NA> PS: True, as far as I remember, I packed some comas into SFX packs ;-)
But this is interesting... There are already comas of a penny length.

07 Feb 01 08:17, Dmitriy Nesmachny typed for Yura Yakimuk:

DN> No, I have 128k there, maybe something was configured wrong, but I
DN> I don’t copy everything to the RAM disk, at least the editor doesn’t go there fits in.
DN> If you teach me how to work in IS-DOS without any problems, I will thank you
DN> I will say thank you.
Copy to RAM-disk only those editor components that you often need
(reading the existing help), the same for other directories: ext*.txt, exebat.com,
tv.com, free.com, arzt+.com, delete.com, no. files from the catalog PRINT,
cres/set.com... You copy the resulting set sv_image to a floppy disk (I do not recommend using a firmware designed for a RAM disk, because it did not warn about the
saved partition before copying the image to a RAM disk).
I think there were 85 blocks left for texts (if necessary, the space
was increased by adding programs that were not needed in a given session), this was a long time ago, because I made 256 kilos back in late 95th - early 96th. At the same time
the floppy disk with isdos was practically not used after booting the system.

YY>> protein memory) what, 48 kilograms of memory? Already at 64 the swap
YY>> will practically disappear, but at 128 it will not exist.

DN> No, I have 128k there, maybe something was configured wrong,

Apparently it’s default - at 48K only.

DN> only I don’t copy everything to the ram disk, at least the editor doesn’t fit there
DN>.

What, all? Why is he all there? It makes sense to keep at most half of the editor's files there, the rest can be flopped. Do you know what the Q: and S: drives are and how
they differ? If not, I'm too lazy to quote the documentation here.

DN> If you teach me how to work in IS-DOS without any brakes, I'll thank you.

As far as I remember, you have an ancient 1992 era. This can only be cured by replacing it. The new isdos has been heavily optimized. Precisely _algorithmically_, I even spoke with
the author on this topic. A lot has been licked. I can even post the news here
although it won’t be the latest, Oper is much more up to date.

ps\ Leontyev is a good person. IMHO.
pps\ Leontyev is the Chief Developer of Isdos.

WBR, Jason.

[Team Obituary][Team Friday 13th][Team Evil Maniacs][Team Huge Axes]

Mon 9 2001, at 14:23:06 Sergey Kulkov told Kirill Frolov about ZXA.

SK> But what if my keyboard is normal, Spekov 40-key? What do I have
SK> on the right
SK> of the case?

SK> -+- GoldED/386 3.0.1-asa9 SR1
I haven’t heard of golded for spec being ported. Especially for Spec with 40
keys. So you most likely have home or end to the right of del.

Bye! Vivid^Brainwave of X-Project.
e-mail me: vivi...@e-mail.ru, vivi...@mailru.com, vivi...@mail.ru

are you *02/09/01* *23:24:00* wrote in the aria *REAL.SPECCY* to *Nikolay G
Arhipoff* on the topic *"ZXA"*?

are you *02/09/01* *23:46:43* wrote in the aria *REAL.SPECCY* to *Dmitriy
Nesmachny* on the theme *"ZXA"*?

VK> As far as I remember, you have an isdos from the ancient year 92. This can only be cured
VK> by replacing it. The new isdos has been heavily optimized. It was _algorithmically_ that I
VK> even talked to the author about this topic. A lot has been licked. I can
VK> even post the news here, although it won’t be the latest, Oper is much more up to date
VK>.

Go ahead, post it, it’s interesting.

VK> ps\ Leontyev is a good person. IMHO. pps\ Leontyev - Chief
VK> Developer Isdos.

I agree!

Monday 9 } 2001 at 23:46:43 Valerij Kozhevnikoff said to Dmitriy Nesmachny about
ZXA
And then I burst in

VK> ps\ Leontyev is a good person. IMHO.
VK> pps\ Leontyev is the Chief Developer of Isdos.
how can I contact this wonderful person?

With best wishes, Max Shashkin aka Shaitan/Stars of Keladan.

MS> how can you contact this wonderful person?

There is his soap: n.l...@pop.ioffe.rssi.ru

AM> I haven’t heard that golded for spec is being ported.

Have you heard that some lucky people have access to several computers?
Have you heard that I’m not the only person for whom software is written? I’m crucifying myself here for the real people, and you are a spoke in the wheels, you root crop! ;-))

AM> Especially for a Spec with 40 keys. So you still have del' to the right of
AM> most likely home or end.

At the moment - yes. When I come home, there is
ctrl written on the key that is responsible for business. This is the keyboard...

NA> Go ahead, drop it in, it’s interesting.

That’s not all. There are a lot of new things written by different people.

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WHAT'S NEW IN iS-DOSe

- 1997 -

8.1.97: is_dos.sys - Restart #60. Fixed: additional printing of empty lines in the panel

20.1.97: antipod.com - isdos "upside down" for the most implacable fighters for Norton-likeness.

22.1.97: is_dos - Disk name in 11 characters

7.2.97: is_dos - System is shorter by 9 bytes

25.2.97: is_dos - Fixed: Flag C
instead of NZ in $opres, if there is no desired
resident. (shorter by 10 bytes).

22.4.97: create,format - Disk name in 11
characters

3.5.97: arzt+ - Automatic adjustment of boot.sys for iS-DOS Chic.

October 1997

10.21.97: move.com - Transfer of directories with
all contents

10/25/97: abc.com - Fixed: Indication
when copying large devices (more than
20,000 blocks on the hard drive)

10/25/97: ide_tune.com - Fixed: o-
4-digit hard drive cylinder measure and
etc.

10/25/97: ide+.blk - Fixed: Error 6:
Instead of dumping into a shell with a window
"Insert Disk..." is a dead loop.

10/27/97:image.com - Fixed: Situation: Running from drive A:, file image.img
on drive C: (hard drive) is copied to
drive : (electronic disk).

November 1997

11/11/97: arzt+ - Support for devices
up to 16MB in size (hard drive) with dynamic
memory allocation.

11/19/97 - Version ide++.blk. Prohibition of interruptions duringtime to contact the controller. More stable operation.

11/24/97 - gmen.com/res (menu called
by <9> key) Hotkeys <7> and
8 for devices and respectively.

11/27/97: set.com - Fixed: Error
133 when trying to install 8th device-
(Must appear on the 9th).

11/29/97: new_cats.com - Select drive
at startup and automatically transfer
to a new one Disc title format

11/29/97: sv_image.com - continuous file
output by opportunities

11/30/97: set.com - Fixed: driver sys_driv.blk was not removed (with channel number
F8) with 8 installed
devices. Ignoring the "Speci-
al" byte when there are not enough free devices.

11/30/97: kay.blk and bootsc.com - Support
new disk header format with
11-character name (1/22/97)

11/30/97: image.com - Fixed: saving
launch environment, as well as editing
up to 8 devices (G and H).
.

- 1998-

Jan'98: sgf, sgf_9... - Possibility of viewing
parts recorded in
Smart Go Formate.

February 1998

7.2.98: filecopy - Fixed an error that occurred during MOVE in large directories.
(The wrong file was deleted because the
were used incorrectly file service restarts).

7.2.98: wet.com - Fixed an error that occurred when editing files with
length equal to an integer blocks +1
bytes with the last character not equal to 3.

11.2.98: tv.com - 5 characters in the number
lines to read Pelevin "Chapaev and
Emptiness."

March 1998

20.3.98: kay_1m.rom, kay_1n.rom, edkay1mb
- RAM disk drivers for
KAY-1024 (with 1MB memory) for Chic and
Classic. The size of the electronic disk is up to
3840 and 3904 blocks (960KB and 976KB) respectively.

22.3.98: cmp - Supports files with a length
of more than 255blocks

26.3.98: edit+.com - Fixed stopping
macro when loading a file with block
overlay. Now you can use, say, the following sequence of macro commands: #11Al#0A#11m1#11#07b

31.3.98 - Version ide+3.blk. Fixed freezing on bad sectors.

31.3.98: bad.com - Fixed: File date
file0.bad

April 1998

2.4.98: arzt+ - Solution to the problem of bad files: read-protected files (bit 2
in the status byte) remain in their
places. Supports 8 devices (G and H).

3.4.98 - ch++.res. Option ch+: when attacking
read-protected files,
reports this, and does not crash
with error 171 like the previous one.
useful on devices with bad
sectors.

4.4.98: LOADING IS-DOS from an IDE hard drive

13.4.98: format.com - Fixed: More
reliable Chic test. Eliminatedexplosions.

13.4.98: doctor.com - More reliable test
Chic. The "DSK" sign in the old and new
formats.

23.4.98: kay_1n.rom - The order of the memory banks corresponds to the TR-DOS RAM disk

27.4.98: move.com - Fixed: Error 80
when starting from parameters

29.4.98: ed1.ovr - Fixed: Explosion when
trying to replace at the end of the file

Apr'98: sv_trd, uns_trd, trd_ram - copying images of Trdos disks to the screw, back and into RAM.

30.4.98: is_dos - 1. Fixed: Another 1
error in mltrd (since 1990!). correctly
the file was read.
2. At the address g_cnf+66 the system puts
the EI or DI code depending on whether
interrupts are enabled or not.

May 1998

4.5.98: ch+2.com - Checking and counting of control checks is more than 2 times faster amounts (instead of ch+.res) ch.com and
calc.com are also accelerated. sv_image
has a built-in calculation of the amount.

7.5.98: create - Fixed: maximum
device size to 65528, and not to
65280.

7.5.98: abc, abc+ - Fixed: re-creation of cache after work.

8.5.98: fileshow - Calculation procedures
free and continuous space
and disk map printing are accelerated by 6 times.
and on a device with 65520 blocks:
0.15" instead of 1.08"
and 0.31" instead of 1.75" respectively.
Total: 0.46" instead of 2.83"

9.5.98: ide+3sby.blk - IDE driver Win-
Chester, automatically switching
the hard drive to Stand by mode using a timer.
Timer from 0up to 21 minutes. The hard drive
stops rotating before contacting the
driver.

9.5.98: kay_con.com - A program for connecting the system to the hard drive. Fixed and
"untied" from the driver name.

9.5.98: cd+.com - Accelerated 21 times:
0.4" instead of 8.6" with 2 directories
with 127 files each.

10.5.98: ide_tune - setting the timer
Stand by (driver ide+3sby.blk)

12.5.98: arzt+ - The procedure for indicating the compression process has been accelerated: 2'09" instead of
10'57" (5.1 times faster) with 261
files on an electronic disk of size
65528 blocks.

12.5.98: fileshow - 11 characters per device name
12.5.98: format, doctor - Bad indication has been corrected.

13.5.98: sv_image - Output file name
from the disk name. Request "overwrite".

13.5.98: fileshow, arzt+ - Fixed
indication

25.5.98: Picasso - Adaptation for Chic.

25.5.98: edkay1mb.blk - The order of memory banks corresponds to the TR-DOS RAM disk

25.5.98: arzt+ - The indication
of immovable blocks in case of insufficient memory has been corrected.

26.5.98: st_4.res -Improved
screen saver. Unlike st_3, it does not
conflict with ide+3sby.

26.5.98: ide_tune - Fixed: the attribute
ide+3sby was determined incorrectly.

27.5.98: uni_boot - A universal
loader in ROM (8th version) allows you to load
from the hard drive from now on not only
iS-DOS Chic, but also Classic, and maybe
even CP/M, MS-DOS, Pink Floyd, UNIX, and
etc., if only they are available for ZX.
uni_con.com will connect any bootloader
with the name uni_boot.sys

27.5.98: ch+2.com. Bypass read-protected files instead of Error 171. Useful
on devices with bad sectors.
Convenient for files like uni_boot.sys

June 1998

28.6.98: trd_ram - Loading an image
file of a TR-DOS disk from iS-DOS (usually a hard drive) to megabyte computer memory
KAY with auto-start boot on
RAM disk TRDOS.

30.6.98: Fileshow, arzt+ -Fixed
an indication error that occurred on
devices smaller than 800 blocks.

August 1998

18.8.98: nmi.com - Loader of games reset by the MAGIC button for iS-DOS Chic and
Classic. Works both on the flop and
on the screw. Maximum convenience with a minimum of hassle. 128KB of RAM required.

21.8.98: trd_ram: Fixed bug
(Explosion during "AUTO BOOT N").
ram_trd - written copier in the opposite direction.

October 1998

15.10.98: ide+4.blk - system support
from 4/30/98 - requests permission to
enable interrupts from the system.

10/28/98: boot.com - Support for new
disk header format with 11-character-
new name (22.1.97)

28.10.98: rename.com - generating Error 82
in command mode if the output file
is already exists

10.29.98: delete.com - deleting directories
in command mode

November 1998

11/19/98: is_ibm+.com/res - Fixed:
Error 101 on files of round length.

1999

4/29/99: Adopted driver
IDE HDD Jason.blk (Moscow), giving acceleration
up to 1.65 times in operations reading-
copying:

Tests:
1. Copying disk to disk (15 MB) using abc.com - 1.65 times
2. Checking the disk with prog bad: in 1.4
3. Loading the electronic disk image
1.3 times (7 seconds instead of 9)
4. Checksum verification (9.7 MB)
by 13% (2'58" instead of 3'25")
5.Copying a directory (coca, 4286
blocks, 243 files) by 6.5%

However, this driver has no brakes (Break
is not tracked) and has hardly been tested on bad sectors. Therefore, use
if you wish, at your own peril and
risk.

12.5.99: fileshow, arzt+ - Fixed
indication

15.5.99: trd_ram - /a key for automatic operation. Working in ISDOS Classic

15.5.99: ide+5.blk - Accelerated using Jason's
method. Almost as fast, but with
brakes and made from tested
predecessors.

SPEED CHARACTERISTICS OF DRIVERS:

Special tests:

0.1 16368 kB (16kB each) Linear READ TEST

ide+4 117" =140 kbps
ide+5 78" =210 kbps by 1.50 times
Jason 73" =224 kbps by 1.60 (another 6.5%)

0.2 16368 blks 16kB REPEAT READ TEST

ide+4 107" =153 kbps
ide+5 68" =241 kbps by 1.57 times
Jason 66" =248 kbps at 1.62 (another 3%)
ed128 58" =282 kbps another 12%

0.3 10608kB Linear WRITE TEST

ide+4 101" =105 kbps
ide+5 52" =204 kbps at 1.94 times
Jason 45" =236 kbps at 2.24 (another 13.5%)
(ed128 282 kbps another 17%)

Real tasks:
1. bad.com 65520 blks (READ)

ide+4 138" =118 kbps
ide+5 99" =165 kbps (1.39 times)
Jason 99" =165 kbps
ed128 81" =202 kbps
floppy =14 kbps (kay.blk)

2. abc.com 7.8 MB (COPY)

ide+4 159" =50 kbps
ide+5 103" =77 kbps at 1.54
Jason 96" =83 kbps at 1.66 (over 7%)
floppy: less than 7 kbps

19.5.99: filecopy - /b to disable the buffer. /a no longer affects buffer.

20.5.99: from_trd and to_trdos - Support
RAM disk (trdos device image on
electronic disk starting from the 512th
block. Load the trd file into 1MB RAM
with the trd_ram program, and then access
with the from_trd and to_trdos programs directly
to the electronic disk). disk!

21.5.99: trd_ram, ram_trd, tr_boot - Work
in iSDOS-48 ("Classic"), checking
the presence of the RAM disk driver and
TRDOS RAM disk.

22.5.99: unicolor - A malicious bug was caught,
even leading to explosions when the cache size was small
Found.and restored
the hlp file killed more than a year ago.
(But no one noticed!)

23.5.99: ide_tune - Without parameters, it
finds the installed IDE driver.
(files like mem_tune.bat are no longer needed). Hotkey <0>.

23.5.99: arzt+ - 11 letters in the disk name.
The VERIFY procedure has been accelerated (due to another
buffer of 256 bytes) from 25% on
an electronic disk or ide+5.blk to 7
times on long files.

25.5.99: from_msd - Accelerated in 2..3 times

With best wishes, Boris aka OPER.

-+- Representative of the company (c)Nemo in the Moscow region.
+ Origin: For those who fell from the moon.... (500:95/333)

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