Open Letters #02 20 февраля 2000

Nemo open letters № 2.7

430000 8.01.2000


              Good day!


   Spectrum'ami do (software, hardware?)? If yes, please send 
me a catalog, my friend and another friend. Only

Do not write it, I gave her the address - will surprise (and 
that she was afraid if someone finds out that she has a 
computer, But he knows that I know of).


                20.01.2000

   Commentary: Letter to "Open letters",
price lists and advertisements sent by the third address.
443125 7.01.2000


      Hello, dear Nemo!


   So do not wait for the 9 th Format'a, decided nevertheless 
to write you a letter. In general, I would like to know the 
price of one of the Seen - Controller

IBM-keyboards - and get it as far as possible in two ways: 
either finished fee or payment scheme with a description. Here

recently fallen into the hands of ordinary Nicron,
where in the "Advertisement" directory for the products your 
firm, but, alas, without a price. K Unfortunately, call one of 
these phones out there have no opportunity to due to lack of 
phone. If you can, please reply to my letter

(Envelope and stamps attached). You in advance
grateful.

                          Sincerely, N.

                20.01.2000


              Dear N!


   1. IBM-keyboard controllers are removed from
production - the new, combined with
KEMPSTON MOUSE, not yet ready, and when
will be ready - is unknown.

   2. ZX-F has not yet released ...

                                (C) Nemo.

665601


             Dear Nemo!


   1. I understand that the scheme was not sent to me for the 
reason that one of my already have? The thing is that the first 
scheme is just gone, otherwise I would have you on this issue 
is concerned. 

   2. KAY to the EGA-monitor, I finally hooked up, this would 
require only an m / c and no LN1 podpaek to internal elements 
of board - all necessary for This signal is on the connector 
XS5. Proinvertiroval vertical sync (or rather, sinhrosmes, 
since both the COP and MOP hooked to contact N4):




              ? HSync

                about

            LI1

   Sync


                  VSync


 LN1 posted on optional mounting box. It is not forbidden? Of 
course, the picture quality on EGA'shnike excellent. Picture of 
the spoils only bright "Black" color.


   I do not work in MS-firm, and not in
us all, and his company, I do not.
The box Celeron'a just got under
hand. Spectrum'om I do have about 7
years and to throw this thing is not going to - is
more than a hobby. FIDO and e-mail - but is it bad? All this is 
very helpful in work. But this does not mean that I have to 
divide time between Spectrum'om and MS. PC - a necessary 
measure "at work system administrator at the company.

By the way, the server at work - a great place
for file storage Spectrum discs, because They, alas, not 
forever. With regard to ISDOS-screw, the impression I have the 
most pleasant. But I would like to be sick convenient way to 
reassign the operating space as, say, the program dev.com. 

   Trade Spectrum'ami via RS-firm
will not work - Scorpion does not count. More
all I have to deal with the proliferation Soft'a and periphery, 
rather than pay, and independently. We at Spectrum

began to receive the new users that, oddly enough, have not 
moved on superigrovye Consoles (PC, etc.). 

   Speaking of the PC - at [censored by
Nemo] have made my page, and
there in Section Trading (I think) is your
coordinates. If you do not like it,
Please let me know.

   Next. BBS-software yet, but FIDO and
ZXnet-soft under ISDOS there is - this mailer
Dickie and some editor / tosser. I
idea was to remake the Spectrum BBS under ISDOS, but no time.

   About music. Music plays faster than it should, if you write 
a program (TURBO-mode):



     .......

     call imon
l1 ld a, # 7f

     in a, (# fe)

     rra

     jr c, l1

     ret
imon; (include interrupt im2)
int; (hook)


   Ie if the interrupt is "hanging" music while spinning empty 
cycle, the music will be played unevenly - some faster, then 
slower. If an empty cycle insert HALT, the speed of music is 
equalized. However, HALT can not embed, but just turn off 
TURBO. About 7mHz/NoWait - it was a "typo" was meant 3.5mHz and 
circuit features NoWait. So this phenomenon is associated with 
DMMTS? 

   Another question - about the hours DALLAS.
Do you send along with the clock shemku
connecting them to KAY?

   On this for now.

                          Sincerely, N.


                               20.01.2000

              Dear N!


   1. Sending a scheme, it costs 4 USD. Pay stamps. By the way, 
in an envelope found no marks on the RR 5. And only 3 p. than I 
was terribly frustrated, "- "Open letters" can not send. Prices 
have not changed, and they, too, you do not need. 

   2. On connection.

   - "The image quality is excellent ..."
Only the first half hour - then begins to
"Cut" the eye. At EGA-monitor is wider bandwidth and sharper 
brightness - in addition, visible structure lines. You can, of 
course, defocus ... But I personal use display "Electronics

6313 - black / white.

   - How beautiful, I would even say
elegant, but: a) it is likely that
will not work on all displays, and only
converted to the terminals of the problem accurately
will b) make better use of IC with OK-type 155 LNZ - ​​be 
reliable: it has U (ke max) = 30 - sometimes it is useful.

Output should be "put up" resistor
200 ohm - 10 K. A lower value if the resistor is not present in 
the display (it is necessary check), more - if there is, c) is 
considered indecent sloppiness with the signal chain, which 
operates on an external signal line, then returns back and 
processed again in the scheme. Potentially low reliability, and 
possible interference by the reflected signal VSYNC.


   - How best to mount on a separate
Headscarf installed in XS5. It is for the one out there worth 
it. Then it does not require ANY podpayki in a computer. All 
signals on XS5 Already have.


   3. What about e-mail I got tired to explain - see "Op. Let."

   4. Instead of your http publish your
mailing address. If someone really will need to contact you, 
please refer to your letter. There will already decide to give 
him a network address or not. If you do not adhere to such 
practices, it will wash away dirt clod. (To paraphrase Hochma 
chemists, namely: "Dirt - are chemical compounds in the wrong

place, we can say: "The noise - this information is in the 
wrong place"). This decision case. Ie: 1) Do not be discussed, 
2) will continue to do exactly same with any network addresses.


   5. Now attempt to make the BBS under ISDOS. Will the result 
and What if it is - time will tell. If

you will have a workable network
Software under ISDOS, please tell - this is a factor
important.

   6. Of course, due to DMMTS - there
changing the duration of command execution,
- Different teams in different ways - respectively, and 
intervals "jump" at moving from 3.5 MHz (or from another 
company). DMMTS is linear in the sense (TURBO mode in KAY'e), 
that time does not depend on: a) the provisions of the code in 
the memory RAM; b) phase of the GPU (and, generally, with 
respect to any arbitrary shift time), c) DMMTS also interesting

that in principle we can calculate the duration of the program 
fragment, ie is Absolute time (see ZX-F, N -

I do not remember).

   7. No, no wiring diagram DALLAS'a
sent. (But there is a full corporate
dock on DALLAS). Expulsion of the scheme is similar
introduction of standards, and by that I have not yet
ready - no terminalki under ISDOS, - try not to anything. And 
why no DALLAS terminalki?


                                (C) Nemo.
694010 23.01.2000


             Dear Nemo!


   Wrote you a soldier of the Russian
Army. Conscription ripped many of my
connection, and I would like to develop them.

   I need the addresses of the distributors
software, hardware for
Spectrum, Amiga (if any). My goal - not to lose 2 years of our 
army and make them benefit from acquiring the necessary 
software and hardware to me, order to muster not to start 
almost from scratch (do not wait a couple of months after 
return home of new programs and information on the development 
and existence of the computer), and in the Army I still have 
1.2 years. Free money for me there. 

   I ask for your help and send me information about your 
services and the information available (open) on the main and 
regional distributors of programs (again if they exist). I am 
interested in Kirov and the Sakhalin region.


   At worst, at least a couple of addresses
points where you can at least buy something (and of course by 
mail and in person) over the 1.2 year.


   Currently I am working with a computer, and I have enough 
free time. 

                  Sincerely, Private N.

P.S. Sending a second envelope for reply.
Mail for the soldiers until free. If the
Your services need to pay - send
COD.


                               03.02.2000


              Dear N!


   1. The Amiga computer firm (s) Nemo is not
involved.

   2.Po Kirov region, there was no information on the 
distributors. There are certain address, but it is the users 
who have not given permission to dissemination of their 
addresses. 

   Nearest to you address - is Vladivostok. Also, some 
addresses can be found in price and in the "Open letters". 

   690078, Vladivostok, ul. Garden,
d. N 25, Apt. N 51, Stanislav Yudin. Tel. (Home) (4232) 
43-98-87. e-mail: stanislav@mail.primorye.ru ZXNet: 500:4232 / 1


   3. The fact that people who Spectrum'om, the army claimed to 
have not news.


   4. All terms and conditions - see price list.


                                (C) Nemo.

665717 21.05.99


              Hello!


   You wrote N. I am very interested in
Your advertising. I would like more
learn about your firm. Please send me
directory (list) proposed by your company products.

                     With gratitude, N.



                                 25.01.2000


              Hello!


   I recently read your ad, and
as call you for me is too expensive
"Fun", he decided to write you. I
very interested in your ad, but
I had a few questions:

   1). Do you distribute any
literature (soft), iron, etc.?

   2). If yes, whether you have a catalog / price of your 
product? 

   3). If yes, could you please send
it to me?

   In my opinion, the issues for the first time will suffice. 
There is one request: could you please send (if any) your

price / directory (sorry if I repeat). Just wanted to know more
about your company and its activities.

   Hopefully, you will receive and Respond to
my letter.

                          Sincerely, N.

                26.01.2000


              Dear N!


   On your first letter (from 05.21.1999)
already expelled directory. But there was a pad. In the return 
address you provided is not square. N 18, and square. N 13. 
There and was sent response. Therefore, a floppy disk "Open 
letters" do not sending, - go to the neighbors in the 
apartment. N 13 and take away the drive. Unlikely to him that 
something had happened in 8 months. Price is higher lai - He 
has twice been edited for this time. 

   With regard to the activities of the firm,
See "Open letters".

                                (C) Nemo.

427629 19.01.2000


      Hello, dear Nemo!


   First of all, thank you a lot of appreciation for the 
detailed, detailed response to my previous letter. I wanted to 
write this letter before, but was still waiting on you

packet with the "Black Raven-2" and a promise to compensate 
"ZX-Format N 9. From the moment of sending money to "FT-2

year has passed, - came second. In a letter
on 7/16/1999 d. You reported that "the FT-2 and
"ZX N 9" will be released in early autumn 1999,
but today 19 January 2000, but no
one or the other I still have not received ... Wait for it?

   In the umpteenth time trying to install
connection with "Logros", written in September
letter M. Ivan, and again no backlash. Probably need to book
Software through you (as Logros not responsible, and
Scorpion company releases new catalog
Spectrum'ovskih programs once a year), the
other firms that sell soft'om by mail, I do not know. 
Therefore, please also send a leaflet with the latest Logros.


   Although it is late, but congratulations to you and
everyone who works with you and the new 2000-m
Year! I hope that in the new year together will be able to 
overcome the crisis Spectrum'a and create the preconditions for 
its further development!


                                       N.
            26.01.2000

              Dear N!


   1). "FT-2" and "ZX-F" N 9 at the moment and did not come. 
Therefore, to send their no way. On the other hand, the delay 
in implementation of the order for several years - is too much. 
Therefore, I propose the following options: 

   1.1. You can order anything on the
directory on the amount in U.S. dollars, corresponding to
the amount of your outstanding orders. When
This will automatically order the "FT-2 and
"ZX-F" N 9 will be converted into a cash on delivery. Ie, when 
the software comes out, You will get it first and due upon 
receipt. You can issue the letter. 

   1.2. You can cancel the order -
this requires an unequivocal indication of the refund. In this 
case you get your money back from the calculation

current ratio (as of January 2000:
K = 3.1). It is not fully compensate
inflation, but nonetheless, it is more
acceptable option than to refund
at face value, such as prescribed by law.
Editor of the "ZX-F" and W. Mednonogov will
put it in popularity.

   1.3. You can leave everything as is.
To do this, nothing else to do.
The money will be returned if the "ZX-F" and "FT-2 (the 
authors) will be announced public that these products are not 
soft- come out.



   2). I, like you, not quite
satisfied with the quality of the firm Logros.
But ordered the company to improve the quality of work or force 
her to do it, I do not I can, and do not want to. Create your 
own structure for the sale of software not considered 
appropriate, although it would also be beneficial in short 
term. However, deflating the market of software I have a very

worried because reduces the content of the components
useful meaning, turning them into a piece of iron. CAUSE - 
Failure of copyright the soft, accompanied and exacerbated by

distribution networks. While I do not have
specific business plan, but some considerations about this
available.


   3). Leaflet with the latest Logros, unfortunately, no.


   Thank you for your congratulations.

                                (C) Nemo.

453343


             Dear Nemo!


   I ask you to send me information on products sold by mail. 
Also If that does not impede, please help

Board: What ZX-compatible computer
worth buying now. Which ZX-PC is currently the best things with 
the hardware and "Soft"?


                          Sincerely, N.

                26.01.2000

              Dear N!


   I am afraid that you will not be able to help with advice - 
although what I would have you respond to you and so clear. Ask 
around users, see for yourself.


   You must also add that any ZX-computer business may fare no
better than in the whole platform Spectrum.
Because capital is a platform (in general)
much more than each of the manufacturer (in
particular).

   However, clones Spectrum'a different manufacturers - and the 
producers themselves - can be compared with each other, but not 
by the criterion of "the best situation was status of hardware 
and software, while other, more important parameters. In 
particular, the future sooner or later becomes the present 
time. With this, you think, will not argue. 

   Case as "may fare well, for example, the expense of others. 
But sooner or freebie late always ends.


                                (C) Nemo.

P.S. With the situation in Spectrum'e You can
available on floppy "Open letters".