On-Line #34 28 апреля 1996

Mosaic - Reflections Digitecs Inc on the video processor. Going to ENlight'96!

                 MOSAIC


(C) DIGITECS Inc


   I welcome readers <ON LINE>. I was honored in 1932 edition
and I want to say a few words about the video processor. In
This issue was an article by The Bird'a on this topic. I beg to 
differ with some points (actually, disassembled the thoughts of 
the pieces is not good, but still ...). Thus, go .....



   Your device is not just a damn that allows
processor to create nemeryannom distorted on the screen by the 
time CPU (type multicolor), it is a separate gadgets, which is 
separate from the processor. 


   As such, it is comparable to AY, which gives an incomparable 
with bipperom sound quality, and, almost without taking up CPU 
time. Because the video processor and said video processor, 
since does everything himself: he says - he sculpts. The 
argument about the use of resources Profakov is unfounded, 
since it deals with the image Z-80, which is not increasing its 
Efficiency. 


   Go ahead:


   About the price: it is proposed to purchase Profakami ... 
interesting proposal ... however, 150 tons and 500 or more with 
each other not comparable (or I'm wrong), with the results 
described above. 


   This is not SPECCY ..? Nuuuuu ... I'm sorry, let's zabem on
GENERAL SOUND, memory above 128 KB, Winchester ... it is also 
not Speccy ... Come show me a firm Spectrum with the hard drive,

Installed at the factory. Or with a musical card with
own Z-80 ...


   Problem with vector graphics maker scheme decided by 
"Sinklerovskogo window" in the description of this discussed in 
some detail. 


   In the end, not everyone is invited to urgently pass the 
buck on DENDIVSKY assembler and write only under the video 
processor, as well as and does not propose throwing out the 
window when you connect a keyboard joystick and mouse.



   In short, the author offers to stay in the Stone Age, not
modifying the computer, "as it is no longer SPECCY". YOU 
UNDERSTAND! >: -