Echo #04 31 января 1997

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Commanders - On the possibilities of Commander of E-Mage.

               COMMANDERS



   At this point in Belorussia planned
trend towards mass komanderostroeniyu.
According to the information I have Commanderie
written in Bobruisk (CODEMAN), Pruzhany
(SKYWALKER / ATLANTA H.G.), in Grodno (RUM /
E-MAGE). Their niche in komanderostroenii won and I (PAWEL / 
RS), at the moment you have the opportunity to evaluate all the 
advantages REAL COMMANDER v. 1.4. I believe that such

competition will benefit the Opportunity
and design Commanderie. Below is granted
word of the Grodno Group E-MAGE, they broadly describe the 
possibilities for future product.



(C) Scratcher & Rum


   Danae article contains a description of our
new systemic product, the demo version
which you probably already have. In addition to purely 
technical information prepared by the direct creator of the 
programs described RUM'om ie, I Scratcher, as always touch on 
some special moments inherent in the program and try to briefly 
describe some of the prevailing trends aspects of problems in 
this popular among coders industry as the creation of quality 
Commanderie. 


   I think you should not delve into an explanation of some 
theoretical basis, ie because most people already have some 
practical skills to work with Commanderie and explain how and 
where rulitsya I will not.



   Start any business without the idea is impossible.
In our case, the idea came to us about
years ago, although it was implemented
just now. It may be that
someone to this idea is not new, although
Anyway it is worth considering.


   Writing the file type shell Commanderie now are nothing new, 
but flashing his ROM in BASIC instead of 128, it is

is interesting, moreover, that such
operation does not need any particular
complex hardware revision. As shown, the removal of 128 BASIC 
will not be in themselves are no side effects, except for the 
fact that some old toys will not detect the presence of 128-th 
memory. However, this unpleasant fact mitigated under the 
impression of the enormous benefits that you get implement this 
improvement. The fact that no side effects could prove to have 
five years successful work of our friends of Ascendancy Cr.Labs 
on machines with 128 brains, with only 16 KB ROM, as opposed to 
standard 32 kb. Moreover, they even this proud, and indeed, 
because is such a "flaws" they have to reset does not

cleared banks, and instead have bothered
frames immediately okazyvaeshsya in TR-DOS'e. It remains only 
to run and press enter. I do not think that anyone would be 
killed because lack of 128 BASIC, especially if the 48

mode, there is another BASIC. And the horseradish
We asked two BASIC? One would not
prevented remove the discard and replace
something useful, so more than 48 BASIC
Judging by the statements of people more comfortable.


   So what is the flash freed 16 K?
The most cool, if I may say so, option would be file system
representing, for example, an analog
amigovskogo OS or something else,
but here there is a lot of problems and
One of them is too small amount of ROM. For
Modern OS 16 KB is not enough, and
do become distorted in style in 1986 no one
wants. Most recently, in RVL 4, we read
an article which discusses a similar problem (for details, see 
the RVL 4). Option proposed by the author is very interesting, 
but I want to note that similar ideas have visited us, but 
after the first three dneh from the beginning work, all our 
plans were to fall on because of the unreality of most of the 
ideas. By counting the approximate number of needed memory,

to start a new business, you must decide
the eternal question of where to take it? After this
We did not do long-term forecasts
in the future, while more sober assessment of the status quo 
and as a result of completely redesigned the entire project. 
With regard to the aforementioned article, the author addresses 
this problem in a different way, which

also not without its drawbacks and the most palpable, it is 
felt, will be accompanying each reset the permanent system boot 
from a disk in most cases, 5-inch, rather than

Hard. Occupation is certainly not out
pleasant. We also offer the best option. What is it:


   Firstly, no podzagruzok! Press the reset button and you're 
almost instantly (about second goes to decompress) is

in a convenient graphical environment, performed by
all the modern standard. First of all, no braking, you are 
pleasantly surprised by scrolling in the windows of one (1) 
int! AND it's not all! Information output in the shell 
osuschestvyaetsya using a second screen so you will not 
contemplate the miserable update. Font size 5 by 5 pixels, and 
in my opinion is the best, albeit a very slow option, so

and it was decided to implement a shell on two screens.


   Secondly, reset, as such, will cease to destroy anything and 
everything that is in memory. Clicking this loaf you, provided

that will hold the LMB or any
wheel had fallen in System menu, where you
will have a unique opportunity
dispose of the contents of the memory of your
request. Not a single bit in memory
will not be affected, all work is carried out on the screen. If 
you need it screen, then clicking the RMB or any other wheel 
you steer the second screen, and the first will remain intact. 
Options System menu will allow you to clean up any

bank / banks of memory dump their contents to disk, go to the 
Debugger or, if none exists in memory, download to any bank. 
Itself is a button departure Commanderie. Now even a casual

reset will not cause you significant damage,
provided that you have a good
reaction;) and will for a second
squeeze out anything on the clave or the mouse.


   Third, rulitsya in graphical Commanderie not just 
convenient, but even and pleasant. Many of the bells and 
whistles we have been borrowed from the Amiga. Some of them you 
notice immediately odnointovye scrolls, instantaneous output 
windows of all sizes, the ability to steer the cursor when 
working with disk, ie, during the read / write you

can the Ponte basement cursor to the STOP button and click the 
breaker switch. Similar results, of course, can be achieved 
pressing BREAK, although the first version of a much more 
pleasant, more so that no zatormozki the disk during the cursor 
movement is not happening! 


   And this is only the beginning, since the degree
readiness Commanderie approximately
50%, and what will happen next? Bells and whistles, bells and 
whistles, and once more bells and whistles! How much more 
potential hidden in the remaining 50%? So half try now and in 
the second half please Directly to us.



   It was a small digression ...


   RUM try to do the job with the disc
the most rational, and the Commanderie - by
maximum intellectual. Commanderie user'u provides the ability 
to install on drive a small Setup. In fact, it is even

not Setup, a small upgrade in which
Commanderie will determine how to work with
this disk, ie, format it
immediately or first Zaksor directory (just kidding). Here's to 
just such jokes were smaller and had provided, we can say 
individual podohod to each disk. For example, the disc is very 
valuable, system. In such cases, it would not hurt to warn

from sudden calving and throw on track 0
160. This operation is tedious and repeat it
after each rewrite Zapariy anyone. There is a way out - after 
each entry Commanderie itself should throw off all the case for 
160 track. However, it is not rational crawl every time the 
disk, thereby user'a sitting down on a horse. Can be done

far better to create a dummy first
file, which would have thrown off catalog. No noise, no time 
consuming, since physically on the disk this file is to

on the same cylinder as the directory, only
the reverse side. Of course, such a regime
work for each disk set is not necessarily so, and was given the 
opportunity to install a small disk Setup. Thus, the 
Commanderie himself all raspoznayaet and perform.



   Completely forgotten. Management in Commanderie
performed by standard: QAOP and, of course,
mouse. First and foremost fans of the program will probably 
owners mouse, since having a mouse you will feel

everything that we wanted to convey. Predstvavte, press reset, 
a slight pause, and You taxi to the coolest graphical, all the 
familiar roots (friends) not only on the Spectrum, but also to 
the HRC zataschatsya on how you scroll the window for files an 
int, open windows on the screen instantly and without updates, 
rulites cursor during loading and saving. Small Note: absolute 
orgasm you will feel only if you have all the same 
indispensable in our time devaysom - Kempston OVER! By QAOP I 
still have not touched and no sensations can not tell. You'll 
have to try for yourself. 

                                  24.11.97