Nicron #29 11 апреля 1997

Soft - A few words about the new reader.

 ° A few words on NEW Book reader °



  (C) MERLIN 05.04.97 [16:30]


  Phew! Hello! If you read the 28 th NICRON, you probably 
already aware that I was prepared for you to HELP, but I ruined 
the disc with him. Tell - do not believe me: I'm on my 
GRANDROMMAX'e on which is a turbo SH, formatted disk, recorded 
only, without backup, the text HELP'a brought WLODEK BLACK'u 
and decided to transform it from a type "W" in type "C", the 
result also tried to write on my turbo - drive ... 

  Who tried to put such experiments - posoboleznuet who do not
tried to say: "And do not try!"

  But today I climb to screw up the disk, found the text,
inscribed by hand in a directory file settings, and that the 
text before you.


  Keep in mind that the text you will find one inconsistency:
The first full version has already been used in 28'om NICRON'e 
for of which was preparing the text below. I left him without

changes.


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------------( C) MERLIN 04.04.97 [12:15] 


  Big hello to all! I was asked to write to you more - more 
HELP to reader, as it's enough - yet ponapichkana all sorts - 
different tricks - dryuchkami. 

  Well, firstly: ALL EXISTING AT PRESENT VERSION - BETA! Before 
you - The first full version. Issue buggy beta - version due

the fact that the guys wanted to get a new reader is already 
the anniversary, 25 rooms.


  Thus, the list of bugs: 25 - improper printing of images, non 
Vilna output to a printer, an abnormal             install the 
printer driver glitches with             flowers at the 
beginning of the text. By the way, color curves glitches in it 
entirely on our - my             and the editorial board of 
conscience, they are wrong races set the color, but I forgot to 
warn about             Some features that distinguish my

            reading room of the same. You just have to give them
            time, let people get used to!
            26 - abnormal function key "B"
            plus all the above listed. By the way, of 
responsibility for this lies RUSSOS, which in ry this issue 
nakarkal that des Cach, the removal of one leads to Gluck       
      the appearance of another, more serious. Dokar kalsya. 
Speed ​​up loading, missing             "B" ;-).

            27 - INTRO plus the same glitches that in 25
            except for proper installation
            printer driver.

  In fact, many complained about the slow speed, I was wondering
thought, and decided that probably will try to speed it up 
(there are ideas). 

  And now a little HELP'a:

  In the reader there are two control buttons, which lacked
place in the built HELP'e. Eto CAPS + "A" and CAPS + "Q". What 
they do figure it out. 


  "W", "S", "FIRE" - smooth scrolling: off color (for pre 
dotvrascheniya kleshinga attributes and gently stretch those 
QSC with a click. Click can be disabled by turning off the 
sound.     Output is done by pressing any * nd klavifi (keep in

    note: survey keyboard is scrolling through 8 on
    pixel, so you may have to press a bit - a little
    hold).


  "DELETE" - Recording settings to disk: this is completely 
analogous     same function ONLINE'ovskoy reading room and is 
compatible with it. When     start NICRON'a from the disk, 
"processed" ONLINE, switch off chitsya proyzoydut color and 
other settings accordingly     that state, which was ONLINE 
when recording. When a start-up disk with ONLINE treated ORCA 
Viewer (for those     where you are now reading this) also has 
no     problems, except: in hiding ONLINE bug - if the ship

    state with the brightness turned black - white
    (Press "t"), then ONLINE will include more and flashing 
lights. 


  "GRAPH" - recording charts to disk: write to disk graphical 
cue file in a format in which it uses the reader.     To use 
the conversion program "DECOD_SC". Not     tell you where like, 
but WLODEK BLACK'a RABBIT BBS on it     there really is.



  "TRUE VIDEO" and "INV VIDEO" - printing the entire text or 
only visible on the screen of the printer. If you're lucky     
owner ZX LPRINT III INTERFACE, then you do not to bother with 
the driver, but if not - please accept my sobo leznovaniya: 
write a printer driver does not exceed 50 bytes     so that the 
first two bytes contain the JR INIT,     followed by the driver 
itself. Here's an example embedded     Driver:

    DR_IN JR INIT
    DR_PR PUSH AF
    LOOP IN A, (# 7B) <
        BIT 7, A
        JR NZ, LOOP
        POP AF printing
        OUT (# FB), A>
        NOP bytes
        OUT (# 7B), A
        NOP
        OUT (# FB), A
        RET
    INIT XOR A 
        RET printer

    For accidents that do not have the printer, I suggest NADI 
write a simple pseudo-driver, like this:     DR_IN RET

        NOP
    DR_PR RET

    for the insurance of dependence for random keystrokes
    "INV VIDEO" and "TRUE VIDEO". Codes are written driver
    on the disc under the name "ORCADRVR" CODE.


  "I" - the inversion. For those who do not like to read white 
on black     and black and white, just like any normal printing 
of induction. It swaps the only black and white,     others she 
did not touch them. 


  "Y" - initially conceived for a normal question vozmovnosti 
Motrya text in reverse mode, but later estimated by     dignity 
and built and not the inverse mode. Useful     at work, for 
example, with the modulator. Due to the monitor, I burned Sheha 
with him and work and trust, often     could not read more than 
half of the edition in API'evs Coy reader. 


  Well, sort of, and everything else should be clear if there 
will be questions, call me, or better not to me, as a technical 
editor newspapers - WLODEK BLACK'u, or better yet - write it on 
the BBS. ;-) 


  I quite forgot to tell you that up to 28 NICRON'a errors 
crept into them: they are looking for loadable driver on 
another name climb up to redress the disk-doctor (I recommend 
the MASTER KEY, but someone more like Pleischner, it is not 
critical) in the first Sector NICRONxx file and change the 
sequence of "ORKADRVRC" on "ORCADRVRC", just do not do it in 25 
NICRON'e, but it is not be able to run it from the disk on 
which there is loadable driver. In the other rooms (26,27,28) - 
boldly change. 

    YET!



                 ° MERLIN °
                   Dmitry
                 ZXNet 460.1
                 ° 265-49-92 °