DonNews #11 21 апреля 2000

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Soft - a small survey of System Software: UltraSonic version 2., Shuffle Commander v1.0, Elastic Copy v1.0, Strange Player v3.0, Screen Mixer v1.0, ZX C + +, Smagly 3, Quick Commander 2.4.

Disabler / DPL


             UltraSonic v2.1x

      all that is and what is not

       ... And so is about something more ...



  Good afternoon (evening / morning / night). Today and
Now you will tell us about music
Editor UltraSonic version 2. 11 / 2. 12.


  For a start - Specifications
Machines for US:



    Device 2.11 2.12

Port memory: eR .......... # FD # 7FFD
Memory: .......... 256k 512k
Port covox: ............ any ---- Bat: ................... 
desirable SounDrive: ........ necessarily desirable




  Features Editor:


Parameter 2.11 2.12

Frequency mixing 7.5kHz 15kHz
Memory for the samples from 128k 128k 64k

                  from 256k 384k 192k

                  from 512k 896k 448k
Support Covox yes no
Support SounDrive yes yes



  So, as you already understood, the latter
version of the US - 2. 1x, instead of 2. 20, as he wrote
Dimon. Further, if turbo mode on
pentagon frequency mixing is obtained
about 10kHz (for version 2. 11) and about
20kHz (for version 2. 12), instead of 16 and 22
respectively.


  And now a little sad about: Due to the
writing a diploma work and training
for admission to college, work on all
the project is frozen for an indefinite
period. By "all projects" means:

- UltraSonic v2.2x (80%)
Music editor with the new player'om,
which plays into the Pentagon without the turbo with a frequency
about 11kHz + memory usage by
external drivers (two-port memory with the possibility of 
addressing up to 2048kb). 

- Sample Service v2.0 (40%)
Editor of the samples, such as Excess Sample
Editor + Crossovers + opportunity
mix thirty-two samples
simultaneously with the use of so-called
pattern (you write a musical passage (up to
64 notes on each of the sixteen channels
opportunity to set the volume and
mezhstrokovyh teams) and mikshiruete it
sample with any frequency from 8 to 44kHz) +
possibility of synthesizing samples +
the possibility of interpolation of samples in
frequency conversion.

- MultiStudio v3.0 (70%)
A full-featured image editor 3color'nyh +
the possibility of filling, filtering images, graphics 
primitives, the editor of true type fonts (vector fonts that 
are not distorted when zooming), the palette

1536 colors (original algorithm (c)
Disabler / DPL).

- Shuffle Commander v1.0 (50%)
Commanderie with two file panels,
Formatting for 34 seconds, support
two ram disks for trdos 5. 13 and one
for any other, built-in drive
doctor, installation in the cashe, Clear
Support trdos, msdos, isdos, cp / m (profi
and atm).

- Elastic Copy v1.0 (50%)
Krutonavorochenny programmable copier that allows you to copy 
any disc no physical damage (single copyist, who was able to 
copy all of my disks).


- Strange Player v3.0 interrupt (25%)
AY music player from Pro-Tracker,
Sound Tracker, Sound Tracker Pro, ASM,
Super Sonic, Global Tracker, CPS. There
opportunity to convert any of them
format DPL.Player player whose
runs for 240 cycles (maximum
Race - 1500 cycles).

- Strange Player v3.0 digital (30%)
Digital music player of all
well-known editors - Digital Studio,
Extreme's Tracker, Digital Designer, DMM,
Flash Tracker, Instrument, Sample Tracker,
UltraSonic. Played all of one Mouzon
player'om frequency mixing 11kHz
(15-22kHz in the turbo).

- Screen Mixer v1.0 (90%)
Utility for mixing the two screens
(2color'nye pictures) in order to reduce
flicker.

- ZX C + + v1.0 (05%)
A full C + + for the Speccy, almost
complete analogue of Borland C + +, support
extended memory and arithmetic
floating-point, to insert
texts from XAS'a, multiple
texts simultaneously, tracing programs.

As you can see many started and completed will be
Only one of these projects! What? Solve
you, dear users. If anyone
of you (suddenly) wanted to finish that either -
I am happy to give you everything and ishodnyaki
I will describe in detail - how and what ogranizovano.
Only one comment - in credits'ah
must be indicated and I, too, copyright
save me and of course provide
the final version.

Again Snake


   Earlier this year a group of Cristal
Dream has made us his long-awaited and final gift to the Speccy 
- Smagly 3. 

   Well-shaped shooter, good
music, graphics, digitized (> 128 Kb), in
time downloads may contemplate face members Cristal Dream.

   The Group changed its name to
CriptoGraphics, and with it, and the platform
(PC), helped by the reluctance to spend time on charity
Speccy. So.



   Spectre from Optacal Brothers has provided a new version of 
Quick Comm. 2.4. Excellent Commanderie who always sits my cashe 
memory. 

   List the main changes and innovations (and tzhe some flaws 
and tips): 


   - Normal stamp files with
mouse (YES !!!), just can not go on
another page in the directory

   - Player music changed to PT 3.X, supports all 4 of the 
table notes, too, the class 

   - At commands copy, move, rename, etc.
checks for a match the catalog, which increases reliability, 
and together order and some brakes on this test.

But at the incorrect disks have a situation where when you try 
to copy, rename and etc. nothing happens, quick strongly argues 
that you changed the disk, have to load the old version and 
copy it. Glyuk's: (Could do better autodetect disc replacement? 

   - Quick sitting in 7'y page, maintaining the output of the 
programs on standard Real'a 

   - In the text viewer'e changed the color to white (in v2.3 I 
had to do it yourself), added a converter from Win866/DOS. Y I 
had such texts, but because of the end Line # 0A only, I could 
not fine them read. So as it would be nice if

you can watch the text from MED'a.

   - Size for the music and lyrics of decreased
up to 64 sectors. For music, this is understandable, but
for the text? Could be used
other free pages, or at least
chunks of ship.

   Rename the file extension so
then does not like the button delete.

   Before running this file is accessed in ROM at # 1EB7, thus 
there is CLEAR the address listed in BC. In Register BC should 
not record # FF00, and # FF57 (and some prog do not work).


   Now about the fast and slow save. When you format a floppy 
disk and restoring a better layout to do this: 


         0 0123456789ABCDEF

         1 F0123456789ABCDE

         2 EF0123456789ABCD

         . ................


   If this will reduce speed, then
not much, but on all drives fast
save to happen quickly and reliably.


   For a complete best'a lacking only
gluing / cutting (nuzhnO!) files, move (copy +
delete), and are lacking in ram disk'a. A
if more and disk doctor, it will be full
rulez.


                 THE END