Inferno #05 30 апреля 2004

Интервью

Interview - an interview with Disabler'om - coder, artist and zhelezyachnikom from Rostov-on-Don.

          Interview with Disabler'om

D> Disabler / DPL - I hope to represent him
not necessary. Coder, artist and zhelezyachik of
Rostov-on-Don. Scored on a Speccy in 2002
According to rumors - due to the fact that he had fallen on 
grandmothers in the military. A> Alone Coder/i8 - it's me, I 
take the interview through a mailbox Klim'a from OHG.


Events taking place in winter 2001 and spring 2002.

D> ... When was written UltraSonic 2.1x,
there were a lot of proposals to alter
player on faster.
A> A chela what they were? Hunt contacted
talk ...
D> bind has smysla.Vse their ideas
were as follows: "And Che is so little
kHz??? Think Th abruptly! ": (

A> There is a proposal: that article, what I
sent to publish in the ZX-Guide 4 (it comes out the other day). 
Do you mind? Maybe there experts on the subject ...

D> arms and legs for!

D> So, in the US free memory 300
bayt.A easiest stack player requires about 5 kb, and they are 
not! :) A> And how about looks like this player? AND

how many kHz?
D> It looks simple - just like in ModPlay and Extr. Tracker 2, 
and, accordingly, kHz there from 10 to 20 depending on the 
cache / Turbo.


A> ... Not if the experiments were conducted on the topic -
what is better: 10 kHz + linear interpolation in
2 times, or 15 kHz? At what ratio
frequencies, they will be perceived around
the same way?
D> Actually, I believe that the interpolation in real-time - 
it's a great distorted, and on comparison can not say anything: 
(( 

A> By the way, I've seen in NChfiltr tuned to a simple RC-chain 
(y KSA-7G/i8) so here goes: there is digital sound COX 8 -]

D> And why you need a low-pass? I have, and without
him money otlichnoe.Usilok - samopal on
TDA2005 and speakers from vinyl player'a:)

D> Even if you throw out all the not so desired,
then the maximum liberated 1 kb.
A> At the bottom of memory - can be, but at the top - expanse;)
D> Do not forget about those who have 128 kb,
like me! Under the samples and remained so in 1964
kb. Had to be subverted with packaging samples ...
A> Try to change the format of patterns with 4
bytes on a note to a close. For example,
trehbaytny. In my editor, generally 2
bytes per note 8 *)
D> I mean, your shit does not stink. I
quite satisfied with the format 4 bytes per note.
In addition, there is a possibility of improvement!

A> Why do so few teams?
D> Because our major muzaker was
Army, and the remaining x .. lozhili to the editor.
: (((

D> Now, regarding your idea: a player I have already written. 
Well, almost such.

A> And he is not much faster than mine?
D> It is not faster, and brake. Maximum I
squeezed out of him 12 kHz!

D> use it outside the US does not make sense
A> Why? You can write an option:
MOD-player
player for UltraSonic modules
player for DMM + SD modules
D> Of course you can, but now doing it
nobody! As far as I know, in Rostov
active people was nearly empty, and all
already have plans for several years in vpered.A
alone to do something - well, not really kicks!

A> By the way, the request to the interface: not only
64 characters per line! Everything you need can be
place on screen and in 42, and even 32!
D> And I like it 64 characters! And redo something neither the 
time nor the inclination. If you need to - I can freely (Ie a 
gift:)) send all ishodnyaki US (About 10 discs !!!).


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D> Put Cache 128 kb + batareyka.T.e.
32k standard, and the rest through a senior
two bits of port # FE (they are free).
A> A 5 ​​th bit under what is involved?
D> The fifth is not involved, just that I had
glitch. :)

A> And I still have only 16k yuzayu, although
of the 32k; *) must be invented, for which
them as much kilobyte cache ...
D> Cash is needed not only for coding, but still
and restarts. You can cram into it
Commanderie and other software. And then on
reset'u fall out with him.

A> Tell that during setup, and what it eats
;)
D> Is it not worth it, you can break your teeth on
silicon case:) But is it
such a thing: software selection 4 ROM
BASIC and 2 with DOS'ami + eight switches on the revision. Just 
all started with the fact that I ask myself Neos, Quick Comm and

BASIC 91 and 82 years. Plus, the DOS
5.03/5.04. And that's not counting the weight of lotions.
As a result, the complex was like a helicopter
control panel. All this b .. me tired and was born a setup!

A> I'm just not going to write you Snail
;) (And have already written, just in the wrong
address and the wrong thoughts;))
D> address at all funny thing: the number of
Apartments: 120, but I'm always drawn to dial 128. So it turns 
out bugs! :) 

A> And how old are you?
D> I am 21 years ...

A> Tell us what you do now
projects?
D> The main project - to find a job!
well, write Shuffle Commander v2.2,
wrapper for the DonNews. More people are remembered
about Mario Islands and about Click Mania. Too
have to build upon. :) Besides this there
A large pile of projects, but I do not want to talk about them, 
and then remember somebody and sometime and make append! :))) 

Such are the things ...

                         Disabler / DPL '2 oo1

A> For the time elapsed since the previous letter, I got my own 
fidoshny address, that cost me big time costs associated with 
sampling and parsing mail : (So good that you are not connected 
to the network;))) D> Actually, it's not, I can throw off 
SMS'ki through the Inet! www.smska.ru / sms, code +7 903, 
Number 4022186. 

A> Why do you write in XAS'e? This is not a rhetorical question 
in the light of the emergence of ALASM 4.44 features - select a 
label from a list of the cursor, and to accelerate compilation 
by 30% :)))) D> I just got used to it. In addition, all

My ishodnyaki in XAS'e, and the way UNZIP / UNHRIP
> XAS> XAS_to_ALASM> ALASM inspires me!

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A> I am so correcting typos - it's done
in the last week before the release, more precisely,
between the release for his own (they are looking for typos), 
and for everyone else:) D> This is how I do !!!!!


A> But listalke framing can be done either on the turbo, or 
sacrificing a high character, or expanding the text sprite: (

All three options are not rulez ...
D> There is a version as quickly as possible and remove 
listalku HALT. Even if the interruption is not installed, it 
will almost not noticeable.

A> And music to listen to hunting ...
D> And I mazhok always yelling ...

A> In this case, my proposals for accelerating listalki for 5 
cycles (interestingly, Klim gave them to you?;)) Are canceled 
and new ones appear: instead of LD SP, adr

should juzat for musical
LD HL, (adr)
LD SP, adr +2
In general, it was as if I wrote for myself,
because everyone would have realized it myself, but the trouble 
is that no one will force me:) I've always

something to write, but often not what I asked, for example. I 
have since last year, I promise to release a new ANSI viewer: ( 
D> I'm from 1997 Mario! 

A> We Nikphe (used to be a coder;))) became
steep composer Covox Digital Music on
Chip'e:))) I wrote this as prog, so
No it does not Mouzon wrote, I AY
more like ... And you did not write music
AY? If yes, do not share for ZX-Guide?
D> once wrote 3 muzona.Eto was the year
so in 1996, then returned to listen to people and
their request, formatted disk with them:)) In
principle, and Digital I do not write, but only remixes: ((

A> You are currently in their prog write a little, and
nothing ...
D> I think that a person interesting prog itself, but not when 
its author burned my first Speccy or wrote the first time

DI: HALT:)))

A> Which was your first dates preserved release?
D> The very first job: Miss Pacman with my
zagruzchikom.Esli picture and I'm not mistaken -
it was in 1995. But to preserve it, or
No, I do not know it was somewhere on tape.

A> What is your program is the largest of
volume?
D> Of course, UltraSonic! Nearly seven files
in XAS'e! And this is without any lotions, which are still the 
same. 

A> What's - the most difficult to assemble?
D> Again US. Indeed, early versions have been copy-protected! 
Then I have sex with all xor'kami, formats, etc. lazhey!


A> What's - the longest was made?
D> The one who is not ready yet: Mario Islands
Done from January 1997 to the present day.
Or rather, not done. And so: US - 7 months
from beginning work before the first version; Shuffle
Commander - 5 months, etc.

A> And what are you most proud of? ;)
D> I am proud of all! I do not have programs for
that I would be ashamed. Well, a few exceptions, which I keep 
silence. 

A> I've been recently decompiled PT3 8 )))))
This is the biggest prog, which I had
business - 297 (originally, to optimize -
320! There was a very jolly code;)) sectors
alasmovskogo Sorsa, Campiglio 15 seconds%)
In XAS, it would not otkompililas - tabla label would not be 
enough - they are 20k!!! '))))))) D> was the case, I decompiled 
ROM ... Well crap out there! :) 

A> Which algorithm works Graph to
Text Converter?
D> By the principle of finding differences. Ie take
piece of screens, Ksor with the symbol and think how many bits 
are left. If zero, all ok, if not, remember the number of 
differences and the number of characters and repeat all of 
following symbol. 

A> Did you implement in your
pentagon Turbo without WAIT? We now have T S
over these beats - can not find the
quick-mikruhu K531TV9: ((
D> And I have not the Pentagon, I have abruptly pathology! 
Called "Taganrog". The machine simply super (when not buggy). 
Only the turbo on She did not stavitsya.Nikto until he could! A 
WAIT cut - simply: rezhesh WAIT and sadish

it to +5 v, and you take direct signalets CLK
with the counter and lets through the inverter
transistor.

A> Once I somewhere read that you have developed a format for 
quick player AY! I would like more detail ... And then I had 
thoughts on this ... How is it done in a demo TD or SC, not 
wheel - the muse of many eating places, and I wanted April 
16-bit compressed Flow - A, B, C (frq, vol, mask), N + E, 
compression by a variant of the method LZ with the ban options

blocks containing other links ... But I do not
could come up with a clever compression algorithm for
this method: (Player be eating 1000-1200
tick (of course, a constant, but even the most 
Multicolor-bordernoy demo does not very important difference + 
-200 cycles ...) [Note. 2004: there was a mean player, lying on 
my drives under the name LZDEPP4, cycles in it: 1078.5 
(average), 1234 (maximum), 1245 (version with fixed time). 
Packer for him and not written.] D> My player plays all the 
patterns of queue and selects the ports AY differences

if they exist - and pack their stores - if not, put a marker 
that a certain Mounting of the registers are not changed. Then 
on the table chooses the patterns and plays them. Playing time 
from 100 to 1100 cycles, but on average about 350 cycles. 

A> As progress in developing a stack players? .. I MOD'S 
decompile, not only for changing player, but also for many 
other reasons - the program partly obsolete: ( D> no luck, 
because No time for all these engage in: (A at the expense of 
MOD'S - should not be! There's a * # na, that's not even worth 
it climb - Fucking shit. :)))


A> How is Mario Islands? :)
D> As always - in any way:) I say: Fill in Mario. And I 
replied: paint levels, as only they will be 50. I for two weeks 
and a week Fill gather Mario. That's all ends, because two 
years of requests to me does not provide any level !!!:(


A> Where do you study / work, and when you can
wait for an answer? ;))))
D> I never learn. I work in advertising
agency the following positions: artist / rigger
/ Electrician / etc

By the way, the question of autobiography:

Born: 18.06.1980
He went to school - 8 years in college - 5 years;
at the Institute - 1 semestr.V result have:
certificate of secondary education incomplete;
diploma engineering programmer specializing in programming for 
local area networks; bunch of subpoenas recruiting office:) Now 
I'm 21, in the summer will be 22. Razveden.V September new 
wedding! The first computer came with me in 1995. It was VESTA 
48k. Prozhila ona me about three months and

died as a result of the upgrade. Then came "Taganrog" + AY. A 
year later, I changed fee and set FDD, then Covox, SounDrive, 
Cache 16k, then setup, Cache 64k + heap all sorts of small 
primochek.V this state he lived to see today. However, after 
its inclusion should kick, move the system connector, cover a 
floor ... With the advent of my first began the study with the 
Basic Taganrog, after installing the FDD learned assm for 2 
months ... Today, I know almost all major languages ​​in pC and 
ZX. Total 17 pieces. Plus spoken: English, Russian,

German. What else? I do not know !!!...

Such here I am ...

                         24.Apr '2002 20:28

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                          8-928-91-33-007

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