News - Brief chronicle of events since October 2006. to March 2007

6x2006 KSA came and soldered the audio connector to the ATM. Fixed it  
ACEdit (0.999).                                                 
7-8x I completed the beeper player, wrote a music track for 40 seconds. Called
Seryogin, his DNA began to read CDs.                            
9-10x Accelerated the beeper player.                                  
12xKSA called - he says RamTop/CAIG sent him an SMS.          
13x Fixed the beeper player back, only with smooth drums.  
14x We went to the center with KSA, didn’t find an IDE card reader, went to the company
to Steve, there I got information: CyberDemon was not in ADG, in KSA 
There is a disc with an unfinished megadem from ADG. Met with       
Mimic (he showed 3 tracks of 1-2 patterns, in                 
ModPlugTracker). Alex X also works somewhere nearby, but we
not found with KSA. Updated the site. It took a dive to the Internet     
for almost 3 hours :(                                              
16x-18x Grisha brought an AT case and an external modem from Kostylya 
unknownsystems.                                            
21х KASIC called (calls from Zet9[+one more without me] and Budder    
for some reason I didn’t write it down here after the CC), I asked for a Ball Quest card, 
I told him again that Stagger is better for the championship. But the map  
did. The modem requires external power of an unknown type. Called  
KSA, said that UNRARO.59 does not unpack Add9.rar. But I have 
everything has unraveled! KASik also asked for a Mouzon and a picture. Mouzon I   
I wrote it in 3 hours (it turned out well) and sent it, a picture      
drew only on paper. Posted BQEdit, announced the site on  
zx.rk.ru.                                                       
22х Zet9 called >11 minutes. KSA arrived, connected power to    
to an external modem via a transformer, but for some reason the modem does not allow 
more than 2400 :( Then we spent a long time fiddling with the screw on the ATM. New      
The DNA version sees it, but the recording is buggy in the same way as in the doctor: 
in the middle of the sector DRQs stop, after which either the
an excerpt from another sector (on a Pentagon screw), or nothing  
not recorded (on another). Difference between IDE schemes on ATM and Pentagon
- in the ALE signal (according to ATA - CSEL). KSA soldered it on Pengagontoo, but nothing has changed!                                  
24x Chunin called and asked to send the immortal BQ.               
26x I tried to call Elfh, they didn’t answer the phone.                    
28x Fixed "Cat's House", sent to Elfh. Sent SMS Mopahy.  
29x Added a mouse to the Sewer. John came, a little        
fixed Gladkov's remix on TFM. Beeper music is not his          
inspired. I went to see him and wrote him the software. He gave me a jazz CD.
30х Fixed ripples in the Sewers. CASIC called for a long time in the evening,    
lured me to Voronezh, I agreed if they gave me a car.       
Corrected n.6 of "The Last Overlord", translated n.7.              
31х I corrected articles in translation.                               
2xi KSA came and showed a glitch: from QCЗ.11b UNRARO.59            
unpacks Add9 incorrectly (CRC errog).                     
4xiChunin is not traveling through Ryazan, and he has no free space.  
Neither he nor Shiru went to Igromir - only the former were there.        
5xi Fixed the picture for Kidsoft.                              
6xi Edited music for a magazine. There are a number of inserts for games.  
7xi Wrote about drawing                                         
9xi Seregin called - found a CD-ROM drive with which DNA is always available  
is friendly. KASIC called and said that he did not exhibit the work himself, that
limit on 2 works per group - so that one person does not take 3   
prize places, that the TS competition is for Newart, but there are no works yet 
(I offered to persuade Shiru). Requested access to Ball Quest and maps
levels 2,3. TDD called - he says, for a month in Ryazan, tomorrow    
will come with screws. Made maps of levels 2,3,4. Made an exit to BQ 
(Z+V).                                                          
11xi Downloaded the terrible ASCII and ANSI Jeffie. Finalized ANSI under    
ATM. I couldn't repeat the QC+Unrar glitch, although I triedall versions  
QC:(                                                           
12xi TDD called - he wants to buy either P102ХSL or ATM. I agree 
go to Moscow next weekend.                            
13xiZhabin does not have the 2nd assembled Pentagon102ХSL, he is all        
sold out. I spent 3 hours on the Internet (wrote articles on en.wikipedia.org
about Russian ZX). We chatted on the phone with TDD for a long time.               
14xi I tried to achieve hardware scrolling on ATM. Came   
TDD, I asked for a disk drive, but it’s the only free one I have 
remained, for some reason it does not work.                                 
15xi Got vertical scrolling of 5 pixels. Minor addresses   
are reset when clicking TXT->GFX on the border.                  
16xi-19xi Wrote a demo (100% of the time). KSA-7G called -           
turns out he still hasn't read IG#9.                       
19xi Downloaded ZX Shed#2 in pdf. For some reason they protected it from saving    
although it can be easily copied. Contents - continuous         
lameness. An incompatible Timex clone. "Best"         
an emulator that only supports 48k and is paid!   
The demo of falling platforms is passed off as almost a game. Russian games    
only from Cronosoft, they don’t know others. Newart promises R-Ture clone
per month.                                                       
25xi Shiru sent graphics for Grand Prix ATM. Seryogin repaired  
work with the screw after connecting to your ZXBUS computer (as much as 8 
slots). I fixed it by pulling the data to +5V at the farthest
processor end.                                               
26xi Finally assembled and released the demo.                          
28xi We went with Grisha to the nearest store (Steve happened to be there) - 
I bought a DVD cutter. Steve wanted to lure me into a promotion     
(advertise OOO "System" everywhere), I turned things around so that   
Grisha was recorded. Nero doesn't understand this cutter. By the way, inside    
The title doesn't match the paper. On the ZX it reads CDs, but not DVDs.      
reads:( Seryogin called- says he had the same thing, but 
he has a DVD with a bad laser, it needs to be adjusted.                  
29xi I tried to install Nero 7. This bastard demolished v5.5, then with  
gladly announced that she wants DirectX 9.0. Temporary files      
I created 300 M - and didn’t erase it! TDD called - he's leaving tomorrow,   
asks to get the Pentagon from Zhabin.                            
30xi Installed Nero 6.6. Cuts well, although the 5th speed screw does not 
pulls. Fixed ANSI. Started preparing ACE1.00.                     
2xiiJohn came. We tried to play my game with the exchange of checkers:
he won 2 times (3 moves, 1 move), I won 1 (4 moves). At Seryogin's     
A0 is buggy.                                                      
3xii I connected the second screw (soldered the power splitter). У      
Seryogina CMOS does not work. KSA connects Profi, he has it      
completely fell apart. I connected the old Pentagon, it didn't           
reset. Increase nutrition?                                  
4xii I destroyed alco@mail.ru, but the spam in Fido did not disappear.          
5xii Corrected ACE.                                             
7xiiI was thinking about the future of ACE. LVD was able to detect swallowing    
keyons on TFM. Sent to Seryogin at his request by the customizer    
CMOS (however, I think his hardware died, although he checked two
microcircuits).                                                    
9xiiJohn came. He refused to write music. We went to the bookstore  
store - posted PSS Krapivin and one book by Sofia Prokofieva.
John doesn't remember what IG number is in preparation!!! He's not past       
read it!!! Seryogin fixed the clock - the ports of the number were mixed up   
register and data. Now he needs to do the IORQ chain.         
11xii I corresponded with MSXepamu - it turned out that they are responsive comrades.
The author of SymbOS himself answered! LVD said TFM status ports   
were already there initially, and the brake averaged 30 µs. Sent 3       
articles!!! I further edited the translation of the v9990 instructions and printed them out.  
There is only one untranslated senile phrase left.             
12xii IG#10 - for now236k texts.                            
14xii At work I watched Radio on 92-97, typed clippings about ZX.  
Unsubscribed from RU.LINGUIST. Fixed sounds in Ball Quest.          
15xii At work I watched Radio 98-01 - already an advertising publication. 
16xii I added a “short history” for Axor and sent it. Shiru      
made by TFMucker06. I slightly modified one Mouzon for him.     
KSA came. I increased the power supply on the old Pentagon. Change         
floppy drive, ROM and VGshka did not help.                           
17xii Fixed the translation of "The Cat's House". Translated another one       
paragraph (4k) of "The Last Overlord" - 3 kilobytes per hour,     
in total, 3 paragraphs have now been translated, 8%. Fixed the Sewer, 
The mouse is still glitchy, but less so. I was able to run the demo and game under 
v9990 - the OpenMSX emulator is terribly slow!                       
18xii Fixed the Sewer - not only the mouse was buggy. Fixed   
several places in the "PP".20xii Redrawn the graphics in the Sewers, sent to Shiru.         
22xii CASIC called.                                             
23xii Took a parcel from CASIC (electric clock with a pendulum, box    
CD-R discs, "Globe" pen, 2 diplomas - cash on delivery  
85 rubles, at the post office they tore off a total of 96 rubles). Globally fixed graphics
in the Sewers, made a splash screen and started the final picture. Moran
sent 2 tracks - both do not fit even into 64 sectors, they are even       
Problem saving from editor!                                
24xii I didn’t finish painting the final picture. Fixed music for a magazine.
29xii Suggested that Shiru port BQ to MSX. M. bought          
Hindi tutorial - such a bad proofreading! In one place
instead of "Hindi" they wrote "Japanese", in another - a repetition of one and  
the same on the same page, in others - unpaired brackets and    
quotes...                                                      
31xii2006-1i2007 FinishedSewerage.                           
1iJohn fixed Mouzon, I increased the records.                     
2iI went to Shiru to write BQ for MSX.                             
6i LVD came and presented his TFM.                              
7i Arrived late because Shiru's computer was glitching when recording     
disks (on both cutters - his and mine).                   
8i TDD came (John promised to come too, but didn’t come). Started     
ATMky to show him the game, then he checked the one that had fallen off    
wiring the sound with a pin, and something shorted, it stank :( Z80     
works, AY works (although I first installed it on the Pentagon  
backwards). When removing the ROM, there is a curb, but there is no curb with it -     
a colored strip running across the entire screen.                   
9i TDD took the Pentagon.                                         
10iFixil BQMSX. 11iTDD came and brought the Pentagon back, already connected  
connectors, even repaired the keyboard (except for the combination buttons).        
12i I conducted an experiment: I selected 12,000+ words from the Lat-Russian dictionary 
those that are more or less clear to me. Got to the letter E, in this   
range turned out to be 40%. Of 12492 words (not proper names),  
including repetitions, I chose those that I remember or can guess      
the meaning is pretty accurate (including repetitions):                      
A-C: 1078 out of 2562 (42%)                                         
A-E: 1604 out of 3876 (41%)                                         
So many words - but I still can’t read... TDD came,    
hooked up TFM to the Pentagon and replaced the shortcuts on the keyboard with           
germanium I wrote an SMS to Slip (it should be today)       
in Ryazan) - he did not answer. I haven't heard from him since the new year.       
Wiki already has a transcription of the Phaistos Disc, I wasted my time...  
14i In the morning, Seryogin brought in the memory chips. Tried to pass Wander
Lust, cleared the entire labyrinth - but there is no result. Came during the day
John. We checked the time occupied by the TFM player with it            
(first I had to fix the player for the hardware - between  
by issuing the register number and value shouldNOPs or loop      
waiting for readiness). 2800 cycles on average both with delays,   
without them, and the maximum time is not limited - it is necessary       
optimize. I read Crash until 2 am. With Giana Sisters and        
Ultimate should be translated.                                     
15i According to the test, it turned out that 7 pieces of RUNS burned out. Replaced.     
It seems to work, but I haven’t tested the IDE and sound yet (sound is needed
solder in a good way).                                          
18i The CD cutter does not work on the ATM, but the CD-ROM does. Cutter       
works on the Pentagon. The resistor did not help with writing to the screw -    
bit it off.                                                    
19i Experimented with TFM.                                    
20iChecked Shiru firmware (added arbitrary interrupt  
frequencies) to ATM. xBIOS does not work with it, although the test ROM     
works.                                                       
22i T(s)S called,I became interested and promised to come. KSA came,  
showed a record-breaking thick letter-book to his family, soldered it  
sound for ATM. I tried to change TFM to ATM, but it doesn’t work :(   
When I returned it to the P102ХSL, I stuck it in, sliding it onto the leg, and confused  
sound input and output, but the board remains alive...                  
23i I soldered 3 wires on the pentagon, which ones came off, I restored them   
disks. I figured it out and connected the drive cable to the ATM. P102ХSL closed
casing. I recorded Time Gal again on a blank, but it’s hard to read -
on ATM it’s generally TERRIBLY bad :( And John didn’t return the old one to me... or
does it depend on the drive? I currently have 12 books open and unfinished. 
:(                                                              
23-24i Again I forgot to turn off the soldering iron at night.                  
25i Unsubscribed from SU.HISTORY.                                    
26iRewrote TFM player (6 streams + subsequently SSG).        
I finished watching and reading everything from Shiru.                                
27i Rewrote the TFMcom compiler. Experimented.             
28iJohn came, returned my disk with Time Gal, wrote 6        
patterns with highly non-standard development. TFMucker he's home and  
didn't launch. I wrote it to him again. BQMSX: auto-paste to disk   
(dsktool), fixed screen mode in loading (but it works     
only on the Korean MSX2), recorded screenshots (but because...    
The account output does not fit into the interrupt when taking a prize      
jerk). For some reason, cleaning the screen, which according to the program should
occur when the screen is disabled, visible. Showed Transman how 
convert to 15 colors.                                         
29i TDD did not get through and he did not respond to the SMS. Posted by player   
SSG (only 8/A/C/E envelope types, otherwise without           
restrictions), I don’t know how much better the flow is than Himik’s.    
1ii We met with KSA-7G Ronin at Ryazan-2, I gave him 3     
boxes of floppy disks and gave another one for LVD. KSA-7G soldered cord        
jack-jack, but it’s impossible to record sound from the ZX - it comes out almost  
single-bit, although broadcast in PCspeakers are ok           
(comparatively). Line input and microphone input are mixed up on mine  
sound?!?! Then the right channel almost disappeared.                   
Chii Translated 2nd paragraph(&)))) "The Lay of the   
Dragon) (3k). Corrected the player and compiler for TFM. Now     
always less than 15000 bars, cosmofm song even 6739 bars       
maximum! LVD's advice helped win 200-400 ticks. I wrote for a long time  
second compilation pass with three additional commands, but  
it may turn out to be unfavorable in terms of the length of the player (instead of 1k there will be 2k,
and the winnings are often smaller on small Mouzons), so I turned it off.
bii I tried to fix the loading in BQMSX - nothing helps...  
7ii I tried to copy "Shibenitsa" - the TV disc gives  every time  
images of different sizes, after recording to a real disk, sometimes    
even the directory is not readable. makefdi doesn't read disk. McDonald2.8   
I copied it, but only the intro works. I tried to compile MCC    
a complete overkill. It got even worse - the pause between 
conclusions in A and B. Translated TLotD a little.                      
8ii Wrote a doc on TFM.                                        
9ii I sat on TFM (corrected the document 2 times, the compiler is now      
compresses each track from the editor into one page).            
1Oii Experimented with TFM.                                   
11iiExperimented with TFM.                                   
12iiI was tinkering with the YM2203 emulator.                                   
1ЗiiI was tinkering with the YM2203 emulator.                                   
1Чii Compiled MSVCb and corrected 2 more places. Shiru assembled a new  
version of TFMucker, but with an old emulator. Dexus doesn't want to commit
its US version :(                                               
1Sii Help on TFM 1.7.                                           
16-18ii Finding around with the US sources (Dexus sent). John not     
arrived:( Posted by Mouzon ne4to strrrashnoe (much better than that  
what I wrote earlier).                                            
19ii Assembled USO.32b3+YM2203! Started redoing v0.35 - no      
HDD image files are working - they fall out.                        
2Oii I put it in the USO.35 YM2203, but could not synchronize.      
21iiI asked SMT how to synchronize. Translated another piece     
TLotD. Written by the author of a Hungarian page about post-1993 games.  
22ii Transman sent his Season of Sacura graphics conversions to 
15 colors (bad, moire).                                       
24-2bii I wrote an emulator.                                         
27iiAt work I was able to snatch time to write an emulator, and slept at home.  
28iiAdded the emulsion (Time Gal works! But on one drive      
Samsung '99 command #28 does not work). Released.         
1-2iii I slightly modified the emulsion. Wrote behrpy about hardware.        
Converted more characters for Sakura. They threaten to send me to St. Petersburg  
business trip.                                                   
Хiii Implemented packaging in the player. Compiled module      
less uncompiled! But the packaging strategy is suboptimal. 
5-7iii Converted characters for Sacura.                         
8iiiCleaned pictures for Sakura. I called Ronin - he doesn't answer  
Nik-O said he ran out of money. The screw began to knock    
(which of the two?)                                              
1Oiii Scanned a book about shadow monitor, assembled USO.36.1,  
fixed TFMcom and tfm.doc, posted everything, posted it at the same time and op18. 
11iii KSA came, soldered the power supply for the MK85 calculator and returned it
ROMs with Glukb.3 (he never tried them). Converted        
the last character for Sakura.                                
1Хiii The smaller screw has failed - many installed ones have died       
programs, incl. Outlook Express and MSVC.                       
1Siii I tried to rearrange OE - it doesn’t work: it picks up mail, but 
letters cannot be created or edited. T. went to Moscow (in
business trip) with TFM, but Chunin did not come to meet her -     
far from it and from the metro.                                      
1biii I wrote Python using calculator commands until 4 am.          
17iii Added Python (but left cleaning and checking         
hits the rabbit on the tail), it turned out to be 182 bytes.              
18iii Shiru 182 bytes for some reason was not pinned, someone on PC      
made 154, but it seems without checking whether the rabbit hit      
tail KSA came and fixed the calculator. I replaced the ROM in       
Pentagon, but it does not start (wildly buggy) with the connected    
IDE controller. This controller refused to work on P102ХSL 
- gave it to KSA so that he could check with Seryogin.Straightened        
a skewed motor near the disk drive on the pentagon. KSA brought   
my new game in BASIC :) I collected the source code and a new version   
BQZX. I scanned a book about SMUC. I uploaded a bunch of things to the internet.      
19iii Reduced Python to 113 (121 if screen clearing) bytes.
MC24 does not want to tune on a real Pentagon, only under   
emulem :(                                                       
21iii Axor sent games. Played.                                 
2Зiii Jerri says that he has finally released Stronghold in         
Cronosoft`e (with my translation edited by Gasman`a). Nik-O    
sent a cool track under TFM.