Not so long ago, but already last year... I read about the appearance of TurboSound FM on sale. Immediately interested─ meddled, because For quite some time now there have been thoughts in my head that It would be nice to take up music. Let's start with converting music from my large collection of ADLIB modules and Amiga AHX. Then re─ go to MIDI music. The small number stopped me channels from AY. Now I hope everything will work out with six channels. In any case, I write music better than I draw. Stick-stick-cucumber; It turned out like hell... --- Recently met with Surfin Bird (SB) about transferring to him money for the game Fire And Ice. The coder (Slavka Kalinin) refused the money and advised him to give it back them (500 rubles) to the artist who needs them more than Warbler. We talked with SB and I got him interested in Fido reading technology on ZX. Let's go to my house. I showed him how it works for me. We discussed Final Fantasy games, emulation problems and music ie games. We considered the prospects for the development of graphical technologies─ Spectrum, and in particular a certain v9990. Played Hercules PSOne. SB smokes a lot. Infected me with the game Final Fantasy. I got the Russian version of FF5 for Super Nintendo consoles. I started playing and the game immediately sucked me in─ la. Great music and an exciting plot - that's the secret this game. --- At Budder's request, I tested the operation of WDC with SMUC on a FAT32 HDD. Dragged from work by the ancientwinch 540 mb, formatted it, I uploaded a bunch of .mod music and tr_songs to it. Tested it. When I was putting the cable back on my HDD, I accidentally bent two extreme interface contact and did not notice this. After switching on a shadow company told me the unpleasant news that the HDD mine is clean and there are no ZX partitions. Of course I was surprised. Armed with an ALCO HDDoctor, he climbed onto the hard drive and found the partition─ ly safe and sound. The shadow guy, however, persistently offered to create give a new section. Okay, what should I do? I saved it to the file su─ existing section and created a new one by shadow. Then I created a subdivision affairs and... the main section was lost again. I discovered that if I go into Partition Manager several times, then sometimes sections appear and you can even connect them. But very soon the connected disk turned itself off. Suspected mechanical problems, reconnected SMUC, reconnected helmet─ yf - didn't help. Then I took the HDD out of the system unit and subjected it to its external inspection. The bent contacts immediately caught my eye. He bent them back. I connected everything, returned the partition table from file back to the HDD and everything worked. However, later the winch sometimes got lost. --- New Year... They didn't let me sleep peacefully. --- After the new year... I sent money to ALCO (for the fact that it exists), AXOR (posters, competition, newspaper) ,CHRV (TurboSound FM). The parcel from Moscow took a very long time - exactly two weeks from the momentsending. Was it delivered on foot? My impression of the board is not very good - traces of rosin (or what was used to wash it off?); crookedly installed elements (one the resistor (capacitor?) is rotated by 40 degrees relative to the axis, along which it must be soldered; comb for board expansion For some reason it was bitten by hand. But it’s okay - the main thing is that everything is ok─ botalo. Connected, loaded the player and randomly poked into the music Ctber─ space III by Davos. At first everything worked great, but then At some point there was noise. This noise came and went but at the same time he did his best to interfere with listening to music. I checked the adapter, checked the contact between the crib and the board, turned it on music - hisses again. Immediately reported to the developer. The developer sent me a shocking letter saying it was fully compatible─ I couldn’t achieve success, and besides, I’m probably a Scorpio? These are the times. Not about any Scorpios and incomplete compatibility in advertising is not written :( CHRV assumed it was a curve player. Then I took over for serious testing in different players, with switching─ removing the turbo, as well as removing the second chip. Here are the test results: 1. There is some dependence on the Turbo mode. But you can’t say od─ It’s clear that with the turbo everything is glitchy, but without the turbo it works. No, I would─ It seems like everything works with the turbo, but without the turbo, miracles happen─ are expected, such as the disappearance of frequency indicators inplayers and the chip completely froze, until the power was turned off. 2. This is not the noise of the second chip, but the FM channel of the first chip. 3. Different players behave differently. - UNIPLAYER v1. 1 by RimoBlack plays with noise and without turbo almost always covers the chip; - SMPlayer v1. 1i by Tiden without turbo does not even display an indicator ry and shamelessly lies with the frequencies of notes (but this is the problem of the pro- player); - BESTVIEW plays normally in all modes; - Hyperion Player by RealSoftware loses indicators in turbo mode─ bench press For this reason I assumed that the write commands fall into into one chip, and read commands go to another chip. I tried to find out which command the noise appears on and downloaded module in Pro Tracker latest version. Broke off - everything here works great in all modes. A little later, I expanded the range of tested programs and edited new ones testing. These tests confirmed previous results, but What added to this was that no one except PT could lose─ play music with the turbo turned off - either they shut up immediately, or a few seconds after turning off the turbo. Somewhat later, CHRV suggested temporarily bending the 23rd pin both chips, which will turn off the FM channel. I turned it back, but now instead of the FM channel the second chip turned on. This I was surprised while watching the Devotion/Antares demo when I had suddenly two more channels began to chirp. ByeI put the device aside. --- February. I had a problem - two mail partitions on the ZX-HDD were killed. While receiving mail in iS-DOS, I noticed the LED on the display lit up─ code and myler gave me a message about a recording error. Nothing like that─ when I didn't see it. I pressed RESET, and when I started boot it came in again to the disk drive. In general, again there are problems with the disappearance of the HDD. Tugged cable, plugged SMUC into the next slot, it seemed to work. Here only iS-DOS could not open the disk with mail :( Well, okay, I’ve killed the disk more than once and always restored it practically without losses. I put the computer aside until the weekend. On the next day off I started restoring the mailbox─ affairs. To do this, I looked with the help of diskdoctor and made sure that Only the root directory was killed along with the occupied bitmap sectors. You need to pull out information by opening directories from to with the power of fdir over secondary directory handles. But having opened it like this So the directory needs to be copied everything from it, but there is a place─ only on the disk with the mail archive. Okay, there’s nothing to do, I’ll start copy to this disk. The second section is killed right there. Now you need to restore two partitions. I don’t dare spoil anything else on the HDD and therefore from the reserve─ Now I take out a pack of floppy disks, format them in iS-DOS and within a few hours─ for two hours I pulled out both sections in parts, recording them on floppy disks. I put the floppy disks aside and start lookingthe reason for the failure. Having not come up with anything better, I simply change the cable to another one. And oh wow─ before, everything works without failures. It took me more than an hour to load the floppy disks back onto the HDD and calculating file checksums. The test showed that 5 have changed files. I checked - indeed, there were strangers in the files symbols, but you can read them. I left it as is. --- There is a preliminary agreement with Zhabin to purchase the board Pentagon 1024SL in a new version. --- I ordered a ZX MULTI CARD from CARO. I've been waiting for this moment for a year and a half year. CARO said that he installed a clock on the board according to the ATM scheme. I don’t know software for this standard... --- Sad news: Konstantin Zaitsev, better known as Budder, due to his low interest from users in his programs, lost every incentive to improve your copier and universally─ th player supporting HDD/CD/DVD. Gentlemen, please support me coder. He gave me the latest versions of his software products. To co─ Unfortunately, they turned out to be useless for me, because these are all versions under NEMO-HDD. Kostya never made a version for me for SMUC :( The application contains the latest versions of programs. --- March. I finished reading the last twelfth volume of the collected works of A.P. Chekhov. --- The reconstruction of the cable television network in my area. Now I have 50 channels, more than a dozen of them which are broadcast with stereo sound. AnywayTV pi─ set STEREO. And only one channel in NICAM STEREO mode. Still nothing to watch... --- I recently became the happy(?) owner of a NETWORK ADAPTER for my PlayStation-2, which allowed me to connect the HDD and run games directly from your hard drive. It really hit home ─ local budget (1670 rubles for a controller and 1690 for HDD Samsung 80 GB), but nevertheless I am very pleased with the purchase. By the way, the most expensive game in my life is GranTurismo-4. She walked around─ cost me almost 7,500 rubles, because the CD included Take also a game console. And a little later, I also attached the steering wheel─ drink. Well, what can you do: auto racing is my passion. --- Two new old computers were issued for the work. Why new ones are old? Because although they are new, they have already work on the stand until the system is delivered. The configuration is so-so by modern standards, but we finally replaced the old "server", which controlled several The printer and plotter worked for years. Now everything "flies". The administrator of the corporate network came and connected the computer to the tee. At the same time, everyone uninstalled Kaspersky and installed Symantec. He says that it is cooler and allows you to centrally update antivirus database and manage settings. There are already about 1500 computers and private FTP servers in our network are a tasty morsel. Only after the new year they changed all passwords completely andI can't get anywhere now. New pa─ Good Samaritans are in no hurry to post the roles online. --- My Scorpio is still working. This year, 2,994 rubles have already been spent on the Spectrum. Or else there will be. --- Yesterday I decided to merge two partitions on the PC hard drive into one, so that the free space is one big piece. One section Mine was NTSC, and the second was FAT32. Installed Partition Magic 8.0 and converted FAT32 to NTFS. Like me I understand PM made it a standard Windows utility, not a standalone one─ specifically. Then I changed the cluster size so that it was the same both sections. When the meter showed 99%, the lights were turned off. I already I mentally said goodbye to the disk, but it turned out that nothing was lost─ lo, t. because the computer died already at the stage of checking the completed work─ you. I gave the command to combine two disks into one and went to look at the Form─ lu-1. When I returned 30 minutes later, the screen was lit with─ error communication. Okay, I rebooted the computer and it started. Windows I drove the hard drive in enhanced mode for almost an hour, at the same time displaying an endless stream of messages on the screen. What were these I didn't see the message, because... The screen scrolled continuously. When Windows finally booted, I discovered that the disks were not merged, but there was no free space on one of them 7.5 GB more. Programs for the Internet completely disappeared from the disk: browsers, down─ loaders and firewalls. The music catalog has disappearedarchive from Spectrum─ some toys in TZX format (original versions), darkness emulators and the most offensive thing is software for the PlayStation-2, which I collected bits and pieces over the course of a week.
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