HARDWARE - announcement of Falcon Sound Drive.

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         Coming soon from FALCON:

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           1.Falcon Sound Drive

   Coming soon in one of the ECHO rooms for those who wish to-
who want to assemble their own musical
set-top box (analogous to Sound Drive, Azure Sound
Drive, etc.) the diagram will be published
FALCON SOUND DRIVE.

   Advantages of this device:

   1. Properly executed connection
DAC chips, allowing you to obtain a
high-quality sound (in other musical
simplified connection is used
DAC chips, which is why they are highly
prone to interference).

   2. Full buffering of the address bus and
data bus (developers of other boards this
didn't seem to care much about the problem).

   3. Small number of chip packages
(Sound Drive - 9 pcs., Azure Sound Drive -
11 pcs., FALCON SOUND DRIVE - 7 in stan-
standard version and 8 with built-in staircase
re-amplifier 2*6 W.).

   Similar to Azure Sound Drive my board
emulates the work of other music
cable cards and has a stereo output, i.e. 4
eight-bit DAC channels grouped into 2
stereo channel (Azure Sound Drive although
advertised as a board with Quadro output,
in fact it is not, because
channels are also grouped into stereo channels
move).

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             2. "Nimble BYTE"

   Perhaps soon forowners of 'Bytes'
(perhaps in Belarus this is the most
widespread SPECTRUM-compatible
computer) better times will come and they
will be able to start their machines normally
download programs such as Vibrations,
MicroEditor (in which, in fact, I and
I’m typing this text (Best text processor!),
since I have PROFI) and others that
mercilessly braked on these braked cars
tires

   The first 'Byte' that came to me after a long time
effort (or maybe someone has already done this
and I suffered in vain?) I managed to intelligently de-
about after a year (worked on
this question occasionally - depending on my mood) ra-
bots on this question:

   12/7/96 48th diskless 'Byte' earned
Tal, showing in the ZXBENCHMARK test the indicator
performance in RAM - 118% and in ROM -
128%.  Now tests are coming on 128s
disk machines and repeat testing
power and reliability of the circuit.

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   Andrey Panyutich (FALCON/ATLANTA h.g.)

                 7.12.96
        phone (8-016-32) 2-13-90

Address:

   225140, Republic of Belarus,
   Brest region, Pruzhany,
   st. Vashkevicha, 4, apt. 42
   Panyutich A.B.
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   From the editor:

   The news that it was finally possible
speed up 'Byte' gave us a lot of work
reach, because  almost all of Brest works for
'Baytakh' (including the editors of 'Echo') and
endureshuge inconvenience due to small
These speeds are generally quite good, but
heavily braked cars. We additionally
contacted Falcon and found out that once
the race of 128 cars was also successful!
True, some trials have not yet been solved
conflict between the overclocked 'Byte' and the dis-
leader, but we hope that there will be a solution
found and the owners of 'Bytes' are finally able to
can work normally with the programs,
which previously slowed down or simply did not
worked.

      Read the next issues of Echo!

   By the way, we have a normally working
on the usual 128th 'Byte' Micro Editor, so
that if anyone needs it, call. Vpro-
which we usually all use IS-EDITOR
or ZX-ASM.