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│ МНЕНИЕ: GENERAL SOUND │
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(C) Mystery/Flash
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Ну замучил меня Slacky! Напиши да напиши
чего-нибудь в газетку! Ну пришлось... А
разговор пойдет о не безызвестном General
Sound, разработанном X-Trade из Питера
(привет-привет и утром два привета:)
General Sound: мнение пользователя и
програмиста.
────── 1. Мнение пользователя. ──────
Началось все с того, что купил я себе сие
устройство иthe long-awaited one has finally arrived
parcel with an indescribable miracle (in
in the future simply: GS, it, etc.), a bunch
prices and the nth number of disks in
dimensions three pieces. After several
moments of the rustle of paper, a torn parcel
I saw This... scarf size 140 by 50
(approximately, I don’t remember exactly) with
a couple of connectors and a bunch of 'cockroaches' with
erased names. Mounting quality
quite good. Connection GS took
a few seconds: since I have SCORP, then
I just had to plug the board into the connector.
Next I connected the output to the amplifier. C
the third connector came out small
difficulties: I could not understand for
what is this weight needed? Decided to shed some light
to this riddle with the help of those leaves
who came to me. Oddly enough,
except for advertising information and manuals
nothing on GS programming
there was no more! Okay, that’s not what happened.
After a telephone conversation with Sergei
Zonov found out that this connector is for
connecting additional memory and what
fee soongoes on sale (as far as
soon I don’t even know). After a quick
viewing the discs I came to the conclusion that on
two of them are recorded ZX-FORMAT 6, and on
friend - two players, a couple of numbers
newspapers ZX-NEWS (HI, GUYS!!!) with information
for GS and player as well as four pieces of music,
converted from Amiga. I don’t know who and
how I converted them, but there was only one of them
completely filled with code #FF, as a result
which was not played at all. These little pieces of music
it turned out to be very little for me and I,
Taking with me 25 disks, went to
to our Novosibirsk Amizhnik Alexey and
I recorded a bunch of MODs, for which he deserves special mention
Thank you very much - THANX! After listening to the whole
this dirty trick and immensely attracted to me
I wanted even more MODs - yes
It's a shame - we've run out of clean disks.
Promised in advertising brochures
music editor, adapted
under GS, nothing was found on the disk. For
methe fact remains a mystery
what Format sent me is, of course,
made me happy, but still... I wanted
also see games with sound output on
GS, where can I get them? Nobody
sends! In general, GS plays cool.
────── 2. Programmer's opinion ──────
Having read several times not very large
programming instructions GS, i
I just tried to use it
acquired knowledge for the benefit
humanity - uploaded several
samples and, after some experimentation,
they started playing. But with such a nasty
quality... then I suddenly remembered
that the sound there should be in symbolic form
(from -127 to +128), quickly converted
their program of a dozen lines and forward - to
enjoying high-quality sound.
The GS is programmed quite simply - via
a couple of ports (you can read more
in some roomZX-NEWS, which one, me
I don't remember). Why am I all this: master
Anyone can control GS,
more or less knowledgeable about assembler commands
also their purpose :) Everything is quite
is described in detail in the instructions, and
The controls are very simple. Long story short on this
I'll finish: typing texts is not
pussies draw on fences, so...
In general, what's what here. GS is a cool thing.
Buy it and have a blast
height Programs for GS are written
adapt, etc., so informational
you are not in danger of hunger. P. S. Appeal to X-
Trade The following glitch was discovered in GS: some
MODs do not play (for example, muse SHORT with
Amiga I don’t remember which author or, for example,
C64 is also from there, I don’t know;) If
Anyone have any questions then
call or write. Best regards
wishes, Mystery Happy New Year to you!!!
Ed> Let me intervene in the 'sound'
reasoning Mystery to add to the right-
wow the owner of the above mentioned music. cardsthe following comments. 1) In my opinion, not
the use of statistics in GS is very justified
chesical memory, although this may have reduced
board dimensions. 2) It is necessary to make a
detailed documentation on connecting GS to
any Spectrum, because not everyone has Scorpios with
connectors. 3) The ROM installed on the board
make it programmatically accessible.
This is probably all I want to see
alised. Unfortunately the memory capacity is not
allows you to place the pinout here
Dov, but I hope that Mr. Zonov will correct
this is the case.
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