iS-DOS - 3M and SERG visiting the creator of the hard drive controller (iS-DOS).



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1. At the end of August 1999, i.e. most recently, me, 3M and SERG
We saw a hard drive controller (iS-DOS) assembled by Borya.
That's how it was.
  On the morning of the last Saturday in August Borya came and
I brought with me a computer, a monitor, a controller and the screw itself. Screw
It turned out to be a 100-meter (Mb), bought on the last cloud for 100 rubles.
True, it had a couple of bad sectors. The controller represented
is a single-sided printed circuit board with 6 chips the size of
2 matchboxes. (==) Scheme taken from ZX-FORMAT #8, drivers
under iS-DOS it is located there. The board is assembled, of course, on wires.
Naturally because this is the first copy. At first all
this mess did not want to work, or rather, the screw when recording was very
ate currents. The decision instantly came to pick up an additional
power supply, which was done. An additional power supply was taken
my SCORP. Having configured the driver in the old version of iS-DOS, we started
global testing. By breaking the screw into 5 devices of 28000 each
blocks, we started copying all kinds of crap there in the form of text
files about Stirlitz 450 bl. long. Copy experiment
from one logical device to another occurred almost
instantly, the HDD access light was busy with its direct
responsibilities and the whole boring process we tracked precisely by
her. Eh, sorry Artemcame over - he would have liked it. Upon completion
After all the experiments, we realized that the coca.com program is BUGLY,
and copy.com works great. Blaming it all on antiquity
iS-DOS, we began to install the driver under
iS-DOS'99, we also encountered glitches here (error 250). Nothing
changed, the sucker still crap on the screw, but made a copy
everything I should. In short, it's time to take stock. Laughing together -
hovering over the inscription in the instructions for installing the hard drive -
"... after installing the hard drive, fill it with all sorts of nonsense,
the coca.com program will help you with this..." - everyone has become
to wonder. In short, everyone liked it. Yes, I almost forgot, we are trying
feel free to save .trd images on the screw, although you haven’t tried them
restoration works, but poorly. On this let the law-
read news number one, from which news number two follows.
2. At the moment, 3M is distributing a double-sided control board
Lera. Artem is busy developing an RS controller.
3. At the end of August 1999, another
party, in which ZX-SPECTRUM participated. Well, let's wait
description of the party in the computer press. Full name -
"Festival of computer art ChAOS CoNs7rAc7iOn'999".
4. Artem chose a pseudonym (code name), now hePink Panther.
5. SERG DRAGON left for Yekaterinburg last Sunday,
study. Before leaving, he left a couple of articles. We are waiting for letters.
6. Gillian Anderson, who starred in "The X-Files"
(The X-Files), it turns out that in her youth she posed in porn magazines
lah, so much so that censorship prohibited their import into the USA (Anderson
originally from Canada). She also took third place in the competition
for ... blowjob (75 men in 2 hours). And she has tattoos on her groin-
roving The inscription says something like “I will not refuse anyone.” Wow,
how am I going to look at these “charming” lips now?
"The X-Files"!? Information from Speed-info'98, photo attached
They lied, I saw it myself.
7. If you are seriously working on your computer, then you
probably collected system programs on a separate disk so that
more convenient to work. Now I'll tell you how to write boot, which
will you be able to run all this, since the usual one is not suitable here?
dit - too long. You have to wait for it to load, run the cursor,
When looking for the desired file, press "ENTER". To run from my boot
Just hold down the key assigned to the desired file.
So we write in BASIC:


   1 REM MSD FAST BOOT, MAX SNAKE 9.1999
   5 LET X=0: LET Y=0: LET FILES=3 <--- We have 3 files in DATA
 10 FOR I=1 TO FILES
  20 READ K$,READ F$
  30 IF Y>=21 THEN LET X=16  <--- In case there are > 21 files
 40 PRINT AT Y,X; K$;"-";F$
  50 LET Y=Y+1
  60 NEXT I
 100 RESTORE 1000
 110 FOR I=1 TO FILES
 130 READ K$,READ F$
 130 IF INKEY$=K$ THEN CLS: PRINT AT 21.14; INK 3; F$:
GOTO 500
 140 NEXT I
 150 GOTO 100
 500 RANDOMIZE USR 15619: REM: RUN F$

1000 DATA "a","ART128+"
1001 DATA "f","FUTv2.01"
1002 DATA "Z","ZXZIP!s"

 <--- add here what you need, don’t forget to change
FILES variable.


  If you type a lot of empty lines DATA ".","........., and
set the FILES variable as LET FILES= VAL ".", then when
In addition to innovations, there will be no need to rewrite the program;
Just add a new file name to DATA using the disk doctor.
Don't forget to fill the remaining dots with spaces and a variable
Correct FILES too. If you find errors in the program, then
try to fix them yourself.
8. From September 15, public transport in our city will become
paid. Trolleybuses, trams - 1 rub. For schoolchildren and students
50 kopecks Buses are still free.
9. This issue is compiled entirely onour (MSD's) articles.
I hope it stays that way in the future. Many thanks to all the authors of the articles,
including those whose articles have not yet been published.
10. The latest news, magazines have been released MIRACLE #3,
ZX-POWER #3 and DEJA VU #8, wait!


      As always, the most interesting things for you have been collected by MAX SNAKE

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