─── Technodrome 1 ───
Hello everyone!
Today is Friday, which means
Today I cleaned up my room -
those, therefore, there was free space on my table
a place where you can put a fire-
a new AT keyboard to print the map
Loss of text, and even from the monitor screen
the dried brains of some na-
an insect that had the audacity to land
on my favorite unit, and this is on pa-
improved the image quality by three orders of magnitude
injuries...
But this is not the main thing. And the main thing is that
the order in my room is signaled by the windows -
the beginning of the creative process that took place with
time immemorial and radically changed
the course of history of generally accepted polarizers....
oh... I'm not talking about that... yes, so, in summary
many years of work has become a certain device,
which I would like to tell readers about.
For those who are not yet in the know: the unit
consists of two devices - new
graphics mode and accelerator. From the looks of it
is two different scarves that are
will connect to your computer.
“What is this for?” they will ask.
Some of me are banal erudite.
“And for this!”, I will answer them,
"to make working with the computer more pleasant, yes
so that programmers don’t sit idle, but
test a new card and make you happy
users of new masterpieces...". Well, yesEnough about Foma, it’s time to talk about Yerema...
So, the first device is a scarf but
new graphics mode. She will allow
work with a resolution of 384 by 256 pixels,
while having 256 colors per point (not per
byte, not per line, not per screen, namely
by 1 point). The entire screen, with a volume of almost one hundred
kilobyte, divided into blocks of 8Kbyte, which
which can wedge into space
processor from address 16384, i.e. from the stan-
dart video area. This is controlled by one
this port to which you just need to write
work block number. Well, also on this one
the card has one DDP channel (or DMA, for those who
whichever you like best), which thanks
with his cunning scheme he drags blocks of 32Kby-
te from main memory to video RAM, in one
interruption without being distracting at all
processor...
Well, the second scarf, called accelerated
The agent is a normal process
rubbish, but working with a “slight” acceleration
I eat. In addition to the process, the scarf has two
sockets for installing any SIMM plates
containers. This memory will replace the native one
and add your own. This approach allowed
lil to simplify the graphic scarf pattern,
increase speed by an order of magnitude, increase
increase the connection of the accelerator to the computer, and
most importantly, you will forever lose your
catching pain about how to expand
memory of your pathologist, but having a new one
graphic mode, questions about the advisability
nessincreasing the memory capacity can be considered
become inappropriate.
Regarding acceleration, I can say this:
that: in RAM the percentage accelerates to 7 MHz, with
working with advanced graphics mode
12 MHz, in ROM - 12 MHz, and ports at 3.5/7
MHz... Such acceleration coupled with DMA at
graphics card allows you to achieve
grandiose results when displaying graphics
ki!!!
That's basically all for now... What
concerns the release of this board: circuit diagram
fiki is completely ready, the board is wired,
All that remains is to make clean boards,
but since making them costs me
It's ABSOLUTELY free, then there's no problem with it
will be (by the way, the boards are of the fourth class
complexity, i.e. green and two roads
between the legs of the microcircuits). As for us-
ruler, then the scheme here is still being finalized,
or rather, something is being corrected, actually working
you're here for about 2-3 weeks. Therefore all this
will be ready (in the sense, will appear on sale)
same) somewhere in early to mid-February.
I’ll take my leave for now, see you again!!!
Vladimir Pavlyuchenko
St. Petersburg
08-01-99
P.S. By the way, if anyone is interested, let me know
I think the graphics card will cost 6-7
dollars, and the accelerator fee is exactly 6, if
without SIMM. It couldn't be cheaper.
P.P.S. From software for new graphics
there is a graphic editor(completely re-
made by ARTSTUDIO in the style of 3D-STUDIO with
IBM), there are a dozen different demos, several
remade old games, the term is added
minalka under Hayes (under MMD already exists), yes
a few simple Tetris-type toys and
Pacman. Well, about a hundred cool pictures
nok, completed with IBM. Currently underway
active work on reworking UFO 2, and in
The entire IBM emulator is written.
P.P.P.S. You can contact me
only via the network by going to X-FILES BBS
or by writing me a letter to the address that
you will find at the station. No phones!
All questions in soap or in the BBS terminal.
By the way, regarding the device diagram: Fig.
I won’t take it and put it on the BBS. Instead of
this will result in a series of articles appearing on the station, where
everything is chewed down to the smallest detail and completely destroyed
the work of all the iron has been collected... So,
if you know what LA3 is, then collect
the diagram will not be difficult.
* from the editors it remains to add that we
We hope to receive the promised information
before it appears on the X-FILES BBS.
If for any reason you do not
do not have access to any XTR compatible
network, you can send letters to the editor's address:
tions, they will be transferred to the author of the article, and
the answer is published in our newspaper.
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