(C) POLTERGEIST'97
Poor and unhappy users Profi!
For six years now they have been suffering from
what's in games and demos, sprites and runners
the lines twitch defectively, flicker or
they all disappear. Many of them know that
the problem is in INT, and many probably try
tried to do something about it, but nothing
this did not work out because the architecture
Profi well, very special.
The creators of this computer did a very
cunningly and cleverly: instead of betting
a bunch of logic to isolate the necessary signals
cash types KSI, SSI, PAPER, BLANK etc.
they installed only one RF2, recorded in
her timing diagrams of signals, and on ad-
The Russian Federation's railway lines filed a cyclic transfer
set of addresses, including frame and lowercase
the synchronization pulses have already been mixed into
a single synchronization signal directly
but in the chip. The situation at first glance is hopeless (yes
and on the second one too) - the only thing that can-
but what could be done was to “re-do” it again
RF2 (INT also goes through this microcircuit
mu), but of course the amount of programmatic
there are negligibly few moats per capita and
would you continue to live until the end of days,
if thisproblem didn't work
POLTERGEIST,that is, me!
They brought me Profi six months ago and
demanded that his INT be remade with a more lenient
who doesn't look like anything at all,
to a less right one, which at least looks like
something. "What?", I thought then, - "after all
if you correct it in Profi INT, then you can use it
but it will even look like MULTICOLOR, because
its raster coincides with PENTAGON's,
and the memory is transparent", and I started doing this
serious problem.After a while I
came to the conclusion that there was “little bloodshed” here
there is no way around it and the simplest thing is to change it
RF'ku. Well, that means I desoldered the microcircuit,
considered, moved INT to a more correct one
place and was already ready to take it to the "pro-
sewing", how the devil pulled me to look into
bit RF'ki, which on the diagram was listed as
unused.
And what do you think I found there??!
Yes, nothing more than a clean personnel
sync pulse Thus, the axiom of the principle
showing that everything ingenious is simple, confirms
I struggled once again.
So here's what you need to do to INT
became more correct and even started working
MULTICOLOR:
1) Turn down your sistem2) ... Oops! Yes, I forgot that you are not stupid
IBM's users, and more knowledgeable
SPECTRUM's. In short, find it at the bottom
board of your Profi, a big cockroach
which24 legs. Find 13th leg (legs
count counterclockwise starting
from the key) and cut off the road leading from it.
Throw the cut road onto the 14th leg and
after this INT you will have, well, practically
PENTAGON's. Phase of SSI relative to SSI
in Profi slightly different than in
Pentagon and because of this there are curb stripes
will be moved to the side. At one time I
I didn’t solve the problem, but now it’s already
it's too late, since there is neither Profi nor schematics for it,
I don't have it on hand. But it might be
Wiring is also no more difficult. In short, I think that everything is clear even to those
who doesn’t know which end to take the pa-
yalnik
Yes, by the way, if you want to re-
enable INT from PENTAGON's
to "branded" then you can spa-
Take everything according to the diagrams given
below. The first option is more
simple, but the second scheme is more-
more noise-resistant. (Tracks
with arrows on picture
must be connected to
shaperINT) 
And finally, I want to warn the program
mists with Profi: do not sync
MULTICOLOR for this newer INT - yours
creations will most likely glitch
(slightly!) on the same PENTAGONs.
Well, now allow me to shuffle around and
say goodbye:
POLTERGEIST was with you
From Samara
13.02.97
P.S. Don't forget to look at the advertisement!
O:> From the editor, I would like to say the following
due: today, in Samara there is no
there are practically no known ones left
us Profi, not converted according to this scheme.
Imagine - a whole city, and nowhere to
look at the glitches! As you probably realized,
after this modification, it starts working
not only MULTICOLOR, but also stop jerking
put sprites and scrollers into music demo!
The border really remains somewhat
different than on PENTAGON, but this is not true
important. The main thing is that if the effects
go at the top or bottom of the curb,
they are almost the same! It's time-
significant for all of us it was that
the only and unique set
MULTICOLOR effects written by Samara
programmers ( part from GIFT FOR M.M.A
(SPEED CO.'96)) is on the converted
Profi, as on a live PENTAGON, under which
ry she actually synchronized in
within two weeks!And this is not to mention
that MULTICOLORs work without problems
in
SATISFACTION,INSULT,ECSTASY,ENL'96 DEMOS,
BRAIN CRASH and many many others!
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