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Well, in this section, we will re-
chat descriptions of various authors
application and system pro-
gram.Editorial staff X-FILES
accepts applications for distribution
the use of copyrighted programs in
affairs of the Chelyabinsk region, naturally
strictly with payment to the authors
remuneration. Its amount
depends on the complexity of the program,
its capabilities, etc. And also the best
it will be better if you find time
come to the Chelyabinsk radio station
nok, where everything will be possible -
Discuss thoroughly (see map).
In this issue I(SMOKE) present-
I would like to bring to your attention one of the first
exit your system programs.
A little background. When in
1990, I bought my first
spectrum 48, I immediately became interested
its sound capabilities intruded
you. And, naturally, I was far away
not delighted with them. And precisely in
at that time, I became interested in the program
frames that allowed semi-
chat on SPECCY live, digitized
th sound. One of the first programs
there was this type of program
"SPEAKEASY"company QUICKSILVA.
more than modest opportunities,I was not satisfied at all, and then
I decided to write my own
program, but with a more developed
service and already in machine codes.
It took about two months,
since the machine codes I then
I was just studying, and I typed it in
super-buggy assembler"ZEUS"!
Of course they helped me a lot here
various books of "INFORCOM" and
other literature. Your own program
I called it "D.S.R", and the name
it was deciphered as:
"Digital Sound Recorder".Well
in Russian "Digital Recorder"
th Sound". I digitized the mass
various sounds and even gathered
give your program to one
friend, for distribution, but not-
an unexpected incident changed everything.
I got a ZX-SPECTRUM 128+ with
music coprocessor AY.A
after a couple of days and a few games
devices using AY-8912.Among
there was one game from the company OCEAN and
was called CHASE H.Q. It is in
hey, this is the first time I heard digitized
new sounds played through
AY.And the sound quality was
much better than in my DSR.
Unfortunately, getting into this program
I was not able to use ramma
MONS, and without any information
mation on AY-8912(10), I am forced
was limitedjust playing
this wonderful toy. And what
concerns DSR, then I agree with him
completely cooled down and pushed into
far box. Almost five later
years, already knowing AY quite well
and machine codes, I somehow looked for
a blank floppy disk for recording something
-that. Imagine my surprise-
tion when reading the catalog of one
from old floppy disks, I suddenly saw
your old dusty DSR!
at this time I already had
ZS-SCORPION 256K as well as free-
free access to IBM technology. In my
collections of system programs would-
A couple of similar programs are:
ZX-RECORD and SOUND. But they again
did not have advanced service
sa. And then an idea came to me
create a digitizer program that
which could create competition
tion to all programs of this kind.
It was decided to keep the name
"Digital Sound Recorder"! Somewhere
a week later, the program was th-
product. With its description I offer
I hope you take a look.
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**** DIGITAL SOUND RECORDER ****
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After loading the program, you will see
put the main control in front of you
shining panel. It frosts quite
nice design a la
Windows. All DSR functions are performed
can be found by hovering the cursor -
-arrows on one of the pictograms.
Control keyscursor:
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║Q-up, A-down, O-left, P-right-║
║in,SPACE-activation of the function. ║
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Total on the control panel on-
There are four pictograms:
RECORD,PLAY,SYSTEM,DISC.Their designations
Meanings: "RECORD" - in the form of an inscription
REC,"PLAY" - in the form of a megaphone,
"SYSTEM" - in the form of the inscription SYS,
"DISC" - in the form of a floppy disk.
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So, now I will describe each of
pictograms separately.
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************ RECORD ************
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When this icon is activated,
we, recording starts immediately
sound from the computer's TAPE-IN input
starting from address: vCOO0 or
49152 DEC.Initial sound length
is equal to 8000 kilobytes, but you, of course,
but you can change it. It must be said
Note that if your computer has
there is a working TAPE-IN input, then
The sound quality should be very
good, that is, with minimal
distortions.
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************* PLAY *************
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The actions of this icon, I do-May, there’s no need to explain. She’s ana-
RECORD is logical, with the difference that
that playing back a recorded
sound occurs on the "A" channel
music coprocessor AY, or
like him!!!
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************ SYSTEM ************
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By activating this icon, you
you will be taken to a small menu:
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║CHANGE LENGHT║
║USE ALL PAGES║
║ ERASE SOUND ║
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One of the menu items is highlighted
inverse stripe.
Control keys for this and all
subsequent menus:Q-up,
A-down, SPACE-select.
1st point "CHANGE LENGHT".
By selecting this item you can...
change the length of the recorded audio.
There is a small limitation here -
the maximum sound length is
16000K! So. After choosing
first menu item, in a small
window you will see the current length
sound. The Q and A keys allow
change the length of the sound.
2nd item "USE ALL PAGES".
By selecting this item, you can use
use all audio recordings
available memory for 128 or 256
kilobytes. After downloading, the program
MA determines the configuration itself
your computer and writes this in
window with the inscription "U HAVE".If
The program incorrectly identified
the configuration of your computer,
then tell Smoke about this to me.
3rd item "ERASE SOUND".
This function simply destroys,
recorded sound.
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************* DISC *************
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Well, this icon works with
disk. After activating it, you
you will get to this menu:
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║SAVE║
║LOAD║
║CAT║
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1st menu item allows you to save
thread recorded sound on disk.
You will be prompted to enter a name
file, and then press ENTER.
The 2nd point is similar to the previous one -
mu, but it allows you to download for-
previously written sound.
The 3rd menu item allows you to view
third directory of the disk.ATTENTION!
If, when viewing a catalog, dis-
Well, the names of all the files don’t fit -
appeared on the screen and a request appeared:
SCROLL?, then press "Y". The same
The same applies to disk errors.
To the request:Retry?Ignore?Abort?,
answer "A". Well, what if
You flew to BASIC, then give me the code
mandu:RANDOMIZE USR25000 !!!
The author apologizes to you -
for these small shortcomings.
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After selecting the 1st menu item
"DISC", You will be taken to another
submenu:
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║SAVE ZERO PAGE║
║SAVE ALL PAGES║
║ SAVE PLAYER ║
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The 1st item of this submenu allows
There is no way to save the sound only from scratch
howl memory pages.
The 2nd point already allows you to save
thread sound from all memory pages -
ty.At the same time, the file name is appended
The page number that
swarm he matches.
3-point saves the player to disk
sound breaker in assembled format
Blader TASM v4.0 under the name:
PLAYER, with extension "A".
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Well, the 2nd item of the DISC menu is LOAD,
Works similarly to SAVE, but
the sound is loud.
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And one more thing. I completely forgot -FROM ANY ME-
NUDE, IF YOU CHOICE WRONG, IT’S POSSIBLE
EXIT BY PRESSING THE "EDIT" KEY!!!
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Well, that's all friends! This program
You can find the frame in the app.
magazine. She distributed
is offered on FREEWARE terms, then
yes you canuse it and
even distribute among your own
acquaintances, but not commercially
on a logical basis!!!
And I kindly ask you not to contribute any
changes to the program without my
knowledge.Better contact me!
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Goodbye! SMOKE (LICON).
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