To be or not to be Super Spectrum popular?

IG>>>>> I understand that it is calculated as a _home_ computer. That is, his
IG>>>>> main goal is to introduce a novice boy (I exaggerate) to
IG>>>>> the computer world.
TY>>> Yes. But what kind of computer world can there be now without communications?
IG>> With a www-browser it can already be considered as a cheap substitute for other
IG>> platforms for using the Internet
AM> Those who can afford Internet at home will afford a Pentium
AM> 200.
AM> And for the people who have installed INet very little is free.

Nevermind, in 5020 the Internet can now be bought for $50 per month, with unlimited
access over time. And if we take it for two or three more, since there won’t be enough time for a day
there, then what do you think of the price?

AL>>>> I am increasingly convinced that, given our average standard of living, for
AL>>>> at home it is optimal to have a Speckie, or A600, or 286.
TY>>> Hardly. Let's just say that the Spectrum is quite suitable for a child 8-17 years old. And
TY>>> for older people you will need a Sprinter/A1200/486
AM> In general, I think that a child under 12-13 years old should not be allowed
AM> to approach a computer, unless they are interested in programming. Otherwise,

Is it possible to go to DENDY?

AM> hima craving for
AM> games will appear and he will kill hour after hour with moronic toys, while
AM> while his peers are reading books.

If PC, then yes, since the games there become more and more moronic, what can you say
about speckies!

AM> Further, if the child is interested programming, then he immediately needs
AM> to buy a normal computer based on Intel so that it keeps up with the times,

So that he gets used to constant glitches right away, and then all his life he considers them
inseparable from powerful computers!

AM> so that he
AM> learns normal assembler - the head of all languages, so that he can

So that he can learn the most crooked and left-wing assembler in the world InTeL and know a damn thing about
Motorola, power PC and other promising things?

AM> connect to Fido
AM> and to INet and gain knowledge. So that he came to the institute, and he already knew more than 99%
AM> of what he was told there in computer science. And if he is not interested in
AM> programming
AM>, then he does not need a computer at all as a child. He
AM> will only be needed at the institute. But again, what kind of computer will he need?
AM> Exactly a PC, because institutes only have them.

Yes, in our country, it is always at home! Of course, it may be suitable for an institute, but you really want to buy it for home! Look at the world realistically!

Sincerely, Alex from FFCCOMPUTERS.

What if he has an ear for music? Instead of buying a piano, let him play music on the keyboard in the music editor. Or draw? However, I’m all talking about
the same thing... :(

With all sorts of regards and wishes.
Igor.

... They don’t beat a lying person, they trample him.

[killed]

TY>>> Hmm. So, games like Warcraft II, for which the normal minimum
TY>>> - DX2-66/16/PCI Video are released for our new Russians?
AL>> No, they are released for those from whom you can extract money for hardware,

TY> You do not perceive the ideology of the market quite correctly. Few people will now
TY> buy a game for which the _minimum_ is PPro II. Accordingly
TY> such a game will not pay off, the company will suffer losses. Ask Slava why
TY> he didn’t write his UFO for Scorpion/Pentagon, although it would have been
TY> easier/faster? Fewer buyers. Don’t forget - hardware (any)
TY> is upgraded by those who _need it_ (and most often it’s not to play with toys at all -
TY> there is a difference whether your project is assembled on the same Visual C in an hour or in
TY> ten minutes), and games are released for those machines that have already had
TY> in their hands for a long time.

It will not be released under Pen Pro, but I will make sure that without Stump Pro she
will simply slow down, which will push the user to the next upgrade,
giving away the last money! There is no such policy of writing software on Spectrum.

TY>>> buy 286, 386, 486, etc. By the way, it’s already extremely difficult to buy 486 from us
TY>>> (only with your hands).
AL>> Yes, in the states they love MACs, but notPC.
TY> Don't buy them there. They have a specific niche in the market that
TY> everyone is trying to take away from them. And they don’t like them there as much as a couple of stupid newspapers are trying to portray them as
TY>.

If they don’t buy them there, and especially if they don’t buy them from us either, then where
do they buy them? And if there is nowhere or only on Lake Chad, then where does this computer
get so many fans and for whom is a sea of ​​software being written?

TY> No one will buy them. A lot of people will switch to LINUX (this is UNIX
TY>), which is free and for which there is quite a lot of software (though
TY> it is very specific).

Or to the Amiga, where the software is cheap compared to the PC.

[killed]

It was Sunday July 20, 1997, at approximately 15:00,
Tim Yunaev talked with Zinov'ev Yury:

TY> Somehow a long time ago, specifically Friday July 18, 1997 at 08:51 Zinov'ev
TY> Yury wrote Tim Yunaev: Yes. But what kind of computer world can there be today?
TY> without communications? After all, they surf the Internet on Amigas. And what difference does it make - what to climb on?

I agree! But 7 MHz on Speccy and 7 MHz on Ammy are completely different things. I think
you will agree with me on this.

TY> Another thing is that the software there is mostly crap - you can only use FTP to get
TY> texts.

And the software, in my opinion, is not a problem. If there is demand, there will be software; our craftsmen are through the roof! :)

ZY>> And to clog up another, more accessible and less demanding
ZY>> equipment, network (I’m talking about FIDO) with 8-year-old boys is generally
ZY>> tantamount to suicide in a madhouse :))))
TY>
TY> Why eight years old? 15-16 years old...

The key phrase here was not “8-year-olds”, but “to litter” ;)

Sincerely, Yuri.

ZY> The key phrase here was not “8-year-olds”, but “to litter” ;)

Now FIDO is already full of such people...

With respect, Tim. [Team AMD - Amiga Must Die]
[Team Aries Rulez Forever]

In a letter dated Wednesday July 23, 1997, Vladimir Yudin wrote to Andrew Mikheyev:

AM>> What can’t be emulated in a spec?

VY> A lot of things, for example, instant switching of video pages,
VY> Right now I’m struggling with this problem - I’d rip my hands off koto VGA cards
VY> came up with! :)

Listen, really... I'll have to remember. ;)

Sincerely, Andrew. Friday July 25 1997 21:21.

Operation stability. Caches are different and DMA, damn them. Even stable int
is problematic to emulate. Memory speed. Shift in the moment of screen drawing
relative to the interrupt pulse. Yes, even frame 50Hz (and I’m
keep quiet about lowercase 15625) :)

Once upon a time, specifically Wednesday July 23, 1997 at 09:28 pm Igor Gruzdev
wrote Tim Yunaev:

TY>> Otherwise we’ll get another handsome dandy with a keyboard.
IG> Not only does a dandy turn into a computer by attaching
IG> modem. :)

Not only. Also a keyboard and a screw :)

IG> But if this future superspectrum could be connected to the network
IG> it would be... ;)

Through com ports. Easily. The software is already there (in the source code) - ZMODEM, etc.

IG>>> That's right - spectrum-sprinter-386/a600-pen/a1200.. :(
TY>> RK-86 -> PC "Lvov" -> BK-0010 -> Spectrum -> Search -> XT -> 286
TY> ->> 386 486 Easily.
IG> I have a shorter spec-286-386-486+spec :)

But I did it anyway. Like many others.

Somehow a long time ago, specifically Wednesday July 23, 1997 at 07:10 Alex Letaev
wrote by Tim Yunaev:

AL> It will not be released under Stump Pro, but I will make it so that without Stump Pro
AL> it will simply slow down, which will push the user to
AL> another upgrade, giving away the last money! There is no such
AL> policy for writing software on Spectrum.

It doesn’t exist anywhere. Because developers need to sell the maximum number of copies,
that is, they focus on existing computers. You ask Slava why he
doesn’t make GS, 256k and a mouse a _obligatory_ condition for “Black Raven”?
Because the majority of people won’t rush to remake their computers just to
play CV, accordingly they will buy less of the game, the author will receive
less money. That is why games are made for the minimum acceptable standard
configuration - so that people will buy it.

But there is another category of the same games. For example, high-quality aircraft emulators - in 1024x768, with full-screen graphics. They really require
a very powerful machine to do their job. This is already the result of progress - it would simply be impossible to do this on a less
powerful machine.

AL> If they don’t buy them there, and especially if they don’t buy them from us either, then
AL> where do they buy them?

DTP. Graphics, publications,animation. Rarely go home - most often if they take work home. Expensive and closed architecture (although apple is already taking some
steps in this direction)

TY>>> So what? They surf the Internet on Amigas. And what difference does it make - on
TY>>> what to climb?
ZY>> I agree! But 7 MHz on Speccy and 7 MHz on Ammy are completely different
ZY>> things. I think you will agree with me on this.

Fri 01:58 25 Jul 1997 Igor Gruzdev writes to Andrew Mikheyev:

AM> Imagine a musician who goes on stage with a
AM> notebook and starts drumming on the keys...

IG> Jan Michael Jarr ;))

More precisely, Jean Michel Jarre :)

Best wishes! Michael KLUG

25 Jul 96 00:58, Max Polunin communicated to Andrew Mikheyev about {To be or not to be
Super Spectrum popular?}:

MP> Is the Spectrum really a cult attribute of punk?... ;)

Interesting aspect... Hey, are there punks in the echo? - respond :))

Warm greetings, Slava!

TY> Doesn't exist anywhere. Because developers need to sell the maximum number
TY> copies, that is, they focus on existing computers. You're at Slava's

What if the developers are in cahoots with the hardware people? Have you thought about this? The first ones, with slowdown programs, force you to buy new hardware, and the second ones, selling
hardware, yell that now there will be nothing to slow down and for new hardware
buy new cool programs that support its capabilities (and this software again
begins to slow down), and so on in a circle! If such a policy had been carried out on Speckie, then the people would have abandoned him in the 90s! It didn't cost much money, and therefore
it wasn't a shame to just change the type of computer! And at the PC, a person was drinking $1,500 on a computer, and even if he finds out that the computer is bad, buggy, and
the price/performance is low, etc., he will not change it anymore, he will wish
his wasted $1,500, and at the same time, calming himself down, he will shout: “Everything works for us! I like everything! How cool VINDOUZ! (Well, it may collapse,
but not often, well, only 3 times a month!) What good fellows
InTel! (Well, mistakes in mathematics, what bullshit!)"! Most people
subconsciously never admit that they threw away $1500 for nothing, and it is useless to argue with them!

TY> ask - why doesn’t he make it a _mandatory_ condition for "Black
TY> raven" GS, 256k and the presence of a mouse? Because most people don't
TY> will run to remake computers just to play CV,
TY> accordingly, the game will be bought less, the author will receive less money.
TY> That is why games are made on the minimum acceptable standard
TY> configuration - so that they will buy it.

AL>> If they don’t buy them there, and especially since they don’t buy them from us either, then where
AL>> do they buy them?
TY> DTP. Graphics, publications, animation. Rarely go home - most often if
TY> they take work home. Expensive and closed architecture (although apple
TY> is already taking some steps in this direction)

So to listen to you, the conclusion is that they DO NOT BUY, and why then
do they?

It’s quiet outside the window, and I’m sitting and writing a response to a letter written from Alex Letaev to
Igor Gruzdev Fri Jul 25 1997 at 10:13 am...

AL> And what does Ami have to do with it, I don’t blame Mac either, and I appreciate the Spectrum. And why envy
AL> glitches? Thank you, I’d rather die of envy without glitches! :-))))

You erased the quota with a specialist, so further conversation is pointless.

It’s quiet outside the window, and I’m sitting and writing a response to a letter written from Max Polunin to
Andrew Mikheyev Thu Jul 25 1996 at 00:58...

JS>> Slava, you’re spoiled in this case, probably ;) Actually, just like me ;)
AM>> We everyone here is a little spoiled... :)
MP> People, something among you smacks of punk habits :) Is the Spectrum
MP> really a cult attribute of punk?... ;)

Well, not punk, but cult. Isn't it? For the majority of those writing here, Spectrum is a cult computer. ;)

It’s quiet outside the window, and I’m sitting and writing a response to a letter written from Alex Letaev to
Andrew Mikheyev Fri Jul 25 1997 at 09:45...

AL> adults, giving rise to cruelty in the soul. It is better to see black and white blood
AL> in the form of three dots on a speckie than almost real blood in SVGA, TRUCOLOR!
AL> Humanity is degrading without noticing it, and then we
AL> are surprised by the reports that a 14-year-old child killed someone for the sake of getting 10
AL> thousand for ice cream, and he did it as easily as in DOOM.

I don’t deny that such messages “chill the soul” of gullible listeners, but
I also want to note that the same doom is a good way to calm the nerves
after a conflict at work/home/on transport, etc.

AM>> Come on, what kind of glitches? Well, there are a couple of errors there, and what is this
AM>> called “constant glitches”?
AL> Compared to Speckie, the number of glitches when communicating with the PC is more times than in
AL> 10!

Amizhnik cannot speak competently about the glitches of another platform, in
in particular Intel. And then, isn’t the stump more sophisticated compared to the spec?

AM>> And where will it be needed later with knowledge of Motoroll and PowerPC? Although
AM>> of course it would be nice to know the same thing.
AL> When the masses become wiser (I hope so), then the filthy PCs
AL> will be replaced by normal computers,and then he will be “on horseback”!

What is meant by a normal computer? Superspectrum? ;)

AL>>> Look at the world realistically!
AM>> That’s all I do. :)
AL> But you didn’t notice everything I’m writing to you about, which means your reality
AL> is virtual! Try to find the TRUTH in life!

Go to a monastery, please?

AL> will simply slow down, which will push the user to the next
AL> upgrade, giving away the last money!

I would say differently - the capabilities of the PC allow programmers to do tasks (it doesn’t matter, games, system software, office software) that make maximum use of the resources of
hardware, accordingly introducing capabilities into these tasks to the maximum. With all their desire, super-cool hackers cannot write a task comparable in
capabilities (and ease of handling the task), such as MS Office 95 (97),
Adobe Photoshop, MS Flight Simulator, and finally, the same Win95, OS/2 and much
other things that can work, say, on 286 with 4 meters of memory... Is it logical?

AL> On the Spectrum there is no such policy of writing software there is.

On the Spectrum there is only one policy - to stick everything into 48 kilos of memory, from which individual masterpieces and a sea of spilled rubbish are obtained....

AL> If they don’t buy them there, and even more so they don’t buy them from us either, then where do they
AL> buy them? software?

Sorry, but the Mac phenomenon has been losing its ground lately, otherwise it would not be good for Apple to issue licenses for the production of “apples” on the
side... It is now very difficult to withstand competition with the Wintel clone,
almost impossible.was good with its graphical interface, but
now this advantage has been taken away from it, so now it only holds on where
the staff are already accustomed to the Mac and do not want to change it to something else. But this is purely a matter of habit, by the way, this is precisely what explains the phenomenon of the Vintel clan in Russia - initially there were only PCs here, now it is simply impossible to force most users to switch to another platform...

TY> Operation stability. Caches are different and DMA, damn them. Even stable int
TY> is problematic to emulate. Memory speed. Shift of the moment
TY> of screen drawing relative to the interrupt pulse. Yes, even the frame rate is 50Hz
TY> (and I’m already silent about the lowercase 15625) :)

But about interruptions - how can you even program in the emulator
interrupts with a frequency of somewhere around 1000 Hz, so that they are consistently called in
several tasks at once? Or even if it’s like this - all tasks using these
interrupts are stopped, but one is running. How can such interruptions be made in
Win'95? But just so that it is not too perverted, so that it works stably.

With respect, Andrew. Saturday July 26, 1997 23:46.

AL> What then plays the main role when working with the Internet?

Tsps. For simplicity, let's take Fido - what difference does it make how long the mail is waiting, at least half an hour, at night? But how long it takes you to pull it away is important. A
14400 with a DSP 1600 when connected to a Spectrum on an archive one and a half hundred kilos long, I myself personally observed. And you don’t need any A1200+Axel for a total of 800 tanks,
or even more.

AL>> What then plays the main role when working with the Internet?
IG> CPS. For simplicity, let's take Fido - what difference does it make how long the
IG> mail will be missed, even for half an hour, at night? But how long will it take you to pull her away -
IG> is important. A 14400 with a DSP 1600 when connected to a Spectrum on the
IG> archive, one and a half hundred kilos long, I personally observed. And you don’t need any
IG> a1200+axel for a total of 800 bucks, or even more.

Why are you pisishniks all trying to hurt Ami? So, I checked it specifically:
having turned off the axel, I went to download 2.5 mg to the BBS (in the afternoon). Connected at 28800,
cps fluctuated a little from 3100 to 3400. The file, of course, was packed. Purely for fun, I started tormenting the car with a multi-task, downloading all sorts of files back there, listening to all sorts of music (mods, of course), and even storing something. Moreover,
I remember I was modeming with a person who had an A500 with 68000 7mhz and a fast modem, so
cps was >3000.

ps: by the way, A1200=$300
B1230=$180
HDD =$100
brain =$010
----------
$590
if you're hunting, then the monitor +200$
in the end, about 800 tanks, a pretty decent computer with music and graphics.

With best wishes, John.

===> #/FUCK/# *mUlTiMeDiA*, #/MAKE/#more $dEmOs$ ===>

Graph system and a good channel to the outside world.

With best wishes - Andrey Khristov (ha...@robin.alien.ru)

AL>> Humanity is degrading without noticing it, and then we are surprised
AL>> by reports that a 14-year-old child killed someone to get 10 thousand for
AL>> ice cream, and he did it as easily as in DOOM.
IG> I don’t deny that such messages 'chill the soul' of gullible
IG> listeners, but I also want to note that the same doom is a good
IG> release to calm the nerves after a conflict at work/home/on transport
IG>, etc.

You are far from what I meant. Not everyone can probably understand this.

AL>> And what does Ami have to do with it? I don’t blame Mac either, and I appreciate the Spectrum. And what
AL>> to envy, glitches? Thank you, I’d rather die of envy without glitches!
AL>> :-))))

IG> You erased the quota with a specialist, so further conversation is pointless.

I don’t want to talk about off-topic topics here with a specialist (although the latter is not fair), and
you can continue the conversation on normal software just
look at the previous one for a moment mesagu!

And this topic is gradually going beyond the scope.
Move the bashing of computers to netmail, the OS - to RU.OS.CPM, processors -
to SU.HARDW.CPU.
Any unreasoned letter (like, everyone already knows this - offtopic).

Andrew

IG> Tsps. For simplicity, let's take Fido - what difference does it make how long the
IG> mail is tossed, at least half an hour, at night? But how long will it take you to pull her away -
IG> is not unimportant. And I personally observed 14400 with a 1600 CPU when connected to a Spectrum on the
IG> archive, one and a half hundred kilos long. And you don’t need any
IG> a1200+axel for a total of 800 tanks, or even more.

I completely agree!

TY> Display resolution (for www), hard drive capacity and maximum
TY> modem speed - 3.5 MHz speccy does not even handle 14400 :(

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

A contradiction appears.

Regards Alex !

Somehow a long time ago, specifically Saturday July 26, 1997 at 07:16 Alex Letaev
wrote by Tim Yunaev:

AL> What if the developers are in cahoots with the hardware people? Didn't think about that?

So that's it! You are simply a genius! It turns out that the companies that produce games all work for the Chinese, Taiwan and Intel! How wrong we were all:((( :)

AL> The first ones are forced to buy new hardware by slowing down programs,

And who is forcing you? If you don’t want it, don’t buy it.
By the way, would you list which of the new ones (after April 1997) are slow and on what
configuration. I can throw in the minimum requirements for the latest
games.

AL> If I use Specki had such a policy, then people would have abandoned it in the 90s
AL>!

In the 90s there was no alternative. Around 93-94. It was precisely because
the Spectrum _wasn't upgraded.

AL> It didn't cost much money,

Damn, people don't understand if you're sorry for the money, you don't need to buy a computer at all
and a bike. you don’t need to buy - you need parts for it. And a video recorder - you’ll have to buy cassettes for it. If you don’t like changing your computer, don’t change it. You say this in a tone like a racket from Intel comes to my house and forces me to change my computer with a gun. And I upgraded my Spectrum first to 128k, then to 256, and I installed a disk drive, and that’s all. also costs money.
And I wouldn’t upgrade it - definitely not in the latest gamesI could play. Eh?

AL> that the computer is bad, buggy, and the price/performance is low

Well, well, who has more?

JS> Why are you pisishniks all trying to hurt Ami?

Reflex. :) Among the Amizhniki they are more polished. :))

JS> So, I checked it specifically: having turned off the axel, I went to upload 2.5 mg to the BBS
JS> (in the afternoon). Connected to 28800, cps fluctuated a little from 3100 to 3400. The
JS> file was of course packed. Just for fun, I started tormenting the machine
JS> with a multi-task - there, downloading all sorts of files back there, listening to all sorts of music (mods, of course
JS>, even messing it up). Moreover, I remember modeming with a person
JS>, who had an A500 with 68000 7mhz and a fast modem, so, cps was
JS> >3000.

That’s what I’m talking about. The main thing is the central nervous system, and what we are pumping there - it can be leisurely
disassembled.

Somehow a long time ago, specifically Saturday July 26, 1997 at 06:50 Alex Letaev
wrote by Tim Yunaev:

ZY>>> I agree! But 7 MHz on Speccy and 7 MHz on Ammy are perfect

ZY>> I agree! But 7 MHz on Speccy and 7 MHz on Ammy are completely different
ZY>> things. I think you will agree with me on this.

TY> Different. But processor speed does not play a decisive role either when accessing
TY> in FIDO or in the Internet.
Correct! This is affected by the speed of information exchange. And it, in turn, is influenced either by the speed of the tire - with PDP; or processor speed - with
normal access device->processor->memory. Considering that there is no DDP on the Spectrum... Draw your own conclusions.

AD> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
TY>> maximum modem speed - 3.5 MHz speccy does not even handle 14400
AD> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AD> A contradiction emerges.

And the word “decisive” should have been highlighted :(
That is, without normal graphics you can simply forget about www. Everything else is
improvements that make life easier. If there is no screw, the user will have to change floppy disks. Not
there will be 14400 - will work on 9600.

AK> Graph system and a good channel to the outside world.

You can also work in text mode, which is more pleasant with our lines.
Even an ordinary speckie will handle text work on the Internet, and a 14400 modem, and
sprinter, as I understand from the capabilities described, will handle full work in
graphics!

[skip]

AL> the sprinter, as I understand from the capabilities described, will fully handle
AL> work in the schedule!

Unfortunately... it won’t handle it. :( Most of the pictures are in JPG format. Even with the speed of the Sprinter processor, such a picture will take anywhere from 2 hours to a week to unpack, depending on the method. If you don’t believe it, look at the documentation about the JPG format. ;))

PS: There is only one way out - a JPG decoder chip. If Peters can make one like this - there will be a Sprinter with graphics!

Bye!
_Amadeus Voxon (Flash Inc.)_

TY> Display resolution (for www), hard drive capacity and
TY> maximum modem speed - 3.5 MHz speccy is not even 14400 :(

You can also work in text, which is better with our lines! Hard drive capacity
doesn’t matter at all when working on the Internet, unless you download the file
PCshnoe, multi-mega. And I also heard that the Speckie pulls 14400, but I haven’t seen it myself.

Somehow a long time ago, and specifically Saturday July 26, 1997 at 23:04 Andrew Mikheyev
wrote by Tim Yunaev:

AM> But about interruptions - how can you even program frequency interruptions in the
AM> emulator somewhere at 1000 Hz, so that they are stably
AM> called in several tasks at once?

That is, in several tasks at once?

AM> Or even so - all tasks using these interrupts are standing
AM> and one is working. How can such interruptions be made in Win'95?

No way. Or write vxd.

AM> But just so that it is not too perverted, so that it works stably.

In multitasking, stability is imho a thing that is unrealizable for precise applications.

In DOS there is an option - set frame rate 50 and synchronize at the beginning
(end) of the frame.

It’s quiet outside the window, and I’m sitting and writing a response to a letter written from Tim Yunaev to Alex
Letaev Mon Jul 28 1997 at 12:08...

TY> Display resolution (for www), hard drive capacity and maximum
TY> modem speed - 3.5 MHz speccy is not even 14400 :(

It works. Although using a floppy disk reduces the efficiency by two and a half times. Using a
ramdisk is not noticeable.

Somehow a long time ago, specifically Wednesday July 30, 1997 at 07:05 Alex Letaev
Tim Yunaev wrote:

TY>> Display resolution (for www), hard drive capacity and
TY>> maximum modem speed - 3.5 MHz speccy can’t handle even 14400
AL> You can work in text, which is better with our lines!

And what will you do in the text? Search for files and communicate via irc. You can also surf ftp, but it doesn't add up. your point.

AL> The capacity of the hard drive does not matter at all when working on the Internet, unless
AL> you just don’t download a PC file, multi-mega.

Who needs Design Master on Spectrum-e? :)

AL> And I also heard that the Speckie pulls 14400, but I didn’t see it myself.

I also heard it, but I didn’t see it. And therefore I won’t believe it until I see it.
I didn’t succeed, although I tried for quite a long time.

Once upon a time, specifically Monday July 28, 1997 at 07:21 Evgeny Milun
wrote by Tim Yunaev:

TY>> Various. But processor speed does not play a decisive role either when
TY>> accessing FIDO or the Internet.
EM> Correct! This is affected by the speed of information exchange.

Yeah. Or rather, the speed at which the processor can still take bytes from the modem buffer.

EM> And it, in turn, is influenced either by the bus speed - with DDP; or
EM> processor speed - with normal access
EM> device->processor->memory. Considering that there is no DDP on the Spectrum...

It can be done. Once upon a time we made a device for connecting a video camera to
Speccy, where information from the camera was driven into the upper
memory through a large ADC, and the processor was resting at that time. If you wish.

EM> Draw your own conclusions.

But why? Will someone really put 28800 on Speccy?
And they promised to show me on Saturday how 14400 works and what is needed for it
(7MHz?)

TY> In multitasking, stability imho is an unrealizable thing for precise
TY> applications.

Well, how did Shalaev do it then? There, interruptions do not occur, but on the contrary, they are in a bit of a hurry.

By the way, if you hang yourself on RTC 1024 Hz, then it won’t be that unstable.
I tried it and it worked. The only problem is with several tasks at once.

Regards, Andrew. Thursday July 31 1997 12:09.

Once upon a time, specifically Wednesday July 30, 1997 at 02:15 pm Igor Gruzdev
wrote by Tim Yunaev:

IG> It’s dragging. Although using a floppy disk reduces the efficiency two and a half times. On the ramdisk - it’s not noticeable.

And the bytes don’t fall out? Or do you have 7MHz?

AM> Well, how did Shalaev do it then? There, interruptions do not occur, but
AM>, on the contrary, are in a bit of a hurry.

Load any decent int test and see how its graph jumps.

AM> By the way, if you hang yourself on RTC 1024 Hz, then it will not be so unstable
AM>. I tried it - it worked. The only problem is with
AM> several tasks at once.

Exactly.

In a letter dated Thursday July 31, 1997, Alex Letaev reported to Michael Belousov:

MB>> PS: There is only one way out - a JPG decoder chip. Peters
MB>> will be able to make one like this - it will be a Sprinter with graphics!

AL> Does it make sense to do this just for the sake of JPG, since the circuit will be complex and
AL> will greatly affect the cost.

Or maybe it would be better to bring out a video connector feature and connect an MPEG decoder from
PC to it?

Regards, Andrew. Friday August 01 1997 11:51.

TY> the maximum speed of the modem is 3.5 MHz speccy can’t even handle 14400 :(
What’s the problem? You put an RS 232 port on Sinclair and connect to it
an external modem of at least 56 kilobaud! It will be able to receive without problems just
if the line allows it. Is 5 kilos per second a lot for a spec? Sincerely
S e r g e y

TY> And what will you do in the text? Search for files and communicate via irc. You can
TY> still use ftp, but it doesn’t add up. your point.

There is a property, to use the Internet as an e-mail, and not
to surf around idle and admire the pictures. The files can also be easily downloaded, but they are Spectrum files, not multi-mega PC ones. After all, Speckie has its own average
size of software, for which in most cases floppy disks are sufficient.

TY>> the maximum speed of the modem is 3.5 MHz speccy can’t handle even 14400 :(
SK> What’s the problem? You put an RS 232 port on Sinclair and connect to it
SK> an external modem with at least 56 kilobaud! Only
SK> the line would allow it to receive without problems. Is 5 kilobaud a lot for specs?

No, not much. But 5000 interruptions per second is a bit much :))

Regards, Andrew. Saturday August 02 1997 23:46.

AM>> By the way, if you hang yourself at RTC 1024 Hz, then it won’t be that unstable
AM>>. I tried it - it worked. The only problem is with
AM>> several tasks at once.

Somehow a long time ago, specifically Saturday August 02, 1997 at 05:56 Alex Letaev
wrote by Tim Yunaev:

AL> There is a property to use the Internet as an email,

Why, if there is FIDO?

AL> and not to climb idlely

Actually, we are climbing on business :)

AL> and pictures by admire. The files can also be easily downloaded, but
AL> are Spectrum ones,

We need a site where there would be unpacked Spectrum files.

AL> and not PC multi-mega files. After all, Speckie has its own average size of software,
AL> for which in most cases floppy disks are enough.

Yeah.

■ July 20, on Sunday, at 10:56, Andrew Mikheyev wrote to Igor Gruzdev:

AM> a normal computer based on Intel so that it keeps up with the times, so that
AM> it
AM> learns normal assembler - the head of all languages, so that it can connect to
AM> fido and to INet and gain knowledge. For him to come to the institute, and more than 99%

Learning to program is not necessary on Intel, the main thing is that there are no problems with
mathematics and that he can think logically (statement of the problem, stages
solution, etc.)

Alexander Mudretsov, e-mail: sa...@free.jesby.tstu.ru

AM> Or maybe it would be better to bring out a video connector feature and connect to it
AM> MPEG decoder from a PC?

How much does it cost? I think it's $40. It's a bit expensive just for JPG.

SK> an external modem for at least 56 kilobaud! Will be able to receive
SK> without any problems, as long as the line allows it. Is 5 kilos per second a lot for a spec?
No...it’s just that in 25 seconds the memory of 128 will run out, or in 9 seconds for 48
:)

Well okay, I’m done.... to...@fido7.com

Eh... Ahem, of course I apologize, but in this case it’s easier to use a PC
(Amiga, Macintosh, NeXT, BeBox, Silicon), if only because one .jpg
image in the so-called “compressed” form is still nothing, about 10-20 kb, but in the “expanded”
state it’s already hundreds of kilobytes, if not megabytes :-) This is still not designed for 8-bits.... For the Spectrum on the Internet there is only a text mode, then what www began with is bare hypertext, and if you also take into account the hassle with encodings and the problem that the Spectrum, by definition, has a 7-bit ASCII encoding (the tricks by which the Spectrum is forced to work with 8-bit encoding are known to me, but this is
superfluous headache), so - is the game worth the candle :-)

I want to state that I am not a PC propagandist, as you might think
(every vegetable has its own bed, that’s my principle), but still the World Wide Web - this
technology is no longer tough for the Spectrum... In addition, if the Spectrum begins
to catch up to the level of 16-bits, it will no longer be a Spectrum... Logical?

In addition, the implementation of the TCP/IP protocol on the Spectrum will take up so much
memory that there will be no room left for anything else (I am deliberately not saying that this is
impossible - nothing is impossible, although I don’t know whether at least ZModem is implemented on
the Spectrum)...

With respect Oleg

╔═ Quote from the classic════════════════════════ ═══════════════════
║ A fool thinks he is smart; A smart person knows that he is stupid. W. Shakespeare

TY>> the maximum speed of the modem is 3.5 MHz speccy can’t handle even 14400 :(
SK> What’s the problem? You put an RS 232 port on Sinclair and connect to it
SK> an external modem with at least 56 kilobaud! Only
SK> the line would allow it to receive without problems. Is 5 kilobaud a lot for specs?

IMHO, Spectrum does not have dma, and the percentage is 3.5, in reality it is no more than 9600.

Alexander Mudretsov, e-mail: sa...@free.jesby.tstu.ru

Every day Boris Sokol comes to my BBS with USR 14400 and pulls
mail.

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Have a nice connection.
Roman.

04 Aug 97, already 15:57

─══ ══─ W o w ! ! ! Igor! H a l l o! ! ! ─══ ══─

Sunday July 27, 1997 07:12:02, Igor Gruzdev made fun of Michael
Markowsky:

AM>>> Imagine a musician who goes on stage with
AM>>> a notebook and starts drumming on keys...
IG>>> Jan Michael Jarr ;))
MM>> More precisely, Jean Michel Jarre :)

> Eh... They told me, don’t write names in English from memory, you’ll end up in a puddle... :))
Speaking of him, doesn’t anyone have his music for spechtrum, once upon a time there was
one - called Magnetic Field 2, but besides that there is else, or at least throw it, who
how does it feel, well, I would also like to know if soundtraker is suitable for
emulators?

> Igor.
є─їЇє┐є_єїє═─∙·
Dmitry ·∙─═ґ╙╨╙┘╙═╙\─ґ tm

... In Russia everything breathes with military craft, and the angel does the cross on guard duty.

05 Aug 97, 12:04, Alex Letaev wrote to Oleg Devjatkin, on the topic "To be or not to be Super Spectrum popular?" place (I'm not deliberately
OD>> saying that this is impossible - nothing is impossible, although I don't
OD>> know whether at least ZModem is implemented on the Spectrum)...

At least the reception is implemented....

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Have a nice connection.
Roman.

07 Aug 97, already 11:38

At 16:39, Wednesday August 06 1997 there was such a thing that
Alexander Mudretsov wrote a letter to Vyacheslav Mednonogov:

VM>> Why? 14400 -> max cps 1600 -> therefore more than 2000
VM>> processor cycles to receive a byte.
AM> Interesting Slav, how did you calculate this? I can’t drive in at all ;)
How, as he calculated... On foot ;-) I explain:
We have 70000 cycles/interruption, 50 interruptions/second

70000*50/1600=2187.5 Actually, that’s all ;-)

With respect, Roman.

■ Hello Andrew!

■ August 05, Tuesday, at 22:21, Andrew Mikheyev wrote to Alexander Mudretsov:

AM>> You don’t necessarily need to learn programming on Intel, the main thing is that you have problems with
AM>> mathematics was not and could think logically (statement
AM>> of the problem, stages of solution, etc.)

AM> Uh-uh, don’t tell me. And mathematics will work anyway, but if a person is going to go
AM> and subtract, then it will be much easier to study there if he knows
AM> to program on those computers that are there.
Mathematics is needed everywhere, and especially for programming. And it doesn’t matter what
faculty you study at. And I know this from my own experience.

Alexander Mudretsov, e-mail: sa...@free.jesby.tstu.ru

AM>>> IMHO, Spectrum does not have dma, and the percentage is 3.5, in reality it is no more
AM>>> 9600.
VM>> Why? 14400 -> max cps 1600 -> therefore more than 2000 clock cycles
VM>> processor to receive bytes.
AM> Interesting Slav how did you calculate this? I can’t move in at all ;)

Very simple! Zetnik on Speck operates at a clock frequency of 3.5 MHz. We need to accept
1600 bytes per second (actually, Slava, 1800). We divide 3.5 MHz/1600 cps = >2000
cycles.

With best wishes, John.

ps2VM: In fact, even the turbocharged Pentagon gave at most 1000 cps :(

===> #/FUCK/# *mUlTiMeDiA*, #/MAKE/# more $dEmOs$ ===>

JS> (actually, Slava, 1800).

Never seen it. Maximum 1600 with a tail.

JS> ps2VM: In fact, even the turbocharged Pentagon gave at most 1000 cps :(

No, it’s the modem’s fault and bad lines, well, not the Pentagon :))

Warm greetings, Slava!

JS> Very simple! Zetnik on Speck operates at a clock frequency of 3.5 MHz. We must
accept
JS> 1600 bytes per second (in fact, Slava, 1800). Divide 3.5 MHz/1600cps=
>2000
JS> clock cycles.

JS>> Theoretically... 14400 (bit/sec) / 8 = 1800 (byte/sec)
IG> ^ Start/stop bit, plus
IG> checksum?

But it seems to cling to the block and IMHO cannot eat 200 bytes/sec... Y?

With best wishes, John.

SK>> an external modem for at least 56 kilobaud! Will be able to receive
SK>> without any problems, as long as the line allows it. Is 5 kilos per second a lot for spec?

AM> IMHO, Spectrum does not have dma, and the percentage is 3.5, in reality it is no more than 9600.

it can be received, but processed..

With best wishes, Michael.