File format in fileha

Monday April 21, 1997 12:39, Roman Alexandrov wrote to Dmitry Grigoryev:

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RA> Uh-huh, and the iser-synclerists will either suck their paw or pester
RA> the sysops with requests to convert them into hobeta? No big deal!

Come on ;) zcop diskname.trd - that’s the whole conversion. But they won't pester you with requests for an emulator that works with .$ files? And there will be no problems with the correct
location of multi-volume game files on the disk. There won’t be many problems... And
users-sinklerists will never suck their paw - we won’t allow it :) In ZXNet, all
files from echo/filehi are in trdos form.

RA> Enjoy your connections.
RA> Roman.

Sincerely, Dmitry (OLDMAN).

Hello, Dmitry!

It’s quiet outside the window, and I’m sitting and writing a response to a letter written from Dmitry Grigoryev
to Roman Alexandrov Wed Apr 23, 1997 at 07:16...

DG> Come on ;) zcop diskname.trd - that’s the whole conversion. But
DG> they won’t pester you with requests for an emulator that works with .$ files?

Do you think that they won’t distract you with questions like how to work with .trd and which
emul reads it? :)

DG> And there will be no problems with the correct location of files of multi-volume
DG> games on the disk.

This is logical, but something like this (say, a file or some kind of magazine) is already clear that
it’s more convenient to throw it in a folder.

DG> There won’t be many problems...

Oh well... Games (and programs in general) mostly discetized under tr-dos,
and tr-dos is not well known overseas, to put it mildly, they know more about tap or z80. So there will still be a problem with Western emulators, and then,
if someone has the Shalaevsky emulsion, and has a selection of games (for example), then, IMHO,
it goes without saying that he will select these games on some topic, and
that means he will know that there is a hobby. In a word, we are, after all, in
Russia (or x-USSR), where we are accustomed to tr-dos and hobeta, which means it still makes sense to throw single files in the hobeta. It’s still more convenient to work with them.

DG> And Sinclairist users will never suck their paw - we won’t allow it :) In ZXNet
DG> all files fromEkhi/faylekhi go in the traditional form.

In the hobet sense, or rather on a real floppy disk. :)

With all kinds of regards and wishes.
Igor.

P.S. It’s good that they don’t offer to translate the faq into English. :))

... When you have cheese in your mouth, you don’t want to croak.

#*GREETINGS*# - #Roman#

Once Roman Alexandrov said this topic to Dmitry Grigoryev here:

DG>>> And there is also a program zcop, which perfectly converts *.$b into *.trd
DG>>> and generally brings a lot of benefits ;)
RA>
DG>> But in general, really - after all, to a person unfamiliar with
DG>> domestic emulators, it is much easier to launch a disk image than
DG>> having fun with Hobets files. Maybe it makes sense to throw games on trd format "discs" into the
DG>> file?
RA>
RA> Yeah, and the Sinclairist isers will either suck their paws or pester the sysops
RA> with requests to convert them to hobeta? No worries!
RA>

If anyone needs a converter SNA, Z80, PRG, RAW I can throw it here
but he doesn’t understand TRD;(

[I WANT MONEY Team] [Z-80 Nether_Earth Team]
[OSTRYAKOVA.st.KKK.NET Team]

Let me answer yld Saturday, the 26 of April 1997:

AK> If anyone needs a converter SNA, Z80, PRG, RAW I can throw it here
AK> really he doesn’t understand TRD;(

Kin, pls.

Hasta la vista, Alexey.
With God's blessing, Novikov Sergei

DG> Westerners, they are not fools either ;) Now that the Russians have settled down on the Internet, they
DG> are simply inundated with games adapted for tr-dos and one way or another
DG> they will have to get used to it. Trdos is not that difficult. They already
DG> have emulators. Our entire “holy trinity” is Shalaev, UKV, Z80TRDOS. A week ago I uploaded
DG> to them Shalaevsky 2.06 on nvg.unit.

Have you thought about how they will deal with it? The entire menu is in Russian! And they
don’t even have Russifiers! And they won’t want to crawl through menus with crazy names like “≈°∙е≤⌡”
. Or did you make a translation before that?

Hasta la vista, Dmitry.

Hello, Alexey!

Saturday, April 26, 97, 06:41, Alexey Kopylov wrote to Roman Alexandrov on
the topic "Re: File format in filehack":

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Hello Igor!

25 Apr 97 23:41, Igor Gruzdev wrote to Dmitry Grigoryev:

IG> Hello, Dmitry!
IG> and tr-dos is known abroad, to put it mildly, not very well, there they know more tap
IG> or z80. So there will still be a problem with Western emulators
IG>,
Serves them right! We are suffering with these same z80s! ;))
IG>In a word, we are, after all, in Russia (or x-USSR), where we are accustomed
IG> to tr-dos and hobeta, which means it still makes sense
IG> to throw single files in hobeta. It’s still more convenient to work with them.
Approved!
DG>> And users-sinklerists will never suck - we won’t allow it :)
Thanks!
IG> P.S. It’s good that they don’t offer to translate the fact into English. :))
Hey, that's it for now. :).

Sunday April 27, 1997 00:20, Sergei Novikov wrote to Dmitry Grigoryev:

SN> Have you thought about how they will deal with him? The entire menu is in Russian! And
SN> they don’t even have localizers! And they won’t want to crawl through menus with crazy names
SN> like “≈°∙е≤⌡”.

Well, they probably have fonts... the ex-USSR is not China, after all ;)

SN> Or did you do a translation before that?

Translated for Doc Stylus... if they want, they will understand :) But I didn’t even think about the menu ;) But
agree, in emulation, they will be able to fall out, and the options can be set in the config
. And then, somehow they figured out version 1.5...

SN> With God's blessing, Novikov
SN> Sergei

Sincerely, Dmitry (OLDMAN).