MOD PLAYER! :)

ZXNet echo conference «zx.spectrum»

From Andy Harchenko To All 17 March 1998


Having sat down at the keyboard, I decided to draw a letter for you All.

Here, some people seemed to be very interested in subj, so I’m throwing it in. The weight is really amazing, especially with turbo+cache16kb+SounDrive+512kb. Reads directly from ms_dos
disks, so it’s very convenient and beautiful! :)
Listen and enjoy :)

Wiz zE BeSt WisHeZ 2 U!
-=JoCkeR/OmEga HaCkErS Grp/1998year=-

From Konstantin Samoylov To All 18 March 1998


Greetings to you, dear Andy!

Tuesday March 17 1998 01:12, Andy Harchenko for some reason pmsed All:


AH> Here it seems that some subj were very interested, so I’m throwing it. The weight
AH> is really amazing, especially with turbo+cache16kb+SounDrive+512kb.
AH> Reads directly from ms_dos disks, so it’s very convenient and beautiful!
AH> :) Listen and enjoy :)
For some reason, in the MS-PACK decompressor for SD there is #7f00 instead of jp ret.
Was this done on purpose or how?

Best regards SP/PoS/PCCC.

From Andy Harchenko To All 21 March 1998


Having sat down at the keyboard, I decided to draw a letter for you Konstantin.

Once I was in a museum and there, on an old, old stone, an ancient man carved that
Wednesday March 18, 1998 right at 23:45, Konstantin Samoylov wrote to Andy Harchenko:

AH>> so it’s very convenient and beautiful! :) Listen and enjoy :)
KS> For some reason, in the MS-PACK decompressor for SD, instead of jp #7f00 there is
KS> ret. Was this done on purpose or what?
Why don’t I know, I coded Cobra/Enigma all the questions for it, everything
works for me and on the emulator, by the way, too (well, the muse can’t be played :) they haven’t taught me to emulate the covox and SD emulator yet ;(

From Tyukaev Eugene Vladimirovich To All 23 March 1998


> Greetings, dear Andy!
>
> Tuesday March 17 1998 01:12, Andy Harchenko for some reason pmsal All:
>
>
> AH> Here some people seem to be very interested in subj, so I’m throwing it in. The weight
> AH> is really amazing, especially with turbo+cache16kb+SounDrive+512kb.

From Konstantin Samoylov To All 23 March 1998

TV> This cannot be, because SD does not work without CACHE!
What is CACHE for SD? Maybe you can post the schematic, otherwise for some reason it works for me without CACHE.

Sincerely, Konstantin.

From Andy Harchenko To All 24 March 1998

I don’t understand something, everything works fine for me, but for everything to work (under
SD) you need imho at least 8kb CACHE MEMORY.

From Andy Harchenko To All 24 March 1998

KS> What is CACHE for SD? Maybe you can post the schematic, otherwise for some reason it works for me without CACHE
KS>.
See Spectrofon, I think it’s around numbers 17-19 (well, I don’t remember exactly:)

KS> Best regards
KS> Konstantin.

From Tyukaev Eugene Vladimirovich To All 25 March 1998

> What is CACHE for SD? Maybe you can post the schematic, otherwise for some reason it works for me without CACHE.
CACHE - rulz 4ever!!!
in general, this is a simple (almost) static RAM, which when IN a,(#fb)
is turned on (replacement occurs instead of ROM), BUT that's not all!
it is advisable to have a turbo, because then why install static?!
so imagine you have 16k cache (and this is the best so far, 2k is already a thing of the past) and turbo, static speed 200% full screen in one frame
it only jerks like that! It sounds much better! :)
but I don’t have a diagram as such, it is in Spectrofon17.
for Penta, connecting is as easy as shelling pears!!!
well, in general, you can come up with a lot of things with it, if only you have time...
>
> Sincerely, Konstantin.
>
Eugene aka Point777

From Andy Harchenko To All 25 March 1998

KS> What is CACHE for SD? Maybe you can post the schematic, otherwise I don’t have CACHE
^^^^^^^^^^^^ There is no such thing in nature, there is just SD and just
CACHE, this is because MOD PLAYER uses CACHE to play everyone
they think that it is needed for SD current and are DEEPLY mistaken, but with CACHE
so many useful features can be done ;)

KS> for some reason it works.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Very strange.... :-/

From Tyukaev Eugene Vladimirovich To All 25 March 1998


>
> >> ret. Was this done on purpose or how?
> TV> this cannot happen, because it does not work with SD without CACHE!

From Andy Harchenko To All 26 March 1998

TV> well, what am I talking about?
TV> only it doesn’t show 40 thousand for me!
TV> I just put an extra letter “c” :)
It’s strange, by the way, you have Pent or something, although imho it doesn’t matter. By the way, if you don’t
believe me, I’ll post a photo (I’ll take a special photo) of MOD PLAYER, well, in the sense of his testimony,
nonsense of course, but still :)