Profi 3+
ZXNet echo conference «zx.spectrum»
Greetings to all Specky fans!
To make it clear what I mean, I’ll say a few words about myself.
My acquaintance with the Spectrum took place somewhere in 93-94.
I lived in Stavropol at that time. In my opinion, I purchased the Vesta information complex for 25-30 thousand (have you heard of this?), the thing is simply amazing ;-) A tiny plastic case in which the 48 Spectrum board stood, the whole thing was equipped with a rubber keyboard with small buttons, pressing which for 30-40 minutes your fingers simply withered. I don’t mention such options as port #FF, normal INT
for obvious reasons.
My study of the basics of programming began with this device.
Because. Before that, I had been sitting at BK00-10 for some time and was generally friends with
Fokal, I quickly understood Basic Specky, then my first glances towards
machine codes and Assembly...
After some time, I moved to Yekaterinburg and at the beginning of 96. I
bought the "Profi 3+" board ver.5.03. I’ll say right away - I was simply in ecstasy over it: FDD appeared!!!, a bunch of all sorts of peripherals, 1MB. RAM, super-turbo
mode, etc. etc...
Everything would have been fine, but now I had a modem, I started surfing the BBKs on my
Profi, and there were files, files, files... Everything was in the archives.
And then I had to face a very powerful problem - the lack of new
archivers for the Pro CP/M, and plus a letter from the authorterminals
for Pros under CP/M which says that Pros in Moscow DIED...
And most importantly - not a single Spectrumist in the BBS on a regular Z-80.
My “joy” had no end. And so I collect 386, get a Fido address
and am surprised to see Echo ZX.SPECTRUM!!!!!! What is this, is there still gunpowder in the flasks?
Of course I have a lot of questions right away:
1. Is anyone else doing Pro? After all, conceptually this
is a cool machine!
2. How was the problem with archiving/unarchiving solved?
3. I heard about the ZX-net network in Moscow and St. Petersburg, who cares
tell us more about it.
4. And in general, I will be glad to hear any opinions about the ZX-Spectrum.
Well, it looks like I wrote everything I wanted, now it’s your turn!
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Greetings to you, Sergey!
Sent by Sergey Cvetkov to All in my opinion Saturday Dec 06 1997, 09:10 here's what:
SC> Greetings to all Specky fans!
SC> To make it clear what I mean, I’ll say a few words about myself.
SC> My acquaintance with Spectrum took place somewhere in 93-94
SC> I lived in Stavropol at that time. In my opinion, I bought it for 25-30 thousand
I live here now! ;>
SC> information complex "Vesta" (have you heard of this?), the thing is simply
SC> amazing ;-) Tiny plastic case in which it stood
Yeah, to my indescribable joy when the plant "Sinegal" started producing it ;>
I had the Krasnodar version - the most confusing of all!
But with a soft reed keyboard!
SC> board 48 Spectrum, this whole facility was equipped with a rubber
SC> keyboard with small buttons, pressing which for 30-40
SC> minutes your fingers simply withered. About such canopies as the #FF port, normal INT
By the way, really - it was necessary to think of making the keyboard
out of rather hard rubber (almost plastic) and frogs were used as buttons
! ;> Which are on desktop electronic
clocks:> You can imagine what your fingers will be like later....
So I think - what does the fingers have to do with it... :>>>
SC> I don’t mention it for obvious reasons.
SC> SThis device began my study of the basics of programming.
SC> Because. Before that, I had been sitting at BK00-10 for some time and was generally friends with
SC> Focal, I quickly understood Basic Specky, then the first glances towards
SC> machine codes and Assembler...
SC> After some time, I moved to Yekaterinburg and at the beginning of 96. I
SC> bought the board "Profi 3+" ver.5.03. I’ll say right away - I was simply in
SC> ecstasy: FDD appeared!!!, a bunch of all sorts of peripherals, 1MB. RAM, super-turbo
Almost everyone in this echo went through something similar!!
SC> mode, etc. etc...
SC> Everything would be fine, but now I have a modem, I started to climb on my
SC> Pros through BBScams, and there are files, files, files... Everything is in the archives.
SC> And then I had to face a powerful problem - the lack of new
SC> archivers for Pros under CP/M, and plus a letter from the author of the terminal
SC> for Pros under CP/M, which says that A pro in Moscow DIED...
SC> And most importantly - not a single Spectrumist in the BBS on a regular Z-80.
SC> My “joy” had no end. And so I collect 386, get Fido-address
SC> and am surprised to see Echo ZX.SPECTRUM!!!!!! What is it, is there still gunpowder in the
SC> powder flasks?
SC> Of course I have a lot of questions right away:
SC> 1. Is anyone else doing Pro? After allconceptually this
SC> is a cool car!
1.1. Does anyone have a wiring diagram for connecting to a pro
keyboard from DVK lying around? Kent asked very much... (tearfully) :>
SC> 2. How was the problem with archiving/unarchiving solved?
SC> 3. I heard about the ZX-net network in Moscow and St. Petersburg, who cares
SC> tell us more about it.
SC> 4. And in general, I will be glad to see any opinions about ZX-Spectrum.
Farewell..
Tiger [ Team HAKUNA MATATA ]
See you later!
SC>> at the beginning of 96. I bought the board "Profi 3+" ver.5.03. I’ll say right away - I
SC>> was simply in ecstasy from it: FDD appeared!!!, a bunch of all sorts of
SC>> peripherals, 1MB. RAM, super-turbo
T> Almost everyone in this echo went through something similar!!
What kind of computer do you have, or an emulator?
SC>> Of course, I have a lot of questions right away: 1. Is anyone
SC>> still doing Pro? After all, conceptually this is a cool car!
T> 1.1. Does anyone have a wiring diagram for connecting to a pro
T> keyboard from DVK lying around? Kent asked very much... (tearfully) :>
I have a diagram of connecting to the Pro keyboard from IBM XT, if necessary
I can draw it.
And one more thing, could you send me a point list of the Old Polish stations,
and your Kent is straight, as I understand how he relates to ZX-net?
And if he doesn’t mind, let him tell you in more detail what he does on
Pro. What P.O. in use.
Waiting for your response.
-=>Always yours, Sergey Cvetkov <=-
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Hello, Sergey!
Sat 09:10 06 Dec 1997 Sergey Cvetkov writes to All:
SC> the lack of new archivers for Pros under CP/M, plus another letter
SC> from the author of the terminal for Pros under CP/M which says
SC> that Pro in Moscow DIED...
I am not the author of the terminal. Author of the terminal package: Max Volkonovsky aka
MaxWolf, 2:5020/299. I just remade the terminal for a color profile.
Best wishes! Michael KLUG
My opinion is: cool car! And your Pro can easily be revived by replacing the built-in software. As soon as I unload from
study and solve the problem of placing a second computer on the table ;-)), I will continue to work on my OS. At least, I hope that I will not completely lose the desire to do it. According to the plan, it should support
hardware extensions of different machines in the same way (as on the Amiga), making
absolutely incompatible things compatible.
Bye, with a pack of vignettes, Pavel Fedin.
In St. Petersburg everything is okay (about 200 points, Vikkom & XTR momeds, crap software).
In Moscow I don’t know.
Sincerely, Dmitry.
DM> In St. Petersburg everything is OK (about 200 points, Vikkom & XTR moms, crap
DM> software).
DM> I don’t know in Moscow.
We are doing no worse, let’s say :-)
2SC: What exactly interests you?
DM> Sincerely, Dmitry.
Sincerely, Dmitry (OLDMAN).
ZXNet: 095/100.1
old...@i-connect.ru
PF> My opinion is: cool car! And your Pro can be easily revived
PF> by replacing the built-in software. As soon as I unload
from
PF> studying and solve the problem of placing a second computer on the table ;-)), I will
PF> continue working on my OS. At least, I hope that I
completely
PF> will not lose the desire to do it. According to the plan, it should support
PF> hardware extensions of different machines in the same way (as on the Amiga),
making
PF> absolutely incompatible things compatible.
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Dmitry is that you?
...why did you tell Dmitry Meniaylov about Profi 3+?
DG> A in Moscow there are 3 Scorpios. Shall we draw conclusions? ;) Have you actually seen Pro
DG>, worked on it?
by the way, pro-rulez. This is probably the only machine that has
$ff port as a pure coincidence, just like on the original
spec...
Good Luck...
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PF> I haven’t seen it.
Is it cool in St. Petersburg??? Have you seen the software? The only thing that was done properly was the terminal, and everything else... By hand, my friend, by hand. There is no mail editor. BBS has already compromised itself completely after one person removed _all_ soap from the hub, and userlists with passwords for all points from all stations. in SPBZXNET.GENERAL there was information about a glitch in bbsk, using which
you can completely control it (for example, force calls to Australia all night).
And you say - cool.
Sincerely, CAPTAIN/56.
Hi All!
I recently subscribed to this echo, so I ask you not to kick me too hard for questions
which may be either off-topic or Chaynikov’s, since in a week
I haven’t seen any rules or facs here.
And my questions are:
are there converters between the .z80 .tap and .$ formats?
is there an echo file somewhere on ftp speckie (bbs.ogo.ru not
offer - not there are they allowed)?
What kind of ftp are there with spec software?
Can anyone share the boot files for tr-dos?
why not :) come on, let him call me - phone 02-67680024 call Seva
:)))))
in my opinion the software is quite cool because of this (hehe)
Regards,
Random
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Hello Max Romanoff! In a message of 18 Dec 97 Max Romanoff wrote to Dmitry Grigoryev:
MR> by the way, a pro-rulez. This is probably the only machine that has
MR> $ff port as a pure coincidence, just like on the original
MR> spec...
How is that?
Sincerely, Alex from FFC COMPUTERS.
Hi, Max!
Thursday December 18, 1997 21:12, Max Romanoff wrote to Dmitry Grigoryev:
MR> by the way, pro rulez.
I was very pleased with him. Of course, it’s a little slow, but only in comparison with
the Pentagon and not in my case, I have two temporary huts there - Pent and a branded one (well
judging by Western multicolors). Well, mega memory, turbo mode 7-14 MHz,
stereocovox and tricks with pages are hard to underestimate... Although with the processor
we were a little unlucky - out (c),0 ;(
MR> This is probably the only machine that has a $ff port as a pure
MR> accident, just like on original spec...
How is it?
Alex is that you?
...why were you telling me about Re: Profi 3+?
AL> How is this?
almost the same as on a real Spectrum.
Good Luck...
... PC's are Tools, The Amiga's an Instrument.
Dmitry is that you?
...why were you telling me about Profi 3+?
DG> I was very pleased with it. Of course, it’s a little slow, but only in comparison with the Pentagon and not in my case, I have two temporary huts there - Pent and branded (well, judging by Western multicolors). Well, the mega
DG> memory, 7-14 MHz turbo mode, stereocovox and tricks with pages are hard
DG> to underestimate... Although I was a little unlucky with the processor - out (c),0 ;(
I liked the fact that my mouse did not require blocking
internal ports to work. And in the rest computers, even in such
major with sophisticated decryption as Scorpio - blocking was
simply necessary... Plus, the pro had an original design, and
the ability to upgrade to a button: pro/scorpio. Moreover, in the
scorpion mode, compatibility with the software was better than that. the scorpion itself.
DG> How is it? No, well, the port did not appear by chance ;)
but there was no port. In the original spec, the latest displayed screen data is read from any
non-existent port.
Essentially, this is a bug, but it was used for good.
Good Luck...
... Dogs crawl under fences, Software crawls under Windows.
MR> $ff port as a pure coincidence, just like on the original
MR> spec...
At the Pentagon, with a little modification (~2 hours), you will get #FF.
BYE
Hello Alex Letaev, I hope you have a good day today.
22-Dec-97 06:25:28, Alex Letaev wrote Max Romanoff
Subject line: Re: Profi 3+
AL> Hello Max Romanoff! In a message of 18 Dec 97 Max Romanoff wrote
AL> to Dmitry Grigoryev
MR>> by the way, pro rulez. This is probably the only machine that has a $ff
MR>> port as a pure coincidence, just like on the original
MR>> spec...
AL> How is that?
For Pro, it seems that this port was intended as a modification for greater
compatibility of the computer with the original speckie.
Hello, Paul Falcon! I remember, on December 16, 97 you took it and launched it at me with this:
PF> I have a really cool one, on Turbo2+ there are a lot of all sorts of smart
PF> bells and whistles made... like memory organization, resident
PF> programs for tr-dos (honyy comander),
I don’t argue. What doesn’t make me happy is that you have a mandatory controller
PeeCee keyboard.
PF> cp/m is certainly not a fountain,
PF> but BorlandPaskal dBase and other things work.
Who needs them...
PF> and you by chance didn’t make a driver for mmd_2.20 for c-dos, I wrote to you through
PF> all the available echoes when it happened...
I did it, but it didn’t work. So I hushed it all up. I tried a lot to work with the modem - all to no avail. Apparently even I’m a mediocre programmer. :-(((
Hello Sergey Cvetkov! In a message of 24 Dec 97 Sergey Cvetkov wrote to me:
SC> On Pro, it seems that this port was intended as a modification for greater
SC> compatibility of the computer with the original Speccy.
How is it implemented there?
AL> And how is it implemented there?
The data bus is pulled through 820 ohm resistors to the bus along which
data from the video memory goes (before the shifting register).
Best wishes! Michael KLUG
AG> At the Pentagon, with a little modification (~2 hours), you will have #FF.
2 hours?! 15 minutes maximum. The theme is simple: 1 LA2 (8 and no), some thread
LL1 + IP22. All. the first ones are for decoding, and ir 22 is soldered on top.
that's all. 2 hours is a lot for such a rework.
Good Luck...
... Programmer - A red-eyed, mumbling mammal capable of conversing with
inanimate objects.
Hello, Dmitry Meniaylov! I remember, on December 19, 97 you just launched this at me:
DM> Is it cool in St. Petersburg??? Have you seen the software? The only thing that is properly done
DM> is the terminal, and everything else...
We don’t even have that. :-( Have you seen our CDOS? If not, then I don’t recommend it - it’s
only for strong nerves. ;-)
DM> Handles, my friend, hands. There is no mail editor
DM>.
What about ZED?
Hello Michael Markowsky! In a message of 25 Dec 97 Michael Markowsky wrote to me:
MM> The data bus is pulled through 820 ohm resistors to the bus along which
MM> data from the video memory goes (before the shift register).
Oh, I think Kiril Gromov did this, or did it happen before?
AL> Oh, I think Kiril Gromov did this, or did it happen before him?
These resistors are present both in the Profi circuit album from the Profi company, and in the Profi+ circuit album from Condor (Kramis).
Best wishes! Michael KLUG
Hello Michael Markowsky! In a message of 26 Dec 97 Michael Markowsky wrote to me:
MM> These resistors are present both in the album of Profi circuits from the company "Profi",
MM> and in the album of Profi+ circuits from "Condor" ("Kramis").
Ah, that means they were there all the time. Cool.
You see, in Moscow, the Spectrum has... grown in size. Or rather, it has not grown, but has turned into a wretched appendage of the network. From here - F-(
Warm greetings, Slava!