The Vinnie Pooh part II (was: 48 irons)

ZXNet echo conference «zx.spectrum»

From John Stunner To All 6 July 1997


Greets, Rick!

Tue 06-May-97 09:14, Rick Murray bombed John Stunner's letter:

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RM> Shalaev can set the frame frequency (interruptions from 20 to 100 Hz.

What's the point? You need 50Hz, but on PC there is no mode screen with such a frame rate. I
saw emulation of 50 frames on a standard 60 Hz screen.

With the best wishes, John.


From John Stunner To All 6 July 1997


Greets, Dmitry!

Thu 15-May-97 19:40, Dmitry Grigoryev bombed John Stunner's letter:

DG> Hello, John!

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DG> That's not the point. It’s just that, while enjoying the demos on the offtopic, you completely
DG> forgot that we were talking about the _emulator_ Z80 and its visual
DG> capabilities were evaluated in comparison with the real Spectrum ;)

I had the opportunity to see a pissing Spectrum emulator at 200mmx. Everything seemed to be normal, but the constantly running distortion strip spoiled the whole
impression.

DG> Sincerely, Dmitry (OLDMAN).

From Vyacheslav Mednonogov To All 10 July 1997


Get Msg, John!

06 Jul 97 21:20, John Stunner reported to Rick Murray about {The Vinnie Pooh part II
(was: 48 irons)}:

JS> What's the point? You need 50Hz, but on PC there is no screen mode with such a frame rate.
JS> I saw the emulation of 50 frames on a standard 60 Hz screen.

Yes, John, you are behind the times. Look at the beta version of V. Yudin's emulator: not only is it 50Hz (the smoothness is higher than on Spec :), it also works quite well with curbs! And this is on the PC, and not on the vaunted [...]

Warm greetings, Slava!