ZXC review (reflections on commanders and authors)

Hello, Andrew!

Saturday August 16, 1997 11:55, Michael Markowsky wrote All these words:

MM> Hello!

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MM> To: fido7-zx...@fido7.ru
MM> From: "Andrew Savichev" <mas...@satan.spb.su>

MM> “Spectrumists of all networks and platforms, unite!”

MM> Hi, All!

MM> First of all, thanks to the author (Konstantin Afendikov) for his work and
MM> the wish to successfully complete what he started.
Thank you.

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MM> (the ideal option in general would be: adding DN with new functions and
MM> expanding its capabilities for Spectrum friends, i.e. so that he could carry out all his
MM> manipulations with files with files of all used
MM> formats,

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MM> overcome :-)).But the authors of DN, I think you should Konstantin collaboration
MM> won’t be able to attract :-(,
I corresponded with one of them little - they won’t do anything serious
any more. Ж8( In CONNECT it is possible to connect new archives, i.e. you can
write a procedure for reading the archive directory and manipulating files and CONNECT
you will understand this matter. It will be possible try to apply this to disk images... Or you can put a strain on the CONNECT authors... Or write everything yourself, andthis
is a loooong time...

MM> and our espionage is pretty bad (in the sense of throwing you some stuff from dn), so
MM> you’ll have to sort out this mess yourself, and the thing is of course oh so
MM> necessary.
I’ll write where I go. Ж8)
MM> Just how to launch programs from under it, if at least with
MM> Nikolay Shalaev you agreed on cooperation - the whole world would
MM> Spectrum-Dosovsky bowed to you.
Shalaev just needs to change his interface and work not with disk images,
but, to For example, consider a directory as an image, and store ZX files as MS-DOS files.
MM> Well, until the apple is full, we use Dmitry Eliseev and Nikolay
MM> Shalaev (I certainly personally owe everything to them). And what don’t they
MM> get (no one backs up the big .spcs and doesn’t unclips,
And what kind of beast is this '.spc'?
MM> no one sees the screen inside a large file and without attributes, viewers will not
MM> view (at least B&W)
Is this Bor&Winogradow? I’ve already modified this feature and I can insert it with ZXC, if
Kostya allows it.
MM>, no one puts pressure on the bootloader’s protections and doesn’t force the Xorks out, etc.)
What’s the use of the emulator? Ж8)
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MM> ) Hmmm... Things are starting and ending everywhere... By the way, Konstantin, what are you basing your software on
MM>?
Borland Pascal 7.0
MM> I didn’t get anything in this version of yoursexcept
MM> selecting (deselecting) files (why, by the way, without a mask?)
Already with a mask.
MM> and changing directories, for some reason, sorry...
MM> (DX4-100,DOS6.22,HIMEM,SMARTDRIVE,DOUBLESPACE,8M RAM)
Have you tried reading the description? G8) In History.Txt it is said that
_HI_HREN_doesn't work. Ж8)

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MM> Happy hunting everyone! m@s (mas...@satan.spb.su)

Best wishes, Konstantin.

[Team ZX ASM] [Team DN] [Team DOOM] [Hell Team]

Good afternoon (morning, evening, night), Dmitry!

A couple more wishes:

1. Add output via Alt-X
2. It's better to put Info on F1
3. At the bottom you need to add "F3 - view" ;)
4. When you press an unused key, the cursor moves to the beginning. We need to fix it.
4. Is there a disk option? Otherwise I didn’t find it.
5. Make a copy from image to image.
6. There is a small glitch. The title of the info window displays the entire path. If the path
is too long, then it goes beyond the window... When you restore the screen
under the window, a piece of the path remains on the screen. :(
Better cut the beginning of the path to the size of the window, and at the beginning of the path put "..." (like a
navigator)

Regards Alex!

Hello, Konstantin!

21 Aug 97, 23:41, Konstantin Afendikov wrote to Andrew Savichev on the topic
"ZXC-review (reflections on commanders and authors)":

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KA> Shalaev just needs to change his interface and not work with images
KA> disks, and, for example, consider a directory as an image, and store ZX files as
KA> MS-DOS files.

IMHO it will turn out to be garbage....

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Happy connections.
Roman.

24 Aug 97, already 13:18