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Sprinter Unofficial News
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- February 01, 2007
Ivan Mak (creator of Sprinter) said
that Petersplus gave him all rights about this computer and he is ready to open this
project in near future.
- January 20, 2006
Lesson 3 for Sprinter SDK
was translated to English.
- November 23, 2005
NedoPC team decided to free domain petersplus.com that was owr for 1 year. Web-site
"Sprinter unofficial" now accessable by address
sprinter.nedopc.org.
- February 20, 2005
RAM Drive updated - version 1.11 does not require to reboot the machine after RAM disk
creation (the utility automatically check for proper DOS version).
- February 18, 2005
Vasiliy Ivanov released DOS v1.61 (modified version of original DOS 1.6 by Peters Plus).
- December 26, 2004
New version of RAMDrive by Vasiliy Ivanov. Now RAM disk size can be set in range from
64k up to size of available free RAM.
- November 23, 2004
NedoPC team orders expired domain name petersplus.com for 1 year to support our project
"Sprinter unofficial".
- September 5, 2004
Released first version of SolidC - a native C compiler for Sprinter,
by Vasiliy Ivanov.
- August 26, 2004
FFORMAT version update, by Vasiliy Ivanov.
- May 6, 2004
Vasiliy Ivanov released new version of FVIEW utility.
- May 4, 2004
Released version 1.03 of Ramdrive creator utility.
- April 24, 2004
Released new version of Ramdrive creator utility. Project of porting SolidC to Sprinter
still in progress. SolidC linker will use dinamically loaded library format - L0 - early
introduced by Sha0s.
- February 12, 2004
Petersplus has solved problems with hosting by Value Host and rerun their websites
petersplus.ru and petersplus.com
- June 23, 2003
Lesson 2 for Sprinter SDK
was translated to English.
- June 17, 2003
Lesson 1 for Sprinter SDK
was translated to English.
- June 3, 2003
FD Formatting Utility by Vasil Ivanov was updated.
- May 24, 2003
New version of SPRINT emulator by Shaos.
- May 22, 2003
Petersplus starts to sell a number of new products, namely a new motherboard Sp2000s
and VGA Converter for Sprinter computer.
- May 23, 2003
The CRC-checksum counter SpCRC v0.1 by cr0acker was published.
- May 12, 2003
FD Formatting Utility update, by Vasiliy Ivanov (fixed bug which popped up on
boards without RTC/CMOS chip). Peters Plus released {Spectrator v0.1} utility
that used to convert SCL into TRD format (the files used to store TR-DOS disk
images for ZX-Spectrum).
- May 5, 2003
Released source code of {Shaos Fractals} program.
- April 26, 2003
"Sprinter SDK v0.1 beta" had been published. Sorry,
but documentation exists only in Russian. We are working on documentation in English.
- March 26, 2003
Released new version of the best assembler for Sprinter - Org-ASM.
- March 22, 2003
Petersplus officially released first commercial game for Sprinter - "Thunder in The Deep".
- March 6, 2003
Petersplus published image of system diskette with new version of operational system
Estex DSS 1.6 Release.
- February 22, 2003
Petersplus published programm {COPY} (copying of files on Sprinter computer from command line).
- February 18, 2003
Petersplus published program {CMOS Utility 1.00} for editing CMOS memory.
- February 13, 2003
Scheme of computer Sprinter was published (useless because of no CPLD programs published).
- February 8, 2003
Petersplus published utility {CDROM Extension utility v1.00} for copying files from CD-ROM
to HDD of Sprinter computer.
- February 6, 2003
Petersplus published program {Keyboard utility v1.00} for keyboard map changing
and diagnostic of Sprinter keyboard.
- January 31, 2003
Released earlier version of plugin for Flex Navigator by Shaos
{FLX plugin CD-Player v1.0 (beta1)} for playing music from CD disks.
FN API by Anton Enin was used to create it.
- January 29, 2003
Petersplus gave new utility to registered developers of Sprinter software -
"CDROM Extention utility v1.0 (beta)"
- January 23, 2003
Peresplus published second demo of game "Thunder in The Deep" with one level.
- December 23, 2002
Released new program {Floppy Disk Formatting Utility v1.0} by Vasil Ivanov for formatting
of floppy diskettes in format MS-DOS (FAT12), CP/M-80 and TR-DOS.
- December 16, 2002
Petersplus published release candidate of DOS upgrade - Estex Disk SubSystem 1.6.
- November 15, 2002
Petersplus published first demo of new arcade game for computer Sprinter
"Thunder in The Deep" by Deviants. BIOS v3 is required to play with.
- November 10, 2002
Petersplus published new image of boot system diskette for computer Sprinter with new BIOS v3.
- October 30, 2002
Released new better version of emulator SPRINT by Shaos.
- October 10, 2002
New version 1.5.2 of game JATetris by Shaos has faster loading now and some bugfixes.
Archive has EXE and TRD versions and also source code on RW1 programming language.
- October 4, 2002
Petersplus published their program "IF utility v1.0" for command execution by compatison
in BAT-files.
- October 3, 2002
Petersplus published programming manual for Estex DSS v1.55 in form of RTF document.
- September 25, 2002
Petersplus published list of functions of new BIOS v3.
- September 17, 2002
New version of the best assembler for Sprinter was published - Org-ASM v0.21.
- September 16, 2002
Petersplus published program "User Menu" for creation of menu interfaces on Sprinter computer.
- August 16, 2002
Petersplus published 3 new animated pictures from game "Thunder in the Deep" by Deviants.
- August 14, 2002
Petersplus published first screenshot of game "Thunder in the Deep" by Deviants.
- August 7, 2002
Petersplus published program Timer for testing of performance of Sprinter.
CMOS is required because it is used by this program.
- August 1, 2002
Shaos published new version of library manager LIBMAN v1.2 for Sprinter computer.
Library collection LIBSHAOS was also renewed.
- July 24, 2002
Shaos published first version of library collection LIBSHAOS for Sprinter computer.
- July 23, 2002
New two pass assembler for Sprinter computer was published today - Org-ASM v0.16.
Shaos published package LIBMAN v1.1 that allows to use dynamically loaded libraries
in programs for Sprinter computer.
- July 22, 2002
Petersplus published new demo 256color with source code.
- July 19, 2002
Petersplus published new demo Flames with source code.
- July 18, 2002
Petersplus published their variant of classic logic game Sokoban with 85 levels. Game was
writtem on Forth programming language.
- July 8, 2002
Shaos published SDL version of his emulator SPRINT (multiplatform emulator of Sprinter computer).
- July 4, 2002
Petersplus renewed program CamelForth. New version 4.01 allows to create EXE programs,
read data from disks and use assembler!
- July 1, 2002
Petersplus published source code of program "EXE primary loader" that demonstrates approach
to complex loader similar to Flex Navigator. In the same day Petersplus published new
implementation of Forth language for Sprinter computer - "Sprinter CamelForth v4.00".
- June 27, 2002
Petersplus published source code of procedure that prints text on graphics screen in resoultion
640x256 (16 colors) for Sprinter computer.
- June 24, 2002
Petersplus published their Sprinter programming manual for DSS v1.54.
Shaos published program Fractals that draws Mandelbrout set on Sprinter computer.
- June 22, 2002
Petersplus published old demo "Mortal Combat" from 1999 that draws sprites through Sprinter
graphics accelerator.
- June 18, 2002
New version of cross-compiler RW1P2 by Shaos was published. It supports creation of EXE files
for Sprinter computer. Source code of game "Just Another Tetris RW1" was published as example.
Perersplus published test plugin for Flex Navogator with source code.
- June 11, 2002
New version of emulator SPRINT by Shaos is available. Now it can run Flex Navigator and other
program through it!
- June 7, 2002
Petersplus published programm "DIZ File Creator" for creation of list of files from TRD-images.
- May 31, 2002
Shaos published game pogram for Sprinter "Just Another Tetris RW1".
- May 27, 2002
Petersplus published program "Small Oxford Dictionary" (English language tesaurus) that was written
on their own implementation of Forth programming language for Sprinter computer.
- May 20, 2002
Petersplus published unfinished source codes of simple text editor for Sprinter that
works in graphics mode 640x256. Sources became public because of authors declined to finish it.
It looks like this is that "advanced" text editor announced in last year under name "ASCEdit".
- May 8, 2002
Petersplus published picture of board Sp2000 with description of chips and connectors.
- May 7, 2002
Anton Enin modified file manager Flex Navigator and published version 1.10 that does not
have its own procedure of loading of TRD-files and now loader program should be specified
in descriptor of file extensions.
- April 11, 2002
Petersplus published first upgrade pack for Sprinter computer - "Sprinter Update #1".
Pack includes new BIOS v3.00.253, new flash hardware image for Sp2000 mother board amd
new system software. To rollback they published "Sprinter BIOS v2.12.251". Web-site
has now images of spectrum ROMs that are needed for working in ZX-Spectrum compatible mode.
- April 4, 2002
Petersplus published program "TRD Creator" by Alpha Studio for Sprinter Computer.
- April 1, 2002
Shaos decides to create emulator of CP/M-80 for Sprinter computer.
- March 29, 2002
Petersplus started beta-testing of new BIOS v3.
- March 22, 2002
Foreing paper magazin "Retro Review" published big article about Sprinter computer.
- March 20, 2002
Shaos published new version of emulator SPRINT that is multiplatform emulator of Sprinter computer.
- March 15, 2002
Petersplus published program "RAMdrive Creator" that creates 720 KB RAM-disks in
memory of Sprinter computer.
- March 13, 2002
Vasil Ivanov ported assembler MASM80 to Sprinter computer.
- March 11, 2002
Shaos publsihed new version of emulator SPRINT.
Petersplus published new version of their Forth implementation - FORTH v0.07.
- March 5, 2002
Web-site of magazin "Retro Review" published two small utilities for Sprinter computer.
- March 4, 2002
Petersplus opened FORUM on their web-site.
- March 1, 2002
Petersplus published table of functions of BIOS v2.12 that was private before.
Shaos announced beginning of Sprinter emulator development. Its name will be SPRINT.
First version of SPRINT is already available, but author does not have real Sprinter yet ;)
- February 20, 2002
Petersplus published their implementation of programming language Forth for Sprinter
computer. Implementation is very close to FORTH-83 standard and may create EXE-programs.
- February 12, 2002
Petersplus published programm Pkunzip v0.7 that allows to unzip ZIP-archives on Sprinter computer.
- February 6, 2002
Petersplus published table of system calls of disk subsystem DSS v1.55 for Sprinter computer.
- January 25, 2002
Petersplus published program "EXE Prefix shower" for Sprinter computer.
- January 10, 2002
Petersplus announced soon publishing of demo version of new text editor "ASCEdit" for
Sprinter computer.
- December 10, 2001
Petersplus produced second series of Sprinter mother board Sp2000.
- December 7, 2001
Spanish web-site matranet.net published information about Sprinter computer.
- November 20, 2001
Russian magazin "Computerra" published article "People miracle: Spectrum" that has
some information about Sprinter computer.
- November 13, 2001
New section about Sprinter computer and its mother board Sp2000 was appeared on
Petersplus's web-site.
- September 6, 2001
Petersplus announced name for developed advanced text editor - "ASCEdit". It should support
pictures in documents and edition of text of any size. Editor should be finished in 6 months.
- June 27, 2001
Petersplus announced project of advanced text editor for Sprinter computer that was
being developed by some unnamed group of programmers.
- June 18, 2001
Petersplus published two audio files that demonstrate ability of AY emulation in Sprinter computer.
- June 5, 2001
Petersplus announced full support of Kempston-mouse program interface in Sprinter computer.
- May 30, 2001
Petersplus announced screenshots of DooM demo for Sprinter computer.
- May 29, 2001
Petersplus announced program for users that will reprogram Sprinter hardware.
- May 21, 2001
Petersplus announced serial production of mother board Sp2000.
- March 20, 2001
Petersplus published screenshot of file manager "Flex Navigator" developed by Anton Enin.
- March 17, 2001
Petersplus is still testing board Sp2000. Announced cheaper version of mother board
named "Sp2000-Light" that costs 85 dollars only.
- March 2, 2001
Petersplus announced that new mother board of Sprinter computer will be named "Sp2000" and
old design will have name "Sp97".
- February 24, 2001
Petersplus published picture of new mother board of Sprinter computer that allows
to upgrade computer by reprogramming of onboard flash memory by program running on
the same computer.
- February 3, 2001
Petersplus published logo of Sprinter computer.
- December 28, 2000
Petersplus published image of system disk for Sprinter computer.
- December 18, 2000
Petersplus announced beginning of new design of mother board for Sprinter computer.
- August 7, 2000
Petersplus showed a prototype of their computer Sprinter on Chaos Construction'00.
We used some historical materials from web-site of company Petersplus
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