On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 07:32:46PM -0200, Fabio R. Schmidlin wrote: > > > Is there any way to force 60Hz interrupts > > onto the default MSX1 emulation or should > > I use a Japanese romset? > > Now, there's a point I want to contribute: The "default" MSX emulation. :) > It shoud'nt check the mainROM's checksum: So you'll use any mainROM you want. > Nowadays I'm using the european ROMs with the msxjp emulation to get 60Hz. By > this way I get the closest of a Brazilian MSX I can get with MESS. It of course > complains about the ROM's checksum, but it's nothing to worry about. :) > > I can't use the Brazilians ROMs of Hotbit and Expert because the keyboard layout > gets wrong... :( I'd like to add the Brazilian MSX computers, but I don't know much about them. What models were releases? There's the Gradiente, Expert and Hotbit? What versions were there? What features do they have? What's the keyboard layout? > Some neat things to do on MESS: :) > > How about a "DIP switch" (on MESS menu) to select between 50Hz and 60Hz? There > are a lot of things that can be set by switches too: Well I believe (which is the physiolophy of MESS) that an emulator should as closely resemble the original machine -- so not a "super-msx". > Usefull: > 1) 50/60Hz Unfortunately MESS/MAME can't do that yet (I'm writing a patch for the core). > 2) Country ID (by patching the mainROM) It should support all the different BIOS roms, that's the way I want to do it. > 3) MainRAM slot I want to have a "memory layout" menu, which will do all of this. In which slot is the ram on the brazilian machines? > 4) SCC/SCC+ slot (future: for Snatcher/SD Snatcher) Definately. Will do. :) > Maybe? > 1) Cursor speed (patching too) > 2) Fix Keyboard Layout: y/n (by patching the mainrom) Sorry. > 3) Future: MegaRAM slot :) Yep, on my wish-list. Sean -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
