Re: AW: English Snatcher
I have an entire website I made recently, devoted entirely to MSX Snatcher. Check it out PLEASE It's pretty useful also if you want to try and play the game when it's in japanese. The Address: www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Bridge/2251 MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: MY story! 8-)
Hi... He had made a top secret preprepreversion of a game for it (an aleste-like shooter in space) which looked really cool. Which now isn't that top-secret anymore, hehehe... Bye, Rieks __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: Your typical MSX history hardware setup
Hi... I didn't follow this story from the beginning, but from Laurens' message and the subject, I get the impression that this is about MSX history and the like... To go in short... I was born in 1979 (as they say, I can't clearly remember)... I was a very happy kid, often playing outside with friends and so on... This changed when at school I was confronted with the thing they called 'computer'. The letters 'MSX' were written on it, and the school gave its pupils the possibility to take the MSX home in the weekends to play games. Ofcourse, there weren't that many computers, but also there weren't that many fans, so it wasn't such a big problem. Anyway, my father got charmed with a game called 'King's Valley', and his family decided to give him a MSX1 with taperecorder at his birthday... That was 1989, if I remember correctly. Both my father and I were interested in the phenomena 'MSX' and 'games' and when my schoolteacher sold his MSX2-set (NMS 8255 with lots of other stuff) we were the first ones to take a look... and buy it. This was in 1991. Our game-madness continued. My favourite game-type turned out to be RPG's, and as they were (and are) mainly developed in Japan, I also developed some interest in Japanese, as most of these games weren't translated and I desired to know what kind of storyline there was. But well, gradually the Japanese MSX-companies stopped and therefore also the flow of new Japanese games to the Netherlands ceesed to exist... Eventually, I had played enough games. I got contacts with the Dutch MSX-scene (1992 if I'm right) and soon I worked by a club called MSX-Code. The first MSX-fair I visited was Tilburg 1993. At that time, I also became MSX-Code member... Eventually I would end up being chief-editor of MSX-Code's diskmagazine Newsdisc and make some games on my own with the GameBuilder, but let me not dig those nightmares up again... (Ah well, nightmares, I had a lot of fun making them, but their quality was... GameBuilder). But I wanted to keep this story short (there has been published a MSX-story of mine on various diskmagazines, e.g. FutureDisk and Defender), so let me finish... In 1995 there were some troubles with MSX-Code and I decided to leave the club (which, shortly afterwards, disappeared). At that time I also worked together with Jan Wilmans and Aaldert Dekker, two ML-programmers, and we decided to form the team 'Pigeonsoft' (this was a name with nostalgic value to me, as I also used this name when I was just making shit in BASIC before entering MSX-Code). Ofcourse, we needed more teammembers, and eventually Johnny Hassink, Sven Neve and Robert Vroemisse entered the team as respectively musician, graphic designer and musician/graphic designer. After all, we found the name 'Pigeonsoft' not that charming, so we decided to change the name to 'Sargon' and that's what we're still today... We started the Defender-project, a diskmagazine on half-yearly basis and began lots of games of which, sofar, none has been completed (snff...). We also made a music demo (Twisted Reality) and some gametipsdisks (Guide through Gameworld 1 and 2). Our first products to be released now are Defender 6 and Twisted Realtity 2. Next to Sargon, I also was for two years editor of the magazine MSX-User and I wrote now and then something for FutureDisk and some other magazines (not that frequently, however). My greatest fun with MSX is not the MSX itself anymore, but the scene that uses it... For example, fairs, friends coming to drink a beer and play pool, MSX-parties, etc... If I want to play games nowadays, I mainly use my PlayStation or SNES... For playing games, I really reject PC's, but they really come in handy when you want to do desktop publishing or Internetting or so... Oh, and about that Japanese language... I'm now studying Japanese, not because now I really want to understand those games (but that's also nice, ofcourse), but my interest came because of the games... I'm not THAT fanatic... Then my MSX hardware setup... - MSX2 NMS8255 - MSX Turbo R ST - Music Module - Panasonic FM-Pac - MoonSound - External 512kB memory mapper - Philips NMS1431 matrix printer - Two Philips full-colour monitors - Two Philips mouses - Some old joysticks - MT-Telcom modem, which crashed shortly before I went to Japan Well, possibly I forget something, but well... These are the main things... So far my story (I guess...) ! Bye, Rieks __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: DS: English Snatcher
Hi... I'm working in Randar 3 translation. I friend of mine that speak Japanese very well is helping to me translating the text from Jap to Spanish. I'll translate it to English later. By the way, the text of the first disk is finished. When do you think the whole will be finished ? ...Randar 3 is of great interest to me and therefore I wanted to make a translation of it. If you are going to translate it to Spanish first, I might as well still translating this game to English. Randar 3 is one of my favourites, so I'd enjoy doing it and perhaps it'll be completed sooner than when you translate it to Spanish first. I heard rumours, some years ago, maybe three or four or so, that there already was a Spanish translation of Randar 3 in Spain... Isn't that true ? Bye ! Rieks __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
AW: AW: msx-ers
-- Van: Laurens Holst[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:zaterdag 20 februari 1999 20:53 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp:Re: AW: msx-ers Yes, and therefore I'd like to see a Moonblaster version with 18 wave channels and 6 FM channels. Just to have that great plucked and synth bass 3 back. Make that 24 Wave and 18 FM channels... :) If that's possible.. ~Grauw MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/) MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
AW: Hello
-- Van: Rieks W. Torringa[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:maandag 22 februari 1999 7:27 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp:Hello This is the first time that I write here, so this pretends to be a kind of presentation about me. Hm, yes, I also haven't done something like that... So... Well, here I am. My name is Rieks Warendorp Torringa, I'm a teammember of Sargon, currently stay for one year in Japan (as I study Japanese) and because I heard there were some stories concerning me (or especially, concerning my hair :)) and because Robert (Vroemisse) said it was fun I joined the mailinglist... Bye... Rikusu (PS:That's the Japanese pronunciation of my name...) Hi Rikusu. Bye Rikusu Robusu - sama __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/) MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
AW: Your typical MSX history hardware setup
-- Van: Rieks W. Torringa[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:maandag 22 februari 1999 7:55 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp:Re: Your typical MSX history hardware setup Hi... I didn't follow this story from the beginning, but from Laurens' message and the subject, I get the impression that this is about MSX history and the like... To go in short... I was born in 1979 (as they say, I can't clearly remember)... Is there any scientific proof that you are born in that year? Maybe you are a Vampire and you are taken into home by your (current) mother. Maybe you will suck her dry in a few years and go search for some new ignorent parents where you can again practise your habit of drinking unholy blood. I don't say this is true, but maybe I was a very happy kid, often playing outside with friends and so on... Outside? Was it night or were you properly protected from the sun on my own with the GameBuilder, but let me not dig those nightmares up again... (Ah well, nightmares, I had a lot of fun making them, but their quality was... GameBuilder). The Vampires and She Vampires. Hm I'm beginning to see a pattern here. But I wanted to keep this story short (there has been published a MSX-story of mine on various diskmagazines, e.g. FutureDisk and Defender), so let me finish... In 1995 there were some troubles with MSX-Code and I decided to leave the club (which, shortly afterwards, disappeared). At that time I also worked together with Jan Wilmans and Aaldert Dekker, two ML-programmers, and we decided to form the team 'Pigeonsoft' (this was a name with nostalgic value to me, as I also used this name when I was just making shit in BASIC before entering MSX-Code). Ofcourse, we needed more teammembers, and eventually Johnny Hassink, Sven Neve and Robert Vroemisse entered the team as respectively musician, graphic designer and musician/graphic designer. After all, we found the name 'Pigeonsoft' not that charming, so we decided to change the name to 'Sargon' and that's what we're still today... We started the Defender-project, a diskmagazine on half-yearly basis and began lots of games of which, sofar, none has been completed (snff...). We also made a music demo (Twisted Reality) Which is actually quite nice. When I come to to think about it. The disk is actually very GREAT!!! and some gametipsdisks (Guide through Gameworld 1 and 2). Our first products to be released now are Defender 6 and Twisted Realtity 2. Next to Sargon, I also was for two years editor of the magazine MSX-User and I wrote now and then something for FutureDisk and some other magazines (not that frequently, however). My greatest fun with MSX is not the MSX itself anymore, but the scene that uses it... For example, fairs, friends coming to drink a beer and play pool, Any persons in particular maybe? MSX-parties, etc... If I want to play games nowadays, I mainly use my PlayStation or SNES... For playing games, I really reject PC's, but they really come in handy when you want to do desktop publishing or Internetting or so... Oh, and about that Japanese language... I'm now studying Japanese, not because now I really want to understand those games (but that's also nice, ofcourse), but my interest came because of the games... I'm not THAT fanatic... Then my MSX hardware setup... - MSX2 NMS8255 - MSX Turbo R ST With a vage kabel and stoffige veertjes - Music Module - Panasonic FM-Pac - MoonSound - External 512kB memory mapper - Philips NMS1431 matrix printer - Two Philips full-colour monitors One is very vague - Two Philips mouses - Some old joysticks - MT-Telcom modem, which crashed shortly before I went to Japan Well, possibly I forget something, but well... These are the main things... So far my story (I guess...) ! Bye, Rieks Bye Robusu - sama __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/) MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: disk image formats
On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Alwin Henseler wrote: Conclusion: -If you want to use DOS1, use one of the standard MSX disk formats (360/720 K) But is it possible to do what the utility was originally made for? Make smaller disk-images for games that aren't going to read from higher sectors anyway. If you just use a normal header-structure (boot, fat 1, fat 2, dir, data) and it will give a 'disk offline' or something when you try to read from higher sectors, the program will be very useful. It still won't be a harddisk emulator, of course. Bye, shevek --- Visit the internet summercamp via http://polypc47.chem.rug.nl:5002 MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
rommelmarkt
Rommelmarkt means Fleamarket. For people who still don't have a clue I'll give a short description of what a fleamarket is. Well. a fleamarket is a place where you can buy second hand goods for low prices. Hope to have answered all your questions. Robert "hail rommelmarkt" Vroemisse MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: IDE Problem
is this problem also known with the Bert SCSI interface ?? IS there a problem with the Bert SSI-interface??? just one problem I think: it is very slow... Hm... Yeah I know that. In a test in MCCM Bert v2.8 was tested and it was the fastest interface. So I bought Bert v2.7, I thought it was the same as v2.8... Well later on I heard it was not. Bert v2.8 was never released... Well anyway I think I still had to buy a Bert interface because Novaxis is very hard to find and I have never heard of a Dutch Mega-SCSI-distributor either. Besides, Bert is a lot cheaper than Mega-SCSI... ~Grauw MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: AW: msx-ers
Yes, and therefore I'd like to see a Moonblaster version with 18 wave channels and 6 FM channels. Just to have that great plucked and synth bass 3 back. Make that 24 Wave and 18 FM channels... :) If that's possible.. It is possible... However, someone has to program it, eh? ~Grauw MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
AW: AW: msx-ers
-- Van: Laurens Holst[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:maandag 22 februari 1999 12:33 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp:Re: AW: msx-ers Yes, and therefore I'd like to see a Moonblaster version with 18 wave channels and 6 FM channels. Just to have that great plucked and synth bass 3 back. Make that 24 Wave and 18 FM channels... :) If that's possible.. It is possible... However, someone has to program it, eh? Like I said before. I am willing to beta test the program. Now we have to search for someone to program the lot. Ropie ~Grauw MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/) MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Zip
Hi, For this zip-(de)cruncher I'm planning to write, I found out only one method is used nowadays. I got a file describing a packing method from Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro. I hope it is this one... I didn't get the pictures with it, by the way. Please send them to me as well. Does anybody know if just implementing this method would be enough? If not, I will need the other packing methods as well and in that case it will definitely not be finished before Tilburg. If this is all, it might. Bye, shevek --- Visit the internet summercamp via http://polypc47.chem.rug.nl:5002 MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
AW: English Snatcher
Hi there, Little advertisement: Sargon has finished an English translation of Fire Hawk We are now Working on Randar 2, and maybe we will translate Psycho World and Randar 3 as well Suggestion: what about Shalom, Knightmare 3? I was hooked on Maze of Galious and I want to complete the trilogy :-) Grtz Coen MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: AW: English Snatcher
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Coen van der Geest wrote: Suggestion: what about Shalom, Knightmare 3? I was hooked on Maze of Galious and I want to complete the trilogy :-) Yes! me too! --- Visit the internet summercamp via http://polypc47.chem.rug.nl:5002 MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
AW: English Snatcher
-- Van: Coen van der Geest[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:maandag 22 februari 1999 12:54 Aan: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Onderwerp:AW: English Snatcher Hi there, Little advertisement: Sargon has finished an English translation of Fire Hawk We are now Working on Randar 2, and maybe we will translate Psycho World and Randar 3 as well Suggestion: what about Shalom, Knightmare 3? I was hooked on Maze of Galious and I want to complete the trilogy :-) Grtz Coen If you have this request you must contact Rieks Warendorp Torringa. He's our translator. MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/) MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: NOVAXIS scsi and general questions added! HELP!
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 23:29:18 +0100, Hans-Peter Zeedijk wrote: Do I always need a seperate powersupply for a harddisk? Only if the drive is relative new or for use in Laptops (e.g. Quantum LPS series) I had one of those drives build into a Phillips 8250 with no problems. You mean 2,5" HDDs, don't you? Is DOS2 built in in one of these interfaces? In HSH, no. In Gouda, yes in MK, yes but not all of them. Novaxis from Gouda? With Dos 2??? Which version I think you are wrong... It would be a surprise to me to discover my Novaxis 1.50 has DOS 2 built inside after almost four years using it... CYA Get EuroLinked!!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re[2]: NOVAXIS scsi and general questions added! HELP!
[SCSI] What harddisks can I connect? Everything: ZIP, JAZZ, Bernouli, Syquest, CD-ROMs [...] But forget about ZIP-plus (The ZIP with both parallel and so-called SCSI interface). This thing uses a controller which should automatically detect the difference between a parallel and SCSI connection. The parallel part is ok, but the SCSI implementation is that _lousy_, that a) It won't work unless the ZIPplus is the only device in the SCSI chain b) if you have by any chance another device in the chain, the cances that it will get corrupted are almost 100% Eric (speaking out of own experience :-( ) MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
AW: Re[2]: NOVAXIS scsi and general questions added! HELP!
-- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:maandag 22 februari 1999 13:53 Aan: owner-msx-outgoing; msx Onderwerp:Re[2]: NOVAXIS scsi and general questions added! HELP! [SCSI] What harddisks can I connect? Everything: ZIP, JAZZ, Bernouli, Syquest, CD-ROMs [...] But forget about ZIP-plus (The ZIP with both parallel and so-called SCSI interface). This thing uses a controller which should automatically detect the difference between a parallel and SCSI connection. The parallel part is ok, but the SCSI implementation is that _lousy_, that a) It won't work unless the ZIPplus is the only device in the SCSI chain b) if you have by any chance another device in the chain, the cances that it will get corrupted are almost 100% Eric (speaking out of own experience :-( ) So you have a ZIP drive connected to your MSX? I am planning to do the same. Do you have any tips? I have a HSH SCSI interface. Robert MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/) MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: AW: English Snatcher
Suggestion: what about Shalom, Knightmare 3? I was hooked on Maze of Galious and I want to complete the trilogy :-) Yes! me too! Add also my vote please!! - Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/9797/msx.htm [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Please don't send me messages with HTML code "New Pentium 34. Obsolete in 2 months. Guaranteed!" - MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
MSKiss now features MSX-2 Emulation....
Today a new version of MSKiss has been released and it features the first part of MSX-2 emulation. You can already play a lot of MSX-2 games on it. It also features a very good emulation of the MSX-scanlines so you almost get the idea you are sitting behind a real MSX machine and a real MSX monitor !!! Go and check it out at : http://www.casema.net/~tfh Greetz, The File-Hunter of FONY Go visit the MSX Emulator Page (M.E.P.) http://www.mep.msxnet.org http://surf.to/msxemu http://www.casema.net/~tfh ICQ:1446 MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: NOVAXIS scsi and general questions added!
So you have a ZIP drive connected to your MSX? I am planning to do the same. Do you have any tips? I have a HSH SCSI interface. 1) get the diskROM replaced (eg. by a Novaxis). That should be no problem. I let Erik Maas do it on my proto-HSH... The only thing you need then are the tools (nfdisk) to partition a ZIP disk. My original HSH had the problem that it recognized only 1 device, which had to be at id #0 or #1. If you plan to use the 'mobile' version of the ZIP, keep in mind that that thing can only be used as #5 or #6... 2) Put MSXDOS2.SYS and COMMAND2.COM on _all_ partitions, so you won't have trouble booting the system if the A: partition gets corrupted. (Holds for harddisks, too, by the way :-)) 3) Keep your HD, if you already have one. Or you won't be able to copy (large) things between two ZIP disks easily :-) Eric (MSX ZIP ( PC all the rest) just collecting dust at the moment :-( ) MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: AW: AW: msx-ers
At 09:02 22-2-99 +0100, you wrote: -- Van: Laurens Holst[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: zaterdag 20 februari 1999 20:53 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: AW: msx-ers Yes, and therefore I'd like to see a Moonblaster version with 18 wave channels and 6 FM channels. Just to have that great plucked and synth bass 3 back. Make that 24 Wave and 18 FM channels... :) If that's possible.. Well, I myself heard and saw it at the last Zandvoort-fair. It IS possible and sounds great! But will surely require a lot of coding (and I'm not doing it, 'coz I'm not a coder) greetz -=NeW=- MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: AW: AW: msx-ers
] At 09:02 22-2-99 +0100, you wrote: ] Make that 24 Wave and 18 FM channels... :) ] ] If that's possible.. ] ] Well, I myself heard and saw it at the last Zandvoort-fair. It IS possible ] and sounds great! But will surely require a lot of coding (and I'm not ] doing it, 'coz I'm not a coder) Then why not use the code that was used for that music thing which you heard at Zandvoort? Who made it? What was it? Please tell us more. Kind regards, Alex Wulms -- Alex Wulms/XelaSoft - MSX of anders NIX - Linux 4 ever See my homepage for info on the *** XSA *** format http://www.inter.nl.net/users/A.P.Wulms MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: [real coding] DOS2 and Memory...
] You probably won't get problems. ] However, in Dos it is easiest to replace the bytes at adress #38, for ] example putting a JP Interrupt there. In Basic, it is -to my opinion- better ] if you swith away the ROM, however you could also set the other interrupt ] mode (mode 2?) in which the high byte of the adress of a jumptable is set in ] the I-register and the low byte of the adress is determined by the devie. ] For example, set I to #C0, and then fill adresses #C000-#C0FF with words of ] the adress the interrupt should jump to (yes, indeed, the device can only ] set odd adresses) (there are no devices delivering this lower byte of the ] adress on the MSX. So #C000 can be assumed as the set adress. However, it is ] still safe to fill the omplete 128 words with the right value, just in ] case...) Hi people, Thinking that you should set the interruptvector at #C000 when you set I to #C0 is a commonly made mistake in the MSX world. You should set your interruptpointer at address #C0FF instead. As some of you might know, the databus in the MSX is connected to VCC with pull-up resistors. As a consequence the Z80 will always fetch the value 0xFF when reading from the databus at a moment that no device is writing to the databus. For example, when the Z80 reads the databus in IM2 after having received an interrupt request. This is for example a codefragment, which I used in the 'No Waste' demo: intvector: equ #88ff ; int. vector int mode 2 scroll: di im 2 ld a,.high. intvector ld i,a ; Startoffset for int table ld hl,vertint ld (intvector),hl ; Set interruptvector ei ret vertint:in a,(#99) ; some code cut-out ei reti Kind regards, Alex Wulms -- Alex Wulms/XelaSoft - MSX of anders NIX - Linux 4 ever See my homepage for info on the *** XSA *** format http://www.inter.nl.net/users/A.P.Wulms MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: Refreshed!!!
] ] A lot of people replied my letter about the R register ] (flash trivia: did you know that Spectrum programmers thought ] it was a "secret register"? I'm not kidding and have no idea ] where they got that notion...) The use of it as a random number ] generator is obvious (if not read too often, of course). Setting ] it up, though, seems a dangerous operation on some computers... ] Maybe it could be used for... Crashing the computer? Genetic ] algorithms with real random mutations? Some kinds of computer ] artwork...? ] ] I was wondering: does the R-register still have its function on the R800 or ] the Z380, I mean does it still change continuously??? I heard something... On the R800, it is still increased after every instruction. Though, it is not used anymore to drive the memory refresh. The memory refresh is controlled by a separate circuit (which is integrated in the same chip as the R800 CPU...) Kind regards, Alex Wulms -- Alex Wulms/XelaSoft - MSX of anders NIX - Linux 4 ever See my homepage for info on the *** XSA *** format http://www.inter.nl.net/users/A.P.Wulms MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
