status of MSX in korea (was:Re: What's the latest MSX ?)
At 09:56 AM 3/25/99 +0900, you wrote: : : And also I'm very sorry to all of you waiting for the Jun Soft and :East Sea Products. I cannot even touch my pretty MSX... :All my works for MSX will be continued on April. : : - Jun. : annyong-ha seyo Jun Sung, hmm, this romanisation never works out like it should :-) anyway, what is the actual status of MSX in Korea? There is a link on the MSX resource website (never updated again?), but doesn't work. I cannot imagine this is the only MSX site in korea. Any input appreciated. Cheers, Marco -- Marco F.E.J. Frissen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Philips Digital Video Systems, CryptoWorks. Building OAN 2.39, Cederlaan 4 5616 SC Eindhoven, Netherlands -- Computer programmers know how to use their hardware. 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/)
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Re: Problems when changing stack
Nestor Soriano wrote: Hi people... problems again... this time, when changing stack. In a new update of NestorAcentos I'm developing, I put the following piece of code attached to the timer interrupt hook. The code is placed in a reserved zone on page 3: ld (SAVESP),sp ld sp,NEWSP+100 push all . . (changes slot and segment on page 2, do stuff and restores old status) . pop all ld sp,(SAVESP) jp old interrupt hook SAVESP: dw 0 NEWSP: ds 100 Well, a program executing such code causes the system to crash when any other program is executed. Someone knows where is the problem? Thanx! Hi Nestor, Perhaps a stupid remark, but do you call this routine or do you jump to it? If you call it, the JP at the end causes your problem. If you jump to this routine, I don't see anything wrong with it (somebody else?). Regards and happy (bug) hunting, Jeroen Smael FutureDisk Homepage: http://www.futuredisk.msxnet.org/ 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/)
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Philippe Bezon?
who know the new mail of Philippe Bezon? Marco 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: Problems when changing stack
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Nestor Soriano wrote: ld (SAVESP),sp ld sp,NEWSP+100 push all . . (changes slot and segment on page 2, do stuff and restores old status) . pop all ld sp,(SAVESP) jp old interrupt hook SAVESP: dw 0 NEWSP: ds 100 Well, a program executing such code causes the system to crash when any other program is executed. Someone knows where is the problem? You had some hints of what the problem most probably could be. I give you one more, but I don't think you made this mistake: push all and pop all must be in reversed order, this is correctly done? Most probably you get an interrupt while your routine is working. If that happens only once, the system will hang. You can switch them off with vdp(1), so you're sure there'll be really no interrupts, even if some routine might switch them on. This is not really safe, though, since other devices might give interrupts as well, like the gfx9000. So just make sure they're not switched on is the safest. If you disable the bios, don't forget to read vdp status register 0 to reset the interrupt. 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/)
Re: MBT
Hi, From: "MSX Brazilian Team" [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] "Will it be that is its rage it is because we eliminated you in the cup of the soccer world ?" : -) Nope, It´s not a rage but cool fact that I was displeased with MBTs service (I have my rights to express my personal opinion)... Dear Gabriel, have taken care more with the words. " Who hurts with iron, with iron it will be hurt. " We bought with you a moonsound and a cartridge SCC and we don't have to complain of its procedure that was correct with us. We are that had to trust in you, because we sent the money firstly and later you sent us the products. We sent the money through IPO according to its instruction and in agreement with the table of conversion of Danish for Dollar also following its instruction. We were surprised when you mentioned us that it lacked US$20, but in any moment we complained of that. Following its instruction Surprised? How can you be surprised when I have clearly explained why I demanded extra payment. I´m certainly not able to control local increase of mailing fees, which occur every year. So it was quite normal that I demanded the extra payment thus it was more expensive to send the package after mailing prices were increased, thus the buyer covers all shipping costs. again, we sent the US$20 for letter in a brown, same envelope being illegal to send money this way and thwarting our beginnings, we accepted its suggestion. Sending money this way is always on your own risk. If I send money this way I always count with that the money may get lost. It´s a risk I take sometimes when I send not so big amounts. But it´s a personal choice and the responibility is completly the senders. This was one of the last contacts that had with you and only now are becoming aware of this offense uttered by its person, what leaves us deeply saddened with the fact, because in moment some thought of to harm it or to deceive it. I think its accusation is very serious and it forces us we take it serious measures, because it commits our services rendered MSX when doing such statement. In fact, this is a characteristic of the user of MSX, the precipitation. Accusation? I have certainly mailed you several times and asked about where did the payment go, when you have sent it etc. I have not received ANY responce, not even a question whether the cash arrived or not nor confirmation of money beeing sent at certain date. I have e-mailed you with quite big intervals, so even if you had problems with HD or whatever you should at least have received one e-mail. BTW it´s your responisibility to make sure the customer has received the items/or payment by e-mailing and asking (and certainly in a case when you know your HD/e-mail stuff isn´t working properly). This a quite normal procedure. I always ask people to e-mail me when they receive money/package sent by me, to make sure everythink is OK. We are we with the documents that prove the shipping of IPO and of the letter and any person can ask one you copies MBT for compravar that we are saying. This is not a question of sening the first payment, but the extra mailing costs, so don´t mix em up. We continued trusting you, that is entitled the whole of doing its complaint, but we are also entitled the of defending, or you think that are you be superior and always with reason. So that Gabriel it is not harmed, we will be sending more US$20, of this time for IPO so that it doesn't happen more undesirable problems and we waited that it is informed openly by you the greeting of IPO, because is making a serious work. That sounds good, I look forward to receive them, thus if I had received the extra payment I wouldn´t ever had a reason to mention MBT at all anywhere. I take advantage of to inform that of the year passed to I begin it of this year our email it moved 2 times and we still had a serious problem with our HD, what made us to lose several emails and that besides was informed in the Brazilian list of MSX. Therefore it is possible that has happened some communication problem. Look above. I hope to count with its understanding and I am its disposition for any doubt. I hope we can clear any doubts, so no hard feelings. Greetings from Gabriel, DENMARK Visit my MSX homepage and sign the guestbook :-) [Software, tips, music-disks, buy/sell/swap section, msx links, NMS-1170 Bar Code Reader page, Ultimate MSX-FAQ...] Use one of these URLs to enter: http://www.trd.msxnet.org http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/2653/ MSX links: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/2653/links.html To contact: Snail-mail: Gabriel Dabrowski Egevangen 94 8355 Solbjerg Denmark e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 20449307 Phone: +86928589 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
Who wants to trade a Toshiba Music Module (+ keyboard) for a Philips Music Module?
Hi See subject: if you know someone who does, contact me or Kasper Souren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thanks! -- Grtjs, Manuel PS: MSX 4 EVER! (Questions? See: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/) PPS: Visit my homepage at http://www.sci.kun.nl/marie/home/manuelbi/ 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: Problems when changing stack
On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Jeroen Smael wrote: Nestor Soriano wrote: Hi people... problems again... this time, when changing stack. In a new update of NestorAcentos I'm developing, I put the following piece of code attached to the timer interrupt hook. The code is placed in a reserved zone on page 3: ld (SAVESP),sp ld sp,NEWSP+100 push all . . (changes slot and segment on page 2, do stuff and restores old status) . pop all ld sp,(SAVESP) jp old interrupt hook SAVESP: dw 0 NEWSP: ds 100 Well, a program executing such code causes the system to crash when any other program is executed. Someone knows where is the problem? Thanx! Hi Nestor, Perhaps a stupid remark, but do you call this routine or do you jump to it? If you call it, the JP at the end causes your problem. If you jump to this routine, I don't see anything wrong with it (somebody else?). hmm.. it is just the other way around; if he CALLs it, it is ok because the old_interrupt_hook RETurns. Do you perform BDOS routines during your interrupt Nestor? And do you use it in DOS1 or DOS2 environment? Also stupid: don't forget to push/pop IX/IY and shadowregisters. Greetz, jon 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: Philippe Bezon?
On 25/3/99 18:38 Marco Casali wrote : who know the new mail of Philippe Bezon? I had this: http://www.perso.hol.fr/~pbezon and later: http://perso.club-internet.fr/bezon/index.html and email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == CLUB HNOSTAR MSX Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ctv.es/USERS/hnostar/ Last update: 18 March 1999 ICQ Number: 25855133 Spanish HNOSTAR MSX Magazine Editors HNOSTAR 42 is our latest number == 24th April: XI MSX Fair in Tilburg 1 de mayo: XV Encuentro de usuarios en Barcelona Mas informacion en nuestra web More info on our web 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: MegaRAM
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marco Antonio Simon dal Poz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My project with MegaRAM uses a double-bank of mapped registers (16 bytes select ever 8kb block). And how do you think you'll make the registers? Will you use the even addresses to select LSB and odd addresses to select MSB? The great idea is more or less this: OUT (8Fh), A disable G-RAM (or enable ROM) OUT (8Eh), A enable LSB exp. address for bank switch OUT (8Ch), A enable MSB exp. address for bank switch That's not a good idea, because for each block switch with distance higher than FFh you'll need 2 OUTs and 2 LDs. I prefer "Circuit Cellar",by Steve Ciarcia I collect copies of circuit cellar on BYTE small systems journal (USA/1979~1988). Thanks for remind ! I don't know Circuit Cellar publications on BYTE magazine. I was talking about http://www.circuitcellar.com/ If you don't remember, Steve Ciarcia is the writter of the book called "Construct your own Microcomputer using Z80", McGrawHill. I have a copy, too. : And plan to make a PCB for this schemes. That will be very big! The most mysteriuos MegaRAM's feature is the mirror :) MSB of address bus (A15) is ignored by MegaRAM! Yes, the creator of Megaram (Ademir Carchano) told me that he ignored A15 to make the hardware much more simple, and to fit in a standard cartridge box. Jeannie...(ops!) Ademir... is a genious! I don't think so. He is a guy that had the chance of have a good documentation and very recent equipments, and much more knowledge about hardware than the most part of people in that time. (Blocks marked with "'" are mirrors of same block) Right. That can happen when you do a reset while Megaram is in "write enable mode". But I don't know how much memory will be detected as normal RAM. Does the BIOS verify if the mirror effect happens? Ok, the CHKRAM started on E000h, and decrease counter when search RAM... don't know how more is effective. Does anybody know exactly how the system search for slots in which there is RAM? MegaRAM are "RESET-insensitive". See technical informa tion and electrical diagram on CPU MSX Magazine nr 35. Don't trust in that magazine! I'll analyse the contents of those schematics to see if there aren't any bugs. The scheme do not use /RESET signal for clear MegaRAM registers. I'm based on CPU MSX scheme. That's right. But I see that schematic doesn't use the BUSDIR signal. Does anybody know how the BUSDIR signal should be used? Simple and good method: select (in descending order) each possible block, write its number in it in at some test address, and then (starting with block 0) check up until which block the block number matches what you find at the test address when selecting each block. Many faults for a test program... Then show us which faults you are seeing! Checking for multiple-redundance nodes, and check for individual address bus lines minimize time on search size of available RAM. What do you mean with multiple-redundance nodes? And checking for individual address bus lines only works for Megarams (or Mappers) with power of 2 kilobytes (starting with 16kb). Think how much time CPU need for measure the entire RAM connected at slots. This way is unreasonable! Very few time! That's perfectly possible. I shop 4 ICs WD2793BL... but no have schematics for!!! A friend of mine sended to me a copy of the port based disk interface, and I saw that it really uses WD2793 FDC. The same friend send to me the copy of diagrams of this interface, too. But I don't know to make adjust. I think that with the schematic, you can easily create an interface. What don't you know? But one of the difficulties is to understand how the all kinds of MSX hardware work, because the variability is really big I think 1st priority detect all kinds of RAM. That's the easy part. Not so easy. Several kinds of RAM is available: Cartridge 64kb RAM standart, MegaRAM, MegaRAM-Disk, Ext. Mapper, (new)G-RAM, 8/16/32kb SRAM modules... I said that's the easy part because the others are much more difficult. Found size of RAM isn't all of test... I need mark the Wait cicles required for read/write on any kinds of RAM available on system. That's not need and not possible! That's a hardware characteristic, and can't be software controlled. I collect tricks for detect this kinds. And I research tricks for that! Wait for G-RAM(TM) (MegaRAM with 16-bit registers) padronization. Will alocate 512Mbytes RAM/each slot. Is the "G" from "G-RAM" a abbreviation of "gambiarra"? :-) .br "G" vem de GODZILLA, ficou bacana ? Yes, but I think that "gambiarra" is much more funny! Mas nao espalha meu, senao posso me dar mal ! : Mas voce ja' espalhou aqui! /.br Greetings from Brazil! - Marco Antonio Simon Dal Poz
FONY at Tilburg, list of games
We are going to organize an auction (veiling) at Tilburg. The list of games includes: Solid Snake, Space Manbow, Penant Race 1 and 2, Goemon, King Kong 2, Tetris, Dragon Slayer 6, Fray for Turbo R... and a lot more including Audio CDs with original soundtracks! More info and a complete list with pictures at http://www.fony.msxnet.org/ So come to Tilburg and get the games you always wanted! Greets, Stephan Szarafinski FONY 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: MegaRAM
Jeannie...(ops!) Ademir... is a genious! I don't think so. He is a guy that had the chance of have a good documentation and very recent equipments, and much more knowledge about hardware than the most part of people in that time. Ademir Carchano is a very dedicated man. You heared his histories in Jau MSX Meeting. You know about his "guess" of MegaROM functionality just disassembling Konami ROMs. And his knowledge about MSX2/2+/TR, mainly disassembling ROM code. He has his merits. Does anybody know exactly how the system search for slots in which there is RAM? Disassembly the MSX ROM, Dal Poz... Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Engenharia de Computacao - UNICAMP http://www.adrpage.cjb.net MSX-TR:I have one.And you? *** NEW URL! AdrianPage now is at http://www.adrpage.cjb.net *** * I don't need to eat neither to sleep. I bought a modem. * 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/)
Kingsvalley2 msx 1 japanese
Has anyone ever seen the japanese edition of King's Valley 2 for MSX1? I would like to have it... Stephan 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: Dynamic Publisher on harddrive? Are you kidding?
Dynamic publisher works from harddisk. If you use the patched version, you can ESCape from it and change directorys and then run it again. Use DP from the A partition and use SUBST to make any drive letter available als B: -- Van:Mari van den Broek[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Antwoord naar: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: dinsdag 23 maart 1999 22:08 Aan:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Dynamic Publisher on harddrive? Are you kidding? Hello, By the way, I got Dynamic Publisher working on harddisk. The trick is to load MAP (disable mapper functions) and do a ASSIGN A: B:, if you have it running on drive B: in a subdir. Then it worked. (It's so stupid to load files with "A: .STP" as filenames... Tsk, Cees! That's not nice! Old news... since we use harddrives, people use programs like these from harddrive... If you use a Turbo-R you have to place an extra POKE to the loader of Dynamic Publisher to get it to work... (this poke is also needed if you want to run the program from disk!). More programmers make the same mistake to load files from a specific drive... But there's a utility that makes it possible to use and switch directories in Dynamic Publisher (people of MSx Club Enschede made this a long tim ago!)... I never tried this utility because I allmost never use Dynamic Publiher anymore... --[ MARI ]-- 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: MegaRAM
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Alwin Henseler wrote: Yep, that's very useful. How did you make this write-protection that can be enabled or disabled? This sounds very interesting if you have another slot with RAM. Simple: cut some signal that enables writing to the (D?)RAM, put a switch in between, and a few KOhm pull-up resistor on the disconnected input(s). Similar to SCC cartridge switches. In this way it's really simple! I was thinking that you had created an additional port to write enable or disable. Why does this make the same as with SCC's? AFAIK, all Konami Megaroms behave in this way. And I don't know why Konami had changed LD (4000h),A by LD (5000h),A and so on. Nope! For SCC's: With a hardware reset, these ranges are reset to block 0, 1, 2 and 3, respectively. Hardware speaking: address line 15 (A15) is a don't care / ignored. For some other Konami megaROMs (like Vampire Killer), it works like this: I'd read: address line 14 (A14) is a don't care. With a hardware reset, the memory ranges are initialised as with the SCC's (block 0 (fixed), and 1, 2, 3 selected) This is just 2 different megaROM types. For other megaROMs, this might be yet different again. And even megaROMs using the same mapper IC need not always work the same, there's always variations possible in how things are connected inside a cartridge. Ok, now I undestand. For the most part of Megaroms it's not important. But it's good to know! Thanks for these details that I didn't know. Is Crazy Train really made by Sony? AFAIK, it's made by Konami. Doesn't the title screen show the name Sony? Because my diskdrive is broken, I can't see. But I think that it's Konami. Perhaps I can download from Funet and test it in BrMSX. I didn't know that 41 42 xx xx can't be used for page 0. Can it be used for page 3? No, "A", "B", xx, xx only works for pages 1 2. Ofcourse, there's nothing preventing you from putting code or data in a ROM in page 3, just a bit difficult to use. For page 3 the ID code is 41 42 xx xx or 43 44 xx xx? In hardware, it's easy to understand: if you have a ROM that should be in 1 page only, you have to combine signals for (read+slotselect+desired memory range accessed). If you just combine (read+slotselect), your ROM shows up in all pages. It looks a 64K ROM then, but it's simply a smaller ROM that responds to several address ranges. Nothing mysterious about that. Yes, everything becomes clear when hardware descriptions are known. Does River Raid and Beam Rider do the same? A long time ago, I had tried to copy these cartridges, but they were in page 0. After had copied it, I disassembled it and I saw that it was really a game made to run in page 0. But the copy didn't work! Last week I downloaded them from funet, and I saw that they were made to run in page 2, with internal calls to page 2. So, I couldn't understand: the original cartridge has internal call to page 0, with all the code in page 0, and the version from funet were made do run in page 2? What happened with these games? There exist different versions (updates? bugfixed?) of some cartridges. Athletic Land for instance, exists in page 0- and a page 1-version. And I've got 3 different versions of Monkey Academy. Their contents is shifted compared with both others (changing jumps and calls throughout the ROM), but if you play them, I couldn't find any difference! Why someone would do it? Is it some kind of unuseful work? But my main problem was that I couldn't copy River Raid and Beam Rider cartridges. Yep, I don't know why ROM doesn't search for cartridges in page 0. Perhaps this is due to hardware limitations (pins PAGE1, PAGE2, PAGE12 or something like that). I don't know either. It's no hardware limitation, though. Perhaps it's only an ENASLT limitation. But ENASLT isn't used while cartridges are being reserched over the slots. AFAIK, the startup routines use only CALSLT. Yet another MSX mystery solved Yes, and there's no documentation in this level. This was very well solved, how many days did you spend tracing the ROM? Not days!couple 'o hours Good for you! Nowadays, I can't spend an whole day tracing code, only 2 hours at maximum. :-( My question is: why the data behavior is symmetric (pages even and pages odd) and the block-switching isn't, I mean, why in Konami Megaroms the block number can't be selected via pages 0 and 3? Maybe to prevent accidental page-switches? Anyway, for megaROMs it's not difficult: most of the IC's used, simply get connected to all the higher address lines, so that they can decode ANY combination of for instance address lines A12-A15. What is done with that, is decided by the IC design. I know, the IC was designed this way, but what was the idea behind block numbers can't be selected via pages 0 and 3? Nobody knows. If you have a memory mapper, the (MSX2 and higher) BIOS
Re: MSX2 memory mappers
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Alwin Henseler wrote: Ooohh, it's really hard to explain those Brazilians all about memory mappers! (don't they have any?). Not all Brazilians (or am I being so repetitive?). I converted several games from Memory Mapper to Megaram, and I never had Memory Mapper! Some facts: An MSX2 doesn't need to have a memory mapper to be a true MSX-2. Example: Sony HB-G900. 64K RAM, no mapper, but true MSX-2, nothing wrong with it. That's what I said! Sony HB-F9P: 128 K, mapper Smaller: Almost every Japanese-built MSX2 or 2+: 64K mapper Philips NMS 8220 has only 64K, but this IS a mapper. Really a 128K mapper with 2nd half empty, so switching blocks, you get: Block 0, 1, 2, 3, "nothing", "nothing", "nothing", "nothing", block 0 again, 1 again, 2 again, 3 again, "nothing", "nothing", "nothing", "nothing", 0 again, 1 again, etc. Then, it can be expanded to 128kb. Not standard? Absolutely standard! Mapper=64K = 4 blocks (0-3), selecting block 0, 1, 2, 3 gets you mapper blocks 0, 1, 2, 3 - all ok. Reading the mapper ports on this machine would return other values as you might expect, but reading mapper ports SHOULD be considered unreliable, right? Not only unreliable, but a wrong procedure, since the MSX Technical Handbook prevents it. Greetings from Brazil! - Marco Antonio Simon Dal Pozhttp://www.lsi.usp.br/~mdalpoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Apple" (c) Copyright 1767, Sir Isaac Newton /"\ \ / CAMPANHA DA FITA ASCII - CONTRA MAIL HTML X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ 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: MegaRAM
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Patrick Kramer wrote: This mystery can be solved quite simply if you look at the specifications of the MSX slot. In a cartridge slot, you have three signals, just for the convenience of the hardware designer: CS1: This signal becomes active if the Z80 addresses memory in page 1 CS2: This signal becomes active if the Z80 addresses memory in page 2 CS12: This signal becomes active if the Z80 addresses memory in page 1 or 2 I already knew this signals, but I never understood how to create a ROM in pages 0 and 3. Well, you don't need these signals then. Example: if you want to have a 16K ROM in page 0, you would have to select this ROM whenever the slot is selected, AND address space -3fff is addressed. This means A14 and A15 MUST be low. So as a _CS for the ROM you would have _SLTSL OR A14 OR A15. Wow! Now many many things are becoming clear!!! But how can be made cartridges with 64kb of normal continuous RAM? Well, only use _SLTSL as a _CS for the RAM. There is no need for page-related chip selects as all pages are addressed. (A14 and A15 are used) That's what I was thinking. I don't know why here, in Brazil, we had had many informations about software, but almost nothing about hardware. Greetings from Brazil! - Marco Antonio Simon Dal Pozhttp://www.lsi.usp.br/~mdalpoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Apple" (c) Copyright 1767, Sir Isaac Newton /"\ \ / CAMPANHA DA FITA ASCII - CONTRA MAIL HTML X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ 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: MegaRAM
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Maarten ter Huurne wrote: ROM version of Royal Blood is 1MB. 8-megabit Megarom??? That's impressive! Is it downloadable in any site? I don't think so. I know it exists because Takamichi has one. It contains a bit of SRAM as well. There is also a disk version of this game, so the ROM version is interesting mostly as a curiousity. I downloaded from Funet, but I didn't have time to test it. I have also seen a Korean compilation cartridge (probably illegal) which contains many 16K ROMs combined in a single cartridge. It had a ROM of 2MB. I still have the ROM image on my harddisk. I don't think that (mega)ROM cartridges are interesting. They're hard to copy, unmodifiable (in principle) and much expensive. Why didn't people from Japan create a kind of Megaram? Maybe they don't like doing illegal things? Take it easy! Don't get me wrong, I copied lots of MSX games. Only recently I started buying games (MSX and PSX). Now I have a part-time job (Java programming) and I can afford them, before I needed all my money for hardware (MSX2, color monitor, FM-PAC). Ok, I was thinking that you was blaming me for software piracy. I copied some MSX games, but I never sold copies. I never take profit of others work. But there wasn't any kind of Japanese representatives here, so we didn't have another way of acquireing Japanese software for MSX. I get the feeling the Japanese are not as fanatical crackers and copiers like Dutch, Spanish or Brazillians. Although maybe under the surface the Japanese are not the perfect citizens they may appear to be? Otherwise, why would games released for the Japanese market alone be copy protected? Some Brazilian guys are fanatical crackers but not for piracy, just for fun! Japanese software was copy protected because they knew that WE would copy it, not the most part of the Japaneses. I was talking about one manufacturer (for example, Konami) sells Megaram cartridges and sell disks with the games separately. This would be much cheaper. If they wanted to go for disks, they wouldn't really need a MegaRAM cartridge. They would just write the game in such a way that it runs on the internal RAM. After all, Japanese MSX2/2+ software all works on 64K RAM. I agree completely! I see no reason to make Megarom cartridges instead of make disks. Cartridge is extra quality (no loading time, more durable) compared to disk. Also, it is harder to copy. And much much much more expensive! The cost/benefit relation is much poorer than for disks. around 1990 we had to rely on imports for games like SD Snatcher and Solid Snake. Importing games? Wasn't it too slow and too expensive? It was slow and expensive, but clubs offered that service and it was used. It was the only way to get originals. By the way, SD Snatcher is more expensive now than it was back then... Then it became a good investment! :-) Total: 71 clockcicles. Conclusion: you're right, it's not possible to use 1.2Mb or 1.44Mb disks with Z80 at 3.57MHz. It's BAD! Henrik Gilvad once told me. Is he the guy that created the IDE interface for MSX? Then, there's still a chance only for Turbo-R. The built-in FDC can handle HD according to Henrik. But you would need to write a new diskROM... Yes, and some hardware modifications, too. For normal MSX1/2/2+, 7MHz is an option. But old FDCs can't handle HD speeds either, so they would have to be replaced. Some people say that WD2793 can handle 500kbit/s transfer rate. Is it true? Another option is to use some kind of buffered hardware. Like Superdisk connected to IDE, as Peter Burkhard mentioned. Right, buffered hardware is the best solution. But a Superdisk drive is quite expensive, maybe someone wants to make a buffered HD floppy interface? It could be very simple: two banks of 512 bytes (1 sector) of RAM. Could be two ICs or a single dual-ported IC. One bank is filled by the FDC, while the other is LDIR-ed to MSX main RAM. Although 3.5MHz is too slow for polling the FDC, it would be fast enough for LDIR-ing. After LDIR-ing an entire sector it would poll for moment the next sector is available. My idea was a buffer for an entire track (or maybe cylinder?) It would be a real benefit: - 720K disks are hard to find, 1.44MB disks are still available everywhere - double the amount of data fits on a single disk - disk transfer rate is doubled, making your MSX load faster Anyone interested in making a prototype? I am interested, but I don't know how should I create a diskrom compatible with the common diskroms. The biggest problem is that I don't have enough time, nowadays. Greetings from Brazil! - Marco Antonio Simon Dal Pozhttp://www.lsi.usp.br/~mdalpoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Apple" (c) Copyright 1767, Sir Isaac Newton /"\ \ / CAMPANHA DA FITA ASCII - CONTRA MAIL HTML X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST
Re: MegaRAM
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Laurens Holst wrote: No, with the IDE-Interface and a LS120 you can read 1,44MB disks And what is this LS120? And can you write and format 1.44Mb disks with it? DalPoz, esse "LS120" e' um tipo novo de drive que suporta discos com capacidade de ate' 120Mb, esse disco tem as mesmas dimensoes de um disco de 3.5" comum. Alem desse disco especial o drive LS120 suporta tranquilamente discos de 3.5" normais (de 720Kb ou 1.44Mb). (espero que o pessoal da lista nao fiquem chateados por eu nao ter escrito em ingles, minha cabeca nao esta' muito boa agora, acho que e' gripe) Thank you for this Spanish explanation. Ofcourse, all non-spanish (or what is it, Brazilian?) speaking people already know what this is. They are much smarter. We're sorry, this answer were written by a japanese friend of mine, and he explained what is this LS120 drive. He apologizes for this portuguese answer, but he says he is a bit ill, and give a very short answer, only to give an idea of what is this LS120. The above answer is in Portuguese, the language spoken in Brazil (not Spanish!), and if I asked, it's because I didn't know what is it. PLEEZ MAN!!! English... Ok! Next time it will be a private e-mail. But take it easy! Some time ago (2 years) many people answered e-mails in dutch, and I never complained about it! Of course, English is the official language of this list, we don't want to discuss about it (we simply agree, and that's all) Ok, If I'm correct LS120 is a FDC (Floppy Disc Controller)??? He said it's some kind of special disk drive, that can handle 120Mb disks (not zipdisks) and standard 3.5" disks (including 720kb and 1.44Mb). Greetings from Brazil! - Marco Antonio Simon Dal Pozhttp://www.lsi.usp.br/~mdalpoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Apple" (c) Copyright 1767, Sir Isaac Newton /"\ \ / CAMPANHA DA FITA ASCII - CONTRA MAIL HTML X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ 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: MegaRAM
On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha wrote: Jeannie...(ops!) Ademir... is a genious! I don't think so. He is a guy that had the chance of have a good documentation and very recent equipments, and much more knowledge about hardware than the most part of people in that time. Ademir Carchano is a very dedicated man. Yes, that's true! You heared his histories in Jau MSX Meeting. And they were very incredible! Making "dumping" against who had pirated his hardware! VERY FUNNY!!! You know about his "guess" of MegaROM functionality just disassembling Konami ROMs. And his knowledge about MSX2/2+/TR, mainly disassembling ROM code. He has his merits. Yes, many merits, but this doesn't make him a genious, only a very smart man. Does anybody know exactly how the system search for slots in which there is RAM? Disassembly the MSX ROM, Dal Poz... With BrMSX fudebugger, that's what i'll do! Greetings from Brazil! - Marco Antonio Simon Dal Pozhttp://www.lsi.usp.br/~mdalpoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Apple" (c) Copyright 1767, Sir Isaac Newton /"\ \ / CAMPANHA DA FITA ASCII - CONTRA MAIL HTML X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ 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: MegaRAM
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, jam wrote: Hello, Marco Antonio: MP BTW, memory mapper wasn't born jointly with MSX2. Many MSX2 that I MP knew had only 64kb of RAM. Does your 8235 have internal Memory MP Mapper? You are wrong. Every MSX2 must have Memory Mapper. Even with only 64K of RAM, it's mapped RAM. Read the MSX2 Technical Handbook (by ASCII) and check it. There says that Mapper isn't mandatory for MSX2! Many people already said it. BTW, my MSX2 doesn't have Mapper, only 64kb of standard RAM, and it is a MSX2. Greetings from Brazil! - Marco Antonio Simon Dal Pozhttp://www.lsi.usp.br/~mdalpoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Apple" (c) Copyright 1767, Sir Isaac Newton /"\ \ / CAMPANHA DA FITA ASCII - CONTRA MAIL HTML X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ 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: MegaRAM , CS signals , A14,15 signals ROM pagination
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Leonard Silva de Oliveira wrote: (A14 and A15 are used) Every time if you need to make memory mapper control ... exept if YOU WANT the mirror effect ! =) I also made a simple memory mapper with S-Ram ... If anyone have interest I may publish my schematics ... =) I am interested! Could you send your schematics to me through e-mail? P.S.: I'm SURE tham ANY MSX can run both types of ROM on the page 0 (AB or CD types) This can happen only with the help of the mirror effect! Alwin Henseler said that he traced the main ROM to see that. Anyone tried to do a rom wich works in the page 3 I think (but I am not sure) that this can be done only with the help of the mirror effect. Greetings from Brazil! - Marco Antonio Simon Dal Pozhttp://www.lsi.usp.br/~mdalpoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Apple" (c) Copyright 1767, Sir Isaac Newton /"\ \ / CAMPANHA DA FITA ASCII - CONTRA MAIL HTML X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ 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: MegaRAM
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, jam wrote: Hola Marco Antonio: MP Total: 71 clockcicles. Conclusion: you're right, it's not possible to MP use 1.2Mb or 1.44Mb disks with Z80 at 3.57MHz. It's BAD! MP MP Then, there's still a chance only for Turbo-R. Not only ... What about MSX2 with 7 MHz kit? ;-) A very good idea! I didn't remember about that, because it's home made. But it solves our problem of Z80 timeout. Perhaps all MSX (including MSX1) could be converted to operate at 7MHz. Greetings from Brazil! - Marco Antonio Simon Dal Pozhttp://www.lsi.usp.br/~mdalpoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Apple" (c) Copyright 1767, Sir Isaac Newton /"\ \ / CAMPANHA DA FITA ASCII - CONTRA MAIL HTML X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ 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: page 1 diskloading (was: 64K VRAM?)
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, shevek wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Jon De Schrijder wrote: But this routine is only provided in MSX-DOS(2) environment; when in BASIC, a RET instruction is placed at #F36E. So: disktransfer in page1 in BASIC is probably not possible (or perhaps the F37D entry temporarily changes the #F36E hook; didn't test it); This is logical: BASIC ROM is normally selected in page 1. It is not that logical. I want to make a program that is started from basic but switches ram to page 1. Than calling the diskrom on f37d with dma in page 1 would be useful. Until now, I always avoided it, but I would like to know if it would work on every MSX. If so, I could just as well use it... I am sure that for Turbo-R and for port-based disk interfaces (Brazilian ones) you can do that. For other interfaces, I am not sure, but it should be possible. PS: I traced the Turbo-R's diskrom, and I can guarantee that! Greetings from Brazil! - Marco Antonio Simon Dal Pozhttp://www.lsi.usp.br/~mdalpoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Apple" (c) Copyright 1767, Sir Isaac Newton /"\ \ / CAMPANHA DA FITA ASCII - CONTRA MAIL HTML X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ 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: MegaRAM
] Maybe to prevent accidental page-switches? Anyway, for megaROMs it's ] not difficult: most of the IC's used, simply get connected to all the ] higher address lines, so that they can decode ANY combination of for ] instance address lines A12-A15. What is done with that, is decided by ] the IC design. ] ] I know, the IC was designed this way, but what was the idea behind block ] numbers can't be selected via pages 0 and 3? Nobody knows. I have a theory about this, which might make some sense: Megaroms mostly contain games. And the gamedevelopers want three things: 1) They want to have easy and fast access to the BIOS, so they keep the BIOS always switched on in page 0 2) They want to have easy and fast access to some workmemory and to the MSX system memory. So they keep the RAM always enabled in page 3 3) This leaves them with only page 1 and 2 available for the megarom. However, they want flexibility with the blockswitching in the megaroms. So, they use 8KB blocks in their megaroms. And those blocks are always enables in page 1 and page 2 so why bother about page 0 and 3. This basic set-up (page 0 = rom bios, page 1 and 2 = cartridge, page 3 = ram) was a set-up that the designers of the MSX had already in their mind. That is why they made life easy for cartridge designers by providing the CSxx signals. Furthermore, as they assumed that all cartridge designers will use this set-up anyway, they also only searched in page 1 and page 2 for extensions. Later, when the MSX2 was introduced with the subrom in page 0, the MSX also started looking in page 0. But in page 0, they look for 'CD' as token in stead of 'AB'. This is to prevent that an old cartridge that is mirrored at address 0 is accidentally recognized as a MSX2 subrom. 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/)
Corrections to: Participants MSX-MEETING Tilburg 24-04-99
This is the SECOND and actual list of participants to the meeting 24-04-1999 The first list was not complete, and we made some errors !! The meeting will be held on 24-04-99 from 10.00 to 16.00 hr. at the adress: De Schans 123 Tilburg. ACCLUB Schnotzendorf 6 A-3324 Euratsfeld Oostenrijk Aurora Aldenhof 3827 6537 BC Nijmegen Nederland M.Krooshof Bob Roos Van Coothstraat 25 5281 CT Boxtel Nederland 0411-683513 Breda Computer Supplies M.v.Herbachstraat 5 4827 LG Breda Nederland 076-5425140 06-52937506 CGV Bartokstraat 196 5011 JD Tilburg Nederland 013-4560668 / 4681421 Frank Pison / Ad Mutsaers Compjoetania T.N.G. Goorweg 24 B-2221 Booischot Belgie David Heremans Computer Club Rijnmond Vettenoordstraat 65b 3131 TP Vlaardingen Nederland 010-4357992 Hans de Goede DATAX KENDA Singelweg 1 9919 HM Loppersum Nederland 0596-572525 Alex Ganzeveld Delta Soft Hogekamp 4 3853 GM Ermelo Nederland J.v.d.Boor Flying Bytes Astronautenweg 350 1622 DX Hoorn Nederland 0229-249780 A. de Raad FONY Potgieterstraat 19 3892 XX Harderwijk Nederland 0341-420581 Stephan Szarafinski FUNCLUB Hofmattstrasse 19 CH-9202 Gossau Schweiz 0041-71 853393 Paul Schaerer Future Disk Aldenhofstraat 36 6191 GV Beek LB Nederland 046-4374322 na 19.00 Koen Dols HCC MSX Gebruikersgroep Westerstraat 107 3818 NK Amersfoort Nederland 033-4620579 H.v.Soest MSX - NBNO I.v.Portugalstraat 9 5346 PJ Oss Nederland MSX Gebruikersgroep Zandvoort Postbus 195 2040 AD Zandvoort Nederland 023-5732237 J. Hoogendijk na 18.00 uur MSX Club de Amsterdammer Meeuwenlaan 1 1021 HR Amsterdam Nederland 020-6999263 T.Emmelot MSX Club Friesland-Noord Troelstraweg 180a 8919 AD Leeuwarden Nederland 058-2662533 Klaas de Wind MSX-Club West-Friesland Rondeelstraat 25 1628 KH Hoorn Nederland 0229-270618 BAS Kornalijnslijper New World Order Ien Dalessingel 221 7207 LD Zutphen Nederland 0575-529789 Arjan Arens OMEGA Helbloemmeen 106 3844 VJ Harderwijk Nederland Paragon Dopperstraat 55 3752 JB Bunschoten Nederland 033-2983880 Andal v. Kalleveen R.K.W. de Groot Heidelaan 7 3851 EX Ermelo Nederland 0341-562928 R.K.W. de Groot Ruud v.Moosdijk Rhulenhofweide 36 5709 SH Helmond Nederland 06-50691894 Ruud v.d. Moosdijk Sargon Kon. Wilhelminalaan 41 7433 CE Schalkhaar Nederland 0570-620688 Robert Vroemisse Stichting Sunrise Postbus 61054 2506 AB S GRAVENHAGE Nederland 070-3609707 R.Hiep Teddy Warez Jan palachweg 17 9403 JS Assen Nederland 0592-340197 Frederik Boelens The New Image Parelstraat 218 9743 JH Groningen Nederland 050-5777453 Bas Wijnen The Unicorn Corporation Adelaarstraat 57 3514 CC Utrecht Nederland 030-2734942 Ernst Schuller Totally Chaos Rotterdamstraat 73 6415 AV Heerlen Nederland 045-5725995 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/)
What's the latest MSX ?
Hola [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro le soltc a jam: The latest MSX was Panasonic FS-A1GT (MSXTurboR) RP RP Sure, but... does anyone knows about the FS-A1XT, or FS-A1WT? RP I think I read something about it into the Ultimate MSX FAQ. These are MSX2 or MSX2+ machines. RP The Omega project... "He's dead, Jim". RP There is some projects from Ademir Carchano too, but... It's a RP secret! Cool! Salidos, digo ... Saludos. JAMcn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *MSX Dreams* Apdo. Correos 3294 18080 Granada ... MSX: hacia el siglo XXI 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: 64K VRAM?
At 13:19 24/03/99 +0100, you wrote: The standard doesn't say anything about the method that the diskrom should use. So, it's just the case on many MSXs. The standard only says that the interface should use memory addresses to transfer data between CPU and FDC. Ok, but this means that using DMA in page 1 is against MSX standard, or not? MSX and DMA??? Seems quite impossible to me... It isn't... Isn't it? Nope dudez, I've heard a lot about these possibilities, of MSX and DMA... Of course, rebuilding the computer and peripherals. But I don't know hardware enough to talk about. ByE! _ __ | __ \ (_| ICQ UIN: 3635907 | | M. Sc. In Numerical Modelling - UFF | |__) | _ __ _ _ __ __| | ___ Niteroi - RJ - BR +-+ | _ / | |/ __// _` | '__/ _` |/ _ \ | Sola Scriptura | | | \ \ | | (__| (_| | | | (_| | (_) | | Sola Gratia | |_| \_\|_|\___\\__,_|_| \__,_|\___/ Jurczyk Pinheiro |Sola Fide| http://pagina.de/rjp - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Solo Christi | MSX freak, X-Phile, Trekker, Christian, Transformers, | Soli Deo Gloria | Anime (Yamato!), CuD, Gospel Rock, Comics, And hate M$! +-+ [Portuguese] Se vc e' usuario alternativo (Linux, MSX, Apple, Amiga, BSD, Sinclair, etc.) nao perca a 1a. ExpoSALT, dias 30 e 31/1/1999: http://www.wb.com.br/exposalt 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: What's the latest MSX ?
At 09:56 25/03/99 +0900, you wrote: You can find a nice list of new projects in Joon-Sun Kim's homepage: http://unity.kaist.ac.kr:8080. I'm sorry. This site is closed in a while. Because I'm very busy... I will open it again April 1st. Hurrah! And also I'm very sorry to all of you waiting for the Jun Soft and East Sea Products. I cannot even touch my pretty MSX... All my works for MSX will be continued on April. That MIDI player was very nice! * By the way, my name is Jun Sung Kim... Sorry, but I couldn't remember right your name. _ __ | __ \ (_| ICQ UIN: 3635907 | | M. Sc. In Numerical Modelling - UFF | |__) | _ __ _ _ __ __| | ___ Niteroi - RJ - BR +-+ | _ / | |/ __// _` | '__/ _` |/ _ \ | Sola Scriptura | | | \ \ | | (__| (_| | | | (_| | (_) | | Sola Gratia | |_| \_\|_|\___\\__,_|_| \__,_|\___/ Jurczyk Pinheiro |Sola Fide| http://pagina.de/rjp - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Solo Christi | MSX freak, X-Phile, Trekker, Christian, Transformers, | Soli Deo Gloria | Anime (Yamato!), CuD, Gospel Rock, Comics, And hate M$! +-+ [Portuguese] Se vc e' usuario alternativo (Linux, MSX, Apple, Amiga, BSD, Sinclair, etc.) nao perca a 1a. ExpoSALT, dias 30 e 31/1/1999: http://www.wb.com.br/exposalt 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/)
