Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)
Laurens Holst wrote: If Windows wasn't good and easy-to-use then it wouldn't have been installed on (almost) every new PC. Windows sounds nice, but it's really terribly-written, and unpredictable. Then you write a multitasking OS which support so much hardware! Peuth, wrong answer!!! The drivers for W9x are mostly written by the manufacters of the card. Not by MS itself !! That's why you get those driver disks with all your hardware. (And why all gaming soft tells you to look at the newest drivers from your cardmanufacter) If those HW people would take time to write their drivers for the other OS'es also ... David Heremans -- "One difference between SuSE and Red Hat is that the former operates in a country where people don't sue each other over coffee being too hot." Linus Torvalds 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: VDP memory write timings
Laurens Holst wrote: Just keep in mind to have at least 7 t-states between every transfer (=OUT), then it will work on all MSX-computers (OTIR and INIR are slow enough too). MSX-turboR and 7MHz have automatic slowdowns implemented to that works too. No, this is not completely true!! If you're writting to the VRAM that contains the spritedata and sprites are enabled, then you'll need more time ! Apparently the VDP has a one byte buffer and writes this buffer to VRAM when it has time to acces that VRAM. Since sprite VRAM is used rather much the available time to write here is much less. So if you write to fast this byte-buffer is overwritten with new data before the old one is in the actual VRAM. David Heremans "One difference between SuSE and Red Hat is that the former operates in a country where people don't sue each other over coffee being too hot." Linus Torvalds 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/)
memory upgrade
does anyone know where in holland I can get the memory of my nms 8250 expanded? and how much this costs? thx, pepijn Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.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/)
changed e-mail
hi co-msx-users, my e-mail addy has changed (again) it is now: [EMAIL PROTECTED] just thought u guys ( gals) should know :) grtnx, pepijn 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: memory upgrade
Try Hans Oranje, HCC MSX usergroup. Hier het adres van Hans Oranje. E-mailadres(sen): [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Persoonlijke gegevens: Adres: Waddinxveen Telefoonnummer: 0182-618932 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: maandag, juli 05, 1999 12:05 uur To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: memory upgrade does anyone know where in holland I can get the memory of my nms 8250 expanded? and how much this costs? thx, pepijn Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.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: Vote MSX Games
My personal Top-5 of MSX games: 1 - Illusion City 2 - Tetris 2 Special Edition (Ram Corporation :-) ) 3 - Fantasm Soldier 2 4 - YS Series/SD-Snatcher 5 - Space Mambow Marco Casali - ICM Grup 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: UZIX
Duddu, Bug: NMS8280 + DOS2.2 Cartidage + SCX - UZIX doesn't boot Too little info. 1. WHAT appears on your screens, WHEN it hangs? 2. What machine is NMS8280? 3. What is SCX? Maybe it's the same problem of Manuel's Sony... Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Engenharia de Computacao - UNICAMP http://www.adrpage.cjb.net MSX-TR:I have one.And you? * Suicide is like saying to God - You can't fire me ! I am quiting! * 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: UZIX
Duddu, Why a login as root doesn't need a password ? Because it hasn't. Check /etc/passwd. Is there any kind of text editor in the utilities of UZIX ? ed. Are you going to write vi for UZIX ? I didn't checked vi yet for portability. UZIX is ready for a NFS ? Network is too far away from UZIX reality now. Can UZIX be used with Joynet Cable ? Yes, but nothing is implemented yet. There are more important tasks to do before thinking about network. cat /etc/mtab | more for 3 times my NMS8280 hanged up. What's the problem ? Hey, you reported UZIX wasn't running on your NMS8280... What was the problem? Well, really I don't know. Worked at home. I'll check. I know that '| more' is not the right command, but why does it crash ? Probably corrupted inodes when updating the file... :/ Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Engenharia de Computacao - UNICAMP http://www.adrpage.cjb.net MSX-TR:I have one.And you? * Your Pentium MMX will be obsolete in 5 seconds... 4 3 2... 1... * 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: UZIX
Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha wrote: Why a login as root doesn't need a password ? Because it hasn't. Check /etc/passwd. I suppose people can add it on /etc/passwd, right? Is there any kind of text editor in the utilities of UZIX ? ed. Good thing! :-) Are you going to write vi for UZIX ? I didn't checked vi yet for portability. vi? Who needs vi? ed is enough! :-) -- CESAR CARDOSO pode ser encontrado em cesarcardoso em netscape ponto net ou chateado no UIN 32237133 "O Cassino do Chacrinha so' termina quando acaba!" (Abelardo Barbosa) 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: UZIX
Jasper and Duddu, 2. What machine is NMS8280? The 8280 is a Philips computer with the standard Philips memory layout: 128K mapped in slot 3-2. Thanks for the info. Special option on this computer however are its digitizing and super- imposing capabilities. But this wouldn't have any effect on UZIX I suppose. Yes... But because it works on other Philips models I think it should work on the 8280 too. The problems are probably due to the other hardware (DOS2?). I received reports of UZIX running in ACVS2+ with MegaSCSI. Also, UZIX runs fine in TR (wich has internal DOS2). Easy thing: Duddu, remove your DOS2 cartridge. If UZIX works without it, that's the problem (weird... DOS2 shouldn't conflict with UZIX...). Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Engenharia de Computacao - UNICAMP http://www.adrpage.cjb.net MSX-TR:I have one.And you? * All probabilities are 50%. It happens or it doesn't. * 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: UZIX
Cesar, Why a login as root doesn't need a password ? Because it hasn't. Check /etc/passwd. I suppose people can add it on /etc/passwd, right? Use ed or adduser (I recommend adduser). WARNING: filesystem still has bugs. Don't use ed with a file if you'll save the file with less information (for example, you just deleted a line from /etc/passwd). The resulting file will be equal the original (or truncated). See the UZIX page. Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Engenharia de Computacao - UNICAMP http://www.adrpage.cjb.net MSX-TR:I have one.And you? * MMU error. Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue. * 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/)
Dynamic publisher screen format
Dear all, Does anybody have any documentation on the .pct fileformat used by dynamic publisher? Any source, technical description of the internal format or whatever is welcome. I want to write a small tool to convert .pct screenfiles into tif format. This will make it easier to publish old dynamic publisher files on the web in a format that everybody can handle. Especially since there are numerous tools to convert tif to other formats, like gif, jpg, etc. I'll publish the tool and it's source on my homepage when I have made it. 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: Dynamic publisher screen format
publisher? Any source, technical description of the internal format or whatever is welcome. Alex, Dynamic Publisher runs in Screen 6, using all 4 pages connected to eachother (resulting in a 512 * 800 resolution). As far as I can remember a PCT file is saved using RLE (Run Length Encoding. in case you forgot). For someone like you it should be a piece of cake to write a decoder for it. I'll check a few files the next upcoming days to get some more info (maybe . if I have time for it I'll try to substract the decoder out of DP itself). GreeTz, Roberto (aka. MTC-Software. the worst you can get). 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 is EVA?
Has size of 128x106 pixels and 19268 colors (yes! SCREEN 12), digital audio (synchronized with video animation, obvious) and no compression (I believe but I can't hack any EVA file yet). These videos can be EVA files are not compressed. The speed is about 12 fps (thanks to 712Kbit/s transfer rate in R800 mode) but can ber configured to 10fps and you can use a external PCM (this option I don't know but I think that is related to the PCM REC/PLAY cartridges sold in Japan before 1990). External PCM indicates that the sound is taken from the 'jack' in the back part of turbo R. Internal PCM uses built-in microphone of turbo R. After the PATCH made from M.Pazos and Okey the limit of a ESE file was about 32Mb (I've a 24Mb EVA!) and now you can create video clips with at least 200Mb. Each second consumes 512bytes per second. Each second takes 150Kb (in 10 frames mode). So each frame takes up 30 sectors. Any thing about EVA? Ah! You can't play direcctly from CD-ROM because it must a 512 butes sector (and CD-ROM has 2048 bytes sectors...). Well, that is not the reason. The reason is that CD drive 'is not fast enough' using the same read system that in HDD. EVA player read byte by byte with a SCSI command, and CDs are not fast enough in that way. Anyway, you can play EVAs from CD with a modified EVA player made by Trunks (sorry, I don't remember the URL). But don't expect too much, it just show frame by frame (with sound) but not in the right time. It is slow. Furthermore, with this program you can see EVA on a turbo R without MegaSCSI, because it uses MSXDOS2 file handle system. End of History... Ok... more news; Okei is trying to modify EVA program to digitize more than 32MB on MSX. Regards, Manuel 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: FAT16 and disks...
Manoel, My name is Manuel :) In portuguese Manoel and Manual has a very similar pronumce. And here you can found the both names... (!?) And? There is not any format utility for FAT16 (I think) And do you know a easy way to clear a MegaSCSI partition? I don't a Coping on it a 'clean' FAT / Directory. You can try to save a clear partition, using FDSAVE, and them copy it to another partition. I'm having a lot of problems with ASPI Zips! My PC refuses to read this disks! I believe that only in Win95 and can do it and I don't use it (look in message header: PINE.LNX...). I've a lot of things to It works right on my computer. I used ASPI ZIP disk on WIN95 and 98 and it worked right. transfer for write another CD (EVAs! I'm with 16 EVAs including openning and ending from "Oh my Godness", "Gundan", "Evangelion" and videos converted from Sega Saturn). I did the same :) I have that videos and a lot more (about 1.2 Gb) Hey! The "final version" in your page displays "0.2" and isn't work properlly. I believe that you copy the wrong file... You can check it? 'Final version' is '0.2' and it is the right file :) Why do you say that it doesn't work? Bye, Manuel 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: FAT16 and disks...
Hello I'm having a lot of problems with ASPI Zips! My PC refuses to read this disks! I believe that only in Win95 and can do it and I don't use it (look in message header: PINE.LNX...). I've a lot of things to It works right on my computer. I used ASPI ZIP disk on WIN95 and 98 and it worked right. It works for me too! try boot the pc with zip-disk inserted. then win95/98 will see 4 partitions and thus give 4 drives to the zip-disk... greetings -+-+-+-+-+-+- Maico Arts Isabella van Portugalstraat 9 5346 PJ OSS the Netherlands tel: +31-412-690757 fax: +31-412-690432 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [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/)
