A stupid question: about backups
Hello !! I have been studying all the MSX manuals i have got, and i haven´t still got any idea how to backup my old original MSX-tape games to 3.5" disk. My MSX computer is Sony´s HitBit and diskdrive is also a Sony. Should the backupping be possible or do i need to do it thru a PC´s MSX emulator or maybe run a special MSX-program? Please, I need your help with this. It might be so simple, that i just don´t get it :)). I have been using my MSX computer since 1987, and it´s still working fine. I have been searching for the diskdrive for ages :) and at last i found it... My tape-games are quite old and i´m afraid that they will :maybe soon not work anymore, that´s why i would like to backup them so i can use them from the disk. Sorry about my bad english! Regards, _Pete 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: A stupid question: about backups
Hello !! I have been studying all the MSX manuals i have got, and i haven´t still got any idea how to backup my old original MSX-tape games to 3.5" disk. My MSX computer is Sony´s HitBit and diskdrive is also a Sony. Should the backupping be possible or do i need to do it thru a PC´s MSX emulator or maybe run a special MSX-program? Please, I need your help with this. It might be so simple, that i just don´t get it :)). I have been using my MSX computer since 1987, and it´s still working fine. I have been searching for the diskdrive for ages :) and at last i found it... My tape-games are quite old and i´m afraid that they will maybe soon not work anymore, that´s why i would like to backup them so i can use them from the disk. Sorry about my bad english! it's okay. I think I have to disappoint you because it is quite hard to backup tape games. Even hard for me. You need some small ML coding and directly read out the tapeport, process the header etc. It can be made a little easier by copying the BIOSes taperoutines, but it is still difficult. I have backed up some Radarsoft games I had on tape but even after I had backed them up they didn't work too well (probably because they needed more free RAM in the TPA). So there also is a chance that after you have backed them up you can't run them well anymore (inserting a Dos2-cartridge might solve the problem btw). Anyways, it is a quite difficult thing to do (although it can be done). Maybe you should try to check out some emulator pages to see if somebody hasn't already done the job for you. If you can't find anything then I might be able to look up how to do it but it will (unfortunately) require quite a lot of work, and I don't really feel like that. ~Grauw -- email me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or ICQ: 10196372 visit the Datax homepage at http://datax.cjb.net/ MSX fair Bussum / MSX Marathon homepage: http://msxfair.cjb.net/ 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: A stupid question: about backups
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Re: A stupid question: about backups
At 10:50 AM 08/29/99 +0300, you wrote: My tape-games are quite old and i´m afraid that they will maybe soon not work anymore, that´s why i would like to backup them so i can use them from the disk. The first step would be to search the web for games that are already converted to disk. There is no point in doing the tape-disk conversion again if it's done before. If there are any games left that are not yet on the web, you could post a request for those games either on this mailinglist or on the comp.sys.msx newsgroup. If you can't get disk versions that way either, you really have to start converting. In the worst case, Laurens' story applies: you have to write a program to read the data from tape and you'll get troubles with the usage of the upper memory regions (used by disk controller). But if you're lucky, conversion is as easy as BLOAD from cassette followed by BSAVE to disk. However, this is true for only a few games. From memory (please correct me if it's wrong), you can get the start, end and execute addresses of a BLOAD file by reading the following addresses after BLOAD: #F23D-#F23E: start address #F2E2-#F2E3: end address #FCBF-#FCC0: execute address Example: PRINT HEX$(PEEK(HFCBF)+256*PEEK(HFCC0)) Press CTRL when booting to disable the "B:" drive, this frees some memory. If a BLOAD end address is higher than about #ED00, it's likely to cause problems on a system with a disk drive. Bye, Maarten 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: A stupid question: about backups
But if you're lucky, conversion is as easy as BLOAD from cassette followed by BSAVE to disk. However, this is true for only a few games. From memory (please correct me if it's wrong), you can get the start, end and execute addresses of a BLOAD file by reading the following addresses after BLOAD: #F23D-#F23E: start address #F2E2-#F2E3: end address #FCBF-#FCC0: execute address If I remember corretly the problem was that these adresses only apply when BLOADing from disk... You will have to read the headers directly from the tape if BLOADing from tape. ~Grauw -- email me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or ICQ: 10196372 visit the Datax homepage at http://datax.cjb.net/ MSX fair Bussum / MSX Marathon homepage: http://msxfair.cjb.net/ 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: A stupid question: about backups
Some files Cas to disk /\/\ Willem /\/\ - Original Message - From: Petri Py|rre [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 29, 1999 9:50 AM Subject: A stupid question: about backups Hello !! I have been studying all the MSX manuals i have got, and i haven´t still got any idea how to backup my old original MSX-tape games to 3.5" disk. My MSX computer is Sony´s HitBit and diskdrive is also a Sony. Should the backupping be possible or do i need to do it thru a PC´s MSX emulator or maybe run a special MSX-program? Please, I need your help with this. It might be so simple, that i just don´t get it :)). I have been using my MSX computer since 1987, and it´s still working fine. I have been searching for the diskdrive for ages :) and at last i found it... My tape-games are quite old and i´m afraid that they will maybe soon not work anymore, that´s why i would like to backup them so i can use them from the disk. Sorry about my bad english! Regards, _Pete 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/) Dskadres.lzh Disktape.pma Disctape.lzh
Re: SCC Emulation on Moonsound
Explain why you think that is usefull. You can play .WAV-files. I understand. It's a nice feature but still not usefull to me. Besides, playing those wav files would require lots of RAM or a NOP traxplayer kind of system. Tristan + Omega + join #msx on undernet +[EMAIL PROTECTED]+ | | FUNET MSX maintainer | ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/msx | + irc: OmegaMSX +Techno composer+ http://users.bart.nl/~omegamsx + 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: [off] memory management in the PC
Cesar Cardoso wrote: Remember guys, this is valid only on MS/PC/DR/OpenDOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 9x. Other systems (Linux, BSD family, Windows NT I think, Solaris/Linux, OS/2) don't need to do all this tricks. ...because they never use the real mode they give you a bunch of virtual mem. and you never worry about where it is allocated... btw, win9x can do it as well although the manager ssuucckkss!!.. greetz akai! 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: (no subject)
At 16:07 23/08/99 +0200, you wrote: Hola Julian: JO 2, converter for the archives ROM to execute them in my MSX2 JO Greetings, Julian. There is a great .ROM loader for MSX2: LOADROM.COM by Trunks. Get it Trunk's Home Page (access it thru www.msx.org) Don´t forget EXECROM, from Adriano Cunha, it´s nice too. Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro - ICQ UIN:3635907 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]|_Sola Scriptura | http://i.am/rjp -M.Sc. Numerical Modelling (hope so!) |_ Sola Gratia | UFF - Niteroi - RJ - Brazil - [EMAIL PROTECTED]_| Sola Fide | MSX, ST, B5, X-F, Anime, Christian, Maths, CuD, Linux!_| Solo Cristi | Christian, Rock, Comics, Transformers, and hate M$! | Soli Deo Gloria | 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/)
Moonsound owners
Hi lucky man, I just wanted to remind you that my Moonsound disk 'Pure' was released as freeware not too long ago. You can still download it at my website. P.S. I want someone with a 512kb Moonsound to test my latest song! Tristan + Omega + join #msx on undernet +[EMAIL PROTECTED]+ | | FUNET MSX maintainer | ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/msx | + irc: OmegaMSX +Techno composer+ http://users.bart.nl/~omegamsx + 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/)
Z-Machine
Hola !!!
Antoni Burguera Burguera le solto a jam:
AB Some years ago I writed an adventure in plain text, and have also
AB designed a rule system for it. But I never programmed it on any
AB computer.
Hey! We could try to program it now!
it in Kun Basic or Pascal perhaps. The story is. well it's a
"sectary" story about two MSX users on holidays y tal .
AB
AB "Sectary?"... which type of "sect"? Do you know mesxes? 8-)
Of course!
CALL LANGUAGE("SPANISH")
Joer, tio, te pensabas que era un holandesco o algo deso o que? X-
CALL LANGUAGE("ENGLISH")
AB Zork isn't a programming language. The "zork.com" file I mentioned is
AB only the interpreter. So, if those programmeds have generated z-code,
AB probably they have used some PC compiler (like Inform). But, if that's
AB true, then they have improved the interpreter for using graphics. :-?
I don't know. Perhpas they started with zork and after they migrated to SAL.
Credits of this games are self-explanatory: 'PROGRAMADO EN SAL POR '
I don't know :'( By the way, I think adventures created with SALMUS
are
AB damn
slow :(( What about making our own adventure creator? ;-)
AB
AB Really slow, yes. But it seems slow because it draws and writes
AB everything on screen 8. And, about making our own adventure creator:
Of course. But we could make a screen split. Screen 8 (or better screen 7) for
the graphics and screen 2 or screen 0 for the text. It would be very fast.
AB good idea, if you have time... 8-) Have you ever used some adventure
AB creator? The most common have a PAWS-like syntax. Take a look at
AB http://www.cir.es/caad . Is the official page of "Aventuras AD", the
AB creators of "Cozumel", "Aventura espacial", ... It has some links to
AB pages with adventure creators (like SINTAC or NMP).
I hate AD adventures. All of them are incoherent :(
BTW, I will look for PAWS.
JAM ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *MSX Dreams*
Apdo. Correos 3294 18080 Granada
... Zanzibar land forms a military government ...
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Z380 is working!!!
Hello, JDS JS videochip because it is put in a cartridgeslot and cartridges can't JS do JS 'OUTs'. Therefore it will not be possible to run 'old' programs on the JS Z380. (Even programs getting their vdp portnumbers from the bios, JS won't work. So probably a second VDP has to be plugged in into the JS Z380 board?! JS JS More or less this Z380 board is gonna be a kind of coprocessor ?! (or JS of course: the Z80 can be 'VDP coprocessor' for the Z380) Well this Z380 project is really part of MMSX project. Not only the Z380 cortridge will be released . A new VDP was presented in Madrid a few months ago. This new VDP is very-very-fast and it will be compatabilized (does this word exist?) with the old V9958. Also, Padial is working on a 3D engine for MMSX which is more than 5 times faster than a PSX (something like a voodoo2 chip). I hope it'll be an interesting machine. JAM ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *MSX Dreams* Apdo. Correos 3294 18080 Granada ... Z A N A C. DIRECTOR: MOO COMPILE 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: Moonsound owners
Am 29 Aug 1999 23:48:23 +0200, in local.msx.int schriebst Du : Hi lucky man, I just wanted to remind you that my Moonsound disk 'Pure' was released as freeware not too long ago. You can still download it at my website. P.S. I want someone with a 512kb Moonsound to test my latest song! Hi Tristan I have a MoonSound witht 1 MB Gretz Peter 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/)
links of MSX event report
8/22,23 This is some links of event report of MSX DENYU LAND (all Japanese) ASCII24 http://www.ascii.co.jp/ascii24/call.cgi?file=issue/1999/0825/hard01.html ZDNET GAMESPOT(SOFTBANK) http://www.zdnet.co.jp/gamespot/news/9908/21/news01.html AKIBA PC Hotline(Impress) http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/akiba/hotline/990821/etc_msx.html PC Watch(Impress) http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/pc/docs/article/990823/msx.htm 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/)
