AW: AW: Your typical MSX history & hardware setup
> -- > Van: Rieks W. Torringa[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Verzonden:woensdag 3 maart 1999 9:16 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: Re: AW: Your typical MSX history & hardware setup > > Hey... > > >> 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 > > Hahaha. Yes yes yes, Rieks is only my nick. Actually my name is 'Count > Dracula' > but hey - nobody knows that name anymore ! Hahaha... Yeah, Robert, why > are > you lacking to reveal the role YOU play in this story ? As my servant, > you too > aren't that innocent anymore hehehehe. Yeah. My name is actually Igor and I am the Humble servant of my master Vladimir Tepez. A couple of centuries ago I killed some virgins and sucked them dry, but that was in my Puberty > >Which is actually quite nice. When I come to to think about it. The > disk is > >actually very GREAT!!! > > You're its composer and designer, so what do you expect ? But ofcourse, > I > have to agree. Otherwise we wouldn't have released the whole thingie ! > > >> 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? > > Yeah, Jan Wilmans for example... Johnny Hassink... Hehehehe... And > ofcourse > my greatest fan Robert Vroemisse :) And many others, but why quote all > their > names...? > > >> - MSX Turbo R ST > >With a vage kabel and stoffige veertjes > > The cable isn't vague !!! How DARE you insult my Turbootje ??? And > also the 'veertjes' (feathers ? hahahhaha) aren't 'stoffig' Jan did > a great job 'healing' my Turbo R. Yeah. He blessed it with his holy powertools and made it a lean mean processing machine. > >> - Two Philips full-colour monitors > >One is very vague > > I'm afraid I have to agree with that. > You see, I'm always right. When I look into my crystal ball I see these things. The only problem is that my crystal ball is also very vague. It's made by the same person who made Rieks's monitor > Bye > Rikusu-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: AW: Your typical MSX history & hardware setup
Hey... >> 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 Hahaha. Yes yes yes, Rieks is only my nick. Actually my name is 'Count Dracula' but hey - nobody knows that name anymore ! Hahaha... Yeah, Robert, why are you lacking to reveal the role YOU play in this story ? As my servant, you too aren't that innocent anymore hehehehe. >Which is actually quite nice. When I come to to think about it. The disk is >actually very GREAT!!! You're its composer and designer, so what do you expect ? But ofcourse, I have to agree. Otherwise we wouldn't have released the whole thingie ! >> 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? Yeah, Jan Wilmans for example... Johnny Hassink... Hehehehe... And ofcourse my greatest fan Robert Vroemisse :) And many others, but why quote all their names...? >> - MSX Turbo R ST >With a vage kabel and stoffige veertjes The cable isn't vague !!! How DARE you insult my Turbootje ??? And also the 'veertjes' (feathers ? hahahhaha) aren't 'stoffig' Jan did a great job 'healing' my Turbo R. >> - Two Philips full-colour monitors >One is very vague I'm afraid I have to agree with that. Bye Rikusu-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/)
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: 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: Your typical MSX history & hardware setup
Hey!
I was born in 1982.
My father used to have a MSX1 (The Yamaha CX-5 (I believe), that music
computer... He sold it @$%^&!!!). Sometimes I played a game on it but not
very oftern... I was still very young. I still remember the tapes... I was
sitting in front of the computer and my father said I had to wait for a
while before I could play the game.
After that he bought a Philips VG8235, and later a Philips NMS8255 (the
cover says 8250 but there is a stiker on the back calling it a 8255!!! Well
it had two drives so...).
At the first "user happening" he bought a Sanyop Wavy 70FD MSX2+...
Now he has a PC and my sis has the 8235 and I have the rest. I have later
bought a Philips VG8245 ("om te slopen") and a Sony HitBit 75P.
My current set is:
- MSX2+ Upgrade to 128k
- MSX2 upgrade to 7MHz
- MoonSound
- FM stereo PAK
- Korean FM-Ship
- Toshiba Music Module w/keyboard (Damn NWO support it, support it!!!)
- Toshiba MusMod working on 7MHz and with 32k sample-Ram.
- Broken MK SCSI-interface (but still with Dos2 working)
- B.E.R.T. SCSI-interface w/ 2 HDs total space 140MB
- 2MB Memory Mapper
- Barcode reader (Philips)
- Broken RS232 interface (Philips)
- MT Telcom 2 RS232-addition (however without the original modem :)
- Philips modem with RS232 built-in
- A set of 2 wireless joysticks.
and probably more...
Home-made stuff:
- Half-finished RC5 remote control transmitter&receiver
- Simpl (Covox D/A converter for printer port in a matchbox -used to be made
on a toilet paper cylinder-...)
- 2-computer JoyNet connector...
I have programmed some editions of Track (diskmag) and also some
music-discs; Overload (of Datax, my club. It was a moonsound-musicdisk while
I had no MoonSound!!! I sometimes still wonder why it worked...), and Music
Maniac 2 (of Kenda).
Last year, my father surprised me with a f7.50 priced F1-Spirit from a
'rommelmarkt'. Well that was because the guy removed the ROM so that he had
a SCC-cartridge... tsk tsk tsk...
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Hi there, >Tell me about your history. Nice subject, this, btw. I have some spare time, so I will now write about myself (yawn). Despite of being born in 1974, my first encounter with a computer must be somewhere in 1982 or '83, when my cousin had a ZX Spectrum. I really liked Scuba Diving on that. Later, I met Arnold Oudshoorn (ex-Moonsoft in spe) who showed me some great games like Antartic Adventure and Yie Ar Kung Fu. I was impressed and wanted an MSX. It was not until 1987 that my brother decided to buy a VG8235 MSX2 computer (single sided discdrive). In between those days, I worked with Apple IIe computers at school. Very ancient... I still remember the moment the computer arrived: it was very cold, my hands were frozen and I wanted to use the computer rightaway, but I couldn't because my hands were frozen. Anyway, it wouldn't last long until I had my own MSX, a Sony HP700D with German keyboard (qwertz, in stead of qwerty), some people might have seen this computer run at fairs, it was the computer with the Return key missing. Together with this computer, I got Usas. I recontacted Arnold (who was busy in the demo-scene with Remco Schrijvers under the name of Moonsoft). He showed me some SCC demos and games and I was flabbergasted... Really impressed... like... wow! this is music! I wanted my own SCC cardridge and I traded Usas against Nemesis 3, which was brand new around that time. A friend of ours, Bert, well known for the SCSI interface, build in a connector so I could turn off the Nemesis 3 "boot" and use the SCC for other applications... (illegal copies?? ehm... no :-) ). Later, Bert build in MSX2+ and repaired my computer several times. When the FM Pac was introduced in Japan, Arnold and me got both one via import and were impressed. Especially games which were quite old like Greatest Driver, Psycho World (still one of the best MSX games) and Feedback. At that time, the little documentation we had on MSX Music Basic we used for making demos with FM music. It didn't work though, it was too slow. We must have a program for making FM music with a replayer in ML, so we decided to buy a music program from Engine (the predecessor of their more popular FM Studio or something like that). It sucked, but FST was a lot better, still not perfect for FM Pac. And from there we could make Awesome and with the help of Marco v/d Berg we could make Awesome 2 with stereo music. This was the first step in the direction of Moonblaster. The idea of MoonBlaster started after several problems with FST (the replayer was too slow, FM Pac was not used good in FST, etc.) Remco started with MB and I did the beta testing and giving advice and tips for additions. The rest is MSX history. Too bad Arnold quit Moonsoft during that time, he bought a Megadrive :-( I think I will call him one of these days... He has a PSX now. After MB we wanted to make a game, but it all failed, despite some promising ideas and tests. Partly to do with not having a graphical man (Arnold was gone). Some little demo games were made, like Fairplay and the intro for one of the Sunrise Picturediscs. In '91 our MSX Club Rijnstreek decided to merge with Genic to become Stichting Sunrise. Our goal was to give people information by using the good name of MSX Club Rijnstreek and the quality of the Genic programmers (Genic had some ... dubious... reputation in the past) and their magazine. Too bad some ideas didn't work out well (I miss those club days). We decided to work on the Sunrise Picturedisc, a demodisc with demos from all kinds of MSX groups. It was nice to do, but because of school I had to quit and it was also the end of my MSX activity. The Moonsound was released using the same development phase as MB, where I had to use the Moonsound (and I created most of the sounds of the program, it was exhausting...) But I still have my MSX and I still use it to make music. I don't have the Moonsound, Remco has it, so I use my FM Pac and MSX Audio for it. (Remco is now living in the same flat as Ray from 2 Limited) Now I have the following setup: your standard MSX2 (Sony HBF700D still) with FM Pac and Music Module (like I said: standard), SD Snatcher + SCC, Nemesis 3 + SCC, MSX2+ chips, DOS 2. 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/)
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>>One of the numbers I made was a mix of the super-hit "POING". In Meg was >>also a demo including "POING!", but that one was made by Pascal Oldenzeel. >>(We made the same number at the same time, not knowing this... :) However, >>just before release date, we decided to put my version on MEG. >>The release of MEG was also the day of my first MSX-fair -> WOW! :) >Poing sux!!! the guy stole my girlfriend :-) I am totally innocent!! Sander Zuidema 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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>One of the numbers I made was a mix of the super-hit "POING". In Meg was >also a demo including "POING!", but that one was made by Pascal Oldenzeel. >(We made the same number at the same time, not knowing this... :) However, >just before release date, we decided to put my version on MEG. >The release of MEG was also the day of my first MSX-fair -> WOW! :) Poing sux!!! the guy stole my girlfriend :-) 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/)
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At 11:29 AM 2/5/99 +0100, you wrote: >Just curious about what any of you have as computer-history and hardware >now. I was born in 1976. Spent my time building Lego stuff until we got our first computer around 1985. It was a Sanyo MPC 100, an MSX1 intended the UK market (it has a key with a pound sign). Beautiful black and grey computer, 64K RAM inside. I started programming, mainly in BASIC, sometimes in LOGO. And played games, favorites: Chuckie Egg and Finders Keepers. I joined the local computer club: MSX GG west brabant, which still exists as CGG west brabant today. At first, this mainly boosted the number of games I could play, but later I met other people who were also programming. I was using the MSX every day and I was getting really frustrated by the tape recorder. It was slow and I had a lot of load errors. So I was saving my money for a diskdrive. But diskdrives were quite expensive (you needed both an interface cartridge and the drive itself), so I decided to save some more and buy an MSX2 with built-in diskdrive. I bought an NMS8250. More programming, still in BASIC. And a lot of hacking too: ripping graphics from games, finding cheat pokes etc. I experimented with assembly from time to time, but most things I tried didn't work. At the MSX GG, I met Jerome Borsboom and talked a lot about programming. He already knew how to program assembly and was quite good at hacking as well. Later I met Dennis Koller and Jos v.d. Biggelaar. That's when I finally left BASIC and really began coding in assembly (using WBASS2). With some very vague hints from people at fairs and a lot of experimenting we got line interrupts working. Which, at the time, was kind of the distinction between newbies and more experienced demo coders. Dennis and Jos were part of UMF Zeeland. Also in that group was Richard Cornelisse, the first non-coder in this story, he did GFX and music. Jos, Richard and I started working on a megademo. Although we didn't want to call it a "megademo" since the word "mega" was heavily over-used in those days. At a fair, we walked into Mark Zellenrath, who had some questions about programming. What started with exchanging infos and sources resulted in a long lasting cooperation and the foundation of Mayhem. Members: me (Kryten), Richard (Huey), Mark (Zelly) and Jos (Yobi). Our demo, which was called Almost Real, was never finished. We did show parts of it at some fairs and got positive responses. By the way, some of you might be able to see Almost Real soon, although still unfinished. But I'm not sure whether I can give you the details, so I won't. Although we never finished any big project, Mayhem did release a number of small demos on the Sunrise disks: an intro/frequency selector, the Celebration Demo, the Profile Demo and several MoonBlaster replayers. Most of the programming was done by Mark, but I did the replayers. I especially liked the one that could play MBMs over the MoonSound. Later, Mayhem fell asleep because we were too busy studying and doing other things to meet often. And without the meetings, everyone started working on different projects or not working on MSX at all. In 1994 I started studying at the university in Eindhoven. I wanted to study mathematics, but because it was possible to combine mathematics and computing science in the first year, I chose to do both. After about half a year I decided mathematics was not what I wanted to do, but I did like computing science so I went on studying that. And I still do at this moment. In the summer of 1995 I was helping at the university. The International Olympiad in Informatics was visiting, and since I was a participant some years before, it was asked to do some things for them. But I didn't have enough work to keep me occupied. I did have a computer and a fast internet connection available. So I started my homepage. Back then, there were very few MSX pages. In January 1997 in the MSX newsgroup Takamichi Suzukawa wrote some remark about Solid Snake being one of the few highlights in MSX gaming history that was still not translated. I responded with an e-mail and soon I was hacking Solid Snake, inserting English messages. The result: Solid Snake English was released in Tilburg '97. It was the best selling release of that fair. My latest release is the Final Fantasy VII slideshow for the Future Disk (released about a year ago). I ripped GFX from the PSX game and added some animations. Most difficult part was to fit everything into 128K of RAM. Future releases: sure, but I don't know what they will be. As you can see in the story above, some projects went on for years and were never finished (Almost Real), while others were done in an extremely limited time and did make the deadline (Solid Snake). So I gave up on planning releases a long time ahead. Now about the equipment: NMS8250 The one I bought many years ago. I still use it to test my programs on. I only replaced the diskdrive, the rest is still in the original s
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Ok, let me see I was born in 1979 (16th of october to pe precise) And started playing games on my dad's ZX-spectrum already in 1984 In 1985 I got a C64 (well, my dad got one, but I was the only one using it). It broke down the same year (hmmm..) Another C64 didn't survive a whole year too. In 1986 the other C64 failed to work too. Now it was time for... a NMS 8245 (jippie!!!) Although I had typed-over some listings on the C64, this was the first computer I was actually starting to make things myself (I think the MSX computer is one of the best computers for this purpose. Somehow you actually get motivated to make things yourself. In the beginning because it's so easy, later because it's necessary to keep the scene alive) In 1989 or 1990 we moved (for the 12th time!) to another house. This time in the incredibly small town (aka "gehucht") called Kropswolde. Here I met "Michiel de Vries' who also had a MSX (A Sony Hitbit MSX 1)... Michiel had a lot of games, which was back then most important for me, and he could code a bit assembly too (which was important later on) Thanks to THE Martin Bakker (most illegal person around?) we bought some original SCC games and Michiel bought an NMS 8235. Now we also started going to MSX-Club-Groningen, where we met a couple of lunatics calling themselves "Flying Bytes". We joined them and started a new project with the team: The Megademo Meg. In a short time I'd bought a FM-PAK and a Music Module, and I had tried making some music with Fac Soundtracker (the program that saved the MSX scene definately!) One of the numbers I made was a mix of the super-hit "POING". In Meg was also a demo including "POING!", but that one was made by Pascal Oldenzeel. (We made the same number at the same time, not knowing this... :) However, just before release date, we decided to put my version on MEG. The release of MEG was also the day of my first MSX-fair -> WOW! :) (btw. Michiel coded almost everything on MEG and made some good music too) Now it was time for me to buy a MSX Turbo-R (GT). I made more and more music, leading to 2 releases: Bananenvla and Move the House (sorry for the last one) And then, we had to make a game: Not Again!. The idea came on a MSX-fair where the first computergame ever was shown. (2 "bats" and a ball) We totally changed the game-concept, but I still think it was a great game. Most of the music came from me, most/all of the coding from Michiel. We tried to make another release, but Michiel didn't want to code games anymore. He started to make another music program (he'd made PSG tracker too), called Meridian. A really EXCELLENT MIDI SEQUENCER (commercial break?). The other coder we had got personal problems, and a lot of FB-people moved to other places, so we couldn't finish the game. Well.. that's about it. O yeah. I recently bought a MoonSound and a GFX9000, so I guess I'm still quite active :) Greetz, Sander Zuidema Listen to my music at: http://members.tripod.com/moonsynth 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
>Just curious about what any of you have as computer-history and hardware >now. Ok. Personal info: Name: Eric Boon Age : 30 Adres : somewhere between the Netherlands and Germany at the moment :-) Occupation : senior programmer Bank account: Postbank: 5763069 (Donations are always welcome :-)) Computer history: Somewhere in the early 80's, my father brought home some kind of PC-like apparatus. I think it was an CP/M machine, but I'm not sure. It had a 5 1/4" floppy drive and a monogreen 13" monitor. I played great games on this machine: RACE and TIC-TAC-TOE (boter/kaas & eieren)! Too bad my dad had to return this machine to his boss after a couple of weeks. At the end of 1982 we got a Timex Sinclair 1000T, which was a clone of the all-famous Sinclair ZX81. I started programming that thing and after a while also for Commodore PET and C=64, although I've never owned either of these two machines... I got my first MSX in 1988 when I graduated from high-school (gymnasium, that is), a Philips NMS8250. I still have it and it is still functional although a little bit pepped-up :-) Then I made the mistake to start studying Computer Science, which I've been doing till 1997. In the early nineties, I formed a group together with Frank Thijssen, Rober van Ballegoy and Vincent Nas: 4TRAX. We released 3 music/demo disks (Songbook #1, #2 and Kofferdisk) and a program to play MoonBlaster files via Midi (4TRAX MidiPlayer). In 1996 I picked up programming seriously for the MSX again and together with Martin Krooshof under the name "AURORA" released two (small) games: EXOR and Ruby&Jade. Nowadays I also have a PC (got it from my boss) which currently runs Winshit59 - still want to (re) install Linux, but I can't find the time to do it :-( As I have a programmer's job, I do not really feel like programming in my few minutes per day spare time, which I really regret. Current hardware: Philips NMS 8250 + 7Mhz, 1 MB, 2nd FDD Philips CM8833-II color monitor SCSI interface DOS 2.xx cartridge (thanks again Erik :-)) 32 MB HDD 512 MB HDD (not connected, yet) Iomega ZIP MusicModule FM-PAC (by Digital KC) Sony Mouse (_the_ one and only MSX mouse IMNSHO) I once owned an original Salamander (SCC!) but it got lost sometime Martin and I share a GFX9000 and MoonSound Homebrew: Simpl (Covox like thingie) Mouse/joystick switch Software Way too many MSX History: 4TRAX: Songbook #1 (1992) Songbook #2 (1993) Kofferdisk (1993) (I didn't do nothing on the MB MIDI replayer :-)) Aurora: Exor Ruby & Jade Further: founded comp.sys.msx (1993? That is, I releassed the RFD and CFV) Eric 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
Patrick Kramer wrote: > > I never programmed wonders on the MSX, but I really like the machine. > One > things I made (nobody will know them probably, would be fun if someone > does): Trackplayer, a stereo player with channel setup for FST1 files. > Allowed fast forward and reverse. It does ring a (rather small) bel. I believe it was the first FST1 replayer I saw with a fast forward en reverse button, instead of a simply load-this-file-and-play-kind-of-thingy. > Tell me about your history. Later maybe... David Heremans -- "How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only coded it." (Attributed to Linus Torvalds, somewhere in a posting) 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
>Just curious about what any of you have as computer-history and hardware >now. Hi, I've been subscribed to this list for 3 years. I've never posted anything, but I MUST post this now! In my homepage there is a section called "My computer history" (almost the same words you said). Unfortunatelly it's only in Spanish :-( May be using the translator of Altavista... The address is http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/2620/historia.html One day, if I have some spare time I will update it and translate to English. Regards. > >I was born in 1973. >My first encounter with a computer was a Commodore 8032 (follow-up of the >PET) in 1980. Made some stupid programs like >10 ?"patrick" >20 goto10 >Cool huh? > >Next was a C64 (Oh no...more Commodore) from 1982-1985. Made some other >programs, and was soon programming a little bit of ML (because this is the >only way to get something out of this machine). > >By now (1985) I saved enough money to buy a real computer: a Canon V20 & a >taperecorder. >This was a leap forward. Now I could write decent BASIC! (uhmmm) > >Next was (and still is, besides my PC) my Sony HB700p in 1987. At this point >I started extending to the setup I still have: >- Upgrade to MSX2+ >- 7MHz >- FM-stereo PAK >- Music Module (they were selling them for 99,- in Philips Personeelwinkel, >wish I bought more ;-)) >- MSXdos 2.20 in Nemesis II cartridge >- 1024K Memory Mapper (external, MSX club Gouda) >- Barcode reader (Philips) >- RS232 interface (Philips) >- Telcom modem >- CM8833 monitor >- Arcade joysticks > >Home-made stuff: >- RC5 remote control transmitter&receiver (from PTC magazine) >- Covox-like D/A converter for printer port (play samples without sound >cartridge) >- Some other stuff that I made but never used (like a/d converter, analog >joystick) > >I never programmed wonders on the MSX, but I really like the machine. One >things I made (nobody will know them probably, would be fun if someone >does): Trackplayer, a stereo player with channel setup for FST1 files. >Allowed fast forward and reverse. I uploaded this thingy to a BBS (guess it >was RiSoft) and about 4 years later (I almost forgot the whole thing), I got >a letter from someone in Friesland asking for more details about it. Funny, >I checked and I had put my adres in the source. What goes around, comes >around I guess. > >And last year... I bought a Canon V20 at a 'rommelmarkt' (flea market) for >only fl. 2,50... Perfectly OK. >Now I would like to have a Turbo-R, but I guess they're pretty hard to come >by. > >Tell me about your history. 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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> Tell me about your history. > Well Ok, because you, ve asked me so nicely. It all started when I was about twelve or something like that. I wanted a computer so I started washing up for my parents to earn money for a MSX. A friend of my parents worked at Philips, so after a half year I got my NMS 8250 with printer from the Philips personeelswinkel. I started playing games for some years. Then I heard the SCC. I wanted one but didn't have the money. I lended a Nemesis II from a friend of mine Woutr Gransbergen. I started composing with SCC musixx but that wasn't a succes. Then after a while I bought a FM stereo pak (F 180,-- in those days) and started composing with Pro-tracker from Typhoon soft. When I got FAC soundtracker things got better and I started composing on that. In the meantime I got a Music module with keyboard for my birthday and so I began to abuse this piece of hardware as well. I started drawing in that time also. I founded NMC with Wouter Gransbergen and we made the NMC disk 1 till 5. We had contacts with Station (I still have all their routines, interested?) and so we made the Station compilation disk. THEN MY DISKDRIVE BROKE DOWN After a year I got the idea to buy a new diskdrive. I had contact with DTC at that time and since NMC died I started working for DTC. I was planning to make my first musicdisk. At a fair in Almelo I got in contact with Sargon, and after a while I got into that team. They produced my musicdisk which is called Twisted reality. It was a great succes. Then I bought a Moonsound I still make music on this fine piece of hardware. I still work for Sargon but I am also active by Cybersoft and TWZ. My hardware: MSX Turbo R FSAIST (1 MB memory) NMS 8280 2 Slotexpanders 2 NMS colormonitors Moonsound FM stereo pak SCSI interface Music module with keyboard 2 Robot arms MIDI saurus with keyboard Sony HBV1 video digitizer Sanyo lightpen Telcom 2 Modem And some more stuff I cannot come up with right now. I also collect original software and especially Compile games Well, this is my MSX history and hardware setup Robert 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/)
Your typical MSX history & hardware setup
Just curious about what any of you have as computer-history and hardware now. I was born in 1973. My first encounter with a computer was a Commodore 8032 (follow-up of the PET) in 1980. Made some stupid programs like 10 ?"patrick" 20 goto10 Cool huh? Next was a C64 (Oh no...more Commodore) from 1982-1985. Made some other programs, and was soon programming a little bit of ML (because this is the only way to get something out of this machine). By now (1985) I saved enough money to buy a real computer: a Canon V20 & a taperecorder. This was a leap forward. Now I could write decent BASIC! (uhmmm) Next was (and still is, besides my PC) my Sony HB700p in 1987. At this point I started extending to the setup I still have: - Upgrade to MSX2+ - 7MHz - FM-stereo PAK - Music Module (they were selling them for 99,- in Philips Personeelwinkel, wish I bought more ;-)) - MSXdos 2.20 in Nemesis II cartridge - 1024K Memory Mapper (external, MSX club Gouda) - Barcode reader (Philips) - RS232 interface (Philips) - Telcom modem - CM8833 monitor - Arcade joysticks Home-made stuff: - RC5 remote control transmitter&receiver (from PTC magazine) - Covox-like D/A converter for printer port (play samples without sound cartridge) - Some other stuff that I made but never used (like a/d converter, analog joystick) I never programmed wonders on the MSX, but I really like the machine. One things I made (nobody will know them probably, would be fun if someone does): Trackplayer, a stereo player with channel setup for FST1 files. Allowed fast forward and reverse. I uploaded this thingy to a BBS (guess it was RiSoft) and about 4 years later (I almost forgot the whole thing), I got a letter from someone in Friesland asking for more details about it. Funny, I checked and I had put my adres in the source. What goes around, comes around I guess. And last year... I bought a Canon V20 at a 'rommelmarkt' (flea market) for only fl. 2,50... Perfectly OK. Now I would like to have a Turbo-R, but I guess they're pretty hard to come by. Tell me about your history. 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/)
