Re: NOVAXIS scsi and general questions added! HELP!

1999-02-20 Thread Maico Arts
Van: Manuel Bilderbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Talking about SCSI interfaces: Which one is better: HSH or Gouda 1.001? (I can choose now) I think Gouda, its faster and electronically stronger than the HSH. (I broke a HSH after 1/2 year use and using Gouda now for over 2 years) It is still based on

Re: English Snatcher

1999-02-20 Thread Rieks W. Torringa
Hey Does anybody know, what the current state of the SNATCHER-translation is? Two years ago Oasis announched this tranlation available for Zandford 97. Well, the last thing I heard about it, was that it has been completed for a certain part, but that there were some troubles within Oasis with

Re: DS: English Snatcher

1999-02-20 Thread Rieks W. Torringa
Hey Sargon has finished an English translation of Fire Hawk We are now Working on Randar 2, and maybe we will translate Psycho World and Randar 3 as well Yups... As I am the one who will try to do so (and already finished Firehawk). Randar 2 was almost finished, but my harddisk felt

Re: English Snatcher

1999-02-20 Thread Rieks W. Torringa
Hey Second reason is that Oasis' way of translating is using a hex editor. That method is not practical for a complex game like Snatcher. Do you know a better (or:more comfortable) way to translate Japanese games ? I, too, want to translate Japanese games (already have translated Firehawk

Re: English Snatcher

1999-02-20 Thread Rieks W. Torringa
Hey I'd preferred they would translated Emerald Dragon and/or Xak I instead of all this mess. Does anybody know if these rumours of Xak 1 already being translated by someone are just rumours or truth ? If nobody is translating Xak 1, I might take a look (but perhaps the insertion of English

Re: AW: English Snatcher

1999-02-20 Thread Rieks W. Torringa
Hey I only have an english version of Disc 1, which has only the demo translated. That's all I know about it. Too bad, because it's a fine game, I think. Judging from the story of SD Snatcher and I tried a fighting scene once, it's a bit like the fighting in SD Snatcher. Yes... I myself have

Re: New program - New home page update!

1999-02-20 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 01:27 PM 2/19/99 +0100, you wrote: Such stupid name hides a useful program: it enables you to create empty disk image files of ANY lenght, from 10K to 32500K, as well as standard 1DD and 2DD disk image files. Of course with valid initialized boot sector FAT. I made something like that as

About Snatcher...

1999-02-20 Thread Konami Man
Just a crazy idea: maybe instead of translating Snatcher, it is a better idea to capture graphics and reprogram the whole game with english texts? Such type of game has not a very complicated programming structure... besides musics can be converted to Moonsound for example! 8-)

Re: MSX-ATA-IDE Presentation

1999-02-20 Thread jalanc
Hi all! This is the first time that I write here, so this pretends to be a kind of presentation about me. I'm Jose Antonio, from Spain. And I hope to get fun here. If you want to know more about me, you only need to ask. :) / Well, let's go with some questions (today only one ;) ***/

Finland ?

1999-02-20 Thread Frengo
Hi all, Do you know if there are people from Finland subscribed to the mailing list ? by Frengo 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

Re: Finland ?

1999-02-20 Thread Kari Lammassaari
Do you know if there are people from Finland subscribed to the mailing list ? Yes, several, but I let them to announce themselves. Why You need this information ? I am Kari Lammassaari - ACADEMY - MSX'er from 1985 :-) - Turbo Pascal inc's foe everyone (Now my work for Manuel is stalled, but

Re: New program - New home page update!

1999-02-20 Thread Alex Wulms
] At 01:27 PM 2/19/99 +0100, you wrote: ] ] Such stupid name hides a useful program: it enables you to create empty disk ] image files of ANY lenght, from 10K to 32500K, as well as standard 1DD and ] 2DD disk image files. Of course with valid initialized boot sector FAT. ] ] I made something

Re: MY story! 8-)

1999-02-20 Thread Laurens Holst
Just a comment about new hardware: I'm really happy with my moonsound, but I don't intend to buy a GFX9000 at all. Why? Apart from a demo of Xtazy and a BMP viewer, I haven't see ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING for this graphic card! Where are the games for GFX9000? Where are the utilities for WIOS? What

Re: tape storage details

1999-02-20 Thread Laurens Holst
Can anyone point me to or give me details of tape storage ? I'm interested in file headers, bit representation and possible use of parity or CRC. You can find those details in MSX Technical Handbook (chapter 5 if my memory don't fails). You can donwload it from my home page. You can also hack

Re: AW: msx-ers

1999-02-20 Thread Laurens Holst
Yes, and therefore I'd like to see a Moonblaster version with 18 wave channels and 6 FM channels. Just to have that great plucked and synth bass 3 back. Make that 24 Wave and 18 FM channels... :) ~Grauw MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the

Re: AW: msx-ers

1999-02-20 Thread Laurens Holst
I personally prefer the FM sound over the wavetable, because you can manipulate and create weird effects with it. It's like analogue and digital synthesisers. People created digital synths to make the sounds more realistic and close to the original, but then they realised the analogue sounds are

Re: [real coding] DOS2 and Memory...

1999-02-20 Thread Laurens Holst
I read (nearly) all the messages from the last time... - Oh my god! I really miss mails refering to (program-) technical thingies... So - lets start a "serious" thread... ;cP **Great** DOS 2 memory -- I found out that the DOS2 page-switch routines are kinda slow. Does anybody

Re: Your typical MSX history hardware setup

1999-02-20 Thread Laurens Holst
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

Re: Speeding up novaxis SCSI

1999-02-20 Thread Laurens Holst
I will make a driver for this so you simple run the program and it will do the rest. There is a lot to improve in this rom The man used a lot of JR's instead of JP (If no jump is made then JP is faster) Greetings Marcel Delorme Great Marcel,

Re: IDE Problem

1999-02-20 Thread Laurens Holst
hi all, is this problem also known with the Bert SCSI interface ?? IS there a problem with the Bert SSI-interface??? ~Grauw MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-)

Re: dd-graph/age cmp format

1999-02-20 Thread Laurens Holst
Wasn't there something in MILC about this??? ~Grauw MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)

Re: New program - New home page update!

1999-02-20 Thread Laurens Holst
Cas Cremers wrote: Hi people! In my home page you can find a new program I developped yesterday: NestorDiskImageCreator!! give this man a cigar! What is the utility of this? You surely have loads of MSX1 and/or MegaROM games which needs disk image files to execute, and you have a collection

Re: Old Skool Drawing...

1999-02-20 Thread Laurens Holst
Has anyone ever seen the package from DD-Graph? If you mean "who has got all programs provided with the DD-Graph package" then I think I can help you out. ~Grauw MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx

Re: Refreshed!!!

1999-02-20 Thread Laurens Holst
A lot of people replied my letter about the R register (flash trivia: did you know that Spectrum programmers thought it was a "secret register"? I'm not kidding and have no idea where they got that notion...) The use of it as a random number generator is obvious (if not read too often, of

Re: New program - New home page update!

1999-02-20 Thread Konami Man
But I have a problem: the DiskROM expects the directory to be located in sector 7. If you make a really big disk, the FAT becomes larger and sector 7 will be part of the FAT. Although it is possible to set the starting sector of the directory in the boot sector, the DiskROM ignores this

English Snatcher

1999-02-20 Thread jam
Hi, Herbert: HK Does anybody know, what the current state of the HK SNATCHER-translation is? Two years ago Oasis HK announched this tranlation available for Zandford 97. Oasis left MSX translations one or two years ago. I'm afraid Snatcher translation is not finished :( HK I think, I heard