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
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a sunrise IDE-interface, but I can't get it to work
> 100%... I'm using it on a NMS8250 with a
> Maxtor 71084 AP hdd of 1Gb (1084Mb),
> but when I connect it to my msx, and try to fdisk it. It gets
> splitted into 6 drives (a to f) and my 2
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 Ha
MP> Beyond Metal Gear 2, do you know other Megarom games with 512kb of
MP> more?
I know Hydlide 3 and a collection of 100 games in 1 made in Korea (similar to
NES cartridges). It have 1024KB, I think. Also Koei released ROMs version of
the same games released as diskettes.
Salidos, digo ...
Hi, Laurens:
>> Yes, it is.
>> It's made with the Yoshida Editor.
LH>
LH>
LH> WHAT editor??? Something like GameBuilder? If you can make games like
I have never seen GameBuilder bub I think it's something similar.
Yoshida Editor was release by ASCII MSX Magazine, and it is great!
LH> thi
Hi, Manuel !!!
>> I have never seen a MSX2 before 1987. And this copyright doesn't
>> mean that the production really started at 1985. When did you buy
>> your 8235?
MB>
MB> They did, Dutch magazines report MSX2 in 1986.
And Spanish ones too :)
Salidos, digo ... Saludos.
JAMcn ([EMAIL
Hi, Marco Antonio
>> Maybe you mean the NMS 8220?
>> That machine had only 64K RAM (normal memory mapper), but did still
>> have 128K VRAM, like every MSX2 I've ever seen...
MP>
MP> How can 64kb of RAM be memory mapper? Memory Mapper with only 4 memory
MP> blocks is a bit unuseful!
Why do
MP> Yes, but sometime ago, someone in this list had talked about a 768kb
MP> Megarom game. Does someone know something about it?
It's a Koei game, I remember.
Salidos, digo ... Saludos.
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Hi, Sandy !!!
>> Yes, it is.
>> It's made with the Yoshida Editor.
SP>
SP> So they are the same as:
SP>
SP> - Space Warrior
SP> - Super zealogue
SP> - Twinkle Star
SP> - Twinkle Star 2
SP>
SP> Or Not ?
Yeah!
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Hola Marco Antonio:
>> MH> It is possible to make an MSX2 with only 64K VRAM. Such a
>> MH> machine would not have SCREEN 7 and SCREEN 8, not even a single
>> MH> page, because VRAM timing requires two RAM ICs connected. Does
>> MH> anyone know if machines with 64K VRAM were ever actually
> >6- Boh Ken, this new programmers asociation came with new software,
> >final beta versions of Puddle Land and KPI Ball were presented,
> >another FAT16 routines and they sold Sonyc and games translations.
> >Members: Manuel Pazos and Sutchan.
Manuel Pazos is "fudeba"! >:) :)
Adr
Hello
>with ID 0 (my corrupt scsi HD). However... when we set the host ID to 6
>guess what the zipdrive booted!
>Is this normal behaviour for a Novaxis?
It sure is not.
If you have a rom version 1.59 the novaxis is able to boot in a normal way
from a zip drive, or any other device whit
>> >DalPoz, that "LS120" is a new drive type which supports
>> >disks with up to 120Mb capacity, that disk has the same
>> >size of a normal 3.5" disk. Besides, the LS120 drive
>> >supports normal 3.5" (720Kb or 1.44Mb) disks easily.
>> >(I hope the list people don't get upset with me not
>> >not
I've search in my archive the Alex's e-mail address but I haven't it. Can
someone give it to me ?
Thanks a lot,
Stefano
-Messaggio originale-
Da: Gerald Stap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Data: venerdì 19 marzo 1999 16.36
Oggetto: Re: MSX-C
>Stefano Fr
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha wrote:
> > It was very easy to add, indeed. I added it some time ago, just to
> > make the KGC games playable (I always wanted to hear Nemesis with SCC
> > sound! :)
>
> Oooops, ooops, ooops!!!
> That's something I never pay
> It was very easy to add, indeed. I added it some time ago, just to
> make the KGC games playable (I always wanted to hear Nemesis with SCC
> sound! :)
Oooops, ooops, ooops!!!
That's something I never pay attention!
Stupid question: so the KGC games need Mapper to
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Alwin Henseler wrote:
> You're writing an MSX emulator, and you don't even HAVE a memory
> mapper? Go get one!
>
I already bought, but Ademir Carchano is SO SLOW to send my
enhanced machine...
> BTW. Adding memory mapper emulation to a MSX-1 emulator should be
>
Hello everybody in this list. My name is Mario and i'm from
Argentina.
I'm a unconditional msx fan and is glad to know people working for msx
survival. I want to contribute too.
Well, here my first questions ?
1 - There's production of MSXs today? if not, what's the
latest MSX model?
2 - W
Laurens Holst wrote:
> Thank you for this Spanish explanation.
It's portuguese :)
> Ofcourse, all non-spanish (or what is it, Brazilian?)
> speaking people already know what this is. They are much
> smarter.
I think dutch is much more difficult :)))
He said:
> >DalPoz, that "LS120" is a new dr
>> When accessing the I/O-ports (there's a pin on the Z80 which indicates
it)
>> the board switches the processor back to 3.5 MHz... Later, 'smart'
>> 7MHz-boards (called Advanced 7MHz) appeared, which only switched back to
>> 3.5MHz when there was VDP I/O. This way, SCSI, Memory, MoonSound etc. I
> >Ofcourse not, Laurens. Sony HB-G900P and Philips VG-8230 is really MSX2,
> >but have no mapper. They're really, really, really 100% MSX2!
>
> They have 64k non-mapped memory?
You're finally getting it?
(Hint: read all your mail before replying to the mailinglist... That would
decrease the
> When accessing the I/O-ports (there's a pin on the Z80 which indicates it)
> the board switches the processor back to 3.5 MHz... Later, 'smart'
> 7MHz-boards (called Advanced 7MHz) appeared, which only switched back to
> 3.5MHz when there was VDP I/O. This way, SCSI, Memory, MoonSound etc. I/O i
>] >That's strange. I think that it's more natural to expand memory first,
and
>] >after expand video capabilities.
>]
>] Who needs more memory when all games are in ROM cartridges?
>] Only people who want to play illegal versions of those ROM's... :-)
>Ever heard of a RAMDISK? That is something w
>Funny to realize that all these amazing discoveries are well documented. We
>should definetely get a good site up and running with all technical
>documentation available about the MSX. It will save a lot of people a lot
of
>time with tracing and disassembling the MSX ROMS.
Yeah, absolutely!
Er
> I'm currently collecting about every tech data I can find on MSX,
>and putting it in an Excel sheet with links (which can be converted of
>course). Instead of just putting all textfiles together, I want to combine
>it and filter out double info. Kind of like Ralf Browns interrupt list for
>MSX
>> > 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!
>>
>> Too bad!
>>
>> > Then, there's still a chance only for Turbo-R.
>>
>> And 7.16 MHz MSX2!
>
>Yes, and why not 7.16MHz MSX1? BTW, how does a 7.16MHz works? I
>> the NMS8220 does have a mapper, and the mapper is 128Kb wide , but only
>> 64Kb of
>> ramis used.
>
>What do you mean with that? It has 64kB, but reacts as 128kB? so:
>out(&Hfe),0:?inp(&Hfe)
>would return &b1000 in stead of &b1100? That would be against
>MSX-standard! I must be misunder
>> > 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
Stefano Fronteddu wrote:
>
> Hi to all,
> I'm here again to talk about C.
> In the documentation I have the author talks about MSX-C and he lists the
> following files:
>
> cf.comck.relstdio.h
> cg.com clib.rel bdosfunc.h
> fpc.com crun.rel conio.h
> mx.com
Maarten ter Huurne Wrote:
> 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 mark
>> Laurens Holst said:
>> > >BTW, memory mapper wasn't born jointly with MSX2. Many MSX2 that I
knew
>> > >had only 64kb of RAM. Does your 8235 have internal Memory Mapper?
>> >
>> > Memory Mapper is part of the MSX2 standard.
>
>Ofcourse not, Laurens. Sony HB-G900P and Philips VG-8230 is really M
>>And nobody was interested in transforming MSX1 to MSX2?
>
>I don't think any company ever offered such a conversion. Conversions from
>MSX2 to MSX2+ were offered though. Some included only V9958, others
>included new ROMs and/or internal MSX-MUSIC.
There were (are?) conversion-kits for that, I'
>But the main utility of the Memory Mapper is to create a block switching
>system that allows the slot to contain much more than 64kb of RAM. Using
>Memory Mapper only to exchange memory contents isn't a big deal, because
>you still can do it using LDIR (or using a famous technique called swap,
>l
Hi to all,
I'm here again to talk about C.
In the documentation I have the author talks about MSX-C and he lists the
following files:
cf.comck.relstdio.h
cg.com clib.rel bdosfunc.h
fpc.com crun.rel conio.h
mx.com cend.relctype.h
direct.h io.h
>>
>> >BTW, memory mapper wasn't born jointly with MSX2. Many MSX2 that I knew
>> >had only 64kb of RAM. Does your 8235 have internal Memory Mapper?
>>
>> Memory Mapper is part of the MSX2 standard.
>>
>So the NMS 8220 e.d. where not part of the MSX2 standard?
This 64k of memory IS mapped. Beside
>> Maybe you mean the NMS 8220?
>> That machine had only 64K RAM (normal memory mapper), but did still
>> have 128K VRAM, like every MSX2 I've ever seen...
>
>How can 64kb of RAM be memory mapper? Memory Mapper with only 4 memory
>blocks is a bit unuseful!
NOT!!! With a non-memorymapped 64k RAM t
Last time i looked into the Microsoft Basic interpreter i remember seeing
appromation of functions like log(x) with things like Taylor sequences. And
quite a reasonable approach for the accuracy needed.
I still have the commented source of the Basic rom of the Commodore PET,
6502 cpu code (so you
At 17:13 18/03/99 +0100, you wrote:
>> Hydlide 3 is 512K.
>> ROM version of Royal Blood is 1MB.
Royal Blood? I've never heard about this game...
Does anyone can tell me more? Thankx.
Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheir
At 02:53 PM 3/18/99 -0300, you wrote:
>> Philips 8235, 8245, 8250, 8255 and 8280 were all sold with 128K mapper.
>
>Only Philips did it? Did other manufacturers do only 256kb of Mapper
>built-in?
I think there may be a few. Manual would probably say "check the hardware
list". Philips MSX2 machin
At 05:22 PM 3/18/99 +0100, you wrote:
>I was wondering how BASIC calculates LOG(x). Does it use a look-up table
>(would require massive amounts of memory), some sort of algorithm (would
>require massive amounts of CPU time), or some mixed method?
There must be using a way that requires only a li
At 07:01 PM 3/18/01 +0100, you wrote:
>>SET the disk change flag? Why do you need to do that?
>
>The behavior of my driver when a function call is made is the following:
>
>- Check if the disk has been changed via CALL #4013.
>- If not, read an internal table which contains the type of the drive.
> -Original Message-
> From: Marco Antonio Simon dal Poz [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: vrijdag 19 maart 1999 13:12
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: MegaRAM
>
> On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Alex Wulms wrote:
>
> > This mystery can be solved quite simply if you look at the
> spe
> Ooohh, it's really hard to explain those Brazilians all about memory
> mappers! (don't they have any?).
Not to ALL brazilian. Just to the "fudeba" ones. :)
Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Engenharia de Computacao - UNICAMP
http://www.adrpage.cjb.
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Alex Wulms 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 i
Ricardo Bittencourt Vidigal Leitao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The MegaRAM was not added to BrMSX to improve game play.
> Instead, I added it as a development tool.
>
> I don't know what is your opinion, but I think it's much better to
> develop programs in an emulator tha
Hi all,
Ooohh, it's really hard to explain those Brazilians all about memory
mappers! (don't they have any?).
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.
Apparantly there ex
Marco Antonio Simon dal Poz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I still have a 256K memory mapper, where I added a write
> > protect-switch for similar purposes. Make sure it's write protected
> > when starting your machine (so that it's not used as normal RAM), put
> > some software in it usin
Marco Antonio Simon dal Poz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Do you know a FDC that supports 1.2Mb and 1.44Mb drives and is still being
> > >produced, and have good documentation?
> >
> > Note that 3.5MHz is too slow to allow reading of 1.44MB disks. The "inner
> > loop" of the sector read ro
Nestor Soriano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> SET the disk change flag? Why do you need to do that?
>
> The behavior of my driver when a function call is made is the
> following:
>
> - Check if the disk has been changed via CALL #4013.
> - If not, read an internal table which contains the typ
Try to look at http://www.national.com/pf/PC/PC8477B.html
It is a FDC from National Semiconductiors.
They seem to have samples.
I have received 7 of these about a year ago.
(they shipped it to the netherlands at no costs for me)
They are PC FDC controllers, but that shouldn't be
a problem.
Gre
All this talking about MegaRAM makes me want to use one. But how to build
one? Maybe it can be done in a somewhat ESE-SCC style. (I don't know much
about electronics, but hey what the hack).
Couldn't we make a kid of kitchentable design, something like this:
tear down an old PC and rip out an I
>very much like a log. You could use the taylor-series, which can be
>calculated quite quick, but is not a very good approximation. I don't know
>the taylor-series by heart, but I could look it up. In case you want to
>start programming, it will be of the form:
>y=a+bx+cx^2+dx^3+
Taylors ru
At 08:12 PM 3/18/99 +0100, Stefano wrote:
:
:Send me them, or let me know where can I find them !
:
sigh, doesn't anyone use search engines anymore?
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/msx/programming/c/
for hitech-c
Marco
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>If you want to learn clean c and you really want to do it on msx
>use hisoft-c or hi-tech c instead. They are much more compatible and
>portible with what's out there (although the code they produce is crap!)
Send me them, or let me know where can I find them !
>Gerald
Bye & thanks,
Stefan
> -Original Message-
> From: Alex Wulms [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: vrijdag 19 maart 1999 0:13
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: MegaRAM
>
> ]
> ] My question is: why the data behavior is symmetric (pages even and pages
> ] odd) and the block-switching isn't, I mean,
>Marco Antonio Simon dal Poz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Maarten ter Huurne wrote:
>>Do you know a FDC that supports 1.2Mb and 1.44Mb drives and is still being
>>produced, and have good documentation?
I think these docs and ICs are unavailable today.
>>Note that 3.5MHz is too slow to allow rea
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 gr
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