Re: Radarsoft games on harddisk

1999-03-22 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 03:57 PM 3/22/99 +0100, you wrote: >Last weekend I tried to run some Radarsoft games from my harddisk. >Things like Tempo Typen, Eindeloos, De Grotten van Oberon and Kruiswoord >worked, but RADX-8 and Breaker didn't. I also tried to run those last 2 >from disk, after booting from the harddisk,

Re: R.I.P. MSX

1999-03-22 Thread Maurício Braga
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: > for some weird reason my msx (philips NMS8250) > just died... it worked fine but when I rebooted, it just > went dead. The power led is still working, so I guess > it isn't the power supply. but all I get when I turn it on > is a black screen. what could be the probl

R.I.P. MSX

1999-03-22 Thread quickzand
for some weird reason my msx (philips NMS8250) just died... it worked fine but when I rebooted, it just went dead. The power led is still working, so I guess it isn't the power supply. but all I get when I turn it on is a black screen. what could be the problem, what can I do to fix it and if it

Re: For sale:Snatcher (MSX)

1999-03-22 Thread Ramon Ribas Casasayas
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 13:43:22 +0100, Anne de Raad wrote: >>Hi... >> >>Wat is the status for the moment? >>Je hebt nog geen reactie gegeven op mijn vorige mail >>(Waarin ik een belachelijk laag offer deed :) >>Is die Snatcher nog steeds te koop, enzo ja, voor hoeveel?? >Hm, really?! There is an

Re: TNI MSX Homepage moves (fixed again!)

1999-03-22 Thread Patriek Lesparre
>>Great: >> >>302 Subdomain Not Found >> >>The URL specified does not exist on this server. > >Grrr... I just noticed this! It was working a few hours ago.. And no I >didn't change anything! >I don't understand... Well I fixed it for now... Really weird, I have something to make that 302 errorco

Re: TNI MSX Homepage moves & Free URL redirectioning!

1999-03-22 Thread Patriek Lesparre
>Great: > >302 Subdomain Not Found > >The URL specified does not exist on this server. Grrr... I just noticed this! It was working a few hours ago.. And no I didn't change anything! I don't understand... >But there is really no MSX banzain online on that URL. NO! You have to use >this one: >htt

SCC2 ???

1999-03-22 Thread Nestor Soriano
>>SCC, SCC+, SCC2, EPP port and IR-interface padronization >>are welcome too. >SCC2? I have never heard of it. (!!OO) SCC2? What the hell is this?? 15th MSX users meeting in Barcelona: May 1th, 1999 --

I/O adresses 8280

1999-03-22 Thread Hans Otten
I have been investigating the NMS 8280 video capabilities. My plan is to write a customized Turbo Pascal program for overlaying video with nice graphics generated by the MSX. The command SET VIDEO in Basic is not enough to manipulate the super impose facility, (it is used in the Pascal include fil

Re: MSX2 & memory mappers

1999-03-22 Thread Nestor Soriano
>Nestor's (Konamiman) online version of the MSX-2 technical handbook >clearly reads: Well, at least someone is using my TH transcription, nice to see this! 8-) >minimum, required: 64 K RAM >memory mapper: OPTIONAL Well, actually... I invented this part. X-D Hey, just kidding! >-> the MSX-2 st

Re: 64K VRAM?

1999-03-22 Thread Marco Antonio Simon dal Poz
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Laurens Holst wrote: > >> 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

Re: 64K VRAM?

1999-03-22 Thread Marco Antonio Simon dal Poz
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, jam wrote: > 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

Developer

1999-03-22 Thread Stefano Fronteddu
Hi to all, I've to say that here in Italy there's a guy that is still working in the development of new software for MSX. He's young as programmer, his works are not so good, but if there's someone that want to contact him to help him or to give him suggestions, his address is [EMAIL PROTECTED

R: R: LOG(x) BASIC function

1999-03-22 Thread Stefano Fronteddu
Right, good observation ;-) Thanks, Stefano -Messaggio originale- Da: shevek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Data: lunedì 22 marzo 1999 14.32 Oggetto: Re: R: LOG(x) BASIC function >On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Stefano Fronteddu wrote: > >> Taylors rule says that

Re: Euhhh..? Building MegaRAM

1999-03-22 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 10:26 AM 3/19/99 +0100, you wrote: >remove all parts from the ISA card and select a part of it to cut it in the >shape of a konami-size-cartridge. Easier: take any MSX ROM cartridge. No cutting required, looks better too. Actually, is the size of the connector strips the same for MSX and IS

RE: MegaRAM

1999-03-22 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 02:12 AM 3/19/99 -0003, you wrote: >>> My project with MegaRAM uses a double-bank of mapped >>> registers (16 bytes select ever 8kb block). Why do you need 16-bits registers? Isn't 2MB of MegaRAM enough? >>But we don't know how IDE, SCSI, MoonSound and >>GFX9000 work. >>Are there tec

Re: 1.44 MB. disks?

1999-03-22 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 12:10 PM 3/19/99 +, you wrote: >Take the above loop: > >LOOP: >IN A,(D0h) 12 ticks >RRCA 5 ticks >JR NC,LOOP 8 ticks if skipped, 13 if jumping >RRCA 5 ticks >RET NC6 ticks if skipped, 12 ticks if return

Re: YES! Harddisk is working! But...

1999-03-22 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Arnold Metselaar and a lot of other people (THANKS!) wrote: > Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: > > 1 - Why isn't the terminator needed after all? Did I > > have a bad cable before? (When I got the "SCSI Bus is down // Host > > > self test >failed"-error) Arnold wrote: > Possibly the hardiest also has

Re: 64K VRAM?

1999-03-22 Thread Marco Antonio Simon dal Poz
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, shevek wrote: > On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Marco Antonio Simon dal Poz wrote: > > > For the most part of diskroms, DMA can be in page 1, because they have > > access to FDC through addresses 7FF8h-7FFCh and also BFF8h-BFFCh, and they > > transfer a small routine to F1BFh (or somet

Re: 64K VRAM?

1999-03-22 Thread shevek
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Marco Antonio Simon dal Poz wrote: > For the most part of diskroms, DMA can be in page 1, because they have > access to FDC through addresses 7FF8h-7FFCh and also BFF8h-BFFCh, and they > transfer a small routine to F1BFh (or something like that) that allows a > disk transfer

Radarsoft games on harddisk

1999-03-22 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Hi! Last weekend I tried to run some Radarsoft games from my harddisk. Things like Tempo Typen, Eindeloos, De Grotten van Oberon and Kruiswoord worked, but RADX-8 and Breaker didn't. I also tried to run those last 2 from disk, after booting from the harddisk, so the only difference is that the pr

Re: 64K VRAM?

1999-03-22 Thread Marco Antonio Simon dal Poz
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, shevek wrote: > On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Laurens Holst wrote: > > > What if you want to load code (in Dos) from # using the BDos-routines??? > > Yup, right, you load it in #4000 and then switch it to #. > > I never tried, but as far as I know the DMA can never be in pag

Re: mapperports (was MegaRAM)

1999-03-22 Thread shevek
On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Erik wrote: > So that rumor is solved , you are allowed to read them. > The only problem is that the unused bit's of the registers can return > unexpected data.( always 1 or 0 or the data you did write to it or maybe crap) > You first have to calculate the amount of memory an

Re: 64K VRAM?

1999-03-22 Thread shevek
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Laurens Holst wrote: > What if you want to load code (in Dos) from # using the BDos-routines??? > Yup, right, you load it in #4000 and then switch it to #. I never tried, but as far as I know the DMA can never be in page 1, since that is where the disk-rom is switche

Re: MegaRAM

1999-03-22 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> 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 M

Re: What's the latest MSX ?

1999-03-22 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> Hi MSXers. I want to know what's the latest msx machine made or > if exists some msx in development today. Most of this info can be found on The Ultimate MSX FAQ: http://www.faq.msxnet.org Grtjs, Manuel PS: MSX 4 EVER! (Questions? See: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/) PPS: Visit my homepage at htt

Re: 'advanced' 7 MHz. (was: MegaRAM)

1999-03-22 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> If you have 7 MHz., you have it! > > There's no different boards or ciruits here (well...mine and 7 MHz. > are different!). The turbo circuit (mine OR any 7 MHz.) just runs at > -You have to connected a signal for every single piece of hardware > that requires 3.58 MHz. access: VDP, MSX Aud

Re: TNI MSX Homepage moves & Free URL redirectioning!

1999-03-22 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> Hi all! > > The TNI MSX Homepage has now moved as well. The address is: > http://msx.tni.nl/ Great: 302 Subdomain Not Found The URL specified does not exist on this server. And about: http://msxbanzain.tni.nl/ 302 Subdomain Not Found The URL specified does not exist on this server. But wh

Re: MegaRAM

1999-03-22 Thread Pablo Vasques Bravo-Villalba
jam wrote: > Hola Pablo: Hola! :) >> Interesting, my MSX2 had no mapper and it >> ran without problems almost any japanese >> game. `:) I'm pretty sure it had no mapper, > Have you tested DOS2? ;-) No, I didn't. I still have to play this one, but never got it to work! =)~~ [][]s, `:) Parn

Re: R: LOG(x) BASIC function

1999-03-22 Thread shevek
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Stefano Fronteddu wrote: > Taylors rule says that > > log (1+x) = x - x^2/2 + x^3/3 + + (x^(2n+1)) / (2n+1)! > > so > > log x = (x-1) - (x-1)^2/2 + ... +(-1)^n-1 * ((x-1)^n) / n This is correct, but remember that this is an approximation near x=0 (in the original fo

Re: Mitsubishi ML-G1

1999-03-22 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> Hola Manuel: > > > About ML-G1: > > MB> So, does this machine have 64KB VRAM or not? If so, I'll add it in > MB> the > MB> MSX hardwarelist... (Currently the amount of VRAM of that machine is > MB> unknown!) > > I'm sure it has 64K VRAM and 64K RAM. Ok, now updated in the hardwarelist.

Re: MegaRAM

1999-03-22 Thread shevek
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Alex Wulms wrote: > So, the MSX specifications got > changed and from that moment on, it was not allowed anymore to read the > mapper registers. Do you mean it is not allowed to read them at all, or just not to see what size the mapper has? I made some mapper management ro

Betr.:: Re: Athler Wars 2 cracked on Sony 900 with FM-PAC -

1999-03-22 Thread Eric . Boon
>>You can't detect MSX-MUSIC using I/O ports, because all of its ports are >>write only. >ALL of them? Not even some small status-register??? All of them, not even one small status-register... >:) yeah, stupid, ain't it? :) anyway, do Korean FM-PACs really exist? Yes. Absolutely. I had one onc

Re: What's the latest MSX ?

1999-03-22 Thread Marco Casali
Ciao Mario, > Hi MSXers. I want to know what's the latest msx machine made or > if exists some msx in development today. the last msx is produced by Panasonic. The name is MSX Turbo-R A1 GT. Now there are many project based on the Zilog Z38x... Marco MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send

Re: Booting form Navaxis SCSI

1999-03-22 Thread Marco Casali
Ciao > 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 id number 0 to 6. The > lower versions all can >boot form a scsi device ID 0 to 4. I haven't this version. When it is realized? Where I can find it 4 upgrade mine? G