Re: Re: Overscan trick

1999-05-30 Thread Mark Zellenrath
> > The first line interrupt needs to be at a line before line 192 and it > >should set the LN bit (screen height = 212 lines). The second line > >interrupt should be at a line beyond line 212 and clear the LN bit > >(screen height = 192 lines). > > Shouldn't the second line interrupt be between

MSX MOUSE

1999-05-30 Thread andre . vandun
How does the MSX mouse interface work ? It has something to do with Puls Width after it is triggered by the msx.? Andre van Dun -- A. van Dun -- Tel : +31 (0)76 5721327Fax :

re: Image conversion

1999-05-30 Thread Hans Otten
I just finished after working on it for 8 years the last part of my programs to convert to and from MSX formats and PCX format on the PC. The last part was the conversion to screen 12. Thanks to Maarten ter Huurne and Hans Schoorsma. You can find all (CNVS, MSX12CNV and MSXCNV12) DOS programs on

Re: z80 linux ?

1999-05-30 Thread Werner Augusto Roder Kai
"Giovanni R. Nunes" wrote: > > Nestor, > > > Hey hey, this is very interisting!! This people is working on > > Spectrum emulators, and they speak about a lot of memory problems. > > Let's speak them about MSX? ;-) > > Hey, it is a April 1st joke! See the date! No! Don't tell the tr

Laurens, help... Flaw in the JoyNet specification...

1999-05-30 Thread Werner Augusto Roder Kai
Richard Gerrits wrote: > > >People, I discovered a flaw in the JoyNet specification. > I discovered another one. In the section about connecting a MSX to a PC > there is something like this: > > MSX PC > 1 /FORWARD (IN)--13 SEL (IN) > 2 /BACK (

MegaSCSI SRAM...

1999-05-30 Thread Giovanni R. Nunes
Maarten, > Maybe it has something to do with the pages? Remember that part of > MegaSCSI is a 128K mapper in 8K pages, like used in MegaROM games. ASCII MegaROM 8kb type... :) Really MegaSCSI are two thing in one. One is the SCSI Controller and other the ESERAM Cartridge (one in each

Girls'n'MSX...

1999-05-30 Thread Giovanni R. Nunes
Hola, > Last years in Spain the women users number are being increased very fast, > and now in Spain there is a good number of girls users, I know many > names: (...) In Brazil the relationship girl and computer only began few years ago (~middle of 90's), but are users (Windows, Word and

Re: MegaSCSI Info - part #2

1999-05-30 Thread Patriek Lesparre
>>SET ATTENTION (function #CA) >>Input : none >>Output: none >>Descr.: Make "asaato" [this is a english word written with katakana, but >>I can't identifie the original word, Soriano, do you know this word?] of >>SCSI bus ATN. Sounds like "assert" to me. Greetz, Patriek ,--.

Re: PSG bit resolution (was Re: ReadWav for MSX)

1999-05-30 Thread Leonard Silva de Oliveira
jam wrote: > > Hi, Ricardo!! > > RL> Some Sega Master System games do use the 5.5 bits trick, but the > RL> PSG of the Master isn't a true AY-3-8190. Instead, it is a > > :? It sounds strange to me. I've got a Master System and I've seen a fantastic > AY-3-8910 inside. The sega master

Screen Horrorshow graphics

1999-05-30 Thread jam
Hi, Maarten ! MH> FNANO2 uses multicolor mode, but it only runs on turbo R. MH> Also the MSX1 demos from Lieves!Tuore use multicolor mode. MH> MH> But in my opinion, there is nothing cool about multicolor mode in MH> itself. What is cool, is that you have the speed to do things you MH> coul

PSG bit resolution (was Re: ReadWav for MSX)

1999-05-30 Thread jam
Hi, Ricardo!! RL> Some Sega Master System games do use the 5.5 bits trick, but the RL> PSG of the Master isn't a true AY-3-8190. Instead, it is a :? It sounds strange to me. I've got a Master System and I've seen a fantastic AY-3-8910 inside. RL> SN-something, slower than our one (and a

Re: Flaw in the JoyNet specification...

1999-05-30 Thread Richard Gerrits
>People, I discovered a flaw in the JoyNet specification. I discovered another one. In the section about connecting a MSX to a PC there is something like this: MSX PC 1 /FORWARD (IN)--13 SEL (IN) 2 /BACK (IN)--12 PE (IN) 3 /LEFT

Re: MegaSCSI Info - part #2

1999-05-30 Thread Alex Mitsio Sato
Maarten ter Huurne wrote: > >SET ATTENTION (function #CA) > >Input : none > >Output: none > >Descr.: Make "asaato" [this is a english word written with katakana, but > >I can't identifie the original word, Soriano, do you know this word?] of > >SCSI bus ATN. > > "set" maybe? Is not "set". I'm sur

Software for sale (5)

1999-05-30 Thread Mari van den Broek
Hello, I still have some software I'd like to sell: - Flight Simulator with Torpedo Attack * Rom in original box, with Dutch and English manual * Package has never been opened! * Price: fl. 25,- - Mirai by Xain * Rom in original box, with manual * Price: fl. 25,- - Freekick by Filosoft * Disk

Re: Overscan trick

1999-05-30 Thread john . j
Maarten ter Huurne schrieb: > >Mmm... it seems many MSX users are not much familiar with those hardware > >tricks like overscan and sprite recycling. That would explain those > >sprite-free trends. > > Sprite recycling is known to rather a lot of people. The problem with it is > that you can only

Re: MegaSCSI Info - part #2

1999-05-30 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 11:06 AM 05/29/99 +0900, you wrote: >Direct Acess Function > >Before use a Direct Acess Function you must do a "SPC register bank >mapping" [really I don't know what its mean yet] othewise it may not >work. Maybe it has something to do with the pages? Remember that part of MegaSCSI is a 128K

Re: Bizarre things...

1999-05-30 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 12:34 AM 05/29/99 -0300, you wrote: >> He was trying to set a kind of MSX-ish standard with a kind of >> enhanced Amiga-ish chip set, so the VDP should be the MSX-ish part 8;) > > Yes, but like the (what the name of the Philips console like 3DO?) it > can't survived. CD/I? That one was mark

Re: Overscan trick

1999-05-30 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 03:28 PM 05/28/99 +0200, you wrote: > The first line interrupt needs to be at a line before line 192 and it >should set the LN bit (screen height = 212 lines). The second line >interrupt should be at a line beyond line 212 and clear the LN bit >(screen height = 192 lines). Shouldn't the seco

Re: Overscan trick

1999-05-30 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 08:12 AM 05/29/99 +0200, you wrote: >I'd prefer the 1st method (if it actually works) since I don't like the >idea of changing the adjust register overriding user's preset and leading >to a non centered screen on some monitors. Overriding user's presets also happens using the first method. Fo

Re: Looking for info about MSX-Audio

1999-05-30 Thread Pepijn
At 11:42 30-5-99 +0900, you wrote: >Hi Folks! > >I'm looking for informations about MSX-Audio like its "eletronics >diagram" (I don't know if this is the right word), description or a >Y8950 Application manual. >Do anybody have one? > >At this moment the only information I have about that is the d

Looking for info about MSX-Audio

1999-05-30 Thread Alex Mitsio Sato
Hi Folks! I'm looking for informations about MSX-Audio like its "eletronics diagram" (I don't know if this is the right word), description or a Y8950 Application manual. Do anybody have one? At this moment the only information I have about that is the description of how to expand Sample RAM from