Re: Translations (actually to Laurens)

1999-07-01 Thread Rieks W.Torringa
Hi, About Shalom: >I have a working copy. But it's not a .ROM-file... Will that be a problem? No, that's okay, actually. If you have the game divided in files or something. If you could compress it with PMARC or something and mail it to me, I would be grateful. Bye Rieks _

Runemaster 1 (english)

1999-07-01 Thread Michael Volkov
Hi MSX freaks! You can download english version (with "character menu") from http://www.hrgforce.org/wolfa/runemas1.zip [NOVATEC MSX Crew] [Mike Wolf] MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL

Re: Announcing the first public release of UZIX

1999-07-01 Thread J. Lautenbag
>> It works fine on my Philips 8245 with 128K and with 512K. Nice >> to see some unix on the screen, but it's very slow. Even ls >> may take up to one minute before displaying some results! > > Did you try Linux running from floppy? :) > > Floppy IS slow. I wish I could try it from HD

Vote Msx Games

1999-07-01 Thread DJ TENSO
Hi! Vote for 6 games... 1- King's Valley II (MSX2) 2- Risk II (MSX2) 3- Head over Hells (MSX1) 4- Magical Kid Wiz (MSX1) 5- Hype (MSX1) 6- Quimpl (MSX2) CHAO -- La musica HOUSE, TECHNO, MAKINA, etc y los ordenadores M S X lo mejor. :-D

Re: Announcing the first public release of UZIX

1999-07-01 Thread Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha
Jasper, > It works fine on my Philips 8245 with 128K and with 512K. Nice > to see some unix on the screen, but it's very slow. Even ls > may take up to one minute before displaying some results! Did you try Linux running from floppy? :) Floppy IS slow. Yeah, a c

Re: Announcing the first public release of UZIX

1999-07-01 Thread J. Lautenbag
> Anyway. There is no reason for UZIX hanging up because you have >512k RAM or more. It works fine on my Philips 8245 with 128K and with 512K. Nice to see some unix on the screen, but it's very slow. Even ls may take up to one minute before displaying some results! But it really is a very

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-07-01 Thread Alex Wulms
] > Bill Gates tried to install a scanner in Windows 98, during the worldwide ] > presentation of this new version. Result: blue screeen and reset button. ] ] Ever occurred to you that Windows was still in Beta-stage then? It was the ] first time it was showed to public! It indeed was the officia

Re: Direct sector access

1999-07-01 Thread Alex Wulms
] >> Utility. Something to read/write/show/edit bootsector/FATs/DIRs etc. ] >> ] >> I'm about to write one but don't like to reinvent the wheel. ] > ] >It already exists, it's called DiskView 2.1, and it's nearly perfect! ] ] Oops! But it seems it cannot write a boot sector out of a file. I need

Re: Announcing the first public release of UZIX

1999-07-01 Thread Alex Wulms
] ] Hello, MSXers from all over the world. ] ] I would like to present you a new operating system for MSX. It's ] called UZIX. Cool! I just downloaded it and tried it on my MSX turbo R. It works! Great to see that Unix prompt on my TV. Kind regards, Alex Wulms -- Alex Wulm

Re: ML questions..

1999-07-01 Thread twz
yow... Laurens Holst wrote: > Ofcourse it will work on every MSX. But maybe you could > just output your > screens directly to the VRAM??? It's a lot faster than > using the > BIOS-routines... I never use BIOS routines.. And did I say I used BIOS $a2 (ChPut) to write things on screen?? That

Re: Announcing the first public release of UZIX

1999-07-01 Thread Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha
Manuel, > > > I know you have top compiled, but I wondered how long it took to get it > > > compiled! > > In my 5x86 100MHz, about 1 minute... > I mean, including adaptions for Hi-Tech C. So top is not a good example. It was written from scratch. The time to port a

Re: Announcing the first public release of UZIX

1999-07-01 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> > get it via my MSX page (http://www.sci.kun.nl/marie/home/manuelbi/msx.html > > Thanks. No problem! (I'll now really go home!) > > I know you have top compiled, but I wondered how long it took to get it > > compiled! > > In my 5x86 100MHz, about 1 minute... I mean, including a

Re: Announcing the first public release of UZIX

1999-07-01 Thread Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha
Manuel, > It's now online: http://www.sci.kun.nl/marie/home/manuelbi/soft/scsi.zip, or > get it via my MSX page (http://www.sci.kun.nl/marie/home/manuelbi/msx.html Thanks. > I know you have top compiled, but I wondered how long it took to get it > compiled! In my 5x8

Re: Announcing the first public release of UZIX

1999-07-01 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> > > Give me detailed information about programming Novaxis, and it > > > will be supported when MegaSCSI/IDE direct access will be made. > > I can send you the manual in WP-format, Gert de Boom sent it to me once. > > Nice. > But if it's in dutch, I'll have _much_ problem... It's

Re: Announcing the first public release of UZIX

1999-07-01 Thread Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha
Manuel, > > Give me detailed information about programming Novaxis, and it > > will be supported when MegaSCSI/IDE direct access will be made. > I can send you the manual in WP-format, Gert de Boom sent it to me once. Nice. But if it's in dutch, I'll have _much_ prob

Re: Announcing the first public release of UZIX

1999-07-01 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> Give me detailed information about programming Novaxis, and it > will be supported when MegaSCSI/IDE direct access will be made. I can send you the manual in WP-format, Gert de Boom sent it to me once. > > > > And, what format does it use on diskdrives? Compatible with Unix or MSX -DOS ?

Re: Announcing the first public release of UZIX

1999-07-01 Thread Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha
Manuel, > > MegaSCSI users can write the demo disk-image in a extended > > partition, select it at A: drive and boot UZIX without problems. > What about Novaxis? I don't know Novaxis. I know MegaSCSI. MegaSCSI can simulate floppies in extended partitions. That's why UZIX wor

Re: Announcing the first public release of UZIX

1999-07-01 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> > I understand, but I mean: does it work if a MSX-DOS2 cartridge is inserted? > > Yes. It ignores MSX-DOS2. Nice if you want to use harddisk, without having any MSX-DOS! > > Can it work with harddisks as well? > > MegaSCSI users can write the demo disk-image in a extended > parti

Re: Announcing the first public release of UZIX

1999-07-01 Thread Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha
Manuel, > > > > I would like to present you a new operating system for MSX. It's > > > > called UZIX. > > > Whoow! This sounds real cool! I hope you will continue with this > > > project! I'll try to test it real soon. Does it work with MSX-DOS2? > I understand, but I mean: does

Re: Announcing the first public release of UZIX

1999-07-01 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> > > Manuel, > > > > I would like to present you a new operating system for MSX. It's > > > called UZIX. > > Whoow! This sounds real cool! I hope you will continue with this > > project! I'll try to test it real soon. Does it work with MSX-DOS2? > > Of course not! > UZIX i

Re: Announcing the first public release of UZIX

1999-07-01 Thread Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha
Manuel, > > I would like to present you a new operating system for MSX. It's > > called UZIX. > Whoow! This sounds real cool! I hope you will continue with this > project! I'll try to test it real soon. Does it work with MSX-DOS2? Of course not! UZIX is a new OPERATI

Win95 vs OS2/w last word

1999-07-01 Thread andre . vandun
This is my last answer about w95 vs os2/warp. first, os2/warp works perfect after you have learned how to work with it. second in many industries and print-studio's os2/warp is used for applications which need to be trusted on. (so make your own conclusion.) And for w95, it's good to have a compe

Re: Mat Attack

1999-07-01 Thread Laurens Holst
> > I hope someone like MSX-NBNO will distribute it in Holland! (Mari, > > Maico? Are you reading this?) > > I allready replyed on ypur message, but I will do it again. > > The price of the Mouse-Mat's are 9 Euro's (HFL 20,07). We can get a discount > of 1,75 Euro, but still the price is high ( 7,

Re: VDP memory write timings

1999-07-01 Thread Laurens Holst
> I have to write a gfx data burst to VRAM as quickly as possible while the > display, and possibly sprites are enabled. > > I've noticed data corruption when using quick transfer loops (via POP) that > disappears when display is disabled. > > Is there an accurate way to determine required VDP tim

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-07-01 Thread Laurens Holst
> >If Windows wasn't good and easy-to-use then it wouldn't have been installed > >on (almost) every new PC. > > Windows sounds nice, but it's really terribly-written, and unpredictable. Then you write a multitasking OS which support so much hardware! > >> >But, I agree BeOS is a nice OS... Espe

Re: R: web browser for msx

1999-07-01 Thread Laurens Holst
> > > Hmmm, think of this, there are sony digital camera's that store your > > > pictures directly to floppy disk, compressed in JPEG. > > > Those camera's use a chip, capable of realtime JPEG compression. I don't > > > know about decompression, I haven't had the opportunity to examine the > > > c

Re: ML questions..

1999-07-01 Thread Laurens Holst
> hey ppl. > > As it is almost vacation (yeah, no school for a while!) I started codin' on SCC-BLAFFER 2.0.. > > But, I have a few questions.. > > 1. When I try to hide the cursor (for use with BIOS routine chget ($9f)) I locate the cursor at 1,25 > (x,y) -> That's out of the screen as I use 24 li

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-07-01 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: > > Jon de Schrijder wrote: > Hi, I've received this mail from Japan. THIS IS BIG NEWS!!! > > -- Forwarded message -- > Yesterday, some MSX Figure leaders meet with Kazuhiko Nishi and ASCII > Corp. And I recived a telephone from them. Because

Re: Guardic practice mode

1999-07-01 Thread J. Lautenbag
>I may be very well mistaken, but if >I remember well, you should tap >left-right-left-right a few times >until an extra menu appears. I hope >it works for you. It worked for me, >but I don't remember how... =) Your memory works very good. After just six keystrokes (L-R-L-R-L-R) the practice mode

Re: Guardic practice mode

1999-07-01 Thread Pablo Vasques Bravo-Villalba
"J. Lautenbag" wrote: > "Secret functions > In addition, the practice mode in which you can play on all > levels is also hidden. The clue is: when the title screen > is displayed." I may be very well mistaken, but if I remember well, you should tap left-right-left-right a few times until an

Re: Direct sector access

1999-07-01 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> >> I'm about to write one but don't like to reinvent the wheel. > > > >It already exists, it's called DiskView 2.1, and it's nearly perfect! > > Oops! But it seems it cannot write a boot sector out of a file. I need > something like: > > FUDECOPY > and/or: FUDECOPY <# of secto

Re: Announcing the first public release of UZIX

1999-07-01 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> I would like to present you a new operating system for MSX. It's > called UZIX. > What is UZIX? > UZIX is a UNIX implementation for MSX. > UZIX is based on UZI written by Douglas Braun and ported to PC > and MSX by Archi Schekochikhin and me, Adriano C. R. da Cunha. >

Re: HomePage Updated

1999-07-01 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> Hello, > > Today I have updated my HomePage again. > - Review MSX-fair Tilburg '99 added Ehm, where? I only see TB'98 and ZV'98! > I also like to put a MSX-link page to it, but therefore I need links to = > put on the page. Later on I also hope to create a page with some nice = > downloads.

RE: VDP memory write timings

1999-07-01 Thread Boon, Eric
>I have to write a gfx data burst to VRAM as quickly as possible while the >display, and possibly sprites are enabled. >I've noticed data corruption when using quick transfer loops (via POP) that >disappears when display is disabled. >Is there an accurate way to determine required VDP timings an

Guardic practice mode

1999-07-01 Thread J. Lautenbag
For years I've been wondering how to enter the practice mode in Guardic. I know it's there, because the game manual reads: "Secret functions Does this game have any secret functions? Of course, there are many of them. Find them while playing the game! In addition, the practice mode in which y

RE: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-07-01 Thread Antoni Burguera Burguera
] I think that Windows architecture is just too complicated -- there are ] too many compatibility issues. And Microsoft writes generally quite ] bug-free software, comparing to others (Oracle). I can't agree. Oracle 7.x on unix is rather stable. We run 7x24 production >systems with oracle at th

Re: Mat Attack

1999-07-01 Thread Maurizio
Kk2 wrote: >Don't miss http://www.fut.es/~xrc/MSX/MSXMAT21.HTM and let your mouse rest >in peace. > >Worldwide distributors welcome. > >Kiss you lot. > > Mk2 > Matra Computer The best mouse pad than ever!!! By the way... there is a nice magazine :P near the mat... What is it??? Ciao