Re: C64 cartridge for MSX. :)

1999-09-04 Thread Antoni Burguera Burguera
jam ha escrit: > But Doom can't run on a current Spectrum, it run on a new Spectrum created in > ?Russia? . Well, I have not much information about spectrum... perhaps it will be better say nothing before every spectrum user on this list reply my misinformed words... 8) but... I think these

Re: C64 cartridge for MSX. :)

1999-09-04 Thread Antoni Burguera Burguera
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrit: > Hi! Uep! > >But Doom can't run on a current Spectrum, it run on a new Spectrum created in > >?Russia? . > > Exactly. The 'soviets' are making new Speccies a lot! Skorpio, Pentagon, > Leningrade... mmm... nice names! Yes, I knew this. Very nice names. BTW,

Re: C64 cartridge for MSX. :)

1999-09-04 Thread Antoni Burguera Burguera
Leon Lander ha escrit: > Wrong, the C64/C128 scene is still alive and kicking and is much bigger > then the MSX scene was or will ever be. If someone wants to argue about > this, please get your facts straight! > There is still new quality C64/C128 hardware being developed, there are > still pa

Re: C64 cartridge for MSX. :)

1999-09-04 Thread Leon Lander
On 04-sep-99 20:48:40 (GMT+2) , Antoni wrote ; > MSX has evolved more than C64. In what way? sound/graphics/interfaces/cpu's etc? In that case you're wrong. Did you ever see a C128D (8bit,1985) equiped with a GraphicBooster/RamLink- 16mb/Warp-8/SCSI + IDE ports/4mb REU/Final Cartridge III/Actio

Re: C64 cartridge for MSX. :)

1999-09-04 Thread Leon Lander
On 04-sep-99 12:43:06 (GMT+2) , Maarten wrote ; > By the way, there was a C64 emulator for the Amiga. It was already there > somewhere in the 80's, long before emulation became as popular as it is > today. yep.. The C64 Package. Some C1541<->Amiga utils still use that kind of cable. Before that

Re: C64 cartridge for MSX. :)

1999-09-04 Thread z-0
Hi! >But Doom can't run on a current Spectrum, it run on a new Spectrum created in >?Russia? . Exactly. The 'soviets' are making new Speccies a lot! Skorpio, Pentagon, Leningrade... mmm... nice names! I don't know specifications, sorry. 256Kb RAM, floppy disk, TechResearch- DOS... and Sincl

C64 cartridge for MSX. :)

1999-09-04 Thread jam
Hola Mark II >> Which are the special things of SID? Great effects? M> M> SID has really powerful programmable filters, complex interchannel M> modulations (including ring) and different oscillator waveforms M> (including variable width pulses) which yield a rich, dynamic sound. Hmmm. It so

C64 cartridge for MSX. :)

1999-09-04 Thread jam
Hi Antoni >> Doom (or was it wolvenstein?) was also done for the Sega Megadrive >> (also known as Genesis). It kinda works, at a reasonable speed so I >> really think AB> AB> Sega Genesis is much better than spectrum. And, if DOOM can run on a AB> spectrum, of course it can be programmed fo

C64 cartridge for MSX. :)

1999-09-04 Thread jam
Hola MkII >> Ok, I don't know C64 but comparing C64 with Turbo-R: >> Well, C64 has poor sound and no much fine performance. My ST plays >> "Amiga MOD files", displays more than 256 colors and plays "digital >> video"... :))) M> M> Where did you get an ST with >256 color capability? Mine

MSX News Weekly Newsletter

1999-09-04 Thread Daniel Jorge Caetano
These are the last week news on MSX Scene. For the latest news, visit MSX News ( http://www.msxnews.cjb.net/ ) --- September 04, 1999 - 20:30GMT, @895 - Fudeba MSX Reviews Page Updated! Fony Demo Disk 2 Review added! Thanx to Arnaud for asking! - Fudeba MSX Reviews Page Updated!

Re: Snes vs Megadrive rectification

1999-09-04 Thread MkII
>>Yeah. So what was the point of that "CPU immense power" then??? > > Well, Some MegaDrive (Genesis) games try to do with 68000 the same >as SNES does with its VDP: rotation, scalling, etc, etc, etc. A fast main >processor can be used to do some calculation... I think that is the >point... Not o

RE: C64 cartridge for MSX. :)

1999-09-04 Thread Jorge
Hey all, >> I think we're kind of drifting from the subject here. The point >> is that someone (don't remember who exactly, sorry) kind of loosely compared a >> TR with a C64 in the first place. Now, the TR might still be MSX (and therefore >> MSX1 compatible) but that's hardly fair isn't it? I t

Re: Z-Machine

1999-09-04 Thread Laurens Holst
> > Well what about a REAL luxaflex-effect? > > (QBasic:) > > > > SCREEN 13 > > CLS > > FOR I = 0 TO 7 > > T = TIMER > > FOR J = 0 TO 16 > > LINE (0, J * 8 + I)-(255, J * 8 + I) > > NEXT > > Lus: IF TIMER < (T + .01) GOTO Lus > > NEXT > > IMHO, it looks better the other proggie. I think the other

Re: Z-Machine

1999-09-04 Thread Laurens Holst
> Laurens Holst ha escrit: > > > Ah. > > Have you played any text adventure? What I described is very common: you > explore the world while drawing a map and reading texts. When you have > drawed all the map, you don't read once and once again texts, just > ignore them. In those cases, any delay i

Re: BDOS

1999-09-04 Thread antalvk
Guys,   Thanks for the answers.. !! I'm now using a standard TPA segment and then transfer the data using LDIR.   Btw.. Laurens: no i'm not working on DOME i'm just doing some things with memman i've always wanted to do ( i like memman for its neat design and i know to little of the memory

Re: C64 cartridge for MSX. :)

1999-09-04 Thread Antoni Burguera Burguera
Jorge ha escrit: > > > AFAIK, MSX2, MSX2+ and MSX-TR are still MSX, and > >are MSX1 compatible. Amiga is not a C64 and is not compatible with it, > >so, a Commodore 64 user can't add Amiga. > > Quite. So what? So what? *this* is *exactly* the point. > I think we're kind of drifting from the s

Re: Z-Machine

1999-09-04 Thread Antoni Burguera Burguera
> Well what about a REAL luxaflex-effect? > (QBasic:) > > SCREEN 13 > CLS > FOR I = 0 TO 7 > T = TIMER > FOR J = 0 TO 16 > LINE (0, J * 8 + I)-(255, J * 8 + I) > NEXT > Lus: IF TIMER < (T + .01) GOTO Lus > NEXT IMHO, it looks better the other proggie. -- /*-

Re: 'the MSX page' update / atualizacao de 'the MSX page'

1999-09-04 Thread Daniel Jorge Caetano
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999 15:51:25 +0200, Laurens Holst wrote: >> That is totally not the issue here. >Well if a fixdisk > Dos1 is available then you can easily adapt disks to >Dos1 so a turboR will then start in Dos1 modus = Z80 modus... >Easy if you've got a program which only works in Z80 mode... >We

Re: C64 cartridge for MSX. :)

1999-09-04 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 08:50 AM 09/04/99 +0200, you wrote: >Amiga is not a C64 and is not compatible with it, >so, a Commodore 64 user can't add Amiga. And if he does, then an MSX >user can add Playstation or Playstation 2 because are created by Sony... Amiga wasn't even designed by Commodore. They bought the desig

Re: 'the MSX page' update / atualizacao de 'the MSX page'

1999-09-04 Thread Daniel Jorge Caetano
On Sat, 04 Sep 1999 13:20:32 +0200, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: >> Weird... Have you tried coping it on a DOS1 disk and boot without DOS2? >Yes, that works ofcourse. I played the game very often from diskette when I >didn't have a harddisk yet. Now I still have to play it from diskette... This

Re: C64 cartridge for MSX. :)

1999-09-04 Thread Daniel Jorge Caetano
On Sat, 04 Sep 1999 09:59:41 +0200, Antoni Burguera Burguera wrote: >> Oh brother... nothing that a degrader or patch wouldn't fix. >Hmmm... very interesting! We are returining to the ancient times where >MSX were compared to Amiga! XD >On the other hand which is the compatibility level of Amiga

RE: C64 cartridge for MSX. :)

1999-09-04 Thread Jorge
> AFAIK, MSX2, MSX2+ and MSX-TR are still MSX, and >are MSX1 compatible. Amiga is not a C64 and is not compatible with it, >so, a Commodore 64 user can't add Amiga. Quite. So what? I think we're kind of drifting from the subject here. The point is that someone (don't remember who exactly, sorry)

Re: Z-Machine

1999-09-04 Thread Antoni Burguera Burguera
Laurens Holst ha escrit: > Ah. Have you played any text adventure? What I described is very common: you explore the world while drawing a map and reading texts. When you have drawed all the map, you don't read once and once again texts, just ignore them. In those cases, any delay in text drawing

Re: 'the MSX page' update / atualizacao de 'the MSX page'

1999-09-04 Thread Laurens Holst
> > Is there still no utility like FIXDISK for Dos1??? To make a disk > > Dos1-compatible??? > > That is totally not the issue here. Well if a fixdisk > Dos1 is available then you can easily adapt disks to Dos1 so a turboR will then start in Dos1 modus = Z80 modus... Easy if you've got a program

Re: Fw: I have a question about JoyNet...

1999-09-04 Thread Laurens Holst
> > > Hi. I am a Computer Engineer at Brazil. > > > I was starting a project like the JoyNet. ( About 2 weeks ago ) > > Good! JoyNet is a child dream! Forever sleeps. Do you think so? JoyNet has a completely different purpose. It is just a standarized cable, because several games used several typ

Re: Snes vs Megadrive rectification

1999-09-04 Thread Laurens Holst
Well my point is actually that the SNES, although quite old, is still a great computer with very good abilities, even 3D in some form... I think it's amazing that a (what is it?) 1992 computer can handle rotating and transparency for such a low prize! While the SEGA, well, I think it looks very ba

Re: Z-Machine

1999-09-04 Thread Laurens Holst
> > Yes, good idea. > > Wow! It is really Laurens saying such a thing? 8) What? WHAT??? Options are always good ideas. > > And by the way, if you decrease the timing to .1 or so (do the effect twice > > per interrupt) it is speeded up a lot. > > Yes. The problem is that, when you have played th

Re: C64 cartridge for MSX. :)

1999-09-04 Thread Leon Lander
On 04-sep-99 11:02:03 (GMT+2) , Antoni wrote ; > What I wanted to say is simply that commodore Amiga isn't a C64, so we > can't add the Amiga to the comparation list between C64 and MSX. Agreed, that was my point also. > On the other hand, somebody speaked about an upgrade of the C64 CPU or > s

Re: 'the MSX page' update / atualizacao de 'the MSX page'

1999-09-04 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> Is there still no utility like FIXDISK for Dos1??? To make a disk > Dos1-compatible??? That is totally not the issue here. > (By the way, FIXDISK is meant to convert Dos1 disks to Dos2, but it also > works perfectly with PC disks!!! So no formatting anymore...) As we discussed before: this is

Re: 'the MSX page' update / atualizacao de 'the MSX page'

1999-09-04 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> Weird... Have you tried coping it on a DOS1 disk and boot without DOS2? Yes, that works ofcourse. I played the game very often from diskette when I didn't have a harddisk yet. Now I still have to play it from diskette... Grtjs, Manuel ((m)ICQ UIN 41947405) PS: MSX 4 EVER! (Questions? See

Re: C64 cartridge for MSX. :)

1999-09-04 Thread Antoni Burguera Burguera
Leon Lander ha escrit: > > A C64 freak couldn't speak of Amiga in this way. He can speak of those > > 'C64 with turbo CPU', but not of Amiga which is a diferent computer. > > Hmm.. this sounds a little bit fussy to me... Well... my english is so bad. Like many other spanish users, at school I o

Re: C64 cartridge for MSX. :)

1999-09-04 Thread Leon Lander
On 04-sep-99 08:50:23 (GMT+2) , Antoni wrote ; > Is this a MSX mailinglist or a C64 mailinglist? Sorry Antoni, but I did read many bogus messages about C64 or (recently) Amiga, and I ain't going to let some people get away with it. > Really, these 'aapje' messages have generated a lot of react

Re: C64 cartridge for MSX. :)

1999-09-04 Thread Antoni Burguera Burguera
Leon Lander ha escrit: > > On 04-sep-99 09:24:30 (GMT+2) , Patriek wrote ; > > > Besides, didn't new Amiga's have lousy compatibility (if any?) with the > > original A500? > > Oh brother... nothing that a degrader or patch wouldn't fix. Hmmm... very interesting! We are returining to the ancien