Re: SEQUENCERS and TRACKERS

2000-04-27 Thread QUICKzAND
- Original Message - From: Jose Angel Morente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 3:50 AM Subject: SEQUENCERS and TRACKERS Pablo Vasques Bravo-Villalba soltó algo así como: > What do you mean by a sequencer? I don't think A CUBASE-style program. >

Re: AB180-20 Z80,Z180 compatible microprocessor

2000-04-27 Thread Daniel Jorge Caetano
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 03:44:43 +, Maarten ter Huurne wrote: >> Unfortunately, AB180 is only 20MIPS when executing NOPs... (-: Just >> kidding. It just achieve 20MIPS when running one-byte-only instructions. >> There are some, but they are only 256... something like 25% of the >> total instruct

Re: Canon V-20 MSX1 does support all Cartrides?

2000-04-27 Thread Jose Angel Morente
Micha L. Rieser soltó algo así como: > Is it possible, that a Canon V-20 MSX1-Computer > cannot support konami's Nemesis 2 or konami's > Sky Jaguar? Or is the MSX1 broken? I have played Nemesis 2 on a Canon V-20. Maybe your MSX is broken. Sorry. Greetings, Jose Angel Morente ([EMAIL PROTECTE

SEQUENCERS and TRACKERS

2000-04-27 Thread Jose Angel Morente
Pablo Vasques Bravo-Villalba soltó algo así como: > What do you mean by a sequencer? I don't think A CUBASE-style program. > tracker-style programs are bullshit. Many of > them are even used for professional works. My Trackers are used only to make dance music and similar. > first contact wit

Re: AB180-20 Z80,Z180 compatible microprocessor

2000-04-27 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Daniel Jorge Caetano wrote: > Unfortunately, AB180 is only 20MIPS when executing NOPs... (-: Just > kidding. It just achieve 20MIPS when running one-byte-only instructions. > There are some, but they are only 256... something like 25% of the > total instructions. They also

Re: AB180-20 Z80,Z180 compatible microprocessor

2000-04-27 Thread Daniel Jorge Caetano
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 21:16:38, Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro wrote: >>Z180: 33MHz, don't know about MIPS. > Well, everybody knows that more Megahertz doesn´t mean to be faster. But >20 MIPS... It´s very nice, 20 million instructions per second... =) Unfortunately, AB180 is only 20MIPS when exec

Re: Building the VGA doublescan module

2000-04-27 Thread Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro
At 02:39 PM 4/26/00 +0200, you wrote: >Someone posted a question about the Novatec doublescan module (an RGB to VGA >converter which could display flicker free interlaced screens) some time >ago. I've asked Egor Voznessenski of Novatec about this and his reply was: > >> Doublescanner was built in

Re: AB180-20 Z80,Z180 compatible microprocessor

2000-04-27 Thread Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro
At 03:38 AM 4/26/00 -0700, you wrote: >Let's just stop the discussion about the 'fantastic >features' of this chip, because it may be fast but it >is totally incompatible with MSX and therefor can not >be used. For the same reason, the Z382 (although (...) > >So there is NO WAY this chip is a poss

Re: AB180-20 Z80,Z180 compatible microprocessor

2000-04-27 Thread Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro
My 2 pence... >> In addition to the recent "CPU discussion", I want to point at the >AB180-20 >> microprocessor made by AB-Semicon. (...) >> * 20MHz, 20 MIPS > >Z180: 33MHz, don't know about MIPS. Well, everybody knows that more Megahertz doesn´t mean to be faster. But 20 MIPS

Re: SME3 (was: Z180 vs. Z380 blah blah)

2000-04-27 Thread Alex Wulms
] That's FUDEBA! :) But sounds great, too... What ] do you think on creating an intermediate, compressed ] file format? Maybe this way the tracker could be ] a lot faster. I have considered this option but there are too many caveats. Though, I do use some kind of partly decoded format in-memory.

Re: SME3 (was: Z180 vs Z380)

2000-04-27 Thread Alex Wulms
] I'll check out SME later. Actually good that Alex said it would be on his homepage ](which ] I guess means that it will be PD), otherwise I couldn't copy your original disk... ];-) SME will become postcardware when I put it on the web (I want to receive a postcard of the people that use it f

Re: Z180 vs Z380 (was Re: ACE 002 and ADVRAM...? New MSX?)

2000-04-27 Thread Alex Wulms
] > ] I must have missed the boat here. What's ] > ] SME3? What's its target platform? ] ] OUCH! Because of my terrible stupidity I had forgotten that I indeed already ] have a description of SME3 in the MSX-Music section of the FAQ... I don't ] remember if Alex wrote this, but I do think so..

Canon V-20 MSX1 does support all Cartrides?

2000-04-27 Thread Micha L. Rieser
Hi folk! Is it possible, that a Canon V-20 MSX1-Computer cannot support konami's Nemesis 2 or konami's Sky Jaguar? Or is the MSX1 broken? Thank you Regards, Micha MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without th

Konami Cartrides

2000-04-27 Thread Micha L. Rieser
Hi Folk! I have an Athletic Land-cartride without manual and without box and a Goonies-cartride with manual and box to let. But I don't sell it. Just change with other cartrides. Please contact me by email. Regards, Micha -- micha rieser tel +41 1

Realms of Adventure

2000-04-27 Thread Antoni Burguera Burguera
Which type of game is "Realms of Adventure"? A DragonSlayer6-like RPG or it has any special feature? -- Antoni Burguera i Burguera - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rol, fantasia i ciència ficció a 9D-La Novena Dimensió http://pagina.de/9d --- "No hi ha un perquè. Neteja la teva ment de preguntes. Llavors c

Re: Cartridge ROM's

2000-04-27 Thread Eric . Boon
>> (Manuel! Is this a topic for the FAQ?) > >It is, if: >1) Somebody defines a category for it (again Misc???) Category: 'Conquering MSX-BASIC' paragraph: 'Hybrid programming' >2) somebody sends me Q&A's... Q: Where can I *safely* put my ML programs? A: blahblah - CLEAR 256, &hD000 - play bu

Re: Z180 vs Z380 (was Re: ACE 002 and ADVRAM...? New MSX?)

2000-04-27 Thread Pablo Vasques Bravo-Villalba
Jose Angel Morente wrote: > What about writing a REAL music SEQUENCER. > No tracker-style nor similar bullshit. What do you mean by a sequencer? I don't think tracker-style programs are bullshit. Many of them are even used for professional works. My first contact with PC music was with a se- quen

Re: Z180 vs Z380 (was Re: ACE 002 and ADVRAM...? New MSX?)

2000-04-27 Thread Jose Angel Morente
> music as well. (At least I did a few years ago ^^;) I've had several ideas > over the last few years and you know, I may even decide to write the > perfect music composing tool! :) What about writing a REAL music SEQUENCER. No tracker-style nor similar bullshit. For example, the sequencer inc

Re: S-VHS connector

2000-04-27 Thread Jose Angel Morente
> Hello Jelou! > What are the uses that has the S-VHS connector of Panasonic > FS-A1WSX and FS-A1GT computers? S-VIDEO connector is very popular in Japan, because it is included in most S-VHS magnetoscopes and expensive TVs (Panasonic, Sony, etc.) So you can record video-tapes from MSXturboR i

Re: Cartridge ROM's

2000-04-27 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> (Manuel! Is this a topic for the FAQ?) It is, if: 1) Somebody defines a category for it (again Misc???) 2) somebody sends me Q&A's... Grtjs, Manuel ((m)ICQ UIN 41947405) PS: MSX 4 EVER! (Questions? See: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/) PPS: Visit my home page at http://bilderbeek.cjb.net/

Re: Cartridge ROM's

2000-04-27 Thread Eric . Boon
>yesterday i managed to get really frustrated with my MSX as >it would keep corrupting my floppies and give me lots of >errors. I was writing to addresses E000h -> EFFFh... My >assembler/basic books 'told' me that was correct after using >a "CLEAR 200,&HDFFF".. WRONG! Your books could also ha

Cartridge ROM's

2000-04-27 Thread Floris 'Tamama' van Gog
Holas, yesterday i managed to get really frustrated with my MSX as it would keep corrupting my floppies and give me lots of errors. I was writing to addresses E000h -> EFFFh... My assembler/basic books 'told' me that was correct after using a "CLEAR 200,&HDFFF".. WRONG! It seems my external dis

Re: SME3 (was: Z180 vs Z380)

2000-04-27 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> > But it will have to be adapted for the specs of the chips! > > Yes, of course, but that's mainly a question of instrument definition. > Which is much lesswork that doing the whole process over and over from > the start... Yes, of course. > > hah! 1/2 an hour? 5 minutes! > > Pf, ok. :-) >

Re: SME3 (was: Z180 vs Z380)

2000-04-27 Thread Eric . Boon
>> are not chip specific (IIRC), so you can use the same string definition >> for both SCC and PSG and MUSIC and AUDIO... > > But it will have to be adapted for the specs of the chips! Yes, of course, but that's mainly a question of instrument definition. Which is much lesswork that doing the

Re: SME3 (was: Z180 vs Z380)

2000-04-27 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> are not chip specific (IIRC), so you can use the same string definition for > both SCC and PSG and MUSIC and AUDIO... But it will have to be adapted for the specs of the chips! > > Still wanted contributions for the FAQ, mainly about SCSI-on-MSX... (In > Q&A > > format of course!) > > Heheh:

Re: SME3 (was: Z180 vs Z380)

2000-04-27 Thread Eric . Boon
[the use of using 1 program for all music chips] > I think you're right indeed! This IS usefull, since it is quite easy to > transform your melodies from one chip to another. But still, most people don't > like to do double (or triple or quadruple) work... And that's exactly what you can a

Re: SME3 (was: Z180 vs Z380)

2000-04-27 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> I don't think it's stupid, only weird. :] And > I guess this manual is Dutch... :) Which is > actually very close to Greek to me. ^^ I don't remember, but I guess it is, since Alex said the program itself is in Dutch! :-) > > if you support all musical devices, what do you want to do as compo

Re: Z180 vs Z380 (was Re: ACE 002 and ADVRAM...? New MSX?)

2000-04-27 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> ] I must have missed the boat here. What's > ] SME3? What's its target platform? OUCH! Because of my terrible stupidity I had forgotten that I indeed already have a description of SME3 in the MSX-Music section of the FAQ... I don't remember if Alex wrote this, but I do think so... SO Alex: I

Re: "small" hardware problem ?

2000-04-27 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Edwin Ploegsma wrote: > Furthermore I experimented with different floppies (to see if the problem was > not related to one particular disk), well no luck. Tried several. Then I put a PC- > diskdrive (DD) in the other position (B:), which also didnt help. inserting disks > i

ORCAD

2000-04-27 Thread andre . vandun
Is there someone who can supply me with a copy of Orcad V9 suite ? greetz andre MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes) in the body (not the subject) of the message. Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: SME3 (was: Z180 vs Z380)

2000-04-27 Thread Eric . Boon
Parn: [About SME3] >And I guess this manual is Dutch... :) Which >is actually very close to Greek to me. ^^ Yet, the differences betwwen greek and dutch are quite obvious: we use a different characterset :-P Eric (oh damn, I need a weekend) MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, s