when are the Birthdays of MSX ?

2000-06-20 Thread Werner Augusto Roder Kai
Hi, Does anybody know what are the official dates of: MSX release, MSX 2 release, MSX 2+ release and MSX Turbo-R release ? Greets Werner MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Info concerning 'new MSX'

2000-06-20 Thread ag0ny
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Ricardo Bittencourt Vidigal Leitao wrote: > > Maybe a greater advance in the new MSX graphics scheme would be RAM-mapped > > VRAM (it is VRAM being directly accesible by the CPU). > > This was already done by Ademir Carchano and it's called ADVRAM. > More info i

Important update to The MSX Plaza

2000-06-20 Thread Alex Wulms
Dear all, If you are living in Europe, you should pay a visit to The MSX Plaza. It contains a very important message on the main page. Kind regards, Alex Wulms -- Visit The MSX Plaza (http://www.inter.nl.net/users/A.P.Wulms) for info on XelaSoft, Merlasoft, Quadrivium, XSA Disk images, the M

Re: Info concerning 'new MSX'

2000-06-20 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Alex Wulms wrote: > It does not work like this. At least, not how I interprete it. I think > the situation is as follows: > 1) ESE *will* develop a V9938 or V9958 clone by reverse-engineering the > current MSX VDP and ofcourse they make a few enhancements to make it a > bette

Re: Info concerning 'new MSX'

2000-06-20 Thread Alex Wulms
] Couldn't it be the other way around? That would make much more sense to me: ] ] ESE is developing a new VDP now, and -in parallel- are in discussion with ] Yamaha about transferring the copyrights. the correct way to go about ] would have been *first* reach an agreement with Yamaha and *then*

Re: Info concerning 'new MSX'

2000-06-20 Thread Ricardo Bittencourt Vidigal Leitao
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, ag0ny wrote: > Maybe a greater advance in the new MSX graphics scheme would be RAM-mapped > VRAM (it is VRAM being directly accesible by the CPU). This was already done by Ademir Carchano and it's called ADVRAM. More info is in: http://www.lsi.usp.b

Re: Info concerning 'new MSX'

2000-06-20 Thread ag0ny
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Albert Beevendorp wrote: > >Maybe a greater advance in the new MSX graphics scheme would be RAM-mapped > >VRAM (it is VRAM being directly accesible by the CPU). In this way, all > >VRAM access by the CPU would be MUCH faster: just put the value you want > >where you want, ins

Re: Info concerning 'new MSX'

2000-06-20 Thread Albert Beevendorp
At 19:50 20-6-00 +0200, you wrote: >On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Mauricio Braga wrote: > > > It will be nice if this advanced VDP could be full compatible with the > v9958, > > including > > timing, etc, and extending it by using screen13,14, etc... with millions of > > colours and resolutions > > like 6

Re: Info concerning 'new MSX'

2000-06-20 Thread ag0ny
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Mauricio Braga wrote: > It will be nice if this advanced VDP could be full compatible with the v9958, > including > timing, etc, and extending it by using screen13,14, etc... with millions of > colours and resolutions > like 640 x 480 and others. Anyone knows what ESE is plan

Re: Info concerning 'new MSX'

2000-06-20 Thread ag0ny
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Rieks W. Torringa wrote: > Maybe it is necessary to point out that ASCII as a matter of fact IS a > company and I think it is generally known that companies want to make > profits. It's very unrealistic to think that a professional company would > invest an amount of money

Out to #FC-#FF

2000-06-20 Thread David Heremans
Is there some page which could tell me how all the MSX version react on an in a,(#FF). I know it shouldn't be done but I'm trying to change a program... David Heremans -- .--. |o_o | |:_/ | "One difference between SuSE and Red Hat is that the // \ \ former operates in a c

Re: Info concerning 'new MSX'

2000-06-20 Thread Mauricio Braga
"Rieks W. Torringa" wrote: > >What's the use for making a clone ? > > > >Is it because Yamaha can't make them anymore ? > > It's not a clone, it's an advanced VDP, as far as I know. And by having ESE > developing it, things will probably become less expensive and also the > copyright-part would g

Re: games

2000-06-20 Thread Pablo Vasques Bravo-Villalba
Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro wrote: (...) > Ah, yes, nice... But I think my RS-232 isn´t very good, it hangs my MSX > when I try run the fossil-driver... Maybe if you get a newer fossil... :P~ Sorry, I couldn't resist it. ^^ []s, -Parn (ICQ#1693182) /| | | |\ \| ___ |/ http://parn.

Re: PLEASE PAY ATTENTION! IMPORTANT!

2000-06-20 Thread Eric . Boon
RJP wrote [Eric was a naughty boy and wrote blahblah in *dutch*] >Please, I want mustard too. And don´t forget my soft-drink... > >;-) Pepsi or Coke? ;-) I misaddressed that mail, I already said I was sorry. I'll be a good boy and and behave, ok? :-) Eric (Yuck, mustard o

Re: Info concerning 'new MSX'

2000-06-20 Thread Eric . Boon
Hello all, >>> The fact is, that right now ESE Artists' Factory uses a software >>> technology like FPGA and is advancing the development of a new VDP. >>> If this succeeds, it will become possible to put this new VDP into >>> the new MSX. However, if there are negotiations going on before the