Re: MSX Beurs Bussum...

2000-08-27 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> > >Yes: GhostScript can convert PostScript to PDF. > > >(I think I wrote it a couple of days ago) > > > > Is there a free thinge for Windows as well then? AFAIK all of these are > > sold for big money :( > > GhostScript is also available for Windows. Just see the GhostScript homepage: http://www

Re: Nieuwgroep

2000-08-27 Thread Laurens Holst
> >Sorry gays this messages are for dutch gays. > > Sorry to dissapoint you Willem, but maybe we are all guys (dutch: kerels, > mannen) , but we are surely not all gays (dutch: homo's). > > I'm sure there is a possibility to translate your Dutch message into English > before sending it to the mail

Re: Nieuwgroep

2000-08-27 Thread Mari van den Broek
Hello Willem, [Dutch translation on end of this message!]... >Sorry gays this messages are for dutch gays. Sorry to dissapoint you Willem, but maybe we are all guys (dutch: kerels, mannen) , but we are surely not all gays (dutch: homo's). I'm sure there is a possibility to translate your Dut

Re: Random numbers

2000-08-27 Thread Ricardo Bittencourt
; Fast random number generator using the same method ; as the CDMA used in celullar telephones SEED: DW 0 ; init random seed INIT_SEED:

Re: V9958 MSX2+ upgrade cartridge

2000-08-27 Thread Alex Wulms
] It's possible and the standard has a feature called "secondary MVDP ] adaptor" ] that consists of a secondary I/O port for a expanded VDP. It's port 88h. ] This is how the ACVS MSX2+ cartridge expands the system. This is against the MSX 2+ standard. ASCII officially freezed the port to addres

Re: V9958 MSX2+ upgrade cartridge

2000-08-27 Thread Leonard Silva de Oliveira
Laurens Holst wrote: > > Support for it is also dropped since the MSX2+ which standarized the > location of the VDP at port #98. Thanks for the info ... I guess it was dropped due to lack of usage ... Cya MSXers ... Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/

Re: Good news (V9958 and YM2431 orders)

2000-08-27 Thread Laurens Holst
(I changed the topic because it was totally untrue... It's really all good news discussed here) Some info on how to replace your old v9938 with a v9958 can be found on http://www.hansoranje.demon.nl It's all in Dutch though... Hans Oranje of HPN is willing to convert your MSX for a price of abou

Re: New version of UZIX and its TCP/IP stack

2000-08-27 Thread Alex Wulms
The problem is that I don't have a Sunrise IDE (yet). ] You know what a pain is to write a software to a device that you ] don't own and you can't do debugging all the time you want. ] And closer friends who could test my programs have MegaSCSI. In that case I propose you first

Re: MSX Beurs Bussum...

2000-08-27 Thread Alex Wulms
] At 00:41 27-8-00 +, you wrote: ] >On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, you wrote: ] > > Em sex, 25 ago 2000, Albert Beevendorp escreveu: ] > > > > Sure, but... Keep cool! Unfortunately it isn't everybody who ] > > > >have a Acrobat Reader, a xpdf viewer, or even a GhostView... Despite ] > > > >this,

Re: Random numbers

2000-08-27 Thread Alex Wulms
] At 21:06 26-8-00 +0200, you wrote: ] >Albert Beevendorp wrote: ] > > ld a,r ] > > ld b,a ] > > ld a,r ] > > xor b ] > > ld b,a ] > > ld a,r ] > > xor b ] > > ] > > is a better way to randomize and repeating this more should improve it. ] >I don't think so, because the time it takes to repeat it

Re: V9958 MSX2+ upgrade cartridge

2000-08-27 Thread Alex Wulms
] Hello ] ] It is possible (for Sunrise, L. Padial or other HW developers) to make ] a MSX2+ upgrade cartridge for MSX2 (or even MSX)? Not easy. The MSX2+ VDP is by definition on I/O ports 98/99/9A/9B so you will get I/O conflicts between the cartridge VDP and the build-in VDP. Kind regards, A

Ikeda's MSX PRINT

2000-08-27 Thread Alex Wulms
Dear all, I have added a new issue of Ikeda's MSX PRINT to "The MSX Plaza". This new issue is a report about Den-YU land 2000. It contains more details about the lectures given by Nishi and Yamashita from ASCII corporation, regarding ASCIIs future plans with MSX. It also contains some pointer

Re: Sad news (V9958 and YM2431 orders)

2000-08-27 Thread Laurens Holst
> > Try contacting HPN, MCWF Hardware, CIEL, and other hardware developers. They > > don't read this list but are certainly interested (I think there will be > > quite some animo for modifying MSX 2 to MSX 2+ with little cost). > > Contacting CIEL is a good idea, I can't tell exactly how many, but

Re: MSX online...

2000-08-27 Thread Laurens Holst
> Laurens, it seems that you are already mastering tcpip and how to > implement it on MSX. > Couldn't you help Adriano Cunha with uzix? He's trying to implement > Dialup, but as you > saw, there's still a long way to do. I'm talking without Adriano's > authorization, but I believe > he could use s

Re: V9958 MSX2+ upgrade cartridge

2000-08-27 Thread Laurens Holst
> > > It is possible (for Sunrise, L. Padial or other HW developers) to make > > > a MSX2+ upgrade cartridge for MSX2 (or even MSX)? > > > > I think it's impossible, because the internal V9938 and the V9958 in the > > cartridge would be at the same port address and will interfere with eachother. >

Re: MSX online...

2000-08-27 Thread Laurens Holst
> > As said, I don't expect programming TCP to be easy, but I guess it won't be > > much harder than the PPP protocol (the LCP was a real pain in the ass), also > > since I am now much better documented than a few months ago. > > PPP is a piece of cake. > TCP is a pain in the ass. > Good luck. It

Re: Random numbers

2000-08-27 Thread Laurens Holst
> > Below I pasted an assembly source of a random number generator that uses > an > > algorithm based on multiplication with a prime number and XOR-ing with a > > fixed mask. > > > > In its current form, it produces numbers in the range 0..27, but you can > > easily change that. You have to know t

Re: V9958 MSX2+ upgrade cartridge

2000-08-27 Thread Leonard Silva de Oliveira
Maarten ter Huurne wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, you wrote: > > > It is possible (for Sunrise, L. Padial or other HW developers) to make > > a MSX2+ upgrade cartridge for MSX2 (or even MSX)? > > I think it's impossible, because the internal V9938 and the V9958 in the > cartridge would be at t

Re: Programming external modems with MSX

2000-08-27 Thread Laurens Holst
> *SNIP discussion about PPP, sLIP and PAP* > > I like to add that a lot of (Belgium) ISP are using CHAP, or even worse > MS-CHAP (Again one of the changed standards I was talking about in a > previous mail) Oh, never heard of it. Anyways, my ISP also requests the use of CHAP by default, but if y

Re: Programming external modems with MSX

2000-08-27 Thread Laurens Holst
> > > 3. How to make the modem dial and establish a connection > > send init string: > > ATZ > > OK > > This "OK" isn't sent by the modem itself??? It is. > > and then dial: > > ATDT0123456789 > > CONNECT 115200 > > And also this "CONNECT"? It is sent by the modem (actually the ATDT and the AT

Re: V9958 MSX2+ upgrade cartridge

2000-08-27 Thread Vladimir Malaquias
> Hello > > It is possible (for Sunrise, L. Padial or other HW developers) to make > a MSX2+ upgrade cartridge for MSX2 (or even MSX)? > > I think that these cartridges would be sold out quickly... Here in Brazil we had such cartridges, they where made by Ademir Carchano, in 1990. it could upgra

Re: V9958 MSX2+ upgrade cartridge

2000-08-27 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, you wrote: > It is possible (for Sunrise, L. Padial or other HW developers) to make > a MSX2+ upgrade cartridge for MSX2 (or even MSX)? I think it's impossible, because the internal V9938 and the V9958 in the cartridge would be at the same port address and will interfere wi

Re: MSX Beurs Bussum...

2000-08-27 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, you wrote: > >Yes: GhostScript can convert PostScript to PDF. > >(I think I wrote it a couple of days ago) > > Is there a free thinge for Windows as well then? AFAIK all of these are > sold for big money :( GhostScript is also available for Windows. Bye, Maa

SDOS

2000-08-27 Thread Raymond
Hello, I'm looking for SDOS.INC from Juan Salas. I've looked on FUNET but cannot find it anywhere. If someone has it, please mail me! Thanks! Raymond = Visit the MSX-NBNO Fair site at: www.msx4ever.demon.nl/msx-nbno Problems? contact [EMAIL PROT

V9958 MSX2+ upgrade cartridge

2000-08-27 Thread Ivan Latorre
Hello It is possible (for Sunrise, L. Padial or other HW developers) to make a MSX2+ upgrade cartridge for MSX2 (or even MSX)? I think that these cartridges would be sold out quickly... Greetings Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/

[V9958 (MSX 2+) videochips below 10 euro's!]

2000-08-27 Thread Sander Zuidema
Hello MSX-users! A company called Prime-Tech in Japan still has a large stock of V9958 chips. I volunteered to buy some of these chips and distribute them. The problem is, that I need to order AT LEAST 100 chips at once, and I do not want to run too many risks. So, if you (or someone you know) a

RE: MSX Beurs Bussum...

2000-08-27 Thread Hans Otten
Ghostscript for Windows? -Original Message- From: Albert Beevendorp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 27 August 2000 09:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MSX Beurs Bussum... At 00:41 27-8-00 +, you wrote: >On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, you wrote: > > Em sex, 25 ago 2000, Albert Beevendorp

Re: QIC-80 tape driver for IDE-interface?

2000-08-27 Thread Jon De Schrijder
All depends on the IDE devicetype code of that device. The IDE bios supports ATA (=harddisk), ATAPI direct access (LS120, ZIP100, ZIP250, JAZZ?, ...) and ATAPI-CDROM. Connect the device to your MSX and use IDEFDISK to show the Extended infopage. Look at the 2nd byte. bit76: 0x = ATA 10 =

Re: MSX Beurs Bussum...

2000-08-27 Thread Albert Beevendorp
At 00:41 27-8-00 +, you wrote: >On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, you wrote: > > Em sex, 25 ago 2000, Albert Beevendorp escreveu: > > > > Sure, but... Keep cool! Unfortunately it isn't everybody who > > > >have a Acrobat Reader, a xpdf viewer, or even a GhostView... Despite > > > >this, there are a

Re: Random numbers

2000-08-27 Thread Albert Beevendorp
At 21:06 26-8-00 +0200, you wrote: >Albert Beevendorp wrote: > > ld a,r > > ld b,a > > ld a,r > > xor b > > ld b,a > > ld a,r > > xor b > > > > is a better way to randomize and repeating this more should improve it. >I don't think so, because the time it takes to repeat it is constant so R >will b

msx2.com Update 27-08-2000

2000-08-27 Thread Iwein van Caelenberg
-New links added to the homepage-section.-New manuals online.   I'm working on a new site with technical information about MSX-computershttp://www.hardwareinfo.msx2.comIt's possible to support this site :-)If you have English (service) manuals for all kind of MSX-stuff :- Scan the seperate p