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> Current BIOS is located in a chip on the mainboard of the MSX or in a
> seperate cartridge. MSX-DOS2 uses a lot of the internal functions of this
> BIOS. Making a new DOS would almost certainly consist in making a new BIOS
> which has to be placed on a chip that can be placed on a cartridge
Gerrit van den Berg wrote:
>I spoke with Fokke Post last Saturday and we discussed recent talks about
>a new MSX-DOS with full FAT 16 support. According to Fokke this is not
>that easy to make, because of the current BIOS limitations.
Then expand the BIOS. MegaSCSI BIOS already uses 24 bit sect
> ld hl,DATA_AREA
> ld de,DATA_AREA+1
> ld (hl),0
> rept 4095
> ldi
> endm
> I did use this loop expansion inside the core of
> Fudebrowser for DOS, but I believe Adriano wrote it out
> when porting to UZIX, due to lack of space. This trick
> is also used
- Original Message -
From: "Manuel Bilderbeek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.msx
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: New MSX-DOS with ASCII sources?
Hello Manuel and others,
> People who are good at this, PLEASE HELP US! I'm afraid I'm
Nestor wrote:
>
> > ld hl,DATA_AREA
> > ld de,DATA_AREA+1
> > ld bc,4096-1
> > ld (hl),0
> > ldir
>
> Yes, it is the faster method to fill a memory area.
It's surely the smallest way to fill a memory area,
but I believe there is a faster method:
ld hl,DATA_AREA
ld de,DA
Tony Bedford wrote:
>I'm hoping to put together a tip sheet with example
>code for newbie Z80 programmers like myself. I'd like
>to include your ideas, do you mind?
Sure, they're not MY ideas. Although I did think of the 32bit shift myself,
I probably didn't invent it first. Any experienced Z80
> ld hl,DATA_AREA
> ld de,DATA_AREA+1
> ld bc,4096-1
> ld (hl),0
> ldir
Yes, it is the faster method to fill a memory area.
In general, for a loop with more than 256 steps, I use the following
code:
ld bc,ITERATIONS
LOOP: push bc
...
(whatever must be done ITERATIONS times)
...
pop bc
dec bc
ld
Patriek,
Thanks very much for all those useful tips.
I'm hoping to put together a tip sheet with example
code for newbie Z80 programmers like myself. I'd like
to include your ideas, do you mind?
Many thanks,
Tony
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
> > How about asking Madge directly?
>
> OK, but I think you have a bigger chance of success if you ask it via a
> company. And in this case it's the company they dealt with in the past.
The chances are exactly the same. You buy the rights of the product, you
get the sources. Never mind if
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