On Thursday 12 September 2002 19:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Correct it seems to take a long time for my message to arive to the list :
You are posting from multiple addresses that are not subscribed to the list.
Therefore your postings are helt for approval. I usually check those every
eve
On Wednesday 04 September 2002 16:16, Cesar Cardoso wrote:
> This project aims to make MSX-centered themes for the GNOME desktop
> environment. GNOME runs on Linux, *BSD and Solaris operating systems.
> The project's homepage is at http://msxtheme.sourceforge.net, and
> already there is themes fo
On Sunday 01 September 2002 00:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm not saying that all new soft should be developped for Turbo-R with 1MB
> RAM and hard disk. But just to place in a reasonable mid term: it still
> seem a sort of "sin" to develop programs with somewhat high hardware or
> just memor
On Monday 26 August 2002 22:32, robert wilting wrote:
> I think you are right. Since Hotmail automatically chooses rich text.
> I hope that setting the rich text editor of hotmail off will help if not
> then I might put the mailinglist on a different adress which will solve the
> problems.
This i
On Monday 26 August 2002 20:14, kuipers wrote:
> I did not recieve the mail in html crap...
Probably you did, but your Outlook processed it like HTML so it was invisible
to you. I did see the HTML.
> From: "Daniel Caetano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > There is absolutely NO html here. If it's arr
On Sunday 18 August 2002 17:49, Snout wrote:
> Wow, how did this happen? I sent this one 6 days ago!
>From the mail headers:
Received: from mail7-sh.home.nl (mail7.home.nl [213.51.128.26])
by skynet.stack.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74A624018
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Hi,
The list of subscribed addresses is only accessible to members. This should
stop address harvesters from getting your address from the web. If you are
more paranoid than that, you can choose to have your address not shown in
this list, by configuring your personal settings (see previous ma
Hi,
We're running on GNU Mailman now and it seems to be working fine so far. I
really like its web interface, it's more convenient than the e-mail
administration of Majordomo. Mailman also has much more finegrained control
over the list.
>From now on only subscribed members can post to the li
On Tuesday 16 July 2002 00:57, The MSX Files wrote:
> MGN? What's that?
> MGN is the MSX Gaming Network, a site devoted to games being developed for
> MSX! Only recent games will show on the site.
That's a good initiative!
Maybe it's a good idea not only to highlight the games being developed,
On Thursday 11 July 2002 21:33, David Heremans wrote:
> I asked them to remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from their list. I wonder what they
> are going to reply :-)
I sent them the same request. I also suggested that sending spam is not a good
way to improve your brand image. Usually spam is sent by h
On Sunday 30 June 2002 16:36, Patriek Lesparre wrote:
> Maarten ter Huurne wrote:
> >I wouldn't recommend using assembly unless you absolutely need it, to get
> >maximum performance or to get maximum control over the system.
>
> Spoken like a true PC-programmer :/
I
On Sunday 30 June 2002 15:46, Frederik Boelens wrote:
> Why not just make the game in assembly in stead of TP?.
> Imho this seems much more diffecult, and with assembly you've got a lot
> more oppurtunities ;)
Programming in a higher level language is much easier, because you have things
like t
On Tuesday 25 June 2002 00:49, d-fader wrote:
> Well.. If it can't be settled, then we just have to settle it for
> ourselves, I think almost anyone with a 24h inet connection is willing to
> serve the community...
> I even can run a spam-filtered-server that'll forward the messages sent to
> me
On Monday 24 June 2002 23:56, eMeSiX wrote:
> This mail is for the people who mantain the MSX List
That is me and Wynke. I'm speaking only for myself in this mail.
> First: Kill *ALL* HTML mail
Filtering out "" should kill most HTML, but maybe not
100%. Note however that not all HTML mail is
At 13:37 23-6-02 +0200, you wrote:
> > What do you think about this cartridge?
> > http://www.msx.ch/sunformsx/products/hardware/ideflash.html
> > A great idea, isn't it?
>
>Yes, some people I know bought it on the fair in Tilburg last April. Works
>nice, have allready bought several different C
On Saturday 22 June 2002 02:18, I wrote:
> Seriously, I don't know exactly what is happening. Looking at the headers,
> the mail was delivered Wednesday by the MSX mailinglist to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] For some reason a mail server at
> multiweb.nl/quicknet.nl (is that the same thing?) decided to se
On Saturday 22 June 2002 09:17, Albert Beevendorp wrote:
> At 01:50 22-6-02 +0200, you wrote:
> >Am I the only one receiving ooold mailinglist posts twice?
>
> For some strange reason, I am missing posts that I do get replies on. So I
> have it exactly the other way round :/
I cannot find you
On Saturday 22 June 2002 01:50, Sander Zuidema wrote:
> Am I the only one receiving ooold mailinglist posts twice?
There weren't enough answers yet, so we decided to repost every message...
;)
Seriously, I don't know exactly what is happening. Looking at the headers, the
mail was delivered
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 13:32, Roel de Wit wrote:
> Hmmm I've tried the standard Unix version of fMSX.. It compiled okay but
> said it couldn't open a window in X-Window...
The colour depth of fMSX is fixed at compilation time. Does the colour depth
(BPP) specified in the fMSX Makefile match th
On Monday 10 June 2002 08:03, Joost Yervante Damad wrote:
> Hi, I thought this list blocked HTML only mail?
The list only blocks multipart mails (for example, text + HTML), not
HTML-only. Maybe it should.
Bye,
Maarten
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On Friday 07 June 2002 10:01, Roel de Wit wrote:
> Hmmm what's the best emulator currently available for Linux (in source
> code) ?? I just received my Playstation 2 Linux Kit and want to do some
> recompiling :)
I know the following MSX emulators for Linux:
- fMSX from Marat
- fMSX-SDL (not sur
On Friday 07 June 2002 00:46, Sander Zuidema wrote:
> > About the speed test programs: could you publish those? I would like to
> > run them under openMSX and see how it scores.
>
> I'll mail them to you in private so not everyone can have a laugh at what I
> call benchmarks ;)
Thanks!
openMSX
On Thursday 06 June 2002 23:34, Sander Zuidema wrote:
> The MSX Resource Center tested six popular MSX emulators for the Windows
> platform and compared them to each other. Are emulators as good as the real
> thing? Does all MSX software run on every emulator? Which of these
> emulators is the bes
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 15:04, J. Lukens wrote:
> Again, sorry...
The "previous mail" never reached the list: the list filters block admin
requests.
The filters also block multipart mails, so everyone please post in plain text,
not text + HTML. This filter stops a lot of mail worms and spam,
On Wednesday 15 May 2002 01:50, CNET Newsletters wrote:
> Thank you for subscribing to CNET newsletters. You have been removed from
> the following lists:
>
> -- CNET Tools for Software Developers
> -- Download.com Dispatch for PC
> -- CNET Announcements
> -- CNET Delivers
> -- Handhelds Newslette
On Sunday 12 May 2002 13:22, Vincent van Dam wrote:
> > I also know of some games which use it - although I don't think I can
> > name one of those right now, I don't remember very well.
>
> Wasn't Firehawk one of these games?
Yes it is. But if you have a PAC, you can save in that instead.
Bye,
On Saturday 11 May 2002 11:41, Hans-Peter Zeedijk wrote:
> Maybe I can put some lite on it: Probably the problems were caused by me
> (deeply ashamed!) because my computer was breevly invested by that new KLEZ
> virus and because I am member of the list, a lot may have had that virus
> from me res
On Saturday 11 May 2002 00:04, Alex Wulms wrote:
> I hope that the amount of daily spam that I receive does not increase due
> to me posting again in a (public) mailinglist, which might very well be
> being monitored by spam email address collectors :-(
Note that there are no anti-spam measures
On Saturday 11 May 2002 18:33, Laurens Holst wrote:
> I don't know about other people but this is definately starting to annoy
> me...
> Please stop sending the same emails to the MSX Mailinglist over and over
> again. If you have a question, you only need to ask it once.
Apparently he wasn't sub
On Saturday 04 May 2002 20:53, Andrea Gasparrini wrote:
> Andrea Gasparrini ha scritto:
> > Hello all you of MSX,
> >
> > Send me for favour an programme of image converters from SCREEN8 TO
> > SCREEN12.
> >
> > Send me soon your news.
> > Writing to the address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Good bye
(mailinglist filters are too strict, so I manually repost this one)
-- Forwarded Message --
From: N=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=e9stor_Soriano_?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help! (Tilburg info)
Hey obsoletes! I need information and photos about the Tilburg fair for
Hi,
If you're coming to Tilburg by public transport, this might be interesting
for you.
Tomorrow there are no trains between Eindhoven and Tilburg. Instead, there
are NS buses, so prepare for a slightly longer trip.
From Tilburg station to the fair site, you can use the city buses, line 44
On Thursday 04 April 2002 04:06, you wrote:
> > My browser crashed.
> > This page is obviously "direct link forbidden page".
> > To reach properly, visit http://www.vega.or.jp/~tanaka/hiroshi/ then
> > click " Software for MSX".
>
> Strange. Mozilla didn't crash, and the link worked with
>
On Tuesday 02 April 2002 18:24, you wrote:
> > Where can I find source code for pmext / pmarc?
>
> You can't. :(
> But Maarten ter Huurne made a nice extension for LHA that allows it to
> extract PMA files. Check his webpage: www.stack.nl/~mth
http://www.stack.nl/~mth/msx/
On Monday 01 April 2002 15:53, you wrote:
> So, I'll quit UZIX development and will start another OS for our beloved
> MSX. I'll put my efforts on a beautiful GUI, nice animation effects and
> strong user interference avoidance. In other words, I'll start a new
> operating system called Windows m
On Sunday 24 March 2002 12:13, you wrote:
>]> Price of MSX Player. Windows version is free price. And Yokoi wants
>]> OPEN SOUCE CODE LICENSE like GNU. But some program code writters donot
>]> like it. They wants protect their program technology from other people.
>]
>] He cannot license the code
On Sunday 24 March 2002 13:07, you wrote:
> Alex Wulms wrote, in reply to Richard Atkinson:
> >] generations too early. Also, do not *ever* run Marat software. Do I need
> >] to explain this one? ;)
> >Why is everybody picking so much on Marat?
>
> Because he's an evil megalomaniac greedy thinks-h
On Thursday 21 March 2002 23:58, you wrote:
> I did not interest in MSX Player. Because we can use other Emulators like
> fMSX, JAVA MSX Emulator, Zodiac, RuMSX and freeM etc.. But Hidekatsu
> Yokoi told me that MSX Player can emulate many MSX softwares more than
> the other Emulators. Probably i
On Friday 22 February 2002 12:36, you wrote:
> Just for fun, I'm wandering how a regular expressions parser could be
> implemented on MSX.
If you just want to tokenize config files, you don't need full regex support
on MSX. From the regular expressions for your config language, create a state
On Monday 28 January 2002 22:23, you wrote:
> >I didn't know Ashguine 3 existed. Is it like Ashguine 2? Although I didn't
> >understand that game at all, I enjoyed playing it.
>
> just a hint, but take a look at the game on MSX Files, the rare section ;)
Thanks!
I downloaded the game, it seems
On Monday 28 January 2002 10:33, you wrote:
> Cart of Ashguine 311 Euro
I didn't know Ashguine 3 existed. Is it like Ashguine 2? Although I didn't
understand that game at all, I enjoyed playing it.
Bye,
Maarten
--
For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~w
On Friday 18 January 2002 15:17, you wrote:
> > > At the dutch site www.tweakers.net you can vote for the most popular
> > > homecomputer/console ever. Please go to the site and vote for MSX ;)
> >
> >I vote for msx who is next
>
> How many times can one vote (on the same IP) ? :)
It's a poll, n
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 17:49, you wrote:
> Is there someone here able to stablish a a TCP-tunnel to my PC running
> Linux and, thus, giving me an IP to be reached from any point of the world?
Eh, what will you be tunneling through, the center of the earth? ;)
I mean, what is the point of t
On Monday 24 December 2001 01:30, you wrote:
> Spellbound - You had to release the wizard from a white out spell
Was this one ever released for MSX? I have all the other ones, although
Finders Keepers is on the original tape which didn't load very well 15 years
ago, so I guess it can't run it
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 23:23, you wrote:
> Do some other people on this list also receive all this 0.1K mails from
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?
> At has just two empty lines !
I don't receive them. I don't get any unusual error mails from the list
server either.
Could you forward one (including
Hi,
A combined reply:
> PIF's don't get opened automatically here. I got an pop-up dialog in which
> I could select 'open', ofcourse I didn't do it, heh, I'm dumb, but not a
> moron... Although... Ahwell.. that's something to discuss, but I think ppl
> who know a BIT about computers won't open t
On Thursday 13 December 2001 22:14, you wrote:
> Yes, just 64K videoram wont be any good for VP9938 or 9958. So an upgrade
> is indeed required.
V9938 (and V9958 too, probably) can cope with 64K VRAM. However, SCREEN7/8
need 128K. Even though a single page in those modes is 54K, it needs two
p
On Monday 03 December 2001 00:44, you wrote:
> ORG #9000
> IN A, (#A8)
> PUSH AF
> OR #03
> OUT (#A8), A
> LD A,
> BUSY LD (#3FF0), A
> AND #80
> JRNZ BUSY
> LD A,
> LD (#3FF1), A
> POP AF
> OUT (#A8), A
> EI
> RET
>
Hi,
It seems A2000 addresses no longer work. They are generating huge (200K each)
error messages; I just received 11MB of mail in the timespan of half a day. I
tried to send a mail to various "postmaster@" addresses, but they came back
undelivered.
I am unzubscribing all problematic addresses
Hi,
Please everyone send just plain text mails. Lately I've seen a couple of
messages where URLs were in some kind of attachment. Since the mailinglist
server is configured to block attachments (stops viruses and helps people
without broadband), these messages are blocked as well.
Some HTML m
> If the new one chip msx comes out you can connect the hardware tru usb maby
> that wil work also on usb from a pc ro ?
In an emulator, it is possible to freeze the MSX until whatever acts like a
cartridge responds. On a real MSX, there are strict timings and I don't think
USB can make tho
On Monday 24 September 2001 23:02, you wrote:
> How many bytes could I send approximately in one interrupt by using a
> serial cable (com port on PC and joystick on MSX)?
Don't connect the COM port to anything other than RS232, because the COM port
signals are at 12V.
JoyNet can be used betwee
Hi,
This is a message from Manuel Bilderbeek, which was rejected because it
contained an attachment. The full message (excluding attachment) is below.
> It's attached. The file is also here:
> http://www.funet.fi/pub/msx/utils/harddisk/novaxtab.pma
> Sorry for posting it on the newsgroup, I'm t
Hi,
This message is sent from my turbo R, connected to the net using a Sunrise
IDE+RS232C interface and a null modem cable to my Linux box. Uzix 0.2.0 is
really cool!
Bye,
Maarten
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On Saturday 25 August 2001 13:40, you wrote:
> Is that Mega SCSI still a do-it-yourself thing? I mean you have to make
> your own cartridge?
> Or is it for sale somewhere? (I am not afraid to use a soldering iron, but
> I don't know to mutch of electronics and nothing of making my own printed
> c
On Saturday 25 August 2001 13:36, you wrote:
> Because it was mentioned by someone of you that Punx will use Powerbasic:
> Why is that Powerbasic in a seperate cartridge?. it should have been easy
> to implement it on the ROM of the GFX9000
The GFX9000 doesn't have a ROM.
But I think on the tur
The list filters screwed up again. Apparently typing only the first 6 letters
of "configuration" is interpreted as an admin request are therefore prevented
from going to the list.
Here is the original message:
(except I replaced the word that triggered the filter)
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On Tuesday 31 July 2001 12:24, you wrote:
> - Obtain the slot currently switched on page 1 by reading the slot
> selction register, connecting the slot of page 1 into page 3 and reading
> address #. Save this slot+subslot value on OLDSLOT.
You should ofcourse complement what you read from #F
On Sunday 08 July 2001 20:43, you wrote:
> About the original FM-PAC (Panasonic)
>
> How many Kbytes of S-RAM does it have?
8K, if I remember correctly.
Just look at the size of the .PAC save files, those are the SRAM size plus a
few header bytes.
> I've seen in the label of the cartridge some
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 11:59, you wrote:
> The site is 100% working with (minimum required:) Internet Explorer 5.0 or
> Netscape Navigator 4.7,
What about Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror, NetPositive, FudeBrowser and all the
other browsers out there?
You can check your pages against the HTML stand
On Wednesday 06 June 2001 19:47, you wrote:
> There are four jumpers on the top marked 27512, 32 etc.
>
> Does anyone know what the function and settings of these jumpers are?
I have a Toeprom as well, but mine doesn't have any jumpers. Probably there
are different versions.
Bye,
On Tuesday 05 June 2001 18:51, you wrote:
> Wasn't there a plan for this? The .msx format? A discussion WHICH
> COMPLETELY DIED WITHOUT ANY RESULT! :-(
Please be more patient. Standardising and then implementing takes a lot of
time. MSX developers have studies or jobs and other projects going,
On Friday 01 June 2001 23:07, you wrote:
> SEGA ? What SEGA has to do with MSX ?
> Remember, SEGA holds parts from patents that were from ASCII regarding MSX
> dedicated LSIs such as the VDPs (V9938 and V9958) and since they gave up
> from hardware I think it will be more dificult to get authori
On Friday 01 June 2001 20:21, you wrote:
> The English translation is available on The MSX Games Box (
> http://www.msxgamesbox.com )
>From the interview:
===
After one year of 'counter-cracking', Konami sales were gearing up et piracy
was decreasing at the times games like Nemesis 2, Salamand
On Thursday 31 May 2001 19:36, you wrote:
> I try to load megaroms with execrom.com or loadrom.com, in dos1 or dos2
On a 8250, under both DOS1 and DOS2 the primary mapper will be your 1024K
external mapper. Unless execrom.com or loadrom.com explicitly select blocks
from other mapper (unlikely)
On Thursday 31 May 2001 20:39, you wrote:
> The situation: NMS8250: internal mapper 128kB, external 1MB
>
> How do I prevent the use of the internal mapper so I don't lose time
> switching slots?
> Can I block or disable the internal mapper (with a programm)?
What programs are you running?
And u
On Saturday 26 May 2001 14:09, you wrote:
> Anyway, the normal program to change partitions with on Novaxis is called
> MAP.COM or MAP32.COM (most people renamed it to MAP32.COM to avoid
> confusion with that MAP.COM that fixes direct mapper access in DOS2.).
That MAP.COM doesn't fix anything: i
On Wednesday 02 May 2001 10:17, you wrote:
> Anyone know a good one, or should I start
> writing my own, or patch z80asm?
I am working on a Z80 command line assembler/disassembler in Java. Assembling
is about 75% finished, major thing missing is calculating labels and
expressions. Disassemblin
On Wednesday 02 May 2001 02:11, you wrote:
> - I dumped the content of the area occupied by the IDE interface:
>All are filled with FFh.
Maybe some broken program accidentally wiped the FlashROM. Try to re-flash
the IDE BIOS.
Bye,
Maarten
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On Tuesday 01 May 2001 12:38, you wrote:
> > What Yurei told me was, that he thinks some people, all of them Japanese,
> > are trying to control the MSX users.
>
> Why does he think that? It sounds rediculous.
>
> We have a quite open discussion with the MSX Revival project. Not only .jp
> people
Hi,
The company who designed the Dreamcast video is called "Imagination
Technologies". So either Nishi got the name wrong, or he was misquoted.
http://www.imgtec.com/
Bye,
Maarten
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On Sunday 22 April 2001 10:08, you wrote:
> intent by the way is just a uniform os which runs java code.
> so it's machine-independant.
Intent also has its own virtual machine, AFAIK. It's optimized for
multimedia, which is an area where Java is not strong.
> > Actually I'm more exited about t
On Saturday 21 April 2001 23:51, you wrote:
> Basically I think that making it 'MSX compatible' is a way to reach the by
> then older group (still large) of 'ex-MSX' users who would get MSX games to
> play on their new Palmtop for free with the actual computer..
I doubt "for free" will be true.
On Saturday 21 April 2001 22:07, you wrote:
> I'd agree that's not more than actually marketing his new idea -- which is
> a nice idea indeed. Assuming this is true, why did he come to Tilburg see
> 50-odd people to tell us about his new "MSX"? To Spread The Word (word of
> mouth is very powerful
On Saturday 21 April 2001 22:30, you wrote:
> I've just put a (almost) complete report of what Nishi told today at the
> fair on the MSX resource center (www.msx.org).
Nice.
> If you read anything of
> which you think I misinterpreted, please let me know. (email is
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
I'll p
Hi,
It's probably useful to inform new subscribers about the etiquette of this
list, as well as reminding long time subscribers. When writing to the MSX
mailinglist, please stick to the following rules:
No attachments:
If you want to spread files, put them on HTTP or FTP and mention the URL in
On Wednesday 11 April 2001 17:13, you wrote:
> Stupid Idea to have an "Open Day" at the same day as the great MSX-Fair in
> Tilburg!
It's probably not an MSX-only club...
Bye,
Maarten
--
For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
On Wednesday 11 April 2001 07:40, you wrote:
> Can the
> orginizers send a document with all the attendants at the fair
> and what they will show and/or sell at the fair and where to
> contact them? I would be most pleased!
You should tell them your e-mail address. Your mail incorrectly stated i
On Thursday 05 April 2001 15:38, you wrote:
> When attempting to save, Ys 1 asks me for a userdisk. When I put in my disk
> with my SD Snatcher saves or a formatted floppy, it complains of an
> "invalid userdisk". Can anyone help me?
Don't use your SD Snatcher save disk for anything else, or any
On Wednesday 04 April 2001 07:47, you wrote:
> I heard that there will be a pressconference with ASCII.
> Is that true. What's the program of that 'special' saturday.
There is an archive of this mailinglist at www.msxnet.org, you can find the
messages about ASCII and Tilburg there.
> Since two
On Wednesday 04 April 2001 10:40, you wrote:
> Sorry forgot the tekst :-)
> butt how do you change your email adress ??
You zubscribe the new address and unzubscribe the old address. The
mailinglist info page (see mailinglist signature) tells you how to zubscribe
and unzubscribe. I misspelled
On Monday 02 April 2001 17:57, you wrote:
> I´ve read somewhere that the FDD of these computers
> doesn´t have a rubber belt.
> Is that true?
Yes, it's true. They have Mitsumi drives that are much like modern PC drives,
although about half a centimeter higher.
The drives often develop a proble
On Friday 30 March 2001 10:45, you wrote:
> The other one starts with a spacecraft crash,
> and you then have to reassemble the pieces of your
> spacecraft core in order to take off again.
> The main person is a round ball guy, which can
> move in two modes, walk and hover. There also
> are telep
> > Scan the logo from a manual or something, should be a large picture and
> > scanned at let's say 150dpi. Then start Adobe Illustrator and trace the
> > lines. Now you've got yourself a vector based MSX logo. Resizing doesn't
> > matter anymore, any size will be the right size.
> > Ok, were can
On Monday 19 March 2001 16:33, you wrote:
> Getdisk in combination with putdisk are the MSX equivalents to DCOPY on the
> PC. btw, do PC drives read single sided floppies???
The drives do, but some operating systems have problems with the filesystem
of a single sided disk. As long as you are re
On Monday 19 March 2001 14:48, you wrote:
> > To get the cartridge working close the switch and call the boot.
> > Something like (in Basic)
> > def usr=0 : u=usr(0)
> > will do a boot.
>
> poke &hf346,1
> _system
>
> also works very often.
> and it doesn't reboot first.
Will CALL SYSTEM start a
On Friday 16 March 2001 01:02, you wrote:
> I'm having a problem with the floppy drive cable I (finally) got to connect
> the new PC floppy drive into my NMS 8250. It only works when hooked up one
> certain way, where it detects the drive as the B: drive. Part of the cable
> is twisted, but nothi
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 13:07, you wrote:
> Unfortunately, that command doesn't help me much here. The problem is that
> cartridges use whatever video mode is active when they are booted.
> Therefore, even though the cartridges were written for NTSC televisions,
> they boot in PAL on my NTSC tel
On Thursday 08 March 2001 15:52, you wrote:
> I'm making a little pool.
Do you mean "poll"?
If you want a lot of reactions, maybe it's better to set up a form on a web
page. It's possible to have HTML form results sent by e-mail, you don't need
any advanced server software to create something
On Saturday 03 March 2001 17:45, you wrote:
> This absolutely isn't funny anymore...
Agreed. Spamming a mailinglist is bad, but doing it three times on a row is
horrible. However, with the current mailinglist software there isn't much I
can do about blocking it.
Fortunately, I managed to find
Hi,
Another #&^#&*% person sent spam through the MSX list. The reply address is
set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as for any mail sent through this list, so please don't
send your angry reactions there, because they will not reach the offender but
this list instead.
I'm taking actions agains the spamm
On Friday 02 March 2001 11:44, you wrote:
> O_o Odd... I'm using a PC cable, which is twistless.
Is it a cable for one drive? All the cables for two PC drives are twisted
between the first and the second drive connector, otherwise they wouldn't
work.
> By the way, do you
> count the wires fro
On Friday 02 March 2001 01:39, you wrote:
> I have a question about that; is the flatcable you modify the drive cable
> itself that connects the drive to the MSX2?
Yes, it's the 34-wire cable between the drive and the main board. If you
don't want to modify (twist) the cable yourself, you can u
On Thursday 01 March 2001 10:53, you wrote:
> Anway, I added this all to the FAQ, see the misc fAQ section. Could you
> check for me if it is okay and complete?
- This question is not listed in the table of contents (FAQ first page).
- These tips also work on the NMS8255 and probably the 8280 as
On Wednesday 28 February 2001 18:55, you wrote:
> I'd like to have a try, just for fun. However,
> I don't have that MSX Antiques Collection here.
> Could someone send me a pair of Antiques/Original
> ROM to my e-mail address ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )?
You can get the compressed ROM from the URL Tri
On Wednesday 28 February 2001 18:21, you wrote:
> Check if there is a D(rive)S(elect) jumper on the diskdrive... many
> diskdrives do not have jumpers but are soldered (SMD-resistor!). Be sure
> that DS=0 for drive A en DS=1 for drive B.
Good one! I forgot about that.
Try [files "B:"] in BASIC a
On Wednesday 28 February 2001 01:38, you wrote:
> Well, I bought the thing a new floppy drive, connected pins 33 and 34 of
> the main board (where it connects to the cable) with a jumper, connected
> it... nothing. It still complains about "disk offline". Any ideas, anyone?
Does the drive spin w
On Tuesday 27 February 2001 16:50, you wrote:
> your "ballremoving" routine was very nice, but actually I only want the
> balls to be removed, if there are 3 or more balls
> connected to eachother horizontally, vertically or diagonally.. (and if
> some of these balls have neighbours with the same
On Tuesday 27 February 2001 16:28, you wrote:
> I was thinking about an algorithm similar to the maze-pathfinder...
> Percolation... Recursive What about that, oh great programming guru
> Maarten?
That's possible as well, to use a recursive flooding algorithm. But I think
it's messier to im
Hi,
I'll add an example, I hope that helps understanding the algorithm.
I'll take your example game field:
(the numbers are the colors of the balls)
12436531
14312262
41222432
I'll label the balls using uppercase letters:
ABCDEFGH
IJKLMNOP
QRSTUVWX
The initialisation of the union find data str
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