Re: Unprotect a BASIC pgm.

1999-02-10 Thread Randy Simons
There was another way to protect your basic program. I've 2 programs for the Sony/Toshiba plotter which are in .BIN format. You have to load them with bload"file",r It turns out to be simple too: just a binary dump of the basic program plus a little peace of machine-code that poked RUN in the keyb

MSX 3D games Re: FF7 is... really so good?

1999-02-10 Thread Randy Simons
-Original Message- From: Konami Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: zondag 23 augustus 1998 12:05 Subject: FF7 is... really so good? >>>Oh peopel, oh peopel, life DOES make sense to me again!! >>>Why??? Yup, I've bought Final Fantasy VII (for PC)... >

Re: MSX PC local network

1999-02-10 Thread Randy Simons
Really interesting, that 1212 cardridge with LAN, I never knew it existed. But this hardware is very rare, and even harder to get and even harder to get more than one. True, it would be *excellent* for what we want: a connection between MSX'es and PC('s). So, what we need is something that hardly

Re: MSX PC local network

1999-02-10 Thread Randy Simons
>The PC part is probably easier than the MSX part, because you can use a >language like Pascal or C to write the software and it will still be fast >enough. Na, on MSX C or pascal or modula-2 will be fast enough I guess. The communication is rather straight-forward.. >But transfer rate doesn't d

Re: How can i.....

1999-02-09 Thread Randy Simons
driver. Last resort: mail the makers of the AGE, and ask if he can reprogram the program for the tablet... Groetjes, Randy Simons -Original Message- From: Stephan Oversteegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: woensdag 14 januari 1998 22:17 Subj

Re: Pure status 2 hours before we're off to Tilburg:

1999-02-09 Thread Randy Simons
>So then why didn't you ask a taxi driver to bring you to the location??? > >BTW I saw the bus... 1) don't want to spend money for a taxi (hey, I'm at the mercy of Ritzen!) 2) Forgot the location :-(( MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (

Re: How can i..... Graphic Tablet

1999-02-09 Thread Randy Simons
>There was a TSR published in the MCM which lets you assign keystrokes to >a defined matrix on the tablet > >Arno Hmm, that would be nice. I also made a prog which let the graphic tablet reacts like a keyboard, but it was just an experiment in pure basic. I even made a overlaypaper with the c

Re: Basic demo compo

1999-02-09 Thread Randy Simons
>Hi all, > >just a weird idea. > >Why not a competition for demos witten in Basic? > >I think i will be a nice *match*!!! > >Of course in Basic mean without an ML or related instrunction like >Poke,Peek,Vpoke,Vpeek,In,Out,Usr,Data etc. >I don't know is right to exclude also the Vdp instrunction. >

Re: BASIC compo

1999-02-09 Thread Randy Simons
Sorry, I've been busy with programming on PC, I had no time to work for the compo :-( I will send in a one-liner though, but you'll have to miss my 3D and ray-trace capabilities for now :-) Perhaps next compo... Randy -Original Message- From: Tristan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Basic Demo Compo Rules

1999-02-09 Thread Randy Simons
Before you start reading: just before I hit the "send" button I discoverd that I totally forgot about MSX 1 :-) Woops.. Should we add a special section for MSX1 to? (hint for requirements: standard MSX1 with 32kB RAM. Program should run from BOTH cassette and disk (with CTRL pushed during boot), X

Re: Basic Demo Compo Rules

1999-02-09 Thread Randy Simons
>There's a missing and important point left: What about the prizes??? > > >Marcelino Luna 1st prize: everlasting fame 2nd prize: fame that lasts for 3 years 3rd prize: fame that lasts for 1 year :-) Randy MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the

Re: Basic Demo Compo Rules

1999-02-09 Thread Randy Simons
>>Hi all! >> >>i'm very happy for your happiness about this idea. >> >>So i try to write down some rules. Please say wath do you think for the >>music part (6) and the ftp & web part (7). >> >>In random order: >> >>1) No ML allowed: >> - Bload just with ,s > >What if I want to load a sinus-tabl

Re: Basic Demo Compo Rules 0.5b

1999-02-09 Thread Randy Simons
>Hi all, >1) No ML allowed: > - Bload with ,r is not allowed > - Usr is totally not allowed > - Call not allowed > - Poke & peek not allowed. - and any other ingenious ways to use some ML you weirdos might come up with :-) CALL not allowed? Why? It's a part of MSX-BASIC in some ca

Re: Re[2]: Basic demo compo

1999-02-09 Thread Randy Simons
>I'm wondering: is anyone interested in the same kind of competition, but then >for Turbo Pascal? Then you can only use the Library made by Kari Lammassaari, >as can be downloaded from my homepage. Further, almost exactly the same rules >could be applied here... and both Turbo Pascal 3.0 and 3.3

Re: Basic Demo Compo Rules. FINAL VERSION ??

1999-02-09 Thread Randy Simons
>here is the FINAL VERSION of the compo rules, i hope! I also hope that no >more changes will be requested 'couse if we continue this way the compo will >never start. Again a remark I made before: >2) Basic accelerator: > - not allowed if they don't come with the standard you are using (msx >

Re: Dirs for the Basic demo compo

1999-02-09 Thread Randy Simons
>NO, That is not necessary, people can start uploading RIGHT NOW! >All demos uploaded after 24th of february 23:59:59 will be deleted, >agreed ? >Tristan Ehm.. There aren't even final RULES, so why did you opened the site already? First we have to agree on the rules, then upload can start ofc

Higher printquality on your MSX was:Re: Word Processor for MSX...

1999-02-09 Thread Randy Simons
> I tried to use the Text editor from EASE pack, but you can't change >anything for the printer :(( so, I can't print anything :((( If you have a HP Deskjet 5xx or newer printer, you can get VERY NICE results with Ease. Someone (sorry, I can't remeber names..) made a program that converts Sp

Re: linux

1999-02-09 Thread Randy Simons
> >YOU> I have just a question: what about Linux or a Unix system on a MSX >?? > >Linux is out of the question, a different Unix might be possible. In >fact, I thought I once heard something about an Unix being developed for >z80. >Too bad the MSX doesn't have an MMU. Yup, there is, it's calle

Re: Pure status 2 hours before we're off to Tilburg:

1999-02-09 Thread Randy Simons
Yeah right.. It's now 16:13, and I'm back in Enschede from Tilburg.. But I haven't been to the MSX-fair: THERE WAS NO BUS! AARG!! I've been waiting for over an hour at the bus-station, but there was no bus... What went wrong? Randy -Original Message- From: Tristan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

Re: VDP-Commands

1999-02-09 Thread Randy Simons
-Original Message- From: Real user S.u.S.E. Linux 5.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: dinsdag 7 juli 1998 14:03 Subject: Re: VDP-Commands >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Hi there... >> >> Before I spend hours of testing and trying >> I want to ask: >>

Re: MSX PC local network

1999-02-09 Thread Randy Simons
-Original Message- From: Stefano Fronteddu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I've thought about this also, and I guess it could be done without extra hardware by using the Music Module and the MIDI-port of your soundcard. I've hooked op 2 MSX's using the MIDI port of the MusicModule and managed to tr

Re: Joystick-connection STANDARD proposal

1999-02-09 Thread Randy Simons
-Original Message- From: Laurens Holst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: vrijdag 17 juli 1998 18:49 Subject: Joystick-connection STANDARD proposal >A STANDARD FOR JOYSTICK-COMMUNICCATION proposal... >== >