Re: [MSX] Meridian quick question...

2003-07-30 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
Hi Enrico, Patriek replied your question already, but here are some notes from my hand: >>- with Meridian, can I manage also MBM files and use the Music >> Module keyboard? > > AFAIK you can't use the Music Module keyboard (yet). > Meridian does import MBM music, I think... Patriek is right. P

[MSX] New version of Meridian 3.0 beta online!!!

2003-06-27 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
Hi all, Thanx for all the reactions to my request to publish a new beta-version of Meridian 3.0. The new beta-verion is online now on the download site of www.meridian.msx2.com . Check it out. (Press F5 to refresh) Some important notes: * Download the Opl4 soundbank for GM playback as well.

[MSX] New version of Meridian 3.0 beta online!!!

2003-06-27 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
Hi all, Thanx for all the reactions to my request to publish a new beta-version of Meridian 3.0. The new beta-verion is online now on the download site of www.meridian.msx2.com . Check it out. (Press F5 to refresh) Some important notes: * Download the Opl4 soundbank for GM playback as well.

Re: [MSX] Meridian 3.0 progress update

2003-06-24 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
Anne de Raad wrote: > Of course we want you to put the beta version online asap!! > > And Michiel..Maybe it's not up to me to say this, but > erhm..If you want more reactions, I advise you to ask > this question in the forums of www.msx.org as wellWe're > having a special Meridian t

[MSX] Meridian 3.0 progress update

2003-06-20 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
Hi all, Some of you will think: After the fair in Tilburg, I've nothing heard about the new version of Meridian 3.0. Has the development of Meridian been stopped? NO, of course not. At the moment I'm very busy programming on Meridian and I think it would be a good thing to release a full version

Re: [MSX] Meridian site updated

2003-03-21 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
Ehhh... the link below doesn't make any sense. Use the upper one: www.meridian.msx2.com Sorry about that > Hi all, > > I've updated the site www.meridian.msx2.com > > All links on the downloadpage are functional. > Because the lack of time, the screenshots haven't been updated yet, but that

[MSX] Meridian site updated

2003-03-21 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
Hi all, I've updated the site www.meridian.msx2.com All links on the downloadpage are functional. Because the lack of time, the screenshots haven't been updated yet, but that will follow for sure. The downloadable version of Meridian 3.0 is the beta version. I hope to show you the version with f

[MSX] Meridian 3.0 beta release in Tilburg 2003

2003-02-05 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
Hi all, Coming next fiar in Tilburg, I'll release the beta version of Meridian 3.0, that's the one with Opl4 support as far as implemented. Gtx Michiel __ Gratis e-mail en meer: http://www.dolfijn.nl/ _

[MSX] Improvements Meridian in reference to the fair in Oss

2003-02-01 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
Hi all, I'm glad to hear so much reactions on the demo of Meridian 3.0 beta in Oss. Here's the list of reactions and my point of view about it: > LEF / RIG / CEN indication: use one letter or better > abbreviations (LFT, RGT, CNT) Oke, changed to LFT, RGT, CNT. (but... CNT looks like an abbbrivia

[MSX] Dutch page of the Meridian site will be dropped

2003-01-13 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
Hi all, I decided to drop the dutch variant of the Meridian site. Despite of all the work I invested in it, I don't think it adds some special features. Because all dutch msx users can read and write english (can they? yes, they can!), the dutch variant will go down one of these days. Gtx, M

Re: [MSX] Status Meridian 2.2 with MoonSound integration

2003-01-13 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
> On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, michiel & ellen de vries wrote: > > > At the moment I'm very busy working on Meridian 2.2 to intgrate > > the MoonSound into it. The playroutines in Meridian has been > > prepared to handle all channels in the MoonSound. The technique >

Re: [MSX] Current state Moonsound support in Meridian

2003-01-07 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
> Awesome ^_^!!! > > Does it still run on MSX2??? -_-;; I've got 7MHz, but still... > It sounds a lot more complicated than MBWAVE and the MWM > replayer alone already took up a lot of time, not to mention > Oracle... And Meridian even supports both FM + Wave... Or is > it just written much more

[MSX] Current state Moonsound support in Meridian

2003-01-07 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
Hi all, The development of the routines to support the Moonsound is going well. The following functions are working fine: - Tone editor for editing 200 two-operator FM-tones - Tone editor for editing 200 four-operator FM-tones - Tone editor for editing 384 ROM and 128 RAM PCM-tones. Of course,

Re: [MSX] Status Meridian 2.2 with MoonSound integration

2002-12-09 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
> more questions :) > 1 can each fm-tone/sample in a 'combi' have their own > volume/pan/pitch/detune? That was the thing I had in mind. In de tone editors (2-Op FM, 4-Op FM and Wave) you can create the 'basic' sound. Here you can set the 'color' of the sound, e.g. waveform, attack, decay, tre

[MSX] Status Meridian 2.2 with MoonSound integration

2002-12-05 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
Hi all, At the moment I'm very busy working on Meridian 2.2 to intgrate the MoonSound into it. The playroutines in Meridian has been prepared to handle all channels in the MoonSound. The technique I will use is called DCA (Dynamic Channel Assignment). This means that the wave and FM channels are n

[MSX] Moonsound support in Meridian is OK

2002-10-04 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
Hi all, Thanx for all the reactions. I will support the Moonsound in Meridian: Wave and FM. Sander Zuidema (aka Snout) gave me the possibility to use his Moonsound. Thanx in advance. At the moment I think I have enough information for the OPL4 part (wave) of the Moonsound. I still don't have an

Re: [MSX] Inventarisation of Moonsound users for Meridian

2002-09-30 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
Wow! that's huge. Gimme some time to think about this great reaction... Gtx, Michiel > At 06:09 PM 9/27/02 +0200, you wrote: > >Even the mere possibility of playing MIDI files on MoonSound alone would > >already be great. Adapting Meridian for MoonSound use would be even more > >awesome, 'couse

[MSX] Inventarisation of Moonsound users for Meridian

2002-09-26 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
Hi all, I was wondering if there are Moonsound users who are satisfied with the existing editors for the Moonsound. As far as I know only Moonblaser can be used for editting songs for the Moonsound. But I can be wrong... At this moment I have finished routines for loading songs in MWM and MFM fo

[MSX] Fileformat of a Moonblaster for Moonsound FM-file

2002-08-28 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
Hi all, At the moment I'm working on the part for loading Moonblaster files in Meridian 2.2. Files in the format of Moonblaster and Moonblaster for Moonsound Wave won't be any problem, but the files in the format of Moonblaster for Moonsound FM will. Does anyone know how such a file is built up?

[MSX] Sources of Meridian 2.2

2002-08-18 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
Hi all, I was wondering if there is someone who is interested in the sources of Meridian. This doesn't mean I would quit the development of Meridian, but I've heard that some people are interested in the window-engine. If there is someone interested, please let me know and how he/she prefers wha

[MSX] Update Meridian 2.2 en Meridian 2.2 site

2002-08-16 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
Hi all, As promised the site www.meridian.msx2.com has been updated and Meridian 2.2 released. Download free Meridian 2.2 and give it a try. Meridian 2.2 is the new version of Meridian 2.1 without menuitems that won't work. Download 3 drivers, Korg 05/RW, Roland JV-1080 and Roland JV-1080 includ

[MSX] Update Meridian 2.1 and the website www.meridian.msx2.com

2002-08-10 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
Hi all, Coming next saturday august 17th, I will put an update of the current version of Meridian 2.1 on the site www.meridian.msx2.com. The program wont't be finished then, but a lot a lot of improvements have been added to it: - System Exclusive editor is full operational - MIDI driver full i

Downloadpage of the Meridian site updated

2002-03-08 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
Hi, The downloadpage of the Meridian site is updated. ==> www.meridian.msx2.com Gtx Michiel __ Gratis e-mail en meer: http://www.dolfijn.nl/ ilse weet nu ook alles van muziek! http://ilsemusic.ilse.nl/ -- For info, see http://www.st

Re: Meridian site update (forgotten link..)

2002-03-08 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
Folks, The problem about making screenshots is solved for the biggest past. Gtx Michiel > I understand you can't run Meridian on an emulator, but as far as I > understand you made a little screenshot routine which dumps the first part > of the VRAM to a file, right? Well, then I'd say, load it

Re: knightlore

2002-01-22 Thread michiel & ellen de vries
know a location on the net to publish the stuff, please let me know... Gtx Michiel > all .com files, sound pretty interesting! > Are your conversions (or the conversion programm) available for download? > > -Original Message- > From: michiel & ellen de vries <[EMA

Re: knightlore

2002-01-17 Thread michiel &amp; ellen de vries
I'm sorry, I don't have them because I wrote a program that reads 2 .bin files, analyzes them and writes them to a .com file including a routine to move the data from #0100 to #4000. Gtx, Michiel > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:46:25AM +0100, michiel & ellen de vries wro

Re: knightlore

2002-01-17 Thread michiel &amp; ellen de vries
Hey David, I have been busy converting a lot of 32K games to .com so you can launch them from DOS. Knightlore is one of them. Gtx Michiel > Can anybody tell me where I could find the rom of this game ? > I've found dozens of knightlores, but they were always two 16kb bin file > and a basic loa

Re: Stop the fights!

2002-01-09 Thread michiel &amp; ellen de vries
I agree! > STOP IT! > > I like this mailinglist since it most of the time is a friendly and informative way >to discuss the fun of MSX. This has been so for many years. > > But the last weeks an endless stream of messages is appearing that are not that >friendly, describing fights between p