Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-07-05 Thread David Heremans
Laurens Holst wrote: > > > >If Windows wasn't good and easy-to-use then it wouldn't have been > installed > > >on (almost) every new PC. > > > > Windows sounds nice, but it's really terribly-written, and > unpredictable. > > Then you write a multitasking OS which support so much hardware! > Pe

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-07-01 Thread Alex Wulms
] > Bill Gates tried to install a scanner in Windows 98, during the worldwide ] > presentation of this new version. Result: blue screeen and reset button. ] ] Ever occurred to you that Windows was still in Beta-stage then? It was the ] first time it was showed to public! It indeed was the officia

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-07-01 Thread Laurens Holst
> >If Windows wasn't good and easy-to-use then it wouldn't have been installed > >on (almost) every new PC. > > Windows sounds nice, but it's really terribly-written, and unpredictable. Then you write a multitasking OS which support so much hardware! > >> >But, I agree BeOS is a nice OS... Espe

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-07-01 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: > > Jon de Schrijder wrote: > Hi, I've received this mail from Japan. THIS IS BIG NEWS!!! > > -- Forwarded message -- > Yesterday, some MSX Figure leaders meet with Kazuhiko Nishi and ASCII > Corp. And I recived a telephone from them. Because

RE: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-07-01 Thread Antoni Burguera Burguera
] I think that Windows architecture is just too complicated -- there are ] too many compatibility issues. And Microsoft writes generally quite ] bug-free software, comparing to others (Oracle). I can't agree. Oracle 7.x on unix is rather stable. We run 7x24 production >systems with oracle at th

Re: Default OS !! was Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-30 Thread Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro
At 12:30 30/06/99 +0200, you wrote: >> IBM earns more money with OS/2 than M$ with Win9x. >> Nearly 90% of the Forbes' Top 500 companies uses OS/2. > >That's not true, IBM earns money also with OS/400 & co. and not like WinXX, but OS/2 is the most >used SO in large companies like banks

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-30 Thread Tambet Matiisen
Alex Wulms wrote: > > ] I think that Windows architecture is just too complicated -- there are > ] too many compatibility issues. And Microsoft writes generally quite > ] bug-free software, comparing to others (Oracle). > I can't agree. Oracle 7.x on unix is rather stable. We run 7x24 production

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-30 Thread Alex Wulms
] I think that Windows architecture is just too complicated -- there are ] too many compatibility issues. And Microsoft writes generally quite ] bug-free software, comparing to others (Oracle). I can't agree. Oracle 7.x on unix is rather stable. We run 7x24 production systems with oracle at the

Re: Default OS !! was Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-30 Thread Frengo
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:58:17, Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro wrote: >At 12:31 29/06/99 +0200, you wrote: >>> If Windows wasn't good and easy-to-use then it wouldn't have been >>> installed >>> on (almost) every new PC. >> >>Hold it there!! >>Most PC-buyers are a bunch of lamers, who bought a PC: >>1-To

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-30 Thread Jacco Bot
>From: Maarten ter Huurne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Success is not about what is better/best it is about marketing. > >That may be your opinion, but I cannot agree. >For everything you do you can define success in a different way. > >For example for software, you can define success as profit. Yo

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-30 Thread Tambet Matiisen
Maarten ter Huurne wrote: > > At 03:21 PM 6/29/99 GMT, you wrote: > ... > > >that is the essence > >of software, it is virtually impossible writing bug-free software > >even for microsoft. > > Bug-free software is theoretically possible (you can proove programs are > correct), but in practice

Re: Default OS !! was Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-29 Thread Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro
At 12:31 29/06/99 +0200, you wrote: >> If Windows wasn't good and easy-to-use then it wouldn't have been >> installed >> on (almost) every new PC. > >Hold it there!! >Most PC-buyers are a bunch of lamers, who bought a PC: >1-To 'keep up with time' >2-To play games >3-There kids needed a computer f

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-29 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 03:21 PM 6/29/99 GMT, you wrote: >Success is not about what is better/best it is about marketing. That may be your opinion, but I cannot agree. For everything you do you can define success in a different way. For example for software, you can define success as profit. You can also define it

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-29 Thread Jacco Bot
;Subject: Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd) >Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 10:47:39 > >At 12:08 28/06/99 +0200, you wrote: > >> >You only say BeOS because you don't want to go Microsoft. > >> > >> Noone wants M$ > > > >If Windows wasn't g

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-29 Thread Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro
At 12:08 28/06/99 +0200, you wrote: >> >You only say BeOS because you don't want to go Microsoft. >> >> Noone wants M$ > >If Windows wasn't good and easy-to-use then it wouldn't have been installed >on (almost) every new PC. Windows sounds nice, but it's really terribly-written, and unpre

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-29 Thread Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro
At 13:30 27/06/99 +0200, you wrote: >So what is necessary? V9958 is, because it is hard to emulate. But maybe a >DSP can do it? You mean a FPGA... DSP is a horrible way of emulating a VDP. >And some kind of ethernet (or compatibility with ISA or PCI), but that's >just my personal wish.

Re: Default OS !! was Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-29 Thread Laurens Holst
> > If Windows wasn't good and easy-to-use then it wouldn't have been > > installed > > on (almost) every new PC. > > Hold it there!! > Most PC-buyers are a bunch of lamers, who bought a PC: > 1-To 'keep up with time' > 2-To play games > 3-There kids needed a computer for school > 4-To visit all t

Default OS !! was Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-29 Thread David Heremans
Laurens Holst wrote: > > > If Windows wasn't good and easy-to-use then it wouldn't have been > installed > on (almost) every new PC. Hold it there!! Most PC-buyers are a bunch of lamers, who bought a PC: 1-To 'keep up with time' 2-To play games 3-There kids needed a computer for school 4-To vis

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-29 Thread Rieks W.Torringa
Hi, > >IF this is true.. and only IF.. because i can't see why ASCII want to > >put money in developing a new MSX machine.. ( tell me ) > >Then : we must supply those guys with THE BEST stuff ever made > >for GFX9000 and MoonSound .. so that they can somehow convince > >ASCII that they do have a

RE: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-28 Thread Manuel Pazos
Hi, >> Don't show Sonyc, please! >> >> As we read in the last Hnostar, ASCII was bought by CYK, the >Sega's >> holding. And Sonyc is a violent Sega's rip-off. We must have problems >> (well, I think so!). > >I don't think ASCII has problems with this Sonyc-ripoff. The point i

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-28 Thread andre . vandun
M$ is bad because you can't get much information from it. Even when your a C++ developer and using MSDN with the SDK's and DDK's. It is still difficult to write good programs because M$ uses much undocumented and/or obsolete functions between different OS's. Even the service and help documents sux

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-28 Thread Laurens Holst
> > And some kind of ethernet (or compatibility with ISA or PCI), but that's > > just my personal wish. > > Indeed, with these new developments (FudeBrowser, TCP/IP, etc.) it would be > great to have an ethernet card for MSX! Maybe Erik Maas could design one? Then > we really can get networking in

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-28 Thread Laurens Holst
> >> 2. it should have decent graphics capabilities and graphical user > >> interface (BeOS maybe?). > > > >You only say BeOS because you don't want to go Microsoft. > > Noone wants M$ If Windows wasn't good and easy-to-use then it wouldn't have been installed on (almost) every new PC. > >But,

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-28 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> And some kind of ethernet (or compatibility with ISA or PCI), but that's > just my personal wish. Indeed, with these new developments (FudeBrowser, TCP/IP, etc.) it would be great to have an ethernet card for MSX! Maybe Erik Maas could design one? Then we really can get networking in a LAN co

RE: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-28 Thread Eric Boon at CAR-Wetzlar-3
>I then think that, when also keeping in mind what you wrote below, you >shouldn't call it an MSX. Why not? If it's compatible to the MSX standard, it's an MSX... >An eventual new MSX should be made of a Z380, OPL4, a v9990 in combination >w/v9958, some memory (about 4MB), etc... Especially the

AW: Translation: Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-28 Thread Coen van der Geest
Hi there, >We must not. >We must show there is a valid market where 'some MSX project' could >be sold with profit. Ofcourse, there is no such market. Any company >would only invest in a project if there is a good chance to make >money with it. I think a floppy (or MD?)-based MSX hand held con

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-27 Thread Alex Wulms
] The new MSX cannot keep the compatibility, but it can keep the idea of ] MSX: creativity. ] ] One difference of the MSX is that it is hybrid of gameconsole and ] computer. And this computer part has very good BASIC, which pops up ] every time you turn on your MSX. From the very start it made m

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-27 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 10:25 AM 6/27/99 +0200, you wrote: >I then think that, when also keeping in mind what you wrote below, you >shouldn't call it an MSX. An eventual new MSX should be made of a Z380, >OPL4, a v9990 in combination w/v9958, some memory (about 4MB), etc... Z380 is not really necessary. Z80 is one o

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-27 Thread Peter Burkhard
> I then think that, when also keeping in mind what you wrote below, you > shouldn't call it an MSX. An eventual new MSX should be made of a Z380, > OPL4, a v9990 in combination w/v9958, some memory (about 4MB), etc... > Especially the Z380 is important, and the OPL4 and v9990 are also important

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-27 Thread Laurens Holst
> The new MSX cannot keep the compatibility, but it can keep the idea of > MSX: creativity. I then think that, when also keeping in mind what you wrote below, you shouldn't call it an MSX. An eventual new MSX should be made of a Z380, OPL4, a v9990 in combination w/v9958, some memory (about 4MB),

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-27 Thread Laurens Holst
> >Why not show Sonyc from Analogy? It is for a MSX-2+ and an Turbo R, and I > >really enjoy playing that game! But if this is true and they want to make a > >new MSX, then I will certainly buy one! > > Don't show Sonyc, please! > > As we read in the last Hnostar, ASCII was bought

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-26 Thread Tambet Matiisen
The new MSX cannot keep the compatibility, but it can keep the idea of MSX: creativity. One difference of the MSX is that it is hybrid of gameconsole and computer. And this computer part has very good BASIC, which pops up every time you turn on your MSX. From the very start it made me wonder - w

Translation: Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-26 Thread Anonymous
> In 4/July, some MSX leader will meet ASCII Corp and Nishi. > Now, Japanese MSX Figure leader and ASCII Corp talking about NEW MSX > Computer. We hope that ASCII will make NEW MSX Compiyer. And Nishi agree > NEW MSX Project! But ASCII Corp don't like our NEW MSX Project. ASCII > think that many M

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-26 Thread Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro
At 21:55 24/06/99 +0200, you wrote: >Why not show Sonyc from Analogy? It is for a MSX-2+ and an Turbo R, and I >really enjoy playing that game! But if this is true and they want to make a >new MSX, then I will certainly buy one! Don't show Sonyc, please! As we read in the last Hn

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-25 Thread Anonymous
> >Www! This is really BIG news! > > > >My proposal is to show (mainly Dutch stuff): > > > why mainly dutch? lots of great stuff is comming from spain! I know. I didn't mean that we should only show Dutch stuff, but I wanted to say that at least THIS Dutch stuff should be shown

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-25 Thread Anonymous
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Jon De Schrijder wrote: > In 4/July, some MSX leader will meet ASCII Corp and Nishi. > Now, Japanese MSX Figure leader and ASCII Corp talking about NEW MSX > Computer. We hope that ASCII will make NEW MSX Compiyer. And Nishi agree > NEW MSX Project! But ASCII Corp don't like o

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
> -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 23:37:18 +0900 > From: "K.Ikeda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: MSX PRINT. > > Kuniji Ikeda's MSX PRINT 23/June > > Yesterday, some MSX Figure leaders meet with Kazuhiko Nishi and ASCII > Corp. And I recive

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
>>> Now, I must show nice MSX stuff to Nishi and ASCII Corp. I want show... >>> 1)MSX stuff of St.Sunrise AKIN. It doesn't matter if you don't like arcade adventures or not, it has quite an opening sequence that you can't have missed ;) Cas "say hi to Nishi from me" Cremers -- (nobody reads

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
OH !! i forgot something... our game DOME can also be showed there... it does nothing with v9990 or moonsound but it is impressive for MSX ... ( i thought .. ) >IF this is true.. and only IF.. because i can't see why ASCII want to >put money in developing a new MSX machine.. ( tell me ) >Then

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
>Www! This is really BIG news! > >My proposal is to show (mainly Dutch stuff): why mainly dutch? lots of great stuff is comming from spain! >- all available GFX9000 software, including those nice demo-like thingies by >Mark Zellenrath (former Fony and Mayhem) >- Nice Turbo R sof

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
IF this is true.. and only IF.. because i can't see why ASCII want to put money in developing a new MSX machine.. ( tell me ) Then : we must supply those guys with THE BEST stuff ever made for GFX9000 and MoonSound .. so that they can somehow convince ASCII that they do have a 'solid' sales area f

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
> > Hi, I've received this mail from Japan. THIS IS BIG NEWS!!! > > -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 23:37:18 +0900 > From: "K.Ikeda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: MSX PRINT. > > Kuniji Ikeda's MSX PRINT 23/June > > Yesterda