Re: Two questions!: Scroll for Files

1999-10-25 Thread Daniel Jorge Caetano
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 10:45:02 +0200, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: >Hi Daniel! (And the other MSX users as well! :-) >I tried your program (SCROLL.BIN) to 'rotate' those filenames on the screen. >Well, it works, but not all the time... :-| >Sometimes it works as it should, and other times the screen (

Re: Two questions!: Scroll for Files

1999-10-25 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Hi Daniel! (And the other MSX users as well! :-) I tried your program (SCROLL.BIN) to 'rotate' those filenames on the screen. Well, it works, but not all the time... :-| Sometimes it works as it should, and other times the screen (0) is almost totally filled with the same character (I think it

Re: MBM replay in DOS (was: RE: Two questions!)

1999-10-20 Thread Erik Maas
>> > I don't know if you need to use the memory mapper for the replayer, >> > but if so, can you please make sure that it is DOS2 compatible? >> >> I hope he will, since my intention was to use the program from Multi- >> Mente which I only run in DOS2! Heheh. > >The first version will just load an

RE: MBM replay in DOS (was: RE: Two questions!)

1999-10-15 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Boon, Eric wrote: > > I hope you mean 1=50Hz sync, 2=60Hz sync eh? (thus making no > > difference if the VDP is currently working at 60 or 50Hz...) > > I don't quite get what you're after. Do you mean that I should > switch the VDP mode, or leave the VDP mode alone and only

Re: MBM replay in DOS (was: RE: Two questions!)

1999-10-15 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> > Hehehe, Arranger IV does that too, and that part was programmed in 1994... > > Ha! Then you guys had to release it earlier! > Now 100% Music has the 'primeur'... Hey, I can't help it! Back then (in 1995 or 1996), Zodiac was to lame to finish it! ;-) Grtjs, Manuel ((m)ICQ UIN 41947405) PS:

Re: MBM replay in DOS (was: RE: Two questions!)

1999-10-15 Thread Laurens Holst
> > > -lN When looping is on, loop N times, then fade out > > > N = 0 == loop forever... > > > > Yeah, the loop but fade at loop point is very nice (first seen on 100% > > music). > > Hehehe, Arranger IV does that too, and that part was programmed in 1994... Ha! Then you guys had to release it ea

Re: MBM replay in DOS (was: RE: Two questions!)

1999-10-15 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> > -lN When looping is on, loop N times, then fade out > > N = 0 == loop forever... > > Yeah, the loop but fade at loop point is very nice (first seen on 100% > music). Hehehe, Arranger IV does that too, and that part was programmed in 1994... Grtjs, Manuel ((m)ICQ UIN 41947405) PS: MSX 4 EVE

Re: MBM replay in DOS (was: RE: Two questions!)

1999-10-15 Thread Laurens Holst
> > I think Alex asked the question because the original MB1.4 replayer > > source contains IN A,(#FE) commands. > > Ah, I C. I'll take my source-scissors and cut them out ;-) Yuk... > > And what about MoonSound? > > I can mail you a MBM replayer that plays on MoonSound too. It sounds > > nic

Re: MBM replay in DOS (was: RE: Two questions!)

1999-10-15 Thread Laurens Holst
> > I hope you mean 1=50Hz sync, 2=60Hz sync eh? (thus making no > > difference if the VDP is currently working at 60 or 50Hz...) > > I don't quite get what you're after. Do you mean that I should > switch the VDP mode, or leave the VDP mode alone and only switch > replay speed? Will be difficult

Re: MBM replay in DOS (was: RE: Two questions!)

1999-10-15 Thread David Heremans
Laurens Holst wrote: > > Only disadvantage would be that decrunching ADPCM will take quite some > time > (as long as loading an 128k samplekit for the MoonSound I think)... > Haven't > tried it myself, just heard from others it takes quite some time. But > ofcourse a half-full samplekit will take

RE: MBM replay in DOS (was: RE: Two questions!)

1999-10-14 Thread Boon, Eric
Hi, Off-topic: interesting, I received Laurens' reply on these 2 msgs before getting these... Maarten wrote: > I think Alex asked the question because the original MB1.4 replayer > source contains IN A,(#FE) commands. Ah, I C. I'll take my source-scissors and cut them out ;-) > And what ab

Re: MBM replay in DOS (was: RE: Two questions!)

1999-10-14 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> Hello all, > > > > Suggestions for other options: > > > -fN frequency select: 0 = current (default) > > > 1 = 50 Hz (PAL) > > > 2 = 60 Hz (NTSC) > > Huh? I missed that mail somehow! > Right, although the EDIT type isn't very hard to decode. > I could even do EDIT->USER conversion

RE: MBM replay in DOS (was: RE: Two questions!)

1999-10-14 Thread Boon, Eric
Hello all, > > Suggestions for other options: > > -fN frequency select: 0 = current (default) > > 1 = 50 Hz (PAL) > > 2 = 60 Hz (NTSC) Huh? I missed that mail somehow! > I hope you mean 1=50Hz sync, 2=60Hz sync eh? (thus making no > difference if the VDP is currently working at 60

Re: MBM replay in DOS (was: RE: Two questions!)

1999-10-14 Thread Laurens Holst
> Suggestions for other options: > -fN frequency select: 0 = current (default) > 1 = 50 Hz (PAL) > 2 = 60 Hz (NTSC) I hope you meen 1=50Hz sync, 2=60Hz sync eh? (thus making no difference if the VDP is currently working at 60 or 50Hz...) > -tN file type select: 0 = autodetect (defau

Re: MBM replay in DOS (was: RE: Two questions!)

1999-10-14 Thread M . K . t . Huurne
> The first version will just load and play, nothing TSR like. > So it won't need any memory management and thus run on both DOS1 and > DOS2. I think Alex asked the question because the original MB1.4 replayer source contains IN A,(#FE) commands. > -cN chip select: 0 = auto (default) >

Re: MBM replay in DOS (was: RE: Two questions!)

1999-10-14 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> Yoho, Yo-dee-yo! > The first version will just load and play, nothing TSR like. > So it won't need any memory management and thus run on both DOS1 and > DOS2. Ok! That would at least be usable for me to start with. Thanks in advance! > Another thing. First idea for commandline: > > a

MBM replay in DOS (was: RE: Two questions!)

1999-10-14 Thread Boon, Eric
Yoho, > > I don't know if you need to use the memory mapper for the replayer, > > but if so, can you please make sure that it is DOS2 compatible? > > I hope he will, since my intention was to use the program from Multi- > Mente which I only run in DOS2! Heheh. The first version will just load an

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-13 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> Hi Eric, > > I don't know if you need to use the memory mapper for the replayer, but if > so, can you please make sure that it is DOS2 compatible? I hope he will, since my intention was to use the program from Multi-Mente which I only run in DOS2! Heheh. Grtjs, Manuel ((m)ICQ UIN 41947405)

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-13 Thread Alex Wulms
] Maarten ter Huurne wrote: ] ] > I'm very sure they are: ] > ] > #00CF: title (40 bytes) ] > #0140: drumkit (8 bytes) ] ] *blush* My home-brew hexdump prog messed thing up :-J ] You're right and I'm on my way programming the DOS replayer :-) ] I hope to be able to release a 0.1 version somewhe

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-13 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> > > Did you try the moonblaster TSR's of C-TNG already? > > > > No! Thanks, I'll try it out a.s.a.p.! But I hope it's not a Memman > > TSR. > MMmmm, it is. :-\ > why don't you like memman? It is the only way to have a multitude of TSR > in memory without having to worry about the fact that they

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-13 Thread Laurens Holst
> On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Laurens Holst wrote: > > > Well, if not, it's also online on internet at www.database.nl/mccm/milc I > > think. > > If not, just try www.database.nl/mccm and browse to MiLC. > > I can't find it... > The URL you mentioned doesn't work, and when browsing the site I couldn't >

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-13 Thread David Heremans
Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: > > > > > > 1) Is there a DOS-MBM replayer, so I can replay Moonblaster > > > > music from > > > > > e.g. Multi-Mente? (So, I need a MSX-DOS > commandline-replayer...) > > > > > > > > Did you try the moonblaster TSR's of C-TNG already? > > No! Thanks, I'll try it out a.s

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-13 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> > > > 1) Is there a DOS-MBM replayer, so I can replay Moonblaster > > > music from > > > > e.g. Multi-Mente? (So, I need a MSX-DOS commandline-replayer...) > > > > > Did you try the moonblaster TSR's of C-TNG already? No! Thanks, I'll try it out a.s.a.p.! But I hope it's not a Memman TSR. > Y

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-13 Thread David Heremans
Boon, Eric wrote: > > > > 1) Is there a DOS-MBM replayer, so I can replay Moonblaster > > music from > > > e.g. Multi-Mente? (So, I need a MSX-DOS commandline-replayer...) > > Did you try the moonblaster TSR's of C-TNG already? You an find them at the download section of our site. Go to www.msx.

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-13 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Laurens Holst wrote: > > > Well, if not, it's also online on internet at www.database.nl/mccm/milc I > > think. > > If not, just try www.database.nl/mccm and browse to MiLC. > > I can't find it... > The URL you mentioned doesn't work, and when browsing the site I couldn't

RE: Two questions!

1999-10-12 Thread Boon, Eric
Maarten ter Huurne wrote: > I'm very sure they are: > > #00CF: title (40 bytes) > #0140: drumkit (8 bytes) *blush* My home-brew hexdump prog messed thing up :-J You're right and I'm on my way programming the DOS replayer :-) I hope to be able to release a 0.1 version somewhere next week! > May

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-12 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Laurens Holst wrote: > Well, if not, it's also online on internet at www.database.nl/mccm/milc I > think. > If not, just try www.database.nl/mccm and browse to MiLC. I can't find it... The URL you mentioned doesn't work, and when browsing the site I couldn't find any mention

RE: Two questions!

1999-10-12 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Boon, Eric wrote: > > Anyway, the songname and drumkit are real easy. They are fixed-length > > strings that always occur at the same offset in the file. Take a hex > > editor and you can't miss them. > > I _did_ take an hex editor and these names do NOT appear at the same

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-12 Thread Laurens Holst
> > I'm sending the MS-DOS BATCH, but it should work on MSXDOS also. > > It will not. MSXDOS does not know things like 'if', 'goto', labels. MSX-DOS 2.3 does accept IF (EXIST). But indeed no GOTO nor labels. Maybe Dos 2.41??? Anyways the GOTO and labels thingie can easily be solved. Simply mak

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-12 Thread Laurens Holst
> > Found out that you can also access FUnet via WWW? :-) > > Nope, has to do with limited internet access resources here. > > > Anyway, now someone has to program the DOS MBM player... > > Any volunteers? > > :-) > > But I really NEED the info on MBM file structure, then!! Simple. The docs are

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-12 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> and so on. The computer automaticaly adjusts the spaces before and after= > the > words. This cause the number of spaces before and after the line to be d= > ifferent > for each screen width. So, I'll have to do some calculus, which will dec= > rease > speed (not much, but in really will increa

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-12 Thread Daniel Jorge Caetano
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 17:53:47 +0200, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: >> Yes, you can. If you have any problems, contact me and I'll send you the >> .BAT file. >Do that anyway please. I'm sending it. >> There is no way. The number of spaces will change due to width value. I >> certainly can so a r

RE: Two questions!

1999-10-12 Thread Boon, Eric
Maarten ter Huurne wrote: > Anyway, the songname and drumkit are real easy. They are fixed-length > strings that always occur at the same offset in the file. Take a hex > editor and you can't miss them. I _did_ take an hex editor and these names do NOT appear at the same offset :-( Maybe they

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-12 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> Yes, you can. If you have any problems, contact me and I'll send you the > .BAT file. Do that anyway please. > >And then some remarks: > >1) Wouldn't it be better to read out the screen width from the work-area, > >instead of assuming a certain width? > > There is no way. The number of s

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-12 Thread Daniel Jorge Caetano
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 10:06:43 +0200, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: >But Daniel: I don't have CL80 nor a MSDOS computer. But I guess I can compile >it on a MSX too? Yes, you can. If you have any problems, contact me and I'll send you the .BAT file. >And then some remarks: >1) Wouldn't it be better

RE: Two questions!

1999-10-12 Thread M . K . t . Huurne
> BTW: Does anyone have info on the filestructure of an MBM file? > (Especially the 'header' part, where the songname, drumkit name etc is) If you look at the replayer source, you can find out the header structure without much trouble. Look at the "start playing" routine, it LDIRs most of the h

RE: Two questions!

1999-10-12 Thread Boon, Eric
> Found out that you can also access FUnet via WWW? :-) Nope, has to do with limited internet access resources here. > Anyway, now someone has to program the DOS MBM player... > Any volunteers? :-) But I really NEED the info on MBM file structure, then!! +-- Eric Boon ---+ |

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-12 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> > I did dig in the large pile'o'disks _and_ found the sources. > > But, as I was browsing through the .GENs, I remembered vaguely > > doing the exact same thing before. So if anyone could check > > funet (I don't have FTP access @ the moment :-( ) ... > > Damn! I hate follow-ups to my owm msgs,

RE: Two questions!

1999-10-11 Thread Boon, Eric
> I did dig in the large pile'o'disks _and_ found the sources. > But, as I was browsing through the .GENs, I remembered vaguely > doing the exact same thing before. So if anyone could check > funet (I don't have FTP access @ the moment :-( ) ... Damn! I hate follow-ups to my owm msgs, but I found

RE: Two questions!

1999-10-11 Thread Boon, Eric
Me, myself and I wrote: > Hm, I still have the sources of an MBM replayer loader lying around. > This thing loads the MBM replayer plus a couple of songs in memory > and sets up a couple of routines to start/stop/pause/fade etc. > Couldn't be too hard to add a little front end. I'll be digging >

Re: Two questions!: Scroll for Files

1999-10-11 Thread Daniel Jorge Caetano
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:36:58 +0200, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: >> So, you can "rotate >> left" >> 16 characters all contents, instead of copy the last two positions to the >> first >> two. >This is brilliant! I should shift the VRAM contents 16 bytes (actually more, >since there's also some charac

RE: Two questions!

1999-10-11 Thread Boon, Eric
> > 1) Is there a DOS-MBM replayer, so I can replay Moonblaster > music from > > e.g. Multi-Mente? (So, I need a MSX-DOS commandline-replayer...) > > Sounds like you've been working with unix... I don't think any other > platform has so many commandline-utilities. MSX for sure > doesn't. I don'

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-11 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> and delete them... (-: If you want a more "professional" way, look for the > last > two positions, copy its contents to the first position and delete the last > two. > This would work well on non-sorted directiories... Ok, but I DO have a sorted dir, so: > So, you can "rotate > left" > 16 cha

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-11 Thread Daniel Jorge Caetano
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:34:45 +0200, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: >> if not a dot in the string then RUN STRING + LDR >I already do that, but I don't want the 'dot-files' to appear on the screen at >all! It's irritating to see those '.' and '..' "files" on the screen while you >can't even select th

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-11 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, TFH/Fony wrote: > Why not simply compare the string before you print it to the screen? Simply > using an if statement... This could solve the problem. And I don't know how > everything is arranged in DOS2, but are the "." and ".." not the first two > that are being read? Yes

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-11 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> > Yes, good idea. But: my files are also ordered alphabetically (I used the > Sort > > option of Multi Mente! :-). So that won't be ideal either. But it's > something! > > What we really could use here is a FILES that doesn't display the . and .. > > dirs... (like ls -l :-) > > Why not simply c

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-11 Thread TFH/Fony
> Yes, good idea. But: my files are also ordered alphabetically (I used the Sort > option of Multi Mente! :-). So that won't be ideal either. But it's something! > What we really could use here is a FILES that doesn't display the . and .. > dirs... (like ls -l :-) Why not simply compare the strin

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-11 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> Do or don't you want it? ;-) Anyway, it can be done simpler. I didn't > think of it, since my files usually come alphabetic (linux) in which case > it would be bad to change the order. You can just take the last 2 files > and vpoke them in there. That should be much faster. Yes, good idea. But:

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-11 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: > > > I have 2 (silly?) questions: > > > > > > 1) Is there a DOS-MBM replayer, so I can replay Moonblaster music from > > > e.g. Multi-Mente? (So, I need a MSX-DOS commandline-replayer...) > > > > Sounds like you've been working with unix... I don't

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-11 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> > I have 2 (silly?) questions: > > > > 1) Is there a DOS-MBM replayer, so I can replay Moonblaster music from > > e.g. Multi-Mente? (So, I need a MSX-DOS commandline-replayer...) > > Sounds like you've been working with unix... I don't think any other > platform has so many commandline-utiliti

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-11 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: > Hi! > > I have 2 (silly?) questions: > > 1) Is there a DOS-MBM replayer, so I can replay Moonblaster music from > e.g. Multi-Mente? (So, I need a MSX-DOS commandline-replayer...) Sounds like you've been working with unix... I don't think any othe

Re: Two questions!

1999-10-11 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> How about changing the line > > RUN STRING + LDR > > to something like > > if not a dot in the string then RUN STRING + LDR I already do that, but I don't want the 'dot-files' to appear on the screen at all! It's irritating to see those '.' and '..' "files" on the screen while you can't

RE: Two questions!

1999-10-11 Thread Hans Otten
How about changing the line RUN STRING + LDR to something like if not a dot in the string then RUN STRING + LDR -Original Message- From: Manuel Bilderbeek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 12:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Two ques

Re: two questions...

1999-02-09 Thread Tristan
> I would like to have also original MSX-AUDIO ROM (Not Philips) For anyone who is interested, the original MSX-AUDIO rom (all 2 megabit of it) is in: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/msx/misc/AUDIOROM.PMA Tristan + Omega of + join #msx on undernet +[EMAIL PROTECTED] + | Techno Crew | FUNE

Re: two questions...

1999-02-09 Thread Alex Wulms
] ] First question : ] ] ] Can someone, that has A1GT tell me what is in GT's BIOS in addresses ] #1A2E-#1B44 ??? It is different. Please find below a Listing of that area on the GT. Best regards, Alex adres:&H1a2e primair slot,secundair slot: 0 , 0 1A2EC3 50 0CJ