>>If the DOS is patched in the way I propose, all the old programs which uses
>>DOS function calls and do not perform direct FAT access (that is, all
>>programs except IMPROVE or similar) will work without any problem!
>Hmm, I guess there are not much programs that access the harddisk on sector
>l
Nestor,
> I tried, but I have two problems. First, I have not CD ROM drive, so
> I can not perform any test. Second, I start to dissassemble and I
> find something really strange: the installation program puts a jump
> routine in the DOS 2 data segment, overwriting existing code!! How is
At 12:19 06/12/98 +0100, you wrote:
>> [257 RobotZ]
>>
>Sorry for not being clear, but you got it right in the end ;-)
>
>> Anyway, I think that a competition of 256 or 257 robots will be very close
>> to impossible to play. You'd have to have a *huge* playing field to make
>> it a bit in
> The ESE interface uses some expensive parts, which makes it
> technically superior to any other I/F.
Hm. It's better because it's more expensive? Not quite my idea
of quality :-)
> Your statement is the same as
> saying: "I'm not willing to buy a Turbo-R because an MSX2 is way
> cheaper"
You
Hi all,
here is the FINAL VERSION of the compo rules! No more changes allowed 'couse
now we START !!!
Last Updated: (2)
1) No ML allowed:
- Bload with ,r is not allowed
- Usr is totally not allowed
- Poke & peek not allowed.
2) Basic accelerator:
- Only _TurboOn and _TurboOff allow
Hi,
Who know about MSX-hardware mail list?. If such be
There is in view of hardware development.
It is Correct have on slot-connector the pins /TREFA,/TREFC,/TREFR ?
/TREFA Timing Reference A (output, active Low, tri-state).
This timing reference signal goes Low at the end of T2 and
returns Hi
Hi,
Since I agree with the rest you wrote, I'll just quote this part:
CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293 wrote:
> A trivia about prime numbers: number 1 is not prime, as some
> people think. If it was, no other number would be, because they
> all would be multiples of at least one prime number (
Hi there!
> >From: "Randy Simons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: MSX PC local network
> >Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 17:51:13 +0200
<--- cut --->
> >MIDI not fast enough you think? MIDI is 31.5kb/s, so faster than a 28k8
> >modem! There is a tetris-clone which you can
Hi Alex,
>] So why not extend e.g. fMSX or RuMSX (or whatever it is called these
days)
>] with Glide (3Dfx) support, so MSX games can become really 3D?
>Nice idea but who do you think is going to make MSX programs that support
all
>these extensions? Even the moonsound and the graphix 9000 did n
Hi,
>It's about the exact time(s) of sampling the bit values of the main
>(RxD/TxD) signal. In asynchronous communications, this is based upon
>a fixed time for a single bit, determined by the baudrate.
Ehrm... I don't wanna spoil the fun, but for JoyNet, we're talking
about asynchronous communi
Hi all,
I'm following this DOS3/>32MB/FAT16 discussion very closely, but I have to
say 32 bit sectornumbers are a little too big. I agree with Egor that 24
bit is better. A little calculation:
2^32 x 512 bytes/sector = 2199023256000 bytes = 2 TB
Who in the world would want a 2 TERABYTE partitio
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HOW TO PROGRAM THE Z80, 3d ed., Rodnay Zaks (Sybex, 1980)
Z80 USERS MANUAL, Jo
Hello (again),
Still heared nothing about the game Thezeus! Does NOBODY have
this game (I can't believe it).
If you have this game, please e-mail it directly to me or
upload it to FUNET (The MSX FTP-site in Finland).
If you do so... let me know so I can download it from
there!
--[ MAR
-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Maarten ter Huurne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Datum: zondag 21 juni 1998 21:37
Onderwerp: Re: Problems with assembler
:At 10:39 AM 06/21/98 +0200, you wrote:
:
:>out (c),value or any register exept F.
:
:Note: there is no
Hi! |
A|A
(n n)
\_/
I've been away quite a bit from the list. Anyway,
I read this, in a reply by Alwin Henseler
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to Shevek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> (...) I never tried to write to register 14, but if it
>> is not hazardous, that is only good.
>
> Sure yo
Hi,
shevek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was asking about the PSG:
> Last week, I wrote about MSX PSG accessing. On Commodore 64, it is
> impossible to read sound registers, so when I saw the same in MSX BASIC, I
> thought it was a hardware thing.
No, on the MSX you can both read & write PSG registers,
| The real MSX users do it. They prefer their real MSX than an
|emulator. An emulator is just for test, for experimenting, or maybe help
|(come on... The BrMSX debugger helps me a lot!).
|
|> But the important point is that the number of real MSX usres decreases
|> due to the emulator.
|["nah! pc
I havent wathed the thread (so forgive me, if I'm a latre echo), but the
SCSI-specification requires termination at the both ends of the SCSI bus.
If you can have so called active termination on every device. (Passive
termination is made od resistors .Active termination regulates the voltage
of t
Hi Manuel !!!
MB> TOdays, there is the XM (eXtended MOD) format, which can handle up to
MB> 32 channels (I believe). With this, that friend of mine makes music
MB> nowadays on his P90, with 16bit soundcard. By using very good samples
MB> and a fine mixing technique (cutting off 'clicks', etc
Hi,
About these compression methods:
It's too bad that (to my knowledge) there's not a single compression
method for MSX machines, for which:
a) Both compressor and de-compressor exist
b) Which are essentially bug-free
c) Can handle about every (un)packing job
PMA: PMarc sometimes produces .PM
Again about the Flash memory...
> Quoting directly from the Atmel data book, re their AT29C256...
>"PROGRAM: The device is reprogrammed on a page basis. If a byte
>of data within a page is to be changed, data for the entire page
>must be loaded into the device. Any byte that is not l
-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Datum: vrijdag 13 november 1998 00:47
Onderwerp: Re: Emulators...
|Almost all MSX emulator users' doesn't buy new software 4 MSX, like
|Akin, PA3, Lost World or P
Hi! |
A|A
(n n)
\_/
Back and busy. Sorry people to which I've promised some files.
They are on the way (after I can get them!)
Alex Mitsio Sato (hi, Alex) replied to someone else (Nov-10):
>> Don't you guys have a disassembler?
>
> I have, but I don't want only t
Hi, everybody!
>>You are wrong: the cluster feature is available in all the versions of
>>MS-DOS, and of course also MSX-DOS, not only the higher than 4 versions.
>
>Indeed cluster have been used since the first DOS release. But for some
>reason MS-DOS introduced >32Mb partitions in version 4.0.
:And you can include all of these things in a set of standard-routines
:that go with any JoyNet application, and might be updated any time.
:An application programmer could just take this standard set of
:routines, and build his/her application around it, not worrying about
:the internals of these
Jun-Sung Kim wrote:
> I'm making a pattern editor for GFX9000 now and so I have
> a question.
>
> Do commands(LMMM, CMMM, etc. ) work in P1 and P2 mode of
> GFX9000?
>
> It seems not... or I missed something.
Theoretically they do work. But you'll have to set the correct writemask
bits
in R
] On Thu, 16 Jul 1998 22:40:12 +0300, Alex Wulms wrote:
]
] >Stupid question perhaps, but where do you plug-in the joystick
] >to play the multi-user game if both joystick ports are used to
] >communicate with the two neighbouring computers in the ring?
] Ha! Smart observation!
]
] Some years
DEAR SIR> > I AM TRYING TO FIND THIS
CARTIDGE THAT HELPS ME IN FREEZING ANY PROGRAM IN THE MSX MEMORY AND TRANSFER IT
TO TAPE OR DISK ,SO PLEASE CAN U HELP IN THIS REQUEST ?>
>
TRULY
YOURS>
I wrote this on Sunrise's guestbook this evening, I hope they will at least read it and tell us what we want to know:
Okay, okay, it is a great page, there is a lot of software for download not to mention the hardware... But there is no technical info about your interfaces! If you really want to
At 17:47 25/08/98 +0200, you wrote:
>> Well, it's funny, but Specrum has Prince of Persia, Mortal
>Kombat, Street
>>Fighter 1 and 2!
>
>Be realist. The spectrum hardware is not as good as MSX.Even
>MSX1 is better than Spectrum. Well, Spectrum has those games you
>say... MSX hasn't, but if so
Hi,
I would like to order NTworkstation MS office97 full retail.
Condition: IT must work on my msx.
Who is responsable for this spam?? MailB..M them?
> TECH DIRECT
>
> ***SPECIALS**
> MS OFFICE PRO 97, Full Version, FULL RETAIL PACKAGING - ONLY $205
> MS OFFICE PRO '97 CD only w
Hi,
[prime]
>> 10 DEFINTA-Z:DD=3:P=1:INPUT"Number";DN:
>>IFDN<2THENPRINTDN"is not a prime number (defined).":END
>> 20 IFDN<>2THENIF(DNMOD2)=0THENP=0:DD=2:GOTO40
>> 30 IFDD<=(DN/DD)THENIF(DNMODDD)=0THENP=0:GOTO40ELSEDD=DD+2:GOTO30
>> 40 IFPTHENPRINTDN"is a prime number.":END
>>ELS
~Ha die Laurens !!!
Ik ben al mijn ICQ nummers kwijt !!! Kan je die weer naar me sturen >
Mijn ICQ is 1446
Groeten
Arnaud ~
-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Laurens Holst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Aan: MSX mailinglist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Datum: dinsdag 14 juli 1998 23:07
Onderwerp: M
>Can someone forward me the original message about this game-idea?
The original idea has evolved in the meanwhile, but this is my original
message:
>Hi MSX people !
> I'm writing to all of You to explain an idea I had a lot of time ago.
>I was thinking to develop a battle game: blah, what th
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [RobotZ]
>
> >Great idea! I could make it, I guess, but I can't say when it will be
> >finished, since I don't have so much spare time.
>
> > But please, send me exact
> >specifications on what the condition of an if-statement can be, and ho
>> Use of #4010 allows DOS to be hardware independent. But then sector numbers
>> are limited to 16 bit. How to solve this? With drivers?
>What problem do you mean?
>In general #4010 is only called by DOS kernel. In all other cases when
>your own program makes use of #4010, you know what size the
Hi,
> What is the EXTENDED MSX SLOT and what's the difference between 40-
>and 80- ?
>
It is different signals /SLTSL0 and /SLTSL1 ( as beside MSX )
connected to different connectors.
To avoid decoder of address on affiliated card
> Also why INTERNAL MSX SLOT is needed?
That which b
Maarten ter Huurne schreef:
> At 04:55 PM 5/20/98 +0200, you wrote:
>
> >The standard does not say that mapper register may be read.
according to the msx technical data book msx2 memory mapper
specification
the can be read back , and the do not say it's not allowed.
turbo r must be compatible w
Hi!
A quote from my homepage (http://www.sci.kun.nl/marie/home/manuelbi/msx.html#li
ke2sell):
__
Things I would like to sell!
Check out the stuff I'd like to sell here! Don't hesitate to mail me if you
would li
Hello,
I'm trying to make a list of all the MSX-Clubs
there are in the world and of there user-happenings or fairs. So visit my site
and fill in the form, so you will be included in the next list. The fairlist is
also available on Internet.
See: www.msxforever.club.tip.nl for more
infor
Alex Wulms wrote
:] Software is not important to standardize. But it can be usefull to
:] distribute a sample/default protocol so that software developers can
create
:] software with less effort.
:Huh? Ever heard of the internet? The only reason that it works is because
the
:protocols are standard
> --
> Van: Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Verzonden:maandag 1 februari 1999 12:42
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Onderwerp:Re: msx-ers
>
> At 18:20 29/01/99 +0100, you wrote:
> >>By the way, my story about FAC SoundtrackerI dare to say that the
> FAC
> >is
] Hi! |
] A|A
] (n n)
] \_/
]
] Luiz Eduardo de Souza Marques asked:
]
] > (...) Somebody kown something about MSX Engine? (...)
]
] MSX-Engine is the "MSX-in-a-chip": Z80, VDP, PSG and
It is also how a dutch MSX group called themselves. They released among many
oth
At 03:23 AM 10/11/98 +0300, you wrote:
>How about can I use forexample same HDD at a same time, or do I have to be
>sure, that it is not used that time by other computer?
Unless the SCSI interfaces have a DOS2 modified for sharing harddisks (does
this exist?), you will get troubles.
The type of
[Portugues]
Amigo(a) q recebe esse mail,
Gostaria de te avisar que agora meu e-mail vai mudar. E', finalmente o
lendario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> vai ser trocado. Eu cansei dos problemas
q estou tendo com o meu provedor (BR Homeshopping), logo a minha conta
sera' cancelada em
>
> When I received the letter, I tried to make the
> convertion in the Sparc Station I was working, but I found
> two very annoying problems: first, the game from FUNET is
> packed with LHA, to which I have no source to compile in
> Unix. I tried to copy the file to an MSX disk and then
> un
>>I think it is not a good idea to touch the MSX work area. New space should
>>be allocated in TPA or in a new system segment for these purposes.
>This is also possible. We can allocate 4 bytes as a part of DISKROM's
>work area - but this is just not that effective if compared to a variable at
B
>:>On megascsi I think all your partitions are the same size
>:>(except maybe for the last one), and all start at the
same
>:>point. This would mean when you change disks you always
get
>:>the same partitiontable.
>:
>:Nope! In MegaSCSI you can define the size of each
partition (when
>formatting
>
Hi! |
A|A
(n n)
\_/
Ramon Ribas Casasayas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) replied my
EM:
>> (...) "Jet Set Willy II" is also boring,
> HERETIC!!! You'll burn in the hell, along with Bill Gate$!
Hmm, quite difficult for me. First, I'm atheist, so I cannot
go to hell. Second, Bil
[RobotZ]
>Ok, here's an idea:
>Every robot is allowed to calculate as much as it wants. It's turn is over
>when it performs any of the following actions:
>-move (1 step).
And how is "one step" defined? As only north, south, east and west
(4-neighbourhood)or also north-east, north-west, south-eas
TILBURG 1999 is ON
Betreft: Tilburg 1999 !
Sorry dat we nog niet eerder hebben gereageerd, maar hierbij de huidige
status m.b.t. de beurs Tilburg 1999 !
De reden achter de "stilte" komt zeker niet door gebrek aan interesse van
ons, integendeel, maar juist door het uitstellen van de beslissi
Hi all !
Maarten ter Huurne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied:
> >I need to make a lead Turbo R to Scart connector, who can send me the
> >wiring diagrams or better, who can make this lead for me?.
>
> Turbo R DIN RGB plug: (seen from cable side)
> Note: this is the same as SONY HB700 RGB plug
*** URGENT ***
Hello there!
I need some diagrams of how to build
a 7Mhz
how to build 512 Kb in your computer
how to build DOS 2 in your computer
Has anyone got diagrams of this?!?
Pleaz send a mail to [EMAIL PRO
|Well, if you want, I can find 4 u a real MSX 4 sale. It isn't easy,
|but it isn't impossible.
I realise that, but what is the difference to you, or anyone else if I use
an emulator, or if I buy another *real* MSX. It's not like Philips or Sony
are stil making these computers, so I am no
At 01:01 PM 5/20/98 +0200, you wrote:
>I have to remove a bug in my program. And this is
>(maybe) exatcly about the thing you wrote above.
>
>What is illegal by reading the mapper-ports?
>If you dont have DOS2, how can you read/write them
>in a legal way without using the direct IN/OUT???
To avo
Hi!
>o When a computer wants to send, it starts it's CLOCK and waits for the
> receiving side to set the READY signal
>o Sending starts with 1 start bit (high signal)
>o Followed by data and odd parity
>o Sender waits for a drop of the READY signal for 1 clock cycle as an ACK
>o If it doesn't dr
Jeroen Smael wrote:
>To me it doesn't matter which connector(s) is/are used. The tulp plugs
>suggested by Alex Wulms seem (at least to me) the best choice. Why:
>(1) they are easy to come by (three colors should be no problem as the
>standard color for CVBS is yellow and most shops also sell blac
Need a translation? Okay...
From: Computer Gebruikers vereniging <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
TILBURG 1999 is ON
About: Tilburg 1999 !
Sorry for not reacting earlier, but here is the current status about
the Tilburg 1999 fair !
The reason behind the "silence" is not a lack of interest on our
Hi,
IVAN ALONSO BES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed in:
> I'm looking for a good MSX gfx viewer and converter for PC, I mean
> any kind of tool that could allow me to transfer screen5, 8..12 gfx
> to Pc and also Gif or Jpeg to MSX formats. As far as I haven't got a
> harddisk for the MSX I need a
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Alwin Henseler wrote:
> NYYRIKKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > If we use HDD, then we probabbly don't need to read/write directly
> > > to sectors.
> > Wrong. This is necessary for disk checking and defragmentation
> > utilities . And with FAT16 we'll have to run d
Hi!
>About these compression methods:
>It's too bad that (to my knowledge) there's not a single compression
>method for MSX machines, for which:
>a) Both compressor and de-compressor exist
>b) Which are essentially bug-free
>c) Can handle about every (un)packing job
Any archive format (ZIP/A
At 13:57 08/01/98 +0100, you wrote:
>
> Hello guys, I'm new in MSX secta, but I have a crazy idea and I
>want to share it with the people: a brand new BASIC compiler.
>
> Think about it: a new language that handles long variable names,
>modern sentences (like 'while'), no
>Another FONY member has a MEGA SCSI interface...
>But indeed I never investigated it very good.
Do it. You will get very surprised!
I have some information about the internal Mega-SCSI functions translated to
spanish. If you are interested I can translate it to english and send it to you.
>I a
> > > Can you, please, tell me the memory map (RAM slot/subslot) and VDP
> > > ports of your VG8235/NMS8245 and NMS8255? I'm curious about this
> > > crash of DD2...
> >
> > I'm afraid I don't know much about the memory structure of my MSX...
> > However, I will try to look at home for documentat
>To refreshen your memory:
>I proposed earlier to use for both BIOS-routine 0144h and
>diskROM-entry 4010h the following change, to allow the use of bigger
>sector numbers:
>
>if bit 7 of drive number=0, then all parameters as usual,
>if bit 7 of drive number=1, then
>
> DE-register = poin
Hello,
Today I've uploaded some more photographs:
Files named: AL97-Axx.JPG are of the Amelo fair
1997
Files named: ZV96-Axx.JPG are of the Zandvoort fair
1996
Files named: ZV97-Axx.JPG are of the Zandvoort fair
1997
More photographs will folow!
I've also got some photographs of th
It is a e-mail to be sent in private, but can be a source of good
information.
-
Hey!
You're talking about me! :)
>>Well, I've a great friend here in Brazil where in his home, there is
>>no space 4 even his desktop 486 DX2-80. And he has 2 MSXs (a HotBit
>>and a Turbo-R), a
Patriek Lesparre a écrit:
>
> Coen van der Geest wrote:
> >>Xanadu (dragon slayer 7) Nec
> >
> >Wasn't that Dragon Slayer 2? Dragon Slayer 7 was called Lord Monarch.
> >
> >But tell me more about those PSX games Dragon Slayer 8 and 9...
>
> You're right about Dragon Slayer 2 and 7. I think he go
> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 17:03:32 +0100
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Maarten ter Huurne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Basic Demo Compo Rules 0.5b
> Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Arnauld,
> |["nah! pc is better than msx! pc can run msx emulator! emulator is equal
> |to real machine! i don't need real machine!"].
> Let's also put an end to this dicussion. The PC nowadays IS better then a
> real MSX. Come on.. Be hounest. The cars you drive these days are also
> be
> > >to MODs since... well, when was it? Damn, I wish I wasn't an MSX-fan but
> > an
> > >Amiga-fan... :)
> >
> Get serious. The MOD format is old, VERY old. I started making music
> on the PC and made MOD files. 4 channels Even the fm-pak has more.
> Some MOD files were pretty good
Hi to You Stefano
remember ... just
english not italian ! Welcome to our ML !!!
Bye,
Stefano
---Fronteddu
StefanoStudent in Software Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://space.tin.it/computer/stfront
MSX, Sardinia, Robotics, Friendshttp://computer.digiland.it/1461
Alex Wulms wrote:
>] This way every MSX only needs just one cable with
>] 2 female and 1 male DB9 connectors
>This however is very dangerous. Since there are two female
>connectors on the cable, which both can be plugged into the
>MSX, you will have the risk that people will plug the wrong
>one in
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Javi Lavandeira Montes wrote:
>
> Ok, you work hand-to-hand with Sunrise people and maybe you already have
> that info. But that's not my case.
Sunrise doesn't have any info; Henrik has got it and they can't reach him.
the only thing they have is the sourcecode of fdisk.
> I
Hi,
>
> Hi
> I wrote I want build MSX-3 ( non ASCII standart )
> I wrote FPGA-Mem memory controller for my MSX3 computer. It take
> EPM7128SLC84. I writing other FPGA-IO now.
>
> FPGA-Mem specification:
> Using one or two 16Mbit 60-nc DRAM 1MbX16Bits
>
> Z380 Memory map
>
> 00-00
At 07:59 AM 11/12/98 +, you wrote:
>There might be another reason for that: some badly written programs
>assume drive A or B -> floppy drive, 360 or 720 K. With HD interface,
>A: might be 1st HD partition -> program treats HD partition as if it
>were a floppy disk.
What kind of programs a
-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Manuel Bilderbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Nieuwsgroepen: comp.sys.msx
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Datum: donderdag 9 juli 1998 19:26
Onderwerp: IMPORTANT FOR CODERS: pleas
>Hello!
>
>
>I want to speed up the interrupt (original #38).
>So I use the #FD9A for jumping to my own routine (which will
>pop the return-adress from the stack), checking the Vertcal-
>Blank flag and only the absoult necessary things.
>
>Everything is fine, BUT - there are still two things which
NY> "Greg_" ??? You !?!?
Aha... I guess you couldn't see through my clever disguise, as a
Spectravideo SV-328 user!
NY>AARGH Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Now I expect to get an "honorable mention" in your autobiography,
when you become rich and famous.
>It is clear that you don't have never investigate the Mega-SCSI programs
and
>procedures, nor the Mega-SCSI MSXCDEX driver. You can be sure that an
>hypothethical ASCII-designed SCSI interface would not be better (nor most
>error-free) than Mega-SCSI, believe me! Don't underestimate the MSX
progr
Hi there,
No, No, NO! This will (for me) not do. In order to make this thing
really "plug 'n play", one connector side should be male and one
connector side should be female. In this way even 'newbies' could plug
in easily to this new network.
To me it doesn't matter which connector(s) is/are us
Hi all!
Some of you already knew that I'm writing a new IDE driver that would make possible
accessing >32Mb partitions on MSX-DOS(2) via an external shell (maybe a
Norton Commander-like) or maybe patching BDOS entry point.
As I'm not a good assembler programmer, I decided to release the full s
Hi Manuel, and other interested parties:
Manuel Bilderbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had this problem:
> I have a question about the Philips VY-0010 diskdrive. I recentely got one
> (for free! ;-), and when I made all the connections and switched everything
> on, the power LED went on, and afte
Hola Nestor !!!
Nestor Soriano le soltc a jam:
>> extra plugging in a cartridge or HDD interface with DOS2, etc., which
>> is just more trouble.
NS>
NS> Who uses occasionally MSX, will use a utility or a game?
NS> Besides a DOS2 cartridge (or better, an IDE interface) is very cheap
NS> now
NYYRIKKI wrote:
>How can I give this ID ?
With BERT I think you can press a number-key on boot.
>So, this means, that if I use same partitions at a same time, my FAT
>system will crach and I may lose some files, if I writed same partition
>with both computers ?
Only when you write with BOTH com
Konami Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >For your information I'm not enough specialist or DOS evolution
> >historian to ensure the reliability of all the mecanism and their
> >"arrival date"... and also I don't have any harddisk on my MSX.
> >So I hope not to make too many mistakes...
>
> Actual
Hi people,
Patrick 'Patsie' Lina wrote:
> Since the less connectors the better, the first option fails.
> We need at least 4 pins per connector (d0,d1,ack,gnd), so I guess
> a Jack won't work either. Which leaves us with *drumroll*
> Door number 2! :-)
>
> Eventho a DIN8 has way too many pin
hi all,
> Could you implement >8 drives too??? The system (DOS) can handle 254 drives
> exept for one function. And this function is barely used. So drives A-Z
> should be possible...
>From where did you get the information about the 254 drives?
Have you disassembled the DOS(2) kernel
>
>
Hi! |
A|A
(n n)
\_/
For those that knows me, yes, I have been away from the Net
for a long time. But not away from MSX. For those that don't
know me, I'm Cyberknight, Unicorn lover and MSX programmer.
First, the "serious" thing: I have just created an MSX
disassemble
Response of own-interrupt-expert Grauw...
Oberleithner Wolfgang wrote:
:I want to speed up the interrupt (original #38).
:So I use the #FD9A for jumping to my own routine (which will
:pop the return-adress from the stack), checking the Vertcal-
:Blank flag and only the absoult necessary things.
TFH wrote:
>||>Someone says that real MSX computers will be all broken some day. Well,
>we
>|>ourselves must also die some day, but we don't mind about this, right? We
>|>just live our life.
>|
>|I've been an MSX'er since 1986 as well and you wrote exactly how I (and
>|probably many many others) f
Hy, folks!
Finally, A&L Software presents ExecROM 1.0. Well, it took some
time to be finished, but, finally, it's ready. :)
ExecROM is a program that allow you to execute ROM files on your
MSX1, MSX2, MSX2+ or MSX Turbo R. It can execute 16, 32, 48, 64 (?), 96,
112, 12
Arjan Steenbergen wrote:
> Nope, the topic is the future of MSX.
> If that can't be discussed on an MSX mailinglist...
I think the future of MSX lies in high optimizing cross compilers
which will make it possible to write code on a pc, compile it for the
msx
and use every bit of cpu-time to the
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Laurens Holst wrote:
> And a very good day to you, too :-)
>
> >No, both drop and atck have as a parameter the amount of energie to use.
>
> Ehm... not yet :-) ATCK is only specified with the direction in which to
> attack as parameter. For DROP, no direction is specified
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Mari van den Broek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> >I read rumours about the cancellation of the Tilburg fairs due to "only" 22
> >stand requests.
>
>
> I think it would be wise if CGV would tell us what is true about this
> "rumours"... I think they also have to let all 22 particip
> TILBURG 1999 is ON
>
> Betreft: Tilburg 1999 !
>
> Sorry dat we nog niet eerder hebben gereageerd, maar hierbij de huidige
> status m.b.t. de beurs Tilburg 1999 !
> De reden achter de "stilte" komt zeker niet door gebrek aan interesse van
> ons, integendeel, maar juist door het uitstellen
For the historians: A little history on the Z-x80 family of Zilog
from: Great Microprocessors of past and present,
http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~bayko/cpu.html
"Part IV: The Zilog Z-80 - End of an 8-bit line (July 1976) . . . .
The Z-80 was intended to be an improved 8080 (designed by ex-Intel engin
I didn't read the whole lot but I have some comments...
:To be able to use more and/or bigger drives on MSX, there's
:essentially 2 things needed:
:-System software (like DOS2, disk/CD-ROM drivers and such) that will
:allow access to these
:-Applications, that allow USE of these (don't forget abo
Hi Laurents '~Grauw' Holts,
A combined reply:
> Ok, I have a little question for my understanding...:
>
> If any MSX sends a byte all other MSX-computers connected to this
> network recieve it, is that correct?
Yes, this is indeed correct.
Sending of a message can only be initiated by the MSX
>Yeah, yeah, of course... But...
>1) When will there be a final prototype?
>2) And then... What about the release date of the first series?
>(All this without thinking on the price -low, as it seems-)
Hei! I'm not at all related to this project. I don't have any kind of
information, only that so
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