Re: MegaRAM

1999-03-18 Thread Pablo Vasques Bravo-Villalba
Roberto Pinna wrote: Mappers on the MSX2 are as standard as the V9938 Interesting, my MSX2 had no mapper and it ran without problems almost any japanese game. `:) I'm pretty sure it had no mapper, since it was a conversion over one old MSX1. I can't say the same for MSX2+, I think all of

Athler Wars 2 cracked on Sony 900 with FM-PAC - continued. And ot

1999-03-18 Thread jam
Hola Marco Antonio: If you prefer, I can send to you a CD with most of cracked version of Martos. MP MP And how should I pay for this CD? Hmmm. I have not decided it yet. If you are able to wait two or three weeks, I will try to put the CD on-line. Salidos, digo ... Saludos. JAMcn

Round 16... FAT! (help wanted!!)

1999-03-18 Thread jam
Hola [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! Nestor Soriano le soltc a jam: NS - Restore TPA segments in pages 1 and 2 NS - Load C=#62 (program terminate) and B=Error code NS - Jump to #0005 in TPA segment of page 3, via inter-segment call NS NS It works and COMMAND.COM takes control, but next execution of

MSX Legacy CD

1999-03-18 Thread jam
Hola [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! Nestor Soriano le soltc a jam: NS (Hi Jam! My commission!!) X-) Let's say ... a 20% for each CD selled in mailing-list? NS NS I agree! 8-) Ok. Look for clients and I'll pay your part. BTW, there is a trouble. I don't know how I have to send the CD to the

Hydlide history

1999-03-18 Thread Marco Frissen
cool, check out the TE software Hydlide homepage: http://www.tes.co.jp/product/hydlide/index.htm They will release Hydlide for Windows April 23. Follow the link on the bottom of the page (small Hydlide logo) and see a history of hydlide: dated '83 - now. too bloody bad it is all in japanese. If

Re: 64K VRAM?

1999-03-18 Thread Marco Antonio Simon dal Poz
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, shevek wrote: On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Marco Antonio Simon dal Poz wrote: How can 64kb of RAM be memory mapper? Memory Mapper with only 4 memory blocks is a bit unuseful! Not at all. With a mapper every 16kB page can be switched on , 4000, 8000 or C000. This is

RE: MegaRAM

1999-03-18 Thread Marco Antonio Simon dal Poz
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My project with MegaRAM uses a double-bank of mapped registers (16 bytes select ever 8kb block). And how do you think you'll make the registers? Will you use the even addresses to select LSB and odd addresses to select MSB? Reference for

Re: MegaRAM

1999-03-18 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
snip Laurens Holst said: BTW, memory mapper wasn't born jointly with MSX2. Many MSX2 that I knew had only 64kb of RAM. Does your 8235 have internal Memory Mapper? Memory Mapper is part of the MSX2 standard. Ofcourse not, Laurens. Sony HB-G900P and Philips VG-8230 is really MSX2,

Re: Round 16... FAT! (help wanted!!)

1999-03-18 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 05:53 PM 3/17/99 +0100, you wrote: If so, a FAT16 driver should not in any way depend on a certain type of hardware/ROM, only change things that are the same with any disk interface. Or any DOS2-using interface, if you like. Yes, the standard way for accessing physical sectors is through

LOG(x) BASIC function

1999-03-18 Thread Patriek Lesparre
Hi all, I was wondering how BASIC calculates LOG(x). Does it use a look-up table (would require massive amounts of memory), some sort of algorithm (would require massive amounts of CPU time), or some mixed method? I'm trying to speed up multiplication and division (in machinecode) by using the

Mitsubishi ML-G1

1999-03-18 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
So, does this machine have 64KB VRAM or not? If so, I'll add it in the MSX hardwarelist... (Currently the amount of VRAM of that machine is unknown!) Maybe you can also check the other stuff that is unknown... Grtjs, Manuel PS: MSX 4 EVER! (Questions? See: http://www.faq.msxnet.org) PPS:

Re: IDE troubles....

1999-03-18 Thread Peter Burkhard
Hi The programm "part11" on the Fdisk. Peter from the Sunrise Team MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MegaRAM

1999-03-18 Thread Marco Antonio Simon dal Poz
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Maarten ter Huurne wrote: Lots of people have one. I am one of them. Philips 8235, 8245, 8250, 8255 and 8280 were all sold with 128K mapper. Only Philips did it? Did other manufacturers do only 256kb of Mapper built-in? Beyond Metal Gear 2, do you know other Megarom

Re: MegaRAM

1999-03-18 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Philips 8235, 8245, 8250, 8255 and 8280 were all sold with 128K mapper. Only Philips did it? Did other manufacturers do only 256kb of Mapper built-in? See the hardwarelist: e.g. SOny HB-F700P: 256KB of Mapper. Hydlide 3 is 512K. ROM version of Royal Blood is 1MB. 8-megabit

Re: Round 16... FAT! (help wanted!!)

1999-03-18 Thread Nestor Soriano
So you are actually doing 2 upgrades at once? 1. 16bit sector numbers - 24bit sector numbers (allows partitions 32MB) 2. FAT12 - FAT16 (keeps cluster size reasonable when partitions go beyond 32MB) Yes. It has no sense to do one of these upgrades without doing the other, I think! ;-) SET

Re: MegaRAM

1999-03-18 Thread Peter Burkhard
No, with the IDE-Interface and a LS120 you can read 1,44MB disks Stichting Sunrise Team Peter MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL

Which games work with START/GETDISK and/or FDDEMU (by Nyyrikki)?

1999-03-18 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Hi I was wondering if anyone could tell me which disk-based games can be run from harddisk with START/GETDISK and which with FDDEMU by Nyyrikki... Who posts/sends a list? Thanks! -- Grtjs, Manuel PS: MSX 4 EVER! (Questions? See: http://www.faq.msxnet.org) PPS: Visit my homepage at

Re: MegaRAM

1999-03-18 Thread Marco Antonio Simon dal Poz
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: Philips 8235, 8245, 8250, 8255 and 8280 were all sold with 128K mapper. Only Philips did it? Did other manufacturers do only 256kb of Mapper built-in? See the hardwarelist: e.g. SOny HB-F700P: 256KB of Mapper. Ok, I see. But my question

Re: 64K VRAM?

1999-03-18 Thread shevek
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Marco Antonio Simon dal Poz wrote: Is there a program that takes profit of the 64kb memory mapped? There once was a basic-database that used the mapper. I guess it worked with 64kB as well... Most flexible memory programs do, I think. The memman filecopier BK does... I

Re: MegaRAM

1999-03-18 Thread Erik
Manuel Bilderbeek schreef: snip snip snip So the NMS 8220 e.d. where not part of the MSX2 standard ? Same for the 8220, but maybe that 64kB of RAM _was_ mapped. I don't know. The 64kB RAM of all MSX2+ machines is mapped, I'm sure of that. the NMS8220 does have a mapper, and the

Re: LOG(x) BASIC function

1999-03-18 Thread shevek
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Patriek Lesparre wrote: Hi all, I was wondering how BASIC calculates LOG(x). Does it use a look-up table (would require massive amounts of memory), some sort of algorithm (would require massive amounts of CPU time), or some mixed method? I'm trying to speed up

RE: MSX fair in Madrid, MadriSX´99 - review for MSX magazines and diskmagazines

1999-03-18 Thread Manuel Pazos
6- Boh Ken, this new programmers asociation came with new software, final beta versions of Puddle Land and KPI Ball were presented, another FAT16 routines and they sold Sonyc and games translations. Members: Manuel Pazos and Sutchan. Sutchan (?!) Where? I didn't see him. Bye,

[Fwd: Silence!]

1999-03-18 Thread john . j
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Alex Wulms schrieb: Shadow !!!??? Where are you ?!?!!?!? We seem to need you in here !!! Because a lot of the people in this newsgroup don't seem to mail anymore when you're not arround !!! Maybe you don't know: he has no access to the newsgroup... :(

Re: MegaRAM

1999-03-18 Thread Alex Wulms
] On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Erik wrote: ] ] the NMS8220 does have a mapper, and the mapper is 128Kb wide , but only ] 64Kb of ] ramis used. ] ] What do you mean with that? It has 64kB, but reacts as 128kB? so: ] out(Hfe),0:?inp(Hfe) ] would return b1000 in stead of b1100? That would be

Re: MegaRAM

1999-03-18 Thread Alex Wulms
] I have never seen a MSX2 before 1987. And this copyright doesn't mean that ] the production really started at 1985. When did you buy your 8235? ] ] I have. ] ] ] BTW, memory mapper wasn't born jointly with MSX2. Many MSX2 that I knew ] had only 64kb of RAM. Does your 8235 have internal

Re: MegaRAM

1999-03-18 Thread Alex Wulms
] That's strange. I think that it's more natural to expand memory first, and ] after expand video capabilities. ] ] Who needs more memory when all games are in ROM cartridges? ] Only people who want to play illegal versions of those ROM's... :-) Ever heard of a RAMDISK? That is something which

Re: MegaRAM

1999-03-18 Thread Alex Wulms
] ] My question is: why the data behavior is symmetric (pages even and pages ] odd) and the block-switching isn't, I mean, why in Konami Megaroms the ] block number can't be selected via pages 0 and 3? This mystery can be solved quite simply if you look at the specifications of the MSX slot. In

Re: [Fwd: Silence!]

1999-03-18 Thread john . j
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Alex Wulms schrieb: Shadow !!!??? Where are you ?!?!!?!? We seem to need you in here !!! Because a lot of the people in this newsgroup don't seem to mail anymore when you're not arround !!! Maybe you don't know: he has