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Van: Maarten ter Huurne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Datum: zondag 14 juni 1998 21:40
Onderwerp: Re: Turbo R?
:At 06:03 PM 06/14/98 +0200, you wrote:
:
:>Sorry to say, but I think you should go for the Turbo-R. The Z380 project
:>is still under developement and I doubt if it will ever be finished.
:
:And if it will be finished, it will take quite some time. It's not just the
:Z380 they have to get to work, they have to make a new memory mapper, a new
:bus etc.
The new memory-mapper already exists.
:>Over
:>here in Holland MSX is slowly dying (example was the fair in Tilburg,
which
:>had a lack of visitors).
:
:I had the impression that this year's Tilburg had about as much visitors as
:the year before. Anyway, I had a great time. I think I even talked to you a
:bit (you live in the same town as Jorrith, right?).
Yeah! I mean, Zandvoort was worse...
:>I saw a booth where they where showing a prototype
:>of the Z380, but if it worked........ that's what they didn't demonstrate
:>as far as I can remember.
:
:It didn't work yet. But they were still gathering info, not working on the
:electronics.
But now they are.
:>About the Turbo-R; the speed is ok but it still has it disadvantages (eg.
:>the slow V9958 and some bad written software doesn't run on it).
:
:Both involve the S1990 engine. There was a discussion about the mapper
:problem on this list a couple of weeks ago. The slow V9958 access is also
:caused by the S1990, but it's only a bit slower than MSX2+, so it doesn't
:really matter.
Yes, about that wait the S1990 generates on a turboR... Why didn't they
implent such a thing in the MoonSound? I mean, now I need three
Basic-drivers; one for Z80, one for Z80H and one for R800!!!
:>And about MSX2000.......... well I hope that we'll make it but as far as I
:>can see now the end of 1999 or halfway 2000 MSX is totally dead over here
:>(sad but true).
:
:People have been saying things like that for almost 10 years now. As long
:as some of us still regularly boot up our MSXes, it's not dead.
=== I *fully* agree!!! ===
:>- More and more real programmers leave the scene (nowadays it seems ppl
can
:>only make music disks and call themselves 'programmers', because they can
:>make 'such a nice analyser').
:
:The real programmers are still around, they just don't program much. When I
:read this list and the newsgroup, I am often amazed how many people know
:quite a lot about programming.
:I guess programming is not really a "relaxing" activity, so if you have
:been studying or working all day, you don't easily start coding in the
:evening. Especially if your work or study involves coding as well...
I don't know how it is when I'm studying for programmer, but I know I have a
lot of pleasure to code something and to see it work. I like to brain-storm
about coding,but unfortunately,I'll have to do it in my own, since the only
programmers in the neighbourhood (Paragon) live 35 km away... And there is a
river (the Eem) between us, so I'll have to cross it using a 'ferry', which
only 'sails' 'till 6 o'clock. So when I want to cycle back to my home, I'll
have to make a f*king long err... err... "omweg", if you understand what I
mean.
:>When I have repaired my Turbo-R GT, I will be back in business too. I
still
:>have some plans and unfinished programs (no, not a music disk :-] ). I
:>won't tell what it is, or when it will be finished, but if I finish it, it
:>will be freeware of course (if I wanted to get rich with MSX I had to have
:>released these programs about 8 years ago or so).
:
:I'm looking forward to your releases!
:
:Bye,
: Maarten
:
~Grauw too, ofcourse.
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