D-Fader,
> 1. When I try to hide the cursor (for use with BIOS routine chget ($9f)) I locate
>the cursor at 1,25
> (x,y) -> That's out of the screen as I use 24 lines on screen.. It works, but my
>question is if it
> works on every MSX.. Sow.. Does it work on every MSX??
Isn't more easy you check keyboard buffer (there is a call in BIOS
for it, I don't remember the address by heart) and, if there is a key,
then call CHGET? I allways do it...
> 2. I haven't done research for it, but is there a way to use the BIOS for formatting
>a diskette, but
> then to skip the part in which the MSX asks for which drive and what size? Or do I
>just have to
> write my own format routine?
You can do it, by calling DISKROM directly (again, I don't remeber
the address). There are three calls: one just asks the format type,
another format disk using the selected option (in A, I think, is the
number you choose in the format-message) and another that asks the format
type and do the formatting. The bad is that the option numbers vary from
DiskROM to DiskROM, depending of disk-support (180k, 360k, 720k, etc).
Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Engenharia de Computacao - UNICAMP
http://www.adrpage.cjb.net MSX-TR:I have one.And you?
* Speed kills! Switch to Windows ... *
****
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] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
****
