Laurens,
> At the moment Illusion City loads fine on a normal MSX2(+) until the
> first 'window'. On my MSX2+ it displays (in nice Kanjis) LOAD MENU,
> OPENING and IN. START. So I guess it's a menu.
Are you using a IC version with oppening menu in english? Then you've
the "Downtown" map corrupted in the "floating cars" station. Some time
ago I uploaded a correct (and with japanese initial menu) to Funet...
If you can't find I send it to you.
> However, there is no selection bar, and on my MSX2 and in fMSX the
> palette changes after about 2 secs. Also, on my MSX2+ the pause-button
> (which is a hardware pausebutton!) doesn't work anymore. How can this
> be? And, an interesting resulting question is: can hardware pause
> buttons be disabled, and if so, how???
Hardware Pause-Button isn't 100% hardware. In Turbo-R is implemented
by S1990 (I'm corret? I'm wrong? I'm fudeba?) and you can do a single
"di" to disable it. Remember MkII's 256x256 screen sample, this
program disabled the Pause key. In Turbo-R "pause" key still enabled
during Illusion City.
Connect MSX mouse on port #2 and verify if an arrow-cursor is
displayed on start-menu screen.
> Anyways, I'd appreciate it if anybody could tell me what is supposed
> to happen next.
You choose a option, for example "opening" and you will see game's
openning. :)
How much RAM your test machine has? He uses ate least 256Kb to store
graphics and musics.
> Oh, and I'd also like to know how the normal latin characterset is
> encoded in Kanji, or whatever. Plain ASCII??? Well, I'll check that
> out with a diskmonitor (look if I can find the text in the opening
> menu somewhere on the disk).
In JIS you have a character encoding using two bytes (like Unicode)
the first byte is between &h80 and &h8F and the second byte is between
&h40 and &hFF. I did a only 7-bit ASCII JIS mini-table (boxes with
"/\/" has undisplayable symbols and empty boxes are empty boxes...):
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 814 | |/\/|/\/| , | . |/\/| : |/\/| ; | ? | ! |/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 815 |/\/| _ |/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/| / | \ |
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 816 | ~ |/\/| | |/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/| ( | ) |/\/|/\/| [ | ] | { |
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 817 | } |/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/| + | - |/\/|/\/|/\/|
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 818 |/\/| = |/\/| < | > |/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/| ' | " |/\/|/\/|
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 819 | $ |/\/|/\/| % | & | * | @ |/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 81A |/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/| | | |
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 81B | | | | | | | | |/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 81C | | | | | | | | |/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/| |
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 81D | | | | | | | | | | |/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 81E |/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/| | | | | | | |
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 81F |/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/| | | | |/\/| | | |
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 824 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 825 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | | | | | | | |
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 826 | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | M | N | O | P | Q |
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 827 | R | S | T | U | V | X | Y | Z | | | | | | | | |
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 828 | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p |
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 829 | r | s | t | u | v | x | y | z | | | | | | | | |
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ |
| 82A | |
+-----+ |
| 82B | |
+-----+ |
| 82C | Hiragana (upper and lower case) |
+-----+ |
| 82D | |
+-----+ |
| 82E | |
+-----+ +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 82F | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 834 | |
+-----+ |
| 835 | |
+-----+ |
| 836 | |
+-----+ Katakana (upper and lower case) |
| 837 | |
+-----+ |
| 838 | |
+-----+ +-------------------------------+---+
| 839 | | | | | | | | | | |
+-----+-------------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ |
| 83A | |
+-----+ U-Case Greek +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
| 83B | | | | | | | | | | |
+-----+---------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ |
| 83C | |
+-----+ L-Case Greek +-----------------------------------+
| 83D | | | | | | | | | | |
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 83E | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 83F | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 844 | |
+-----+ U-Case Cyrillic |
| 845 | |
+-----+ +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 846 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 847 | |
+-----+ L-Case Cyrillic |
| 848 | |
+-----+ +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 849 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |/\/|
+-----+-------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 84A |/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 84B |/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/|/\/| |
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 84C | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 84D | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 84E | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 84F | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 850 |
| . | Kanji table begins here...
| . |
| .
|
It can help you? I can send to you a text file with all Kanji bank and
a ROM file with a 12x12 JIS-2 font.
> Debugging process continues...
Yes but translation to english is welcome, too :)
Inother mail you said about the poor code, well Micro Cabin people
programmed all games in a generic and portable language. The source
code of Sharp x68000 Xak and MSX Xak are the same! The difference are
graphics, musics and the compiled code...
Last night I played IC (to test mouse navigation and others), wow! I
can finisih disk #2... left 6! Really is a nice game but know what
happeing is nice! :)
My version has a lot of save games, nice to do tests, not? The save
game is on disk#1, if I'm not wrong.
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sendo a pior entao ..." - Minhas Ferias (Pato Fu)
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