> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Siebe
> Berveling
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 1:38 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: (Silly) question about MSX on PC
>
> Hi there!
>
> I am wondering if a MSX-emulator exists, that accesses a SCSI
> device at
> startup in the same way the MSX does. That it will execute MSX-DOS2 at
> startup, and will give me the opportunity to use eg. Multi
> Mente to read
> files and run MSX-programs, in the same way I do it on my MSX.
>
I could do this for NLMSX. I've already done it for the WD2791
diskcontroller.
Eventually it all comes down to reading/writing sectors. If
you get me a ROM of this BERT SCSI interface and the specs of
the SCSI controller that the ROM will try to get control of then
it is possible.
The only thing missing here is an image of the disk itself. Which can
easily be created and partioned inside the emulator. Under Windows NT
the image could very well be a real harddisk, since a harddisk can be
opened under Windows NT as if it would be a diskimage. Zipdisks and CDROMs
can also be opened in this way. This is a little more difficult for
Windows 98, but it's possible.
> Why?
> Because I have been using a 40MB SCSI harddisk on my MSX but
> since I got a
> ZIP I didn't use it very often. So I put it into my pc
> (because i needed
> some space on my desk, and there was plenty of space inside
> the PC cover).
> At my great surprise the pc can read the BERT partition table
> so I can acces
> BOTH partitions with my pc.. but since a 40MB harddrive is
> not very useful
> on a PC i thought: 'maybe a "fake-MSX" can use it'.
>
> Grtz, Siebe.
>
>
>
>
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