--- Pablo Vasques Bravo-Villalba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Jesus Rice, this is not true! Character tables
> aren't part of MSX standard, as you can see in
> any Japanese MSX ROM. Some games, like Payload,
> even use extended characters which don't look
> the same in every MSX. You can find 10 different
> character tables in different MSX models and
> this doesn't mean they're incompatible.
Ok, but I can tell you I was damn disappointed when
I've tried to run Parodius and it was hacked to fit
the Expert's character table and not the Hotbit.
Surely it was a problem with the not well written
MegaRAM loader program, but if there was no such
difference, there would be no problem also. :)
> What were those hardware problems? Unless you mean
> those horrid cursor-keys... :P Just kidding, I
> know it's just a matter of personal preference... ;)
> But, really, I never heard about HotBit hardware
> compatibility issues...
I've read on the website of some guy (brazilian) that
was developing a new MSX model and he documented that
the HotBit had such problems. I don't know what
problems exactly, though.
> This is unavoidable. It would be a great thing if
> some
> goodwilled person translated every Dutch, Japanese,
> Spanish or Portuguese-only document to some lingua
> franca like English. But we don't have enough people
> for this job... :) And of course not every MSXer has
> time to learn Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese and
> Spanish,
> then why don't you want to use your knowledge of
> Portuguese? ;)
It's not that I don't want to use it, it's just that
I'd like to avoid it. Maybe I'm just forcing a new
standard. :) Maybe I'd like to make sure that it would
be easier for everybody to interact, and keeping
information in a language that is widely accessible is
part of that action... Well...
> I don't think that, as I expect you don't
> think that too. ^^ But really, you missed
> *a lot* of stuff by not keeping contact
> with Brazilian MSX Scene...
Great! And I'm sure that what you said is true.
Unfortunatelly where I live the MSX presence has
reduced to a very well kept white HotBit (1.0) that
smells like new and a Nemesis 2 original japanese
cartridge (crowd chants). Not even a disk interface I
have. So you must agree that it has been very
complicated to stay up to date. I was planning on
upgrading that machine with some new stuff, like a
RS-232 interface to connect it to my Linux box, etc...
But I've decided that any investment towards the MSX
would be done through a new system, prefferably a Sony
MSX 2 or something of such degree.
Hey, accessing the Internet through an MSX, specially
if running a UNIX-like OS is my dream, man!! :)
I'll try to stay tunned, I promise.
Later!
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