Re: Brazilian MSX Maling list (In Portuguese)

[Pablo Vasques Bravo-Villalba]

"�iogo Sperb Schneider" wrote:
(...)
> 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.

Does Parodius use the internal character table?
I never noticed that! It always looked the same
to me in any MSX and emulator I tried it... Btw,
I think the default font sucks big time when in
8x8 character modes...

> 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. :)

Hum, I guess I know what you're talking about...
I'm almost sure you mean one of those BASIC loaders,
and the guy who wrote the loader probably wanted
to use some extended characters. This is fudeba! :P

> 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.

Does anyone else knows anything about this? I always
thought Hotbit was a normal MSX.

> 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

Probably this cartridge is as useless as that
Hotbit... Would you like to trade it? I love
the idea of having my own SCC! :)

> 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...

Ademir's RS-232 module with Z180 sounds great... ;)
Or would it be a Z180 module with RS-232? <:)

> 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.

You could have something better: a CIEL 2+! Why better?
Because: 1) It's an MSX2+; 2) It has some very cool extra
features like 7MHz; 3) It's Brazilian! ^^

> Hey, accessing the Internet through an MSX, specially
> if running a UNIX-like OS is my dream, man!! :)

Did you just say UZIX? :)

> I'll try to stay tunned, I promise.

Great! :)

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