----- Original Message ----- From: "Manuel Bilderbeek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: comp.sys.msx To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 2:34 PM Subject: Re: New MSX-DOS with ASCII sources?
Hello Manuel and others, > People who are good at this, PLEASE HELP US! I'm afraid I'm not good > enough in asm programming to be able to help, but people like e.g. Fokke > Post or Jon de Schrijder (experience with DOS hacking... ;-) or others, I spoke with Fokke Post last Saturday and we discussed recent talks about a new MSX-DOS with full FAT 16 support. According to Fokke this is not that easy to make, because of the current BIOS limitations. Current BIOS is located in a chip on the mainboard of the MSX or in a seperate cartridge. MSX-DOS2 uses a lot of the internal functions of this BIOS. Making a new DOS would almost certainly consist in making a new BIOS which has to be placed on a chip that can be placed on a cartridge (Sunrise IDE?) or into the MSX itself. Another option would be to use several tricks to bypass the BIOS, but that seems to be a very timeconsuming thing to do. Greets, Gerrit -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
