Re: Does anyone have Xtory CD ?
I was digging also, but I think I was digging at the wrong spot. The name doesn't ring a bell at all. Could you explane please? Well, I am not sure, though, maybe you are digging at the right spot. Tell me what you are thinking ofMaster I always thought Nijmegen had something to do with FUTURE MAGAZINE (not anything to do with FUTUREDISK, by the way) Future Magazine emerged with some other disk founding the illustrious CLUBGUIDE.. Which led to Clubguide Picturedisk Which led to Sunrise Picturedisk.. And Sunrise Magazine of course.. And too..well, I don't know.. Point of no return, I guess.. Greetz, Anne de Raad MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
RE: Does anyone have Xtory CD ?
-Original Message- From: Robert Vroemisse [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 1999 2:51 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: AW: Does anyone have Xtory CD ? -- Van:Anne de Raad[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: donderdag 4 februari 1999 14:48 Aan:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: Does anyone have Xtory CD ? Sorry. Are they the today's version of "MSX club Nijmegen" I wonder if the Dutch readers DO understand this. I really had to dig deep in my memory for this... A gloomy diskmagazine arises at the horizon. And some very familiar names... h. Anne I was digging also, but I think I was digging at the wrong spot. The name doesn't ring a bell at all. Could you explane please? Hideo MSX "copy" club Nijmegen was known for their copy-parties. I've never been there, but some members of the MSX-club I was member of, have. We're talking around 1989 now. "We've been to Nijmegen" meant the same as "we brought new software" Patrick MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: tape storage details
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Zoran Majcenic wrote: Hi, Can anyone point me to or give me details of tape storage ? I'm interested in file headers, bit representation and possible use of parity or CRC. The easiest way to use the tape is via the bios. You have routines for write header (long/short), read header, read character and write character. It should be possible to do it direct as well, but there's not very much use for it, except if you want to be sure others can't read your files... You have to make your own code for storage anyway if you use tape directly, so it's up to you if you add a CRC... I don't know if the bios routines use parity bits, but I don't think you can change it. Bye, shevek --- Visit the internet summercamp via http://polypc47.chem.rug.nl:5002 MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: A question...
As far as I know there still isn't a program for the MSX with which you can (like RAR or ARJ) devide large files into smaller pieces (to reassemble later) which can, for instance, fit on a disk. Compression is not even nessacary, just the deviding... Eehhhthat's what I would call a file-splitter... Like the one I just uploaded (Split v1.1) a couple of days ago. So: there is! Can you just re-assemble them on the MSX using CONCAT and on the PC using COPY /B??? ~Grauw MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Dragon Slayer VI
CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293 wrote: Continuing my digging into the heap of old EMs (I'm about at Jan. 23rd), I've got some EMs about "Dragon Slayer", "Legend of Heroes" and "Xanadu". It is very, very, very long since I last played "Dragon Slayer - Legend of Heroes" (MSX, of course), but I don't remember it being called "Dragon Slayer VI" anywhere. It shouldn't, because it is an independent series from the beginning. If it is indeed named "D.S.6" in MSX, then it is another unique game for the system, 'cause all other have it as the first of the new series. That's the reason its sequels has nothing to do with the other "Dragon Slayer" sequels (except for the background environment, of course). Seems like in some japanese magazines the game is indeed subtitled "Dragon Slayer VI". I think there is some MSX-Magazine (the magazine ^^) with a report on Dragon Slayer games, including Dragon Slayer II - Xanadu. :) I'll have to research further, tho. I'll tell you about my findings. [][]s, `:) Parn ICQ# 1693182 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Music of the soul", Mitsuo Hagita MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
AW: Does anyone have Xtory CD ?
-- Van: Anne de Raad[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:donderdag 4 februari 1999 15:06 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp:Re: Does anyone have Xtory CD ? I was digging also, but I think I was digging at the wrong spot. The name doesn't ring a bell at all. Could you explane please? Well, I am not sure, though, maybe you are digging at the right spot. Tell me what you are thinking ofMaster The FORCE is strong in this one. Give yourself up to the dark site (sigh). I always thought Nijmegen had something to do with FUTURE MAGAZINE (not anything to do with FUTUREDISK, by the way) Future Magazine emerged with some other disk founding the illustrious CLUBGUIDE.. Which led to Clubguide Picturedisk Which led to Sunrise Picturedisk.. And Sunrise Magazine of course.. And too..well, I don't know.. Point of no return, I guess.. Greetz, Anne de Raad Bye Robert (JEDI master) MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/) MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
R: tape storage details
Hi to You, look in my MSX Soft Tips Page, there you'll find an assembly routine that use bios call to read header from tape. It will be useful for you I think ! Bye, Stefano --- Fronteddu Stefano Student in Software Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://space.tin.it/computer/stfront MSX, Sardinia, Robotics, Friends http://computer.digiland.it/1461 MSX Soft Tips Page Member of Miri Software - Italy http://Frengo.dragonfire.net/MSX.HTM ICQ: 21401454 0338/3645458 -Messaggio originale- Da: Zoran Majcenic [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data: giovedì 4 febbraio 1999 15.01 Oggetto: tape storage details Hi, Can anyone point me to or give me details of tape storage ? I'm interested in file headers, bit representation and possible use of parity or CRC. Thanx MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/) MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
AW: Legends...
Hi there, "Legend of Heroes" and "Xanadu". It is very, very, very long since I last played "Dragon Slayer - Legend of Heroes" (MSX, of course), but I don't remember it being called "Dragon Slayer VI" anywhere. It shouldn't, because it is an independent series No, Legend of Heroes was the subtitle of Dragonslayer 6, just as Sorcerian is Dragonslayer 5. Just look at the logo-screen, just after the text intro, you will see Dragonslayer being mentioned. I believe the japanese PC88 also have these titles. But Dragonslayer 1 has nothing to do with 2 (Xanadu), Dragonslayer 2 has nothing to do with 3 (Romancia), Dragonslayer 3 has nothing to do with 4 (Dragon Family or something), Dragonslayer 4 has nothing to do with 5 (Sorcerian), etc... :-) (old Finkers joke). Grtz Coen MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: tape storage details
Hi, I found in ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/msx/emulator/fmsxd131.zip/Fmsx-dos.txt: Tape emulation == The tape emulation isn't nearly finished. Saving and loading files from BASIC works correctly (Metal Gear saves perfectly as well), but there are some major problems creating tape images from real MSX tapes. There's no program shipped with the emulator that does this It's in 1996. What the situation is today? Are there hard-/software solutions to bring my old files from a MSX tape to the PC, not using a MSX computer? Mindaugas. MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: tape storage details
Can anyone point me to or give me details of tape storage ? I'm interested in file headers, bit representation and possible use of parity or CRC. You can find those details in MSX Technical Handbook (chapter 5 if my memory don't fails). You can donwload it from my home page. - Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/9797/msx.htm [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Please don't send me messages with HTML code "New Pentium 34. Obsolete in 2 months. Guaranteed!" - MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: tape storage details
Hi, I found in ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/msx/emulator/fmsxd131.zip/Fmsx-dos.txt: Tape emulation == The tape emulation isn't nearly finished. Saving and loading files from BASIC works correctly (Metal Gear saves perfectly as well), but there are some major problems creating tape images from real MSX tapes. There's no program shipped with the emulator that does this It's in 1996. What the situation is today? Are there hard-/software solutions to bring my old files from a MSX tape to the PC, not using a MSX computer? Mindaugas. Not really, I believe, but some people seem to work on it. See The Ultimate MSX FAQ: http://www.faq.msxnet.org, emulator section. Grtjs, Manuel PS: MSX 4 EVER! (Questions? See: http://www.faq.msxnet.org) PPS: Visit my homepage at http://www.sci.kun.nl/marie/home/manuelbi MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: AW: Legends...
Coen van der Geest wrote: Dragonslayer 3 has nothing to do with 4 (Dragon Family or something), Drasle Family =) `:) Parn ICQ# 1693182 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Music of the soul", Mitsuo Hagita MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: AW: msx-ers
At 10:50 PM 2/2/99 +0100, you wrote: By the way, I also really like the SCC chip. It can have an incredibly full sound (only 5 channels) and is very fast. I'm working on SCC emulation for the MoonSound. Right now, it works only for SCC Musixx files, but I hope to add it to a certain Konami game later. A problem I'm having is that the technical limitations of the SCC seem to give it its characteristic sound. By "technical limitations" I mean the fact that SCC has very abrupt level changes (square-formed, no interpolation) and that it produces a lot of noise. At the moment, the MoonSound SCC emulation sounds too "rounded", in contrast to the "raw" SCC sound. Especially for the strings, the sound is not as SCC-like as I want it to be. However, the bass is a lot better when emulated. By the way, did you know that the formula for SCC frequencies is like this: sccfreq = (msxfreq / 32) / (sccfnum + 1), where: sccfreq is the played frequency (in Hertz) msxfreq is the MSX clock frequency (3579545 Hz) sccfnum is the value you poke in the SCC memory area None of the info I had (including the info I put on my web page) mentioned the "+1"... But when I was sampling the SCC's output to see why the emulation didn't sound right, I noticed the frequency that was played was different from the one I expected. In fact, it was equal to the frequency of the neighbouring fnum. Bye, Maarten MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: Legends of EXE-packer...
Cyberknight, For PC, there is an on-development EXE-packer (compress and keeps the file still executable) named Apack. I'm using it, even still being a beta, because it really smashes things! Far better than PKLite and Diet, for example. And what does it have to do with MSX? Unfortunately, nothing, and that's why I'm mentioning it: there is no EXE-packer for MSX! Or is there and I never realized that? Yes, right, MSX would run out of memory and the program would be too slow to start executing. Maybe MSX shouldn't have an EXE-packer... Could someone find a use to an EXE-packer for MSX...? There IS an EXE-packer for MSX. PMARC has a module named PMAEXE2.COM that can be joined to your PMARC file, turning it into a EXE-packed. Don't confuse with PMASFX2.COM, that is a self-extract module for PMARC files. But I don't see many advantages in using it. Generally, MSX programs are small (yes! we don't have windows!!!) and the PMA-unpacker is somewhat slow... [Unisys copyright of GIF] Today, all programs able to handle appropriately GIF files must pay to the damn (choose your favourite "I HATE YOU" word). UNISYS royalties are "only" US$2000 for using LZH decompression algorithms in your program... :O If I remember right, freewares aren't subject to this. Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Engenharia de Computacao - UNICAMP http://www.adrpage.cjb.net MSX-TR:I have one.And you? *** NEW URL! AdrianPage now is at http://www.adrpage.cjb.net *** * If there would be life after dead, Asimov already would write a book about it. * MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: Hi all!
Welcome to the list... I still got a trauma from bananenvla My music wasn't that bad, was it? :) Sander MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: Hi all!
Do you really wish to have an answer to that question ??? Go visit the MSX Emulator Page (M.E.P.) http://www.mep.msxnet.org http://surf.to/msxemu http://www.casema.net/~tfh ICQ:1446 -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Sander Zuidema [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: donderdag 4 februari 1999 22:17 Onderwerp: Re: Hi all! |Welcome to the list... |I still got a trauma from bananenvla | | |My music wasn't that bad, was it? :) | |Sander | MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: Hi all!
|My music wasn't that bad, was it? :) Do you really wish to have an answer to that question ??? Only if you say that my music back then was amazingly perfect So lie to me :) To be serious: Yeah I'd like to know what people think of my music. I don't consider my music on Bananenvla as good music. However, I was very satisfied with the result of Not Again! Greetz, Sander Zuidema Listen to my music at: http://members.tripod.com/moonsynth MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Trouble with ruMSX or fmsx
Hello MSXfans :-) I'm a trouble with ruMSX, it's too slow in my PC (under W98) Under fmsx-dos I'm a trouble too : Aleste Gaiden, Feedback, Golveillus 2 don't run... I have a real MSX (Turbo-R), but something I play under MSXemulation (via PC)... Greeting from France Lionel (aka yoyo) MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: Hi all!
Welcome to the list... I still got a trauma from bananenvla My music wasn't that bad, was it? :) Sander nah I loved it back then :) but the disklabel really hurts yer eyes!! MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: Trouble with ruMSX or fmsx
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: yoyo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: donderdag 4 februari 1999 22:44 Onderwerp: Trouble with ruMSX or fmsx |Hello MSXfans :-) | |I'm a trouble with ruMSX, it's too slow in my PC (under W98) That's not so strange.. To get RuMSX up and running at a decent speed, you'll need at least a PII at 266 mhz... (Strange eh ??? All this to emulate an 8-bit 3.58 Mhz machine !! | |Under fmsx-dos I'm a trouble too : Aleste Gaiden, Feedback, Golveillus 2 |don't run... Then you are doing something wrong.. Aleste Gaiden Feedback both work O.K with fmsxdos 1.6b2. Golvellius I haven't tried to be fair. Ehmm... Feedback does give a messed up screen during the intro though, but for the rest it should work okay. Please check your settings, or download the correct versions of these games from my site: http://www.casema.net/~tfh You'll also find over 1000 other games there. |I have a real MSX (Turbo-R), but something I play under MSXemulation (via |PC)... | Me to... Sometimes it's nice just to fool around with some of these cool games !! Greetz, Arnaud Go visit the MSX Emulator Page (M.E.P.) http://www.mep.msxnet.org http://surf.to/msxemu http://www.casema.net/~tfh ICQ:1446 MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: tape storage details
Hi all, Manuel Bilderbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's in 1996. What the situation is today? Are there hard-/software solutions to bring my old files from a MSX tape to the PC, not using a MSX computer? Mindaugas. Not really, I believe, but some people seem to work on it. See The Ultimate MSX FAQ: http://www.faq.msxnet.org, emulator section. There is one (only in principle) simple solution for this: a) Hook up a tape recorder to the line input of a common PC (sorry...) soundcard b) Simply record as audio to a .WAV file c) Write your own program (choose your favourite programming language) to process the info in that .WAV file I agree, not quite as simple as it might look ;-(( BTW: I do have a ZX-Spectrum emulator which can use some simple cassette interface, hooked up to the PC's (sorry...) parallel port. So something like it -does- exist. Alwin Henseler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://huizen.dds.nl/~alwinh/msx MSX Tech Doc page MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: compression methods
Hi you all !
"CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(...)
Unfortunately, nothing, and that's why I'm mentioning it: there is
no EXE-packer for MSX! Or is there and I never realized that?
There is: POPCOM.COM: easy to use, not so great compression
(compressed .COM file usually some 60-65 % of original)
Also restoring compressed files doesn't always work perfectly
(although unpacking on execution goes fine).
But PMarc can also (in conjuction with some other file) produce
self-extracting COM-files. But works difficult, and reeeaaalllyyy
**ZZzzz** slow
POPCOM de-compresses really quickly, about as fast as when loading it
from a slow drive.
Yes, right, MSX would run out of memory and the program would be too
slow to start executing.
Need not be so. If the file is compressed, that means space is saved,
that can be used for the unpacking code.
Also when the compressed file is smaller, this saves on disk load
time. The net result is just a matter of compression efficiency,
speed, and code size required to use it.
Maybe MSX shouldn't have an EXE-packer...
Could someone find a use to an EXE-packer for MSX...?
(no use, there are no EXE's to pack on MSX...;-)
Use is limited, because...most MSX program files simply aren't that
big..(what's 20 kB., even for a Z80?).
Disadvantages:
-sometimes difficult to see IF a file is compressed (or what method)
-difficult to modify with a simple disk-editor
-might interfere with programs that store settings in the COM-file
itself (like with TED editor)
Advantages:
-less disk space needed
-difficult to modify with a simple disk-editor
(more difficult for hackers)
On PC's (sorry..) that's just a different calculation, with far
bigger EXEs, more memory disk space, faster CPU's etc.
BTW: PC's LHA can also produce self-extracting .LZH files (eh, well,
EXE's). Does anyone know if MSX's LHPACK can do that as well?
The docs don't and, for a long time, won't contain
the "important" data, that is, the compression algorithms. It
happens that most of them are copyrighted (yes, we live in a world
where ideas can be labelled and hidden in a safe). If someone
really wants to make a PKZip compatible compressor/decompressor,
get QUICK the Info-ZIP's freewares "zip" and "unzip" sources,
they still contain the implementation of all PKZip methods.
The only ones that are really annoying are "shrink" and "unshrink",
the copyright owners* are trying to force the group to keep the
implementations out of the package (they are currently part of the
source files, but they are not compiled "normally", you must make
custom versions if you want to have your "zip" and "unzip" to use
the methods - I tried but couldn't, too much for the poor Boreland
C compiler, and not enough patience/time to set-up DJGPP). The
other methods ("stone", "melt" and so on) work fine in PC (DOS),
Unix (Sun Sparcs, Digital Alphas) and Linux. Only once I got a
file that was "crunched" and had to dig out my PKUnzip (ugh!)
Check "http://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/pc/archivers/" (the address
is correct, it is HTTP to access an old FTP site - FTP is also
available), files "unzip540.zip" (PLEASE, DON'T LAUGH! - yes, the
sources are packed!) and "zip22.zip/zip23k.zip" (the second is
new beta). If you have access to a PC clone, download also the
"self-extractor", so you can extract, later, the sources (look
out for a ".EXE").
These sources can also be found on a more well known source: SimTel
(in the DOS collection, I think).
It does contain *all* sources for PKZIP 2.04-compatible crunching
uncrunching. Sources are in C though...
*And now, my spamming against the copyright (claimers) owners
of the shrink algorithm. Since 1987, Compuserve has spread a new
image file format, the very well known GIF. It uses an algorithm
named Lempel-Ziv-Huffman (LZH).
Errata: GIF uses LZW (Lempel, ZivWelch) method.
I suspect similar to LZH ( ARC, ZIP etc.), but still something
different.
And I agree, GIF copyright policy sucks bigtime
(if possible, better use PNG for instance).
(choose your favourite "I HATE YOU" word). Of course, other programs
also used LZH (LHA, PKZip and so on) and they also have to pay for
the use of the algorithm (that is not all that good - there are better
around - but files that use it saturate the world).
Nonsense...these are really different methods (although maybe having
some common origin).
LZH = freeware by some Japanese dude, and nobody's gonna change
that(sources available too)
And ZIP is *really* a free format. There have been many companies and
interested parties who investigated ZIP's copyrights, and common view
is that it's FREE (and should be).
And so was written...
Alwin Henseler ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
http://huizen.dds.nl/~alwinh/msx MSX Tech Doc page
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Re: Split v1.1...
"Laurens Holst"[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know there still isn't a program for the MSX with which you can (like RAR or ARJ) devide large files into smaller pieces (to reassemble later) which can, for instance, fit on a disk. Compression is not even nessacary, just the deviding... Eehhhthat's what I would call a file-splitter... Like the one I just uploaded (Split v1.1) a couple of days ago. So: there is! Can you just re-assemble them on the MSX using CONCAT and on the PC using COPY /B??? Sure! Anyway you like, as long as you have all the parts! Alwin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://huizen.dds.nl/~alwinh/msxMSX Tech Doc page MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
soundcard
Hey Alwin, Whatever happened to that sampler/soundcard you were developing? Greetz, Sander Zuidema Listen to my music at: http://members.tripod.com/moonsynth MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: Booting DOS 1/2
Hey Alwin! Greetings (and to you too, Sander Zuidema ! ;-)) .yep, this guy is a musical genius indeed Thank you very much Alwin. You're giving me more credits than I deserve I guess... Good to hear from you again anyway. Glad you're still active. Sander Zuidema MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
AW: AW: msx-ers
Hmmm ??? Great Ammount ??? Over here a sound card with 16 bit sound will cost you less then US$ 25,-.. That's not so expensive, isn't it ? But you don't have a wavetable for that amount of money. MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: Legends... of packers.
Cyber Knight wrote: Maybe MSX shouldn't have an EXE-packer... Could someone find a use to an EXE-packer for MSX...? Ja' usou o popcom para arquivos .COM ? Infelizmente ele nao empacota outros arquivos, somente o arquivo .com (pelo menos gasta menos espaco em dis- co) Esta' no ftp da funet, nao lembro o diretorio. MARUJO. ___ _ _ ___ ___ | | |_| |_ __ _ __| WALTER BERNARDO NUNES | | /|| |_ _| \| |/ /| [EMAIL PROTECTED]| \ / || | | |_| / / Graduacao Fisica-UFRGS | \ /|| |_| |_ |_| |/__| \__/__||___|___|___|_|_ / MSX pra geracao que nao vai ___ mandar o mundo pelos ares. /"\ \ / CAMPANHA DA FITA ASCII - CONTRA MAIL HTML XASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293 wrote: Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ Continuing my digging into the heap of old EMs (I'm about at Jan. 23rd), I've got some EMs about "Dragon Slayer", "Legend of Heroes" and "Xanadu". It is very, very, very long since I last played "Dragon Slayer - Legend of Heroes" (MSX, of course), but I don't remember it being called "Dragon Slayer VI" anywhere. It shouldn't, because it is an independent series from the beginning. If it is indeed named "D.S.6" in MSX, then it is another unique game for the system, 'cause all other have it as the first of the new series. That's the reason its sequels has nothing to do with the other "Dragon Slayer" sequels (except for the background environment, of course). And what does "Xanadu" have to do with it all. Simple, Xanadu, in the "Dragon Slayer" world, is a country. MSX "Xanadu" is an adventure on that country. There is an "anime" (Japanese animation movie) named "Xanadu - Dragon Slayer Densetsu" (`Xanadu - The Legend of Dragon Slayer'). Why? "Dragon Slayer" is the name of a legendary sword (that can slay dragons?) The hero of the story is a young soldier from Earth's 21st century, thrown into the "Dragon Slayer"'s world by an unknown event. Well, won't tell more, it wouldn't be fair if someone is planning to watch it. I warn that it's not a wonderful "anime", it has many "lost cues" (imagine what someone used to technology would be able to do in an almost rural world - okay, they have magic, but it's not great a thing if you are not endowed with the magical essence, and most people are not... yes, okay, only the "right" ones and the final boss). Anyway, that's what "Dragon Slayer" is about, a magical sword (okay, said too much already...) I personally prefer "Madara" (unfortunately, never released by Konami to MSX - indeed, never released to anything but Famicom). About self-extracting archives: most of them (well, all I had the chance to use) can be normally extracted with the proper tool. "Exempli gratia", if you have an "AUTOUNPK.EXE", which is a Zip SFX file, you can command: unzip -l AUTOUNPK.EXE ... And see the contents of the file. There is no need to execute the file itself (indeed, except when no independent tool is available, like stupid Windowsky packages, I use my own tools to avoid virus - only my Japanese package is currently unextractable except by itself). The same is valid for self-extractor of ARJ, RAR and LHA/LZH. Do not tested UltraCompressor, but then, it is a poor packer (and no comments about "stuffit"). For PC, there is an on-development EXE-packer (compress and keeps the file still executable) named Apack. I'm using it, even still being a beta, because it really smashes things! Far better than PKLite and Diet, for example. And what does it have to do with MSX? Unfortunately, nothing, and that's why I'm mentioning it: there is no EXE-packer for MSX! Or is there and I never realized that? Yes, right, MSX would run out of memory and the program would be too slow to start executing. Maybe MSX shouldn't have an EXE-packer... Could someone find a use to an EXE-packer for MSX...? Anyway, still on the compression subject, someone complained about the Zip docs (oh, sorry, once more I deleted the original EM before the reply - you must understand, there was A LOT of unread messages in the box...) And it (he/she?) is absolutely right in complaining! The docs don't and, for a long time, won't contain the "important" data, that is, the compression algorithms. It happens that most of them are copyrighted (yes, we live in a world where ideas can be labelled and hidden in a safe). If someone really wants to make a PKZip compatible compressor/decompressor, get QUICK the Info-ZIP's freewares "zip" and "unzip" sources, they still contain the implementation of all PKZip methods. The only ones that are really annoying are "shrink" and "unshrink", the copyright owners* are trying to force the group to keep the implementations
Re: compression methods
] *And now, my spamming against the copyright (claimers) owners ] of the shrink algorithm. Since 1987, Compuserve has spread a new ] image file format, the very well known GIF. It uses an algorithm ] named Lempel-Ziv-Huffman (LZH). ] ] Errata: GIF uses LZW (Lempel, ZivWelch) method. This is correct. LZW is the first efficient implementation of the LZ78 algorithm (published by Lempel and Ziv in 1978). The LZW implementation has been done by Welch somewhere in the beginning of the 80's, who was working for ATT in those days. They filed for a patent something like one year after they published the implementation in a public paper. This patent has never been granted in Europe, only in the US. In Europe, it is not possible to request a patent AFTER you have published something in a public paper, conference proceeding or whatever. In the US it is. Anyway, old compressors like ARC on CP/M, MSX and MS-DOS (not to be confused with LHARC!), and compress on UNIX are based on the LZW implementation. And ofcourse the GIF format is also based on the LZW algorithm. Newer compressors, like ZIP, ARJ and LHARC are based on another algorithm described by Lempel and Ziv. This algorithm, called LZ77, was first published in 1977. It can achieve higher compression ratios then the LZ78 algorithm. Though it is much more difficult to come up with a fast and efficient implementation. Hence, the LZ78 algorithm was implemented years before the LZ77 algorithm... Kind regards, Alex Wulms -- Alex Wulms/XelaSoft - MSX of anders NIX - Linux 4 ever See my homepage for info on the *** XSA *** format http://www.inter.nl.net/users/A.P.Wulms MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: AW: msx-ers
] By the way, did you know that the formula for SCC frequencies is like this: ] ] sccfreq = (msxfreq / 32) / (sccfnum + 1), where: ]sccfreq is the played frequency (in Hertz) ]msxfreq is the MSX clock frequency (3579545 Hz) ]sccfnum is the value you poke in the SCC memory area ] ] None of the info I had (including the info I put on my web page) mentioned ] the "+1"... Yes. I found this out when I wrote SME3, back in 1991. First I assumed it would be (msxfreq/32)/sccfnum, just like on the PSG. But it was detuned a little bit from the PSG. So I tried both +1 and -1 to find the proper formula and the +1 worked fine. Kind regards, Alex Wulms -- Alex Wulms/XelaSoft - MSX of anders NIX - Linux 4 ever See my homepage for info on the *** XSA *** format http://www.inter.nl.net/users/A.P.Wulms MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
