Re: Floppy disk drive doubt
I have a simple question. I have a HBD-50 floppy disk drive (cartridge cable) but I don't know if it is a 360 Kbs of 720 Kbs one. Could anybody help me, please? And I've got a very simple solution: Just try it! Grtz, Siebe 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]
RE: [Tech stuff] MSX-C 1.2 troubles
Hi, All you need is a .REL file that does contain a 'main@' symbol, right ? How about creating a .REL with M-80 that declares your 'main@' symbol and that contains code that jumps to an external label called 'mainX'. It may sound crude but it could work. BTW. I've used M-80 very often and with large files and it never crashed or something like that. Is this generated source very large ? Frits Hello all, I recently got my hands on a version of MSX-C 1.2 and having some troubles using it. CF (the parser), FPC (parameter checker) and CG (code generator) are working fine: my C program translates into very beautiful ASM. Then, M-80 is called to generate a relocatable object (.REL) and this step fails: M-80 produces a .REL with filesize 0 (zero, nada, noppes). I replaced M-80 by Gen80, but Gen80 doesn't accept the labels generated by CG - things like 'main@' and '?52431' ... I did a search/replace in the ASM file, so @ would become X and ? would become Y and then Gen80 runs just fine. Unfortunately, L-80 (which has to link the pieces together) _needs_ e.g 'main@' as symbol and can't find it because I replaced it with mainX. Damn! Q: Does anyone here have experience with MSX-C 1.2 and got it up and running? Q: Is there any assembler out there which I could use instead of M-80 or Gen80? It must of course accept the ...@ and ?... labels _and_ be able to produce L-80 compatible .REL files... Thnx, Eric 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] 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]
RE: [Tech stuff] MSX-C 1.2 troubles
Hi, All you need is a .REL file that does contain a 'main@' symbol, right ? not right :-( There's at least one other symbol L-80 is complaining about. Can't recall the name ofthat thing at the moment though :-( How about creating a .REL with M-80 that declares your 'main@' symbol and that contains code that jumps to an external label called 'mainX'. How can I do that, when M-80 only produces zero-length files? Apart from that, it could work, if the other symbol I need is the same for every C source :-) It may sound crude but it could work. BTW. I've used M-80 very often and with large files and it never crashed or something like that. Is this generated source very large ? Not really. I don't have the ASM file at hand but it's definitely less than 10K... It was somewhat more complex that the std 'Hello World' example, though :-) Maybe I should give that a try first and C (!) what M-80 does with that ... Eric 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]
RE: [Tech stuff] MSX-C 1.2 troubles
Hi, All you need is a .REL file that does contain a 'main@' symbol, right ? not right :-( There's at least one other symbol L-80 is complaining about. Can't recall the name ofthat thing at the moment though :-( How about creating a .REL with M-80 that declares your 'main@' symbol and that contains code that jumps to an external label called 'mainX'. How can I do that, when M-80 only produces zero-length files? Apart from that, it could work, if the other symbol I need is the same for every C source :-) Does M-80 only produce zero-length files ? Maybe something else is wrong... Can you mail me this M-80.COM together with a file that surely gives a zero-length .REL file ? It may sound crude but it could work. BTW. I've used M-80 very often and with large files and it never crashed or something like that. Is this generated source very large ? Not really. I don't have the ASM file at hand but it's definitely less than 10K... It was somewhat more complex that the std 'Hello World' example, though :-) Maybe I should give that a try first and C (!) what M-80 does with that ... I've had M-80 compile Turbo Pascal 3.3 which had a lot of symbols and code (over 2 lines !) and it never had any problems... Then again there are different versions of the M-80 compiler. Frits 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]
RE: [Tech stuff] MSX-C 1.2 troubles
Hi, Does M-80 only produce zero-length files ? AFAI can tell, yes. I'll do some more testing 2n8... Maybe something else is wrong... Can you mail me this M-80.COM together with a file that surely gives a zero-length .REL file ? Ok. But that won't be till monday morning (unless I get my PC @ home uprunning this weekend (fingers crossed! I'm installing Debian Linux...)) I've had M-80 compile Turbo Pascal 3.3 which had a lot of symbols and code (over 2 lines !) and it never had any problems... Then again there are different versions of the M-80 compiler. Hm, then maybe you could mail me _your_ M-80 :-) (Isn't there a version of M-80 on the MCCM Millennium CD?) Eric 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]
Snatcher
I just got the msx emu with the snatcher rom, but i have no clue how to work the msx, do u think u could help me out? 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]
Re: Snatcher
I just got the msx emu with the snatcher rom, but i have no clue how to work the msx, do u think u could help me out? Maybe reading The Ultimate MSX FAQ first will help. Try http://www.faq.msxnet.org Grtjs, Manuel ((m)ICQ UIN 41947405) PS: MSX 4 EVER! (Questions? See: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/) PPS: Visit my home page at http://bilderbeek.cjb.net/ 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]
MSX joysticks on PC?
Hi all! It may be a silly question but is it possible to use MSX(-compatible) joysticks on a PC? Grtz, Siebe. 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]
Re: MSX joysticks on PC?
Hi all! It may be a silly question but is it possible to use MSX(-compatible) joysticks on a PC? Grtz, Siebe. I am more interested in the opposite, since all (my) MSX joysticks kinda suck (compared to my PC joystick, that is). So anyone knows something about that??? ~Grauw -- email me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or ICQ: 10196372 visit the Datax homepage at http://datax.cjb.net/ 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]
Re: MSX joysticks on PC?
Laurens Holst schreef: Hi all! It may be a silly question but is it possible to use MSX(-compatible) joysticks on a PC? Grtz, Siebe. I am more interested in the opposite, since all (my) MSX joysticks kinda suck (compared to my PC joystick, that is). So anyone knows something about that??? ~Grauw A normal pc compatible joystick is an analogue joystick , the pc can read out the position. A msx joystick is a digital joystick , it only gives the direction. This means that the are not exchangeable. erik -- 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]
Re: MSX joysticks on PC?
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Siebe Berveling wrote: It may be a silly question but is it possible to use MSX(-compatible) joysticks on a PC? I did it under Linux. You can easily connect an MSX joystick to the PC parallel port. Linux has a joystick driver especially for MSX compatible joysticks. So you can play Linux games with an MSX joystick. I also modified fMSX so it would accept the joystick. So now I can play MSX games with an MSX joystick, but running on PC. To make it more complicated, I resoldered a PSX joypad to be MSX compatible. So now I have a PSX joypad acting as an MSX joystick connected to a PC playing Penguin Adventure. Confused yet? :) However, if you are looking for a hardware solution to connect MSX joysticks to the PC joystickport, that's a bit more difficult. The PC joystickport uses analog signals for left/right and up/down. The resistance is measured for both the X and the Y axis. 0 ohm means left or up, +/- 50k ohm means center and +/- 100k ohm means right or down. I have no idea how difficult it would be to make a circuit that converts the digital MSX signals to these resistance levels. 0 ohm if left/up is pressed is easy: short-circuit. But how to give right/down more resistance than the "neutral" central setting? What you could try is to buy a cheap PC gamepad and solder wires to its switches. After all, these switches are probably of the digital "connection/no connection" type, just like MSX joysticks. Using this strategy, you don't have to build the digital-to-resistance converter yourself, but use the one in the PC gamepad instead. By the way, if you need diagrams of the ports (PC joystick, PC parallel or MSX joystick) or info about the Linux driver setup, mail me. 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]
