(Anime-) movies download ?
Hello guys, Does anybody know were I can download some nice Anime-movies ? (and then I don't mean those 2 minutes movies, but full versions). Yeah I know this isn't a real MSX-subject but I think that Anime and MSX are connected to each other in a certain way. Ok, thanks a lot ! Bye ! Arjan ps. Other type of movies are welcome too
Re: Reading CD-RW...
Maarten ter Huurne wrote: >Multiple rotation speeds would explain why my CD-ROM drive makes a lot of >noise when reading the table of contents (when a CD is just inserted), but >is not noisy when playing audio (single speed) or accessing files on the >outer edges of the disk (lower rotation speed needed for the same >throughput). Yes, modern CD-ROM's operate at variable speeds. A 32X CD-ROM (at least my Plextor SCSI) does 32X on the outer region, but 14X on the center region. It will be at a speed between that in the middle. With the supplied software I can force the CD-ROM to work at a certain speed. That is 14X-32X (standard), 8X-20X or 8x/4x/2x/1x constant speeds. Older CD-ROM's may have different speeds (1X for audio and 1 or more different data speeds), but the speed is constant throughout reading the disc. On a side-note, Kenwood is making new CD-ROM's (up to 72X!), that have 8 lasers to read consecutive sectors and store them in a buffer. While a 'real' 56X (can't get higher than that) makes a lot of noise and often only reaches about 48X max, the Kenwood 56X actually DO reach a constant 56X, while maintaining a MUCH lower rotation speed (I think it was like 12X or something). That makes them low-noise and keeps the wear and vibration to a minimum. About reading CD-R's and CD-RW's in older CD-ROM's, the keyword is MULTI-READ. New CD-ROM's support multi-read, and recently there are also Discman's which are Multi-read. A friend of mine has a reasonably old CD-ROM which can't read blue and gold CD-R's, but it will read my silver (Mitsui SG) CD-R's perfectly! It's a matter of reflection. Some non-multi-read CD-ROM's will fail the disc completely, others will skip a lot. Greetz, Patriek ,--. ,---. ,--. Homepage: \"To make a mistake is | '--.| __ \ \__/ http://www.tni.nl// human, but to really | __|| | | | ,--. E-mail: \ fuck things up, you | | | | | | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / need a computer." | '---' | | '--' | \- Glenn Scott, \_| || The New Image -since 1991-/ Secret Agent W7 MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes) in the body (not the subject) of the message. Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] More information on MSX can be found in the following places: The MSX faq: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/ The MSX newsgroup: comp.sys.msx The MSX IRC channel: #MSX on Undernet
Re: Harddisk and CDrom drive under MSXDOS2
] Well on the drives I had the terminators were most of the time unnamed, and ] since none of these old drives have the docs with them... I had to try it ] out. And the terminator was a crime too (which set the SCSI ID and which is ] of the terminator). Docs can be found on the web sites of the drive manufacturers. 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 "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes) in the body (not the subject) of the message. Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] More information on MSX can be found in the following places: The MSX faq: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/ The MSX newsgroup: comp.sys.msx The MSX IRC channel: #MSX on Undernet
RE: Reading CD-RW...
In the old cdroms the speed was variable! That was on purpose, because the cdrom is in essence designed for audio and humans do not like variable pitch. So the data had to be delivered with a fixed datarate and therefore the rotation speed was varaiable to compensdate for the larger amount of data in the outer parts of the spiral that passed the laser in one revolution. In newer drivers the speed is sometimes fixed to avoid the annoying speeding up and slowing down which causes a lot of noise and makes it actual slower (CAV angular velocity versus CLV lineair velocity). Another cause of noise is unbalance in the disc, not a complete circle. Have a look at http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/ if you want to learn about cdrom technology. You won't find a word about MSX there, because the MSX specialist are here and the cdroms specialists are there! -Original Message- From: Maarten ter Huurne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 February 2000 16:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Reading CD-RW... On Sat, 05 Feb 2000, Laurens Holst wrote: > With CD-readers the trick is the following: the center tracks of a CD are > smaller than the outer tracks. A CD doesn't really have tracks. The data is on a spiral path. > However, every track contains as much > information as every other track. So the holes in the inner tracks have less > space between them than the outer tracks. It's exactly opposite. The CD surface passes the head at the same speed, so in the inner region of the CD-ROM there is less information per rotation than in the outer region. What you're describing is how floppies and hard disks work. > If a drive reads at a certain > speed, the motor has to turn faster for the outer than for the inner tracks. This is true. > But then the following trick was discovered: why not let it turn at a > constant rate? Then it will read the inner tracks faster than the outer > tracks, but it won't have to use variable speeds. The outer region would be read faster (more information per rotation). This does not match with my experience, but it is the logical conclusion, assuming the motor rotation speed is constant. Multiple rotation speeds would explain why my CD-ROM drive makes a lot of noise when reading the table of contents (when a CD is just inserted), but is not noisy when playing audio (single speed) or accessing files on the outer edges of the disk (lower rotation speed needed for the same throughput). Therefore I think the motor rotation speed is not constant, even for new drives. However, these probably have a few fixed settings where old drives could handle a continuous range of speeds. For example, a drive may only support 1x, 4x, 16x and 32x and not everything inbetween. > Well, and since then the drive manufacturers give the speed on the inner > tracks (=the first part of the CD) as the drive speed. But on the outer > tracks it is much slower. So a REAL 4-speed drive is much faster than a > 'fake' 4-speed drive. I use an audio extraction utility which displays the CD speed. My 12x drive performs audio extraction at about 9x. This value differs a little for different areas of the disk, but it is always between 8x and 11x. If rotation speed were completely fixed, the differences would be a lot more dramatical. Bye, Maarten MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes) in the body (not the subject) of the message. Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] More information on MSX can be found in the following places: The MSX faq: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/ The MSX newsgroup: comp.sys.msx The MSX IRC channel: #MSX on Undernet MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes) in the body (not the subject) of the message. Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] More information on MSX can be found in the following places: The MSX faq: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/ The MSX newsgroup: comp.sys.msx The MSX IRC channel: #MSX on Undernet
Re: Reading CD-RW...
On Sat, 05 Feb 2000, Laurens Holst wrote: > With CD-readers the trick is the following: the center tracks of a CD are > smaller than the outer tracks. A CD doesn't really have tracks. The data is on a spiral path. > However, every track contains as much > information as every other track. So the holes in the inner tracks have less > space between them than the outer tracks. It's exactly opposite. The CD surface passes the head at the same speed, so in the inner region of the CD-ROM there is less information per rotation than in the outer region. What you're describing is how floppies and hard disks work. > If a drive reads at a certain > speed, the motor has to turn faster for the outer than for the inner tracks. This is true. > But then the following trick was discovered: why not let it turn at a > constant rate? Then it will read the inner tracks faster than the outer > tracks, but it won't have to use variable speeds. The outer region would be read faster (more information per rotation). This does not match with my experience, but it is the logical conclusion, assuming the motor rotation speed is constant. Multiple rotation speeds would explain why my CD-ROM drive makes a lot of noise when reading the table of contents (when a CD is just inserted), but is not noisy when playing audio (single speed) or accessing files on the outer edges of the disk (lower rotation speed needed for the same throughput). Therefore I think the motor rotation speed is not constant, even for new drives. However, these probably have a few fixed settings where old drives could handle a continuous range of speeds. For example, a drive may only support 1x, 4x, 16x and 32x and not everything inbetween. > Well, and since then the drive manufacturers give the speed on the inner > tracks (=the first part of the CD) as the drive speed. But on the outer > tracks it is much slower. So a REAL 4-speed drive is much faster than a > 'fake' 4-speed drive. I use an audio extraction utility which displays the CD speed. My 12x drive performs audio extraction at about 9x. This value differs a little for different areas of the disk, but it is always between 8x and 11x. If rotation speed were completely fixed, the differences would be a lot more dramatical. Bye, Maarten MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes) in the body (not the subject) of the message. Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] More information on MSX can be found in the following places: The MSX faq: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/ The MSX newsgroup: comp.sys.msx The MSX IRC channel: #MSX on Undernet
Re: Harddisk and CDrom drive under MSXDOS2
Erik, After switching DTR/RTS/DSR on in Telix (on the PC) I could reach speeds of up to 38400bps. So at least the problem isn't the interface. > if you install the driver (DRIVER.COM, shipped with RS232C interface) > you can use the Hitech-C extensions you have made a long time ago... It's still the same? Great! Pierre MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes) in the body (not the subject) of the message. Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] More information on MSX can be found in the following places: The MSX faq: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/ The MSX newsgroup: comp.sys.msx The MSX IRC channel: #MSX on Undernet
