Re: MemMan issues (wasRe: A1 Spirit (disk version for 128KB))
Sure. But I think it's better to leave the memory management to DOS2 and use the TSR-manager from MemMan, because that part of MemMan really rules. Yep, but most of the TSR's will use the memmory management of memman also, so if you seperate those routine most of the current TSRs won't work anymore (and I doubt if somenone will rewrite them.) David .--. |o_o | |:_/ | "One difference between SuSE and Red Hat is that the // \ \ former operates in a country where people don't sue (| | ) each other over coffee being too hot." /'\_ _/`\ Linus Torvalds \___)=(___/ 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: Msx top 100
take your votes, if you only choose 10... That's ok for you lazy people??? :-) YOu cannot do this, since then you system is going wrong. Well, maybe it IS fair, if you give number one still 30 points of course. But hey, you know, this afternoon (locally) I already mailed you my top 30... I had some free time. Yeah, I will give 30 points to the first place, I am not that stupid!! :-) And thanx for the support!!! Shatterhand 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
Micro Music data files
Hi, The e-mail about TSR's in MemMan made me very curious about the use and last known location where I left the Micro Music data files... Somewhere along the past seven years I seem to have lost three files containing the musics of Big Strategy 2, Tower of Cabin and Princess Maker. (I lost my harddisk at least two times :(( ) The other music data files that I did find are from: - Xak - Xak-2 - Fray - The Tower Of Gazzel - Illusion City These data files where ofcourse created with the disks of these games but reconstructing the lost files is a lot of work. If someone would be so kind to send them to me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) then the complete package could be added to the MEP. Maybe even with the complete source code, that is, if it is wanted. I still have the original source and I can also make some adjustments. Greetings, Frits ] ] Hi, ] ] Speaking about tsr's. Does anyone still use/remember Micro Music ? Yes. Great tool. All microcabin musics on the background :-)) Kind regards, Alex 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: Booting from .DSK image with MSX-DOS
--- Maarten ter Huurne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, "Ðiogo" Sperb Schneider wrote: DOS1 doesn't require a ROM. You only need the files "MSXDOS.SYS" and "COMMAND.COM". I wanted to avoid files, as all the disks are done already. I've got to try that, though! Thanks! = __ Ðiogo Sperb Schneider - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When I say Van Halen I mean David Lee Roth!!" @ http://www.geocities.com/enthusiast78 __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ 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: DISK.ROM Influence?
--- Maarten ter Huurne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, "Ðiogo" Sperb Schneider wrote: MSXDOS1 and games are started by code in the boot sector of the disk. When a disk is formatted on MSX, the boot sector will contain code that looks for MSXDOS.SYS and starts that if it's found. If it doesn't exist and it's the first boot, the routine will return. If it doesn't exist and it's not the first boot, a message like "Non system disk error" will be printed and loading MSXDOS.SYS will be retried after a keypress. The system variable #F346 is used to distinguish first boot from others (also useful to enable the CALL SYSTEM command in BASIC). Does it mean that the disk must be properly formatted to work? I mean, just copying the system files to the disk wouldn't be enough, right? I've done the following: I had the 5 1/4 disk in hands. It is an MSX disk that boots perfectly. A colleague copied the disk (that can be easily readable by a PC) to an IBM-PC and then I ftp'ed the files to another IBM-PC. Then I ran the WRDSK utility, found on Marat's website, to create the .DSK file. In other means, I didn't make a proper image of the original disk, but an image that contains files that traveled over IBM-PCs. Should I create another blank image, format it through the emulator and then copy the files from the old image? I'll try that! Thanks! See you later! The boot sector code is also the reason why a PC-formatted disk will probably hang your MSX when booting from it: the PC bootsector contains x86 code instead of Z80 code. When I had my MSX, BASIC was my environment, so the only "boot file" I'd know was AUTOEXEC.BAS. :) AUTOEXEC.BAS is checked after the boot sector, which is why DOS is booted on disks that contain both DOS and AUTOEXEC.BAS. 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 = __ Ðiogo Sperb Schneider - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When I say Van Halen I mean David Lee Roth!!" @ http://www.geocities.com/enthusiast78 __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ 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
Got It Straight!!
Ok, I can now boot those disks and run the software. I've replaced the old ddxdos.sys and comando.com files for the proper msxdos.sys and command.com files. I'm almost sure it is a DDX-DISK interface issue. Now I've got another problem: The application need an 80 column card to be displayed properly. I've found the ROM of the card at www.file-hunter.com but when I start FMSX-DOS there's no image being displayed. I believe FMSX-DOS doesn't support that card. Does RU-MSX or BRMSX support it? Thanks! = __ Ðiogo Sperb Schneider - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When I say Van Halen I mean David Lee Roth!!" @ http://www.geocities.com/enthusiast78 __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ 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
BRMSX - No 80 Columns
BRMSX has the same effect. After running it with the 80 columns card rom (CT80NET.ROM) it had nothing displayed on the screen. = __ Ðiogo Sperb Schneider - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When I say Van Halen I mean David Lee Roth!!" @ http://www.geocities.com/enthusiast78 __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ 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: Msx top 100
--- Rafael Lima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To Diogo Sperb Shcneider I HAVE Tensai Rabbian, yeah, it's a great game! Do u want it? Shatterhand Thank you! The file-hunter.com guy sent it to me already, though. Thanks again! See you later! = __ Ðiogo Sperb Schneider - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When I say Van Halen I mean David Lee Roth!!" @ http://www.geocities.com/enthusiast78 __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ 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 to VGA
Hi I saw there was some discussion on this topic, but it looks as if there never was a defnite answer. There was a reference to Andre Delavy making a RGB to SVGA connector does anybody know if he did? (Giovanni Nunes and Fronteddu Stefano (later) made this reference) There was also a few comments on the rgb to vga adapter by Novatec ( http://novatec-msx.da.ru/ ) Is looked at a few documents on the web and also at what the amiga guys did. Not that I know muck about electronics - I can solder circuits if I am told how, but that is basicaly it. (I do not quite follow the circuits of the Novatec project but they do look great!) This is what I found and concluded: First: a RGB signal output is a must - most msx's have rgb output or it can easily be added! (see Hans Ottens home page - rgb on a svi-738(msx2 video chip) http://www.geocities.com/msxhans/ Second:Both the vertical and horizontal sync must be seperated from the composite sync. True some monitors will accept composite sync in the horisontal sync - but not all!! http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/faq/vga2rgb/vgamonitor.html A proposed seperator circuit is as follows, using a LM1881N chip:(syncseperator.gif) Here the Hsync is actualy still composite sync and must be rectified still with the following circuit: |--|-- Composite | | |-\ ||-\-| \ Composite | \ | AND |o Hsync | AND |o---| / Vsync---| / |-/ ||-/ | |- Vsync Using a chip like EL4583 will give you true hsync and vsync and make all simpler. Third:Connect Red, Green, Blue and Ground to the corrseponding vga pins (VGA 15pin : red = pin 1, green = pin 2, blue = pin 3, ground = pin 5-8, 10, 11) Fourth:Connecting the Hsync and Vsync (Here I believe the trouble starts.) For the amiga I found two different solutions: 1Using a BC549 Transistor http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~andreash/com/a-vga.html AmigaBC549 (C B E) VGA | | | +5v-+| | Hsync--/\/\/\/\--+ +---+-- Hsync (p13) 100Ohm | +---/\/\/\/\/\-+ | 560Ohm Ground+-- Ground (pin 4,5,6,7,8,10,11) Vsync- Vsync (p14) 2Using a 74HCT08 (used by commodore) or 74LS04 IC (low power TTL-level inverter) +5v to the inverter chip with a 0.1 uF ceramic decoupling cap between +5v and ground Connect Hsync and Vsync via the IC to VGA http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/faq/vga2rgb/vgamonitor.html Hopefully this might work or help. I have not tried it yet but will as soon as I get my hands on the components. JP GROBLER +27 11 957 3457 (tel/fax) +27 82 293 2795 [EMAIL PROTECTED] BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Grobler;JP FN:JP Grobler TEL;HOME;VOICE:+27 11 957 3457 TEL;CELL;VOICE:+27 82 570 2576 TEL;WORK;FAX:+27 11 957 3457 TEL;HOME;FAX:+27 11 957 3457 ADR;WORK:;;South Africa LABEL;WORK:South Africa ADR;HOME:;;Plot Rietfontein 288;Muldersdrift;Gauteng;1747;South Africa LABEL;HOME;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Plot Rietfontein 288=0D=0AMuldersdrift, Gauteng 1747=0D=0ASouth Africa EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] REV:2712T115302Z END:VCARD syncseparator.gif
RE: MemMan issues (wasRe: A1 Spirit (disk version for 128KB))
It uses what ever the Micro Cabin game also uses. In my case a korean FM-PAC and ofcourse the PSG. You will probably find it on http://www.file-hunter.com in a few days. Just give me some time to collect everything... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pablo Vasques Bravo-Villalba Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 3:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MemMan issues (wasRe: A1 Spirit (disk version for 128KB)) Alex Wulms wrote: ] Speaking about tsr's. Does anyone still use/remember Micro Music ? Yes. Great tool. All microcabin musics on the background :-)) Hey, I want it. Where can we find it? Does it work with both MSX-Music and PSG? :) []s, -Parn (ICQ#1693182) /| | | |\ \| ___ |/ http://parn.cjb.net/ \/ - \/ Parn's Music Station | | Game Music XMs and more! -- --Izati Aba Mehinam Eto Kafe Nan 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: MSX to VGA
Wow! What a complete answer! But what I need actually is something done through emulation. I don't want to use that MSX system anymore, it's a very old Expert in poor conditions plugged to an even worse monitor. I almost became crazy a while ago because I've had to use that machine to dump the ROM of a brazilian MSX-Logo cartridge. (Contact me for copies, please! I wanna spread this rare ROM!) Currently the software is running fine on the emulator on an IBM-PC, but as the software was designed for an 80 column screen, it looks screwed. I'd need some way to emulate these 80 columns on the emulator. I've found the ROM of the 80 column card on the www.file-hunter.com website, but when I start the emulator, the screen just goes blue and no other thing appears. It's interesting, by the way, that when I quit the emulator, the DOS prompt is filled with strange characters... I wonder if the output of the emulated 80 columns card wasn't being piped to the console while the emulator was being run? Thanks! = __ Ðiogo Sperb Schneider - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When I say Van Halen I mean David Lee Roth!!" @ http://www.geocities.com/enthusiast78 __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ 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: MemMan issues (wasRe: A1 Spirit (disk version for 128KB))
At 10:22 12-7-00 -0300, you wrote: Alex Wulms wrote: ] Speaking about tsr's. Does anyone still use/remember Micro Music ? Yes. Great tool. All microcabin musics on the background :-)) Hey, I want it. Where can we find it? Does it work with both MSX-Music and PSG? :) If you mean the TSR can play only the PSG versions of the music, no. I think that particular routine wasn't included. If you means something else, then it definetly is YES!! GreeTz, BiFi Visit my Home Page at www.bifi.msxnet.org mail me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FTP: ftp.bifi.msxnet.org ICQ #36126979 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: WIOS hp
] Those have nothing to do with MSX2+... At least not the MSX-Music and DOS2. MSX-Music was for the first time a MANDATORY music device on MSX2+. So, all MSX2+ computers and higher have a build-in MSX-Music. This has led to the broad support of MSX-Music by most companies. Otherwise, MSX-Music would most probably have stayed a niche-device with only little support. Not all MSX2+ computers had it in them, because it wasn't a required part of the standard. There even is a game (Twinkle Star) which uses the MSX2+ video chip, but will crash your computer when you enter level 2 if you've got a MSX-Music in it. It's really stupid, since the game itself does have MSX-Music music (is that a pleonasm?). But it indicates that the programmer had an MSX2+ computer without MSX-Music. Or maybe he used a Panasonic-only MSX-Music feature (read: the SRAM), which he suspected to be there when an MSX-Music was detected. Anyways, the game doesn't run on my MSX2+ after the first stage. It does on my MSX2 without FM-Stereo-PAK, but the second stage uses the horizontal scroll feature, so it looks like crap on a v9938 (it doesn't check for it, by the way). You know, there is actually one really great shooter which is one of my favorites (I will list it in my top-30): Sea Sardine!!! The only shooter I know which uses the MSX2+-scrolling. It's really awesome. Is the second part ever finished, and if so, where can I get it??? ] Yeeh!!! But err... smooth horizontal scrolling can't be done on an MSX2 if ] you still want to do something else (moving one software-sprite can still be ] done, but more can't). And if you don't want to flip the borders, switch to ] 50Hz and you've got enough time left to enable the sprites. There you are. So, if you want to develop a platform game, a shooter, or anything else with SMOOTH scrolling, you DO need the MSX 2+. 8-pixel scroll @ v9938, smooth scroll @ v9958. That's the formula. I think that for example Nemesis or R-Type would have looked much better if they would have had smooth scroll. Just like space-manbow looks very cool with its smooth scroll. I agree. But those are games from the MSX1-era... Even screen 5 wasn't there yet. It is impossible to code a smooth horizontal scroll (with colors on the screen) on an MSX1 computer. ~Grauw -- email me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or ICQ: 10196372 visit my homepage at http://grauw.blehq.org/ 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: Msx top 100
I already sent it :-)) It's available on the MEP.. I know! Thanks again! = __ Ðiogo Sperb Schneider - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When I say Van Halen I mean David Lee Roth!!" @ http://www.geocities.com/enthusiast78 __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ 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: Brazilian Cheese Breads (off-topic)
There's something almost every foreigner loves in Brazil: our cheese breads. Please, don't die before tasting a Brazilian cheese bread. ^^ I second that! Our cheese breads are amazing!! Specially if coupled with Coke!! :) You make me very curious... Would it in some way be possible to send one to me? Or actually six, also for the rest of my family. Make that ten, I also want some friends of mine to taste it... ~Grauw -- email me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or ICQ: 10196372 visit my homepage at http://grauw.blehq.org/ 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: DISK.ROM Influence?
Does it mean that the disk must be properly formatted to work? I mean, just copying the system files to the disk wouldn't be enough, right? If it crashes or doesn't load MSXDOS.SYS (provided it's on the disk ofcourse) while booting: yes. In that case you need to re-format a disk (you can do format a virtual B-drive in an emulator I think) and copy all files to it. Or use the Dos2-utility FIXDISK.COM. But for that you need Dos2 (which the RuMSX emulator has). On a real MSX the latter is the best solution. On an emulation the first is the easiest. If not the disk probably is already MSX-formatted. ~Grauw -- email me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or ICQ: 10196372 visit my homepage at http://grauw.blehq.org/ 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: DISK.ROM Influence?
--- Laurens Holst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it crashes or doesn't load MSXDOS.SYS (provided it's on the disk ofcourse) while booting: yes. In that case you need to re-format a disk (you can do format a virtual B-drive in an emulator I think) and copy all files to it. Yes, it works, that's the solution I've adopted. You just made me remember about something I've been thinking... Is there somebody writing all this stuff we discover? It should be documented that the DDX disk interfaces look for DDXDOS.SYS and COMANDO.COM instead of MSXDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM now that I painfully found about that. :) = __ Ðiogo Sperb Schneider - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When I say Van Halen I mean David Lee Roth!!" @ http://www.geocities.com/enthusiast78 __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ 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
Fw: MSX to VGA
Hi Sorry about the schematics going crazy. I typed them in Courier New - no TAB's only spaces. I also added the schematics in gif format. I saw there was some discussion on this topic, but it looks as if there never was a defnite answer. There was a reference to Andre Delavy making a RGB to SVGA connector does anybody know if he did? (Giovanni Nunes and Fronteddu Stefano (later) made this reference) There was also a few comments on the rgb to vga adapter by Novatec ( http://novatec-msx.da.ru/ ) Is looked at a few documents on the web and also at what the amiga guys did. Not that I know muck about electronics - I can solder circuits if I am told how, but that is basicaly it. (I do not quite follow the circuits of the Novatec project but they do look great!) This is what I found and concluded: First: a RGB signal output is a must - most msx's have rgb output or it can easily be added! (see Hans Ottens home page - rgb on a svi-738(msx2 video chip) http://www.geocities.com/msxhans/ Second: Both the vertical and horizontal sync must be seperated from the composite sync. True some monitors will accept composite sync in the horisontal sync - but not all!! http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/faq/vga2rgb/vgamonitor.html A proposed seperator circuit is as follows, using a LM1881N chip:(syncseperator.gif) Here the Hsync is actualy still composite sync and must be rectified still with the following circuit: Schem2.gif ++-- Composite || |---\ | |---\ +--|\ Composite --+-|\| AND |-- Hsync | AND |---|/ Vsync -+-|/|---/ | |---/ | +Vsync Using a chip like EL4583 will give you true hsync and vsync and make all simpler. Third: Connect Red, Green, Blue and Ground to the corrseponding vga pins (VGA 15pin : red = pin 1, green = pin 2, blue = pin 3, ground = pin 5-8, 10, 11) Fourth: Connecting the Hsync and Vsync (Here I believe the trouble starts.) For the amiga I found two different solutions: 1 Using a BC549 Transistor (Schem3.gif) http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~andreash/com/a-vga.html AmigaBC549 (C B E) VGA | | | 5v -+ | | | | Hsync --/\/\/\/\--+ +---+-- Hsync 100Ohm | +---/\/\/\/\/\-+ |560Ohm Ground --+-- Ground Vsync - Vsync 2 Using a 74HCT08 (used by commodore) or 74LS04 IC low power TTL-level inverter) +5v to the inverter chip with a 0.1 uF ceramic decoupling cap between +5v and ground Connect Hsync and Vsync via the IC to VGA http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/faq/vga2rgb/vgamonitor.html Hopefully this might work or help. I have not tried it yet but will as soon as I get my hands on the components. JP GROBLER +27 11 957 3457 (tel/fax) +27 82 293 2795 [EMAIL PROTECTED] syncseparator.gif schem2.gif schem3.gif
Japanese to English translation
Dear all, Do you also want to read all those interesting Japanese MSX pages? Then visit "The MSX Plaza" and find the link to a new translation service that is available on the web. The Japanese to English translation of that service is not perfect but it is much more readable then the Kanjis on the Japanese MSX pages. Kind regards, Alex Wulms -- Visit The MSX Plaza (http://www.inter.nl.net/users/A.P.Wulms) for info on XelaSoft, Merlasoft, Quadrivium, XSA Disk images, the MSX Hardware list, SD-Snatcher on fMSX, documentation and lots more. 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: MemMan issues (wasRe: A1 Spirit (disk version for 128KB))
] At 00:37 12-7-00 +0200, you wrote: ] ] I myself have never been able to do so. Just take for example R800-drive. You ] can only load it from BASIC. And the only reason that I never made a DOS .COM ] version of it is exactly because, by my knowledge, it is impossible to ] properly load a TSR under DOS. ] ] That's why MemMan TSR management rules. If we could extract that TSR ] management system and adapt it for DOS2 only, we wouldn't have that problem. We would still have the problem that the TSR management routines must be loaded in BASIC environment. But indeed, in that case, you need to go to BASIC only once in stead of many times. But then again, if you load memman, you also need to go to BASIC only once. And in that case you do not only have a splendit TSR manager but also a very good memory manager. Kind regards, Alex Wulms -- Visit The MSX Plaza (http://www.inter.nl.net/users/A.P.Wulms) for info on XelaSoft, Merlasoft, Quadrivium, XSA Disk images, the MSX Hardware list, SD-Snatcher on fMSX, documentation and lots more. 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: Japanese to English translation
Great man!!! This is cool! However, this is the correct url: http://www.teletranslator.com:8080/ns_home.en.html?AlisTargetHost=localhost Thank Alex! Greetings, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.msx.org/ - Original Message - From: "Alex Wulms" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "MSX mailing list" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 11:44 PM Subject: Japanese to English translation Dear all, Do you also want to read all those interesting Japanese MSX pages? Then visit "The MSX Plaza" and find the link to a new translation service that is available on the web. The Japanese to English translation of that service is not perfect but it is much more readable then the Kanjis on the Japanese MSX pages. Kind regards, Alex Wulms -- Visit The MSX Plaza (http://www.inter.nl.net/users/A.P.Wulms) for info on XelaSoft, Merlasoft, Quadrivium, XSA Disk images, the MSX Hardware list, SD-Snatcher on fMSX, documentation and lots more. 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: DISK.ROM Influence?
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, "Ðiogo" Sperb Schneider wrote:
You just made me remember about something I've been
thinking... Is there somebody writing all this stuff
we discover? It should be documented that the DDX disk
interfaces look for DDXDOS.SYS and COMANDO.COM instead
of MSXDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM now that I painfully
found about that. :)
You can submit it to The Ultimate MSX FAQ ("the FAQ" for short ;).
Just send your info to Manuel Bilderbeek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). He's in
Japan right now, I don't know if he's able to edit the FAQ from there.
Bye,
Maarten
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Re: MSX to VGA
Ðiogo Sperb Schneider gravada: emulation. I don't want to use that MSX system anymore, it's a very old Expert in poor conditions plugged to an even worse monitor. Hummm, you are very very fudeba... (fudeba is a compliment) I Guess you are Brazilian. Don't you know the MSXBR-L ? http://w3.to/msxbr-l I almost became crazy a while ago because I've had to use that machine to dump the ROM of a brazilian MSX-Logo cartridge. (Contact me for copies, please! I wanna spread this rare ROM!) If you take a look at Funet, you will find MSXLOGO.ROM made by Philips (in Dutch language). Well... Epcom from Brazil just translated it to Portuguese and sold it like 'HOT-LOGO'. Pure piracy... And I have also Expert LOGO made by Gradiente. It's a LOGO Interpreter running in BASIC. Pretty slow... I have tape and disk versions... I'd need some way to emulate these 80 columns on the emulator. I've found the ROM of the 80 column card on You won't be able to emulate the 80-column card in any emulator because it uses specific hardware. The DDX ones used the 6845, and the Gradiente ones used the 9938... Download BRMSX, the best MSX emulator ever made, and try: brmsx -msx2 And when in BASIC type 'WIDTH 80' - Easy, not ? Or in MSXDOS type 'MODE 80'... get it at www.lsi.usp.br/~ricardo/brmsx.htm And don't forget to try www.coreclub.cjb.net Greetings from Brazil Werner Kai 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: Brazilian Cheese Breads (off-topic)
Maarten ter Huurne gravada: There's something almost every foreigner loves in Brazil: our cheese breads. Please, don't die before tasting a Brazilian cheese bread. ^^ I second that! Our cheese breads are amazing!! Specially if coupled with Coke!! :) You make me very curious... Would it in some way be possible to send one to me? Or actually six, also for the rest of my family. Make that ten, I also want some friends of mine to taste it... If you're serious about that, maybe you could get some Brazilian cheese breads for the Bussum MSX fair/marathon...? Bye, Maarten Why don't you save some money and COME to next Brazilian MSX meeting ? Sometimes I think you don't know exactly where and how is Brazil... I just can say that is certainly more, much more than you think... I read at Fony's HP that Stephan was amazed with Tokyo. Maybe It's because he doesn't know Sao Paulo yet... []s Werner 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: DISK.ROM Influence?
Ðiogo Sperb Schneider gravada: You just made me remember about something I've been thinking... Is there somebody writing all this stuff we discover? It should be documented that the DDX disk interfaces look for DDXDOS.SYS and COMANDO.COM instead of MSXDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM now that I painfully found about that. :) This is not 100% correct. I have DDX, DMX, Sharp, CDX-2 and CIEL disk drive interfaces and I use all of them with MSXDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM Here in Brazil we had DDXDOS, SOLXDOS, HB-DOS, TPXDOS, COBRADOS, and some other rips of MSXDOS. If you format a disk with DDXDOS, then it modifies the bootsector to search for DDXDOS.SYS and COMANDO.COM in the directory... But the change is in the BOOTSECTOR and not in the diskrom Interface. As I said I have several REAL MSX disk drive interfaces and all of them boot normally with MSXDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM []s Werner 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: DISK.ROM Influence?
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, "$B%_(Biogo" Sperb Schneider wrote:
You just made me remember about something I've been
thinking... Is there somebody writing all this stuff
we discover? It should be documented that the DDX disk
interfaces look for DDXDOS.SYS and COMANDO.COM instead
of MSXDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM now that I painfully
found about that. :)
You can submit it to The Ultimate MSX FAQ ("the FAQ" for short ;).
Just send your info to Manuel Bilderbeek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). He's in
Japan right now, I don't know if he's able to edit the FAQ from there.
I am not. But if you send this in info in clear QA format to the above
address, I will add it as soon as I get back. Promised.
Best regards,
Manuel
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Re: MSX to VGA
I don't want to use that MSX system anymore, it's a very old Expert in poor conditions plugged to an even worse monitor. Tsc, tsc, tsc... No comments about this sad statement... I almost became crazy a while ago because I've had to use that machine Me too! I almost became crazy when I use my TR! My MSX doesn't have that "amazing" Windows OS! My doesn't crash the system with a blue screen! My MSX doesn't need the state-of-the-art-sound-and-video-card to run cool games! My MSX doesn't have those stupid kill-everything-that- moves games! My MSX doesn't have those stupid classic-shooting'up-games- now-with-3D-graphics-that-needs-a-monster-video-card-to-run! My MSX doesn't take more than 1 minute to boot! :PPP :) to dump the ROM of a brazilian MSX-Logo cartridge. (Contact me for copies, please! I wanna spread this rare ROM!) The brazilian MSX-Logo is just a hack. The original MSX-Logo ROM can be found on Funet. This ROM is not so rare as you think. I'd need some way to emulate these 80 columns on the emulator. As I said to you, start your emulator in MSX2 mode (duuuhhh...). It's interesting, by the way, that when I quit the emulator, the DOS prompt is filled with strange characters... I wonder if the output of the emulated 80 columns card wasn't being piped to the console while the emulator was being run? Nope. It's emulator's fudeba author fault. :) Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Engenharia de Computacao - UNICAMP http://www.adrpage.cjb.net http://if.you.dont.like.msx.usuck.com * Te ky o my kybord ha litl dfect. * 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
