[MSX] MSX clones: it's possible?
This is my dream: to find unknown MSX clones, mainly in the East or Arabian countries. Could it be possible? I found this site: http://www.homecomputer.de/ with many home computers. Soon, Enrico Barbisan http://space.tin.it/computer/enribarb ___ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
Re: [MSX] Snatcher in Portuguese v0.7.0
Now it looks more like Brazil than Blade Runner to me... (I know that Terry Gilliam film had nothing to do with real Brazil, but heh;). Two major points; 1. Line break rule sometimes works strange. Too often a line ends after a character or two, leaving rest of the line blank. 2. Unnatural pause occurs alot, especially prone to happen before pressione espascio prompt I'll personally report details later. CTRL feature is fine. Now I only need to wait 15 seconds instead of 30 seconds (or even a minute) before loading a screen. From http://www.caetano.eng.br/snatcher/ ... Gráfico do Pachinko corretamente traduzido para Baú Would you mind describing what this is in MAXIMUM details? ;) Takamichi PS I noticed Seu fudeba! already ___ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
[MSX] PSG REPLACEMENT WORKS FINE!!!
Hi people, I am in my lab right now (yes, in a Sunday), this was the only way for having some spare time for mounting a small circuit board for testing the PSG implemented in an FPGA. The VHDL code was already exhaustively tested through out simulations (using Xilinx CAD software, Xilinx Foundation 3.1i), so what was missing is a connection between the FPGA board and the MSX1 (Brazilian Expert 1.0 model). I finished the connections some minutes ago. The scheme is the following: one removes the original PSG, connects the DIP40 socket that I am using, which has the wiring ready for the FPGA board (Xilinx XCS30XL-VQ100), turns on the MSX, loads the FPGA configuration (in this moment the FPGA becomes from a unuseful chip into an authentic PSG-replacement), gives a reset in the MSX and it works fine! Right now I am listening for the thousand time the main theme from Venom Strikes Back, which is a great test, because it uses the 3 audio channels, the envelope generator and the noise channel. As I expected, everything works fine, which shows that the simulations are very efficient. And it has an advantage: the original PSG cannot work with a clock higher than 4MHz, this PSG that I developed goes until 60MHz (using the FPGA indicated above, I already made other simulations with other chips, and I seems to work above 100MHz of maximum clock!!!) The the result is the following: now we have a PSG replacement, and it can be used in any MSX, whatever the clock is. In this case, we do not need to insert wait-states or any other bad trick when someone want to use a faster CPU (like Z180, Z380 or others). For those who does not understang what I made, in the next weeks I will take some pictures and put them in a directory in my homepage. In the next Jau' MSX meeting I will make a presentation and a demonstration of this prototype. I guarantee that it will be very interesting! Now let's go to the questions and answers! Greetings from Brazil. --- Marco Antonio Simon Dal Poz http://www.lsi.usp.br/~mdalpoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] old Fords never die, just get better ___ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
[MSX] Snatcher v0.7.0
[English] Hi, Only one day, but almost 24 hours in front of the keyboard... (^= A new release is ready. There are no big changes on the translation, but some menus that were not translated are now translated, some more graphics are translated (including Altamila to Altamira). The major feature of this version is the presentation. Now there are only three disks (as the original one) and the game requires only 128KB again (like the original memory mapper version by Martos). The boot now is VERY fast. Well... that's all for now. http://www.caetano.eng.br/snatcher/ [Portugues] Opa, Passou so' um dia, mas foram quase 24 horas na frente do teclado... Tem versao nova do Snatcher. Nao tem muita mudanca na traducao em si, mas alguns menus que estavam faltando foram traduzidos e alguns graficos tambem foram traduzidos (incluindo o Altamila para Altamira). A maior novidade entretanto fica por conta da apresentacao da traducao. O jogo volto a usar apenas 3 discos como a versao original, e o requerimento de memoria caiu de volta para os usuais 128Kb da versao original do Martos. Ah, o boot ficou bem mais rapido tambem. E' tudo por enquanto... http://www.caetano.eng.br/snatcher/ Fui. []'s Daniel Caetano [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...A necessidade de criatividade e' o que contribui para a mudanca. A criatividade mantem o criador vivo. (Frank Herbert) http://www.caetano.eng.br/ - This OS/2 system uptime is 0 days 15:12 hours. ___ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
Re: [MSX] Snatcher in Portuguese v0.7.0
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 06:48:47 +0900, Takamichi Suzukawa wrote: Now it looks more like Brazil than Blade Runner to me... (I know that Terry Gilliam film had nothing to do with real Brazil, but heh;). (^= Two major points; 1. Line break rule sometimes works strange. Too often a line ends after a character or two, leaving rest of the line blank. 2. Unnatural pause occurs alot, especially prone to happen before pressione espascio prompt I have to correct this yet. But this is cosmetic. (^= I will do it in versions 0.8.0 to 1.0.0. I have to sync the texts with the mouths too. The break lines are made by hand, so it takes a lot of time. From the middle to the finish of the game the line breaks are better placed because I used a method that allows me to guess where the line finishes when creating the texts. Anyway, the Pressione Espaco messages appears on the same places they would appear in Japanese version, since I had not changed these commands. And empty spaces will always happens on the end of the lines, unless I make some hiphenization, but this would be really hard work. (^= I'll personally report details later. Ok... CTRL feature is fine. Now I only need to wait 15 seconds instead of 30 seconds (or even a minute) before loading a screen. If you get a faster MSX, it'll be even faster. (^= But twice the speed is the fastest I could get on Turbo R. (^= Gr fico do Pachinko corretamente traduzido para Ba£ Would you mind describing what this is in MAXIMUM details? ;) Ah, this was a mistake. This graphic is not translated yet. It'll be translated on the next version (I hope). The change is because PACHINKO means nothing in portuguese (specially if written in japanese characters). So I had changed it. BA is the name of a store here, on Brasil. And PAU in portuguese (the variation that will happen because of broken neon) has a similar mean as CHINKO. Got it? (^= Takamichi PS I noticed Seu fudeba! already Hehehe... It's very nice to enable some features left disabled by the original authors! (^= []'s Daniel Caetano [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...A necessidade de criatividade e' o que contribui para a mudanca. A criatividade mantem o criador vivo. (Frank Herbert) http://www.caetano.eng.br/ - This OS/2 system uptime is 0 days 12:08 hours. ___ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
[MSX] SD-Snatcher for Mapper and SCC+ music
Hi! Thanks to Artemio now I'm a proud owner of a SCC+ from SD-Snatcher. But I was very displeased to see that starcracks had made a version of SD-Snatcher for normal SCC that uses my SCC+ as a normal SCC. \^= Worst, the translated version was based on this cracked version. I'm planning to re-adapt it to mapper and SCC+ use, and apply the translation patch then... But before start this work I would like to know if no one had done this work before... I do not want to loose time I would be spending on other threads (like working on English Snatcher... Hehe BTW, I had already started this work). That's all for now. Thanks in advance... []'s Daniel Caetano [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...A necessidade de criatividade e' o que contribui para a mudanca. A criatividade mantem o criador vivo. (Frank Herbert) http://www.caetano.eng.br/ - This OS/2 system uptime is 0 days 13:00 hours. ___ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
