[MSX] New Internet-Draft (ON-TOPIC!)
Hi all, please take a look at this: ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/internet-drafts/draft-nsoriano-sptp-00.txt Could this qualify for MSX in the media? :-) -- Nestor Soriano [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
[MSX] Another test from ObsoNET
Hi all. This is just another email sent from my MSX using my ObsoNET card, but hthis time, the MSX is connected to an ADSL I have bought recently. I have signed up for ADSL and now I'm waiting for it to become active, so expect another message sent by the bare MSX without the help of any PC! :-) Konami Man ___ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
[MSX] ILAC '04 - InterNestor Lite Applications Contest
Hi all, I have just opened an InterNestor Lite Applications Contest. The price is an MSX Turbo-R computer. Here you have the rules info: http://www.konamiman.com/msx/ilac-e.html -- Nestor Soriano [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
Re[2]: [MSX] Snatcher/SD Snatcher music
I saw the first CD being offered in a store in Osaka past week. It was about 10.000 yen, a little bit too expensive for me to buy it. Apparently it's a real collectors item, also in Japan. Which shop in Osaka has such things? Since I'll go there this year, I would like to take a look. -- Nestor Soriano [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
Re: [MSX] MSX PC transfer
Is there any software that can connect a pc to msx via rs232, which have functions like: Create dir on remote / local Browse dir on remote / local Upload to remote Download from remote Install an FTP server on your PC and use InterNestor Suite on your MSX :-) -- Nestor Soriano [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
Re: [MSX] It is just a MSX message...
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 00:46:25 +0100 Francisco Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello dudes... Today I finished Snatcher in portuguese (I almost could understand it all) and just I wanted to share it with everybody here. :D Just some things to say... THANKS to all team who made this version available (Konami, Daniel Caetano, Dante Nishida, Takamichi Suzukawa, ... (sure I forget some names, forgive me please)). THANKS to Daniel Caetano for making a superb HD version and for the CTRL key (you rule Daniel!!) ;))) And just something more... Konamiman !!! It can be finished, you just has to be a good dude and learn that good games exists beyond nemesis 2 8-) Okay, that is all (I hope you read me with a new message soon (and it will be more interesting for some users, at least I hope)). Best regards, Saeba ___ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx -- Nestor Soriano [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
Compression Fighters (was: KPIBALL etc)
Why unpack it on your MSX when you have a PC Because we're supposed to be MSX users. __ Launch your own web site Today! Create a Web site for your family, friends, photos, or a special event. Visit: http://www.namezero.com/sitebuilder -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re: Compression Fighters (was: KPIBALL etc)
And because when you finish the internestor suite, we will be Uh oh... internet+nestor... it's sounds terribly interesting... What is it?? Go to http://msx.konamiman.com and see by yourself. ;-) BTW sorry for the delay on releasing the 3th beta... I have a 8 hours job now... (if I could only install my MSX here...) __ Launch your own web site Today! Create a Web site for your family, friends, photos, or a special event. Visit: http://www.namezero.com/sitebuilder -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re: Compression Fighters (was: KPIBALL etc)
Why unpack it on your MSX when you have a PC Because we're supposed to be MSX users. So, internet on your MSX. Ok, I'm working on that, just give me some more time. When your car is a Toyota, do you have to get Japanese fuel? ;) Well, I got a japanese girlfriend. Not exactly fuel, but makes me run. X-) __ Launch your own web site Today! Create a Web site for your family, friends, photos, or a special event. Visit: http://www.namezero.com/sitebuilder -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Hates Gates (was: aamsx.org aamsx.com)
*heheh* Ah, them spanish. Still in the middle of the dark gloomy middle ages. No wonder it was so easy sending them back home back in 1648 :-) Heretic!! God will send you to burn in hell. But before, I'll burn you in the middle of the town, and your soul will vanish in the darkness. Ehum... you didn't noticed yet that Spain is different? That's the matter, nothing more and nothing less! Even in the euro age!! X-D Konami Man trying to keep off all the hates (except for Bill Gates) __ Launch your own web site Today! Create a Web site for your family, friends, photos, or a special event. Visit: http://www.namezero.com/sitebuilder -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re: Stupid SCSI questions
The partition table of Gouda/Novaxis/Fudeba SCSI interfaces are standard? A decoding routine for MegaSCSI partition table will work on a Novaxis partition table? I just know about partition tables created when formatting a disk with MegaSCSI (except earlier versions of SFORM) and Sunrise IDE: both devices create a standard partition table. You could even partition the disk with a PC and be able to manage the partitions on the MSX (as long as you use my PS.COM and NOT the original CP.COM with the MegaSCSI), and vice versa: taht's the meaning of the word standard. ;-) I don't know about Novaxis. If I have a SCSI interface and connect a HD to it, what is the ID of this HD? 0 or 1? None of them? Or the ID can be configured by the user? If I connect three SCSI HDs to my SCSI interface, can I set any ID for each one (5 for the first, 0 for the second and 3 for the third, for example?)? Or they will have their ID automatically set by the interface (or their order in in the connection, I don't know): 0, 1 and 2 (or 1, 2 and 3, I don't know)? Don't have headaches for this question, it is quite easy: 1) The ID of a SCSI device is either factory fixed (rare), configurable by the user between two or three values to choose (the most common case) or fully configurable to any value between 0 and 7. 2) The ID is configured via hard (a switch, jumpers, or whatever) and can NOT be modified in real time via soft when the device is running. 3) As long as you don't repeat numbers, you are free to choose all the IDs on a SCSI chain as you want. No need to be consecutive, or to set IDs progressively according to the phsysical structure of the chain, or whatever. Remember however that the SCSI interface itself owns one of the ID of the chain, that is, logically acts as one of the devices. 3) Novaxis --- Ooops! Zero knowledge about this, sorry! 8-) *** XX BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: DECEMBER 8TH, 2001 *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.konamiman.com Kyoko Koizumi home page (under construction): http://www.geocities.com/tamachan1976/index.html -- -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re[2]: Stupid SCSI questions
Sunrise IDE uses a not-so-standard way. Jon confirmed that IDE uses all available space in sector 0 to save partition table. So, a PC will recognize only the first 4 partitions... But, doing this makes partition locating faster on MSX. :) Uf... I hate these non-standard tricks. Sorry. 8-) MegaSCSI uses actually two systems at the same time to manage partitions: 1) The mentioned standard partition table. This allows to use any Mega-SCSI formatted device with a PC, and is the table used by my PS.COM. 2) In each partition there is a hidden file, MEGASCSI.TBL, with information about the physical starting sector of each partition. This information is used by CP.COM, and is of course faster than reading the standard partition table. So, SCSI users allways have to know the IDs of their SCSI devices? (ugh... should I write write the numbers in a post-it and put it in the front of my monitor? :P) On the case of MegaSCSI, there is no need for this. Using ESET you assign one device for each drive assigned to MegaSCSI. So you must set up a device for each drive only once, and from that point, worry only about partition numbers. For example, say that you assign 6 drives for MegaSCSI. Then A: could be ESE-RAM, B: and C: could be for hard disk, D: and E: could be for ZIP, and F: for CD-ROM. You set up this using ESET, and after this, a PS C:7 (or CP C:7) means: I want to assign partition 7 of my HD to drive C: However, PS.COM allows you to optionally specify the ID of a device to be attached to one drive, together with the partition number. For example PS C:7 5 means: let's attach device with ID 5 to drive C:, and then select partition 7. *** XX BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: DECEMBER 8TH, 2001 *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.konamiman.com Kyoko Koizumi home page (under construction): http://www.geocities.com/tamachan1976/index.html -- -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re: IDE technical questions
1. Checking my HD sector 0 I think that the partitions start and length numbers are stored in (32 bit values) offsets Ah (length) and 6h (start), starting at 1FAh (partition 0). In other words, the sector 0 of an IDE device has: partition 0: start sector (32 bits) stored in 1FAh length stored in 1F6h partition 1: start sector (32 bits) stored in 1EAh length stored in 1E6h partition 2: start sector (32 bits) stored in 1DAh length stored in 1D6h partition 3: start sector (32 bits) stored in 1CAh length stored in 1C6h ... partition 30:start sector (32 bits) stored in 1Ah length stored in 16h It is not so easy. On sector 0 you will find a table with two entries: one for the partition 0, and another one which is actually a pointer to another table. This other table has also two entries: one for partition 1 and another pointer, and so on. This is true for any device, not only IDE. Sorry, I don't have the detailed information here. The difference between Windows and a virus? Virus is free. ...and Virus never fails. -- Nestor Soriano [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re: MegaSCSI info
Some time ago I got a text file from KonamiMan that described many MegaSCSI functions. It was a partial translation from the original MegaSCSI manual. I was looking for it in my HD but I didn't find it. I looked at KonamiMan's page (argh! it has lots of broken links! I had to find the english page using AltaVista!) and also didn't find this technical text there. Anyone knows where can I find it, please? Let me return to spain and surf on my HD for it! One week or so, if I forget, email again pleez, And BTW to access my home page quickly use http://msx.konamiman.com -- Nestor Soriano [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
But what the hell happens with page 1 switching???
I'm completely lost. I modified InterNestor Suite so all the code is now switched and executed on page 2, but I still need to switch NestorMan on page 1. I do it in the hard way: - Obtain the slot currently switched on page 1 by reading the slot selction register, connecting the slot of page 1 into page 3 and reading address #. Save this slot+subslot value on OLDSLOT. - Save contents of work area #FCC5 to #FCC8 (the sublot registers saving area) as OLDSUB - Switch NestorMan slot on page 1 with ENASLT - DO NOTHING ELSE (for test) - Restore OLDSLOT to page 1 - Restore OLDSUB to #FCC5-#FCC8 (all of this is done in each timer interrupt) ...and the result is same: after installing it, in an infinite loop of DIRs to the floppy drive (NOT hard disk) the computer hangs after some iterations. Someone can figure out what the hell happens?? You can take your time for the reply. I'm going to Japan tomorrow, so I will not touch my MSX in one month. 8-) *** XX BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: DECEMBER 8TH, 2001 *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.konamiman.com Kyoko Koizumi home page (under construction): http://www.geocities.com/tamachan1976/index.html -- -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re[2]: But what the hell happens with page 1 switching???
- Obtain the slot currently switched on page 1 by reading the slot selction register, connecting the slot of page 1 into page 3 and reading address #. Save this slot+subslot value on OLDSLOT. You should ofcourse complement what you read from #. I assume your code does, but you didn't mention it here. Yes, I complement the read value; I assumed it was understood. - Save contents of work area #FCC5 to #FCC8 (the sublot registers saving area) as OLDSUB What are these for, anyway? I though that maybe the code on the disk ROM performs some illegal (but working) slot switching, not using this work area or using it in any strange way; so I decided to better save these values and leave them as they were, before returning control to the main code. BTW I tested also without touching this work area, and the result is same. - Switch NestorMan slot on page 1 with ENASLT Watch out: ENASLT does an EI. What? According to Technical Handbook, ENASLT finishes in DI state. Anyway I do an EI after the ENASLT. Since you store values on fixed addresses, the interrupt handler is not re-entrant. You have to guard against interrupt-within-interrupt. The previous code you sent to the list did that (interrupt in progress flag). I had also though on this. When the timer interrupt service routine is called, it checks a flag. If the flag is 1, it finishes immediately. If it is 0, sets it to 1 and does the work, and after finishing, the flag is set to 0 again. This prevents the interrupting the interruption problem. And of course, the flag checking and setting code is enclosed between a DI and an EI. All the problems come when switching page 1. No problem at all when doing the same with page 2. That's very odd. *** XX BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: DECEMBER 8TH, 2001 *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.konamiman.com Kyoko Koizumi home page (under construction): http://www.geocities.com/tamachan1976/index.html -- -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Strange hangs with InterNestor/NestorMan...
Well, time to ask for help again. Now I have a very strange problem with InterNestor suite: I discovered that if after installing it I start to access the floppy disk drive (just a loop with infinite DIRs), after some iterations (sometimes 3, sometimes 30) the computer hangs. It happens only with the diskette, not with the hard disk!! I simplified the InterNestor resident program to the point that when it is called it just does a RET, so the problem is for sure in the calling routine, which is integrated in NestorMan and is executed in each timer interrupt. What this routine (resident in page 3) does is: - DI - If a variable named INT_IN_PROGRESS is 1, do nothing and return. Otherwise set it to 1, EI and continue. - Obtain the slot currently connected on page 1, save it as OLDSLOT - Put the InterNestor slot on page 1 with ENASLT - Obtain the segment currently connected on page 1 with GET_P1, save it as OLDSEG - Put the InterNestor segment on page 1 with PUT_P1 - Call the InterNestor interrupt entry point on #4009 (as said before, just a RET here currently for debugging) - Restore OLDSLOT to page 1 - Restore OLDSEG to page 1 - Set INT_IN_PROGRESS to 0 and finish And the routine for obtaining the slot currently switched on page 1 is: - DI - Obtain the slot, S, from bits 2 and 3 of the value read from port #A8. - If the slot is not expanded according to #FCC1+S, EI and return S. Otherwise continue. - Obtain the subslot SL from bits 2 and 3 of #FCC5+S - EI - Return S+4*SL+#80 I think I do all correctly! So where is the problem? The only thing I can think of, is that the disk driver BIOS routine performs some slot switching without actually updating the value of #FCC5+S. But this is illegal, so it is possible that a BIOS routine do it?? And the worst part is that I can't obtain the connected subslot number by switching the slot in page 3 and reading address #, because the program itself resides in page 3... argh! *** XX BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: DECEMBER 8TH, 2001 *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.konamiman.com Kyoko Koizumi home page (under construction): http://www.geocities.com/tamachan1976/index.html -- -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Just some funny information...
About www.yahoo.com: The main name server is ns0.corp.yahoo.com, whose IP is 216.145.48.8. The mail exchange server is nomail.yahoo.com, whose IP is 216.145.48.35. The server is a PC computer with BSD. The e-mail of the responsible person is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo general phone is: +1 408 349 3300. Yahoo US postal address is: 701 1st Ave, Sunnyvale CA 94089. Oh, and by the way, this info has been obtained with NestorResolver 0.1. Interested? Then http://www.geocities.com/konamiman.geo/ins-b1.bin (it is actually a .LZH file). *** XX BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: DECEMBER 8TH, 2001 *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.konamiman.com Kyoko Koizumi home page (under construction): http://www.geocities.com/tamachan1976/index.html -- -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re: Advanced Msx Programming
I'm new at this list. I'm argentinian and my english could be not perfect at all. I'm interested on learning advanced programming topics on msx. I'm talking about things like multi-slot programming, expanded memory usage, cartridge peripheral access and so on... Argentinian? Then read my assembler course Easymbler in spanish, available in my home page (see signature). Maybe is not the learning level you are searching for, but it is quite funny. 8-) *** XX BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: DECEMBER 8TH, 2001 *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.konamiman.com Kyoko Koizumi home page (under construction): http://www.geocities.com/tamachan1976/index.html -- -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re: How to avoid standard diskerrors
I have a problem using disk function 064h. With this function, you can define your own disk error handler routine. When I call this function with my own disk error handler routine adres and an error occurs like the disk is missing in the diskdrive, I still get the normal error messages like 'Disk offline' in stead of my own messages. The system error message will be shown if you return from your routine with A=0, but then you should obtain this message together with your message, and not instead of your message. Anyway check that you do not return with A=0, but with 1 (abort), 2 (retry) or 3 (ignore). Also, check that you define the handler routine correctly (LD DE,routine:LD C,64h:CALL 0F37Dh) Is someone familiar with this routine. Maybe function 064h can only be used in the DOS environment and not in the Disk Basic environment. I never tried to use it from BASIC, but in In DOS manual, in the description of function 063h (Define abort exit routine), is is stated: This function is only available when called via location 0005h in the MSX-DOS environment. It cannot be called at location 0F37Dh from the disk BASIC environment. but nothing is stated in description of function 064h, so we must assume that it may be called from any environment. *** XX BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: DECEMBER 8TH, 2001 *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.konamiman.com Kyoko Koizumi home page (under construction): http://www.geocities.com/tamachan1976/index.html -- -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Betatesting request
WE WANT YOU. Don't lose this opportunity to be part of the history! I'm searching for betatesters having: - DOS 2 - Modem connected to the MSX - Internet connection Things to do: - Download the file http://www.geocities.com/konamiman.geo/pppat.bin, rename it to PPPAT.LZH and uncompress it. - Install NestorMan (NESMAN.COM) and Fossil driver (DRIVER.COM). - Dial your ISP number with: ECHOCOM ATZ ECHOCOM ATDTnumber (for example I use ATDT909250250 for my ISP) - Wait until connection is done (modem shuts up or CD led lights up) -Execute: PPPAT user password (for example I use PPPAT tu@eresmas gratis with my ISP) - Press O to start the PPP connection - Take a log of all the messages that appears on the screen from that moment, and send it to me in an email - Keep the connection for a while. Nothing strange should happen, apart from the SEND and RECEIVE leds to blink every 3 seconds (MSX and ISP are exchanging echo messages). If something strange happens, tell me also. - Close the PPP connection by pressing C. Modem should hang up in one or two seconds. You can exit the program by pressing space (it will never finish by itself). - Repeat the test but this time specifying a wrong username or password. There would be nice also some betatesting via null-modem connection to a PC with Linux and a PPP daemon. Of course then it is not necessary to dial anything. Thank you very much. *** XX BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: DECEMBER 8TH, 2001 *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.konamiman.com Kyoko Koizumi home page (under construction): http://www.geocities.com/tamachan1976/index.html -- -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
I maintain my domain name
Well, finally I decided to pay Namezero the 25$ they asked me for maintaining my domain name. So www.konamiman.com and [EMAIL PROTECTED] will continue existing, at least for one more year. *** XIX BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: APRIL 29TH, 2001 *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.konamiman.com Kyoko Koizumi home page (under construction): http://www.geocities.com/tamachan1976/index.html -- -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Home page updated!
Hi people, a new Konami Man's page update is waiting for you! A new section is added: C-ROQUETTERY, with some useful stuff for C programmers. So what are you waiting for? *** XIX BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: APRIL 29TH, 2001 *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://konamiman.msx.tni.nl Kyoko Koizumi home page (under construction): http://www.geocities.com/tamachan1976/index.html -- -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
I'm fired from Namezero
Dear Nestor, We have determined that you have disabled or tampered with the Namezero Viewer in violation of section 4.1 of the Namezero terms of service located at: http://www.namezero.com/support/policies/sup-pol_tos.shtml. Pursuant to section 7.4 of our terms of service, we will cease to provide you with the Namezero service and your domain name will be disabled unless you upgrade to our Plus service by February 23, 2001. If you do not upgrade to our Plus service by this date, you will not be able to access or use your domain name, domain email and website. So from february 23th the addresses www.konamiman.com and [EMAIL PROTECTED] won't exist anymore. I'll still acessible through the old addresses: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nl and [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** XIX BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: APRIL 29TH, 2001 *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://konamiman.msx.tni.nl Kyoko Koizumi home page (under construction): http://www.geocities.com/tamachan1976/index.html -- -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Who sent me Hitech-C files??
Someone sent me a complete Hitech-C package but due to problems with my university account I lost the files and the message... I don't remember who was this kind person. So whoever you are, can you send it to me again pleez? (and if possible, in LZH or ZIP instead of RAR) Thxs a lot! *** XIX BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: APRIL 29TH, 2001 *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://konamiman.msx.tni.nl Kyoko Koizumi home page (under construction): http://www.geocities.com/tamachan1976/index.html -- -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re[2]: Java VM for 8bit..
But, I think one can better dedicate the effort to create C++ for MSX (supporting objects etc). Would be of much more use. I have already enough problems trying to make Hitech-C to work properly!! No strange languages please!! 8-( BTW, do someone know why sometimes the linker of Hitech-C gives me "undefined symbol" erors even if the symblos are declared in the libraries I use?? *** XIX BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: APRIL 29TH, 2001 *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://konamiman.msx.tni.nl Kyoko Koizumi home page (under construction): http://www.geocities.com/tamachan1976/index.html -- -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re: Japan, here I come.....
WHY is everybody going to Japan ? :) No, no, no: why the hell is everybody *** EXCEPT ME *** going to Japan 8-( *** XVIII MSX USERS MEETING IN BARCELONA: DECEMBER 9th 2000 *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^^)v http://www.konamiman.com- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 My Little Lover are Akko, Kenji Fuji Takeshi Kobayashi -- Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/
JR vs JP
- Automatically change JRs into JPs when overflow.
Nope.
Jon,Wouter and I had that discussion already a long time ago.
It is indeed I nice option, and a higher language compiler should do so,
but here you are already at the lowest level of programming. You can't
get any closer to the CPU (in human readable form that is)
Well, I just don't understand this philosophic reasoning about high
levels and low levels. I just know that I'm tired of compiling a long
source and get 34 errors, all of them being "Overflow" from a JR, and to
have to change all manually to JPs before compiling again. And you don't
want to add the option of doing it automatically... because you think it
is "too high level"?? Well, then you should supress also macros, labels
and compiler directives, right?
Automating this would take away the 'full control' the programmers
probably wants at this stage. Also it would make it way more difficult
to write self-modifying code.
You are right, because of this I proposed you to add it as an OPTION.
That is, you use it only if you want. Just like the source autoindent,
for example.
If a block of code is to long for a JR then perhaps you want to
rearrange other parts of he code as well (the 256 byte ranges speed u on
the TurboR spring to mind.)
But sometimes it is not needed to worry so much about program structure,
and to just change JRs into JPs iw enough.
- Automatically change JPs into JRs when possible.
Besides JR are slower then JP so demo coders will not like it.And again
a self modifying code who changes JR is much more complicated then the
JP variant.
And again: add it as an OPTION!! 8-)
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Re: News from the CTNG lab :-)
Afaik the Z380 uses special instructions (Decoder Directives) to indicate which ranges are to be used. They all start with DDIR. But JR is an exception. There are different opcodes for 8 bit JR and for 16 bit JR. And which to 'compile' by default depends on the mode the Z380 is currently on (in extended memory mode 24-bit JR's and 32-bit JP's are default, if I'm not mistaking). Are you sure? I did not read anything about this in the Z380 manual. The use of 8 or 16 bit JRs depends on the opcode used. And the use of 16, 24 or 32 bit JPs depends on the preceding DDIR decoder directive. But of course, don't try a 24 or 32 bit JP in native mode because only the low 16 bit of the jump address will be used, and the rest will be ignored. * XVIII MSX USERS MEETING IN BARCELONA: DECEMBER 9th 2000 * Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Bill Gates should pay 1$ every time Windows fails everywhere in the world Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/
Re: News from the CTNG lab :-)
the bad news: Compass 2.0 is still not finished despite past 2 months of programming. It is difficult to say when the non-beta version will be released, but it will be worth waiting for. Well, we can wait a little more, I think it will be worth the wait ;-) The assembly process will also be much faster since the code is already assembled as much as possible when you are editing. Exact timing results are not known yet, but I've already measured 2 seconds for Pass1 of a source of 8000 lines without labels. (7MHz MSX2) Who will need a cross-assembler ? ;-) What about assembling in a Turbo-R with external memory mapper? It is currently a very slow process, will it also be improved? The new ASMformat was also designed to support new instructionsets, so probably Z380 will be supported in the final version. That's really COOL!! 8-D But I have noticed a problem: Z380 supports 16bit relative jumps, so if there is in the source something like this: JR label, how can one decide whether to use the normal 8bit JR or the 16bit JR, if you take in consideration that the value of label can be dependent on your choice?! Well, it is not so difficult at all. Add the JRR mnemonic as you say, but add also a new menu or assembler directive or both, which allows to choose between the following options: - Use always 8 bit JR, and display error when overflow (that is, as if it were a Z80). - Use always 16 bit JR. - Use 8 bit JR when displacement fits in 8 bits, otherwise use 16 bit JR. Also, it would be VERY nice if you add the following options for Z80 assembling: - Automatically change JRs into JPs when overflow. - Automatically change JPs into JRs when possible. (and also: what is the use of 16bit relative addressing: it takes 3 bytes, then you can better use a normal JP; maybe 'relocatable code'..) Yes, you catch it. Use of non limited JRs and CALRs instead of JP and CALL makes possible to easily produce relocatable code, which is very useful. Don't forget that from version 3.0, LPE-Z380 BIOS allows memory reservation in frame 0 (the first 64K) in an arbitrary address (just like TSRs do in MSX memory page 3). BTW, don't forget CALR instruction, which has also 8 bit and 16 bit displacement version, if I remember correctly. I have also a suggestion about the disk menu. Currently it is a little nasty to use multiple sources and to assemble to disk, because: - Only the last accessed file name is remembered when accessing disk menu. So if I load A in buffer 1, and then I load B in buffer 2, when I want to save A I must type again "A" name because B is the default name. The file name (and path!) for each buffer should be separately remembered. - The COMPASS default directory is always selected when "assemble to disk" option is selected, that's very very nasty!! The last accessed directory should be remembered. Konami Man Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/
Re: Happy End in Salamander
Correct me if I am wrong, but everyone still thinks the only way to see the Happy end in Salamander is to put Salamander in Slot A and Nemesis 2 in Slot B? AND to get the Crystal Breeze, hidden somewhere in the game. Am I the only one who knows the other way to play the "secret stage"? (!!Oo) What? Is there another way? How??? 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: Z380, PMA, Compass
Maybe you can share some experiences with us about the Z380 card. I'm thinking about buying one. What advantages would it have to buy one now? Curerently you have not advantages unless you like to explore by yourself. There is no soft available yet for this card. We are finishing a new version of boot EPROM, after this we want to make a basic memory manager (so data or code can be stored in the Z380 memory permanently) and a hardware server soft (remember that you can't access to MSX peripherals directly from the Z380). Speed would be very important. I would just LOVE to speed up the C compiling process on my MSX. But is there an easy way to make existing software run faster with the Z380 card (except for re-compiling, which is not possible if there is no source)? Z380 clock speed is 14.28 MHz. This means an effective processor speed approximately equal to the one of a R800. But you have to add some advantages that will improve the global speed of your programs: - Memory is linear, so you don't need to worry about segment/slot switching and its associated time waste. - New Z380 instructions and register sets enables you to do in few instructions the same task that needs a lot of instructions with a Z80. Add another advantage: there is a complete assembler/C development environment for Windows developped by Zilog. This allows us to develop powerful applications. Of course I prefer to use MSX to program, but who will make a Z380 assembler/C compiler for MSX? And in how many time? Currently I'm using Compass with some macross for emulate new Z380 instructions, but I can't debug/trace/simulate my programs. And no, sorry but there is NO WAY of executing existing MSX programs in the Z380 card, unless you re-compile it. This card is intended to use only its own new programs. If you have more questions, ask me please! 8-) * XVII MSX USERS MEETING IN BARCELONA: APRIL 30th 2000 * Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 "Windows 2000" is just the abreviation for "Windows 62000 failures" 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 CD Player ?
Does anyone know if there is any MSX CD Player program available so that we can listen to our audio-cd's? If you have MegaSCSI you can use NestorCDPlayer, available in my home page. * XVII MSX USERS MEETING IN BARCELONA: APRIL 30th 2000 * Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 "Windows 2000" is just the abreviation for "Windows 62000 failures" 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 CD Player ?
If you have MegaSCSI you can use NestorCDPlayer, available in my home page. That's a good point, Nestor. Yet I am just looking forward to receiving the IDE interface :) So I guess I must hope there is another program... Sergio Guerrero developped recently a CD replayer for NestorBASIC! 8-D But I could not upload it to my home page yet. It works with MegaSCSI and IDE. * XVII MSX USERS MEETING IN BARCELONA: APRIL 30th 2000 * Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 "Windows 2000" is just the abreviation for "Windows 62000 failures" 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: (off topic ?)TCP/IP and PPP and SLIP
Can someone tell me where to find information about these protocols (for PPP and SLIP complete with low level byte information) maybe complete with sample sources ? Try here: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/information/rfc.html * XVII MSX USERS MEETING IN BARCELONA: APRIL 30th 2000 * Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 "Windows 2000" is just the abreviation for "Windows 62000 failures" 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: Z380, PMA, Compass
MSX software won't run directly on Z380 because Z380 can't access MSX ports, but raw Z80 code will work of course. That's the big disadvantage in my opinion, and that's why I would like to have it 'on' my motherboard. But think that in this "processor replace" mode, Z380 slows down to 3.57MHz, otherwise the hardware can't be accessed properly. So the speed gain is the same as when upgrading to 7MHz (for the same frequency, Z380 has double speed of a Z80). Hmmm... I want to run existing software at high speed... But now it seems that it 1. isn't much faster than a turboR, and 2. you can't access I/O though the Z380... So all software will have to be newly created... It was clear from the first moment that Z380 would work only with own software. About the I/O, it is just a matter of build a good bios. Dammit I want to assemble a 100k source in 1 second!!! Then ask CTNG for a Compass version for Z380 (I don't mean just an assembler with Z380 instructions support, but the assembler itself running in the Z380!). You dare? ;-) Hum... yes, but be patient, ok? I'm myself learning about Z380 yet!! What I can send to you is a photo of the card. I have digital camera. Just wait a little. ;-) Okay, that's perfect! I send you three photos: the Z380 alone, compared with a Moonsound and the environment in which I'm using it (the last card in the slotexpander is a 4M RAM expansion inside of a Moonsound box). If someone else wants these photos, ask me, I think it is not a good idea to spam it to the ML because every photo is about 80K long. * XVII MSX USERS MEETING IN BARCELONA: APRIL 30th 2000 * Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 "Windows 2000" is just the abreviation for "Windows 62000 failures" 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: Just an inspiration I had suddenly
- no linenumbers (yes!) - long variable names - user defined types - subroutines, procedures and functions - possibility to build and link libraries. Most of tthese things are implemented in NestorPreter... Check it out! It's on Nestor's page, url in my bookmarks... Thanks for the promotion but this is not exactly the matter... 8-) Even when using NestorPreTer, the final result is a BASIC *interpreted* file. What we need, is a real compiler. That is, a BASIC to assembler converter, because the main problem of the interpreted programs is the speed. Nobody is stopping you to make one... I have no time and I'm not capable to do it. At least, not me alone. * XVII MSX USERS MEETING IN BARCELONA: APRIL 30th 2000 * Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 "Windows 2000" is just the abreviation for "Windows 62000 failures" 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
Just an inspiration I had suddenly
It is only me who thinks that we need with some urgence a C or BASIC compiler with the same integrated interface of Compass?? * XVII MSX USERS MEETING IN BARCELONA: APRIL 30th 2000 * Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 "Windows 2000" is just the abreviation for "Windows 62000 failures" 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: Hooks.
(1) Where can i find detailed information about all hooks of the msx system. Check out MSX2 Technical Handbook on my HP (see signature). * XVII MSX USERS MEETING IN BARCELONA: APRIL 30th 2000 * Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 "Windows 2000" is just the abreviation for "Windows 62000 failures" 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
How to set SCREEN 12?
Hi people. I'm developing a MIF decompressor for NestorBASIC. (-v-)v But I have a problem with the BASIC sample program: I can't set SCREEN 11 or 12 from inside of a turbo-block! At first I though it was a failure of Turbo-BASIC, but actually it happens that the BIOS routine for setting screen mode (CHGMOD, #00D1 in SUB-ROM) only works up to SCREEN 8! So, is there any other BIOS routine to set SCREEN 11 and 12? Or there is no other way that handle the VDP registers directly? 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/)
Re: Happiness!!!
Now i think to restart to make something on the msx (do you remeber Mines appeared on the FD#35... yes it's still unfinished and i hope to complete it with the *power* of NestorBasic) but i don't know when something will be ready. -- Sorry, nothing new to say here, I just wanted to remark this part of the message... (-v-)v * XVI MSX USERS MEETING IN BARCELONA: DECEMBER 4th 1999 * Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Windows is checking if the user is asleep... - [Cancel] 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: UZIX 0.1.4 released
For those who are interested: UZIX 0.1.4 was released. http://www.adrpage.cjb.net "Due to an extreme hardware failure beyond our control these webpages have been lost. We are truly sorry for this loss and did everything we could to restore the data. Please reupload at your earliest convenience. " (!Oo) Uh...? http://if.you.dont.like.msx.usuck.com This one works... but no UZIX there... * XVI MSX USERS MEETING IN BARCELONA: DECEMBER 4th 1999 * Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Windows is checking if the user is asleep... - [Cancel] 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/)
Konamiman's home page updated!
And what's new? Something like this: - Second release of NestorPreTer, version 0.2 alfa. Some bugs have been corrected, and a special line label "~~" feature added, this label enables you to refer to the current BASIC line. If you don't know yet what is NestorPreTer, and you are a BASIC programmer, I recommend you to go to my page and take a look NOW!! 8- - Added a file with all NestorBASIC functions defined as macros for NestorPreTer. - Added the spanish version of the user's manual of NestorPreTer. Please test NestorPreTer and give me some opinions, ok? Thnks... (^.^) Hasta incluso! * XVI MSX USERS MEETING IN BARCELONA: DECEMBER 4th 1999 * Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Windows is checking if the user is asleep... - [Cancel] 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/)
Introducing: NestorPreTer
Yes! Finally, after a long wait (huh?) Konami Man strikes back with the
last amazing NestorWare of this millenium. Ladies and gentlemen, here is
--- NestorPreTer - the MSX-BASIC pre-interpreter ---
As you probably have realized already, NPR is a tool designed for BASIC
programmers. It converts an ASCII source file (basically a normal BASIC
format file with some interisting differences) into a MSX-BASIC executable
file. NPR makes the BASIC text generation process much easier, because now
you can:
- Use an unlimited number of remarks with an unlimited extension in your
source file, because they will not be included in the target file,
therefore no one single byte of your BASIC memory is wasted with remarks.
- Use unlimited indentation in your BASIC lines: spaces between BASIC
instructions are also discarded and not included in the target file.
- Forget line numbers: NestorPreTer will generate them automatically!
Optionally, use alphanumeric line labels instead. So forget GOTO 10, this
is time for GOTO ~MAIN!
- Tired of using two-characters variable names? NestorPreTer allows you to
use macros, so a @SCREEN_ROW in the source file becomes a simple "x" in the
destination file. Also, you can give a name to constants (what about @TRUE
for -1 and @FALSE for 0?), or to a piece of code (for example @SHOW_ERROR
for PRINT"Error was found!").
Amazed? Surprised? Don't worry, it is normal! (oh, I'm so humble...) X-)
Well, I upload the first alfa version to my web site but I could not update
my page yet, so get the file by directly accessing to
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/9797/filename
where "filename"s are
npr_com.bin (10K): NestorPreTer 0.1 alfa. Rename it to npr.com after download.
npreng.txt (42K): NestorPreTer 0.1 user manual in english. I'll make a
spanish version later.
nbas_asc.bin (5K): Sample source code, it shows how to use NestorPreTer to
make NestorBASIC use easier. Rename ir to nbas.asc after download.
npr_lzh.bin (23K): All three files compressed. Rename it to npr.lzh after
download.
This first version is an alfa, it means that it was not widely tested, so
for sure it has errors. Please report me any error found (read section 10
of the user manual before).
That's all. Once again, be happy with NestorWare! ;-)
* XVI MSX USERS MEETING IN BARCELONA: DECEMBER 4th 1999 *
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MCCW: Not in english??
It will be English, right? That is not decided yet. 8-O No please. If you will make a internet magazine, make it understandable by everybody... * basic course #1 What about NestorBASIC and NestorPreTer courses? (-v-)v * review of nemesis 2 ME, ME!! I want to make this one!! X-D * XVI MSX USERS MEETING IN BARCELONA: DECEMBER 4th 1999 * Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Windows is checking if the user is asleep... - [Cancel] 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/)
Introducing: NestorPreTer
Yes! Finally, after a long wait (huh?) Konami Man strikes back with the
last amazing NestorWare of this millenium. Ladies and gentlemen, here is
--- NestorPreTer - the MSX-BASIC pre-interpreter ---
As you probably have realized already, NPR is a tool designed for BASIC
programmers. It converts an ASCII source file (basically a normal BASIC
format file with some interisting differences) into a MSX-BASIC executable
file. NPR makes the BASIC text generation process much easier, because now
you can:
- Use an unlimited number of remarks with an unlimited extension in your
source file, because they will not be included in the target file,
therefore no one single byte of your BASIC memory is wasted with remarks.
- Use unlimited indentation in your BASIC lines: spaces between BASIC
instructions are also discarded and not included in the target file.
- Forget line numbers: NestorPreTer will generate them automatically!
Optionally, use alphanumeric line labels instead. So forget GOTO 10, this
is time for GOTO ~MAIN!
- Tired of using two-characters variable names? NestorPreTer allows you to
use macros, so a @SCREEN_ROW in the source file becomes a simple "x" in the
destination file. Also, you can give a name to constants (what about @TRUE
for -1 and @FALSE for 0?), or to a piece of code (for example @SHOW_ERROR
for PRINT"Error was found!").
Amazed? Surprised? Don't worry, it is normal! (oh, I'm so humble...) X-)
Well, I upload the first alfa version to my web site but I could not update
my page yet, so get the file by directly accessing to
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/9797/filename
where "filename"s are
npr_com.bin (10K): NestorPreTer 0.1 alfa. Rename it to npr.com after download.
npreng.txt (42K): NestorPreTer 0.1 user manual in english. I'll make a
spanish version later.
nbas_asc.bin (5K): Sample source code, it shows how to use NestorPreTer to
make NestorBASIC use easier. Rename ir to nbas.asc after download.
npr_lzh.bin (23K): All three files compressed. Rename it to npr.lzh after
download.
This first version is an alfa, it means that it was not widely tested, so
for sure it has errors. Please report me any error found (read section 10
of the user manual before).
That's all. Once again, be happy with NestorWare! ;-)
* XVI MSX USERS MEETING IN BARCELONA: DECEMBER 4th 1999 *
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Ke me voy pallá!! 8-)
Oye peazo de trozo, que le he cogido el gustillo a esto del tren y me voy a presentar por allí el 31. Aparte del SD MESXES#13 no creo que lleve nada más, por lo que si me puedes encontrar un stand compartido como la otra vez pues casi que sería lo mejor... A lo del chino sí, apúntame incondicionalmente!! 8-) Hasta! * XVI MSX USERS MEETING IN BARCELONA: DECEMBER 4th 1999 * Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Windows is checking if the user is asleep... - [Cancel] 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: GFX9000 for sale [in DUTCH]
Ik heb ooit een GFX9000 gekocht bij Sunrise, alleen heb ik 'm eigenlijk Happy happy, joy joy. Can't understand a bit! : Pleasee dontk poostj dutchjk meessaaje in dis liistje! X-D * XVI MSX USERS MEETING IN BARCELONA: DECEMBER 4th 1999 * Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Windows is checking if the user is asleep... - [Cancel] 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 languages 8-)
powerrep [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió/wrote/kakimashita/escreveu/écrit:
It is not a stupid excuse, I know many MSX guys of Spain who do not speak
english, I mean nothing, absolutely nothing...try to speak some spanish
phrases with some sense and maybe you will understand to Armando.
I'm tired of hearing "you can not have a nice job if you can't use
english". Well, then why some friends of mine having a nice computer
related job, say me "please translate this to english for me" sometimes?
And it is supposed that I can't use english!! 8-)
Perhaps some friend of him could translate it to english, but Armando has
not enough time to ask this. Why Armando or some spanish friends do not
speak english??, easy, in spanish schools you could choose between english
(nowadays always selected) or french, other languajes even.
But I could not select... in my school only french was teached!! (^^!!)
Et pour cela, maintenant je peux parler un peu de français... ;-)
I read in a newspaper once: spain is the country on europe with the
fewer percent of people speaking english. And guess what: the country
with the higher percent is... holland. (UK not included of course! X-)
Well here we MUST learn English, French AND German...
Wow dude, I wonder why schools are not same here...
Through the lot of stupidities I read along my life, now I remember one:
"Japanese is a very difficult language. Learning japanese is even more
difficult than studying three university courses at the same time". Well
now I can say that it is totally FALSE and a BIG stupidity. There is no
difference between learning japanese or learning english, if you start
from zero. You just need to follow two steps: 1) To start. 2) To
continue.
Anyways, he wrote the same message in English later on so his English
wasn't that bad after all.
Hey hey, no! It was ME who translated that message!! (^^!!)
It was the NestorTranslation 1.0 X-D
What he wrote in english later, was a different message.
Ofcourse, but I can still read it, although the grammar is wrong. And the
grammar will improve by the time (practise improves your skill, RPG rule no.
1).
And if your shoot can pass through, then your ship can pass through
(Nemesis rule no. 1) X-)
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Home page update!
What's new in my home page? New photos of me and Kyoko 8-) , and the following: -Nemesis 3 SCC musics, that old thing made by Martos, but modified so you can enable/disable every SCC and PSG channel and pause the music. Useful for making arrangements... - A short english translation of the MegaSCSI programming manual. Not complete, but the basic stuff and BIOS calls are detailed here. - CABROPL4, a NestorBASIC extension for direct control of the OPL4: you can set volume, octave, stereo, etc... and play a note on every channel directly, without using MoonBlaster replayer. Source code and a sample program are included. - A PageMaker 6.5 version of the NestorBASIC manual, but it is the spanish version. If most people wants the english version I can also compose it, but it is a long work... (^^!) Enjoy it! 8-) *** NEXT BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: DECEMBER 4th *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://konamiman.msx.tni.nl User error. Please replace user and press any key. -- 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[2]: STOP-PRESS
Armando Pérez Abad [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió/wrote/kakimashita/escreveu/écrit: Yeah! Pazos is KOJI KABUTO ... yes ... My girlfriend's brother-in-law's name is Koji! Koji Yamamoto... really!!! X-) Hum... sorry for so stupid message... (^^!!) *** NEXT BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: DECEMBER 4th *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://konamiman.msx.tni.nl User error. Please replace user and press any key. -- 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[2]: Re[2]: MSX LUSERS !! -- Translated by Konami Man 8-)
"Laurens Holst" [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió/wrote/kakimashita/escreveu/écrit: He's crazy as a door (approximate translation!!) X-) Hehe... Loco de la teta (or something like that). HA HA HA! Better you improve your spanish a little!! X-D I defend PCs and M$... hehe... Then, theorically I hate you, but sometimes I like to break the rules... X-) Por cierto Antonio (joder masho, quel payo este también te ha dicho Antonio XDD) que mu bién hablao eso que le has dicho ... BTW Nestor, you speaked very wisely. Somehow I think this is not the correct translation. I removed the crap but the translation is correct... please don't make me to translate this literally... pleas... (^.^!!) And that's all. Writing in english had caused me to use two days... Not. Just try and as you write English more and more you'll get better in it. And hey! You were able to read it, so you don't know nothing about English. Yep! I learned enlgish by myself... and by just reading english texts. (-v-)v Hasta incluso! *** NEXT BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: DECEMBER 4th *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://konamiman.msx.tni.nl User error. Please replace user and press any key. -- 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[2]: MSX LUSERS !!
MSX LUSERS !! MSX PC DROOL , C64 AMIGA RULE !! MSX PC SCENE DOES NOT EXCIST , YOU ARE ALL ARROGANT LAMERS !! Just a question: why C64 rules more than MSX? And... PC scene does not exist? God grant!! X-) *** NEXT BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: DECEMBER 4th *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://konamiman.msx.tni.nl User error. Please replace user and press any key. -- MundoMail.net. El correo gratuito con servicio de POP3 - http://www.mundomail.net - ¿Quieres ayudar a la futura Comunidad de MundoMail.net creando sus paginas o ayudandonos en temas que conozcas? Ves a - http://www.mundomail.net/apuntate.htm -
Re[2]: Salamander questions
Jordi Segura i Pla [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi=f3/wrote/kakimashi=
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10. To where does the prediction on Lavinia point? (final boss?)
Yep. It says to you the colour of the nucleus to be destroyed in the
last boss of the game, in order to gain access to the main nucleus.
On Odysseus is also a
prediction (which is very hard to get, by the way) of which it's likely=
that
it points to Metalslave
What is "Odysseus"? It is the last stage?
Then the prediction here just says "you need the crystal breeze".
Buf! I remember I only finished X once, a long time ago. And that time I
was so inspired that I also finished the game (good ending). But no more
times... I can't remember how did I kill it.
He he... I finished X and the whole game several times! (-v-)v
How to kill first boss? It is not so difficult... put in front of the
ray gun, shoot, and dodge the ray going up or down, paying attention to
the bullets of course. I can't explain it well... 8-)
Apa-siau !!!
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Re[2]: Re[2]: Salamander questions
Suni Antti [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi=f3/wrote/kakimashita/escreveu/=e9crit:
What is "Odysseus"? It is the last stage?
Then the prediction here just says "you need the crystal breeze".
But could you tell where it can be found?
In the moment when the scroll direction changes from down-up to
right-left, look for one of these holes which throws out enemies, placed in
the up-right corner of the screen; it is hidden between two metal walls.
Destroy it and go inside. Be careful or you will crash against these
walls!
BTW did you know that the lightning-ray only starts
shooting once you have shot at it first?
Of course. And if you have travel-around missiles, this is very nasty,
because long time after you have shooted, these missiles reach the ray
gun and it shoots again. This can kill you if you don't pay attention
enough...
Thanks for the infos, if you have anything else we'd like to hear it.
Ask me anything about Nemesis 2, I'm the master of this game! (I think
so...) ;-D
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Re[2]: Basic routine for directory listing
Maarten ter Huurne [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió/wrote/kakimashita/escreveu/écrit: You can read the directory (sector 7 and beyond for 720K floppy) using DSKI$ and get the filenames from there. But this works only on the root directory. Sorry for my insistence but: use NestorBASIC!! (^^)v *** NEXT BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: DECEMBER 4th *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://konamiman.msx.tni.nl User error. Please replace user and press any key. -- 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: Basic routine for directory listing
"Marc Vallribera Ros" [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió/wrote/kakimashita/escreveu/écrit:
Anyone has a simple but good BASIC "routine" to read the contents of a
directory and put it into variables I need this to do a simple
"launcher" application. It shows the contents of a directory filtered by
'executables', but I need this routine... anyone can help? thanx!
NestorBASIC has this feature built-in, amongst many others! 8-) Check my
home page!
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I also have comments to COMPASS
"Laurens Holst" [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió/wrote/kakimashita/escreveu/écrit:
- Compass still doesn't correctly support the INCLUDE-command (or whatever
it is. INCLUDE 2 works nice, the source of the 2nd sourcebuffer is included.
INCLUDE 2,"SUBS.ASM" however doesn't work, when Assembling to disk Compass
terminates to Dos.
True! This is very nasty!! 8-(
- If you put a filename behind Compass then the file is loaded into the
sourcebuffer. However, I'd like to have the feature to put 4 filenames
behind Compass, which would then auto-load all 4 sourcebuffers.
Yep, it would be very nice!! I want to boot Compass in a way for example like
this:
COMPASS /ASC1:info.txt /ASM2:source.asm /BIN:code.bin
/DAT#0100:thing.dat
so after booting it loads ASCII file info.txt in sourcebuffer 1, ASM
file source.asm in sourcebuffer2, binary file code.bin in the
appropriate address, and data file thing.dat in address #0100. In this
way I can automatize compass starting environment TOTALLY!!
And if we go even more far, /BUF2:100 puts cursor in line 100 of
sourcebuffer 2... well, ok, this is a little crazy. 8-
Another option is to use a sort of booting macro files, for example do
COMPASS /BOOT:config.txt, where config.txt contains this:
ASC1:info.txt
ASM2:source.txt
etc...
Other setting such colors, memory layout, etc, should also be stored in
text files, so user can change it manually.
Will you please think about this? For sure it is very easy to implement,
and very useful! 8-)
Hasta incluso!
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I need a little text about Tilburg... pleaseeeee... (^.^!)
MkII [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió/wrote/kakimashita/escreveu/écrit:
Next time Eudora redirects another of my private messages to this list I
promise to disassemble it and *POKE IN* a warning requester or an automatic
To: field selection.
Remember this: you can't "poke in" a PC program useing a cuendillar
sword or similar. This method is only valid with the last boss of the
game: Evil Gates. X-)
Anyway it was just an innocent comment on Konami Man's *great* sense of
humour (yeah, we dig for SD MESXES or what!).
You are lucky: I do'nt get angry so easily. Else, even if I'm not very
strong, I have some powerful spells like "Speaking aobut NestorBASIC for
34 hours without stop", "Appearing making finger V in all photos", or
the most terrible: "Connecting you to Internet through Telefonica de
Espan~a". This one is very saddist! X-D
It could have been pretty well an internal message packed with nude photos
of myself! 8;
8-O~~ Nice idea!
Ah, yes, about the subject! We are finishing (er... almost finishing)
our SD MESXES#13 and we still needing a little text about Tilburg.
Someone, help me, please! The prize is a kiss from and Z-0 and MkII!
(Right, girls?) X-)
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Re[2]: I need a little text about Tilburg... pleaseeeee... (^.^!)
"Mari van den Broek" [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió/wrote/kakimashita/escreveu/écrit: Ah, yes, about the subject! We are finishing (er... almost finishing) our SD MESXES#13 and we still needing a little text about Tilburg. Someone, help me, please! No problem. I have some free time at this moment and will write some text about the Tilburg fair. I will mail the text directly to you when it is finished (hopefully tonight!)... Thanks a lot nice man!! Now you appear in the story books of Club MESXES! (well... some day we'll write these books, don't worry!) X-). The prize is a kiss from and Z-0 and MkII! (Right, girls?) X-) No problem. We like to keep our customers satisfied (in all senses). So you can see... come to Spain to receive your prize! X-D BTW, you have some photos of Tilburg in XSW page, right? *** NEXT BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: DECEMBER 4th *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://konamiman.msx.tni.nl User error. Please replace user and press any key. -- 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[2]: Compass? The heaven!
"Daniel Jorge Caetano" [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió/wrote/kakimashita/escreveu/écrit: This is nice... But has the backdrop of the speed. And this is not nice. P.E., Must takes almost 30 seconds to compile under my K6-233Mhz... On the MSX... Well... I will not even try. (!O_o) What are you speaking about? Compass is a MSX program, not PC! And well, the only bad side I can find of Compass is really concerning to speed: in Turbo-R, when sourcecode is placed in a mapper slot other than primary (internal) one, assembling speed decreases a lot, almost to the Z80 speed level. But I suppose this can't be solved... or it can? Anyone think about using COMPASS under PC? (((-: Forget it. There is a lot of much better methods to make your PC to crash. Running a well-performed MSX program is not the best one! X-) I think Konami Man and CTNG will pray for your soul burn in hell, after this sugestion... XD All of this are just signals about the end of the world... remember: next august 11th, meeting in Paris! There is a prize for the person who can rescue the MSXs from the MIR!! X-) And if we die, let's see the good side: we will never see Windows 2000!! X-D *** NEXT BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: DECEMBER 4th *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://konamiman.msx.tni.nl User error. Please replace user and press any key. -- 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[2]: Compass? The heaven!
"Daniel Jorge Caetano" [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió/wrote/kakimashita/escreveu/écrit: This is nice... But has the backdrop of the speed. And this is not nice. P.E., Must takes almost 30 seconds to compile under my K6-233Mhz... On the MSX... Well... I will not even try. (!O_o) What are you speaking about? Compass is a MSX program, not PC! And well, the only bad side I can find of Compass is really concerning to speed: in Turbo-R, when sourcecode is placed in a mapper slot other than primary (internal) one, assembling speed decreases a lot, almost to the Z80 speed level. But I suppose this can't be solved... or it can? Anyone think about using COMPASS under PC? (((-: Forget it. There is a lot of much better methods to make your PC to crash. Running a well-performed MSX program is not the best one! X-) I think Konami Man and CTNG will pray for your soul burn in hell, after this sugestion... XD All of this are just signals about the end of the world... remember: next august 11th, meeting in Paris! There is a prize for the person who can rescue the MSXs from the MIR!! X-) And if we die, let's see the good side: we will never see Windows 2000!! X-D *** NEXT BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: DECEMBER 4th *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://konamiman.msx.tni.nl User error. Please replace user and press any key. -- 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/)
Compass? The heaven!
Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió/wrote/kakimashita/escreveu/écrit: Can someone tell me what're the advantages of COMPASS? (OoO) What a question! Programming with Compass is a big pleasure. It is powerful, useful, easy, comfortable... (Hi CTNG! What about my money?) X-D Seriously, here are the reasons because I love Compass: - All in one! Editor, assembler, debugger, monitor... and yo can exit from this all-in-one to DOS, and returning like if nothing happened! 8-) BTW it is full DOS 2 compatible (sadly, not everybody can say this about his programs, even nowadays...) - Four simultaneous sourcecodes available, 256K long each other. Nowadays Compass is the only program in which I really use my 4Mb RAM expansion! ;-) And disabling auto-indent, you can use one of these sourcebuffers for load a text file with technical information, this is very practical! - Editor is really useful (searchchange, cutpaste, define jump points? No problem!), monitor shows real-time memory modifications (now you can SEE directly what your interrupt routines do!!), debugger's layout shows you a lot of info in screen... - And nowadays CTNG releases free improvement patchs for Compass regularly! Sincerely, I can't imagine a MSX assembler programmer not using Compass. Well, now, someone speaking good things about NestorBASIC please! X-) *** NEXT BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: DECEMBER 4th *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://konamiman.msx.tni.nl User error. Please replace user and press any key. -- 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: So? What's the difference between MSX BASIC 4.0 and 4.1?
Manuel Bilderbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió/wrote/kakimashita/escreveu/écrit: Ok, we've heard the difference between basic 2.0 and 2.1 (bigger RAMdisk), between 2.1 and 3.0 (SET SCROLL, screen 11,12,13) SCREEN 13? (?.?) And you forget SCREEN 10! ;-) Another interisting question: why SCREEN 9 does not exist? but what's the difference between MSX BASIC 4.0 and 4.1? I think it is just the new commands for manage the MIDI interface built-in on Turbo-R GT computers. I used one of these commands once in a program for detecting the Turbo-R type! ;-) Hasta incluso! *** NEXT BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: DECEMBER 4th *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://konamiman.msx.tni.nl User error. Please replace user and press any key. -- 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[2]: What is Phoenix?
"Laurens Holst" [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió/wrote/kakimashita/escreveu/écrit: It is a proposal to standarize hardware-projects do that they don't have an MSX 3 in Brazil which is completely incompatible with an MSX 3 in Holland. It features a homepage, a mailinglist, etcetera. Interisting! And where is this HP? 8-) *** NEXT BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: DECEMBER 4th *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://konamiman.msx.tni.nl User error. Please replace user and press any key. -- 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: More MegaSCSI
Now I have another stupid question.
The MEGASCSI.TBL file...
Is it really a partition table of the SCSI device?
Why I have a copy of it on each partition? They are all the same,
right?
Why this? Can I get partition table info whithout reading it? Is
it only for backup?
CP uses MEGASCSI.TBL. Anything special? CP could change partitions
without reading MEGASCSI.TBL?
MEGASCSI.TBL is used only when executing CP. Having such file repeated in
each partition, accessing it is faster and easier. In old MegaSCSI disks
(disks formatted with old versions of SFORM), reading this file is the only
way to know how the disk is partitionned.
But disks formatted with ESE-ASPI format have an standard parition table on
the boot sector, so these TBL files are no needed. I developped a partition
changer for MegaSCSI, which uses only this standard table. In this way you
can also use IDE or PC partitions with MegaSCSI. You have this program
(PS.COM) in my web page.
P.S.: Konami Man, thanks a lot for MEGUIDE.TXT! Great info!
(-v-)v
P.S.2: Why so many questions? Why I just don't debug MEGASCSI.TBL and
shut up my mouth? Because I DON'T have a MegaSCSI! I'm programming
it even without having one. Yes. Crazy? Maybe. But I want to
program for MSX. And I want to program MegaSCSI. And I am fudeba. :)
Hey hey, don't worry:
1) Nowadays, to be crazy is a recommended system requirement for being
MSXer. X-)
2) "Fudebako" means "pencil box" in japanese. "Fudeba" seems to be a non
existing word... ;-)
* Windows is made by MicroSOFT, not MicroGOOD, MicroRIGHT, or MicroFAST. *
People habitued to make MICRO programs can't make a good MACRO program! ;-)
Hasta incluso!!
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Re: MegaSCSI Info - part #2
Descr.: Make "asaato" [this is a english word written with katakana, but "set" maybe? Is not "set". I'm sure about that because "set" is written as "setto" in katakana. I think it is "Assert", I read this word in the SCSI official programming reference in english. * XVI MSX USERS MEETING IN BARCELONA: NOVEMBER 27th 1999 * -------- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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: z80 linux ?
Hey, it is a April 1st joke! See the date! Everybody that goes to the page believes it's real... (!!·.·) eh?? April 1st joke? What is this? In spain, jokes day is December 28th! As I said before, Konami Man is fudeba ! Yo me hago mi fanzine. X-) El MSX inalambrico ! Que me dices ? Pero a mi' me gustan los alambres! X-D * XVI MSX USERS MEETING IN BARCELONA: NOVEMBER 27th 1999 * Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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: MegaSCSI Info - part #2
Only for complementation of Nestor's MegaSCSI Info... BUS RESET (Function #C1) SELECTION (function #C8) DISCONNECT (function #C9) SET ATTENTION (function #CA) RESET ATTENTION (function #CB) MANUAL TRANSFERRING (function #CC) HARDWARE TRANSFERRING (function #CD) Wow!! This is very advanced SCSI programming!! (·.·!!) DSKIO (#4010) C.6-0=first sector number (bit22-bit16 if C.7=0) Did ESE people think on making something for FAT16, or did not, eh??? ;-) * XVI MSX USERS MEETING IN BARCELONA: NOVEMBER 27th 1999 * Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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: z80 linux ?
As a wise girl, you should read this: http://ryeham.ee.ryerson.ca/uClinux/ports/z80/ Hey hey, this is very interisting!! This people is working on Spectrum emulators, and they speak about a lot of memory problems. Let's speak them about MSX? ;-) * XVI MSX USERS MEETING IN BARCELONA: NOVEMBER 27th 1999 * Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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: question about MegaSCSI Info
The MegaSCSI's manual, original in Japanese, said that you can acess the "function calls" using two entry points, #7FCC and #7FCD. But I didn't understood what is the difference. Do you know that? I did not know... I dissassembled MegaSCSI SRAM today for see this. If you do call through #7FCC, an EI is performed before the other stuff. This is the only difference. Here, in Input, when B=0, this mean 256 sectors, not 0. Did you known that? No, but anyway this is not useful... you need a 128K addressing space if you want to read 256 sectors with just one call!! 8-) Well, I think which could be good idea to write it in your Info. :-) (I read it from the original manual in Japanese) W you can read japanese... 8-O I can read only kanas yet!! (_ _!) * XVI MSX USERS MEETING IN BARCELONA: NOVEMBER 27th 1999 * Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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/)
Here is the MegaSCSI info!
Hi people, I know that it is not advisable to send attached files to ML, but this time I'll do it: many people seems to be interested on this information, and it is a very small file (just 7K). Anyway I'll upload it to my web page in one month or so. Hasta incluso! MegaSCSI incomplete BIOS reference Compiled by Nestor Soriano (Konami Man), 1999 Get some MegaSCSI utilities from my web page: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nl ...and/or ask me anything here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. PREVIOUS INTERISTING DATA - The data contained here was extracted from the original japanese MegaSCSI programming reference, but this document is not an exact translation work. - If you want to check the presence of a MegaSCSI in a given slot, search the string MEGASCSI in the address #7FE0 of the slot. - All of the BIOS routines listed here must be called through an entry point placed at address #7FCC on MegaSCSI addressing space. You can do this via direct CALL or via interslot call. - MegaSCSI can handle 8 DOS partitions and 16 extended partitions. DOS partitions refers to those which have assigned a DOS drive letter and are accessed via DOS funtion calls. Extended partitions can be accessed only via MegaSCSI BIOS, and are used for example when performing floppy emulations. - Each partition is described by an internal 16 byte partition table, which can be read or written via BIOS functions #84 to #87. The format of this table is as follows: +0: Device ID. Bit b is placed to 1 when this partition is assigned to the device with ID b. So this byte is %0001 for ID 0, %0010 for ID 1, etc. +1, bit 7: Disk change flag. It is 0 when a disk change was made but a disk change status was not requested yet. +1, bit 6: Write protection bit (1=write protected partition, 0=write enabled partition). It is read and write bit. +1, bits 0-5: unused, leave it to 0. +2: Physical start sector, bits 23 to 16. +3: Physical start sector, bits 15 to 8. +4: Physical start sector, bits 7 to 0. +5: Partition size in sectors, bits 23 to 16. +6: Partition size in sectors, bits 15 to 8. +7: Partition size in sectors, bits 7 to 0. +8: Sector size in bytes, bits 15 to 8 (always #02). +9: Sector size in bytes, bits 7 to 0 (always #00). +10 to +15: Unused, leave it to zero. - Error codes for these functions are as follows: 0: Write protected 2: Not ready 4: Data transfer error 8: Reservation conflict 10: Not supported media/Write error 12: Other error/Arbitration error 16: Format error Some of these errors are SCSI specific. Refer here for the SCSI standard programming reference: http://scitexcd.com:8080/scsi2/Frames/ - MegaSCSI addressing space size is 32K, and it is divided into four 8K banks: BankControl address #4000-#5FFF #6000 #6000-#7FFF #6800 #8000-#9FFF #7000 #A000-#BFFF #7800 MegaSCSI SRAM is then divided also in 8K segments. You can connect any segment to any bank by just sending the segment number to the control address for the desired bank. There is two connecting methods: read-only mode (for ROM emulation) and read and write mode. Before sending to the control address, put bit 7 of the segment number to 0 if you want to connect the segment in read-only mode, else put this bit to 1. 2. BIOS FUNCTIONS LIST * Reading SRAM capacity and use Input: A = #A4 HL = Buffer address Output: Buffer filled with the following information: +0: Total amount of SRAM 8K segments. +1: Number of SRAM banks used for DOS kernel. It is 2 for DOS 1 kernel, and 8 for DOS 2 kernel. DOS kernel start segment number is always 0. +2: First bank number used for ESE-RAMdisk. +3: Amount of banks used for ESE-RAMdisk. * Setting SRAM use Input: A = #A5 HL = Buffer addres, same format as #A4 funtion Using these two functions you can reserve SRAM segments for your own use. Just follow this procedure if you want to reserve N segments: - Call function #A4. - Add N to (BUFFER+2). - Substract N from (BUFFER+3). - Call function #A5. - Format ESE-RAMdisk with ESFORM.COM. Now ESE-RAMdisk is N*8K smaller, and you have N segments for your own use. The number of the first reserved segment is 2 or 8, depending on the DOS version of the kernel installed. * Checking disk change status Input: A = #10 + DOS partition number, or #50 + extended partition number HL = Pointer to Drive Parameter Block for the drive Output: Cy = 1 if error A = error code if Cy=1 B = 1 - No disk change was performed 255 - Disk was changed 0 - Unknown disk status Use DOS function ALLOC (#1B) in order to obtain the Drive Parameter Block address. * Reading/writing a partition table Input: A = #84 for read a DOS partition table #85 for set a DOS partition table #86 for read a extended partition table #87 for set a extended partition table C = Partition number HL
Re: Konami Micro@?!*@*?@
I must confess I *CANNOT* do it better because I don't like this kind of games and never developed skills for creating them. you cannot judge people for not doing something that you could have done but decided not to do because you're not interested... This means that we can't complaint about Windows because we're not OS programmers??? We're USERS! It is enough for complaint if we find failures!! Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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: Acessing MegaSCSI/IDE disks directly
Anybody knows how can I read/write sectors of HD/ZIP with MegaSCSI and Sunrise IDE? For MegaSCSI, I have part of the original information translated. It is about disk access, partition managing, and SCSI commands executing. I'll send to you... just let me find it... Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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: Konami and Microsoft: new error messages!
Windows has found an upgrade for Gradius IV. Your current version is 1.100302003002457027 Do you want to upgrade to version 1.100302003002457028 now ? [] Yes, i want to start downloading now (173.39Mb) [] No , i want to continiue with Boss of level 8 You selected missile, but there is not application registered for this weapon. Please select the application which will launch the missiles. Boss 8 defeated! Boss 8 is trying to show the "close" dialog box. System is busy. You can return Gradius and wait, or reset. You will lose all your weapons and score if you reset. Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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: And the off-topic cleanup
We, all men, can definitively be scared. No irony. ;-) Do you mean we look also SEXUALLY THREATENING, Nestor? 8;D A girl who is programming a strip-poker featuring herself must be as a minimum a little... scaring for all of us, I think! ;-) Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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/)
Gradiusing
Question: when will the sound test appear? When you have played 10 hours in total or continually? Eh? Sound test in GG?? HOW?? (OO!!!) Isn't there a 3D Gradius coin-up? I heard about Gradius 4 coin-op, but I think (I hope!!) it is not 3D. Hmmm... Nestor... do you have Gradius Gaiden??? Where have you buyed it? Buy? I just copied it from the copy of a friend. But I have the original CD with the soundtrack! It was a gift from my girlfriend! ;-D In fact I have no PSX, I just have friends with PSX! ;-) Of course I'll not buy a PSX just for one game (except if I can find it very very cheap!) Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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: Konami Micro@?!*@*?@
Castlevania 3D? Oh my god, what a nightmare!!! Yes, for the N64... R-Type Delta is 3D, and it looked AWSOME!!! These are signs of the end of the world. X-) Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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: Konami Micro@?!*@*?@
Yeah that's where your right IF you have the right hardware . but there are people like me that don't wan't to buy a 3d card for fl 300,- yust to get a nice picture on my screen but with f@#$ers like micro$@#% you must buy that kind of shit . If i want it i can buy it. But how many of are stil going to colege and cant affort those things with a studiebeurs (sorry i don't know the english word for that) of about fl 100,- a month Yeah, you got it! Maybe PSX has a little smaller resolution than a PC with 34 cards, but it costs 1/10 of the PC. Besides, super-resoulution and super-real-time-render and super-3D-moving and all of this super-real-bullshit are really needed for having fun?? NO!! And again, let's return to Gradius Gaiden: no 3D, pixelation is noted sometimes, but WHO CARES?? It is the best non-MSX game I ever saw!! A game in which playability has priority over 3D, renders, movies, mega-SFX and all this futile fanfarre of nowadays. By the way, if you finish GG and continue playing, when you come again to 8th stage (Formidable Guardians), A NEW BOSS APPEARS after the old ones!!! Yeah, Konami did not disappoint me!! 8-D Castlevania and MGS, yes. 3D, eh? WHY? 8-( Castlevania 3D? Oh my god, what a nightmare!!! (Note: as a true radical guy I am, I promise to commit public suicide if I see Gradius 3D some day). X-) Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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/)
Konami and Microsoft: new error messages!
Kill any enemy to continue For next level reboot now. Would you like to kill your enemy now? General force field error on module Vic Viper. System resources are too small. Please install more power capsules to continue. X-) Game Over. Press CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+F6 to continue. [ ] Do not show this message anymore. X-D You did high score! Enter your name. -Some informations you enter here can be insecure, this means that other persons can see it in the net. Do not enter any confidential data if you can't use any safe method and you don't rely on the net security. 8-O And so on... any ideas? ;-) Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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: Konami and Microsoft
Microsoft will ruin all those wonderful Konami Games!!! Yep. Microsoft ruins all which he touch. Can you imagine Metal Gear Solid puting a message 'Snake executed an ilegal operation. Your game will be closed.' or crashing your system with a nice blue screen when you are almost finishing the game? Can you imagine Gradius 98 (((@O@))) I don't want to see a Gradius game in the hands of the Doom suckers! "Hey dude, this is 2D, what a shit! And where is the blood?" Waaa! This is heretic!!! And, of course, M$ Metal Gear Solid would run only in a Pentium X with Windows 2000, 512Mb RAM, 13.6Gb HD and ocupping 47 CDROMs... You can bet this. And you forgot the 3D card and the game stops for cleaning disk cache... etc... Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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: IDE Interface
1o The Megascsi can create images of MSX disks.. there r a software to do the same with IDE interface ?? The program for creating disk image files is not inetrface dependant; it works with MegaSCSI, with IDE, and with any other! The problem is to emulate these images, not to create them! Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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: MSXCDEX
* Do you still want to study how the MSXCDEX work? * NESTOORR! * Maybe here you have some help. ;) * Arf, arf!! 8-)~~ I'm really interested in the DOS patching method used by this program, in order to make a FAT16 driver!!! 15th MSX users meeting in Barcelona: May 1th, 1999 Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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: Diego's MegaSCSI
Any MegaSCSI user has good experiences running Fray for Turbo R using floppy-disk emulation (ep) of MegaSCSI? You did not receive the message I posted to ML about this? Microcabin games does not run in MegaSCSI if auto CTRL booting is active. Boot pressing CTRL when you are emulating Microcabins if you have auto CTRL boot switched ON, and it will work! 15th MSX users meeting in Barcelona: May 1th, 1999 Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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/)
Telefonica??
Have fun with "Telefonica de Espana" :)
Is this a joke or what?? If you want to ruin yourself in a fast way, just
connect to internet in spain. Thanks to "Telefonica", internet surfing in
spain is a sport for rich people only! 8-(
Ok, this is off-topic, sorry... it is only long time stored anger! X-)
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Emulating Microcabins with MegaSCSI
Hmmm. I can't emulate some games (Illusion City, Fray, etc.) using Diego's MegaSCSI on my Turbo-R. Surely you have auto CTRL boot enabled (both CTRL boot keys set OFF in "key setting" of ESET), so Microcabin games don't work (I don't know exact reason...) Just press CTRL while booting these emulated games, or disable auto CTRL boot (one key CTRL, the other OFF). As you can see, with MegaSCSI, all problems have easy solution! (-v-)v 15th MSX users meeting in Barcelona: May 1th, 1999 Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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: Some questions
works fine :) If you haven't DOS2, I suggest you to buy MegaSCSI. I suggest MegaSCSI even if you have DOS2. It works REALLY FINE, it is fast, and BIOS allows you to emulate floppies without any problem. 15th MSX users meeting in Barcelona: May 1th, 1999 Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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/)
ESE-DSP: ???
Someone knows what happened with the ESE-DSP project? Since last summer I heard no further information... 15th MSX users meeting in Barcelona: May 1th, 1999 Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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: FAT documentation...
A friend of mine wants to know where he can find information about the FAT-systems (FAT16/FAT32)... Can someone give me some URLs or send me some docs??? I find some in the microsoft page. Huh, an anti-M$ guy in the M$ page! Don't kick me please... (^^!!) If you can't find, I'll send to you. But I have info about FAT16 only... 15th MSX users meeting in Barcelona: May 1th, 1999 Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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/)
New meaning for MSX
Let's change de means of MS of MSX.
What do you think about "Multimedia Simple Xystem computer" or anything
else. :-D
In spanish: "Maquinita Super eXtraña" (super strange small machine). X-)
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M$: Getout Express!! X-)
Outlook Express works very easy and I like it, I'm used to it. Why should I use something else? All the wise computer users around the world should, not, better say MUST do all possible for boicot Micro$oft. Don't agree? Then, please, someone tell me why I'm using Windows now and I have no reasonable alternative! Say NO to monopolies!! ;-) 15th MSX users meeting in Barcelona: May 1th, 1999 Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address!! http://konamiman.msx.tni.nl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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/)
http addressing
I discovered a very interisting page: www.http2.com. Here you can register a new redirection address for your web page as http2//anything!! For example my new web address: http2//nestor.msx ;-) 15th MSX users meeting in Barcelona: May 1th, 1999 Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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: Getout Express!! X-)
Let's talk about MSX (oeps, the M stands for Microsoft... without Microsoft no MSX...) Must we be grateful to a father who abandoned his son when he was born? X-) 15th MSX users meeting in Barcelona: May 1th, 1999 Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New web address: http://konamiman.msx.tni.nlhttp2//nestor.msx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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: Problems when changing stack
Hey, thanxs everybody for your replies! I reply all in one message for
saving space... ;-)
Is it possible that another interrupt is granted while the '...' section is
executed?
I execute a DI at first. In this section there is slot and segment
switching (page 2), via ENASLT and PUT_P2 respectively.
If that happens, SAVESP will be overwritten.
Why? My routines and data areas are placed in a reserved zone in page 3,
above MSXDOS.SYS.
Another option: 100 bytes is not enough and you get a stack overflow. But
you probably thought of that.
I tried also 200... what is the corect amount?
Advanced interrupt programming ;-))
Sounds scary! 8-)
Isn't it possible, that sometimes a next interrupt occurs, while a
previous interrupt routine is still being processed?
See above.
If that happens everytime, it will crash, but if occasionally, then
no problem with proper written interrupt routine.
eh? What is the difference between "occasionally" and "every time" in this
case?
Try the above:
...
interrupt - SP corrupted - crash/hang
In fact I patch not only timer hook, but also keyboard read and character
print hooks, and stack is changed in all cases (using only one fixed
SAVESP). It is possible that keyboard and character print hooks be called
even in a DI condition? (?.?) If so, surely we found the problem!
Solution:
Disable interrupts (DI), then save SP etc., don't call
anything that could re-enable interrupts in between, restore SP, and
only AFTER that restore, further interrupts could be allowed.
I already do this!
OR: if possible, don't switch stacks at all.
But these routines do page 2 slot and segment switching, and some programs
which switch stack on page 2 causes a crash...
Perhaps a stupid remark, but do you call this routine or do you jump to
it? If you call it, the JP at the end causes your problem. If you jump
to this routine, I don't see anything wrong with it (somebody else?).
hmm.. it is just the other way around; if he CALLs it, it is ok because
the old_interrupt_hook RETurns.
Yep. My routine is JPed by new hook, but this JP is CALLed by system. The
old interrupt is a RET or a routine which returns.
Do you perform BDOS routines during your interrupt Nestor? And do you use
it in DOS1 or DOS2 environment?
Only slot and segment switching. My program is for DOS 2 only.
Also stupid: don't forget to push/pop IX/IY and shadowregisters.
You had some hints of what the problem most probably could be. I give you
one more, but I don't think you made this mistake: push all and pop all
must be in reversed order, this is correctly done?
Of course! In fact, my program works perfectly when no stack switching is
done, except with programs swtching stack in page 2.
Most probably you get an interrupt while your routine is working. If that
happens only once, the system will hang. You can switch them off with
vdp(1), so you're sure there'll be really no interrupts, even if some
routine might switch them on.
Wow! This is really advanced programming! 8-) In fact I have no big
knowledge about VDP, and I did not know this.
If you disable the bios, don't forget to read vdp status register 0 to
reset the interrupt.
OK. But I don't touch page 0 at all.
Hasta incluso!
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Re: Updated my homepage...
Somehow, I always seem to forget the URL in these kind of messages. Put it in your signature, like I do! ;-) Hasta incluso! 15th MSX users meeting in Barcelona: May 1th, 1999 Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New address!!http://konamiman.msx.tni.nl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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/)
Easy method! (was Re: remove)
HOW TO GET 2 MILLION PEOPLE TO SEND YOU $ 2.00 !!! LEARN MY EASY METHOD, PLUS RECEIVE PROOF THIS WORKS. RUSH $ 2.00 ( U.S ) FOR SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO : The method for making people to send 2$ is to say: send me 2$ and I'll tell you the method etc, etc. Oh my god, very primary! MSX users are obsolete but not so stupid!!! X-) 15th MSX users meeting in Barcelona: May 1th, 1999 Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New address!!http://konamiman.msx.tni.nl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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/)
Problems when changing stack
Hi people... problems again... this time, when changing stack. In a new update of NestorAcentos I'm developing, I put the following piece of code attached to the timer interrupt hook. The code is placed in a reserved zone on page 3: ld (SAVESP),sp ld sp,NEWSP+100 push all . . (changes slot and segment on page 2, do stuff and restores old status) . pop all ld sp,(SAVESP) jp old interrupt hook SAVESP: dw 0 NEWSP: ds 100 Well, a program executing such code causes the system to crash when any other program is executed. Someone knows where is the problem? Thanx! 15th MSX users meeting in Barcelona: May 1th, 1999 Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New address!!http://konamiman.msx.tni.nl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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: page 1 diskloading (was: 64K VRAM?)
But this routine is only provided in MSX-DOS(2) environment; when in BASIC, a RET instruction is placed at #F36E. So: disktransfer in page1 in BASIC is probably not possible (or perhaps the F37D entry temporarily changes the #F36E hook; didn't test it); This is logical: BASIC ROM is normally selected in page 1. It is not that logical. I want to make a program that is started from basic but switches ram to page 1. Than calling the diskrom on f37d with dma in page 1 would be useful. Until now, I always avoided it, but I would like to know if it would work on every MSX. If so, I could just as well use it... You can also start your program from DOS and switch BIOS on page 0: paging will be the same as when starting from BASIC and switching RAM on page 1, but you will have #F36E routine available. This should work. Just try. 8-) 15th MSX users meeting in Barcelona: May 1th, 1999 Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New address!!http://konamiman.msx.tni.nl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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: For sale:Snatcher (MSX)
For your info, I heard that here in Barcelona a dude sold his original Snatcher (or SD, I dunno recall) by 18.000 pesetas. That means 115 US $. Ina Madrid someone sold his original SD-Snatcher for only 4.000 pesetas!!! Take your own conclusions. I did. Also me: I was not enough fast and someone bought it before me!!! 8-( 15th MSX users meeting in Barcelona: May 1th, 1999 Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New address!!http://konamiman.msx.tni.nl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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: Round 16... FAT! (help wanted!!)
What you could do, instead of setting the disk change flag, is to either update or mark as invalidated any data that can change if a disk is changed. Here is the problem: I have not enough internal info about DOS so I don't know where is this "any data". So I prefer to leave all unchanged, so DOS will do all the dirty work. What info does DOS keep of a disk? Is it only the disk buffers, or is there more? There is more: current directory, volume label, etc... but how many info? And where? 15th MSX users meeting in Barcelona: May 1th, 1999 Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user New address!!http://konamiman.msx.tni.nl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Metal Gear for MSX - (C) Konami 1987 (Nothing new under the sun...) 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/)
