Re: Does anyone have Xtory CD ?

1999-02-04 Thread Anne de Raad
I was digging also, but I think I was digging at the wrong spot. The name doesn't ring a bell at all. Could you explane please? Well, I am not sure, though, maybe you are digging at the right spot. Tell me what you are thinking ofMaster I always thought Nijmegen had something to

RE: Does anyone have Xtory CD ?

1999-02-04 Thread Patrick Kramer
-Original Message- From: Robert Vroemisse [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 1999 2:51 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: AW: Does anyone have Xtory CD ? -- Van:Anne de Raad[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: donderdag 4

Re: tape storage details

1999-02-04 Thread shevek
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Zoran Majcenic wrote: Hi, Can anyone point me to or give me details of tape storage ? I'm interested in file headers, bit representation and possible use of parity or CRC. The easiest way to use the tape is via the bios. You have routines for write header

Re: A question...

1999-02-04 Thread Laurens Holst
As far as I know there still isn't a program for the MSX with which you can (like RAR or ARJ) devide large files into smaller pieces (to reassemble later) which can, for instance, fit on a disk. Compression is not even nessacary, just the deviding... Eehhhthat's what I would call a

Dragon Slayer VI

1999-02-04 Thread Pablo Vasques Bravo-Villalba
CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293 wrote: Continuing my digging into the heap of old EMs (I'm about at Jan. 23rd), I've got some EMs about "Dragon Slayer", "Legend of Heroes" and "Xanadu". It is very, very, very long since I last played "Dragon Slayer - Legend of Heroes" (MSX, of course), but I

AW: Does anyone have Xtory CD ?

1999-02-04 Thread Robert Vroemisse
-- Van: Anne de Raad[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:donderdag 4 februari 1999 15:06 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp:Re: Does anyone have Xtory CD ? I was digging also, but I think I was digging at the wrong spot. The name doesn't ring a bell at all. Could you

R: tape storage details

1999-02-04 Thread Stefano Fronteddu
Hi to You, look in my MSX Soft Tips Page, there you'll find an assembly routine that use bios call to read header from tape. It will be useful for you I think ! Bye, Stefano --- Fronteddu Stefano Student in Software Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

AW: Legends...

1999-02-04 Thread Coen van der Geest
Hi there, "Legend of Heroes" and "Xanadu". It is very, very, very long since I last played "Dragon Slayer - Legend of Heroes" (MSX, of course), but I don't remember it being called "Dragon Slayer VI" anywhere. It shouldn't, because it is an independent series No, Legend of Heroes was the

Re: tape storage details

1999-02-04 Thread Mindaugas_Piesina%UAB
Hi, I found in ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/msx/emulator/fmsxd131.zip/Fmsx-dos.txt: Tape emulation == The tape emulation isn't nearly finished. Saving and loading files from BASIC works correctly (Metal Gear saves perfectly as well), but there are some major problems creating tape

Re: tape storage details

1999-02-04 Thread Nestor Soriano
Can anyone point me to or give me details of tape storage ? I'm interested in file headers, bit representation and possible use of parity or CRC. You can find those details in MSX Technical Handbook (chapter 5 if my memory don't fails). You can donwload it from my home page.

Re: tape storage details

1999-02-04 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Hi, I found in ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/msx/emulator/fmsxd131.zip/Fmsx-dos.txt: Tape emulation == The tape emulation isn't nearly finished. Saving and loading files from BASIC works correctly (Metal Gear saves perfectly as well), but there are some major problems

Re: AW: Legends...

1999-02-04 Thread Pablo Vasques Bravo-Villalba
Coen van der Geest wrote: Dragonslayer 3 has nothing to do with 4 (Dragon Family or something), Drasle Family =) `:) Parn ICQ# 1693182 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Music of the soul", Mitsuo Hagita MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body

Re: AW: msx-ers

1999-02-04 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 10:50 PM 2/2/99 +0100, you wrote: By the way, I also really like the SCC chip. It can have an incredibly full sound (only 5 channels) and is very fast. I'm working on SCC emulation for the MoonSound. Right now, it works only for SCC Musixx files, but I hope to add it to a certain Konami game

Re: Legends of EXE-packer...

1999-02-04 Thread Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha
Cyberknight, For PC, there is an on-development EXE-packer (compress and keeps the file still executable) named Apack. I'm using it, even still being a beta, because it really smashes things! Far better than PKLite and Diet, for example. And what does it have to do with MSX?

Re: Hi all!

1999-02-04 Thread Sander Zuidema
Welcome to the list... I still got a trauma from bananenvla My music wasn't that bad, was it? :) Sander 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

Re: Hi all!

1999-02-04 Thread TFH
Do you really wish to have an answer to that question ??? Go visit the MSX Emulator Page (M.E.P.) http://www.mep.msxnet.org http://surf.to/msxemu http://www.casema.net/~tfh ICQ:1446 -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Sander Zuidema [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Hi all!

1999-02-04 Thread Sander Zuidema
|My music wasn't that bad, was it? :) Do you really wish to have an answer to that question ??? Only if you say that my music back then was amazingly perfect So lie to me :) To be serious: Yeah I'd like to know what people think of my music. I don't consider my music on Bananenvla as good

Trouble with ruMSX or fmsx

1999-02-04 Thread yoyo
Hello MSXfans :-) I'm a trouble with ruMSX, it's too slow in my PC (under W98) Under fmsx-dos I'm a trouble too : Aleste Gaiden, Feedback, Golveillus 2 don't run... I have a real MSX (Turbo-R), but something I play under MSXemulation (via PC)... Greeting from France Lionel (aka yoyo)

Re: Hi all!

1999-02-04 Thread QUICKzAND
Welcome to the list... I still got a trauma from bananenvla My music wasn't that bad, was it? :) Sander nah I loved it back then :) but the disklabel really hurts yer eyes!! MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject)

Re: Trouble with ruMSX or fmsx

1999-02-04 Thread TFH
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: yoyo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: donderdag 4 februari 1999 22:44 Onderwerp: Trouble with ruMSX or fmsx |Hello MSXfans :-) | |I'm a trouble with ruMSX, it's too slow in my PC (under W98) That's not so strange.. To get

Re: tape storage details

1999-02-04 Thread Alwin Henseler
Hi all, Manuel Bilderbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's in 1996. What the situation is today? Are there hard-/software solutions to bring my old files from a MSX tape to the PC, not using a MSX computer? Mindaugas. Not really, I believe, but some people seem to work on it.

Re: compression methods

1999-02-04 Thread Alwin Henseler
Hi you all ! "CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) Unfortunately, nothing, and that's why I'm mentioning it: there is no EXE-packer for MSX! Or is there and I never realized that? There is: POPCOM.COM: easy to use, not so great compression (compressed .COM file

Re: Split v1.1...

1999-02-04 Thread Alwin Henseler
"Laurens Holst"[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know there still isn't a program for the MSX with which you can (like RAR or ARJ) devide large files into smaller pieces (to reassemble later) which can, for instance, fit on a disk. Compression is not even nessacary, just the

soundcard

1999-02-04 Thread Sander Zuidema
Hey Alwin, Whatever happened to that sampler/soundcard you were developing? Greetz, Sander Zuidema Listen to my music at: http://members.tripod.com/moonsynth MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL

Re: Booting DOS 1/2

1999-02-04 Thread Sander Zuidema
Hey Alwin! Greetings (and to you too, Sander Zuidema ! ;-)) .yep, this guy is a musical genius indeed Thank you very much Alwin. You're giving me more credits than I deserve I guess... Good to hear from you again anyway. Glad you're still active. Sander Zuidema

AW: AW: msx-ers

1999-02-04 Thread Robert Vroemisse
Hmmm ??? Great Ammount ??? Over here a sound card with 16 bit sound will cost you less then US$ 25,-.. That's not so expensive, isn't it ? But you don't have a wavetable for that amount of money. MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put

Re: Legends... of packers.

1999-02-04 Thread MARUJO
Cyber Knight wrote: Maybe MSX shouldn't have an EXE-packer... Could someone find a use to an EXE-packer for MSX...? Ja' usou o popcom para arquivos .COM ? Infelizmente ele nao empacota outros arquivos, somente o arquivo .com (pelo menos gasta menos espaco em dis- co) Esta' no ftp da funet,

Re: compression methods

1999-02-04 Thread Alex Wulms
] *And now, my spamming against the copyright (claimers) owners ] of the shrink algorithm. Since 1987, Compuserve has spread a new ] image file format, the very well known GIF. It uses an algorithm ] named Lempel-Ziv-Huffman (LZH). ] ] Errata: GIF uses LZW (Lempel, ZivWelch) method.

Re: AW: msx-ers

1999-02-04 Thread Alex Wulms
] By the way, did you know that the formula for SCC frequencies is like this: ] ] sccfreq = (msxfreq / 32) / (sccfnum + 1), where: ]sccfreq is the played frequency (in Hertz) ]msxfreq is the MSX clock frequency (3579545 Hz) ]sccfnum is the value you poke in the SCC memory area ] ]