Re: IF

1999-06-28 Thread Laurens Holst
Really nobody is interested in the z-machine? If this program is ported to MSX, hundreds of games could be played on MSX! Really nobody in the mailing list loves text adventures?? I have the C source code optimized for intel 8086, so it mustn't be difficult to port to MSX. I have checked it

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-28 Thread Laurens Holst
2. it should have decent graphics capabilities and graphical user interface (BeOS maybe?). You only say BeOS because you don't want to go Microsoft. Noone wants M$ If Windows wasn't good and easy-to-use then it wouldn't have been installed on (almost) every new PC. But, I agree BeOS

Re: Direct sector access

1999-06-28 Thread Laurens Holst
I'm looking for a good MSX-DOS command to read/write floppy disk sectors. Do you want a utility? Or info on how to program direct sectors access? Utility. Something to read/write/show/edit bootsector/FATs/DIRs etc. I'm about to write one but don't like to reinvent the wheel. Well you

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-28 Thread Laurens Holst
And some kind of ethernet (or compatibility with ISA or PCI), but that's just my personal wish. Indeed, with these new developments (FudeBrowser, TCP/IP, etc.) it would be great to have an ethernet card for MSX! Maybe Erik Maas could design one? Then we really can get networking in a LAN

Re: web browser for msx

1999-06-28 Thread Laurens Holst
Therefore: Lynx. A text-mode html viewer would be very simple to be created. So, the author decided to try to do a graphical html viewer. BTW, I think Lynx is an ugly browser. It works very fast, but is a little limited. Though very fit for MSX, because MSX-modems most of the time

Re: Direct sector access

1999-06-28 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
I'm looking for a good MSX-DOS command to read/write floppy disk sectors. Do you want a utility? Or info on how to program direct sectors access? Utility. Something to read/write/show/edit bootsector/FATs/DIRs etc. I'm about to write one but don't like to reinvent the wheel. It

Re: question:cheat for dota

1999-06-28 Thread Gerald Stap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, DOEZ anyone know a cheat for dota for MSX1 greetz from lifeline! MICRO$%#%@ sucks Some tips... Get the flying cap as soon as you can! When you enter a screen for the first time the position where you kill the baddies defines what kind of item you

New MSX: The Educar Project...

1999-06-28 Thread Giovanni R. Nunes
Hi, You're talking about a lot of ideas of a new MSX. But I only see in the horizon two thigs, one is the MMSX a MSX with Z380 and a lot of Z8 around the board (Pardial is using the same technology of old XT and AT clones. The use of microcontrolers for do all). The other is a new,

FAT16 final version...

1999-06-28 Thread Anonymous
Manoel "Fudeba" Pazos, I have uploaded final version of FAT16 program to my homepage, but remember that it is only for MegaSCSI. Why 'final version'? I downloaded this version but not tested yet (and what my "home-works" I'll not test in this next week). Another thing. Who is the

Re: The Lost Crown

1999-06-28 Thread Cas Cremers
Many years ago a dutch magazine (MSX gids or MCM, I'm not sure which one) held a game programming contest. I can remember that the winner's games were to be published. One of the winners was a game called: "The Lost Crown" It got lost :) I know for sure, because Emiel Hensen programmed

Re: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-28 Thread andre . vandun
M$ is bad because you can't get much information from it. Even when your a C++ developer and using MSDN with the SDK's and DDK's. It is still difficult to write good programs because M$ uses much undocumented and/or obsolete functions between different OS's. Even the service and help documents

AW: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-28 Thread Coen van der Geest
Hi there, M$ is bad because you can't get much information from it. Even when your a C++ developer and using MSDN with the SDK's and DDK's. It is still difficult to write good programs because M$ uses much undocumented and/or obsolete functions between different OS's. Even the service and help

Re: The Lost Crown

1999-06-28 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Many years ago a dutch magazine (MSX gids or MCM, I'm not sure which one) held a game programming contest. I can remember that the winner's games were to be published. One of the winners was a game called: "The Lost Crown" It got lost :) I know for sure, because Emiel Hensen programmed

Re: web browser for msx

1999-06-28 Thread Marco Antonio Simon dal Poz
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Laurens Holst wrote: BTW, I think Lynx is an ugly browser. It works very fast, but is a little limited. Though very fit for MSX, because MSX-modems most of the time haven't got that much bandwidth. You're thinking about a 2400 bps modem. Using ACCNET, we can achieve

RE: IF

1999-06-28 Thread Eric Boon at CAR-Wetzlar-3
Really nobody is interested in the z-machine? If this program is ported to MSX, hundreds of games could be played on MSX! Really nobody in the mailing list loves text adventures?? I have the C source code optimized for intel 8086, so it mustn't be difficult to port to MSX. The big problem isn't

email

1999-06-28 Thread maarten van strien
whoever's reading this: I wiped myself from this list. :) This to prevent getting 3000+ mails in september when this crappy school starts again... new mail will probably be: [EMAIL PROTECTED], this is the company I work for as composer/coder etc... I'll connect myself again in a week...

Re: The Lost Crown

1999-06-28 Thread Anonymous
Yes, and Mission-X was once released on a Clubguide Picturedisk (#6 or #9 or so). Was this legal? Or did Emiel give his personal permission? erm I believe so, we had some contacts with genic at that time, but I'm not 100% sure.. Who wrote The Lost Crown? Maybe we can find/contact him. hmms

Re: R: web browser for msx

1999-06-28 Thread Jacco Bot
Hi All, High costs? Complex HW? Hmmm, think of this, there are sony digital camera's that store your pictures directly to floppy disk, compressed in JPEG. Those camera's use a chip, capable of realtime JPEG compression. I don't know about decompression, I haven't had the opportunity to examine

Re: MIDI player for MoonSound

1999-06-28 Thread Anonymous
Hi, Peter: good. Well, now I have a MoonSound (8-DDD ) . Where can I download a MIDI player for this amazing soundcard? PB Sorry, but for the MoonSound exist not a good MIDI player. PB It is to difficult to developpe a MIDI-player for it. Yahmaha give us PB not the necessary

RE: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MSX PRINT. (fwd)

1999-06-28 Thread Manuel Pazos
Hi, Don't show Sonyc, please! As we read in the last Hnostar, ASCII was bought by CYK, the Sega's holding. And Sonyc is a violent Sega's rip-off. We must have problems (well, I think so!). I don't think ASCII has problems with this Sonyc-ripoff. The point is to show

Re: The Lost Crown

1999-06-28 Thread Gerald Stap
I want to play it Finally! Is it any good? Gerald 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: Mat Attack

1999-06-28 Thread Anonymous
Don't miss http://www.fut.es/~xrc/MSX/MSXMAT21.HTM and let your mouse rest in peace. Hahaha! It's cool! I hope someone like MSX-NBNO will distribute it in Holland! (Mari, Maico? Are you reading this?) Tristan + Omega + join #msx on undernet +[EMAIL PROTECTED]+ |

RE: FAT16 final version...

1999-06-28 Thread Manuel Pazos
Why 'final version'? I downloaded this version but not tested yet (and what my "home-works" I'll not test in this next week). Because it seems to work right. Another thing. Who is the 'english' (spanish, portuguese, freench or latin) version of FAT16.DOC?? I know how to use the

RE: Sonyc

1999-06-28 Thread Manuel Pazos
Thank you Cas, but I am not very proud of that code :( I think I can do it twice better now. Oba ! Nice ! So, it means that we will have a new "enhanced" version of Sonyc ? (Sonyc+) ? Perhaps with falling water and spinning rings ? I don't think so. I will not make second part of

RE: FAT16 final version and new EVA player.

1999-06-28 Thread Anonymous
Great. Could you make it open-source??? Due to my lack of time I 'leave' FAT16 proyect some month ago, so Okei was who finish it. I have source code of former versions, but the latest one :( I will ask her for that code. But it is difficult to understand that code because it uses

Re: your mail

1999-06-28 Thread Anonymous
Giovanni Fudeba, WISE solution is the best cost/benefit solution. Think about it. Yes, but how many WISE servers will be exist in world? Why I can be forced to use a special service to "browsing" in webpages with my MSX? Why we can have a small, simple, and no more complex

Re: Mat Attack

1999-06-28 Thread Mari van den Broek
Hello, Don't miss http://www.fut.es/~xrc/MSX/MSXMAT21.HTM and let your mouse rest in peace. Hahaha! It's cool! I hope someone like MSX-NBNO will distribute it in Holland! (Mari, Maico? Are you reading this?) Sure I've read it... and allready send a reply... If there is any possibility

Re: Wanted: Bee Card/Softcard adapters

1999-06-28 Thread MkII
What kind of cards are these ? They are also used at least on the Atari Portfolio handheld computer and the NEC Turbographx (PC-Engine). Dunno exactly whether they were designed or just manufactured by Hudson Soft (hence the name). A Spanish company was also producing its own flavour. They're

RE: Sonyc

1999-06-28 Thread Bruno Querzoli
Manuel Pazos wrote: I don't think so. I will not make second part of Sonyc, at least by now. Sonyc sales were not good, so if people don't want that kind of game I will not make it. I didn't know of this problem of few sales of Sonyc!!! Sorry, sorry, sorry... :-( I want to do a message in