IF

1999-07-09 Thread Antoni Burguera Burguera
Some days ago, somebody asked me to upload the Z-machine source code to funet. I have readed that in funet there is an IF directory. In pub/misc/if-archive , but I can't acces to it. Somebody can? MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body

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1999-07-09 Thread twz
Heya, ppl... A little q. Well, actually two.. 1. How can I detect which speed the MSX is currently runnin' (7MHz)? 2. How can I detect which video-chip is installed (v9938/v9958)?? Yep, I still have a lot to learn!.. mzl. d-fader^TwZ PS. Another Q: Why do programmers always get Christmas

Fwd: MSX PRINT.

1999-07-09 Thread arjan compagner
Hello people, Here is the (new) MSX PRINT of Ikeda. Ikeda's MSX PRINT 2/July ASCII Corp come back to MSX world! Already ASCII paied many money to us( PERHAPS 50Yen). This money is to make MSX DEN-YU LAND. So, ASCII is sponsor of MSX DEN-YU LAND. And MANY member of ASCII will visit MSX

UZIX ED

1999-07-09 Thread Duddu
Hi to all of You, I've tryed to use ed ... not so good ... I hope that someone will port vi or joe to UZIX ... there is a coder able to do so ? Bye, Stefano PS in UZIX is there a c compiler (eg cpp or gcc) MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in

Re: Amiga mouse and MSX

1999-07-09 Thread Alex Mitsio Sato
Laurens Holst wrote: That could also be, indeed... Btw, Amiga joysticks CAN be used on the MSX Can you explain how I can do that? I have an Amiga 1200 and a MSX Turbo R - FS-A1GT. Amiga's mouse don't work in the TR. And vice-versa (I have a MSX's mouse too). No. I have

Re: PSG pitch table, wave re-trigger, 4-bit PCM YM/AY differences

1999-07-09 Thread Alex Mitsio Sato
MkII wrote: I'm looking for an accurate pitch to tone registers value translation table for PSG. Do you mean, how values you can use in (in case of use channel A) register 0 and 1? If yes, you can use de following: Fclock Freq=-- 16*(r0+r1*256) where Freq mean the

More IF

1999-07-09 Thread Antoni Burguera Burguera
Well, it is not necessary for me to upload source code or specifications of the z-machine to funet. They are already on funet. Try at ftp.funet.fi/pub/misc/if-archive/interpreters-infocom-zcode . -- /*-*/ /*

Re: MSXCDEX and IDECDEX...

1999-07-09 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 11:06 PM 7/8/99 +0200, Jon wrote: 2. a way to figure out of which type a connected drive is and to figure out if a diskrom supports this standard. If the DiskROM doesn't support a drive, how do you even know that the drive is present? 3. Creation of new entry somewhere in the area of #7Fxx

Re:

1999-07-09 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 12:19 PM 7/9/99 -0400, you wrote: 1. How can I detect which speed the MSX is currently runnin' (7MHz)? Just an idea, I never tried this: Count how many instructions you can execute in one VDP interrupt cycle. 2. How can I detect which video-chip is installed (v9938/v9958)?? Read VDP status

Re: Fast VRAM loader

1999-07-09 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 01:41 PM 7/9/99 +0200, Laurens wrote: Just use the Fast 16-bit Loop I use in my routines instead of this one and the VRAM loading will go a lot faster. It is a bit complicated to understand (I wrote an article in Dutch about it), but it does work and is as fast as a 'normal' 8-bit OTIR. I

Re: UZIX DOS2

1999-07-09 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 11:40 PM 7/8/99 +0200, Jon wrote: hmmm... seems dangerous to me: some hardware drivers can be installed in this area at startup. (example: workspace of diskroms). MSX system area is from #F380...#. Below that area, the DOS kernel area; from #F1C9 to #F37F for the DOS2.x kernel (probably

Re: PSG pitch table, wave re-trigger, 4-bit PCM YM/AYdifferences

1999-07-09 Thread MkII
I'm looking for an accurate pitch to tone registers value translation table for PSG. Do you mean, how values you can use in (in case of use channel A) register 0 and 1? If yes, you can use de following: Fclock Freq=-- 16*(r0+r1*256) where Freq mean the frequency you

S/F motor off

1999-07-09 Thread MkII
Talking about flashing drive LEDs... What's the best system-friendly way to stop floppy disk (or whatever spinning device) motor before taking over system? Bearing in mind that data may have been loaded from another device (HD, ZIP, CD-ROM, RAMDISK...) which may or may not need to stop its

AARGH!! (was Re: Fast VRAM loader)

1999-07-09 Thread MkII
Oh my! My loading routine was OK! I've just tested in my NMS 8250 and it's really fast. Less than 6 sec per screen 8 where basic takes almost 10! *BUT*BUT*BUT*BUT* The problem is with my F700!!! It takes 400% more time to load!!! The drive LED even turns off when feeding data to VRAM!!! Cannot

Re: UZIX DOS2

1999-07-09 Thread Cesar Cardoso
Maarten ter Huurne wrote: hmmm... seems dangerous to me: some hardware drivers can be installed in this area at startup. (example: workspace of diskroms). MSX system area is from #F380...#. Below that area, the DOS kernel area; from #F1C9 to #F37F for the DOS2.x kernel (probably the

Re: R: UZIX betabetabeta test

1999-07-09 Thread Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro
At 20:18 07/07/99 +0200, you wrote: I've tryed with NMS8280 of my friends. With his MSX your disk image UZIX simply doesn't boot. MSX start as if no disk is in the disk-drive. My PC hanged for problems wired with others thing, now solved. Now its behavior is the same. It ignore the UZIX boot

Re: Amiga mouse and MSX

1999-07-09 Thread Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro
At 09:57 08/07/99 +0200, you wrote: Amiga and MSX-mouses are indeed not compatible. Right. I believe the X/Y-movement is, just like on PC, delivered to the PC in an analog signal, and not a digital signal. So you'll need a AD-converter, something like ReMouse, but then for an Amiga

RE: What is EVA?

1999-07-09 Thread Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro
At 23:20 07/07/99 +0200, you wrote: Yes, but MSX has "power-horse" to decompress data and maintain synchro? I don't think so. Maybe it can be done using a special video compression algorithm. FLI files, for example, uses an algorithm where they have the 1st frame stored and the

Re: New MSX: The Educar Project...

1999-07-09 Thread Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro
At 16:36 08/07/99 +0200, you wrote: GN You're talking about a lot of ideas of a new MSX. But I only see in GN the horizon two thigs, one is the MMSX a MSX with Z380 and a lot of GN Z8 around the board (Pardial is using the same technology of old XT GN and AT clones. The use of