AW: Problems with RuMSX and Sprites

1999-07-19 Thread Coen van der Geest
Hi there, Every BASIC-programme with sprites and with the routine ON SPRITE GOSUB causes some trouble. The ON SPRITE GOSUB routine is started no matter if there is really a sprite collision or not. So I lose all my life in these games without any chance to react in the right manner. If I

AW: AW: philosophical view of emulation vs real thing

1999-07-19 Thread Coen van der Geest
Hi there, It also has a wave-channel, but it has very small sample-ram, if I'm correct (I'm not sure about this). Anyways, the samples you hear most of the time sound crappy. Yes! A friend of mine had a Sega Megadrive and he was playing F1 Racer (or something like that). You could hear "Final

V9938/58

1999-07-19 Thread andre . vandun
Where can i buy these processors nowadays (also second hand) and what are the costs. greets andre 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

Re: Phoenix project - The new MSX platform pro-standarization

1999-07-19 Thread Laurens Holst
have the guarantee of a full compatibility between different projects and a It's a good idea to standardize the new MSX efforts, it will Iim sure that Phoenix is something needed for the MSX system, and with Phoenix all the programmers will be in contact with hardware developers to work

Bootstrap SP alternate register set cart x-ecution

1999-07-19 Thread MkII
Standard MSX-DOS bootsectors seem to set stack pointer at #F51F. Is that a safe address to keep using Disk BASIC calls within a bootstrapped program? Do MSX-DOS or Disk BASIC ROM reserve alternate (EXX) or index registers for its own use? Can I trash them all? The ZX Spectrum interrupt server

Re: Wanted: Bee Card/Softcard adapters

1999-07-19 Thread Alejandro Corral
At 09:22 29/06/99 -0300, you wrote: If they are compatible, what about extract Turbografx games from MSX? There is a simple and single reason that makes not possible to directly use PC-Engine/TurboGrafx code on the MSX. But I don't want to run Turbografx code on MSX, I only want to extract

Re: ComputingMuseum

1999-07-19 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
what's this Victor HC 95? Never heard of it. Then, read The Ultimate MSX FAQ including The MSX Hardwarelist. Grtjs, Manuel ((m)ICQ UIN 41947405) PS: MSX 4 EVER! (Questions? See: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/) PPS: Visit my homepage at http://www.sci.kun.nl/marie/home/manuelbi/ MSX

Problems with GETDISK.

1999-07-19 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Hi I have some problems with GETDISK (a program to create diskimages on MSX). I wanted to make a diskimage of SD-Snatcher (cracked English version) and some other games, like Testament. The problem is: when I try to use GETDISK, I get a DOS error: *** Not a DOS disk. What can I do to overcome

Dutch MSX users: read teletekst pag. 404!

1999-07-19 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Hahah! If you want to see some funny thing: look at NOS teletekst pagina 404, if you can recieve the Dutch public TV channels. -- Grtjs, Manuel ((m)ICQ UIN 41947405) PS: MSX 4 EVER! (Questions? See: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/) PPS: Visit my homepage at

RE: Dutch MSX users: read teletekst pag. 404!

1999-07-19 Thread Sandy Pleyte
or by internet : http://www.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/tt/nos/page/t/o/m/x/n/404 Sandy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Manuel Bilderbeek Sent: maandag 19 juli 1999 15:38 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Dutch MSX users: read teletekst pag. 404!

Re: Dutch MSX users: read teletekst pag. 404!

1999-07-19 Thread Rainier Maas
Or just go to www.omroep.nl/teletekst and read page 404... But it is still only readable for dutch people ;) Rainier Maas Hahah! If you want to see some funny thing: look at NOS teletekst pagina 404, if you can recieve the Dutch public TV channels. MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe,

Turbo Pascal and keybuffering

1999-07-19 Thread J. Lautenbag
Hi, I've made a menuprogram in Turbo Pascal which has to execute the game selected from the menu. I put the commandline in the keyboardbuffer (0FBF0H), but when I exit my program the first three characters are gone! And when I add an extra WriteLn at the end of my program all characters are

NMS8250 Memory

1999-07-19 Thread andre . vandun
According to a brazilian web site (i dunno exactly the name is tought it was msx home) it is possible to expand the memory simply by adding a few chips, but i can't read the text which comes with it, can somebody suply me with a english version of the memory expansion. greetz andre MSX

Re: Turbo Pascal and keybuffering

1999-07-19 Thread Rainier Maas
If you always loose the first three characters, why don't you just start with three spaces? I know it isn't an elegant solutions, but it might for you... Rainier Maas I've made a menuprogram in Turbo Pascal which has to execute the game selected from the menu. I put the commandline in the

AW: Dutch MSX users: read teletekst pag. 404!

1999-07-19 Thread Coen van der Geest
Hi there, If you want to see some funny thing: look at NOS teletekst pagina 404, if you can recieve the Dutch public TV channels. What have the Backstreet boys have to do with MSX? *grin* Grtz Coen MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body

Re: Problems with GETDISK.

1999-07-19 Thread Giovanni R. Nunes
Manuel, I have some problems with GETDISK (a program to create diskimages on MSX). (...) when I try to use GETDISK, I get a DOS error: *** Not a DOS disk. What can I do to overcome this? Well, you can use the the FDLOAD, FDSAVE and FDCOPY! This utitilities are provided in MegaSCSI

RE: AW: Dutch MSX users: read teletekst pag. 404!

1999-07-19 Thread Boon, Eric
What have the Backstreet boys have to do with MSX? *grin* Didn't you know that 'Bilderbeek' in English spells 'Backstreet'? ;-D Eric MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: NMS8250 Memory

1999-07-19 Thread Tristan
According to a brazilian web site (i dunno exactly the name is tought it was msx home) it is possible to expand the memory simply by adding a few chips, but i can't read the text which comes with it, can somebody suply me with a english version of the memory expansion. I have a dutch

Victor HC95

1999-07-19 Thread Giovanni R. Nunes
People, what's this Victor HC 95? Never heard of it. Is a MSX2 made specially to video producing with genlock and video capture built-in. This computer is a "like" MSX2, with 128Kb RAM (or 64Kb?), 128Kb VRAM, RS232, Gen-Lock, digitizer and two disk drives. And this computer has two

Re: R: Phoenix project - The new MSX platform pro-standarization

1999-07-19 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 11:33 PM 7/17/99 +0200, you wrote: As I told in another message, I think it is not neccesary the creation of a special representation, Phoenix must be opened for all the users, like Internet. I agree that the discussions and the specifications should be accessible to everyone. But how are

Re: Phoenix project - The new MSX platform pro-standarization

1999-07-19 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 12:56 PM 7/19/99 +0200, Laurens wrote: But what about the developers which don't have internet-access??? I know Hans van Oranje has, and others might be able to access the internet via school or the library, but I don't think they all have internet-access. I think any developer who has money

Re: Bootstrap SP alternate register set cart x-ecution

1999-07-19 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 01:21 PM 7/19/99 +0200, you wrote: Standard MSX-DOS bootsectors seem to set stack pointer at #F51F. Is that a safe address to keep using Disk BASIC calls within a bootstrapped program? I think so. I never had problem with it, anyway. Do MSX-DOS or Disk BASIC ROM reserve alternate (EXX) or

Re: Phoenix project - The new MSX platform pro-standarization

1999-07-19 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
By the way, there was some guy (dunno where) developing an OPL3 board!!! Aargh! Let us make it MoonSound-compatible and convince this guy to use OPL4!!! (which can still be achieved). Why would he have to use OPL4? It would certainly be more expensive, because the instrument ROM costs

Re: Turbo Pascal and keybuffering

1999-07-19 Thread Laurens Holst
I've made a menuprogram in Turbo Pascal which has to execute the game selected from the menu. I put the commandline in the keyboardbuffer (0FBF0H), but when I exit my program the first three characters are gone! And when I add an extra WriteLn at the end of my program all characters are

Re: Dutch MSX users: read teletekst pag. 404!

1999-07-19 Thread Laurens Holst
Hahah! If you want to see some funny thing: look at NOS teletekst pagina 404, if you can recieve the Dutch public TV channels. :) *grin* Nice place between the Backstreet Boys and Kelly Family fans Manuel!!! Hey, it's cool! ~Grauw MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to

Re: Problems with GETDISK.

1999-07-19 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
I have some problems with GETDISK (a program to create diskimages on MSX). (...) when I try to use GETDISK, I get a DOS error: *** Not a DOS disk. What can I do to overcome this? Well, you can use the the FDLOAD, FDSAVE and FDCOPY! This utitilities are provided in MegaSCSI Utilities

Re: Dutch MSX users: read teletekst pag. 404!

1999-07-19 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Hahah! If you want to see some funny thing: look at NOS teletekst pagina 404, if you can recieve the Dutch public TV channels. :) *grin* Nice place between the Backstreet Boys and Kelly Family fans Manuel!!! Hey, it's cool! Thanks for all those nice reactions from all of you,

Re: Victor HC95

1999-07-19 Thread Laurens Holst
People, what's this Victor HC 95? Never heard of it. Is a MSX2 made specially to video producing with genlock and video capture built-in. This computer is a "like" MSX2, with 128Kb RAM (or 64Kb?), 128Kb VRAM, RS232, Gen-Lock, digitizer and two disk drives. And this computer has

Re: Phoenix project - The new MSX platform pro-standarization

1999-07-19 Thread Laurens Holst
By the way, there was some guy (dunno where) developing an OPL3 board!!! Aargh! Let us make it MoonSound-compatible and convince this guy to use OPL4!!! (which can still be achieved). Why would he have to use OPL4? It would certainly be more expensive, because the instrument ROM costs money

[Phoenix] Re: Phoenix project - The new MSX platform pro-standarization

1999-07-19 Thread Laurens Holst
We know that MSX is a generational standard, theorically MSX-TR is compatible with MSX-1, MSX-2 and MSX-2+, MSX 2 with MSX-1...possible new MSX computers have to be compatible with MSX TR, 2+, 2 and 1 obviosly. I'm not sure turbo R compatibility would be a good thing. You would need an

Re: R: Phoenix project - The new MSX platform pro-standarization

1999-07-19 Thread Richard Gerrits
I have some space left and I'm allowed to use CGI. I don't have the ability to aquire my own domain name, the shortest I can offer ends in "/~mth/phoenix/". But does a domain name really matter? Ofcourse it looks cool, but anyone who's really interested can bookmark a more complicated URL. You

Re: Victor HC95

1999-07-19 Thread Richard Gerrits
what's this Victor HC 95? Never heard of it. Is it a MSX by JVC? Because, as far as I know victor is the japanese JVC Greetings Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.student.utwente.nl/r.gerrits MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body

Re: Victor HC95

1999-07-19 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
what's this Victor HC 95? Never heard of it. Is it a MSX by JVC? Because, as far as I know victor is the japanese JVC Do I really need to actually QUOTE parts of The Ultimate MSX FAQ here??? READ THE ULTIMATE MSX FAQ for these kinds of things!! Yes, there's even a picture of the Victor

Re: Victor HC95

1999-07-19 Thread Daniel Jorge Caetano
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:23:40 +0200, Laurens Holst wrote: JVC HC95 Is a MSX2 made specially to video producing with genlock and video capture built-in. This computer is a "like" MSX2, with 128Kb RAM (or (...) includes one MSX standard slot (in front) and a bizarre ad unknow slot in

Re: R: Phoenix project - The new MSX platform pro-standarization

1999-07-19 Thread Peter Burkhard
About Sunrise, Sunrise Holland and Swiss have merged. As far as I know, they distribute hardware, but they don't have a "development staff". Whoever develops a project is different per project. That is absolute not correct. All hardeware (GFX9000, MoonSound, Video9000, PAL-Encoder a.s.o.

Re: [Phoenix] Re: Phoenix project - The new MSX platform pro-standarization

1999-07-19 Thread Daniel Jorge Caetano
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:44:25 +0200, Laurens Holst wrote: I'm not sure turbo R compatibility would be a good thing. You would need an R800-compatible processor for example, and as far as I know Z380 isn't. ??? ISN'T IT ??? No, it is not. I'm sure of this. Well, then maybe we can disassemble

Re: Turbo Pascal and keybuffering

1999-07-19 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 04:04 PM 7/19/99 +0200, you wrote: I've made a menuprogram in Turbo Pascal which has to execute the game selected from the menu. Maybe you can use a trick I once used under MS-DOS to make a menu program. When executing a batch file, the COMMAND.COM of MS-DOS remembers the filename and the

Re: FDC in Wavy (was: UZIX DOS2)

1999-07-19 Thread frambel
Hi all I have used the uzix demo in sanyo wavy 70 fd2 and all its OK. 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]

Re: Phoenix project - The new MSX platform pro-standarization

1999-07-19 Thread AkA DanSHakU
...are there any specs yet?... akai 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: R: Phoenix project - The new MSX platform pro-standarization

1999-07-19 Thread Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro
At 23:33 17/07/99 +0200, you wrote: What about a vote for every country involved in this new country will be responsable for the election of its man. I don't think distributing votes per country is such a good And even if you want to distribute votes per country, it would be better to

Re: R: Phoenix project - The new MSX platform pro-standarization

1999-07-19 Thread Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro
At 14:18 18/07/99 +0200, you wrote: Many things needs to be done. Something to be remembered: There are many countries where you can find MSX-freaks, but unfortunately you can't count more than 10 users. In Holland, there were much more. So, does the vote of North It is not