RE: A1 Spirit (disk version for 128KB)

2000-07-05 Thread Albert Beevendorp
At 02:35 5-7-00 +0200, you wrote: That's where my version doesn't need that. Strange things like having to press the CTRL key at startup to make a game work... I know more of these versions :( Martos' cracks are the BEST even when is needed to press CTRL . BTW, some of these cracks

Re: A1 Spirit (disk version for 128KB)

2000-07-05 Thread Albert Beevendorp
At 23:02 4-7-00 -0300, you wrote: P.S.: I tried it under DOS1.x I dunno if it uses DOS2 mapper control routines if DOS2 is installed and running ... It won't then... No need to try it, because the DOS2 routines overide manually setting a mapping any time... Okay, with one exception... MAP.COM

Re: What MSX really means

2000-07-05 Thread Pierre Gielen
You don't have to be excited about this project yet, just show interest, so Ascii can see what (if they are busy) they are doing it for.. So what can we do? Collect signatures? Mailbomb Ascii? Send a declaration of support to Japan? Pierre MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an

Re: What MSX really means

2000-07-05 Thread Pierre Gielen
Really, if there are companies in Japan interested in MSX again, they won't need our help... But our commitment may help convince them that there is still a lot of interest in MSX in the rest of the world as well. Even if it helps just a tiny little bit towards the revival of MSX, it's worth

The Japanese Sunrise misunderstanding???

2000-07-05 Thread Sander Zuidema
Here a quote from Ikeda: 'When I visited to Holland, I talked with Koen of Sunrise. I donot talk with Peter and Rob. Because they could not communication with me...' Greetz, Sander MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL

Re: Disk problems

2000-07-05 Thread Pierre Gielen
I have got a few old disks (360K - SVI 738) that is giving problems. The basic files does'nt load anymore. I get errors like "Direct statement in file", "Line buffer overflow" etc. Theze files may be saved as ascii texts, in which case you can try to load them with a text editor, restore line

Re: Rare Konami Contra

2000-07-05 Thread Ivan Latorre
Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: > Hello > > Please, take a look at: > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=373055400 > > Rare cover. > And white cartridge! > > Maybe korean version? Yes, it seems to be a Korean version, since the text on the cover is in Korean-characters. Source:

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Re: The Japanese Sunrise misunderstanding???

2000-07-05 Thread Pierre Gielen
Here a quote from Ikeda: 'When I visited to Holland, I talked with Koen of Sunrise. I donot talk with Peter and Rob. Because they could not communication with me...' This is the problem in a nutshell: language difficulties. I guess most of the groups and visitors of the Tilburg fair did not

Re: Z380 News

2000-07-05 Thread Mauricio Braga
Néstor Soriano wrote: Say that Konamiman finished the version 3 for the Z380 BIOS (Eprom). I just recorded the Eprom and tested it successfully. This is really interesting. What will exactly this z380 BIOS do? and where can I find more information (specs) about that z380 board? This

Z380 Questions and Answers

2000-07-05 Thread Daniel Zorita
July 5th 2000 As I read again several questions at MSX list about Z380 Padial's board, here I write some questions and answers: 1- Question: - " The 1KB common memory makes data transfer between Z380 and MSX slow ??" Answer: No. The 1KB memory is a very-fast memory that

RS232C

2000-07-05 Thread Duddu
Good news from our friends Gilberto (Miri Software Italy). He has build 2 RS232C. - Rs232 spectravideo like with Eprom (90.000 LIT; 45 euro) -Rs232 Sunrise like without Eprom (55.000 LIT; 30 euro) Bye, Stefano --- dott.ing. Stefano Fronteddu [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What MSX really means

2000-07-05 Thread Rieks W. Torringa
I quote from Ikeda's MSX Print: English: We had also hoped to interchange thoughts with Sunrise and Leonardo Padial from Spain about which kind of CPU and soundchip will be implemented and what kind of harddisk interface could be used best, but it seemed to us that they had very little interest

Re: What MSX really means

2000-07-05 Thread Rieks W. Torringa
Then why coming to a Dutch fair and talk about Sunrise/ Padial not showing much interest? This does not make much sense. Anyway, this discussion ends here as far as I'm concerned. Let the Japanese show us what they are up to. For now I think we can better pay some interest to the new harware

Re: What MSX really means

2000-07-05 Thread Rieks W. Torringa
There is always some loss of information, an exact 1-on-1 translation is impossible between natural languages. Disagreed. Some ways of saying something might be slightly different, but the thing that is being said is quite well translatable in another language, even if the difference is as

Re: The Japanese Sunrise misunderstanding???

2000-07-05 Thread Rieks W. Torringa
Here a quote from Ikeda: 'When I visited to Holland, I talked with Koen of Sunrise. I donot talk with Peter and Rob. Because they could not communication with me...' This is the problem in a nutshell: language difficulties. I guess most of the groups and visitors of the Tilburg fair did

Re: Z380 Questions and Answers

2000-07-05 Thread Alex Wulms
] About new Padial's development: ] ] He's working on a very interesting Sound device: ] By using DSP signal processors (very fast processors, for deal data) ] you can hardware-emulate several MSX devices at the same time, ] and even beter: ] For example: PSG+SCC+FM+PCM+MModule+MSound+MIDI+

Re: The Japanese Sunrise misunderstanding???

2000-07-05 Thread Alex Wulms
] of them thought they could speak English. In my experience, however, ] communicating in an intermediate language was rather troublesome. Maybe it's ] time to switch to Esperanto... Since nobody has Esperanto as mother language, that will still be an intermediate language... But ofcourse, if

Re: Z380 News

2000-07-05 Thread Jose Angel Morente
Mauricio Braga soltó algo así como: Good. Please keep us informed. I believe this z380 board is a great thing, but I keep asking myself if it isn't something missing. It would be better if it has a new advanced vdp (it doesn't need to be compatible with the old v9958, because The Z380 board

Re: The Japanese Sunrise misunderstanding???

2000-07-05 Thread Sander Zuidema
But ofcourse, if the whole world starts to use Esperanto as primary language, then the generation coming after us will have Esperanto as mother language and the whole communication barrier will have dissapeared. Wouldn't that be nice? ;) I think that English will gradually become more and

Re: Rare Konami Contra

2000-07-05 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Yes, it seems to be a Korean version, since the text on the cover is in Korean-characters. Source: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Ginza/2271/Tekoop/tekoop.html You can see also Vigilante MSX cartridge. This Vigilante cartridge I also found on the webpage of this Finnish guy

Re: What MSX really means

2000-07-05 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Rieks W. Torringa wrote: There is always some loss of information, an exact 1-on-1 translation is impossible between natural languages. Disagreed. Some ways of saying something might be slightly different, but the thing that is being said is quite well translatable in

Re: Z380 News

2000-07-05 Thread Mauricio Braga
Jose Angel Morente wrote: Mauricio Braga soltó algo así como: Good. Please keep us informed. I believe this z380 board is a great thing, but I keep asking myself if it isn't something missing. It would be better if it has a new advanced vdp (it doesn't need to be compatible with the

more japanese news

2000-07-05 Thread Ricardo Bittencourt
A real transcript from an ICQ chat with Takamichi Suzukawa, the well-known japanese user: ricbit I think it's better for me just start saving money ricbit for the new MSX 3 that ascii/ese are developing. takamichi ...Hey, you're not really thinking "new MSX" will be takamichi

Re: Z380 Questions and Answers

2000-07-05 Thread Mauricio Braga
Daniel Zorita wrote: 3- Question: Why Padial's Z380 board doesn't include a VDP or Sound device? Answer: Because Padial is making a separate VDP and a separate Sound device. Making all in only 1 board is impossible, and too expensive to buy all. For example, you can

Site updated!

2000-07-05 Thread The MSX Files
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