Re: Got It Straight!!

2000-07-12 Thread The MSX Files
At 04:29 AM 12/07/2000 -0700, you wrote: > Ok, I can now boot those disks and run the software. >I've replaced the old ddxdos.sys and comando.com files >for the proper msxdos.sys and command.com files. I'm >almost sure it is a DDX-DISK interface issue. That's an old problem... you could just rena

Re: MSX to VGA

2000-07-12 Thread Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha
> I don't want to use that MSX system > anymore, it's a very old Expert in poor conditions > plugged to an even worse monitor. Tsc, tsc, tsc... No comments about this sad statement... > I almost became > crazy a while ago because I've had to use that machine Me too! I almost be

Re: DISK.ROM Influence?

2000-07-12 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, "$B%_(Biogo" Sperb Schneider wrote: > > > You just made me remember about something I've been > > thinking... Is there somebody writing all this stuff > > we discover? It should be documented that the DDX disk > > interfaces look for DDXDOS.SYS and COMANDO.COM instead > >

Brazilian MSX Maling list (In Portuguese)

2000-07-12 Thread Werner Augusto Roder Kai
Hi, Try this URL: http://www.scifi-br.nu/mailman/listinfo/msxbr-l []s Werner MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes) in the body (not the subject) of the message. P

Re: DISK.ROM Influence?

2000-07-12 Thread Werner Augusto Roder Kai
Ðiogo Sperb Schneider gravada: > You just made me remember about something I've been > thinking... Is there somebody writing all this stuff > we discover? It should be documented that the DDX disk > interfaces look for DDXDOS.SYS and COMANDO.COM instead > of MSXDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM now that I

Re: Brazilian Cheese Breads (off-topic)

2000-07-12 Thread Werner Augusto Roder Kai
Maarten ter Huurne gravada: > > > > > There's something almost every foreigner loves > > > > > in Brazil: our cheese breads. Please, don't die > > > > > before tasting a Brazilian cheese bread. ^^ > > > I second that! Our cheese breads are amazing!! > > > Specially if coupled with Coke!! :) > >

Re: MSX to VGA

2000-07-12 Thread Werner Augusto Roder Kai
Ðiogo Sperb Schneider gravada: > emulation. I don't want to use that MSX system > anymore, it's a very old Expert in poor conditions > plugged to an even worse monitor. Hummm, you are very very fudeba... (fudeba is a compliment) I Guess you are Brazilian. Don't you know the MSXBR

Re: DISK.ROM Influence?

2000-07-12 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, "Ðiogo" Sperb Schneider wrote: > You just made me remember about something I've been > thinking... Is there somebody writing all this stuff > we discover? It should be documented that the DDX disk > interfaces look for DDXDOS.SYS and COMANDO.COM instead > of MSXDOS.SYS and C

Re: Brazilian Cheese Breads (off-topic)

2000-07-12 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Laurens Holst wrote: > > > > There's something almost every foreigner loves > > > > in Brazil: our cheese breads. Please, don't die > > > > before tasting a Brazilian cheese bread. ^^ > > > > I second that! Our cheese breads are amazing!! > > Specially if coupled with Coke!!

Re: Japanese to English translation

2000-07-12 Thread Sander van Nunen
Great man!!! This is cool! However, this is the correct url: http://www.teletranslator.com:8080/ns_home.en.html?AlisTargetHost=localhost Thank Alex! Greetings, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.msx.org/ - Original Message - From: "Alex Wulms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MSX mailing list" <[EM

Re: MSX to VGA

2000-07-12 Thread Alex Wulms
] Currently the software is running fine on the ] emulator on an IBM-PC, but as the software was ] designed for an 80 column screen, it looks screwed. ] I'd need some way to emulate these 80 columns on the ] emulator. I've found the ROM of the 80 column card on You might try the following: 1) Sta

Re: MemMan issues (wasRe: A1 Spirit (disk version for 128KB))

2000-07-12 Thread Alex Wulms
] At 00:37 12-7-00 +0200, you wrote: ] ] >I myself have never been able to do so. Just take for example R800-drive. You ] >can only load it from BASIC. And the only reason that I never made a DOS .COM ] >version of it is exactly because, by my knowledge, it is impossible to ] >properly load a TSR

Japanese to English translation

2000-07-12 Thread Alex Wulms
Dear all, Do you also want to read all those interesting Japanese MSX pages? Then visit "The MSX Plaza" and find the link to a new translation service that is available on the web. The Japanese to English translation of that service is not perfect but it is much more readable then the Kanjis o

Fw: MSX to VGA

2000-07-12 Thread JP Grobler
Hi Sorry about the schematics going crazy. I typed them in Courier New - no TAB's only spaces. I also added the schematics in gif format. I saw there was some discussion on this topic, but it looks as if there never was a defnite answer. There was a reference to Andre Delavy making a RGB to SVGA c

Re: DISK.ROM Influence?

2000-07-12 Thread Ðiogo
--- Laurens Holst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If it crashes or doesn't load MSXDOS.SYS (provided > it's on the disk > ofcourse) while booting: yes. In that case you need > to re-format a disk (you > can do format a virtual B-drive in an emulator I > think) and copy all files to it. Yes, it

Re: MSX to VGA

2000-07-12 Thread Laurens Holst
> Wow! What a complete answer! Ummm... it wasn't. See topic. ~Grauw -- ><< email me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or ICQ: 10196372 visit my homepage at http://grauw.blehq.org/ ><< MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send

Re: DISK.ROM Influence?

2000-07-12 Thread Laurens Holst
> Does it mean that the disk must be properly formatted > to work? I mean, just copying the system files to the > disk wouldn't be enough, right? If it crashes or doesn't load MSXDOS.SYS (provided it's on the disk ofcourse) while booting: yes. In that case you need to re-format a disk (you can d

Re: Msx top 100

2000-07-12 Thread Laurens Holst
> >> And there's people I thought it would vote, but didn't. People like Laurens > >> Holst, Arnaud, , Marteen Ter Huurne, Manuel Bilderbeek, Sandy Pleyte and > >> other people I forgot. Why you didn't choose your 30 favourite MSX games > >> to help build up the list? > > > >Shit. Now I feel oblig

Re: Brazilian Cheese Breads (off-topic)

2000-07-12 Thread Laurens Holst
> > > There's something almost every foreigner loves > > > in Brazil: our cheese breads. Please, don't die > > > before tasting a Brazilian cheese bread. ^^ > > I second that! Our cheese breads are amazing!! > Specially if coupled with Coke!! :) You make me very curious... Would it in some way

Re: Msx top 100

2000-07-12 Thread Ðiogo
> I already sent it :-)) It's available on the MEP.. I know! Thanks again! = __ Ðiogo Sperb Schneider - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When I say Van Halen I mean David Lee Roth!!" @ http://www.geocities.com/enthusiast78 _

Re: WIOS hp

2000-07-12 Thread Laurens Holst
> ] Those have nothing to do with MSX2+... At least not the MSX-Music and DOS2. > > MSX-Music was for the first time a MANDATORY music device on MSX2+. So, all > MSX2+ computers and higher have a build-in MSX-Music. This has led to the > broad support of MSX-Music by most companies. Otherwise, MSX

Re: What MSX really means

2000-07-12 Thread Laurens Holst
> > And maybe someone can point ASCII to the current poll at www.msx.org? > > That's a good initiative, it's even fair since you can't even vote more than > once ;-) Yes, the one who has written that piece of code must really be a smart guy... ~Grauw -- ><<

Re: MemMan issues (wasRe: A1 Spirit (disk version for 128KB))

2000-07-12 Thread Albert Beevendorp
At 10:22 12-7-00 -0300, you wrote: >Alex Wulms wrote: > > ] Speaking about tsr's. Does anyone still use/remember Micro Music ? > > Yes. Great tool. All microcabin musics on the background :-)) > >Hey, I want it. Where can we find it? Does it >work with both MSX-Music and PSG? :) If you mean the T

Re: Msx top 100

2000-07-12 Thread TFH/Fony
- Original Message - From: Rafael Lima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 5:20 AM Subject: Re: Msx top 100 > To Diogo Sperb Shcneider > > I HAVE Tensai Rabbian, yeah, it's a great game! Do u want it? > > Shatterhand I already sent it :-)) It's

Re: MSX to VGA

2000-07-12 Thread Eric . Boon
> Currently the software is running fine on the > emulator on an IBM-PC, but as the software was > designed for an 80 column screen, it looks screwed. > I'd need some way to emulate these 80 columns on the > emulator. erhm, stupid question maybe, but wouldn't it be easier to run your software

Re: MSX to VGA

2000-07-12 Thread Ðiogo
Wow! What a complete answer! But what I need actually is something done through emulation. I don't want to use that MSX system anymore, it's a very old Expert in poor conditions plugged to an even worse monitor. I almost became crazy a while ago because I've had to use that machine to dump the

RE: MemMan issues (wasRe: A1 Spirit (disk version for 128KB))

2000-07-12 Thread Eric . Boon
Frits Hilderink wrote: [editorial cut&paste] >> > ] Speaking about tsr's. Does anyone still use/remember Micro Music ? >> > Yes. Great tool. All microcabin musics on the background :-)) >> >> Hey, I want it. Where can we find it? Does it >> work with both MSX-Music and PSG? :) > > It uses

Re: MSX to VGA

2000-07-12 Thread Eric . Boon
JP Grobler wrote: >|--|-- Composite >| | |-\ >||-\-| \ >Composite | \ | AND |o Hsync >

RE: MemMan issues (wasRe: A1 Spirit (disk version for 128KB))

2000-07-12 Thread Frits Hilderink
It uses what ever the Micro Cabin game also uses. In my case a korean FM-PAC and ofcourse the PSG. You will probably find it on http://www.file-hunter.com in a few days. Just give me some time to collect everything... > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: MemMan issues (wasRe: A1 Spirit (disk version for 128KB))

2000-07-12 Thread Pablo Vasques Bravo-Villalba
Alex Wulms wrote: > ] Speaking about tsr's. Does anyone still use/remember Micro Music ? > Yes. Great tool. All microcabin musics on the background :-)) Hey, I want it. Where can we find it? Does it work with both MSX-Music and PSG? :) []s, -Parn (ICQ#1693182) /| | | |\ \| ___ |/

Re: DISK.ROM Influence?

2000-07-12 Thread Pablo Vasques Bravo-Villalba
Maarten ter Huurne wrote: > Most emulators put some illegal opcode at the DiskROM entry points, #4010, > #4022 etc. When they encounter such an opcode, they check the address it > was found at and emulate the behaviour of the routine at that address. fMSX goes further by telling you which address

MSX to VGA

2000-07-12 Thread JP Grobler
Hi I saw there was some discussion on this topic, but it looks as if there never was a defnite answer. There was a reference to Andre Delavy making a RGB to SVGA connector does anybody know if he did? (Giovanni Nunes and Fronteddu Stefano (later) made this reference) There was also a few comments

Re: Msx top 100

2000-07-12 Thread Ðiogo
--- Rafael Lima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To Diogo Sperb Shcneider > > I HAVE Tensai Rabbian, yeah, it's a great game! Do u > want it? > > Shatterhand Thank you! The file-hunter.com guy sent it to me already, though. Thanks again! See you later! = __

BRMSX - No 80 Columns

2000-07-12 Thread Ðiogo
BRMSX has the same effect. After running it with the 80 columns card rom (CT80NET.ROM) it had nothing displayed on the screen. = __ Ðiogo Sperb Schneider - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When I say Van Halen I mean David Lee Roth!!" @ http://www.geociti

Got It Straight!!

2000-07-12 Thread Ðiogo
Ok, I can now boot those disks and run the software. I've replaced the old ddxdos.sys and comando.com files for the proper msxdos.sys and command.com files. I'm almost sure it is a DDX-DISK interface issue. Now I've got another problem: The application need an 80 column card to be displayed pro

Re: DISK.ROM Influence?

2000-07-12 Thread Ðiogo
--- Maarten ter Huurne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, "Ðiogo" Sperb Schneider wrote: > > MSXDOS1 and games are started by code in the boot > sector of the disk. > > When a disk is formatted on MSX, the boot sector > will contain code that > looks for MSXDOS.SYS and starts th

Re: Booting from .DSK image with MSX-DOS

2000-07-12 Thread Ðiogo
--- Maarten ter Huurne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, "Ðiogo" Sperb Schneider wrote: > > DOS1 doesn't require a ROM. > You only need the files "MSXDOS.SYS" and > "COMMAND.COM". I wanted to avoid files, as all the disks are done already. I've got to try that, though! Thanks

Re: DISK.ROM Influence?

2000-07-12 Thread Ðiogo
> It influences in an emulator, because not all > emulators are able to emulate every interface > available. Some interfaces use I/O ports to > communicate with the drive, while others use > memory addresses and some are mixed. This means > not all DISK.ROM are compatible. They all should > boot t

Re: Micro Music data files

2000-07-12 Thread Albert Beevendorp
At 10:42 12-7-00 +0200, you wrote: >The e-mail about TSR's in MemMan made me very curious about the use >and last known location where I left the Micro Music data files... > >Somewhere along the past seven years I seem to have lost three files >containing the musics of Big Strategy 2, Tower of Cab

Micro Music data files

2000-07-12 Thread Frits Hilderink
Hi, The e-mail about TSR's in MemMan made me very curious about the use and last known location where I left the Micro Music data files... Somewhere along the past seven years I seem to have lost three files containing the musics of Big Strategy 2, Tower of Cabin and Princess Maker. (I lost my

Re: Msx top 100

2000-07-12 Thread Rafael Lima
>>> take your votes, if you only choose 10... >> That's ok for you lazy people??? :-) > >YOu cannot do this, since then you system is going wrong. Well, maybe it IS >fair, if you give number one still 30 points of course. But hey, you know, >this afternoon (locally) I already mailed you my top

Re: MemMan issues (wasRe: A1 Spirit (disk version for 128KB))

2000-07-12 Thread David Heremans
> > Sure. But I think it's better to leave the memory management > > to DOS2 and > > use the TSR-manager from MemMan, because that part of MemMan > > really rules. Yep, but most of the TSR's will use the memmory management of memman also, so if you seperate those routine most of the current TSRs