msx2.com Update 27-08-2000

2000-08-27 Thread Iwein van Caelenberg
-New links added to the homepage-section.-New manuals online. I'm working on a new site with technical information about MSX-computershttp://www.hardwareinfo.msx2.comIt's possible to support this site :-)If you have English (service) manuals for all kind of MSX-stuff :- Scan the seperate

Re: MSX Beurs Bussum...

2000-08-27 Thread Albert Beevendorp
At 00:41 27-8-00 +, you wrote: On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, you wrote: Em sex, 25 ago 2000, Albert Beevendorp escreveu: Sure, but... Keep cool! Unfortunately it isn't everybody who have a Acrobat Reader, a xpdf viewer, or even a GhostView... Despite this, there are a lot of people

Re: QIC-80 tape driver for IDE-interface?

2000-08-27 Thread Jon De Schrijder
All depends on the IDE devicetype code of that device. The IDE bios supports ATA (=harddisk), ATAPI direct access (LS120, ZIP100, ZIP250, JAZZ?, ...) and ATAPI-CDROM. Connect the device to your MSX and use IDEFDISK to show the Extended infopage. Look at the 2nd byte. bit76: 0x = ATA 10 =

RE: MSX Beurs Bussum...

2000-08-27 Thread Hans Otten
Ghostscript for Windows? -Original Message- From: Albert Beevendorp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 27 August 2000 09:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MSX Beurs Bussum... At 00:41 27-8-00 +, you wrote: On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, you wrote: Em sex, 25 ago 2000, Albert Beevendorp

[V9958 (MSX 2+) videochips below 10 euro's!]

2000-08-27 Thread Sander Zuidema
Hello MSX-users! A company called Prime-Tech in Japan still has a large stock of V9958 chips. I volunteered to buy some of these chips and distribute them. The problem is, that I need to order AT LEAST 100 chips at once, and I do not want to run too many risks. So, if you (or someone you know)

V9958 MSX2+ upgrade cartridge

2000-08-27 Thread Ivan Latorre
Hello It is possible (for Sunrise, L. Padial or other HW developers) to make a MSX2+ upgrade cartridge for MSX2 (or even MSX)? I think that these cartridges would be sold out quickly... Greetings Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/

SDOS

2000-08-27 Thread Raymond
Hello, I'm looking for SDOS.INC from Juan Salas. I've looked on FUNET but cannot find it anywhere. If someone has it, please mail me! Thanks! Raymond = Visit the MSX-NBNO Fair site at: www.msx4ever.demon.nl/msx-nbno Problems? contact [EMAIL

Re: MSX Beurs Bussum...

2000-08-27 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, you wrote: Yes: GhostScript can convert PostScript to PDF. (I think I wrote it a couple of days ago) Is there a free thinge for Windows as well then? AFAIK all of these are sold for big money :( GhostScript is also available for Windows. Bye, Maarten

Re: V9958 MSX2+ upgrade cartridge

2000-08-27 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, you wrote: It is possible (for Sunrise, L. Padial or other HW developers) to make a MSX2+ upgrade cartridge for MSX2 (or even MSX)? I think it's impossible, because the internal V9938 and the V9958 in the cartridge would be at the same port address and will interfere

Re: V9958 MSX2+ upgrade cartridge

2000-08-27 Thread Vladimir Malaquias
Hello It is possible (for Sunrise, L. Padial or other HW developers) to make a MSX2+ upgrade cartridge for MSX2 (or even MSX)? I think that these cartridges would be sold out quickly... Here in Brazil we had such cartridges, they where made by Ademir Carchano, in 1990. it could upgrade

Re: Programming external modems with MSX

2000-08-27 Thread Laurens Holst
3. How to make the modem dial and establish a connection send init string: ATZ OK This "OK" isn't sent by the modem itself??? It is. and then dial: ATDT0123456789 CONNECT 115200 And also this "CONNECT"? It is sent by the modem (actually the ATDT and the ATZ too since it's

Re: Programming external modems with MSX

2000-08-27 Thread Laurens Holst
*SNIP discussion about PPP, sLIP and PAP* I like to add that a lot of (Belgium) ISP are using CHAP, or even worse MS-CHAP (Again one of the changed standards I was talking about in a previous mail) Oh, never heard of it. Anyways, my ISP also requests the use of CHAP by default, but if you

Re: Random numbers

2000-08-27 Thread Laurens Holst
Below I pasted an assembly source of a random number generator that uses an algorithm based on multiplication with a prime number and XOR-ing with a fixed mask. In its current form, it produces numbers in the range 0..27, but you can easily change that. You have to know that the

Re: MSX online...

2000-08-27 Thread Laurens Holst
As said, I don't expect programming TCP to be easy, but I guess it won't be much harder than the PPP protocol (the LCP was a real pain in the ass), also since I am now much better documented than a few months ago. PPP is a piece of cake. TCP is a pain in the ass. Good luck. It sounds

Re: V9958 MSX2+ upgrade cartridge

2000-08-27 Thread Laurens Holst
It is possible (for Sunrise, L. Padial or other HW developers) to make a MSX2+ upgrade cartridge for MSX2 (or even MSX)? I think it's impossible, because the internal V9938 and the V9958 in the cartridge would be at the same port address and will interfere with eachother. It's

Re: MSX online...

2000-08-27 Thread Laurens Holst
Laurens, it seems that you are already mastering tcpip and how to implement it on MSX. Couldn't you help Adriano Cunha with uzix? He's trying to implement Dialup, but as you saw, there's still a long way to do. I'm talking without Adriano's authorization, but I believe he could use some

Re: Sad news (V9958 and YM2431 orders)

2000-08-27 Thread Laurens Holst
Try contacting HPN, MCWF Hardware, CIEL, and other hardware developers. They don't read this list but are certainly interested (I think there will be quite some animo for modifying MSX 2 to MSX 2+ with little cost). Contacting CIEL is a good idea, I can't tell exactly how many, but

Ikeda's MSX PRINT

2000-08-27 Thread Alex Wulms
Dear all, I have added a new issue of Ikeda's MSX PRINT to "The MSX Plaza". This new issue is a report about Den-YU land 2000. It contains more details about the lectures given by Nishi and Yamashita from ASCII corporation, regarding ASCIIs future plans with MSX. It also contains some

Re: V9958 MSX2+ upgrade cartridge

2000-08-27 Thread Alex Wulms
] Hello ] ] It is possible (for Sunrise, L. Padial or other HW developers) to make ] a MSX2+ upgrade cartridge for MSX2 (or even MSX)? Not easy. The MSX2+ VDP is by definition on I/O ports 98/99/9A/9B so you will get I/O conflicts between the cartridge VDP and the build-in VDP. Kind regards,

Re: Random numbers

2000-08-27 Thread Alex Wulms
] At 21:06 26-8-00 +0200, you wrote: ] Albert Beevendorp wrote: ] ld a,r ] ld b,a ] ld a,r ] xor b ] ld b,a ] ld a,r ] xor b ] ] is a better way to randomize and repeating this more should improve it. ] I don't think so, because the time it takes to repeat it is constant so R ]

Re: MSX Beurs Bussum...

2000-08-27 Thread Alex Wulms
] At 00:41 27-8-00 +, you wrote: ] On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, you wrote: ] Em sex, 25 ago 2000, Albert Beevendorp escreveu: ] Sure, but... Keep cool! Unfortunately it isn't everybody who ]have a Acrobat Reader, a xpdf viewer, or even a GhostView... Despite ]this, there are a

Re: New version of UZIX and its TCP/IP stack

2000-08-27 Thread Alex Wulms
The problem is that I don't have a Sunrise IDE (yet). ] You know what a pain is to write a software to a device that you ] don't own and you can't do debugging all the time you want. ] And closer friends who could test my programs have MegaSCSI. In that case I propose you

Re: Good news (V9958 and YM2431 orders)

2000-08-27 Thread Laurens Holst
(I changed the topic because it was totally untrue... It's really all good news discussed here) Some info on how to replace your old v9938 with a v9958 can be found on http://www.hansoranje.demon.nl It's all in Dutch though... Hans Oranje of HPN is willing to convert your MSX for a price of

Re: V9958 MSX2+ upgrade cartridge

2000-08-27 Thread Leonard Silva de Oliveira
Laurens Holst wrote: Support for it is also dropped since the MSX2+ which standarized the location of the VDP at port #98. Thanks for the info ... I guess it was dropped due to lack of usage ... Cya MSXers ... Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/

Re: V9958 MSX2+ upgrade cartridge

2000-08-27 Thread Alex Wulms
] It's possible and the standard has a feature called "secondary MVDP ] adaptor" ] that consists of a secondary I/O port for a expanded VDP. It's port 88h. ] This is how the ACVS MSX2+ cartridge expands the system. This is against the MSX 2+ standard. ASCII officially freezed the port to

Re: Random numbers

2000-08-27 Thread Ricardo Bittencourt
; Fast random number generator using the same method ; as the CDMA used in celullar telephones SEED: DW 0 ; init random seed INIT_SEED:

Re: Nieuwgroep

2000-08-27 Thread Mari van den Broek
Hello Willem, [Dutch translation on end of this message!]... Sorry gays this messages are for dutch gays. Sorry to dissapoint you Willem, but maybe we are all guys (dutch: kerels, mannen) , but we are surely not all gays (dutch: homo's). I'm sure there is a possibility to translate your

Re: Nieuwgroep

2000-08-27 Thread Laurens Holst
Sorry gays this messages are for dutch gays. Sorry to dissapoint you Willem, but maybe we are all guys (dutch: kerels, mannen) , but we are surely not all gays (dutch: homo's). I'm sure there is a possibility to translate your Dutch message into English before sending it to the mailinglist

Re: MSX Beurs Bussum...

2000-08-27 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Yes: GhostScript can convert PostScript to PDF. (I think I wrote it a couple of days ago) Is there a free thinge for Windows as well then? AFAIK all of these are sold for big money :( GhostScript is also available for Windows. Just see the GhostScript homepage: