Bye-bye now...

1999-02-19 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ I'm changing from my Computer Engineering course to a Veterinary Medicine course. It is in another university, in another city (in my homeland, in fact). That means I won't reply EMs to this address anymore. I'll get a new EM address there, but I don't

Refreshed!!!

1999-02-10 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ First, I have to say that my EM address will change in the next weeks. I don't know for sure what it's going to be, but no need for haste... A lot of people replied my letter about the R register (flash trivia: did you know that Spectrum programmer

MSX2+ Schemes Available...

1999-02-10 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ Vlad Yrenev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) asked: > Does anybody can tell me where I can find sheme for MSX2? (...) I have Japan ASCII "MSX Datapack Vol. 1, 2". They include the complete hardware schematic drawings of MSX2+, which is not very different from

Prime numbers...

1999-02-10 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ Maarten ter Huurne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) replied about my prime number program: > (...) In fact, you only have to check until SQR(X) (...) Yep, you are right. But I didn't say it was the best code I could think of, but the fastest. SQR in MSX is cal

A Few More Strikes...

1999-02-10 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ Hopefully, this is not boring anyone, but Yawara has done again. There are music modules for "Astro Marine Corps", "Avenger", "Robocop", "Phantis" and "Freddy Hardest". Some other modules have been revised (the one for "Elite" had a bug). "Zanac" will p

Oldies...

1999-02-10 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ Hey, someone said the magical word... No, I cannot say what it is, or else the magic -=*pufts*=- away... Anyway... Hmm... Oh, yes, old games. I have a Page dedicated to "Penguin Adventure". Also, I have a music module to "Outrun" (MSX[1] version -

Shape It...!

1999-02-10 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ Manuel Bilderbeek asked: > (...) I recently found out (...) that sprites in screen 6 > and 7 can only be on even lines! Because the X-coordinate > is given by a byte...! Isn't this a crazy thought of the > V9938 designers??? How is this problem

Playing Around...

1999-02-10 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sorry Eric, couldn't find your whole name in the E-Mail header) replied my previous EM: >> (...) Yes, Yawara strikes again, >[blahblah] > (What the h*** is Yawara?) "Yawara" is a god that comes in the form of a big felin

All Eggs in A Basket...

1999-02-10 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ Luiz Eduardo de Souza Marques asked: > (...) Somebody kown something about MSX Engine? (...) MSX-Engine is the "MSX-in-a-chip": Z80, VDP, PSG and probably PPI in the same capsule. One just have to put it in a board with a video signal generator (S

Gremlins and Penguins...

1999-02-10 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ For those that knows me, yes, I have been away from the Net for a long time. But not away from MSX. For those that don't know me, I'm Cyberknight, Unicorn lover and MSX programmer. First, the "serious" thing: I have just created an MSX disassemble

Weak Plataform...

1999-02-10 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ Ramon Ribas Casasayas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) replied my EM: >> (...) "Jet Set Willy II" is also boring, > HERETIC!!! You'll burn in the hell, along with Bill Gate$! Hmm, quite difficult for me. First, I'm atheist, so I cannot go to hell. Second, Bil

Disassembler with Labels...

1999-02-10 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ Back and busy. Sorry people to which I've promised some files. They are on the way (after I can get them!) Alex Mitsio Sato (hi, Alex) replied to someone else (Nov-10): >> Don't you guys have a disassembler? > > I have, but I don't want only t

Re: PSG

1999-02-10 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ I've been away quite a bit from the list. Anyway, I read this, in a reply by Alwin Henseler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to Shevek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> (...) I never tried to write to register 14, but if it >> is not hazardous, that is only good. > > Sure yo

Robocop: Possibilities...

1999-02-10 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (v v) \_/ I'm not in a good moment now, but I think this could help. Adriano Cunha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> (...) I have downloaded the Robocop disk version. >> It crashes in my Turbo R. > > Yeah, it crashes in my TR, too, when the first block will be rea

I/O Ports in turbo R...

1999-02-10 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ Jingle bells... Oh, you know the song. Before anything else, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May the Unicorns keep any falling missile away from your home... Okay, seriously, has the world gone crazy? A real "nightmare before christmas"... We

With the Head Over Heels...

1999-02-10 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ Nelson M. Leiva L. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > (...) anybody knows how to make to work the game > Head Over Heels in the fmsx (...) You can't, not the way the game can be found at FUNET (I suppose you got it there or from some mirror site). The p

A Music for Cassandra...

1999-02-10 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ First of all, sorry for been so long away from the Net. I'd got a virus (no, not computer virus, but the old kind), a cold virus. It stole my voice away, about 12 hours before I had to go to a Brazilian MSX encounter. A voiceless Cyberknight wouldn't be

Back and Up...

1999-02-10 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ I've been away from this list for a long time (due to personal problems that are not worth explaining). Anyway, I'm reading the old EMs (I'm about middle of January, now - yes, there is a lot yet to go...) But before discussing anything, I have a proble

Smaller...

1999-02-10 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ I hope this EM gets smaller than the previous one about segmentation. I'm here, again, to comment several EMs at once. First subject: Robotz. I implemented a game in BASIC in last December. I'm not kidding, I have a witness! A friend of mine saw it

Technically...

1999-02-10 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ I'm having a very awful problem with my mail daemon: I reveice replies before the original messages, sometimes MANY replies before the original message. So, I'm avoiding naming people. Thus, "someone" wrote, on Nov-12: > (...) The PC nowadays IS b

Games, games, games...

1999-02-09 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ I sent a reply about the "A lot of games wanted!" E-Mail, but I didn't received it, so I'll suppose the EM was lost and no one received it. Thus, some things may look like "deja vu" to those that had received it... From the list of game

Konami Strikes Again...

1999-02-09 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ Cheers, everyone! Konami is preparing a CD named "MSX Collection Vol. 1" for Play Station. Who knows what it will have! Hopefully the original Gradius series, Penguin Adventure, Snatcher and SD Snatcher...

New Gradius Sagas (trivia)...

1999-02-09 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ Oh, yes, surely Konami is back to work. I forgot to mention in the previous EM ("Konami Strikes Back") is that one new Gradius is released to arcade and another is almost ready for Play Station. The arcade is a 3-D polygonal space shoot'em up, s

Disassembling MSX...

1999-02-09 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ J.P. Grobler, Student: Wiskunde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > (...) Is there a msx dissasembler for the pc? (...) Can you compile C programs in PC? If the answer is "YES", then, sure, there is a disassembler for PC. I made it last month and called

Standard Zero...

1999-02-09 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ Maarten ter Huurne wrote: > (...) I didn't connect the grounds because I was out of wire. > Is there a reason why the grounds should be connected? (...) Wow! I'm impressed that the "thing" worked without ground connection! Imagin

Re2: With the Head Over Heels...

1999-02-09 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ Ricardo Bittencourt Vidigal Leitao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) replied my letter: >> (...) fMSX starts with a lot of expanded slots as >> default (...) > > (...) You can change that by using the parameter "-msx1" (...) Well, I "ever" use `-msx1', once I p

Yawara Strikes Again...

1999-02-09 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ Yes, Yawara strikes again, within a week (less, if you consider I didn't spent more than 3 days working on it). It has got five new modules: - Elite (Waltz on The Blue Danuble); - Ganbare Goemon - Karakuri Doutchyuu (Mechanism Journey); - G

"Square" Wave...

1999-02-09 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ I'm here to announce that a new batch of music modules for Yawara has been released (well, okay, there is a new batch almost twice a week, but then, not everybody knows about it, I suppose). There are about 60 modules available, by now, and more to come

Late...

1999-02-09 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ I've been very busy last weeks. To make things a little worse, the system is having a strange behaviour, what made me loose a few EMs (received and to be sent). The result is that two of my replies were never submitted to the list. So, here are my thoug

Refresh...

1999-02-06 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ This EM was originally three independent letters, two of them I was going to be private, but, ah, I've read nonsenses about someone else's hair, flames and even PC related stuff, so why shouldn't I...? Okay, I'll cut short. First: music. ([EMAIL PR

Calm Down!!!

1999-02-05 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ Wow! This list is getting hot! Among the 300 EMs I read this week, only a few were really interesting (there was a lot of non-MSX related topics, but I am, currently, one of that lucky knights with free university cable Net access - though it is getting

Legends...

1999-02-04 Thread CLAUDIO MASSAO KAWATA - 900293
Hi! | A|A (n n) \_/ Continuing my digging into the heap of old EMs (I'm about at Jan. 23rd), I've got some EMs about "Dragon Slayer", "Legend of Heroes" and "Xanadu". It is very, very, very long since I last played "Dragon Slayer - Legend of Heroes" (MSX, of course), but I