Hi!
I am working on a document about replacing the disk drive in the MSX turbo
R. One thing that is still somewhat of a mistery to me is the Disk Change
signal. Can someone explain me how this signal works in the turbo R or in
any other system?
Bye,
Maarten
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At 08:30 PM 11/25/98 +0600, you wrote:
Where Is stack.nl?
Ground floor ;) of Eindhoven University of Technology, Laplace Building.
Stack is basically a large group of students who like computers.
By the way, Eindhoven is in the south of the Netherlands.
Bye,
Maarten
MSX
At 06:36 PM 12/16/98 -0200, you wrote:
b) I have the function Sqr(x), that gives me the BASIC equivalent of
x^2; how can I do a x^n(n2) in TP?
p := 1;
while n 0 do
begin
if n mod 2 = 1 then p := p * x;
n := n div 2;
x := sqr(x);
end;
After this is executed, variable p contains
At 08:54 PM 9/29/98 +0200, Jon wrote:
This mailinglist is an excellent instrument for doing this. Just look at
the JoyNet proposal. It is good for everyone that some (new) things are
standardized and agreed.
JoyNet is no longer a proposal, it's a standard!
By the way, I'm working on a game for
Hi!
Philip wrote:
Isn't it possible to connect the MSX to the PC in a way you can access the
harddisk of the pc ?
You can do that using the JoyNet cable. Simply build one for the MSX and
one for the PC parallel port.
I am making some software, called JoyDsk, which emulates a floppy through a
At 12:06 PM 1/5/99 +, you wrote:
I hereby send version 0.2 of the ROBOTZ specification into the MSX world.
1.2 Terminology, definitions and abbreviations
--
bit 0 or 1, FALSE or TRUE
You mean FALSE = 0 and TRUE = 1?
byte signed or
At 06:43 PM 1/18/99 +, you wrote:
byte signed 8-bit value
word signed 16-bit value, LSB-first
Add that signed numbers are stored in two's complement format.
The machine has two stacks. One for calculations and parameter passing
(a-stack) and one for storing return
At 09:08 PM 2/8/99 +0100, you wrote:
We don't have +5V signal in the out of the power supply (going to the
motherboard)
I once built a 8250 in a PC case.
When I measures the levels of the PC power supply, they were not the
correct values. This was caused by the fact that there was nothing
At 05:20 PM 9/21/98 +0200, you wrote:
:By the way, did anyone actually compare R800 and Z380 opcodes? If we're
:lucky, there are "semi-accidentally" compatible.
That was an idea I wrote about a while ago too (but then in comp.sys.msx???)
Anyway, I think the instructions are compatible, for most
At 04:06 PM 09/20/98 -0300, you wrote:
And backing to lightpens. Some top-level MSX models had it from
factory. Like the Wavy 11 (MSX1), Wavy 10mkII (MSX1) and MPC27
(MSX2) both from SANYO. Talking Sanyo, anybody know the MPC-X???
Sanyo MPC100 (MSX1 for UK market) didn't have a light
At 10:24 AM 09/18/98 +0200, you wrote:
- Led change
Making funny light-loops using the LEDs on your MSX, which are on a 'normal'
MSX just using the CAPS-led, on a Japanese MSX using the CAPS and KANA led
and on the turboR even using all changeable leds..
I my game, for example, normally there
At 01:17 PM 09/20/98 +0200, you wrote:
- Interrupt occurs
- (DI)
- Interrupt Routine (- new interrupt occurs)
- EI
- ret
What will happen if a NEW interrupt occurs when the MSX is
processing obove mentioned "routine-part"?
It will be remembered. As an explanation, I'll give a few facts about
At 03:29 PM 09/13/98 +0100, you wrote:
I have something called a "Ramfile" made by a company named "Tecall". It has
16 kb batterybackuped RAM, and my question is if its possible to expand
ram on
it? Its very useful, since it allows the usage of files similar to
autoexec.bas and so. The two
At 01:57 AM 9/11/98 +0300, you wrote:
I am connecting it to an FS-A1GT (turbo R), which needs both Ready and
DiskChange.
Ai, that might be difficult indeed...
I was just wondering, if you have jumpper DC/RDY, then it is possibble,
that it is connected like this :
o o o
RDY |
At 03:29 PM 9/10/98 -0400, you wrote:
I've made an EPP interface for my Spectravideo SV-328, which has
the same CPU, VDP, and PSG as original MSX -- but its i/o mapping
is different. I'll eventually port the circuit and code to my MSX
Yamaha CX5M.
Please do!
My turbo R is too small to
At 06:02 PM 09/05/98 +0200, you wrote:
Hi all,
A friend of mine has a Sony 700 with an external B-drive attached. Now the
A-drive is broken, and he has replaced the A-drive with the B-drive. But
that does not work. Anyone who can help? Thanks!
Did he change the drive select signal? That's the
At 11:09 AM 8/13/98 +0200, you wrote:
is there anyone that knows if there is a way to check if there is a
moonsound present in basic
if inp(HC4)255 then print "MoonSound found!"
Bye,
Maarten
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At 01:10 PM 07/20/98 +0200, you wrote:
I have found a document and programs to communicate between a MSX and a PC
via the parallel-port of both computers. Why can't this connector be used to
communicate? Is it slower?
I was told it's not bidirectional, which means you can write data bytes
At 09:35 AM 7/27/98 +0200, Jeroen Smael wrote:
(1) Could you give us the connection scheme for your solution.
It's the same as Patrick Lina described. Which was probably based on your
design, but made more specific by mentioning which pins on one side are
connected to which pins on the other
At 12:45 PM 7/16/98 +0200, you wrote:
According to my information, there is a new RS232-interface in
development... by Sunrise Hardware or Sunrise Swiss or so... I'm not sure...
Only heard from it...
It's a cartridge, just like the Philips RS232.
It's already finished, it was sold at the Tilburg
At 10:26 AM 6/30/98 +0200, you wrote:
David is right, you only measure the number of interrupts that got
through.
For example, take two equally fast disk ROMs, ROM A re-enables interrupts
whenever possible and ROM B keeps interrupts disabled during the whole
disk
I/O. According to your
I recently bought 2 Sony HB-F700D MSX2 machines. They seemed to be
totally the same, but after trying them, one of the machines seems to
have a diskdrive which is really very much slower than the drive in the
other machine. After a while I found out that the fast drive-machine has
Disk Basic
At 01:41 PM 6/16/98 +0200, you wrote:
:What is the S1990?? :-?
:Then... you have an Turbo R with the 7MHz Z80? It is a wonderful computer!
In turbo R the R800 runs on 7MHz, the Z80 on 3.5MHz. But the R800 is a lot
faster than 7MHz Z80 because it takes less clockticks per instruction and
it has
At 10:18 AM 06/13/98 +0200, you wrote:
The MSX2 Technical Handbook sais:
AVCSAV (FAF7H, 1)
contents: reserves AV control port
EXBRSA (FAF8H, 1)
contents: SUB-ROM slot address
Then, the EXBRSA is the FAF8, not FAF7. There is an error in the assembler
listing, or in my version of the
At 14:10 23-1-98 +0100, Randy Simons wrote:
CALL not allowed? Why? It's a part of MSX-BASIC in some cases! As long as it
doesn't require extra soft- or hardware...
I agree that CALL should be allowed. For example, you need "CALL MUSIC" if
you want to use MSX-MUSIC which is part of 2+ and turbo
At 01:24 PM 5/5/98 +0200, you wrote:
Why can't i see the warp rattler coming towards me?
Hm, i must also have a -tolevel6andnofurther- version.
because of the memorymapper yeah right.
can you please help me too? i've tried your bbs number
but no luck... i want the complete diskversion too!
Try
At 01:17 PM 2/17/98 +100, Remco van der Zon wrote:
I have a question about the mailing list:
Are there any rules, for there are for the MSX Echo-mail?
Ik geloof dat er geen officiele regels zijn. Maar er zijn wel een heleboel
gebruiken die je geacht wordt te volgen. De meeste daarvan zijn niet
At 03:59 AM 2/18/98 +0200, you wrote:
- alles in het Engels
Hmm... What does this mean ? :-)
It means I didn't notice the "Cc:" field...
I'm very sorry.
Bye,
Maarten
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At 18:04 28-11-97 +, you wrote:
No problem with the code length, because I use a 16K segment reserved only
for the MB14, MB Wave and MB FM replayers. I think that there is enough
space for doing such checkings.
I think that MB WAVE + MB FM won't fit in 16K...
I once made a combined replayer,
At 13:33 4-8-97 +0200, you wrote:
Hi there!
I have a problem...I'm trying to build a jack for an MSX joystick to my PC
(in order to run it under emulators, like FMSX). That's because I own a
joypad Yanjen -do you remember them?-...i think is the best ever made.
I know the pins of MSX port,
On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Jos Hulzink wrote:
You are right. The PC came, and the art of programming was lost. Where
are
the real bitsniffers, the ones who try to use every clockcycle See
the
MSX-BIOS structure and the MS-WINDOWS structure.. They both are Microsoft
products :)
There are
At 02:07 PM 10/1/98 +0300, you wrote:
Usually is right word, and I agree, but good demo effect is not just a
trick. Good demo effect is :
Really good idea, nice trick and cool graphics all together.
And don't forget music [*]. A demo with well synchronized music is much
better than one that
At 11:45 AM 10/1/98 +0300, you wrote:
Yes, but load and save routines are not that easy without sources.
Well, quite some people have these sources nowadays. E.g. Eric Boon.
If these sources can be distributed freely, then I would really like to
have them. There are few little things
At 01:30 PM 10/04/98 +0200, you wrote:
There are still some people who spent a lot of time and money in making
labels, manuals so they can sell a nice package... They don't make a lot of
money and are glad that they can pay their bills. Fony for example stopped
selling FR after the Tilburg fair,
At 01:04 PM 9/29/98 -0300, you wrote:
1 - "Final Fantasy VII": someone (I lost the original EM) said I
was criticizing that game without having played it enough.
The first part of FF7 is like a "guided tour", with very little freedom of
movement. This is probably intentional, to make sure
At 01:57 PM 10/04/98 +0100, you wrote:
About the discussion on copy ethics Active groups, I agree with the idea
to use protection like "insert the word at line 5 in page 6 of the manual".
There are more subtle ways of making a protection that requires an original
manual. For example Solid
At 01:57 PM 11/25/98 +0300, you wrote:
I have only one correction to "2 Gb per partition" sentence. NOT per
partition - per whole disk at BIOS I/O level (per partition only for DOS
level)!
This is not the case.
The routine that was discussed (#4010) reads/writes a sector from a logical
At 04:57 PM 05/15/98 +0200, you wrote:
I want to upgrade the memory of my MSX Sony HBF700F, I know there are 2
possibilities : AddRam2 Cardrige and Ese SCC 512 Ko.
Could anyone tell me which is the best solution (I do need to play Metal
Gear 2 on my MSX) and where I could buy/find it.
If you
At 10:09 AM 7/16/98 +0100, you wrote:
Can someone give me and the rest of the MSX world (a pointer to) the
cable wiring and some example sources? I'd erally love to make a
multi-player game that doesn't need expensive hard software!!
I think Sean Young has a WWW page describing its
At 04:44 PM 10/4/98 +0100, I wrote:
What kind of error do you get when you run the test program? It should
display the bits it sent and the bits it received. By looking at those
bits, it's possible to say something about the error in the cable. Please
write down what the test program displays
At 06:57 PM 5/18/98 +0200, you wrote:
Do you know how can this computer (FS A1 WX) be upgraded or you have any
schem about it? I'm interested on it (and not just to 128 kb).
BTW: I asked it beore, but anybody could help me in the past... Does
anybody know how to solve (by hardware) the memmory
At 10:48 AM 5/27/98 +0200, you wrote:
I could be wrong, but I think with a 256 kbyte turbo-R ST even bit 4 will
be high.
It's the same S1990 IC, so why should there be a difference in the number
of bits that are fixed high?
Also, Mark Zellenrath (do you still read this list?) has 512K
At 12:40 PM 7/16/98 +0200, you wrote:
F1-spirit uses A LOT of so-called 'screensplits'. Therefor, you cannot run
it on an emulator. Every program which uses a screensplit can't be run on
an emulator. Sunrise Magazine doesn't work, and Space Manbow probably won't
work either...
Not 100% true.
At 08:58 PM 1/17/98 +, you wrote:
I have an OPL4 cartridge now and I am trying different programmes
that came with the deal on harddisk. I have found MSP.com on it to
play *.MID files. I don't hear a beep comming out of my MSX.
I think it plays through the MIDI port on the Phillips module
At 11:15 AM 10/13/98 +0200, you wrote:
I want to make the cables too, but what is the best way to make the cable
so if I take my MSX to a fair or club I will be able to connect to somebody
else without any problems.
Yes, that is the idea of a standard.
Should the cable be like a T with the
At 10:50 PM 2/2/99 +0100, you wrote:
By the way, I also really like the SCC chip.
It can have an incredibly full sound (only 5 channels) and is very fast.
I'm working on SCC emulation for the MoonSound.
Right now, it works only for SCC Musixx files, but I hope to add it to a
certain Konami game
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