Re: [MSX] What about MSX?

2011-04-08 Thread Sean Young
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 09:01:24AM +0100, David Lucena wrote: http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx Is anybody thinking in the above, but with an msx instead and better if in a latop way? Since there were so many MSX models, would be possible to design/choose a case which is instantly

Re: [MSX] MSX 2004 Fair

2004-01-13 Thread Sean Young
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 07:36:11PM +0100, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: Sean Young wrote: I'm sure it's available somewhere, but how do I get to the fair from the Oss train station? Roughly how long will that take? Hey Sean, great that you're planning to come! I'm looking forward to seeing

Re: [MSX] MSX 2004 Fair

2004-01-12 Thread Sean Young
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 06:42:21PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can find an updated list of MSX-Clubs etc. who are going to attend at our forum on the MSX-NBNO website http://msx4ever.xs4all.nl/msx-nbno See you all on the MSX 2004 Fair! I'm sure it's available somewhere, but how do

[MSX] Shalom for sale.

2002-09-09 Thread Sean Young
All, I'm running low on the dough so I'm selling a few games (doubles in my collection), starting with Shalom: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2052888611 Bid away, so I can live on something else than bread and water. :-) Sean

Re: Anti-Spam !!!

2002-06-25 Thread Sean Young
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:45:48AM +0200, Maarten ter Huurne wrote: On Monday 24 June 2002 23:56, eMeSiX wrote: First: Kill *ALL* HTML mail Filtering out !DOCTYPE and HTML should kill most HTML, but maybe not 100%. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Content-Type: text/html should do the trick,

Re: MSX-Xpress Update: Opera Compatible

2002-05-29 Thread Sean Young
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 04:26:17PM +0200, Patriek Lesparre wrote: No, you SHOULD use HTML 4.01 Strict with CSS. Transitional is just that, made for the transition between traditional HTML to HTML+CSS or even XML+CSS. You shouldn't use frames anyway :/ It's perfectly possible of creating

Re: Release MSX Player

2002-05-20 Thread Sean Young
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 03:44:12PM +0200, Bart Schouten wrote: That piece of text on fms.komkon.org is old and outdated. A lot of discussions have taken place after marat posted that text. I stand corrected. My apologies. Sean -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html

Re: MSX PLAYer news

2002-03-25 Thread Sean Young
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 04:30:55AM +0100, Patriek Lesparre wrote: -snip offensive rant about Marat- Please, if you have some personal grudge against Marat, keep it off-list. Please do not bother us with your resentfulness. Also note that talking behind his back, like Takamichi pointed out, is

Re: MSX PLAYer news

2002-03-22 Thread Sean Young
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:08:20AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with Adriano. I'm disappointed too with ASCII. If that's what they think about making new MSX, i'm out. if they don't want to write their own (and a good one, as ricardo bittencourt did) emulator, they could have used

Re: Konami SCC pinout

2002-02-28 Thread Sean Young
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 04:08:49PM +, Richard Atkinson wrote: Does anyone have the pinout of the Konami SCC chip, 2212P003 ? I'm trying to modify my cartridge to accept an AMD 4Mbit Flash ROM, but I realised I don't know where A17 and A18 are Perhaps someone with a 256K or 512K game could

Re: Databooks

2002-01-16 Thread Sean Young
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 08:47:11PM -0200, Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro wrote: Em Qua, 09 Jan 2002, Sean Young escreveu: I've got hardcopies of: - V9938 MSX Video Technical Data Book - V9958 MSX Video Technical Data Book - AY-3-8910/8912 Programmable Sound Generator Data Manual

TC8566AF datasheet available (pdf)

2002-01-10 Thread Sean Young
All, Thanks Marco Antonio Simon Dal Poz [EMAIL PROTECTED], the TC8566AF datasheet (which is the diskcontroller used by Panasonic MSX computers, including the MSX turbo R) is on my website. http://www.msxnet.org/tech/ (pages are marked cachable for 24 hours, so you might need to reload

Databooks

2002-01-09 Thread Sean Young
All, I've got hardcopies of: - V9938 MSX Video Technical Data Book - V9958 MSX Video Technical Data Book - AY-3-8910/8912 Programmable Sound Generator Data Manual - S1985 MSX-SystemII Application Manual Since these manuals are scanned and available on the internet, I do not use them

Re: KPIBALL AND SIRDAN FREE

2002-01-08 Thread Sean Young
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:51:57PM -0300, Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha wrote: So everybody can download and install that You can find PMEXT for PC at www.adrpage.cjb.net/msxsoft.html. You can find PMEXT extension for LHA at Maarten's page at www.stack.nl/~mth. You can easily find LHA

Re: How BadTrans virus really works

2001-12-18 Thread Sean Young
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 03:46:02PM +, Freya Paget wrote: Seems like there is a lot of misunderstanding and disinformation on this list about how badtrans really works. -snip- Please can we stop discussing this here, like Wynke the list maintainer asked us to do? It is off-topic and not

Zilog files for bankruptcy

2001-12-14 Thread Sean Young
ZiLOG (creators of the z80 CPU) has filed for chapter 11. http://www.siliconstrategies.com/story/OEG20011130S0095 (it's a bit down the page) What all of this exactly means I do not know (don't ask me about business!). Sean -- For info, see

Re: Web Server

2001-10-29 Thread Sean Young
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 02:44:05PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shall it be possible in the future to use our beloved MSX machines as webservers for usage like the 'MSX SERVER'? Of course. Using a MSX as Web Server is just one of the many applications you can do using TCP/IP

Re: New MSX hardware

2001-10-24 Thread Sean Young
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:39:35AM +0200, ag0ny wrote: BTW would it be easy for the mail list server to prepend '[MSX]' to MSX mailing list emails? I think that would be a good idea, because many people tend to CC: to the list when posting to several MSX lists, or when answering to

[FS] Panasonic FS-A1F

2001-10-01 Thread Sean Young
No reserve! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1280746600 Sean -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html

[FS] Phllips NMS-8280

2001-09-23 Thread Sean Young
Listed at ebay: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1277989213 Sean Young -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html

[FS] NMS 8280 and NMS 1431, Panasonic FS-A1F

2001-09-17 Thread Sean Young
Since I don't use above machines at all (and financially-challenged) I'm looking to sell them. What are they worth? Anyone want to make an offer? The diskdrive of the Panasonic doesn't work properly, most likely it's the drive belt but I never went to the trouble of fixing it. It's black. I'm

So much for msx.net and msx.com ..

2001-08-01 Thread Sean Young
I went to all the effort of setting up a cronjob which checked both domains hourly... And the last check (diff) showed that both domains now expire next year: -snip- Record last updated on 31-Jul-2001. Record expires on 09-Jul-2002. -snip- So for the next year they still belong to our

Crommodore 64.

2001-07-13 Thread Sean Young
Set ablaze: http://www.specchums.org/commode64 :-) Sean -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html

Re: Fw: sprite problem

2001-07-13 Thread Sean Young
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 02:50:38PM +0200, Frederik Boelens wrote: -snip- I fixed the problem. a little test in basic told me that reg 5 should be %1110 in stead of %11101100. I don't know what i've done wrong with my calcultion, but at least it works ok now ;) In Sprite Mode 2, bits 0

Re: FM-PAC questions

2001-07-08 Thread Sean Young
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 12:43:07AM +, Maarten ter Huurne wrote: On Sunday 08 July 2001 20:43, you wrote: About the original FM-PAC (Panasonic) How many Kbytes of S-RAM does it have? 8K, if I remember correctly. Just look at the size of the .PAC save files, those are the SRAM size

Re: MSX World ONLINE!

2001-06-26 Thread Sean Young
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:59:19PM +0200, MSX World - Jeroen Küppers wrote: The problems with the site are now fixed. There are some updates: a chatroom, a forum and contactinformation. We're currently working on scripts which make it possible for you to post your own news into our page.

Re: www.msx.com

2001-06-13 Thread Sean Young
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 09:40:51AM +0200, Frits Hilderink wrote: This registration seems to expire very soon... -snip whois msx.com- Note that Network Solutions are bastards and assuming our friend here doesn't pay up, it'll be a while before it's released. So don't expect it to be open for

Re: www.msx.com

2001-06-13 Thread Sean Young
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:13:02PM +0200, Patriek Lesparre wrote: I payed $70 for a 2 year registration at Network Solutions, Inc. As far as I know this is the normal price. Unless you have to buy a name from some company that already registered it... Network Solutions aren't the only ones

Re: Adding ports via slotexander

2001-06-07 Thread Sean Young
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:16:10AM +0200, M. J. Bethlehem wrote: The Z80 has 65536 I/O addresses, not 256. But just like its bigger cousins, the x86 series from Intel, they are not directly accesible. If I'm not mistaken you have to use the BC register to access ports above 0xff (of course

Re: FUNET

2001-04-25 Thread Sean Young
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:07:48PM +, Jeroen Küppers wrote: I just want to access FUNET, for about 5 minutes ago. But when I logged in, I got this message: You entered an invalid/improbable password, and are now accessing restricted subset of files. How can I take care, that this

Re: Pictures of Tilburg 2001 (today) added to site

2001-04-21 Thread Sean Young
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:26:20PM +0200, Roel de Wit wrote: -snip- I had some doubts about Nishi's presentation though... I have the feeling that he wants to 'market' his one-chip-solution by using the MSX 'brand' as marketing point (especially in Japan).. It's great so see efforts to

Re: Pictures of Tilburg 2001 (today) added to site

2001-04-21 Thread Sean Young
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 11:55:03PM +0200, Patriek Lesparre wrote: MSX is more than the MSX hardware. MSX is more than the MSX software. MSX is also a philosophy. What do you mean exactly? The one-chip MSX is like 100% MSX in philosophy, 75% MSX in software and 50% MSX in hardware.

Re: Cartridge question

2001-03-13 Thread Sean Young
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:21:31AM +0100, Hans Otten wrote: Please excuse this possibly-stupid question; I'm new to MSX. ^.^;; Is it possible to boot from MSX-Basic or MSX-DOS 1 to cartridge, if the cartridge is interted after the boot/has a switch and is switched on after boot? NEVER

Re: Hi all! I'm...uhm... back!

2001-03-04 Thread Sean Young
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 10:04:30PM +0100, Niels Walta wrote: I've been off the list for quite some time now, never got to re-joining. So I was just wondering if anyone could give me a quick round-up on what's been going on lately. :) You can read old messsages here:

Re: v9938 databook scanned

2001-02-22 Thread Sean Young
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:06:46PM +0100, Hans Otten wrote: I started converting to PDF by converting all files from PNG color format tot black and white. The resulting sum shrinks to 1.8 Mbyte. What's the colordepth? 1 bit? Sean -- For info, see

Re: v9938 databook scanned

2001-02-22 Thread Sean Young
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 05:16:54PM +0100, Hans Otten wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:06:46PM +0100, Hans Otten wrote: I started converting to PDF by converting all files from PNG color format tot black and white. The resulting sum shrinks to 1.8 Mbyte. What's the colordepth? 1 bit?

Re: v9938 databook scanned

2001-02-22 Thread Sean Young
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 05:50:26AM +0200, JP Grobler wrote: Here is the v9938 databook in (word?) format: http://ieee.d.umn.edu/~bsprange/files/v9938.doc it is a 37M download, but it is there! It is ons the page of Brian Spranger. He is building a games station.

Re: Info on Sony MSX2

2001-02-20 Thread Sean Young
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:34:19AM +0100, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: -snip- [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi P = spain D = Deutch F = French The final letter ( like HB 700 "F") is just a country code P is not Spain, but PAL. This generally means Europe. Sony sold the HB-F700P in Holland, but

Re: v9938 databook scanned

2001-02-16 Thread Sean Young
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:04:55PM +0100, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: png = lossless, jpg = lossy JPG is meant for photographs and nothing else. (Stuff with smooth color gradients.) with text this matters a lot. Yup. Maybe TIFF would be better, it features compression and lacks the

Re: v9938 databook scanned

2001-02-16 Thread Sean Young
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:27:09PM -0200, Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro wrote: Em sex, 16 fev 2001, Manuel Bilderbeek escreveu: png = lossless, jpg = lossy JPG is meant for photographs and nothing else. (Stuff with smooth color gradients.) Why not 256 color (or even BW) GIFs? GIFs

v9938 databook scanned

2001-02-15 Thread Sean Young
AFAIK the v9938 databook wasn't available on the net, so I've scanned it and put it on my homepage: http://www.msxnet.org/tech/ I'ts 13MB, zipped png files. (zip didn't compress it much but just to stick it in one file). Sean -- For info, see

Re: wd273 emulation.

2001-02-08 Thread Sean Young
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:02:11PM +0100, Alex Wulms wrote: ] Following bit table is applicable for the two drive number bits: ] B1 B0 ] 0 0 : drive A selected ] 1 0 : drive A selected ] 0 1 : drive B selected ] 1 1 : no drive selected ] ] Uhm once I connected two external

Re: wd273 emulation.

2001-02-07 Thread Sean Young
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:31:42PM +0100, Alex Wulms wrote: In Sony machines and in NMS8245, some wd2793 registers (track, sector) are write only. In first version of fastcopy I mantained track number and sector number by just looking at the registers. This version did not work on Sony or

wd273 emulation.

2001-02-06 Thread Sean Young
I'm working in disk emulation via the wd2793 in mess. This will have far more authentic emulation. First of all I'm working on emulating the Philips diskrom, I've found the following: Write: 7FF8: wd2793 command register 7FF9: wd2793 track register 7FFA: wd2793 sector register 7FFB: wd2793

Konami SCC on arcade games.

2001-02-03 Thread Sean Young
Just a trivia: I've just bought the Konami arcade game "Haunted Castle", and the SCC on it is exactly the same as Konami used in MSX cartridges. Pictures and details are at: http://www.msxnet.org/tech/SCC.html d-fader: I've just added your e-mail address to the page (for providing the

Re: many-in-1 mappers (Jose Angel Morente please read)

2001-02-01 Thread Sean Young
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:31:40PM +0100, Jose Angel Morente wrote: Maarten ter Huurne solt algo as como: Here is a list of generic mapper descriptions for known MegaROM mappers. It is intended as a reference for people creating INI files for .msx packages and as an example to

Re: EMU2413

2001-01-24 Thread Sean Young
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 02:36:47PM +0100, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: Sergio wrote: Look at this page: http://www.angel.ne.jp/~okazaki/ym2413/index_en.html Interesting! Sean Young, is there any chance of it to be useful in future MESS MSX driver development? What about fMSX

Re: .msx: SRAM (long post)

2001-01-23 Thread Sean Young
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:12:43PM +, Maarten ter Huurne wrote: I've been reading about SRAM types on a very useful page by Sean Young: http://www.msxnet.org/tech/megaroms.html I've just amended this page with other ROM mappers/devices I've come across (Cross Blaim) and games that came

Re: MSX game format example

2001-01-22 Thread Sean Young
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 10:23:39AM +0100, David Heremans wrote: On Monday 22 January 2001 10:37, you wrote: The file to specify a mimetype for an extension on Apache, can that file be created by any user or is it system wide? If the latter is true, people will have to ask system

Re: MSX game format example

2001-01-22 Thread Sean Young
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:37:30AM +, Maarten ter Huurne wrote: A question to Sean: The file to specify a mimetype for an extension on Apache, can that file be created by any user or is it system wide? If the latter is true, people will have to ask system administration to make the

Re: MSX game format continued

2001-01-22 Thread Sean Young
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 06:08:53PM +, Maarten ter Huurne wrote: Hi! In this mail I'll list some issues that weren't mentioned yet. * Name The standard needs a name. Some suggestions: - Unified MSX Game Format - .msx (pronounced "dot em-es-iks") - MSX Software Format I prefer

Re: extended ROM format

2001-01-22 Thread Sean Young
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 12:07:48PM +0100, Jose Angel Morente wrote: o Like mentioned above, two games I know of have a D/A. Almost three. Playball (the MSX1 32K one) has a DAC as well :) I've been playing around with this game, and it only seems to be writing a few bytes to 7fffh: Write

Re: MSX game format example

2001-01-21 Thread Sean Young
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 08:19:06PM -0200, Ricardo Bittencourt wrote: Hi people, I made a sample .msx file, including all the ideas presented until now. Please download it at: http://www.lsi.usp.br/~ricardo/penguin.msx I downloaded the file using Netscape

Re: KIKIKAIKI

2001-01-18 Thread Sean Young
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 05:37:19PM +, Maarten ter Huurne wrote: On Thursday 18 January 2001 16:09, you wrote: Don't you have the Super Lode Runner original ROM? Only the disk-version is available on your site. Yep, I have the ROM version, but it doesn't work on emulators :(

Re: A1 Spirit

2001-01-11 Thread Sean Young
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:44:05AM +0200, Saku Taipale wrote: I have found a nice advertisement about this game: http://www.din.or.jp/~mtx/img/msx/fs_jh1.jpg -snip- So, really seems that this cartridge was sold with controller. Takamichi has one cartridge without controller and I

Re: Captain Multi Station ram checkup result

2000-12-20 Thread Sean Young
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 01:24:56AM +0900, Takamichi Suzukawa wrote: To Maarten: A simple but inaccurate method is this: PRINT (256-INP(HFF))*16 CMS returned "2048". That's like the Sony HB-F700P, which has 256kb RAM. To Sean: If you type: OUT (255),4 And the machine does NOT

Re: Enanito si, pero con que pedazo!

2000-12-19 Thread Sean Young
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:50:07PM +, Maarten ter Huurne wrote: The MSX mailinglist server only checks for large messages, so small attachments can slip through. The list is migrating to a different list server program soon, hopefully with that new software we can disallow all

Re: Yamaha CX5M

2000-12-18 Thread Sean Young
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 10:15:57AM +, Richard Atkinson wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Sean Young wrote: Well to be honest I don't have a clue about this -- but is there a change you could dump the roms? If we have the roms, someone could try to figure it out. :) To dump the ROM I'll

Re: Simplest way to check RAM size

2000-12-17 Thread Sean Young
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 02:38:47AM +0900, Takamichi Suzukawa wrote: I was trying to write some article on Captain Multi Station MSX2. I wanted to know whether the RAM size is 64KB or 128KB, since before 1987, Japanese MSX2s with 128KB were also being released. However, CMS isn't equipped with

Re: Yamaha CX5M

2000-12-17 Thread Sean Young
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 09:11:45PM +, Richard Atkinson wrote: Does anyone know the ports used by the FM sound synthesizer SFG-01 in the Yamaha CX5M computer? There should be two ports for the YM2151 OPM chip and more for the YM2148 MIDI and keyboard interface. I haven't found any

Re: Funet problems [was: RE: Synthesizer tape :)]

2000-12-14 Thread Sean Young
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 03:12:48PM +0100, Arno Bakker wrote: I'm using MS Internet Explorer 5.50.4522.1800 on Windows 2000 prof SP1 with the advanced option 'enable folder view for FTP sites' selected. Anyone else with the same problems or ?? I never had the problem before with funet (with

Re: fMSX license and MESS

2000-12-14 Thread Sean Young
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 03:27:33PM -0200, Fabio R. Schmidlin wrote: So IMHO, if anyone want to contribute with a real OpenSource project, help Sean Young with the really cool MSX driver for MESS. The MAME and MESS projects are both overhelming and serious. And they're portable too. Sean Young

Re: and asciis emu? (was RE: fMSX license and MESS)

2000-12-14 Thread Sean Young
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 07:21:33PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: btw, any news on the 'official' ASCII emulator, which should be out in jan next year? Or am I too optimistic? Well I don't see that ASCII or that group is in a better postition that we are in creating an emulator. Except for

Re: MESS

2000-12-14 Thread Sean Young
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 06:11:50PM -0200, Pablo Vasques Bravo-Villalba wrote: I'd like to test MESS, but I'm having trouble with running the emulator. I tried the Win32 version, and although it correctly detects MSX as an avai- lable system, the screen goes blank when the emulation starts

Re: MESS

2000-12-14 Thread Sean Young
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 07:32:46PM -0200, Fabio R. Schmidlin wrote: Is there any way to force 60Hz interrupts onto the default MSX1 emulation or should I use a Japanese romset? Now, there's a point I want to contribute: The "default" MSX emulation.:) It shoud'nt check the

Synthesizer tape :)

2000-12-13 Thread Sean Young
I thought this might be of some interest. Saku Taipale has the original Synthesizer cartridge. The original game came with a tape, which he recorded to .wav, I've converted them to .cas. I've uploaded the files to funet, dunno where they are now. But you can also get them from:

Re: fMSX 2.3 released

2000-12-11 Thread Sean Young
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 05:54:04PM +, Maarten ter Huurne wrote: Both SCREEN7 and SCREEN8 are only available on machines with 128K VRAM. That 128K VRAM is devided over 2 64K RAM ICs. To get the most speed out of the RAM, both ICs are addressed alternatingly (that's my theory anyway).

Re: fMSX 2.3 released

2000-12-11 Thread Sean Young
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:18:42PM +, Maarten ter Huurne wrote: On Monday 11 December 2000 11:46, you wrote: SCREEN7 reorder is more difficult to implement than SCREEN8, because what appears to be a byte to the programmer is actually spread over two VRAM locations. For example, when

Re: fMSX 2.3 released

2000-12-11 Thread Sean Young
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:45:55PM +, Maarten ter Huurne wrote: On Monday 11 December 2000 12:20, you wrote: I have some doubts about the way I described SCREEN7. I can't get the pixel reorder working, which could be an implementation error, but could also mean I got the algorithm

Re: fMSX 2.3 released

2000-12-10 Thread Sean Young
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 08:51:19AM -0200, Mauricio Braga wrote: The FM-PAC sound I'm hearing under Linux is not very good. As far as I know, it plays the right notes, but it doesn't emulate instruments. The Windows sound, which uses MIDI, is a lot better. MIDI is also possible under Linux

Re: fMSX 2.3 released

2000-12-10 Thread Sean Young
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 05:02:35PM +, Maarten ter Huurne wrote: About V9938.c: the preparations for SCREEN8 reorder worked very well, I had to change only 1 line. However, SCREEN7 is harder because it puts the even pixels in the lowest 64K of VRAM and the odd pixels in the highest 64K of

Spectravideo SVI-728 and SVI-738

2000-12-01 Thread Sean Young
I'd like to add these Spectravideo MSX computers to mess (the emulator). Does anyone know where I can find the bios and disk roms for these machines? I'm talking about the SVI-728 and SVI-738. Work is currently underway for the SVI-318 and SVI-328, which are according to:

Re: PSG R#14 bit 6?

2000-11-27 Thread Sean Young
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 07:56:58PM +0100, Alex Wulms wrote: ] Everything I know is that this bit was used by MegaSCSI in some ] some apps to "blink" the Kana Led (according to the program manuals). So the answer is that the bit is used for the KANA led, to make it burn or not burn. Please

Re: Chip ID on SCC?

2000-11-27 Thread Sean Young
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 12:18:33PM +0100, d-fader wrote: ...blahblahblah... // KONAMI 051649 2212P003 (large print) JAPAN 8750AAA The number on the right-bottom is different each time. Hmm... here we go... F1-Spirit: // KONAMI 051649 2212P003 JAPAN 8723AAA KVII (MSX 1

Re: PSG R#14 bit 6?

2000-11-22 Thread Sean Young
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 09:34:39PM -0400, Daniel Jorge Caetano wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:04:50 +0100, Laurens Holst wrote: Yes, it is... except by the fact the "code" in the Japanese Machines can be locked, in the same way Caps Lock. The "Code Lock" key was called Kana Key... and

Re: PSG R#14 bit 6?

2000-11-22 Thread Sean Young
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:13:55AM +0100, Sean Young wrote: -snip- In screen 0 the bits of register 14 are now displayed; no matter what keys I pressed, nothing changed. :( So still I have no clue what it is. New information: According to the Red Book on hardwareinfo.msx2.com (which

Re: PSG R#14 bit 6?

2000-11-21 Thread Sean Young
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 01:14:14PM +0100, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: "0" for syllable layout; "1" for JIS layout I don't know what it means, though. Syllable means just letters and JIS means Japanese characters (hiragana or even kanji, probably). This is starting to make sense now. :)

Re: PSG R#14 bit 6?

2000-11-20 Thread Sean Young
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 01:22:14AM -0400, Daniel Jorge Caetano wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 01:29:34 +0100, Sean Young wrote: According to Portar.txt bit 6 of PSG register 14 is "On japanese machines only". It's not the KANA led, that's bit 7 of PSG register 15. Does anyone know what

Re: PSG R#14 bit 6?

2000-11-20 Thread Sean Young
will be activated... The CODE key can also be locked on the (European) Philips VG-8010 (and VG-8000, which is the same, but has only 16kB RAM). Funny. Hmm how does it work on these machines? Does the actual key toggle? Or is there a led which goes on? How does it work in software? Sean Youn

PSG R#14 bit 6?

2000-11-19 Thread Sean Young
According to Portar.txt bit 6 of PSG register 14 is "On japanese machines only". It's not the KANA led, that's bit 7 of PSG register 15. Does anyone know what that bit does? The MSX redbook doesn't say anything. The dutch "MSX Handboek for gevorderden" says the same as Portar.txt. Does anyone

Chip ID on SCC?

2000-11-13 Thread Sean Young
Looking through the MAME URL:http://www.mame.net/ sources, I came accros emulation of a sound chip which is the SCC used in Konami megaROM cartridges, or very similar. The game is "Haunted Castle", arcade game from 1988. The chip ID in is K051649. Could someone who has his Konami SCC cartridge

Re: Chip ID on SCC?

2000-11-13 Thread Sean Young
you though... Surprising, I asked because the Sound Cartridge (SCC+) chip has "KONAMI 052539 SCC-I2312P001 JAPAN" written on it. That one is not emulated by MAME. Sean Young -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html

Re: Chip ID on SCC?

2000-11-13 Thread Sean Young
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 06:31:26PM -0200, Pablo Vasques Bravo-Villalba wrote: Sean Young wrote: The chip ID in is K051649. Could someone who has his Konami SCC cartridge already opened check what the SCC chip says? Isn't this chip responsible for the digitized sound in the game

Re: Netscape friggin' problems (ot)

2000-11-10 Thread Sean Young
-to-be Netscape 6). Very good CSS JavaScript support; with Sun Java SDK 2.0 you also have good Java support. Still a bit buggy, but it's coming there. Since it's open-source I won't think of using anything else. Sean Young -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html

nms 1431 emulation?

2000-11-07 Thread Sean Young
anything really. Sean Young Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/

bios dump of french / us MSX1?

2000-03-27 Thread Sean Young
ppl, For the MSX driver I'm writing for MESS I'd like to add all the different versions of the MSX1. Does someone have bios dumps of the us and french versions? Also I'm looking for the keyboard layout of the Korean and the brazillian version. Any help here would be much appreciated! Sean

Original Konami games

1999-07-18 Thread Sean Young
I'd like to complete my collection of Konami MSX games, and at the moment I have quite some doubles in my collection. So that's why I'd like to exchange games. I only want games in good condition and complete with manual and box. I won't sell anything, don't bother to ask. This is what I have

Re: Konami Micro@?!*@*?@

1999-05-19 Thread Sean Young
YOUNG!?!?!? Send us a JPEG proving you're indeed a *FEMALE REPLICANT*. You're mistaken: as everyone knows, Sean is boy's name. Think of Sean Connery. Sean is the Irish version of John, or the French Jean. So indeed my name is Sean Young; I do not pretend to be the actress Mary Sean Young

Re: INI (Was: 1.44 MB. disks?)

1999-04-02 Thread Sean Young
Flag status according to Zilog tables: | | |P| | | | Inst|C|Z|V|S|N|H| Comments +-+-+-+-+-+-+ IN r,(C)|.|r|P|r|0|0| Flags affected by data read INI;IND;OUTI;OUTD |.|r|x|x|1|x| Z=0 if B!=0 otherwise Z=1

Mailing list archive?

1999-02-10 Thread Sean Young
Since there have been (and are) interesting discussions in the mailing list, I thought it might be interesting to have a mailing list archive available on the WWW. Many messages have more than a contemporary value. Now, there are some issues concerning this. Is something like this already

mailinglist archive

1999-02-09 Thread Sean Young
have any more messages, please send them to me. I don't care what format. Sean Young MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL