Re: DOS2 in IDE

2000-12-06 Thread Siebe Berveling
By the way, I have just finished debugging MSXDOS2.SYS v2.30 (can What bugs does it have and what bugs have you fixed? Grtz, Siebe. -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html

Re: DOS2 in IDE

2000-12-01 Thread Siebe Berveling
I want to replace DOS2 kernel of my Suncrise IDE interface with another version. It may be a dumb question, but why would you need to, or want to? Afaik there's only one DOS2 rom which is copied in several harddisk interfaces. For the use of DOS2.20 or DOS2.32 or even DOS2.40 there's no

Re: DOS2 in IDE

2000-12-01 Thread Siebe Berveling
I want to replace DOS2 kernel of my Suncrise IDE interface with another version. It may be a dumb question, but why would you need to, or want to? Because IDE does not work in Korean MSX2 computers. For that problem, i think, you'll better ask Jon de Schrijder (I saw his name

Re: New UZIX version

2000-11-22 Thread Siebe Berveling
and the most important - dial-up connection to the Internet; YES, now you can connect your MSX to the Internet, dialing directly to your ISP using a modem! That sounds great, i for sure will try it. (My MSX stays at my parents place, and I don't live there anymore) Tests were made in

Re: Question from Yokoi.

2000-11-19 Thread Siebe Berveling
Hey! ACE stands for Ademir Carchano Extended! :) That's why ACE001 and ACE002... :) Hehe.. and MSX stands for Midsource Space eXperiment... And don't we have a Bentley turbo R vehicle? ACE is an project of Ademir Carchano, it's a computer designed for teaching how a computer works. I

DI2 not from disk

2000-11-14 Thread Siebe Berveling
Hello, I am wondering if there's a program available which can run images of double sided disks, without having to put them on a (slow) disk. I would like to do that on a NMS8250 with 1MB internal memory, i think it should be possible (Ramdisk?). Siebe. -- For info, see

Re: DI2 not from disk

2000-11-14 Thread Siebe Berveling
Hey Pats! Yes that would be great however. You'll need a extra program to start those games, like loadrom.com, which will require extra memory. I have extra memory, there's 1MB present in my MSX2 so that's not the problem. - Original Message - From: Patrick 'Patsie' Lina

Re: CDR, CD-Rom with MSX question

2000-11-09 Thread Siebe Berveling
Laurens Holst wrote: other partition (session). So that means -on a PC- DOS can read the CD as a floppy, and therefor I think it should also be possible on MSX. it is possible if the diskrom is changed in such a way that DISKIO maps sector 0,1,2 3 to CDsector 0, sector 4,5,6,7 to

Re: CDR, CD-Rom with MSX question

2000-11-08 Thread Siebe Berveling
I think that your idea to put a fat image on your CD will not help you, since the CD-ROM drive will not recognize the data CD and therefore not pass the data on to the SCSI interface. It will simply return an error code like 'illegal CD' or 'unformatted CD' or something like that. But I'm not

Re: CDR, CD-Rom with MSX question

2000-11-08 Thread Siebe Berveling
Although it seems impossible to partitionize and boot from CD because of the different sector size (2048 instead of 512 bytes), I'd like to notify you guys of the possibility to create a bootable CD on the PC. In Nero Burning Rom 5 when one want to create a bootable cd, one can select the

Re: CDR, CD-Rom with MSX question

2000-11-06 Thread Siebe Berveling
IDECDEX is for the IDE-interface. MSXCDEX is for the SCSI-interfaces. I don't know if it supports all of them (perhaps only MegaSCSI), but it's the only one around so I suggest you just try it out. It can be found at ftp://ftp.funet.fi/. You might also want to consider buying a VERY cheap,

Re: CDR, CD-Rom with MSX question

2000-11-05 Thread Siebe Berveling
- Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: Jon De Schrijder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: zondag 5 november 2000 17:44 Onderwerp: Re: CDR, CD-Rom with MSX question to be short: I don't think it is possible to boot from a CDROM in DOS2. DOS2 uses the DISKIO entry for

CDR, CD-Rom with MSX question

2000-11-04 Thread Siebe Berveling
Hello everybody! I've got a SCSI CD-romdrive connected to my MSX using a BERT SCSI-interface, and a CD-writer to my pc. Now I thought that it should be possible to create a cd-rom with 19 or 20 partitions of 32MB, so that an MSX can access those partitions and handle them as real drives (with

Re: CDR, CD-Rom with MSX question

2000-11-04 Thread Siebe Berveling
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: CDR, CD-Rom with MSX question Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 17:12:34 + From: Maarten ter Huurne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cut What kind of partition table does a BERT interface use? I'm not sure about that. I made some

Re: Out to #FC-#FF

2000-06-25 Thread Siebe Berveling
Cache makes your drive much slower. My Sunrise IDE: w/o cache: 230 kbps w/ cache: 50 kbps How did you test this? By just testing disk I/O time? Well then you probably don't understand caching: (I can hardly believe it, me explaining you something :-) ) Cache is some memory wich holds data

Re: games

2000-06-01 Thread Siebe Berveling
I think that's a misconception from your side. I dont have that 'just get faster hardware' attitude at all, but after all the MSX Turbo R IS a real MSX computer and if the project of the Japanese succeeds, it will most likely become the MSX computer most widely used. I can imagine that you don't

Re: FAT16 for Sunrise IDE interaface

2000-05-29 Thread Siebe Berveling
This week I've finished it with her and it seems to work perfect. But I still have to make a new IDEFDISK program to make FAT16 partitions. That will be for July... Uses the FAT16 system some specific IDE-interface only features? Or can they easily (by experts) be adapted for other (SCSI)

Re: SEQUENCERS and TRACKERS

2000-05-01 Thread Siebe Berveling
Hi, I just read the below email in the mailinglist.. I've tried Meridian but I had a serious problem.. Whenever I try to make the program start to play a MIDI file the program crashes/freezes and it seems outputs a continues stream of MIDI data. - Have you loaded the correct MIDI driver for

Re: multiple disk drives

2000-04-25 Thread Siebe Berveling
Holas, I have a nms 8235 which has a *whine* 360kb internal diskdrive. This is NMS 8235?? I have VG8235 (/00) .. no biggy though as i also have an external cannon VF-100 which is 720kb. The reason of this post? The cannon is both A and B, and the internal Does A: give acces to 360 KB and

Re: ACE002, Z180, (LPE) Z380, ADVRAM... New MSX...

2000-04-23 Thread Siebe Berveling
SHit shit shit I was quite sure i changed the email-address but it was not .. Sorry 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. Problems? contact [EMAIL

Re: Z180 vs Z380 (was Re: ACE 002 and ADVRAM...? New MSX?)

2000-04-21 Thread Siebe Berveling
*yawn* I'm tired, I'm probably talking nonsense again, and nobody probably cares about these messages... Well, i do .. I like this 'fantasizing' on MSX improvement! since we seem to agree on many things. The only difference is: I want a new MSX, you want a faster MSX. And you seem to be the

Re: Z180 vs Z380 (was Re: ACE 002 and ADVRAM...? New MSX?)

2000-04-21 Thread Siebe Berveling
The ACE002 doesn't need to be placed inside a PC case. It has, actually, a board of 15x15cm. You can put it inside a PC keyboard! Explain, Daniel, explain!! Untill now, I had the idea that ACE002 was just a starting project. But when you tell me it fits on a 15x15cm board i can't help

Re: Z180 vs Z380 (was Re: ACE 002 and ADVRAM...? New MSX?)

2000-04-21 Thread Siebe Berveling
You once told that Ademir is about to make a V99*8 compatible VDP using a PLD, right? So, i guess it should also be possible to make a Z80 compatible processor using a PLD, right too?. Both are true but that's a lot of work. The Z80 is quite simple, constructed very logical... I

Re: ACE002, Z180, (LPE) Z380, ADVRAM... New MSX...

2000-04-21 Thread Siebe Berveling
ff persoonlijke nieuwsgierigheid, waarom onderteken jij altijd met 'grauw' Woon je soms in het friese "Grouw" ofzo?? Grtz, Siebe. MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes) in the body (not the

Re: MSX MUSIC vs NOVAXIS

2000-04-14 Thread Siebe Berveling
Manuel, in which subslot are the novaxis and the fm-pac in? In the GT the fm-pac is in slot 0 in one of the subslots. I tried some combi's when I just got it, no problems... I think I have the Novaxis in slot 2-1 now and the FM-PAC in slot 2-2. But I'm not sure. Could also be reversed... (my

Re: MSX CD Player ?

2000-04-04 Thread Siebe Berveling
Hi, Does anyone know if there is any MSX CD Player program available so that we can listen to our audio-cd's? Yes there are! For BERT SCSI there's one working (Called CDDA.COM) and I believed there's also one for the Novaxis SCSI card. For MEGA SCSI and IDE I don't know for sure but there

Re: Externe synthesizer aanspreken via Music Module...

2000-03-31 Thread Siebe Berveling
I'm thinking of hooking up an external synthesiser (or PC soundcard in this case) to the MIDI output on the music module. I've already tested it once with the ROM that's build in the music module and it seems to work (piano sounds only though). I was wondering whether there is some kind of

Re: Looking for a slotexpander

2000-03-29 Thread Siebe Berveling
Kees Folst ala Digital KC was an important power behind hardware developments in the Netherlands, that is the person i think who you are referring to. And copyrights and the MSX scene, an interesting relation... O yeah, sure. I once had a Digital KC slotexpander, and inside all the IC- names

Re: Lynx-clone and POP3 mail reader developers

2000-03-19 Thread Siebe Berveling
And I want to implement UDP, DNS and some other things before implementing PPP and modem support. So, when connection to an ISP be done, everything will be ready for full internet connection from MSX. Good luck! I'll have be patient .. Grtz, Siebe. MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe,

Re: Lynx-clone and POP3 mail reader developers

2000-03-18 Thread Siebe Berveling
But still, the fact remains my knowledge of C(++) is minimal. It's never late to learn. Since HD support is not implemented on UZIX, that's the only way of running UZIX on a harddisk. In the future, direct access to harddisk and partition will be implemented. But as long as it isn't...

Re: Lynx-clone and POP3 mail reader developers

2000-03-18 Thread Siebe Berveling
MSX. Read again the docs: in the future, PPP and modem support will be implemented, so you will not need the UNIX-box near your MSX. So is this "near future" or "far future" ? Grtz, Siebe. MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe msx

Re: Lynx-clone and POP3 mail reader developers

2000-03-17 Thread Siebe Berveling
-Original Message- From: Laurens Holst [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: donderdag 9 maart 2000 17:48 Subject: Re: Lynx-clone and POP3 mail reader developers No time either, but someone started building an TCP/IP stack for MSX + applications a couple of

Re: Dutch mailing list

2000-03-12 Thread Siebe Berveling
Well, only a question, but... Does anyone had the great idea of creating a Dutch-only MSX mailing list, in any free list server, like Onelist, or eGroups? I think it´s a good idea, where you can talk in your mother language. As Rieks said, most dutchman can express themselves quite well in

Re: Lynx-clone and POP3 mail reader developers

2000-02-22 Thread Siebe Berveling
I would be very grateful if someone could explain to me what is meant by "lynx" and "uzix"? Are they operating systems for MSX (Linux for MSX or Unix for MSX) or something like that? Thanx, Siebe MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe

Re: -= MSX Party 2000 =-

2000-02-17 Thread Siebe Berveling
-= SORRY ONLY DUTCH!!! =- If you are too lazy to translate it, then I'll do it: "The time has come to organize a real good MSX PARTY!!!. That is why we are busy to organise the MSX party 2000 The party of the year!" Visit http://members.home.nl/keessie/MSX%20Party%202000/ Grtz,

Re: MSX-RS232

2000-02-09 Thread Siebe Berveling
Please be careful with what you send to the mailinglist, 'Cause some people don't like these dutch and/or personal mes- sages in here .. Even if it happened by accident. This message is not the worst thing, I personally hate the lots of mails afterwards in which everyone subscribed agrees that

Re: Harddisk and CDrom drive under MSXDOS2

2000-02-02 Thread Siebe Berveling
Now the next step is copying all my old MSX files from the PC to the MSX. I don't suppose there is a program that can copy everything, including the directory structure, through a serial link...? Try to put your partitionized MSX HD into your PC. Maybe the PC can read the partition table made by

Re: MSX joysticks on PC?

2000-01-31 Thread Siebe Berveling
As far as I know, the PC joystick buttons are simply switches, so they could be connected to MSX easily. What you would need is a converter for the direction of the stick. It would have a functionality like this: See the message from Thomas Karlton on this subject. The site he refers to

Re: Floppy disk drive doubt

2000-01-28 Thread Siebe Berveling
I have a simple question. I have a HBD-50 floppy disk drive (cartridge cable) but I don't know if it is a 360 Kbs of 720 Kbs one. Could anybody help me, please? And I've got a very simple solution: Just try it! Grtz, Siebe MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL

MSX joysticks on PC?

2000-01-28 Thread Siebe Berveling
Hi all! It may be a silly question but is it possible to use MSX(-compatible) joysticks on a PC? Grtz, Siebe. 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?

Re: VG8235 on dutch tv; 2 vandaag

2000-01-19 Thread Siebe Berveling
From: "kikker | paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: nms8235 on dutch tv; 2 vandaag The NMS8235 was never produced! I think you mean the VG8235 .. Philips made two types of it: VG8235/00 and VG8235/20 Grtz, Siebe.

Re: nms8235 on dutch tv; 2 vandaag

2000-01-19 Thread Siebe Berveling
Well, I saw a film a couple of weeks ago on the dutch channel Nederland 1. And in that film some kids were playing on a MSX. I could not recognise what MSX but they were playing konami games. The film whas shit but that made it worth a look! What was its title? Ehhm .. forgot..

Re: Y2K aftermath on the MSX??

1999-11-29 Thread Siebe Berveling
Hans-Peter Zeedijk wrote: I 've tried the MSX system clock and the clock runs fine till 2072. afterthat it returns to 1973. Problems with programm's I have not encountered. no Y2K problem in hardware, the software could have a problem. So if you do Well, BASIC, MSX-DOS (1 and 2) are

MSX hardware do it yourself?

1999-11-26 Thread Siebe Berveling
Hi there! I was wondering if there is some place on the Internet where I can find hardware schemes of MSX hardware? eg. MSX computers, modems, music module and so on? Grtz, Siebe. MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject)

Re: Function key reassignment

1999-11-03 Thread Siebe Berveling
From: MkII [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Function key reassignment Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 07:50:17 +0200 I need a program to reassign function keys under MSX-DOS 8:| I think you mean MSX-DOS2? I have got such a program somewhere on my hard drive.

Re: (Silly) question about MSX on PC

1999-11-01 Thread Siebe Berveling
Hello You All... Try the latest version of BrMSX. This one does extacly the same (Also direct harddisk acces) and is just as fast (but more accurate) the the CJS Emulator. BrMSX is also still under devellopment. You know where to get hold of the newest copy !!! Yeah i visited your page ..

(Silly) question about MSX on PC

1999-10-27 Thread Siebe Berveling
Hi there! I am wondering if a MSX-emulator exists, that accesses a SCSI device at startup in the same way the MSX does. That it will execute MSX-DOS2 at startup, and will give me the opportunity to use eg. Multi Mente to read files and run MSX-programs, in the same way I do it on my MSX. Why?

Re: Emulatore con supporto dischi

1999-10-22 Thread Siebe Berveling
Apri il ruMSX clikka sull'icona rappresentante il drive A digli di usare il disk-drive e non un file immagine fai il reboot ora sei pronto a lavorare ... Apri l'fmsx con l'opzione -diska a: Ciao a tutti, Di recente ho provato piu' di un emulatore e mi chiedevo se non ce ne sia uno con

Moonsound for sale

1999-10-15 Thread Siebe Berveling
I have a Moonsound for sale, simply because i almost never use it and need some money. ... There's 128 + 512 KB = 640KB sample ram in it, and you will get Moonsound software, documentation and an audio cable with it. It is sold for every reasonable offer. If you're interested please mail to

Re: Authors for MCCW (MSX Computer Club magazine on the Web) wanted!

1999-01-17 Thread Siebe Berveling
in general: I don't hope we get to read articles like: * basic course #1 * review of nemesis 2 * pascal course #1 * C course #1 * using the PRINT commando * everything about SET SCREEN * another review of H.E.R.O. * boring letters of people complaining about negative reviews of their product

Re: RAM cartridge capabilities

1999-01-02 Thread Siebe Berveling
-Original Message- From: MkII [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: dinsdag 2 november 1999 7:03 Subject: RAM cartridge capabilities I've got a 1M RAM cartridge that I'd like to use as a RAM disk. I've tried trusty Leonid Baraz's RDV but it only recognizes