Re: No sheets on the internet?

2001-04-27 Thread Pablo Vasques Bravo-Villalba
Note by the way that 'sheet' is not really English in the sense you mean it here. You should say 'slides' or 'transparencies'. A sheet you put on your bed. Strangely enough, in Japan they also call it sheets (SHI- TSU). According to the Merriam-Webster: sheet(noun): (...) 2: a usually

Re: No sheets on the internet?

2001-04-26 Thread Sander Zuidema
Helleuwz... About the fact that he used to crack games, what can I say? Most games he cracked were not for sale in Europe, so at least for me was the only way to get them (and no, I don't think piracy was the reason that made Japanese companies decide not to sell in Europe). I am almost

Re: No sheets on the internet?

2001-04-26 Thread Sander Zuidema
Helleuwz... Um, he announced a single MSX chip already last year on MSX Denyuu Land. Yes, but now he announced specifications. He gave us a lot more information. Note by the way that 'sheet' is not really English in the sense you mean it here. You should say 'slides' or 'transparencies'. A

Re: No sheets on the internet?

2001-04-26 Thread Sander Zuidema
Hey Manuel, Hmm.. lets pretend I did not hear that from someone who sells a monitor with KNOBS on msx2.com Knob is English! It's a 'draaiknop'. Button is a 'drukknop'. (sorry, have been watching Bottom too much lately) Love that. Then you should understand what I was meaning to say ;)

Re: No sheets on the internet?

2001-04-26 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Hey Manuel, Yo Hmm.. lets pretend I did not hear that from someone who sells a monitor with KNOBS on msx2.com Knob is English! It's a 'draaiknop'. Button is a 'drukknop'. (sorry, have been watching Bottom too much lately) Love that. Then you should understand what I was

Combined answers to 2 Re: No sheets on the internet?

2001-04-26 Thread David Heremans
On Thursday 26 April 2001 13:44, you wrote: The PC software industry is suffering a lot because of copying, the are investing millions of dollars to make new copy-protections etc. Their rating scheme is wrong !! They take the aproach of sold 20 products but statistics indicate fifteen

RE: No sheets on the internet?

2001-04-25 Thread Hans Otten
It would be nice if 'the japanese people' and the 'japanese community' would enter this discussion here. Now we only have interpretations and secondhand contacts... It is not that important to me, but someone brave and involved enough could simply ask Nishi about his opinion on having the sheets

Re: No sheets on the internet?

2001-04-25 Thread Eric . Boon
Sander Zuidema wrote: I agree with Anne on this one. We MSX users were partly responsible for the failure of the MSX system. A lot of companes stopped developing software for MSX because of the low sales (because of excessive copying). I honestly have my doubts about that. Of course,

Re: No sheets on the internet?

2001-04-25 Thread Sander Zuidema
We MSX users were partly responsible for the failure of the MSX system. A lot of companes stopped developing software for MSX because of the low sales (because of excessive copying). I honestly have my doubts about that. Of course, the excessive copying was *a* reason, but I don't think

Re: No sheets on the internet?

2001-04-25 Thread Jose Carlos Clemente
Somebody, somewhere, said: I can only say that I see people like Martos as a huge threat to the entire revival project. I don't. The revival project is largely open source. How would you 'crack' and illegaly copy open source. Plus, you assuming that Martos is still interested in

Re: No sheets on the internet?

2001-04-25 Thread Eric . Boon
Saner Zuidema wrote: I quoted a lot, so you can read I wrote we were -=[PARTLY]=- responsible. True. I need glasses, obviously 8-) You might have noticed that a lot of music-companies aren't doing very well at all at the moment. Even large companies like the Free Record Shop are

Re: No sheets on the internet?

2001-04-25 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
As for the sheets: Kazuhiko Nishi has proven he still thinks of the European MSX scene very highly, by letting us be the first in the world to hear the announcement of the singlechip MSX. If he does not like the sheets on the internet, we Um, he announced a single MSX chip already last year

Re: No sheets on the internet?

2001-04-25 Thread Jose Carlos Clemente
Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: It's not US who should be buying those games, but people who have never heard about MSX before. Which is a much bigger market. The emulator will be spread MASSIVELY. Most people who will get it, won't know about where to get soft. I'm not sure of this. As the

Re: No sheets on the internet?

2001-04-25 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: It's not US who should be buying those games, but people who have never hea rd about MSX before. Which is a much bigger market. The emulator will be spread MASSIVELY. Most people who will get it, won't know about where to get soft. I'm not sure of this. As

Re: No sheets on the internet?

2001-04-25 Thread Laurens Holst
Hm, on the other hand, the main reason why people *do* copy CDs is the fact that the prices are so ridiculously high! Same holds for software... In the case of software that's even more the case. I am often willing to pay 40 guilders for an original CD because then I get a nice CD and box

Re: No sheets on the internet?

2001-04-25 Thread Pierre Gielen
(I believe you currently need a state-of-the-art PDA to be able to use it, the other PDA's are too slow! I have noticed that even the Gameboy emulator Palmboy runs too slow on my Palm IIIxe and it is difficult to play because there aren't enough control buttons. So I wonder how fast the MSX

Re: No sheets on the internet?

2001-04-24 Thread Laurens Holst
The 'take all MSX info that is not officialy permitted off the web' is Anne's interpretation. And that would make the revival/survival of MSX much more difficult. So do not remove it please! or at least... not for now... yet. (that probably isn't very correct english but you should get my

Re: No sheets on the internet?

2001-04-24 Thread Anne de Raad
The 'take all MSX info that is not officialy permitted off the web' is Anne's interpretation. And that would make the revival/survival of MSX much more difficult. So do not remove it please! or at least... not for now... yet. (that probably isn't very correct english but you should get

Re: No sheets on the internet?

2001-04-24 Thread Sander Zuidema
that I see people like Martos as a huge threat to the entire revival project. As for the sheets: Kazuhiko Nishi has proven he still thinks of the European MSX scene very highly, by letting us be the first in the world to hear the announcement of the singlechip MSX. If he does not like the sheets

Re: No sheets on the internet?

2001-04-24 Thread Laurens Holst
If your view on my opinion was about the ROMs and other copyrighted MSX software only, then you are right. I really think we should take all the copyrighted MSX software offline. Just to TRY to get the MSX PLAYER a bit popular. As soon as those old games become commercial interesting again

No sheets on the internet?

2001-04-23 Thread Nestor
In english, I just warned Bart for publishing the sheets on the internet. It could be that ASCII or Nishi is not that happy about publishing his sheets. They are copyrighted. Don't scare me now! So what happens with my text files version of MSX2 Technical Handbook?? 8-) *** XIX MSX

Re: No sheets on the internet?

2001-04-23 Thread Eric . Boon
In english, I just warned Bart for publishing the sheets on the internet. It could be that ASCII or Nishi is not that happy about publishing his sheets. They are copyrighted. Don't scare me now! So what happens with my text files version of MSX2 Technical Handbook?? 8-) That handbook

RE: No sheets on the internet?

2001-04-23 Thread Hans Otten
] Subject: No sheets on the internet? In english, I just warned Bart for publishing the sheets on the internet. It could be that ASCII or Nishi is not that happy about publishing his sheets. They are copyrighted. Don't scare me now! So what happens with my text files version of MSX2 Technical