Re: Konami MSX Antiques - Emulator

2001-02-24 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
On Saturday 24 February 2001 08:11, you wrote: I wonder why they chose to compress the ROMs, there is plenty of space on a CD to store a couple of MSX ROMs. So people wouldnt use em on real msxes? Just a guess ;-) Well, there are plenty of sites with the ROMs on the net, it's rather

Re: Konami MSX Antiques - Emulator

2001-02-23 Thread Carlos de Santa-Ana
At 23:45 22/02/01 +0100, you wrote: ] Hi, ] ] Interesting... Did Konami leave out the BIOS because of copyright ] issues? Hi The antiques collection ROM format is a type of compressed file, when rom is loaded in PSX memory, is exectly the same to original rom. -- For info, see

Re: Konami MSX Antiques - Emulator

2001-02-23 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
On Friday 23 February 2001 17:28, you wrote: The antiques collection ROM format is a type of compressed file, when rom is loaded in PSX memory, is exectly the same to original rom. That's interesting. Do you know what kind of compression algorithm it is? I wonder why they chose to compress

Re: Konami MSX Antiques - Emulator

2001-02-23 Thread Carlos de Santa-Ana
At 22:56 23/02/01 +, you wrote: On Friday 23 February 2001 17:28, you wrote: The antiques collection ROM format is a type of compressed file, when rom is loaded in PSX memory, is exectly the same to original rom. That's interesting. Do you know what kind of compression algorithm it is?

Re: Konami MSX Antiques - Emulator

2001-02-23 Thread Bjørn Boye Skjoldhammer
The antiques collection ROM format is a type of compressed file, when rom is loaded in PSX memory, is exectly the same to original rom. That's interesting. Do you know what kind of compression algorithm it is? I wonder why they chose to compress the ROMs, there is plenty of space on a CD

Re: Konami MSX Antiques - Emulator

2001-02-22 Thread Alex Wulms
] Hi, ] ] Interesting... Did Konami leave out the BIOS because of copyright ] issues? ] ] That was my guess. Konami has the copyright of her own games, but if ] they used MSX bios code they would have to pay licensing fees to the ] current copyright owner (MS or ASCII?).. It is still MS.

Re: Konami MSX Antiques - Emulator

2001-02-21 Thread Tristan
Damn. The correct url is: http://212.187.35.31/~tristan/msxantiques.zip Tristan + Omega + join #msx on undernet + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + | | FUNET MSX maintainer | ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/msx| + irc: OmegaMSX +Techno composer+

Re: Konami MSX Antiques - Emulator

2001-02-20 Thread Bjørn Boye Skjoldhammer
Hi, According to the info I got, the roms on the cd´s should be modified in the way that they don´t use any BIOScalls... So in that case well, you can forget about using it for emulation thus there is no bios incorporated in this emulator... Whatz up with the GFX9000 version (normal

Re: Konami MSX Antiques - Emulator

2001-02-20 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 21:56, you wrote: According to the info I got, the roms on the cds should be modified in the way that they dont use any BIOS calls... So in that case well, you can forget about using it for emulation thus there is no bios incorporated in this emulator...

Re: Konami MSX Antiques - Emulator

2001-02-20 Thread Tristan
Hi, Interesting... Did Konami leave out the BIOS because of copyright issues? That was my guess. Konami has the copyright of her own games, but if they used MSX bios code they would have to pay licensing fees to the current copyright owner (MS or ASCII?).. I found this matter interesting

Re: Konami MSX Antiques - Emulator

2001-02-20 Thread Tristan
Hi, Interesting... Did Konami leave out the BIOS because of copyright issues? That was my guess. Konami has the copyright of her own games, but if they used MSX bios code they would have to pay licensing fees to the current copyright owner (MS or ASCII?).. I found this matter interesting