AW: About Snatcher...
-- Van: jam[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:dinsdag 2 maart 1999 15:07 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp:AW: About Snatcher... I think that not keeping the original sounds, gfx and musix is a profanation really. RV Can someone tell me what a profanation is? It sounds rather negative. Sure! Thanks! Bye, Jam 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 PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/) 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 PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
AW: Alest 2
-- Van: Jochen Bilderbeek[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:donderdag 4 maart 1999 11:09 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp:Alest 2 Hello, I had a question: I've finished this great game (Aleste 2) several times, and I always use weapon 5, the Homing missile. Are there more people who have finished this game and wich weapon did you used Thank you... I finished the game several times. I always use weapen 1 or 4. Especially weapon 4 is great. Robert 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 PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/) 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 PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: MESXES
[Mode sarcastic ON] If Konami makes a new game for MSX (for MSX TurboR) called 3D Nemesis or Salamander 3D, do you buy it? [Mode sarcastic OFF] [Mode Sarcastic on again!] If Panasonic, Sony and/or Philips make an MSX-3 computer (and it isn't a PSX), do you buy it? [Mode Sarcastic off again!] [Mode SUPER sarcastic on] If Microsoft makes Windows 98 for MSX, do you buy it? [Mode SUPER sarcastic off] Greetz, Sander Zuidema 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 PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
AW: Alest 2
-- Van: Ricardo Bittencourt Vidigal Leitao[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:donderdag 4 maart 1999 18:33 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp:Re: Alest 2 On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Nestor Soriano wrote: I finished Aleste 2 in medium level, without losing one ship! (-v-)v When I was younger, I could do this too. Now I'm afraid I couldn't do this anymore... Did anyone finished Aleste 2 using only Weapon 0 ? I tried a lot of times but never succeded. Did you know that on the back of the original Aleste 2 box are pictures that aren't in the game? There is a picture there of a weapon select screen which isn't used at all. Strange isn't it? Robert Ricardo Bittencourt http://www.lsi.usp.br/~ricardo [EMAIL PROTECTED]"Save the trees: eat more woodpeckers" 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 PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/) 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 PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
RE: Diskrom modifications
-Original Message- From: Maarten ter Huurne [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 06, 1999 2:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Diskrom modifications At 04:16 PM 03/05/99 +0100, you wrote: I want to make a 'driver' for emulating disk-images from a PC to a MSX. The idea is to connect a MSX to a PC and then emulate a disk from data that is stored on the PC. I made a diskROM like that which reads DSK images from PC to MSX through the JoyNet cable. At the moment, it is read-only and works under DOS1 (MSX-DOS and BASIC). I can send you the code if you like. Please do! I can use any help on this subject. The main problem with the code is that my protocol cannot recover from errors. The protocol is constructed in such a way that errors are rare, but they do occur sometimes (about once in 50 megs). The PC side is a simple "sector server" written in Delphi. You can select a DSK image and a volume inside that image (for multi-disk images). It also reports a disk change signal, which makes caching at the MSX side possible. This is great! I downloaded the diskrom disassembly from Alwin Henseler, this will also help me. Now, I want to know if I can get away with just writing new routines for PHYDIO etc. (i.e. changing the JP's in the diskrom at 4010h, 4013h etc. to my routines which do the communication with the PC). I only want to change the physical I/O part, everything else should then still work. You only have to implement the I/O routines located at #4010 and higher (get DPB, read sector, disk change, format etc). You don't even need the other routines, because they are already located in the main diskROM. But if you do this, I guess it is not possible anymore to use the normal diskdrive, or... Then you need some way to connect your routines to a drive letter. What I do at the moment is to modify the table located at #FB21, using a CALL statement in BASIC. What would be better is to have the extra drive added at boot time. Can someone explain how to do this? I don't yet know, but I'm working on this. I want to integrate this diskrom in a cartridge that holds the interface. I am very interested if you can make a high-speed parallel connection. JoyNet, which is a simple serial connection, is slow for DSK emulation (a bit slower than a real drive). Well, I don't think it can be that hard. Especially if you use components in the interface that can do the error-handling (that's why I was thinking about ARCnet). But I don't have anything concrete yet, just investigating the possibilities. I was also thinking of a way to use the joystick-interface, but then use 4-bit parallel or 8-bit parallel in one direction and 1 or 2 bit in the other direction (because I guess reading will occur more often than writing). Greetings, Patrick 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 PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: AW: Alest 2
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Robert Vroemisse wrote: Did you know that on the back of the original Aleste 2 box are pictures that aren't in the game? There is a picture there of a weapon select screen which isn't used at all. Strange isn't it? I saw the same thing in Konami's Vampire Killer. Probably they did it on purpose. On the back cover of the box there is a screen shot from level 14 (I think), in which the great key for the end-of-level-door can be seen. But in the game it is located somewhere else. Bye, shevek --- Visit the internet summercamp via http://polypc47.chem.rug.nl:5002 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 PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
AW: AW: Alest 2
-- Van: shevek[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:maandag 8 maart 1999 12:13 Aan: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Onderwerp:Re: AW: Alest 2 On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Robert Vroemisse wrote: Did you know that on the back of the original Aleste 2 box are pictures that aren't in the game? There is a picture there of a weapon select screen which isn't used at all. Strange isn't it? I saw the same thing in Konami's Vampire Killer. Probably they did it on purpose. On the back cover of the box there is a screen shot from level 14 (I think), in which the great key for the end-of-level-door can be seen. But in the game it is located somewhere else. Bye, shevek True. A lot of games use pictures from other versions. Gorby's pipeline uses screenshots from the FM Towns version and Heroes of the Lance uses pictures of the PC/Amiga version --- Visit the internet summercamp via http://polypc47.chem.rug.nl:5002 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 PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/) 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 PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Joynet syncronous protocol
Hi Last week I read somebody was writing a synchronous protocal for joynet. At least that's what I would call it :-). The idea was to send data in packets, during which the interrupts are off. There are 3 ways I could imagine this being done: 1 - Synchronise both interrupts and start sending/receiving at interrupt time. 2 - Just start and wait for the other computer to react. 3 - Use a line-interrupt to synchronise to the other computer's main interrupt. This is really the same as the first one, but easier to implement. If you use the last option, it is possible that the interrupts are timed "wrong", so it is not possible to put a line-interrupt at the right spot. That means you have to count on a long wait time. This is even worse in case 2, of course. If you use that one, you should only send large packets, and not too often. This is not useful for all aplications (and games). The first option is the one my question is about. I know you can change the timing of the interrupt by switching between 50Hz and 60Hz, but this looks bad and I'm not sure how long both computers are timed equally. I think the 50/60Hz is not so accurate, that it stays synchronous for long. My question is: Is it possible to force a vertical interrupt on the VDP, so you can really have both interrupts synchronous? If it is, how is it done? Or is there some other way to do it? Bye, shevek --- Visit the internet summercamp via http://polypc47.chem.rug.nl:5002 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 PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: SCC Musixx
I think it doesn't have anything to do with that, b'coz he has the same mappe r layout as his 8250.. The problem is the memory mapper.. SCC-MUSIXX (i think) doesn't look what the primair and secondare slot selections are for memory, but it sais ok.. the pri mair is slot 3 and the secondare is slot 2.. So I think if ye remove yer MEMORY MAPPER, it'ss work on yer sony too.. I don't have an external mapper in the SOny! Only an internal mapper in slot 3-2 or 3-3 (like the 8250). So I can't remove the mapper, dude ;-) Grtjs, Manuel PS: MSX 4 EVER! (Questions? See: http://www.faq.msxnet.org) PPS: Visit my homepage at http://www.sci.kun.nl/marie/home/manuelbi 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 PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: MegaRAM (was: cracked 24k ROMs)
On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Maarten ter Huurne wrote: What I had in mind as "semi-automatic" is less automatic than your approach. It would locate all LD (x000h),A instructions, dump the bytes around it to your screen and then ask you "modify yes/no?". Usually, by looking at the bytes surrounding the "32 00 x0", it's easy to judge whether it's code or data. All right, if there's programmer's intervention, then everything should be right! Sometime ago, I tried something like that, but I couldn't detect when a LD (16-bit register),A or LD (address),another 8-bit register was a block switching. And I think that this hindered some adaptations to run directly on disk. BTW, Konami MegaROM games couldn't be converted anyhow, because they do frequent block switching, what can't be done directly from the disk. I have seen some cracks that used the upper 64K of VRAM to store blocks when they were not used. Many older Konami MegaROMs use only 64K of VRAM (or 16K if they're MSX1 games). I have one of these cracks: R-TYPE. But I don't like this kind of convertion, because it's a MSX1 game that demands a MSX2 or superior to run! And here in Brazil, there is still a lot of MSX1 working. But many of those 128K cracks had bugs (Vampire Killer, King's Valley) or slowdowns (Firebird). I think Maze of Galious did run fine, though. Konami games cracked to run using high part of VRAM??? This should be very slow! I would like to know more technical details about ESE-SCC, like: how to switch between "block select mode" and "write enable mode". By writing to a certain bit. From memory (could be incorrect), it's #7FFE, bit 4. In "write enable mode" you can access the SRAM like normal RAM (except for address #7FFE and #7FFF). Page switching does not occur if you write at #5000, #7000 etc. In "block select mode" it behaves as ROM and you can select pages as usual. Then, the blocks selected on area 6000h-7FFFh have 2 bytes lost? I think that the solution adopted in MegaRAM is a bit more intelligent. Here in Brazil, a guy whose name we don't know had made a conversion of Nemesis I to run directly from disk, without any memory expansion! But Nemesis I does frequent block switching, and how did he made this conversion? You wouldn't believe, but he reconstructed the entire game, joining the routines that were most frequently accessed, reducing the block switching rate at a minimum! But, he spent 8 months in this work. Of course, no other Konami games were converted in Brazil. Impressive! Konami also did such a thing, on Game Collection 3, but ofcourse they had the source codes available to them, making it a lot easier. Yes, much more easier. I think that the guy that had made the conversion could have done more conversions (because the Konami tricks had became known to him), but he had given up because of software piracy. :-( Martos did a lot of re-arranging on Solid Snake. He made a kind of mini-BIOS, so that game routines could be fitted into #-#3FFF area. Wow! This is very interesting!!! Where can I get a copy of it? Perhaps I could use his arrangement to run directly from disk. Did he achieve this? BTW, the Nemesis conversion and my MegaROM games conversions (like Super Laydock, Final Zone, Fantasy Zone, Mirai and Young Sherlock) uses direct access to the port based FDC, then, it won't work on European MSX. Sorry! Perhaps, in future, if somebody is interested, I can make a version for the address bades FDC. Not all address based FDCs are equal. The one in the Philips machines is similar to the one in the SONY machines, but for example the turbo R FDC is very different. I already know. I would have to make a different version designed for each machine that has a different FDC. Hard work! Greetings from Brazil! - Marco Antonio Simon Dal Pozhttp://www.lsi.usp.br/~mdalpoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Apple" (c) Copyright 1767, Sir Isaac Newton /"\ \ / CAMPANHA DA FITA ASCII - CONTRA MAIL HTML X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ 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 PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: MESXES
If Konami makes a new game for MSX (for MSX TurboR) called 3D Nemesis or Salamander 3D, do you buy it? Since this is IMPOSSIBLE, I'll not reply it. ;-) If Panasonic, Sony and/or Philips make an MSX-3 computer (and it isn't a PSX), do you buy it? Why not? If Microsoft makes Windows 98 for MSX, do you buy it? NO!!! I'll COPY it. ;-D Hasta incluso! - Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/9797/msx.htm [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Please don't send me messages with HTML code "New Pentium 34. Obsolete in 2 months. Guaranteed!" - 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 PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
AW: MESXES
-- Van: Nestor Soriano[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:maandag 8 maart 1999 13:49 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp:Re: MESXES If Konami makes a new game for MSX (for MSX TurboR) called 3D Nemesis or Salamander 3D, do you buy it? YES Even if it will cost 500 guilders Since this is IMPOSSIBLE, I'll not reply it. ;-) If Panasonic, Sony and/or Philips make an MSX-3 computer (and it isn't a PSX), do you buy it? YES!!! Why not? If Microsoft makes Windows 98 for MSX, do you buy it? That's a tough one NO!!! I'll COPY it. ;-D Hasta incluso! -- --- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/9797/msx.htm [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Please don't send me messages with HTML code "New Pentium 34. Obsolete in 2 months. Guaranteed!" -- -- - 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 PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/) 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 PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: AW: MESXES
At 13:56 8-3-99 +0100, you wrote: -- Van: Nestor Soriano[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: maandag 8 maart 1999 13:49 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: MESXES If Konami makes a new game for MSX (for MSX TurboR) called 3D Nemesis or Salamander 3D, do you buy it? YES Even if it will cost 500 guilders Since this is IMPOSSIBLE, I'll not reply it. ;-) If Panasonic, Sony and/or Philips make an MSX-3 computer (and it isn't a PSX), do you buy it? YES!!! Why not? If Microsoft makes Windows 98 for MSX, do you buy it? That's a tough one only if it has solitaire and freecell in it :P NO!!! I'll COPY it. ;-D Hasta incluso! -- --- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v - Itsumo MSX user http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/9797/msx.htm [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 18281450 Please don't send me messages with HTML code "New Pentium 34. Obsolete in 2 months. Guaranteed!" -- -- - 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 PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/) 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 PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/) 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 PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: Athler Wars 2 cracked on Sony 900 with FM-PAC - continued. And other questions!
Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: I'm trying to get Athler Wars 2 (ASCII) work on my Sony HB-G900P... I have 2 cracked versions of it, one by Martos (on a SS disk) and a version consisting of blocks that are loaded into the mapper. The game runs fine when my FM-PAC is not inserted, but when my FM-PAC is in my 900, after loading the screens becomes black, I see a little square (with all kinds of colors in it) and the drive starts making noise... And then it crashes... Why is this? According to The Red Devil it works fine on his HB-F700 with FM-PAC in slot 1... (both FM-PACs are the original Panasonic ones) When I wrote this, I tried it with the FM-PAC in slot 1. Now I got myself a slotexpander, so I put the FM-PAC in the slotexpander (slot 2-1 it was). Now Athler Wars 2 does NOT crash, but it totally ignores the FM-PAC! Other software works fine with the FM-PAC in both slots... HOW CAN THAT BE?? Also, my crack of R-Type doesn't work with FM-PAC... It's just ignored. Another thing: nice, a slotexpander... So I put my SCC in the slotexpander, and now none of my SCC-cracks recognize it... (except Solid Snake and the Games Collection disks for normal SCC...) Is this normal? By the way, can I connect a harddisk to my slotexpander? (Yes, with my Gouda SCSI interface in it!) And: why is the sound of my FM-PAC less loud when it's in the slotexpander?? (How does it work anyway, are the sound channels mixed in the expander? The sound of my Music Module (also in the expander) has to go through the same wire, hasn't it?) Ok, enough questions for now. I hope you can answer some... -- Grtjs, Manuel PS: MSX 4 EVER! (Questions? See: http://www.faq.msxnet.org) PPS: Visit my homepage at http://www.sci.kun.nl/marie/home/manuelbi 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 PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
MadriSX'99
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