Re: sanyo floppy drive

1999-04-15 Thread Marco Casali
Ciao, Did you check the MSX FAQ? There should be some info on floppydrive connectors See: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/ I look in this page, but what is the right section? The connector section? I look into it there isn't the right connection. Do u know if it is the same of Turbo-R?

Re: ESE-DSP...

1999-04-15 Thread Frits
There is some news at http://www.chiba-net.or.jp/~nf_ban/gigamix/ese/esedsp.html But it is in japanese. Giovanni dos Reis Nunes wrote: Nestor, Someone knows what happened with the ESE-DSP project? Since last summer I heard no further information... The last information that

Re: Msx Fair Tilburg

1999-04-15 Thread d-fader
I was wondering who of you guys are going to the fair in Tilburg? Actually I am only interested knowing about the (old)-sceners. (like RMF/Fuzzy Logic/Fony/Moonsoft/etc) Well, as a matter o' fact, an old scener named HeXx is coming to Tilburg too.. He was a former member of Future Magazine...

Hardware upgrade Tilburg Fair

1999-04-15 Thread liveline
Hello msx freaks, Does anyone know if I still can upgrade my video chip in a PHILIPS NMS 8255 and implant a z80 b proccesor(6Mhz)? What does that cost? Oh I'm going to the msx fair in Tilburg So can I Upgrade it there? Jeroen Nijdam MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an

Speed difference between disk formatted on PC and MSX

1999-04-15 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Hi When I DOSSCAN a DD disk formatted on PC, I get about 12 or 13 kB/s, but when I DOSSCAN a DD disk formatted on my MSX, I get 16 or 17 kB/s! Can anyone explain me the difference, exactly? Thanks! Grtjs, Manuel PS: MSX 4 EVER! (Questions? See: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/) PPS: Visit my

Re: Speed difference between disk formatted on PC and MSX

1999-04-15 Thread See Loy Lin
The PC has a HD floppy drive and it just costs time to read from DD floppies instead of HD floppies... it has to do al sorts of conversion routines etc.etc. The MSX however is optimized to work with the DD disks.. hence the difference Are the disks not both read on MSX? If the PC has to

Re: Speed difference between disk formatted on PC and MSX

1999-04-15 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
The PC has a HD floppy drive and it just costs time to read from DD floppies instead of HD floppies... it has to do al sorts of conversion routines etc.etc. The MSX however is optimized to work with the DD disks.. hence the difference Are the disks not both read on MSX? If the PC

Re: Speed difference between disk formatted on PC and MSX

1999-04-15 Thread Alex Wulms
] Is the track formatted with an other interleaving setting ? ] ] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ] ] or ] ] 1 3 5 7 9 2 4 6 8 ] ] Or the PC is optimized for an other interleaving setting than the MSX is. I agree on this explanation. You can doublecheck this theory by analyzing the track with some kind

Re: Speed difference between disk formatted on PC and MSX

1999-04-15 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
] Is the track formatted with an other interleaving setting ? ] ] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ] ] or ] ] 1 3 5 7 9 2 4 6 8 ] ] Or the PC is optimized for an other interleaving setting than the MSX is. I agree on this explanation. You can doublecheck this theory by analyzing the track with

Re: Msx Fair Tilburg

1999-04-15 Thread Stephan Szarafinski
Fony is present at the fair :-) Maybe TFH too? But he can speak for himself I guess Stephan -Original Message- From: Bart Schouten [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: woensdag 14 april 1999 11:42 Subject: Msx Fair Tilburg Yo guys, I was wondering who of

Re: Msx Fair Tilburg

1999-04-15 Thread TFH
YES ! Of course I will be there What did you think !!! I need to be there to terrorise all of you ! Greetz, TFH... Go visit the MSX Emulator Page (M.E.P.) http://www.mep.msxnet.org http://surf.to/msxemu http://www.casema.net/~tfh ICQ:1446 - Original Message - From:

Re: Speed difference between disk formatted on PC and MSX

1999-04-15 Thread Erik
well , it's not that. in the past i have done some checking on this strange behavior (when i was writing the supercop software) and MSX and PC do not use interleaving the main difference is the gap size. this is the space between 2 sectors msx gap size is bigger so the computer has more time to

Re: Speed difference between disk formatted on PC and MSX

1999-04-15 Thread Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha
Erik, when the gap size is too small (and he is on a pc formatted disk) he sometimes have to make a complete rotation for the next sector But with a small gap do I gain more disk space, don't I? If not, what is the advantage of having a small gap if, in some cases (as

Re: Speed difference between disk formatted on PC and MSX

1999-04-15 Thread Erik
I don't know why pc uses a small gap , the only reason i can think of is that the start and end gap (the area in witch the index pulse must appear) will be bigger so you can use diskdrives with a wider tolerance btw. (there is so many space on a track you can put 10 sectors on it with a very

Re: CODING Question

1999-04-15 Thread john . j
Cas Cremers schrieb: Task: approximation in assembler to - a = sqrt ( b*b + c*c ) let's call it sentence of p... [...cut...] p:= max(a,b)+0.25*min(a,b) [...cut...] Cas Cremers He - thanx a lot! Exactly what I have been searching for! greetz JJoS -- Tilburg Team: Janosch, SGI,

Re: CODING Question / just a little update

1999-04-15 Thread Cas Cremers
- a = sqrt ( b*b + c*c ) let's call it sentence of p... [...cut...] p:= max(a,b)+0.25*min(a,b) [...cut...] Erm ofcourse I meant a:=max(b,c)+0.25*min(b,c) and it ends up like this: |[ ;we want a=min and c=max... ld a,b cp c jr c,noswap ;apparently, cb, so we

Connect a 26 pin FDD to your MSX....

1999-04-15 Thread Werner Augusto Roder Kai
Hi, Today I did connect an external FDD used in laptops to my MSX2. These drives have only a 26-pin connector. Here goes the cable schematics. Somebody may put it in a MSX hardware page... pin at FDD connector (26) pin at MSX drive interface conn.(34)signal