Re: Meridian help wanted
At 07:28 26-9-00 -0700, you wrote: [...] - Somebody out there with a MSX mouse which he/she wants to sell ? I'm sure Anne de Raad will help you solve some of the problems. Well now *that* is a useful reply... :) :) Please leave the original intact okay? Oh I am sorry I will next time. Accept my humble apologies. Should I also quote the entire message-header and the signature next time??? Thanks for your reply. :) once again... ~Grauw -- email me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or ICQ: 10196372 visit my homepage at http://grauw.blehq.org/ Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/
Re: IDE answers
by the IDE hardware: ALL IDE harddisk types can be connected. (1MB, 10GB, 40GB, 123GB, ...) by the IDE software: current bios 2.01 'only' support reading/writing of sectors in the first 8 GB range of the device. So if you're using a 10 GB harddisk, the last 2GB can't be accessed. The IDEFDISK software which you need to generate partitions, will automatically limit your partitions to the 8GB boundary. Jon, I have a question. The new BIOS v2.0 isn't compatible with the old one already because of the added 24-bit sector access. So most direct-interface-access programs already don't work. Why didn't you increase the size of the drive info block at the same time??? Now all direct-access software has to be adapted for version 2.0, and once again for version 3.0... It would be easier to do this in one go I think... ~Grauw -- email me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or ICQ: 10196372 visit my homepage at http://grauw.blehq.org/ Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/
Re: Sunrise RS232C question
On Fri, 06 Oct 2000, you wrote: What is the ports used by the RS232C interface and What is the functions of each port? (Or what chip is inside in the cartridge?) Port #80 and a few above. The chip is Exar ST16C550, a 16550 UART (the common PC serial chip, like Albert said). If you want the data sheet (466K PDF), look on the manufacturer's web page or ask me by e-mail. That's correct. However, if you want to write a program for it, I recommend to use the Erix Fossil-driver. It's fast and well-documented, and it works with most interfaces. It also works from Pascal. ~Grauw -- email me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or ICQ: 10196372 visit my homepage at http://grauw.blehq.org/ Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/
Pioneer PX-7 and LD
Hello I was wondering which Laser Disc video players you can connect to a PX-7. Only LD-700? Is very difficult to find MSX LD software? Greets Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/
Re: Pioneer PX-7 and LD
Hi Ivan, I was wondering which Laser Disc video players you can connect to a PX-7. Only LD-700? According to manual you can connect also Pioneer LD-1100. But I haven't seen any LD-1100 players with the needed control jack. Besides, LD-700 is _lot_ better and reliable than LD-1100... You can get LD-700 players from USA, they're cheap there, but shipping is expensive... If you order any players from USA remember to say that sender TURNS the shipping screw to LOCKED position! I got my player unlocked and it was in terrible condition, I had to fix it 2 days before it runned again... Is very difficult to find MSX LD software? Yes, with good luck and connections to Japan you may find disks, but they're rare also there. And unfortunately they're also expensive, price varies from 80-120 USD per disk + shipping costs. I have seen them for sale only once during 1 year in the www.yahoo.co.jp. Greetings: Saku Taipale, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS. If someone knows where to get disks, I'm very interested in buying them :-). I have also complete and running Pioneer PX-7 + LD-700 system... Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/
Re: IDE answers
The new BIOS v2.0 isn't compatible with the old one already because of the added 24-bit sector access. So most direct-interface-access programs already don't work. Which program will not work? Gretz Peter Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/
Re: Pioneer PX-7 and LD
Saku Taipale wrote: Hi Ivan, I was wondering which Laser Disc video players you can connect to a PX-7. Only LD-700? According to manual you can connect also Pioneer LD-1100. But I haven't seen any LD-1100 players with the needed control jack. Besides, LD-700 is _lot_ better and reliable than LD-1100... You can get LD-700 players from USA, they're cheap there, but shipping is expensive... If you order any players from USA remember to say that sender TURNS the shipping screw to LOCKED position! I got my player unlocked and it was in terrible condition, I had to fix it 2 days before it runned again... If you know how to repair a LD-700: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=463442936 4 broken LD-700 players for $36. Is very difficult to find MSX LD software? Yes, with good luck and connections to Japan you may find disks, but they're rare also there. And unfortunately they're also expensive, price varies from 80-120 USD per disk + shipping costs. A lot of money... I have seen them for sale only once during 1 year in the www.yahoo.co.jp. At http://auctions.yahoo.co.jp I also saw a complete PX-7+LD-8200D (so this LD model also works with PX-7)+2 MSX laser discs auctioned. Japanese people were paying a lot of money for this complete system (I have the pics of the auction). It seems that JVC-Victor also designed a LD MSX system: http://members.nbci.com/toragiku/kopa/hc90.htm http://members.nbci.com/toragiku/kopa/hc90_2.jpg http://members.nbci.com/toragiku/kopa/hc90_3.jpg http://members.nbci.com/toragiku/kopa/hc90_4.jpg http://members.nbci.com/toragiku/kopa/hc90_5.jpg http://members.nbci.com/toragiku/kopa/hc90_6.jpg (you can see clearly MSX and MSX2 logo) The above links work (try and try to load the links again if you get error messages). Greets Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/
Re: Pioneer PX-7 and LD
If you know how to repair a LD-700: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=463442936 4 broken LD-700 players for $36. Quite cheap price, but shipping costs are too high... You can get working LD-700 for 25-40 USD. price varies from 80-120 USD per disk + shipping costs. A lot of money... Yes, but truth is that these disks are rare and seems that they're quite wanted items too. I have seen them for sale only once during 1 year in the www.yahoo.co.jp. At http://auctions.yahoo.co.jp I also saw a complete PX-7+LD-8200D (so this LD model also works with PX-7)+2 MSX laser discs auctioned. Japanese people were paying a lot of money for this complete system (I have the pics of the auction). Ah, yes, I forgot this auction. I saw it too :-). If youwant play MSX Laserdisks it would be better to buy PX-7 from Japan, because you will need NTSC model. Other possibility is using needed converters for getting PAL videosignal from NTSC LD-player. All disks I know are NTSC. It seems that JVC-Victor also designed a LD MSX system: http://members.nbci.com/toragiku/kopa/hc90_6.jpg (you can see clearly MSX and MSX2 logo) The above links work (try and try to load the links again if you get error messages). This was interesting :) You can also use Sony HB-G900xx computers with LD-player (for example LDP-1550). It does have the P-Basic and RS-232 for controlling the player. Iwein van Caelenberg does have both Sony MSX2 and LDP-1550. Greetings: Saku Taipale, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/
Re: Pioneer PX-7 and LD
Saku Taipale wrote: If you know how to repair a LD-700: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=463442936 4 broken LD-700 players for $36. Quite cheap price, but shipping costs are too high... You can get working LD-700 for 25-40 USD. price varies from 80-120 USD per disk + shipping costs. A lot of money... Yes, but truth is that these disks are rare and seems that they're quite wanted items too. I have seen them for sale only once during 1 year in the www.yahoo.co.jp. At http://auctions.yahoo.co.jp I also saw a complete PX-7+LD-8200D (so this LD model also works with PX-7)+2 MSX laser discs auctioned. Japanese people were paying a lot of money for this complete system (I have the pics of the auction). Ah, yes, I forgot this auction. I saw it too :-). If youwant play MSX Laserdisks it would be better to buy PX-7 from Japan, because you will need NTSC model. Other possibility is using needed converters for getting PAL videosignal from NTSC LD-player. All disks I know are NTSC. Hummm. I was interested in a Australian PX-7. It seems that there they use PAL system ... Greets Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/
Re: Pioneer PX-7 and LD
Ah, yes, I forgot this auction. I saw it too :-). If youwant play MSX Laserdisks it would be better to buy PX-7 from Japan, because you will need NTSC model. Other possibility is using needed converters Hummm. I was interested in a Australian PX-7. It seems that there they use PAL system ... Problem is not a computer itself, "problem" is a LD-disk. As far as I know all MSX Laserdisk software is NTSC stuff. When you're playing NTSC disk you need NTSC player. And if you want play MSX LD with PX-7 you need to superimpose the picture with PX-7. Now you see what is the problem when your video signal from LD-player is NTSC and you try to digitize it with PAL computer... result is something unwanted in the screen. It's not either cheap to buy needed converters for NTSC - PAL conversion. For example good quality NTSC - RGB converter is worth of 80-200 USD and RGB - PAL converter you can get from Sunrise for 55 Euro. Greetings: Saku Taipale, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/
LPE Z380 now for sale in Holland!
Hello all,MSX-Info Blad from Holland decided to start selling Leonardo Padial'shardware in Holland and Belgium. Because of the possibility of orderinglarger quantities it is possible to sell Padial's hardware with a lot ofdiscount. For instance if we manage to sell more than 10 LPE Z380 cartridgesor Evolucion4 slotexpanders then it is possible to receive 20% discount!Besides that it is possible to make some slight alterations to Padial'sdesigns to the wishes of the customer, like for instance the placement oftwo XTALs (14 and 18 MHz), to make use of the full advantages of this 32 bitupgrade.So every serious programmer who wants to write software for the LPE Z380cartridge can contact us for receiving this card for about F 400,- includingpostage costs. You can contact us at the following adresses:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]Order now and boost your MSX with Z380!Gerrit van den BergMSX-Info Blad
Re: IDE answers
The new BIOS v2.0 isn't compatible with the old one already because of the added 24-bit sector access. So most direct-interface-access programs already don't work. Which program will not work? I don't know exactly. The programs which directly access the IDE-BIOS (v2.0) without clearing the C register... I think EVAIDE does it. But anyway, there are hardly other programs which directly access the IDE-BIOS so I think it's best to make the update to 3.0 a.s.a.p. before other programs are going to use direct access. Best is to update it even before EVAIDE is adapted, so that that one doesn't need to be adapted a second time. By the way, IF you (Jon) are going to update the IDE disk variable area, best do it good. It won't be compatible anyway, so I think it's a good idea to use OFFSET +4 +5 +6 +7 (for example) for the 32-bit disk size instead of OFFSET +4 +5 and +8 +9... ~Grauw -- email me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or ICQ: 10196372 visit my homepage at http://grauw.blehq.org/ Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/
MSX-faq
Hello, I was looking for some info on how to change my emailaddress with msx@stack and noticed that the section about the mailinglist in the faq is a bit out of date. The link MSX MAILINGLIST INFO is dead, probably because Wiebe no longer maintains the list. Maybe someone can correct this. Greetings Richard PS can somone tell my how to change my address? Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/
Re: IDE answers
Am 12 Oct 2000 21:07:30 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Laurens Holst) schrieb: The new BIOS v2.0 isn't compatible with the old one already because of the added 24-bit sector access. So most direct-interface-access programs already don't work. Which program will not work? I don't know exactly. The programs which directly access the IDE-BIOS (v2.0) without clearing the C register... I think EVAIDE does it. Sorry, but EVAIDE works with the new Biow Gretz Peter Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/
Re: MSX-faq
Em qui, 12 out 2000, Richard Gerrits escreveu: I was looking for some info on how to change my emailaddress with msx@stack and noticed that the section about the mailinglist in the faq is a bit out of date. The link MSX MAILINGLIST INFO is dead, probably because Wiebe no longer maintains the list. Maybe someone can correct this. Greetings Richard PS can somone tell my how to change my address? mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the body of the message: unsubscribe msx [old email] subscribe msx [new email] ByE! -- Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro - M. Sc. Numerical Modelling - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 3635907 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Anime, ABU, MSX, Linux, Gospel, ST, Rock, Math Sola Scriptura - Sola Gratia - Sola Fide - Solo Christi - Soli Deo Gloria With a modem, I can take on the world! Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/
Re: MSX-faq
On Friday 13 October 2000 02:41, you wrote: I was looking for some info on how to change my emailaddress with msx@stack and noticed that the section about the mailinglist in the faq is a bit out of date. The link MSX MAILINGLIST INFO is dead, probably because Wiebe no longer maintains the list. The link works just fine for me. But you're right: we should make an updated web page. Bye, Maarten Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/
