Re: GIMP

2000-11-08 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Well, he lived in Finland or Sweden. That is for sure. Although his name sounds Spanish. ALmost. He was Spanish, indeed. But I recall he lived in Norway. Yes, that could be right. I knew it was some Scandinavian country, but I totally forgot to think about Norway... (By the way, what

Re: CDR, CD-Rom with MSX question

2000-11-08 Thread Laurens Holst
Although it seems impossible to partitionize and boot from CD because of the different sector size (2048 instead of 512 bytes), I'd like to notify you guys of the possibility to create a bootable CD on the PC. Afaik a bootable CD contains a virtual floppy disk 'partition' (session) on which are

Re: CDR, CD-Rom with MSX question

2000-11-08 Thread Siebe Berveling
I think that your idea to put a fat image on your CD will not help you, since the CD-ROM drive will not recognize the data CD and therefore not pass the data on to the SCSI interface. It will simply return an error code like 'illegal CD' or 'unformatted CD' or something like that. But I'm not

Re: CDR, CD-Rom with MSX question

2000-11-08 Thread Siebe Berveling
Although it seems impossible to partitionize and boot from CD because of the different sector size (2048 instead of 512 bytes), I'd like to notify you guys of the possibility to create a bootable CD on the PC. In Nero Burning Rom 5 when one want to create a bootable cd, one can select the

Re: CDR, CD-Rom with MSX question

2000-11-08 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
On Wednesday 08 November 2000 10:54, you wrote: So that means -on a PC- DOS can read the CD as a floppy, and therefor I think it should also be possible on MSX. PC BIOSes have a special option for booting CDs. Old BIOSes cannot do it. Since MSX HD interface disk ROMs don't have such an

Test...

2000-11-08 Thread wynke
Hi, I have finally made an information page for the mailinglist and updated the signature accordingly. If there's any problems, please contact me! Wynke. - For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html

RE: Seti@home

2000-11-08 Thread Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha
As you think seti is MSX related, I'd like to point out that there is also a MSX RC5 team. Kinda like seti (cracking numbers), but different. Join our team by using the emailaddress [EMAIL PROTECTED] in your dnet config. Not a RC5 cracker yet? Read about it at http://www.msx.org/rc5.html

Another test

2000-11-08 Thread wynke
Hoping the signature is correct now... Wynke. -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html

RE: Seti@home

2000-11-08 Thread Bart Schouten
yes they do! check www.distributed.net for source. But even with that source, you won't be able to make a msx client. have you ever seen a msx handle 64 bits? greetz bart -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha

RE: Seti@home

2000-11-08 Thread Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha
Bart, yes they do! check www.distributed.net for source. Yes, they do, but the source is not complete. So, we aren't able to make a MSX client. :/ But even with that source, you won't be able to make a msx client. have you ever seen a msx handle 64 bits? It's

Re: CDR, CD-Rom with MSX question

2000-11-08 Thread Jon De Schrijder
Laurens Holst wrote: other partition (session). So that means -on a PC- DOS can read the CD as a floppy, and therefor I think it should also be possible on MSX. it is possible if the diskrom is changed in such a way that DISKIO maps sector 0,1,2 3 to CDsector 0, sector 4,5,6,7 to CDsector 1,

Re: CDR, CD-Rom with MSX question

2000-11-08 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
On Thursday 09 November 2000 02:32, you wrote: it is possible if the diskrom is changed in such a way that DISKIO maps sector 0,1,2 3 to CDsector 0, sector 4,5,6,7 to CDsector 1, ... (now DISKIO of IDEbios returns an error when reading from CDROM.) Is it possible to implement this