Re: Exclusive interview about Konami and the S.C.C.

2001-06-02 Thread Benoît Delvaux
Hello ! As webmaster of the MSX Games Box, Phil receives so much e-mails ! And so comes an interesting e-mail from a French guy who worked at Konami in the States, especially for the S.C.C. soundchip. We have send the questions by e-mail and this guy has answered by the same way. These are

RE: Exclusive interview about Konami and the S.C.C.

2001-06-02 Thread Francisco Alvarez
From: Sander Zuidema [EMAIL PROTECTED] SONY Corp. was a major obstacle in the large-scale development of the S.C.C.: too much competition and too much danger to work on a project that was staying on sand (crackers made too much damage to the MSX standard: in Europe, cracked games arrived 6

MSX mouse

2001-06-02 Thread JP Grobler
Hi I said I had schematics for pc to msx mouse. I forgot to give the url: http://homepage1.nifty.com/anikun/ JP -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html

Re: Exclusive interview about Konami and the S.C.C.

2001-06-02 Thread Collin van Ginkel
Hi, As webmaster of the MSX Games Box, Phil receives so much e-mails ! And so comes an interesting e-mail from a French guy who worked at Konami in the States, especially for the S.C.C. soundchip. We have send the questions by e-mail and this guy has answered by the same way. These are

Re: 2 mapper speed question

2001-06-02 Thread Alex Wulms
] 2. The internal mapper is (in many cases) located in a higher slot the ] external mapper is located in. When the system boots up, the first slot ] with RAM is used (except for MSX turbo R, which for some reason always ] selects the internal memory mapper). So using only the largest mapper is

Re: Exclusive interview about Konami and the S.C.C.

2001-06-02 Thread Alex Wulms
] was staying on sand (crackers made too much damage to the MSX standard: in ] Europe, cracked games arrived 6 months before the official cartridges ­ this ] killed the MSX standard in France). ] --- ] Shall we end the Martos discussion now? :) ] ] No. If the cracked version always arrived

Re: Exclusive interview about Konami and the S.C.C.

2001-06-02 Thread Benoît Delvaux
I understand.. but he says some weird things like: From 1993, Konami placed us on new projects and I came back to France to follow all this up from far. I received from time to time one or two cartridges coming from Japan as well as the already-cracked games from Spain. I continued to

Re: 2 mapper speed question

2001-06-02 Thread Ivan Latorre
Alex Wulms wrote: ] 2. The internal mapper is (in many cases) located in a higher slot the ] external mapper is located in. When the system boots up, the first slot ] with RAM is used (except for MSX turbo R, which for some reason always ] selects the internal memory mapper). So using only

Re: MSX mouse

2001-06-02 Thread Takamichi Suzukawa
I said I had schematics for pc to msx mouse. I forgot to give the url: http://homepage1.nifty.com/anikun/ One of the instructions says that I should refer to http://anikun.hoops.ne.jp/page3.htm , so I visited. Quick look told me the hardware that Anikun is explaining, including the PS/2 - FM

MEP ROM section

2001-06-02 Thread Albert Beevendorp
Hi all, When Arnaud quit the MSX Emulation Page, I have taken over the system rom section. It became accessible immediately. Now it's always accessible at http://meproms.cjb.net/ GreeTz, BiFi Visit my Home Page at www.bifi.msxnet.org mail me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FTP: ftp.bifi.msxnet.org

Re: Exclusive interview about Konami and the S.C.C.

2001-06-02 Thread Daniel Jorge Caetano
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001 07:00:08 +0200, Sander Zuidema wrote: This is a chicken-or-the-egg discussion we had many times. Are there no games because of the copying or is there copying because there are no games? I think at least a little of both. Brazilian MSX users could have united and contact

OFF - Backward compatability

2001-06-02 Thread Daniel Jorge Caetano
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001 14:47:40 +0200, Benoît Delvaux wrote: The MSX compatibility is a real compatibility : if the programmers have produced a game or an application that respects the MSX Book rules, a MSX 1 game or application work without any problem on a MSX 2, MSX 2 + or MSX TURBO-R It's not

RE: MSX mouse

2001-06-02 Thread Hans Otten
The schematics are clear and easy to build with lowcost. And programming the PIC chip is quite easy, it takes only a PC with a serial port and some simple components and freeware software. But to build the device the PIC programming source is required and I cannot find that on this apge.

Re: MSX mouse

2001-06-02 Thread JP Grobler
Hi The source a .hex file is in the .lzh archives Serial mouse: p9bm2tmc.lzh Ps2 mouse:ps2m2tmc.lzh I have both and have translated the readme files in them to english via altavista. Mail me if you want them. I can also mail just the binary etc. JP [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2 Jun 2001 17:24:26