Re: WBASS2 manual
Hi Wilbert, Great that you have made the manual, the assembler itself and the sources available on your homepage! Thanks! - Original Message - From: Wilbert Berendsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 19:55 Subject: Re: WBASS2 manual Jul 14 at 5:27am, Patriek Lesparre said: Wilbert, I just want to give you credit for your fabulous assembler. I think it meant A LOT to the MSX-scene, even as it currently is(how would it now be without WBAss??? I wonder). The integration with Basic and the onboard editor, disassebler and monitor made it a perfect assembler to learn assembly with! I second that. It were exactly those features that made it fun to program assembly. If not for WBASS2 I would probably never have learned anything beyond BASIC. Thank you, guys. Yes, I exactly wrote WBASS2 for this purpose: Easy calling from Basic, reading the ROM routines, etc. And it was a great project and fun to do ;) It is really very nice to hear such nice comments, 12 years afterwards! Thanks again! -- Wilbert Berendsen http://www.xs4all.nl/~wbsoft/ -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Harddisk Novaxis
I am trying a different harddisk on my Turbo R with Gouda (Novaxis) SCSI controller. The controller comes with following data: Novaxis MSX2/Turbo-R SCSI BIOS Version 1.51 (c) 1994-1995 KMcs / MSX Club Gouda Written by Jurgen Kramer july 3th 1995- Hardware by H.G. 1993. Version 1.1 Host ID : 6 , Target ID : 0 ID #0 - IBM DPES-31080 Revision 531Q 3 ID #5 - IOMEGA ZIP 100 Revision N*32 N I have 2 problems: 1st: If I boot I can't get to the ZIP drive. The disk in it I can use on my other MSX with MK SCSI cartridge, so it containes partioning and data. 2nd: I want to partition the harddisk with as less partitions as possible. I though the 32Mb boundary was broken with Novaxis, but when using NFDISK it reports the harddisk as follow: NFDISK V1.0 by RMt AMs (c) 5-1995 MSX Club Gouda ID Vendor Productname 0 IBM DPES-31080 5 IOMEGA ZIP 100 When choosing the IBM harddisk it shows Total Capacity: :34.248, but I think it means 1.034.248 because it is a 1Gb harddisk. If I want to add partitions, I can't get them bigger then 31.999 kbytes for the first partition and 31.998 for the next partitions. It doesn't matter what I choose in the partition type selector, e.g.: Extended, (old) PC, (old) MSX or MAK 3.0 Can someone explain this? Greetings, Hans-Peter (hapzee) Zeedijk -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re: Harddisk Novaxis
Hi Hans-Peter! The 32Mb size limit is afaik only broken in Mega-SCSI and IDE. I know of 16 bit fat support for these too. Hans www.geocities.com/msxhans irc, undernet #msx -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re: Harddisk Novaxis
hapzee wrote: I have 2 problems: 1st: If I boot I can't get to the ZIP drive. The disk in it I can use on my other MSX with MK SCSI cartridge, so it containes partioning and data. Whether or not you can see the ZIP depends basically on 3 things: 1. You must have the 'Multiple disks' option switched on in the Novaxis setup. 2. The Harddisk has to contain less than 6 partitions. Otherwise there's no drive letter available for the ZIP (*). This problem can be overcome by using a partition selection program, which enables you to assign drive letters to partitions. It's available on ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/msx somewhere. The name is MAP.COM (Warning: there's also a MAP which disables memory management in DOS2 so you can run DOS1 programs in DOS2) 3. The partitioning scheme on the ZIP has to be compatible with that of the Novaxis. 2nd: I want to partition the harddisk with as less partitions as possible. I though the 32Mb boundary was broken with Novaxis, Nope. It has to do with the FAT12 filesystem, and is not related to the SCSI interface. Only MegaSCSI and the IDE i/f provide support for FAT16 at the moment and thereby also offer partitions larger than 32 MB. Eric -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Second episode of HPP
The second episode of HPP is online now. Also bugfixes in the software section. Hans http://www.msxhans.msx2.com/ irc, undernet, #msx -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re: Harddisk Novaxis
- Original Message - From: Eric Boon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 2:29 PM Subject: Re: Harddisk Novaxis hapzee wrote: I have 2 problems: 1st: If I boot I can't get to the ZIP drive. The disk in it I can use on my other MSX with MK SCSI cartridge, so it containes partioning and data. Whether or not you can see the ZIP depends basically on 3 things: 1. You must have the 'Multiple disks' option switched on in the Novaxis setup. 2. The Harddisk has to contain less than 6 partitions. Otherwise there's no drive letter available for the ZIP (*). This problem can be overcome by using a partition selection program, which enables you to assign drive letters to partitions. It's available on ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/msx somewhere. The name is MAP.COM (Warning: there's also a MAP which disables memory management in DOS2 so you can run DOS1 programs in DOS2) 3. The partitioning scheme on the ZIP has to be compatible with that of the Novaxis. 2nd: I want to partition the harddisk with as less partitions as possible. I though the 32Mb boundary was broken with Novaxis, Nope. It has to do with the FAT12 filesystem, and is not related to the SCSI interface. Only MegaSCSI and the IDE i/f provide support for FAT16 at the moment and thereby also offer partitions larger than 32 MB. There is another problem. With this fdisk version you can make 15 partitions maximum. When using version 1.2 you can make 32 partitions and thus use a 1gb harddisk at full capacity. Then you also have to use the right map.com. The one which is able to use this partition table. I recently uploaded this fdisk and map.com to funet. The map.com is also used to connect to a harddisk which you cannot see. It is not 100% nessisary (- is this correct?) to set multiple harddisk to on. When using map.com it needs 3 expressions. the first is the drive letter, that is the letter only. second it needs the scsi-id of the harddisk and third ofcourse the number of the partition. counting from 1. As you have to tell the scsi-id, you can connect to a zip-drive that way. Watch out to switch the A: drive! This is the drive where de computer has booted from abnd thus must contain the command2.com When you switch A: partition, then the new partition must also have the command2.com at the same location on this partition, the root of A: It is not possible to boot from a zipdrive with this eprom in your interface. You must have at least version 1.59. BTW: even when using 7 harddisks, you will never see more than 6 drives connected to the novaxisinterface. If multiple harddisk is set to on you will see the first 6 partitions the novaxis has detected. When multiple harddisks is set to off then the novaxis will connect up to 6 drive letters, depeding on how many partitions are created on the harddisk from which is set as target-id. greetings Maico Arts -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re: Illusion City for sale
I finished it. It is a very nice game indeed. Too bad that I still do not understand that much of the story line. If memory serves me well, an English translation of the story line has once been published. Does anybody know if my mind is playing tricks on me? Or can I find it somewhere on the internet? Thanks and kind regards, Alex Wulms ] I once managed to play until disk 4 or 5... ] The game has some very nice demo-sequences ;) ] ] Sander (the other Sander) ] ] Webmaster Tender Trading - http://www.tender-trading.nl/ ] Webmaster Stad- http://www.stad-muziek.nl/ ] Webmaster benjamin B. - http://www.benjaminb.demon.nl/ ] Webmaster MSX resource center - http://www.msx.org/ ] ] - Original Message - ] From: Sander van Nunen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Wednesday, 18 July, 2001 23:26 ] Subject: Re: Illusion City for sale ] ] ] Is it playable? I got stuck in the first room ;-( ] - Original Message - ] From: ag0ny [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 10:51 PM ] Subject: Illusion City for sale ] ] ] Hi, ] ] I'm selling Illusion City on iBazar: ] ] http://www.ibazar.es/voirobjet.cgi?codeobjet%3dKC864813LG914447 ] ] Regards, ] ] -- ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.aamsx.org ] ] -- ] For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html ] ] -- ] For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html ] ] -- ] For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html -- Visit The MSX Plaza (http://www.inter.nl.net/users/A.P.Wulms) for info on XelaSoft, Merlasoft, Quadrivium, SD-Snatcher on fMSX, the MSX Hardware list, XSA Disk images, documentation, Japanese MSX news from Ikeda and lots more. -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re: Illusion City for sale
Alex Wulms wrote: I finished it. It is a very nice game indeed. Too bad that I still do not understand that much of the story line. If memory serves me well, an English translation of the story line has once been published. Does anybody know if my mind is playing tricks on me? Or can I find it somewhere on the internet? I have it (149 kbytes TXT file), although I don't remember where I found it... Also, in Takamichi's pages, you can find the translation of the opening messages: http://www.msxnet.org/gtinter/freeware/iltrans.zip Greets -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Just some funny information...
About www.yahoo.com: The main name server is ns0.corp.yahoo.com, whose IP is 216.145.48.8. The mail exchange server is nomail.yahoo.com, whose IP is 216.145.48.35. The server is a PC computer with BSD. The e-mail of the responsible person is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo general phone is: +1 408 349 3300. Yahoo US postal address is: 701 1st Ave, Sunnyvale CA 94089. Oh, and by the way, this info has been obtained with NestorResolver 0.1. Interested? Then http://www.geocities.com/konamiman.geo/ins-b1.bin (it is actually a .LZH file). *** XX BARCELONA MSX USERS MEETING: DECEMBER 8TH, 2001 *** -- Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)v Itsumo MSX user [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.konamiman.com Kyoko Koizumi home page (under construction): http://www.geocities.com/tamachan1976/index.html -- -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
