Re: harddisk read only?
Hello Alex ] Now didn't the Novaxis interface store information in the clock chip? ] ] I bet that causes your trouble... That might indeed be the root cause. If memory serves me well, there was one interface which allowed sharing of harddisk between multiple MSX computers. But to prevent corruptions to the fat, only one MSX was allowed to mount the harddisk in read-write mode while other MSX computers could then only mount the very same harddisk in read-only mode. Indeed When clock chip info is gone, then novaxis tries to read it, it indeed gets often id 4 Novaxis is indeed the interface you could tell with fdisk which scsi-id was able to read-write to a partition. Bert scsi-interface however was able to tell which scsi-id can read write on which partiton, any partition. More computers can write to the same partition. And it had a dos utility called rights.com to change those rights temporary and or permanent. It might be that this was indeed the novaxis interface and that the ID(s?) that can be mounted on the MSX in read-write mode is(are?) stored in the clock-chip. And as long as no value has been stored, the interface falls back to ID-6 as being the only read-write ID and all others as read-only... I beleive that depends how the bits ware fallen when turning on the msx computer. Sometimes another cartridge can overwrite this same clockchip info to save its own settings. Bert scsi-interface also does save info in the clock chip. So, it might very well be that the solution is: replace the battery for the clock-chip and set another ID with the novaxis specific software... Replacing the battery might be usefull if the problem already occurs when turning the msx computer off and on and the settings are allready gone. But then again, I might be talking complete nonsense now... Not quite :-) greetings Maico Arts MSX-NBNO -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re: Spam the mailinglist... (was: harddisk read only?)
Hello, Everybody once in a while will receive spam-mail... Some ISP are pretty good in blocking it, but many of them have filters but they don't use them. A few weeks ago I got many spam mail and contacted my ISP... The showed me how easy it was to obtain someone's email-address... Replying of spam-mail is of no use... many of the adresses where the mail was send from are no longer in use... The only thing you can try is to contact the webmaster of the server the mail was send from... Some webmaster a very helpfull and will block users who are misusing mailservers for this kind of rubbish... --[ MARI ]-- -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re: harddisk read only?
Does anybody has a way to tell what info is stored in the clock chip? I still am unable to set the default screen width to 80 colums. The problems indeed were caused by dropped out batteries after coming home from a fair. As a result of all this I also lost contents of a complete harddisk. I would like to prevent this on my other harddisks and ZIPs. Hapzee - Original Message - From: Maico Arts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 9:29 AM Subject: Re: harddisk read only? Hello Alex ] Now didn't the Novaxis interface store information in the clock chip? ] ] I bet that causes your trouble... That might indeed be the root cause. If memory serves me well, there was one interface which allowed sharing of harddisk between multiple MSX computers. But to prevent corruptions to the fat, only one MSX was allowed to mount the harddisk in read-write mode while other MSX computers could then only mount the very same harddisk in read-only mode. Indeed When clock chip info is gone, then novaxis tries to read it, it indeed gets often id 4 Novaxis is indeed the interface you could tell with fdisk which scsi-id was able to read-write to a partition. Bert scsi-interface however was able to tell which scsi-id can read write on which partiton, any partition. More computers can write to the same partition. And it had a dos utility called rights.com to change those rights temporary and or permanent. It might be that this was indeed the novaxis interface and that the ID(s?) that can be mounted on the MSX in read-write mode is(are?) stored in the clock-chip. And as long as no value has been stored, the interface falls back to ID-6 as being the only read-write ID and all others as read-only... I beleive that depends how the bits ware fallen when turning on the msx computer. Sometimes another cartridge can overwrite this same clockchip info to save its own settings. Bert scsi-interface also does save info in the clock chip. So, it might very well be that the solution is: replace the battery for the clock-chip and set another ID with the novaxis specific software... Replacing the battery might be usefull if the problem already occurs when turning the msx computer off and on and the settings are allready gone. But then again, I might be talking complete nonsense now... Not quite :-) greetings Maico Arts MSX-NBNO -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html Deze e-mail is door E-mail VirusScanner van Planet Internet gecontroleerd op virussen. Op http://www.planet.nl/evs staat een verwijzing naar de actuele lijst waar op wordt gecontroleerd. -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re: Spam the mailinglist... (was: harddisk read only?)
Maybe I can put some lite on it: Probably the problems were caused by me (deeply ashamed!) because my computer was breevly invested by that new KLEZ virus and because I am member of the list, a lot may have had that virus from me resulting in generating KLEZ invested rubish mails from them as well. Because I can send no attachments, I cannot sent a tool I got from Symantec to find and remove the virus. Please look on the sites from major Antivirus company's for this tool and scan your PC's (ofcourse you with Linux, Apple or MSX computers used for reading mail are not infected) SORRY, SORRY SORRY, Hapzee. (Hope you will not block me from the list) - Original Message - From: Laurens Holst [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 12:31 AM Subject: Spam the mailinglist... (was: harddisk read only?) I hope that the amount of daily spam that I receive does not increase due to me posting again in a (public) mailinglist, which might very well be being monitored by spam email address collectors :-( I don't think this mailinglist is too public... I doubt any spam-watchers are monitoring it (although it did receive a few spam messages recently, didn't it?), at least that's one of the reasons people usually set up mailing lists instead of a more easy-to-use newsgroup. Posting your email address on web pages, fora or newsgroups though... bad, bad idea. I'm glad I've got another email-address now. But ofcourse I can't really know for sure, because until recently I've never had a spam-free email address (which I'll try to keep that way). And then it's hard to distinguish where which spam mail came from. A nice thing to try out, if you own a domain name, is to use different email addresses for everything. So for example [EMAIL PROTECTED] for ebay auctions, [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the msx mailinglist, and [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the newsgroup (assuming you own blech.nl)... Then you can at least see who or where the spam originated from and remind yourself never to give your email address to them ever again. ~Grauw -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html Deze e-mail is door E-mail VirusScanner van Planet Internet gecontroleerd op virussen. Op http://www.planet.nl/evs staat een verwijzing naar de actuele lijst waar op wordt gecontroleerd. -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re: harddisk read only?
Hallo Hans As a result of all this I also lost contents of a complete harddisk. I would like to prevent this on my other harddisks and ZIPs. How did you do this? (harddisk losing its data) greetings Maico Arts MSX-NBNO -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
MSX2.com Update 11-05-2002
I have updated the site after a long time. -Removed some broken links. -Added a few new ones. -Fixed the broken counter;-) Work to do: -Update from the search-engine. -Placing some more new links after you send them;-) (use the submit-form on msx2.com) Greetings, Iwein van Caelenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.msx2.com -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
gfx9000 c library
Hi! I am starting to learn C, but I would like a library or some examples for the gfx9000. I have a library for it, but it`s kinda damaged, so not all functions are working. I would like to know i.e. how to set vdp(6)=65 in C instead of powerbasic. I`m also interested in c-sources for a simple cd-player, so I can start cd-audio tracks from my programs. Thanx in advance! -Dan Derpaux / www.algorythms.com -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re: converter of images for MSX from SCREEN8-TO-SCREEN12
I don't know about other people but this is definately starting to annoy me... Please stop sending the same emails to the MSX Mailinglist over and over again. If you have a question, you only need to ask it once. ~Grauw - Original Message - From: Andrea Gasparrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 1:19 PM Subject: converter of images for MSX from SCREEN8-TO-SCREEN12 Please, sended a converter to me of images for MSX from the SCREEN8 to SCREEN12 Aspect your good news, thanks for you Good bye Andrea Gasparrini from Italy -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re: harddisk read only?
Does anybody has a way to tell what info is stored in the clock chip? The info stored in the clock chip is time/date, adjust (e.g. vdp(19)/set adjust), some screen mode related stuff using set screen, like screen mode (0/1), screen width, key status (key on/off) and I believe also the color settings. Furthermore you can also set one of the following three settings: title screen color text (set title), the logon password (set password), and erm... erm... I forgot the third ^_^. Aside from that there is still a very little room left for other information, it isn't much though. Some hardware and a few games use it Actually the only hardware I know is the Novaxis, I've had a Bert interface and I wasn't aware it used that space... My previous system's battery has been empty for a long time (hence it always started in 40-column mode - I used bascom width 80 in my autoexec.bat), but I haven't had any problems with my harddisks back then (well, at least not related to the clock chip thing). I also know of some games which use it - although I don't think I can name one of those right now, I don't remember very well. I still am unable to set the default screen width to 80 colums. The problems indeed were caused by dropped out batteries after coming home from a fair. As I said above, that is also stored in the clock chip, so it's logical that setting gets erased when the clock chip's ram is cleared. I understand it is an MSX with seperate batteries? I've got an MSX 2+ (Sanyo Wavy FD) which also has that... Anyways, just, make sure the batteries are full and in place (or if you have a nonremovable internal accu - replace it), then make the settings you want in basic, for example type WIDTH 80 to select a screen width of 80, and then SET SCREEN to permanently save that setting. As a result of all this I also lost contents of a complete harddisk. I would like to prevent this on my other harddisks and ZIPs. It seems highly unlikely that you lost the contents of an entire hard disk ( or even that you lost anything at all, aside from some screen settings) because the clock chip's sram got erased. It's got fairly little to do with eachother. True, the Novaxis interface uses that sram, but although I still don't know exactly what it saves in there, it can't possible be vital information which, when corrupted, causes a harddisk failure. It won't contain information vital enough to corrupt your data either, it's too vurnerable a spot for that. Essential information is stored on the harddisk itself. A more likely cause for that harddisk to fail is because you -for example- dropped it, or that you touched it with statically charged hands (because you removed the static from your monitor), or that you tried to connect the power connector upside down, or that the harddisk's lifetime was simply worn out. All those were situations I encountered in my life as a harddisk's-worst-nightmare, but I've never seen software which *destroyed* a harddisk, and it's very very very hard (if not impossible) to do that either. ~Grauw -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re: converter of images for MSX from SCREEN8-TO-SCREEN12
On Saturday 11 May 2002 18:33, Laurens Holst wrote: I don't know about other people but this is definately starting to annoy me... Please stop sending the same emails to the MSX Mailinglist over and over again. If you have a question, you only need to ask it once. Apparently he wasn't subscribed to the list, so he never saw the answers to his questions. He is subscribed now, so this reposting should be fixed now. By the way, there is an archive of the MSX mailinglist at www.msxnet.org, very useful to look up old messages. Bye, Maarten -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re: harddisk read only?
On Saturday 11 May 2002 00:04, Alex Wulms wrote: I hope that the amount of daily spam that I receive does not increase due to me posting again in a (public) mailinglist, which might very well be being monitored by spam email address collectors :-( Note that there are no anti-spam measures on the MSX mailinglist. If you want to be safe, use a dedicated address. Some providers allow constructs like [EMAIL PROTECTED], so you can create as many e-mail addresses as you like for easy filtering, but also for tracking the origin of spam. In my opinion, spam should be fought at the source, namely the people sending it. Anti-spam measures like putting e-mail addresses in images instead of text may work against address collectors, but also make it harder for legitimate users to contact you (no more mailto: links). Client-side filtering may reduce the amount of spam in your inbox, but the bandwith used transmitting the spam is still wasted. What is really depressing is that apparently it pays to send spam. If no-one would ever buy something from a spammer, there wouldn't be so much spam being sent, often the same messages repeated many times. Bye, Maarten -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re: Spam the mailinglist... (was: harddisk read only?)
On Saturday 11 May 2002 11:41, Hans-Peter Zeedijk wrote: Maybe I can put some lite on it: Probably the problems were caused by me (deeply ashamed!) because my computer was breevly invested by that new KLEZ virus and because I am member of the list, a lot may have had that virus from me resulting in generating KLEZ invested rubish mails from them as well. Because I can send no attachments, I cannot sent a tool I got from Symantec to find and remove the virus. Please look on the sites from major Antivirus company's for this tool and scan your PC's Sending clean-up programs is a bad idea anyway, because some viruses pretend to be clean-up programs themselves. Isn't KLEZ one of those? If you want to help people scan and clean up, just post URLs to wellknown anti-virus sites offering clean-up programs. (ofcourse you with Linux, Apple or MSX computers used for reading mail are not infected) Sometimes it's an advantage to be different... :) SORRY, SORRY SORRY, Hapzee. (Hope you will not block me from the list) I think it's brave of you to confess this, which should not be punished. Ofcourse you should learn from this and be more careful next time. Things to do to avoid most infections: - Make sure you regularly install fixes for your Outlook, or start using a more secure e-mail client. Many serious security leaks have been discovered in Outlook in the past and new leaks are still found regularly. - Uninstall Windows Scripting Host. If you don't know what this is, you don't need it, but many viruses/worms do. - Do not start executable attachments in any format (exe, bat, pif, scr, vbs etc). Not even if the mail comes from someone you know or claims to be a virus cleaner. Bye, Maarten -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
Re:gfx9000 c library
adisak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/05/02 18:12:07: Hi! Hi Dan! (coz you are Dan, right?) I am starting to learn C, but I would like a library or some examples for the gfx9000. I have a library for it, but it`s kinda damaged, so not all functions are working. I would like to know i.e. how to set vdp(6)=65 in C instead of powerbasic. Try to talk with Airam Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). He was working in C libraries for GFX9000 (if memory serves me well). I`m also interested in c-sources for a simple cd-player, so I can start cd-audio tracks from my programs. I hope you'll find it, and no only for SCSI drives (you know what I meant) ;-) Regards, Saeba -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
