Hi there,
Sure I'll be the first to admit I sometimes get a little overexcited, but
come on... How many on this list are commercial game developers? I've only
been for a couple of months, and yes I get excited when I get to talk to
Konami, Infogrames, SNK, Kemco etc. Maybe you've gotten used to
Hi there,
Yeah too bad the MSX-2 wasn't a bit more like the SNES or MegaDrive. Would
have been awesome to do the kind of games those machines had on MSX. Maybe
we get the chance with the new Gameboy coming from Nintendo sometime next
year. Should be a PERFECT 2D-console!
Was the Turbo-R not
Hi there,
Well here we MUST learn English, French AND German...
And don't forget latin and greek (version 1.0, not the new 2.0).
Wow dude, I wonder why schools are not same here...
Because Spanish is one of the biggest (I believe it's the 2nd or 3rd)
languages in the world, though it's a lot
This is the limit... Something has to be done about this. Giving a fake
address (at least he has the brains not to give the phone number) of
someone of this list as being a FAM address. He himself is probably too
scared and too lame to put his real name/address/phone number on this
list.
Grtz
Hi there,
be emulated. EmulSuckers (MSX Emulsuckers, Amiga Emulsuckers, etc...)
must burn in hell!
There's nothing in the bible saying anything about emulators... but then
again, the bible can be interpreted in different ways...
Johannes 4-62: Thou shall not use emulators. :-)
Grtz
Hi there,
See ya in 2 and a half weeks, I'm going on vacation!! I will go to
Spain, close to the Barcelona area I've heard. The weather seems to be
quite good, not much rain etc :-).
Grtz
Coen
BTW: I hope to meet the Spanish Inquisition. But I think I will see them
at a moment I don't expect
Hi there,
Who said anything was fair? Someone ate the last cookie, not fair,
mommy.
Cool, mentioning cookies in a discussion about browsers :-)
Serious guys, I agree, but lets stop talking about something we can't
change? Please?
Grtz
Coen
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Hi there,
(_PAUSE, _PCMPLAY, _PCMREC). but what's the difference between MSX
BASIC 4.0
and 4.1?
How about Midi Basic?
Right!!! The play#1 (was it?) extension to the Music Basic! I remember
us playing Basic songs on my MT32. Quite cool.
greetings
-+-+-+-+-+-+-
Hi there,
Every BASIC-programme with sprites and with the routine ON SPRITE
GOSUB causes some trouble. The ON SPRITE GOSUB routine is started no
matter if there is really a sprite collision or not. So I lose all my
life in these games without any chance to react in the right manner.
If I
Hi there,
It also has a wave-channel, but it has very small sample-ram, if I'm correct
(I'm not sure about this). Anyways, the samples you hear most of the time
sound crappy.
Yes! A friend of mine had a Sega Megadrive and he was playing F1 Racer
(or something like that). You could hear "Final
Hi there,
If you want to see some funny thing: look at NOS teletekst pagina 404,
if you can recieve the Dutch public TV channels.
What have the Backstreet boys have to do with MSX? *grin*
Grtz
Coen
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Hi there,
a fmpac cannot be emulated on ANY d/a convertor...
D/A yes... sorry, I typed it wrong, I was kind of tired then :-) I agree
with the above BTW, that was what I was trying to say.
But I've learned that FM is digital now, I thought it was a between form
of Digital and Analogue. Learn
Hi there,
] What I need is a turboR-emulator which runs Illusion City.
I want one that runs Zone Terra ;-)
I want one which can run Moonsoft demos :-)
Grtz
Coen
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Hi there, sorry for the off-topic-ness, but I'm desparate (a bit)
I've read that a radio station in Spain is going to broadcast the
performance of Mike Oldfield tonight on the radio (in spain). My
question is if someone can tape it for me. Any format is possible, I
have access to a lot of
Sorry, this is a followup to my previous off topic mail:
The radio station which will broadcast Mike Oldfield tonight is Corona
100 (or codona 1000 or something like that???). So if someone can get
that radiostation, please tape it for me. Thanks a lot.
Grtz
Coen
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Hi there,
M$ is bad because you can't get much information from it.
Even when your a C++ developer and using MSDN with the SDK's and DDK's. It is
still
difficult to write good programs because M$ uses much undocumented and/or
obsolete
functions between different OS's. Even the service and help
Hi there,
English names (handy, VIM can edit binaries!)
VIM is good!!! Anyone want to port it to MSX?
Grtjs, Manuel
Grtz
Coen
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Hi there,
I might be able to get some (NTSC) Sony LDP-2000P laserdiscplayers from
the USA to Europe! Is anyone interested?
Wat is de prijs?
Groeten
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Hi there,
Now you understand what "fudeba" means in all its magnitude! :)))
[remember! the fudebas will rule the world! :)]
Sounds just as vague as The Force... :-)
Does Fudeba have a dark side and a light side?
Grtz
Coen
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Hi there,
is it possible with current technologies to engeneer a handheld MSX
computer? Just for private use (hobby), not commercially.
Grtz
Coen
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Hi there,
didn't know about that... but it makes sense... the problem is that
games have
gotten too damn complicated. no more good old days, even in 2D, so
all the
friendly, nontechnical gamedesigners have left . i thought it was a
wonder
that Hideo (MetalGear) did a game for PSX!
Hi there,
--
Madonna Mark Two
"Martin Galway means to me what Elvis meant to Sigue Sigue Sputnik"
Speaking of Sigue Sigue Sputnik... I saw a press photo of the band and
one of the band members was wearing an MSX hat.
And the song "Woodpeckers from space" from the Computer Kids has an MSX1
Hi there,
Well Castlevania already had the problem of lack of ideas (this
3D-Castlevania is, well, let's guess... episode 11???).
I must say that Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (which is episode 6?)
is more close to Maze of Galious then to Vampire Killer, which is a bit
of fresh air in the
Hi there,
And again, let's return to Gradius Gaiden: no 3D, pixelation is noted
sometimes, but WHO CARES?? It is the best non-MSX game I ever saw!! A game
in which playability has priority over 3D, renders, movies, mega-SFX and
all this futile fanfarre of nowadays.
True true true!!! Look at
Hi there,
Ok.. I want to change my handle, becoz there's a
movie called Star Wars (yeah, even I know it..) And there's a guy in that
called dark fader.. And d-fader is *NOT* from that guy.. And thaz why I want
another handle..
Actually, it's Darth Vader... And tomorrow there will be an eposide
Hi there,
Konami, a large video game publisher based in Tokyo, will publish
Microsoft's games on systems such as Nintendo 64, Sony PlayStation and
the Sega Dreamcast, Dow Jones News Service reported Tuesday. Microsoft,
meanwhile, will adapt Konami titles for the personal computer. The
first
Hi there,
does anyone know (Arnaud?) the additions in fMSX 2? And will there be a
DOS version soon?
Grtz
Coen
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Hi there,
where oh where can I get a 512K mapper for my Sony HBF700D? I was
searching the Net the other day (and checking IRC) and I couldn't find
ANYTHING! Grump! Any help is much appreciated.
Grtz
Coen
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internal or external expansion?
Doesn't matter!! But internal is preferred.
Marco
Grtz
Coen
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Hey - thanx a lot!
You earned a big bottle of beer!! :)
*grin* please send it by email...
Mime type?
Grtz
Coen
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In the PC Active of May'99 (Dutch magazine from the makers of MSX
Computer Magazine) there's a 2 page article about MSX computers and
history. The header of this article is: MSX, good but forgotten. It's a
fairly good article about the system.
Grtz
Coen
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Hi there,
If sunrise is still alive, why don't I get my Bozo royalties anymore? :)
HAHAHAHAHA! lol!
There's now this Konami game called Goemon's Big Adventure, guess which
title I first thought of when I read that?
Grtz
Coen
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Hi there,
First... Diego's MegaSCSI is plugged in Diego's MSX2+.
Second... I played Fray on Diego's Computer using Diego's Megascsi and
Diego's ZIP (yes Diego is so kind...)
You even use Diego's account :-)
Grtz
Coen
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Hi there,
ask him for his bankaccount# and just transfer money.. worked for me to
BElgium Hungary, should work for France too.
But that will bring extra costs, won't it? I once transferred money to a
German bankaccount, which cost me more than NLG 15 for extra costs!
Yes, true. They ask
Hi there,
Who the fuck is Wim Elschot? His name sounds familiar but i can't recall a
face
with that name...
He gives OI-03 and says "Eh, eh, he?" too much...
Are you going to tilburg btw?
Nope, I'm in Texel at that moment.
Grtz
Coen
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I think you won't be able to complete such a list. If you look how many
games Konami released for PSX in Japan that are of totally no interest
to Europeans (for example all their tokimeki-games, games totally written
in Japanese in which you have to get a girl to become your girlfriend...).
It'll
Hi there,
8500 yen, about HFL 150,-. As I heard there is much difference between
the REAL Japanese story of Metal Gear and the translation of (probably)
Homesoft, I wanted to play the game in Japanese. But it didn't work.
What about a translation of the Japanese Metal Gear then? *grin*. ROM
Hi all,
Sorry if this is off-topic, but I think a few on this list are
interested in this.
I'm currently busy with making a list of Konami games released for PSX.
Konami uses a RC7xx-type of coding for their PSX games (VXxxx) and I
only found a handfull of these codes, since only the Japanese
Hi there,
"Laurens Holst" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
escribió/wrote/kakimashita/escreveu/écrit:
Hey people, check your shoelace!!!
(?.?)
I consider myself really a joking person, but... I can't understand this
one!!! I missed something these days?
I thought it was hilarious!! :-)
It was better than
Hi there,
No there are more but you have to cut it 'konami size' anyway
You can also use cassette tape boxes. They are of equal size and fit in
at least my Sony 700.
Grtz
Coen
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Metal Deer Solid
Hot on the heels of the successful Deer Hunter series, Hideo Kojima goes
deep in the woods to bring you the first covert deer hunting game ever
conceived. These hooved mammals aren't as innocent as they look, having
obtained a device that will launch a nuclear weapon from
Hi all,
has anyone ever came up to the idea of putting all Konami SCC musics in
one demo? Xelasoft did a great job with that and The Boss/Martos also,
but no-one has ever ripped the SCC musics of Nemesis 1, Yie Ar Kung Fu,
Twinbee, etc.. from the Konami Game Collections, has they?
Grtz
Coen
Hi there,
Please don't keep the original music - it's written for SCC+.
Where can I buy one??: /
Isn't SCC+ the same as SCC but then with channels 4 and 5 seperated in
registers? With the normal SCC you have to use the same instrument on
channel 4 and 5, which is solved at the SCC+. At
Hi there,
To see BCF in action, visit www.koert.com, where you can find some films
from Koert van Mensvoort. One which was hilarious is the one called
"Amateurs", where all 3 BCF members participate. It has been on an
exposition in Amsterdam, where it gained much acclaim...
I heard they were
Hi there,
I want to arrange the whole soundtrack maybe with some other composers. We
could make Moonsound versions of the music.
I have made a Moonblaster version of the 2nd Intro song (the one with
the guitars), maybe that helps?
Or maybe it's wise to keep the
original music. It helps to set
Hi there,
Why convert it first from pc to MSX? It is a MSX game, so we make it on MSX.
Just hack the pictures out of the game and make it a .GE5 file or something
we can usu in DD Graph or graphsaurus. That's the easiest way I think. BMP
or GIF files can't be used on MSX directely, so we cannot
Hi there,
Little advertisement:
Sargon has finished an English translation of Fire Hawk
We are now Working on Randar 2, and maybe we will translate Psycho World and
Randar 3 as well
Suggestion: what about Shalom, Knightmare 3? I was hooked on Maze of
Galious and I want to complete the
Hi there,
Could you mail me that disk please.pretty please.pretty please with
sugar on the top.pretty please with sugar,strawberries an icecream on
the top.
(ps any resemblance with monkey island is purly coincidal)
I think you can find it on one of Sean Young's (not the actress) Konami
pages.
Hi there,
That was the last time I heard anything of Oasis.
I think, I heard sone rumors about a spanish version.
Can anybody confim this?
I only have an english version of Disc 1, which has only the demo
translated. That's all I know about it. Too bad, because it's a fine
game, I think.
Hi there,
By the way, my story about FAC SoundtrackerI dare to say that the FAC is
responsible for the fact that we are still here today in this mailinglist
and in the MSX Newsgroup.
You are right about that. They not only "rediscovered" the Music Module,
but also did something else: the
Hi there,
Are people like Remco Schrijvers, Ben
den Dulk, (...) , Marco Willemsen, Andre Ligthart, etc. etc. etc.
also reading this Mailing List?!?!!?!??!??!
I occasionally send some stuff to Remco, he's not a member. And I
sometimes send some things to Dennis Lodewijks too, especially about
Hi there,
Eh, I didn't know the storyline of Dragon Slayer 6 (I still don't know by
the way), but the graphics and music did somehow not feel right.
But, you did know what you must do when you are stuck (common sticking
points).
I don't
know. I got the feeling something was terribly wrong.
Hi there,
Well, I finished Gradius gaiden (it's VERY difficult indeed) but the
end demo is very weak. Very bad drawings and effects that were also possible
on MSX.
Thanks, you spoiled it :)
You see a fortress explode, but the explosion is done just by color
changes. In what level are
Now there is really happening something in this mailinglist!!
Hmm, I'm not too pleased with it, actually. Because I am Hideo under a
pseudonym...
By the way, Hideo Kojima, I just want to say that I REALLY like your game
Metal Gear Solid...
Thank you, I must say I'm pleased with all the
Maybe an odd question but how much is 4 MB memory for the MSX nowadays?
Grtz
Coen
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Too much. Programmes don't arrive even to 512 K.
If you refer to the price, something like 85 US$ or so...
BTW, did you were a programmer for Sunrise and or Cain?
Moonsoft and Sunrise, but not a programmer, btw... I was involved with
the Sunrise Picturedisc and made songs for Moonblaster (and I
Hi there,
Xanadu (dragon slayer 7) Nec
Wasn't that Dragon Slayer 2? Dragon Slayer 7 was called Lord Monarch.
But tell me more about those PSX games Dragon Slayer 8 and 9...
grtz
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Hi there,
Have you played Metal gear 1 2 or Contra on the NES??? Terrible!!! Still a
lot of people think that's the origin of those games.
Sad eh? Metal Gear 1 and 2 are more action based (actually the NES MG2
was there before the MSX version was) and not even made by Konami, but
Ultragames.
Hi there,
No seemed to really know anything about it, and people were sending me in
the wrong direction time after time again, but... It's finally there... I
have been able to find the MSX emulator for the Playstation. It's online at:
http://www.casema.net/~tfh now !!!
Can it still only emulate
Hi there,
Speaking of publications
There was also this Martin laukner dude who sent in one of those
Moonblaster songs to Radio 538 (or was it veronica?), and it actually
got played among other 'proffessional' clubmixes.
I won an Atari ST 1040ST with my Soundtracker composition "Joep uit
Hi there,
That's true. MSX games indeed have a certain "magic". I played Dragon Slayer
6 and XAK on the SNES, but it just isn't the same. Maybe it's the music or
maybe it is the graphics. But a fact is that MSX games are best on a real
MSX. I have the same with MSX emulators. That's also not the
Hi there,
Tell me about your history.
Nice subject, this, btw.
I have some spare time, so I will now write about myself (yawn).
Despite of being born in 1974, my first encounter with a computer must
be somewhere in 1982 or '83, when my cousin had a ZX Spectrum. I really
liked Scuba Diving on
Hi there,
Yes, and therefore I'd like to see a Moonblaster version with 18 wave
channels and 6 FM channels. Just to have that great plucked and synth bass 3
back.
Great!!! I made that instrument! Synth bass 3! :) Based it on Plucked 3
and made it a lot fatter. I'm flattered.
*sigh* my sole
Hi there,
"Legend of Heroes" and "Xanadu". It is very, very, very long
since I last played "Dragon Slayer - Legend of Heroes" (MSX,
of course), but I don't remember it being called "Dragon Slayer
VI" anywhere. It shouldn't, because it is an independent series
No, Legend of Heroes was the
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