Yamaha FM Synthesizer chips...

1999-02-10 Thread G.S. Vigneault
Greetings NYYRIKKI, NY I was looking information about Yamaha FM-Sound Synthetsizer Unit II (SFG-05) that was included also to Yamaha CX5M MSX My Yamaha CX5M was given to me, years ago, by a friend who worked in the service department of a music store. But, it doesn't have the FM

Re: Yamaha FM Synthesizer chips...

1999-02-10 Thread G.S. Vigneault
NY "Greg_" ??? You !?!? Aha... I guess you couldn't see through my clever disguise, as a Spectravideo SV-328 user! g NYAARGH Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Now I expect to get an "honorable mention" in your autobiography, when you become rich and famous.

Another memory problem?

1999-02-10 Thread G.S. Vigneault
Greetings Erik Maas, EMH What was the subject that resulted into these Flash memory topics??? Hmmm... maybe you could use a little nonvolatile memory yourself! ;) Here's a refresher, of the note that I replied to... On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, MetalGear wrote: De : Gabriel D. [EMAIL

New Flash Complex Algorithms

1999-02-10 Thread G.S. Vigneault
Greetings Erik Maas, EMAs far as I know a write action does not set bit's from '0' to '1'. If this is the way I think it is ..., it is not RAM. My remark "New Flash == Slow RAM" isn't about internal technology, but only to suggest that Flash can be as easy to use as SRAM for

JoyNet to PC joystick

1999-02-10 Thread G.S. Vigneault
Greetings, I've seen questions here about connecting JoyNet to a PC, maybe via the PC joystick port. For lots of technical information about the PC joystick, such as how to connect various circuits and devices to it, look at...

Incomplete ATA.PS ?

1999-02-10 Thread G.S. Vigneault
Egor Voznessenski wrote: The file is being uploaded (ATAROM.ZIP) But the most fresh copies of my software are ofcourse on my server: http://cisip.sonnet.ru/MSX I've tried to view and print ATA.PS using Ghostview, but the sheet seems to be incomplete. Does anyone else have a problem with that

JoyNet: PC interface

1999-02-10 Thread G.S. Vigneault
Greetings Alex Wulms, AWAny PC experts on this list to dream-up the PC-Joynet cable? So, something from parellel port to 2times din5 (one send, one receive). I've done some i/o interface projects with the PC, for both the Standard Parallel Port (SPP) and Extended Parallel Port (EPP)

Re: New version of FAT16

1999-02-10 Thread G.S. Vigneault
When I tried to download your FAT16 file, I got a "Server Error." Cheers, Greg_ http://www.netcom.ca/~telic 1998.Nov.27, Toronto, Canada Manuel Pazos wrote: Hi, I uploaded a new version of FAT16 to my homepage. This version is more stable than former one and now you can also

Re: FAT16 File: Server Error

1999-02-10 Thread G.S. Vigneault
Thank you -- that worked. Greg_ Manuel Pazos wrote: Hi Manuel, I'm still getting a "Server Error" when I try to download your FAT16 file. Greg_ Hi, I don`t know what happend (!?) I will upload it again, but uncompressed. Manuel MSX Mailinglist. To

FAT16 File: Server Error

1999-02-10 Thread G.S. Vigneault
Manuel Pazos wrote: Manuel --- Manuel Pazos Member of boh.ken http://personales.mundivia.es/mpazos --- Hi Manuel, I'm still getting a "Server Error" when I try to

JoyNet Specification

1999-02-10 Thread G.S. Vigneault
Greetings, Where may I see the complete "JoyNet Standard" hardware and software specifications? Greg_ http://www.netcom.ca/~telic 1998.Oct.12, Toronto, Canada. MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe

Re: Ramfile expansion?

1999-02-09 Thread G.S. Vigneault
SVI-728 has only one cartridge slot. So, how might you expand your SVI-728 ? Greg_ http://www.netcom.ca/~telic 98.Sept.14, Toronto, Canada. MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]"

MSX BDOS and CP/M...

1999-02-09 Thread G.S. Vigneault
Greetings, ~Grauw... MHGVCPM MSX1 00h - Program terminate CPM MSX1* 01h - Console input CPM MSX1* 02h - Console output What do those asterisks ('*') indicate? LH Those are non-CP/M-compatible MSX-DOS Bdos-calls. No, that can't be it: CP/M has functions 01H (Read

SVI MSX Projects...

1999-02-09 Thread G.S. Vigneault
Hello JH, GVI've made an EPP (Enhanced Parallel Port) interface to link the SV with my PC, to use some of my Z-80 development tools JHIt would be nice if you could put these designs/schematics online, maybe on your homepage or something? Adapting them to "standard" MSX cant be hard,

EPP for MSX...

1999-02-09 Thread G.S. Vigneault
Hello Ricardo, GVI've made an EPP (Enhanced Parallel Port) interface to link the SV with my PC, RJ Greg, you've done a EPP interface 4 your MSX, isn't it? Excuse my ignorance, but it works like a EPP in a PC? I'm asking it to you 'cause it's a very interesting project. Here in Brazil

Re: NOVATEC Group Schematic Archive open!

1999-02-09 Thread G.S. Vigneault
Hello Egor... I and Max Vlassov decided to make all our hardware projects free and available to anyone. Visit our website, http://novatec.da.ru, and look at the "projects" section. The ATASCH.ZIP and ATASOL.ZIP files have PKZIP errors. Maybe you could make new copies of these? What text

Revealing the SpectraVideo SV-318/328 Cartridge Slot: The Hardware...

1999-02-09 Thread G.S. Vigneault
Attention Spectravideo SV-318/328 users: If you found the Cartridge Slot information useful, check Tomas Karlsson's Unofficial SpectraVideo Web Page, at http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-16418, for an expanded corrected re-write. You'll know that Tomas has the put new version on-line if it

PC--turbo-R EPP

1999-02-09 Thread G.S. Vigneault
Hello Maarten, GVI'll eventually port the [EPP] circuit and code to my MSX Yamaha MH Please do! My turbo R is too small to hold an internal harddisk. If I could connect it to my PC and make the PC a fileserver, it would be just like having a (somewhat slower?) harddisk in the turbo R.

Z-380 Assembler Available!

1999-02-09 Thread G.S. Vigneault
PLDo you know the Z380 has 89(!!!) 8-bit registers? I kinda feel like programming an assembler for it, You don't need to write one, nor purchase one of the [very few] commercial versions: I've done the work required to make a Zilog Z-380 Assembler available as a free download to anyone

Flash and EEPROM

1999-02-09 Thread G.S. Vigneault
Greetings Jon De Schrijder, JDFLASH memory must be erased/rewritten by writing a (complex) byte sequence to certain memory locations. So you can't use it as RAM. That isn't correct. Flash and EEPROM are written directly, just as any RAM. Some Flash parts require writing a 64-byte block,

Mnemonics...

1999-02-09 Thread G.S. Vigneault
Greetings Patriek Lesparre, PLNo, there must be some deeper meaning to the mnemonics-style. Otherwise all processors would use the same style mnemonics, wouldn't they?! Some of it is just semantics. For example, what Zilog says is a "jump", Motorola says is a "branch"; Motorola says

New Flash == Slow RAM

1999-02-09 Thread G.S. Vigneault
Greetings Erik Maas... EMBefore you can write a byte into Flash memory, you have to write a special byte sequence to different addresses. That's true for the older style of Flash, such as made by Catalyst. Atmel Flash chips don't require a special byte sequence to write data into them

Zilog registers

1999-02-09 Thread G.S. Vigneault
Greetings Patriek Lesparre, PLDo you know the Z380 has 89(!!!) 8-bit registers? Or if you need 16 or 32 bit registers, there are 40(!!) Zilog has a reputation for being generous with registers. The Z8 MCU has 144 registers, and the Super8 MCU has 325. Greg_

Nice touch, Zilog!

1999-02-09 Thread G.S. Vigneault
Not only does Zilog make nice microprocessors, they're also a great group of people... A few days after e-mailing Zilog my Z-380 TASM implementation files, I got an e-mail from their Customer Service, asking for my address. Today I got a package via FedEx: I now have a very attractive Zilog

Ramfile memory expansion...

1999-02-09 Thread G.S. Vigneault
Greetings Jimmy Hoffa, JHI have something called a "Ramfile" made by a company named "Tecall". It has 16 kb batterybackuped RAM, and my question is if its possible to expand ram on it? Its very useful, since it allows the usage of files similar to autoexec.bas and so. The two memory