Re: Finland ?

1999-02-20 Thread Kari Lammassaari
>Do you know if there are people from Finland subscribed to the mailing list ? Yes, several, but I let them to announce themselves. Why You need this information ? I am Kari Lammassaari - ACADEMY - MSX'er from 1985 :-) - Turbo Pascal inc's foe everyone (Now my work for Manu

Re: Cd-rom

1999-02-10 Thread Kari Lammassaari
Hello Maurizio, I would be glad to receive the source of this driver :-) Sincerely Kari Lammassaari (Academy) >I don't know if this can be usefull for someone, but i have a cd-rom driver >that works with any kind of cd-rom. > >I've tested it with a lot of different cd-

Re: Gen 80

1999-02-10 Thread Kari Lammassaari
At 10:42 1.4.1998 +0100, you wrote: > > > >Hi everybody =) > >Does anybody have a documentation >for GEN 80 ?? > >If yes - it would be great if somebody would mail >it to me... > Yes, I have it. I'll check, that can it be scanned to a text file. The HSH-manual is rathes short, but adequate. Si

Re: More questions...

1999-02-10 Thread Kari Lammassaari
>ii) In BASIC, I can use the function TIME to make a chronometer: >2000 TIME=0 >... >2200 ? TIME(1) >How I do this in Pascal? If You have clock chip in your MSX, use my Get/SetTime.inc (ftp.funet.fi or homepage of Manuel Bilderbeek If there is no clock chip define SYSTEM variable

Re: MSX Faq + SME

1999-02-10 Thread Kari Lammassaari
8? I also have such a machine now! But not a cable for power supply >though... > According to SVI 728 tecnical and repair manual by Kimba Lau 1985 Pins 1 and 2 AC 16 V Pins 3 and 4 AC 9 V (goes to 4 diode bridge) Sincerely Kari Lammassaari MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscri

Re: MSX PC local network

1999-02-10 Thread Kari Lammassaari
The Music Module midi section is based on 68B50 - chip, which is cheap. (You need ofcourse I/O-decoding, an optoisolator + clock circuit for the sync chip, but they also are cheap :-) Sincerely Kari Lammassaari Btw. The transfer rate is 31,25 Kbaud ! Joystick connection is much easier and

Have I been removed from MSX mailinlist ?

1999-02-10 Thread Kari Lammassaari
havent received this message or any other messages ever since. Harri, Nyyrikki, Manuel or any other friend there : Send me a personal mail if you receive this via msx milinglist ! Sincerely Kari Lammassaari MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body

Re: Repost: Help! Need softools-c

1999-02-10 Thread Kari Lammassaari
vices... I agree :-) > >>A good advice is to look at a CP/M ftp site. They might have PC to Z80 cross >>compilers as those compilers are usefull to the CP/M community as well. Sincerely Kari Lammassaari MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New Turbo Pascal inc's

1999-02-10 Thread Kari Lammassaari
assing bug fixed in CallMapperPage - routine. Sincerely Kari Lammassaari 16.Nov. 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the

Re: SCSI as a MSX link ?

1999-02-10 Thread Kari Lammassaari
ge of the bus lines) Sincerely Kari Lammassaari PS. I have noticed several times, that if SCSI-bus is not linear (ie. looks like letter Y, you must terminate each end of the SCSI-bus. Actually I an just now using this Y-shaped (plopably illegal) SCSI-bus. SCSI-bus shoulb be daisy chained and l

Connecting MSX and PC (solved)

1999-02-10 Thread Kari Lammassaari
As I promised , here is a working solution for connecting MSX and PC ! Try this Turbo Pascal code . 4 bits in 4 bits out via Joystick port and Pc printer port . (Tested and works) Sincerely Kari Lammassaari/Finland/ACDEMY Oh shi.. The cable pinout lacks. Post it tomorrow !(I have to measure

Re: joynet serial transfer routine

1999-02-09 Thread Kari Lammassaari
serial ports use voltage range -12V - +12 V ! Psg would be damaged ! The only reasonable solution (,which has alredy been done) is to connect JoysticPort to Pc parallel port ! Sincerely Kari Lammassaari MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the

Re: CP/M OS for MSX

1999-02-09 Thread Kari Lammassaari
here is CPM ver 3, which can be used with any MSX2. There are also some cpm emulators for PC. If You need information bout them, I could see, if I have something in my archives. Sincerely Kari Lammassaari (ACADEMY) MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put i

Re: Cursor keys

1999-02-09 Thread Kari Lammassaari
numbers UP= 30} Until Key = #27 , {ESC} End. Sincerely Kari Lammassaari {Academy} Btw . I have also KeyScan.Inc to monitor multiple keypresses ! Btw. There are severel TP incs available at Manuel Bilderbeek's homepage and <ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/msx/programming/pascal/lammassaa

Re: FREE stuff

1999-02-09 Thread Kari Lammassaari
interested ? > Yes ! I here in the North , Finland . I even have 35 guldens (or what ever money you use in Netherlands. I once wanted to buy the Copmjoetania demo ) for postage . Please, let me know, if my address is needed ! Sincerely Kari Lammassaari MSX Mailinglist. To uns

Re: SVI 738 - ram expansion

1999-02-09 Thread Kari Lammassaari
ram chips piggy back and use the two unused slot select signals (3-2 and 3-3) in the chip 63 . (You should also use 74 ls 133 chip to fix the inproper -select signal.) But it's more intelligent to use those signals for internal MSXDOS2-rom and one extra cartridge slot. Sincerely Kari Lammass

Re: Assembler programming

1999-02-09 Thread Kari Lammassaari
> >(The line is from (0,0) to (511, 211)) > >ld iy,(0faf7h) >ld ix,085h >call 01ch > >There ara some things I don't understand: >* the call 01ch is the way to call a routine in another slot. Right ! He is calling the MSX2- sub rom, which contains MSX2 line drawing routine ! >The >specification o

Re: Executing a program in ASM and DOS2

1999-02-09 Thread Kari Lammassaari
X) , close file Y with function #45 and jump to the first byte of buffer. Remember to assemble Y program to operate from buffer. If Y is standard dos program starting from #0100, the X program must operate from 'high' menory ! Sincerely Kari Lammassaari MSX Mailinglist. To unsu

Re: A question about the PSG & samples

1999-02-09 Thread Kari Lammassaari
lammassaari (musicmo.inc's) Sincerely Kari Lammassaari/Finland/Academy MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)

Connecting MSX to PC

1999-02-09 Thread Kari Lammassaari
esets the joystic bits of PSG ) , but PC could do it with Pascal. I'll post the basic code tomorrow :-) Sincerely Kari Lammassaari MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Ingnore this, just testing

1999-02-09 Thread Kari Lammassaari
test MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)

Re: MSX Connecting to PC

1999-02-09 Thread Kari Lammassaari
This could be done, but msx printerport isn't bidirectional. (Actually 8 data + 1 bit STROBE out and 1 bit BUSY in . Sincerely Kari Lammassaari >Hello everybody, > >I have found a document and programs to communicate between a MSX and a PC >via the parallel-port of both com

SVI 728 has 2 expansin slots !

1999-02-09 Thread Kari Lammassaari
278 (=bad), but it's very easy to be used as control device (Joystick ports as input and printerport as outpot to relays) Control program with basic. Sincerely Kari Lammassaari I have programmed a driver program for 4*20 char LCD-screen. (It works also with DOS ! ) Just write WIDTH 2

Re: VDP 9938

1999-02-09 Thread Kari Lammassaari
> >Does anybody know how the Video-Ram-contents is changed >depending on the settings of the moderegisters? > Some games change video mode, with the line interrupt (=screen is splitted to two different screen modes) . So my conclusion is, that setting the mode bits do not alter the contents of vid

Re: SVI 728 has 2 expansin slots !

1999-02-09 Thread Kari Lammassaari
>uhm. Could you get me the schematics for this? > The schematics for the expansion slot of SVI 278 is very easy: Pin 1 corresponds the pin 1 of game slot and so on ... :-) Sincerely Kari MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subj

Re: TAPE <-> DISK

1999-02-09 Thread Kari Lammassaari
Hello Stephan, I programmed about 10 years ago (with TP 3.0) a program, which puts basic and mc-programs onto the tape . Should I post it to you ? Sincerely Kari Lammassaari > >Hi all, > >I'm searching for a program wich can convert programs from a tape to a disk >(and v

Re: Ramfile expansion?

1999-02-09 Thread Kari Lammassaari
> >Hey! First, I do not know what a light-pen is (something like those 'guns' >with which you can shoot at the screen???) (hehehe...), It's like a pen. You put it on the monitor screen, press the switch and begin to draw. >and second, it will >have tobe connected to the joystick-port and therefo

Has Tristan Zondag given up ftp.funet.fi

1999-02-09 Thread Kari Lammassaari
Hello, I've visited ftp.funet.fi/pub/msx and it seems, that it hasn't been updated since last spring :-( . Has Tristan Zondag given up the work ? Sincerely Kari Lammassaari MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (n