RE: I/O ports on PC?
Try DirectDraw, it's not that complicated. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of d-faderSent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 1:22 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: I/O ports on PC? ppl.. This may look like way out of topic for this mailinglist, but it's a bit an inderect MSX q. As all of you guys probably know, TeddyWareZ is busy with f1-spirit 2... And ofcourse we need a track editor for that... We decided to make that on PC... But... I know have to code some routines that can handle some PC video access... Well here's da q I need a list of I/O ports and ofcourse their functions, just there is on MSX a list of such ports... I need it for a couple of things, but the most important is for the palette... Can any1 supply me with such kinda docs??? And I also am looking for Mode $13docs I looked at www.programmersheaven.com, but i couldn't find any I/O port docs plz. help me!... d-fader TeddyWareZ
Re: I/O ports on PC?
On Wed, 03 May 2000, d-fader wrote: As all of you guys probably know, TeddyWareZ is busy with f1-spirit 2... And ofcourse we need a track editor for that... We decided to make that on PC... But... I know have to code some routines that can handle some PC video access... Well here's da q I would advise not to go low level on PC. The advantage of using a PC is that you can use high-level languages and your program will still run fast enough. If you want to program low-level, you might just as well program it on MSX. You could try Delphi or Java. I prefer Java myself, but many people like Delphi. One advantage of Java is that there are free compilers and editors available. Bye, Maarten MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes) in the body (not the subject) of the message. Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] More information on MSX can be found in the following places: The MSX faq: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/ The MSX newsgroup: comp.sys.msx The MSX IRC channel: #MSX on Undernet
Re: I/O ports on PC?
Just two things 1. It is NOT going to be windows-orientated... I don't want crashing programs... And besides that, DOS is 100x faster... 2. The url which Ricardo gave me, doesn't exist!... (x2ftp.oulu.fi[/pub/msdos/programming/docs/[inter53*.zip]]) Remove all between the [] and you see which url's i tried NO WINDOWS!... mzl. d-fader On Wed, 03 May 2000, d-fader wrote: As all of you guys probably know, TeddyWareZ is busy with f1-spirit 2... And ofcourse we need a track editor for that... We decided to make that on PC... But... I know have to code some routines that can handle some PC video access... Well here's da q I would advise not to go low level on PC. The advantage of using a PC is that you can use high-level languages and your program will still run fast enough. If you want to program low-level, you might just as well program it on MSX. You could try Delphi or Java. I prefer Java myself, but many people like Delphi. One advantage of Java is that there are free compilers and editors available. Bye, Maarten MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes) in the body (not the subject) of the message. Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] More information on MSX can be found in the following places: The MSX faq: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/ The MSX newsgroup: comp.sys.msx The MSX IRC channel: #MSX on Undernet MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes) in the body (not the subject) of the message. Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] More information on MSX can be found in the following places: The MSX faq: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/ The MSX newsgroup: comp.sys.msx The MSX IRC channel: #MSX on Undernet
Re: I/O ports on PC?
On Wed, 03 May 2000, d-fader wrote: 1. It is NOT going to be windows-orientated... I don't want crashing programs... And besides that, DOS is 100x faster... If you're messing with I/O ports, the chances of crashing your system may be larger than when running Windows... (by the way, Java runs fine under Linux too) About the speed: DOS is not always faster. Many DOS tools come from the 16-bit era. I had a Java program beating Turbo Pascal on heavy math! And using 32-bit code under DOS is possible, but not very convenient. And even if DOS is faster in your case, do you really need the speed? It doesn't matter if a screen refresh takes 1 ms or 10 ms... Anyway, it's your project, so it's your choice. I just doubt some of the motivations you stated. 2. The url which Ricardo gave me, doesn't exist!... (x2ftp.oulu.fi[/pub/msdos/programming/docs/[inter53*.zip]]) Maybe you forgot to put "ftp://" before it? I can access the URL without problems (it is a little slow though). Bye, Maarten MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes) in the body (not the subject) of the message. Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] More information on MSX can be found in the following places: The MSX faq: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/ The MSX newsgroup: comp.sys.msx The MSX IRC channel: #MSX on Undernet
