[tape access]
Is it? Eh... Where should it be then? ;-)
I dunno. I just know I upped it (to the list, to ftp.funet.fi? I don't
remember anymore) some time ago, and you, Manuel, being so eager to get
info for the Ultimate FAQ I'd expected that it would be in it somewhere :-)
No, I don't think I
And please may someone tell me a server with acess to the
msx NEWS group ?
Maybe you mean something like DejaNews (www.dejanews.com) ?
Dejanews is not a news sever, AFAIK. It's a news archive, which in many cases
means that you're reading news that's at least a couple of days old :-(
Ummm... dunno if they've got email. Think not. Maybe anyone else knows???
The (email-)adress of Rinus Stoker???
Rinus doesn't have e-mail. E-mail for Totally Chaos (makers of the Info blad)
can be sent to Fokke post - I don't have _his_ e-mail address at hand, but
I'll see if I can get it
Damn, who cares about the date???
Who uses those old programs like databases or whatsoever on the MSX when
there are lots of them on -I dare almost to say every- PC???
And I don't care for the date correct displayed in programs like EASY or so
(which will undoubtly do it wrong for it also
From now on, you can VOTE for the name of the
joystick-communication/network-standard.
There are only 2 options (only 2 suggestions have been made);
JoyCom and JoyNet.
Hey! I suggested 'MSXNet' once!
I know, it had to be read between the lines, but it _was_ there ;-)
Eric (not keeping
Well... if we can represent 3D objects into a 2D device, the same can be
done by 4D objects into a 3D device. The problem is that we identify those
3D objecte (on a 2D device), but we have never seen a 4D object... wow...
How to draw a 4D cube in 3D:
- Draw a 3D cube with corners ABCD EFGH
-
I have worked with a scsi cable for more than 4 meters
loong. I used 1 or 2 harddisks with 3 computers That was
fun!
*SIGH*
To end this mine-is-longer-than-yours discussion:
Depending on the exact SCSI protocol you're using the max. cable length
can vary between 1.5 and 25 meter.
Basta
Yes, Yawara strikes again,
[blahblah]
(What the h*** is Yawara?)
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/2383
[snip]
By the way, what the heck is an "atrium"...?
The atrium was/is a kind of in-house garden found in Roman houses...
Eric
[vote now!]
:Hey! I suggested 'MSXNet' once!
:I know, it had to be read between the lines, but it _was_ there ;-)
But did you mail it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]???
Nope. Did I have to? Can't remember having read anything like that in
the 'list -- but I could have missed it, of course...
[about changing the RTC battery]
It might be, that your
clockchip battery just ran empty, when you didn't use the machine for
a while, or use it very short, now and then. I would recommend just
leaving your MSX on for a day or so, maybe your problem disappears
after that.
Hm, I'm using
Hi,
I've got on my HD some files with extension .prg for MSX. I've downloaded
it probably from funet, I don't remember.
.PRG is not a 'standard' extension. Just try:
In MSX-BASIC:
LOAD"this.prg" or RUN"this.prg" -- BASIC program
BLOAD"that.prg" or BLOAD"that.prg",R --
Hi,
If you want to make multi-player games, the best way
is to use the joystick port. You can easily connect two MSXs
without any additional hardware, or make a ring connecting
several MSXs.
In the last MSX meeting in Brasil (Jau'98) we
presented a game for up to 14 players (each one
Problems: it is no longer produced and you have to get it 2nd
hand.
However, if you have an older SCSI interface (like MAK/GREEN or HSH)
you can upgrade it with a Novaxis ROM...
Version 1.50 is uncompatible with Music Module.
Que? Why's that?
Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Damn, who cares about the date???
I do!
Who uses those old programs like databases or whatsoever on the MSX when
there are lots of them on -I dare almost to say every- PC???
Time date are not only of importance to 'databases or whatsoever'.
When I'm programming I keep my sources on one or two
August Cavaller wrote:
Hola. Estoy buscando información sobre el MSX, especialmente el MSX2+ y el
TR.
Para este último me gustaría encontrar algún ensamblador, si es que lo hay,
An English translatioin would be nice.
Ehm...let's give it a shot:
Hola
Hi (that was the easy part :-D)
In my opinion, european hardware makers must learn a lot from ESE
staff...
(but also needless to say, ESE hardware is very expensive).
Yep, I'm not willin to pay about Hfl.300 for a Japanese SCSI I/F,
where a European one costs no more than half that price...
Another thing European
The best will be chosen based on objective avaliations
Avaliations? I guess YM "evaluations"?
[...]
- MSX-DOS (_SYSTEM, etc..);
- MSX-DOS 2 (_SYSTEM(), _CHDRV, etc...);
_SYSTEM is absolutely useless if you can't use external data/program files
* The program should be 100%
AFAIK, Zilog has stopped producing the z380 :-(
Any ideas to substitute Z380?
Z382?
I'm no expert on this area, but the z382 is said to be useless for
a new MSX. Check out the Zilog site: www.zilog.com
Eric Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Jun-Sung Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Datum: zaterdag 20 juni 1998 4:27
Onderwerp: Re: Turbo R?
: Another question... I'm interested on the Z380 project, but I have
readed
: that, when the japanese companies planned to make
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\ - / 4- right 8 9 (ni puta idea)
8 - triggerpuls for gamepaddles.
9 - GND
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Computer Gebruikers Vereniging) puked:
snip---
M+UU/U-!4C0V6`T*33\G/CQ+B-7EXL0R_1UTB0U=52D8R4DE62D];45HK
M7D\X624F+DU974-646`^/U5+(4O+CY/23U;,`T*34M35#Q2-U]#7#E22T
M6"Q(7S,A0S='/R1.-UQ963XA7C,H3S]/-%\Z0TE,73%%."E#/%U3*$4[6SY
A short reply at that broken MSX message...
The startup logo is in screen 6 instead of screen 7 :)
try: rst H30
db b1
[...]
B1 is not a byte (one bit too much) . Which bit should be wiped
out?
Eric
Jasper wrote:
I've had several reactions on the mail about my broken MSX (Thank you all
who reacted). But I haven't had a reaction that explaines all of the
problems. So I will discuss the reaction and my opion on them...
The first thing I heard was a broken VRAM chip. But if one of those is
Hi,
Roderik Muit asked:
By the way, what is fsp?
A kind of ftp. Slower, using an alternate protocol, but has some nifty
features. Main differences with ftp are:
- you _must_ specify the portnumber for connection with the fsp host
(ftp takes a 'well-known' port)
- when the connection is
Hi all,
as I promised yesterday I tried to upload my MB replayer sources to funet.
Unfortunately I'm behind some firewall thing which makes it impossible for me
to upload anything. I sent the sources by e-mail to Manuel Bilderbeek and
I hope that he will upload them for me...
Eric
Hi,
[$$$ flooding out, not in]
What's new here? I have sold several products the last couple of
fairs, and I am very happy if I even manage to earn back the costs!
[...and back in the old days...]
Well, a 1000 copies is not realistic these days when no more than a few
hunderd
[snip]
Is it possible to get messages (XTORY listings) kicked off usenet?
That's what I want to know.
For usenet, there are two options:
1) Make comp.sys.msx moderated. I haven't been able to read the newsgroup for
about a year now, so I haven't got the slightest idea how much
Yes, but load and save routines are not that easy without sources.
Well, quite some people have these sources nowadays. E.g. Eric Boon.
Not quite right. I do have sources for the replayer, but not the sources
of MoonBlaster itself. And those are the sources you need to get 256K
support in MB
[RobotZ]
Great idea! I could make it, I guess, but I can't say when it will be
finished, since I don't have so much spare time.
But please, send me exact
specifications on what the condition of an if-statement can be, and how the
radar can be used (or am I now asking just one
Hi all,
Can anyone give me a pointer to a z80 cross-assembler for Linux?
a MSX-DOS2 capable (i.e must be able to use sub-dirs) assembler is okay, too
Same questions for a (preferably ANSI) C-cross-compiler...
(I do have HiTech and Small C for MSX lying around somewhere)
--
Eric Boon [EMAIL
[257 RobotZ]
All robots need a number and it should be not too many bits when
communicating.
Agreed. One byte as ID should suffice, which makes 256 robotz...
Therefore, you can have 256 external robots plus one for the computer itself.
No, 255 external IDs, plus one ID for the computer
Hi!
Hard-wireing the robot location to (2,2) is not flexible. If you would allow
negative indices, you could place the robot at (0,0) and expand the scanner
range with a lot less problems.
Placing the robot at (2,2) was indeed an attempt to avoid negative indices.
Putting the robot back to
Hi,
As far as I understood it, the robot game would be turn based. So if things
get slow, the spectators might get bored, but the gameplay won't be affected.
Right.
Sending the complete map? Not necessary!
No, just the data of the robots. Which raises the question which data
a robot should
At 12:06 PM 1/5/99 +, you wrote:
bit 0 or 1, FALSE or TRUE
You mean FALSE = 0 and TRUE = 1?
I should kill the "FALSE or TRUE" part here, I guess...
Actuallt, I'd like any non 0 value to be TRUE :-)
byte signed or unsigned 8-bit value
This vague "signed or unsigned" will cause
Hi,
Add that signed numbers are stored in two's complement format.
Agree. Consider it done.
Have you looked yet at the possibility of integrating the two stacks?
Yes. But only after I put version 0.3 online :-) To integrate the two stacks
is not that difficult, but it complicates
Hello all,
I hereby send version 0.2 of the ROBOTZ specification into the MSX world.
The arithmatic and logical/bit operations are still to be filled out, but
I've elaborated the rest of the document, embedded some suggestions and
other comments (thanks, Maarten :-)) and introduced META's (my
Another day, another light:
I think there should be only one energy supply (make life simple!)
Simplicity is indeed a very good argument. :-)
Amen :-))
[ideas about IDs]
Oh, right. I like to have ID's. I stated before you don't need them,
but that doesn't mean you shouldn't...
Ok,
[step]
IMO, the nicest would be a 4-neighbourhood for moving, attacking and dropping
energie and a 12-neighbourhood for looking (I'll explain further on). Tell me
if you don't agree.
[long range scan]
Nice idea. That would be very good, I think.
I was thinking of one large
x
directly, then...
If you want to do 3D on MSX, then do 3D on MSX.
(Still ROTFL)
--
Eric Boon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Mirrors should reflect a little before
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | throwing back images- Jean Cockteau
MSX M
And a very good day to you, too :-)
No, both drop and atck have as a parameter the amount of energie to use.
Ehm... not yet :-) ATCK is only specified with the direction in which to
attack as parameter. For DROP, no direction is specified - I assumed that
DROP would drop the energy on the
[barcode]
It seems to read the barcodez coz the read data is
equal to the one printed below the barcode, sometimes
the last number is missing and I didn_t figured yet why?
I'm no barcode expert, but I'm always happy to share
the knowledge I do have :-)
First of all, there is more than
The ESE interface uses some expensive parts, which makes it
technically superior to any other I/F.
Hm. It's better because it's more expensive? Not quite my idea
of quality :-)
Your statement is the same as
saying: "I'm not willing to buy a Turbo-R because an MSX2 is way
cheaper"
You
Hi,
It's about the exact time(s) of sampling the bit values of the main
(RxD/TxD) signal. In asynchronous communications, this is based upon
a fixed time for a single bit, determined by the baudrate.
Ehrm... I don't wanna spoil the fun, but for JoyNet, we're talking
about asynchronous
[RobotZ]
Ok, here's an idea:
Every robot is allowed to calculate as much as it wants. It's turn is over
when it performs any of the following actions:
-move (1 step).
And how is "one step" defined? As only north, south, east and west
(4-neighbourhood)or also north-east, north-west, south-east
Hi!
Hi! too,
Finally I have an IDE interface and a hard disk on my Turbo R!!!
It works fine, but I have a problem with Multimente.
Some commands require a temporary directory. Default option is H:
I want to change this for a:\temp
I tried to put SET TEMP=a:\temp in the autoexec.bat file, but it
Hi,
Get serious. The MOD format is old, VERY old. I started making music
on the PC and made MOD files. 4 channels Even the fm-pak has more.
Yep. A car has four wheels, a bike has two and therefor a car is better, eh?
Get serious! You can't compare the channels in a MOD file with the
Hi,
I make program like :
IN A,(#A8)
PUSH AF
LD A,(#)
CPL
PUSH AF
LD A,XXX
OUT (#A8),A
LD A,YYY
LD (#),A
.
.
.
POP AF
LD (#),A
POP AF
OUT (#A8),A
C R A S H ! ! !Why ? (Do I have to wait
We still have to dream up a cable to connect the MSX-Joynet cable to the
PC parallel port.
Ehm.. It may sound like a terribly stupid idea, but why not using the joystick
port(s) of the PC for 'emulating' the joystickports?
(Hmmm first answer to my own Q: because the PC joystick ports can't be
Aloha,
Right, ITF-14 (for big boxes containing more than one box of product)
and UPC-A (USA) and then ISSN for mags. and ISBN for books, if I'm not wrong.
Ehm. At least not completely right :-)
I dunno about ITF-14 or UPC-A, but neither ISSN nor ISBN are _barcode_
standards. They're
Damn! Now I'm having problems with my SCSI ZIP drive.
[Click-o'-death]
If we add this to the problems with the ZIP plus that someone told some
weeks ago (problems when connecting more than one device to the SCSI chain),
These two problems are completely unrelated. The SCSI-chain problem
The length of the cable will not have much limitations, except for the
resistance of it:
Which is exactly the reason to mak it not too long. The longer the cable,
the higher the resitance (and impedance) will become. The result of this is
that the flanks (signal changes) will 'flatten':
Hi,
in my archive I've got a disk with a C compiler on it.
If there will be a lot of people asking for it I'll try to put it on the net.
If it is some well-known thingie like HiTech or small C, don't bother: they're
on the net already. If it's something new, self-written, or perhaps ASCII-C
Hi you MSX-freaks,
[snip]
About this 6 MHz. circuit, I wonder: has it EVER been PUBLISHED?
There has been some article about it in a MSX-Mozaiek(Mosaic?) +/- #35
(could be a couple of #'s earlier or later - dunno exactly anymore).
I don't know whether it was a 'how-to-build-it' or
On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote:
I recently found out (thanks Kari!) that sprites in screen 6 and 7 can
only be on even lines! Because the X-coordinate is given by a byte...!
Isn't this a crazy thought of the V9938 designers???
Advantage is that sprite handling is 100%
Hi,
who know information about MAP.COM and can help me to resolve a problem?
1. Which MAP.COM are you referring to?
I've seen a program called MAP doing partition switching on harddisk,
there's a MAP disabling DOS2 memory mapper functions and I once had
a MAP which apparently did
1. *How* on earth can I save the program once I have it typed in fmsx-dos?
SAVE"PROGRAM.BAS" or SAVE"PROGRAM.BAS",A
2. Can I type the program in a simple ASCII editor (e.g. W95 notepad) and
then transfer it to the fmsx-dos?
Of course (assuming you know how to type :-))
How?
By reading the
/\/\ark wrote:
This, however, is not the correct routine. It should be, as I
suggested by replacing x:=sqr(x) by x:=x*x, as followed:
[snip]
As you see, with x:=sqr(x) x goes from x to x^0.5 to x^0.25... With
x:=x*x, however, your statement does hold for x goes from x to x^2 to
Hi all,
There is also one thing I want to set straight. The connector I mean
isn't a jack (which only has three 'pins'). I meant a connector used
to connect professional microphones. It looks a bit like this (not
that it matters any more ;-) ):
---
/ o \
/ \
| o o |
\--^--/
Looks
someone told to me that exists a beta version of robotz, if yes I'm very
interested in beta testing of it.
Sorry to disappoint you, but till now, only a beta version of the
_specification_ exists :-) I mailed it on the list some days ago.
I think I can release version 0.3 (of the spec!) next
MOA:
So... Is Frank Thijsen (another 4TRAX member) still alive?
Depends on your definition of 'alive' :-) He's not dead yet, but has
sold all his MSX stuff. His E-mail adress is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eric
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browsing sleepily through 30+ new msgs in 'the list'
Anybody got a copy of softools c for me?
It's a ANSI-c crosscompiler from PC to Z80
fully awake within a second
I want it, too!!
Eric
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Hallo,
Ik moest van Ed een mail sturen omdat ik dat niet vaak doe.
[puke]
Hm... too much grass/weed/beer/stuff/viagra?
Eric
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PS. I've had a look at the CRobots homepage(lost the URL unfortunately).
Looks pretty much like what we're trying to make here...
Eh, ok. Is that a problem?
Nope. In the contrary. It could be interesting to grab some ideas from it.
It is for pc, right?
Yep. The robot programs are in some C
Someone:
b) I have the function Sqr(x), that gives me the BASIC equivalent of
x^2; how can I do a x^n(n2) in TP?
AFAIK, there's o predefined function for it - you'll have to write one
yourself...
Someone else:
I don't know anything about Pascal, but shouldn't Sqr(x) be same that
x^.5 :-)
You're wrong. In English, the ground floor is the first floor.
Only in Dutch you start counting at zero! :-)
_You_ are wrong :-) AFAIK (English, German, Frenchm Dutch), only the English
start counting at 1, the rest starts from 0...
Eric
ObMSX: In some old MSX Club Magazin was an
[Moonlight Sonata]
Does anyone know who wrote it originally?)
Beethoven
Eric (not really a classical music expert, but capable of typing
"moonlight sonata" as search topic in infoseek ;-))
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Well, I like all the games that are good, 3D, 2D... 4D?... ;-)
I'll show you all a 53-D game:
DDDDDD D D
D D D DD DD D
D DD D D D D DDD
D D D D D D D D
DDD D D D D
Ciao,
Eric
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: If you take a look at ftp://bromo.ptf.hro.nl/pub/msx/sources, you can find
:many interesting things there, even the DOS 2.xx disassembled.
The URL is incorrect...
It is "ftp://bromo.ptf.hro.nl/pub/msx/source"
Eric
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[sprites in screen 7 ]
It is no loss that it cannot be printen on odd columns (not
lines, lines indicates the vertical ones),
GRIN
Eh, ~Grauw: vertical is from-top-to-bottom, horizontal
is from left-to-right.
Eric (still GRINning, sorry)
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Do you know that we made a patch to play only
the penalties in Konami's Soccer ?
Wanted to replay Holland-Brasil? ;-)
(*sorry for getting off-topic again*)
Groeten,
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Hi All,
I got the connectors, I've got my soldering iron, I've got me some
wire, now what else do I need.
Ehm... time, 220V, time, 2 MSX-s at least, did I already mention 'time'?
Ah yes, software. Is there any news about the software?
Software? Who needs software? Software means bugs,
Yo,
Still heared nothing about the game Thezeus! Does NOBODY have this game
(I can't believe it).
Jeez, man, don't be so impatient!! You can't expect everyone to read his/her
e-mail a zillion times a day!
If you have this game, please e-mail it directly to me or upload it to
FUNET (The MSX
Hi,
see Subject: When is the Zandvoort fair?
greets,
Eric
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Egor Voznessenski wrote:
I _DO_ have complete, working DOS1 DISKROM source code, I even
did huge modifications to it to make it more suitable for HDD
Considering the amount of interest in this piece of work,
you better up it to funet :-)
Eric (wants it too, of course ;-))
MSX
Hiho,
[Mari] belched: :-)
Maybe you can try "properties" (simply clicking the left mousebutton
when the message is highlighted... and check out the "detail" page!)
Presses left mouse-button: nothing happens
Eh Mari, not everyone is using the same mail agent, so 'tips'
like this are
Hello,
Hey,
For people who don't have a MoonSound but still like to listen to the music
made with this fabulous piece of MSX-hardware we made a audio-CD with a
selection of the best (?) music created with MoonSound. Each CD contains 25
songs and the total playing time is over 73 minutes! The
I tried to follow this discussion, but I think there's something
going wrong in the communication:
I opened my 8245 some time ago. It has a weird connector (1 line of 15
pins, or something). It uses normal 3.5" floppies, though.
Here "floppies" refers to the _disks_
Normal 3.5'' Floppies ?
[SCSI]
What harddisks can I connect?
Everything: ZIP, JAZZ, Bernouli, Syquest, CD-ROMs [...]
But forget about ZIP-plus (The ZIP with both parallel and so-called SCSI
interface). This thing uses a controller which should automatically
detect the difference between a parallel and SCSI
So you have a ZIP drive connected to your MSX? I am planning to do the same.
Do you have any tips? I have a HSH SCSI interface.
1) get the diskROM replaced (eg. by a Novaxis). That should be no problem.
I let Erik Maas do it on my proto-HSH...
The only thing you need then are the tools
I need additional memory in my game - but I use already many ram!
1) What would u say if the game will need more than 128kB ram?
2) It would be possible to reduce the level-size to a half, but I really
don't want that...
3) I could use Vram - but I am afraid it could be too slow and that I
I need additional memory in my game - but I use already many ram!
1) What would u say if the game will need more than 128kB ram?
[snip]
U can use also Ramdisk to load the pattern [...]
Yeah. Great idea. Using a RAM disk when you're short in RAM...
(X),
Eric
MSX
Good morning all,
"The code is not R800 only and is FULL Z80 compatible, therefore if I can
buy a MSX2 with Z80 running at 7Mhz then I'll make XTAZY run for this
configuration, since the R800 is almost running at 7Mhz because of the
enormous ammount of I/O access to V9990 and OPL4, only
Hi,
For all of you who use TP3.3.
Question:
Are there any whishes or known bugs (unkown are also welcome). If there are
whishes or bug reports sent it to me. There is a chance that we, 'MSX
Computer Club Enschede", the Netherland, might bring out a bug release of
TP3.3.
1. I hope it will be
What reunion
Check out the newsgroup comp.sys.msx for that...
Sorry, can't do that.
I only have e-mail at the moment - no netnews, no www :-(
So again:
What reunion
Eric
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You can't detect MSX-MUSIC using I/O ports, because all of its ports are
write only.
ALL of them? Not even some small status-register???
All of them, not even one small status-register...
:) yeah, stupid, ain't it? :) anyway, do Korean FM-PACs really exist? Yes.
Absolutely. I had one once.
[Using disk I/O on page 1 ($4000-$7FFF)]
2) It might be a problem when you are working under basic, using address
ªF37D to access the BDOS. Though, I'm not sure about that.
I am. I tried to load some data somewhere in page 1 using an ML routine
which was called from BASIC
Jun Sung Kim wrote:
I'm sorry. This site is closed in a while. Because I'm very busy...
I will open it again April 1st.
On the 1st of April? Hmmm... getting suspicious ;-)
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Manuel Bilderbeek wrote:
Subject: Who wants to trade a Toshiba Music Module (+ keyboard) for a
[see subject]
for a what? Sorry - It's probably my stupid mail program, but I don't
know what you want to trade the Toshiba for...
So, what have we learnt 2day? Don't rely on subject
Hi all,
[Mappers]
I have a little idea:
What if someone writes a mapper support driver for DOS1? Shouldn't be too
hard. Programs could even install such a driver themselves so that they
can switch the mapper using a single interface.
Ehm... I thought MemMan was just that. A mapper
Hi!
Maarten:
If implementing the complete "mapper support extended BIOS" is too much
trouble, we could take a subset and make a driver for that. A possible subset
is "only the direct paging routines". That is enough to solve all the problems
concerning mapper ports. Routines to reserve and free
Sorry. Are they the today's version of "MSX club Nijmegen"
*GRIN* Villa Nova, wasn't it? I've never been there -- didn't even know
of its existence, but I've heard the stories, later...
I wonder if the Dutch readers DO understand this.
I did :-)
I really had to dig deep in my memory for
Hi,
Can anyone point me to or give me details of tape storage ?
I'm interested in file headers, bit representation and possible use of
parity or CRC.
I wrote a small text file on tape storage some time ago, with info on
headers, datablocks and all the like. I'm not sure about parity, but CRC
is
Just curious about what any of you have as computer-history and hardware
now.
Ok.
Personal info:
Name: Eric Boon
Age : 30
Adres : somewhere between the Netherlands and Germany at the moment :-)
Occupation : senior programmer
Bank account: Postbank: 5763069 (Donations
Hi,
I was wondering who of you guys are going to the fair in Tilburg?
Actually I am only interested knowing about the (old)-sceners.
(like RMF/Fuzzy Logic/Fony/Moonsoft/etc)
I will be there, although not the whole day, I guess
(dunno though whether you count me in in the "(old)-sceners" ;-D)
Anne:
p.s. This is getting very kewl!! An MSXturboR GT with 1024kB, 160MB SCSI-HD,
IDE-ZIP, IDE-CDromdrive, 33k6modem via RS232, OPL4, V9990 and
MSX-MUSIC/AUDIO:)
*DROOL* :-)..
Eric (8250+1MB+7MHz, 32MB HDD, ZIP, Mus/Aud)
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the new deal will allow Konami to choose any of Microsoft's titles
and publish them for other platforms,and vice versa.
*GRIN* Now the time comes when you can play Windows98 and M$ Offiz on
your Playstation and N64 and enjoy the wonderful blue screens *GRIN*
Eric (sorry - couldn't
MMk2 about PC games:
Amorphous cocktails of 3D overtextured objects which seem to be in an endless
out-of-sync condition (depending on the cost of the gfx card) and are doomed
to be played by most PC users in a cheap 15" SVGA monitor using the arrow
keys and wiggling a mouse while listening
Yeah. BTW, why real sprites are so scarcely used on and beyond MSX2?
If Spectrum users were given a single sprite...
Some reasons:
1) They're 'only' 16x16 pixels max
2) Only one color per pixel line
3) max 8 sprites (4 on MSX1, if I recall correctly) per horizontal line
Which means that
Hi,
All you need is a .REL file that does contain a 'main@' symbol, right ?
not right :-( There's at least one other symbol L-80 is complaining about.
Can't recall the name ofthat thing at the moment though :-(
How about creating a .REL with M-80 that declares your 'main@' symbol
and that
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