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msd
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Posts: 612 |  Posted: April 03 2005, 21:49 |
Somthimes you read an artical or manual and you think "man this is a peace of bullsh#t".
Here is for example one taken from the novaxis manual.
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Problems with an RS232C interface
MSX was never developed to work with speeds you are forcing it to work now. The
SCSI interface is almost operating at your MSX top-speed. Connecting an RS232c
interface which is mostly connected to some high-speed modem is asking to
much from the computer. It will give transmission errors (either the SCSI interface,
the RS232c interface or both) and sometimes will not operate at all.
Some people are lucky. They are working with this combination of interfaces and
do not have problems at all. You cannot damage your computer trying it, but we
can not give any guarantee it will work correctly.
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In fact the real problem was that the nms1250 modem uses the same ports as the novaxis scsi interface 
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manuel
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msx guru
Posts: 3444 | Posted: April 03 2005, 21:56 |
hehehe... It worked fine with my Sony HB-G900P indeed |
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msd
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msx professional
Posts: 612 | Posted: April 03 2005, 21:58 |
especially this sentence:" MSX was never developed to work with speeds you are forcing it to work now".. it's like you're shouting to your msx... work faster you stupid machine !!!!
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msd
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msx professional
Posts: 612 | Posted: April 03 2005, 22:05 |
Another nice bogus text was in the software gids about laydock 2 "You can see it's a 2+ game because you can see black parts in the screen running it on a MSX2". In fact this was ofcourse due to the non excisting scrolling registers in the v9938.
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wolf_
msx legend
Posts: 4701 | Posted: April 03 2005, 22:22 |
hm.. should we nominate Konami for bragging about an 8-channel sound-chip? |
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manuel
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msx guru
Posts: 3444 | Posted: April 03 2005, 22:29 |
msd: indeed! I remember that one.... I never believed it
Can you explain to me in more detail why the scroll is smooth, but black parts appear on MSX2? |
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msd
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msx professional
Posts: 612 | Posted: April 03 2005, 22:32 |
On a 2+ the game scrolls diagonal.. on msx2 it can't so you see parts of the vram you should not see
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msd
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msx professional
Posts: 612 | Posted: April 03 2005, 22:34 |
Another one . in an artical in XSW it said " The number in the opl name (opl1,opl2 etc) is the number of fm operators per channel ".. which is ofcourse also bull |
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AuroraMSX
msx master
Posts: 1248 | Posted: April 04 2005, 09:59 |
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| hm.. should we nominate Konami for bragging about an 8-channel sound-chip?
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Did they brag about an 8-channel sound chip or about 8-channel sound (5 SCC + 3 PSG)? |
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