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| Just have obtained Yamaha MSX2 YIS503IIIR. Quick question.
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statarch
msx friend
Posts: 5 |  Posted: July 31 2006, 14:34 |
Hi!
The dream machine of my school times has just arrived. I wonder how nowdays people load these devices with software? I have no floppy, nor tape. Shall I try to obtain sundisk cf id? If i get it where i can find MS-DOS for it and what is a general procedure to transfer games from PC?
I apprecite your help as cant sleep well before i be able to play Kings of valley, Payload, Bungle bay, Galaga and all those fantastic titles again.
Thank you!
Sergey
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Xan0ri
msx lover
Posts: 117 | Posted: July 31 2006, 17:25 |
If you are not going to use floppy or tape drives, then you propably should think of getting sunrise CF-reader or ATA-IDE.
They can be purchased from sunrise for msx -webpages.
If Im correct, the msx-dos is included in those sunrise products.
Or you can just search ebay for game/software cartidges. There are usually available some.
You can transfer stuff from PC by using "disk manager", made my lex lechz (RuMSX developer). But then you'll need a diskdrive.
I have'nt used CF reader or ATA ide, so I'm not sure how to transfer stuff to them from PC.
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DamageX
msx freak
Posts: 168 | Posted: August 03 2006, 06:42 |
If you have an LS-120 drive for MSX and one for PC then transferring files is very easy with sunrise IDE. I haven't even tried the FAT16 patch yet, I just formatted an LS-120 disk as 32MB and it works with no problem under win2k.
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Patsie
msx freak
Posts: 189 | Posted: August 03 2006, 07:38 |
If you have a CF adapter for your PC, I'd strongly recommend the Sunrise CF interface for your MSX. It's quick and easy to use, doesn't need a bug external power supply (like you do with harddisks/LS120/CDRom drives) Also the interface is silent, no noisy spinning disks or other moving parts. MSX-DOS is supplied with this CF interface. You can find plenty of games on a certain (subtle hint) FTP. site, from the Finish University Network, in .finland (end of subtle hint). Some games there are in '.dsk' format and you need a tool to get the actual files out of the disk-image (see Xan0ri's post above). Transfer procedure is a simple copy/paste in Windows to the (on your MSX created) CF partition.
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tnt23
msx lover
Posts: 107 | Posted: August 28 2006, 09:23 |
Sergey,
if your YIS503IIIR has network module (plugs into side slot, has two MIDI-type sockets), then check MSX-Link project:
http://msxlink.chat.ru/
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cax
msx professional
Posts: 1017 | Posted: August 28 2006, 10:50 |
On the page tnt23 mentioned you can also find link to another projects - WAVeR, MicroWAVeR and some others. You will be able to load from CD via cassette port.
If you have more questions - feel free to ask me on the russian part of this site - http://ru.msx.org
I know you will have questions, because network-enabled machines like yours require special treatment. |
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sunrise
msx professional
Posts: 649 | Posted: August 28 2006, 10:55 |
Damage-x, you are waisting space I believe with the ls120. Format it as HD and you have 3 partitons at least.
CF is recommended ofcourse and we are already preparing a new serie.and there is still a limited stock of a few copies
But for that the cases must prepared ,so for please take that into account when ordering.!
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