Indeed, it's slower in R800 mode, not only the video part, but also the PCM sample that sounds differently.
The first preview of SymbOS MSX can be downloaded now:
http://www.symbos.de/files/symbosmsx.zip
Please copy the files in the "apps" folder in the root directory of your Sunrise IDE harddisc. The Sunrise IDE must be present in Slot 1, otherwise you won't be able to load something after booting SymbOS. Currently SymbOS will always mount PARTITION 4 of your IDE device, so please put your files here. The reason is, that the Sunrise IDEFDISK creates only this partition in the MBR, if you have a 20MB harddisc with only one partition. I will implement a partition detection in the future.
You can use a 2-button digital joystick in port 1 or a mouse in port 1 or 2 (but you will recognize, that there is still a small bug left in the mouse routine). You can also use Graph+Cursor to move the mouse pointer and Graph+Space to click.
ST2 and SKM are sound modules for SymAmp, SGX are graphic files, which can be viewed in SymSee or used as background pictures. You can download more on the http://www.symbos.de homepage.
To start one of the applications, click "Start" -> "Run" -> "Browse" and doubleclick one file in the list. You can also doubleclick a SGX or ST2/SKM directly, and the associated application will be loaded together with the file.
I hope you will get it working. Please report any problem and feel free to ask. I think currently the MSX version is not as stable as the CPC version, if you can reproduce any crash, please tell me.
A big thank you to Sonic_aka_T, Dvik, PingPong and all people from this forum thread for your great help! The last 3 weeks were quite exciting!
maybe it would be nice to put a working IDE disk image online?
Here is a beta of blueMSX with IDE support: http://www.bluemsx.com/beta/blueMSX_23656.zip
To use the Sunrise IDE, I recommend looking at the zip: http://www.bluemsx.com/dev_download/IDEStuff.zip
It has a short readme that describes how to add a new hd image to the emulator.
Here is an ide image with some apps: http://www.bluemsx.com/beta/symide.zip
Look at http://www.symbos.de for more goodies :)
Hmm, I get 'disc error 02' when I try to run apps with this image.
Interesting thing: the left and right borders have stripes
@manuel: You need to go to "Run..." in the start menu and then browse to the app.
maybe it would be nice to put a working IDE disk image online?
Yes, good idea, here is a working harddisc image:
http://www.symbos.de/files/symboshd.zip
I've also discovered that this error comes if I use a harddisk image created with DiskManager. The reason of that is simple : it's impossible with DiskManager to drag and drop the contents of the Apps sub-directory ... and the CD command does not work !
With the harddisk image created by dvik, there's no any problem if you follow the procedure indicated by prodatron.
In the image I uploaded I put the apps in the wrong directory. They should be in the root. I've updated the zip so that one should work too.
