{"id":2623,"date":"2013-08-13T14:50:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T12:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2013-09-08T22:00:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T20:00:32","slug":"msx1-like-boot-disks-for-msx2-and-turbo-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/?p=2623","title":{"rendered":"MSX1-like boot disks for MSX2 and turbo R"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There seemed to be no sensible use for the Panasonic FS-A1 I bought recently, since it boots to 60 Hz and can&#8217;t run most of MSX2 demos because of the lack of memory. You can&#8217;t even boot MSX1 demos directly from, say Nowind. With a boot disk, however, things get a bit better:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/~marq\/msx1boot.dsk\">msx1boot.dsk<\/a> \u2013 for MSX2 computers<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/~marq\/msx1boot-tr.dsk\">msx1boot-tr.dsk<\/a> \u2013 for turbo R<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No magic there \u2013 the floppies set up a MSX1-lookalike palette, 50 Hz screen mode and 40 columns for SCREEN 0. On a tR the CPU speed is dropped to 3.58 MHz. After that change the virtual (or real) floppy and run the actual production. Tested on FS-A1, FS-A1ST and Philips 8245.<\/p>\n<p><em>edit: Lars the 18th was kind enough to improve the boot floppies by creating a single .com file that does pretty much the same as above. See here:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/~marq\/MSX1DosBoot.dsk\">MSX1DosBoot.dsk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>edit2: There was a broken link to the latter disk, but now it&#8217;s fixed. The msx1.com by Lars is good stuff for running MSX1 stuff from a card reader and so on.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There seemed to be no sensible use for the Panasonic FS-A1 I bought recently, since it boots to 60 Hz and can&#8217;t run most of MSX2 demos because of the lack of memory. You can&#8217;t even boot MSX1 demos directly from, say Nowind. With a boot disk, however, things get a bit better: msx1boot.dsk \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,15,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laitteet","category-retro","category-softat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2626,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions\/2626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}