quick reminder

[mangamuscle]

Back at the c-bios sourceforge page the link to "list of which games do and do not work correctly" does not work.

Also I am curious, since it seems there has been little progress in making a disk rom, why no try to convince some manufacturer of MSX floppy disk interfaces to place theirs in the public domain? I mean, it is not unheard of, the bios for the x68000 has been on the public domain for years, at least as long as it does not belong to M$ I think there is a chance. If this is achieved it would be a matter of making an open source MSX-Basic clone to have 100% legal emulation of the MSX

[Manuel]

Back at the c-bios sourceforge page the link to "list of which games do and do not work correctly" does not work.

Fixed now.

Also I am curious, since it seems there has been little progress in making a disk rom, why no try to convince some manufacturer of MSX floppy disk interfaces to place theirs in the public domain? I mean, it is not unheard of, the bios for the x68000 has been on the public domain for years, at least as long as it does not belong to M$ I think there is a chance.

Do you have any suggestions who to contact? As far as I know all of them are based on M$ stuff.

If this is achieved it would be a matter of making an open source MSX-Basic clone to have 100% legal emulation of the MSX

Yes, but please understand that this is a very large piece of work

[mangamuscle]

Fixed now.

Thanks

Do you have any suggestions who to contact? As far as I know all of them are based on M$ stuff.

Indeed, I see you are from the Netherlands so it would make sense to try to contact Philips first. To my understanding the rom in the disk controller interfaces with the bios rom, but it is in itself a completely separate piece of copyright, just like the bios in your cd/dvd-rom is completely independent from the award/ami bios that boots your pc.

Yes, but please understand that this is a very large piece of work

I do, do not worry.

[Manuel]

Do you have any suggestions who to contact? As far as I know all of them are based on M$ stuff.

Indeed, I see you are from the Netherlands so it would make sense to try to contact Philips first. To my understanding the rom in the disk controller interfaces with the bios rom, but it is in itself a completely separate piece of copyright, just like the bios in your cd/dvd-rom is completely independent from the award/ami bios that boots your pc.

Well, this text appears in every diskROM:

Code: Select all

MSX-DOS ver. 2.2 Copyright 1984 by Microsoft

[mangamuscle]

You are right (I checked myself with an hex editor) yet if you check the MSX-DOS 2.3 rom, you will find this string of text:

"MSX-DOS kernel version 2.31.Disk BASIC version 2.01.Copyright (C) 1991 ASCII Corporation."

But I really doubt that MSX-DOS is not M$ property. I think a string of text inside a 25 year old rom not necessarily says the truth today, legal rights might have reverted to the parent company (Philips in this case) or maybe the disk rom was always their intellectual property but were forced by contract to print into the screen that MSX-DOS (not the disk rom) was M$ property.