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Great that You solved it

MSX MSX 2

Thanks a lot !

Thanks for the N64, MSX & MSX2 gamebases dax...
Now i'm working in the MSX gamebase to make it better...
But when i run a cassette (extension .cas) appears the emulator Bluemsx with run "cas_"
And must be run "cas:"

So the msx basic skips the file in the tape and gives an error...

How can i change that ?

Hi dax
Do you have the ColecoVision GameBase?
Can you upload it?

I do have Colecovision, preconfigured and lightly optimized. Will upload it in between 2 days.

As abou "cas_" in MSX, before a while I tried to run cassette first time and I have Syntax error with "cas:@" . I found in "bluemsx.ini" entry emulation.machineName=MSX - Brazilian Cassette. Also script to automation has entries for different languages/machines. Maybe it's because wrong codepage? I'm not as good to solve it, so we can only wait.

Hi
In search for an option to run cassettes automatically i found this:
Inside MSX-BASIC type this:

key 1, "run"+chr$(34)+"cas:"+chr$(13)

Then when you press F1 (Function Key) will automatically run a cassette. The chr$(34) is the character ". And the chr$(13) correspond to RETURN.
If we can do this change to the F1 key in startup when you run a cassette you only have to press F1.

With BLOAD the command will be like this:

key 1, "bload "+chr$(34)+"cas:"+chr$(34)+",r"+chr$(13)

What makes when you run a cassette to type inside bluemsx run"cas_ ???
where is that script?
maybe it can be changed...

And chr$( 58 ) correspond to the character ":", maybe the autorun can be changed...

The script was written before sendkeys was available in gamebase.

the MSXCLDR.EXE file (MSX CASSETTE LOADER)
is used to send the key presses to the emulated keyboard,
and configure various machine settings.


This is configured using a UK keyboard with the default file
..\blueMSX\Keyboard Config\blueMSX Default.config
and works perfectly on UK setup machines.


the emulated keyboard is also different for most of the MSX machine keyboards.

these are the MSX keyboard settings stored in the cass loader.

MSX UK
SPEECH = @
COLON = :

MSX2
SPEECH = @
COLON = :

MSX JAP
SPEECH = "
COLON = '

MSX2 JAP
SPEECH = "
COLON = '

MSX BRAZ
SPEECH = "
COLON = ?

MSX2 BRAZ
SPEECH = "
COLON = ?

MSX SPANISH
SPEECH = @
COLON = ¬


Since MSX BRAZ is the default cassette machine used.
the easiest thing to do would be to remap your keyboard in BlueMSX, Tools, Input Editor, keyboard.
to use your keys.
mapping your _underscore_ ( my ? question mark ? ) for :colon: and vice versa.

and @ for " on USA machines

or you could add the UK keyboard in the language bar of your OS. And switch it when using gamebase.

Ok, thanks for the reply .mad.

I can't find :colon: on my keyboard when im mapping, only semicolon...

Please tell me how can i change it...

i don't know what keyboard region you are using.

try holding SHIFT while pressing keys.
+SEMICOLON , +APOSTROPHE or other none letter keys.
seeing as you get _ instead of : try keys in that area.

the msx Brazil keymap has Portuguese letters, so just boot the MSX BRAZ machine and press every key till you find it.

All ok switching to UK keyboard.
Thanks .mad.

Colecovision v1.1

Thanks dax for the Colecovision v1.1 GameBase...
All works OK !

Yeah thanks a lot !

Hi,

Is it possible to re-upload the ZX Spectrum gamebase? All links are dead unfortunately

Thank you
Rick

The newest version will be uploaded till the Sunday - I promise