Did recently somebody ask me how future has the mnbios... due to the endless vicious circle of the one that if there is not soft there are not users and if there are not users... Because who will develop the soft?.
It is my desire to share with you my vision in this respect.
Q: Then, basically, at least as me I see it, for my the MNBIOS is like a series of routines that me they help in the programming in ASM (since personally, at the moment, I don't believe that it uses any hard that doesn't come from series in a MSX2)
A: That is in fact the idea of the MNBIOS, in fact what forced me to its
I develop in 1996, with the result that the MNBIOS runs in a normal MSX2 without any
type of modifications, and it is hoped to support the MSX1 including a
Alternative VDP9938/58 in the expansion.
With the result that the MNBIOS is a very interesting proposal that stands out of
other projects like the brazil where a special hardware should be bought
to begin. Contrary to this last project, the MNBIOS would allow to break the vicious circle that if there is not soft there are not users and if there is not users are not hardware neither evolution.
Another great advantage of the MNBIOS is that we speak of breaking the barrier of those 4MB of RAM, imagine what they have made the brazil people, they armed all one
mother that reminds me at a 286 and they fell in the poor limitation of using the one
same paginador of 8 well-known bits already in the MSX2, that is to say they cut him those wings from the beginning.
It is true that the MNBIOS is very futurist, (1GB of RAM, 7 sub-systems
with CPUs that can be any micro compatible z80 as for E.g. the eZ80
that runs at 88mhz). But it is not necessary that make now, but rather
it can leave arming as we go having the necessity to have it.
And on the contrary that other developers we publish those
electronic outlines, because this project doesn't seek to be a business
for few, but a platform for many. And that makes to the users, to the one
future and to the success.!. of course we speak of a lot of work for before.
In fact following the vision "OPEN PROJECT" I plan to publish the code
source of user's interface, since the same one is a file EXEC
independent and it would be an interesting educational starting point for many
and it would even encourage to develop other distrubuciones. But I don't go to
to publish the code source of the kernel so that the bull not control and
lose the rule number 1 "An application will be able to run in all the msx of the
world, because what changes is the sub-version of the kernel and not the
application."
The poor supports of the bios conventional msx for the programming in
assembler was what forced me to develop this S.O. you can say that it is
a group of librarys but be say bad that, since not alone we speak
of runtimes, we speak of new structures, that today program
to run in a diskette tomorrow will work on a CD-ROM without modifying the
application.
If you have followed the news of the page web, you will know that there are many
articles to make, before at least we are published the first version.
When I mentioned that it will be at the end of January, perhaps I didn't take into account that I should share my time with other activities, besides the inclusion to last moment of some more articles, since if I don't modify it now before that the standard one comes out, I won't be able to never modify it more to maintain the rule 1.
The wait will be worthwhile and alone we speak of the kernel and the interface of the one
user, I ignore the time that i will take me to transfer the compiler + editor
to use the standard MNBIOS at the moment, because I seek that it is one
complete suite so that all the programmers as me are comfortable.
In first instance I will publish 2 kernels, the one that works with my
diskdriver (Talent or Daewo DPF 550 / 555) that alone the Argentineans have, and
a parallel version of the kernel that instead of incorporating a DISK DRIVER
a HDD will bring DRIVER to use it with the "sunrise IDE cartridge" since
I understand that it is very popular and for a lot of time and in many countrys,
although in the personal thing I don't have one, that will make it is to publish the one
circuit of this cartridge Sunrise IDE so that anyone can arm it
with components easy to buy in any electronic house of the world. What do you say? What i would have legal conflicts with Sunrise for the royalties?, No, because single use as starting point the one map of registers of this cartridge (a file published by sunrise), not , I not even need to have one so that by means of inverse engineering
to develop a twin circuit. It is very as to what happens to the one
software, where a company devises an interface of services (API) and others
they duplicate that interface to obtain compatibility (E.g. CP/M to MS-DOS) but
they never copied neither they saw the code source, because it simply is not necessary.
Another example is the automobile where all copied "the steering wheel" of the one that him it invented. This alone it will bring 2 consequences, the first one is to increase the sale of this cartridge in Sunrise, since a thing is the quality of a product in series and another thing is something armed in the home. And the other consequence is that people impoverished by the IMF like all the Argentineans can arm a spending single u$s5, total anyway same we would not buy to sunrise (as u$s40 that would represent the work of 4 days for a cartridge).
I wait to have clarified some points. And I wait for them to see typing and
a lot.!!!! I wish Them many COMPLETE projects!!!.
flyguille
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Publicado: Enero 21 2004, 18:16 
Enough for MSX. Who has a spare ancient IDE interface for this guy? He worked his ass off to get this far...