28 Sep
2005
28 Sep
'05
1:08 p.m.
Speaking of cassette based software and whatnot, in
the absence of a floppy drive, and my understanding is
there was one available, not that I'm likely to find
it anytime soon, what are my options for running (any)
software for the Yamaha CX5M I just appropriated? It
does have a cassette port and cartridge port. Are
images of stuph available anywhere? I suppose I could
build a generic cartridge and dump images onto an
eprom or something like that. What about adapting a
drive from some other z80 based puter?
There are programs to load cassete based programs from the PC soundcard to
the cassette port of a MSX like your CX5M.
Look for
http://www.faq.msxnet.org/suffix.html#CAS
http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~vincentd/
and www.funet.fi/pub/msx for msx cassette files
External floppy drives for MSX are rare. But an external IDE interface is
easy to construct, lookt at the Beer interface on my webpage and generic
CX5M hardware information.
Hans. http://www.hansotten,com