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MSX Technical guidebook English Edition.
Now Translating. (Only part of Japanese MSX system and Japanese Language support)

What is ASCAT?

ASCAT is 'love and technical data' Do-Jin MSX circle. Since 1986.
We made some game programs, some technical data books.

In this page, introduce ASCAT products.

INDEX

ASCAT products guide.

MSX technical guidebook + for disksystem.

Juki, the Ranger.

MSX freesoftware select 100.

TIMER-BALL.

How to GET.

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ASCAT products guide

MSX Technical Guidebook the 4 ^th edition + for disk system.

Technical guide book for MSX assembler programmer.
212 pages textbook plus 3.5inch 2DD diskette.
All text is written by Japanese.
On Japanese web page, opening 40 pages text data is opened.
First edition Dec. 1989.
Newest edition Dec. 1995.
English Edition Now Translationg.

Contests.

PART of The 4 ^th edition

part 1 BASIC

1-1 BASIC
1-2 Ramdisk of MSX-BASIC Ver2.
1-3 Extend MSX-BASIC statements

part 2 notice for developers

2-1 main notice for developers
2-2 system's bugs and avoid those
2-3 Memory Mapper
2-4 KANJI-ROM
2-5 printers
2-6 mouse and trackball
2-7 extend BIOS call
2-8 notice of KANJI-Driver
2-9 MSX-MUSIC
2-10 check action of software

part 3 disk

3-1 existence of disk drive
3-2 format
3-3 disk error
3-4 CTRL+C statement
3-5 if disk drive does not stop
3-6 COMMAND.COM
3-7 2-drive simulation
3-8 physical drive
3-9 TPA's upper address
3-10 PHYDIO mode
3-11 stop BAT file
3-12 DOS's function call
3-13 notice of MSX-DOS2
3-14 extend device driver
3-15 starting of disk drive
3-16 harddisk

part 4 RS-232C and modem

4-1 RS-232C and modem
4-2 RS-232C's extend BIOS call
4-3 How to use RS-232C jump table
4-4 How to use modem BIOS jump table
4-5 notice of RS-232C and modem

part 5 MSX-JE

5-1 What is MSX-JE?
5-2 starting of MSX-JE
5-3 How to use MSX-JE
5-4 Imagination terminal interface
5-5 notice of MSX-JE

part 6 MSX turbo R

6-1 outline of turbo R
6-2 R800 CPU unit
6-3 different from MSX2+

part 7 sample program

part 8 appendix

8-1 BIOS
8-2 system work area
8-3 disk interface internal routine
8-4 disk work area
8-5 NON official disk work area
8-6 official disk work area
8-7 escape sequence
8-8 MSX-DOS2 command index
8-9 24dots KANJI-Printer's sequence code
8-10 MSX2 technical handbook rectification
8-11 I/O map

PART of for disk system

part 1 MSX and disk system

1-1 MSX's disk system
1-2 position of disk system
1-3 memory map

part 2 Disk basic

2-1 Disk BASIC ver.1.
2-2 Disk BASIC ver.2.
2-3 How to use function call
2-4 Disk BASIC's error code index

part 3 MSX-DOS

3-1 MSX-DOS
3-2 MSX-DOS2
3-3 program's start and end
3-4 disk data internal construction
3-5 all of function call index
3-6 MSX-DOS2 error code index
CP/M's FCB

part 4 notice for software developers

4-1 disk's environment
4-2 notice for software developers
4-3 disk access
4-4 program auto start

part 5 internal disk system

5-1 disk
5-2 DOS kernel
5-3 disk driver
5-4 FDC

part 6 APPENDIX

6-1 MSX disk system index
6-2 function call quick reference

Juki, the Ranger.

'Juki, the Ranger' is an Adventure game for Japanese MSX system.
First edition Dec.1994.(OUT OF PRINT)

contents.
Pop and Fantastic Adventure game.
Heroine 'Juki' is a Ranger girl.
Juki live in a Ranger house on a forest.
Speak with animals and action with those animals. And keep forest's peace.

JUKIDEMO.LZH(124K) Juki, the Ranger DEMO version.1995 ASCAT.
For MSX2,VRAM128K. need KANJI-ROM, need MSX-DOS(2) (messages are Japanese)

Main characters.

JUKI
the Heroine of this story.

RINRI
a goshawk. She likes fish.

FROG
very kindly frog.

AKKA
commander of wild duck.

AIR ELEMENT
come to wind and go to with wind.

WATER ELEMENT
live in near lake.

FIRE ELEMENT

EARTH ELEMENT

FAIRY OF WOOD

FAITY OF FOREST

MSX freesoftware select 100

In 3-diskette, record 100 freesoftware titles.
Tools, terminal software, joke software, graphic viewer ,graphic data, text editor, compiler, and many many software in.

First edition Jan. 1994.
Newest edition Nov. 1996.

Full List of MSX freesoftware select 100.

TIMER-BALL

Action game for MSX.
move blue ball and catch the heart mark before time count 0.
43 stages and 7 bonus stages.
Bonus stages messages are Japanese.
Sold on TAKERU in 1992-1994. But now out of print.
In this page, TIMER-BALL full set version is opened.

First edition Aug. 1990.

TBALL.LZH(68K) TIMER-BALL full set version.(C) 1990 ASCAT.
For MSX,RAM32K. 60Hz Only.

How to GET.

MSX Technical Guidebook. 1800Yen + packed cost.
MSX freesoftware select 100. 600Yen + packed cost.

MO-SOFT sell those ASCAT products.
Address of MO-SOFT.

MO-SOFT
Musashino Post office Tokyo JAPAN.

E-mail address of MO-SOFT.
GGB01564@nifty.ne.jp

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xmo music (Japanese)

MSX Technical guidebook English Edition. (English)