Request a wiki

I don't care about proof, but I do care about a good healthy atmosphere here at MRC, and a 'did not', 'did too' discussion like has been going on here between Guillian and gdx is more illustrative of 4 year olds playing in a sandbox than a good productive discussion.

If it were up to me I'd trust the guy who actually makes the cartridges, but in the end I mostly care that you guys solve your differences without creating a (potential) flamewar here at MRC. So work it out and move forward and do it without dragging the rest of the community into it. And like I said, keep an eye on your tone or we will be giving a cooldown ban.

I'm not fully sure but I think we didn't disallow normal users from deleting those categories. If you go to Wiki > Special pages > Unused categories and click on one of those, di you get the category page itself? In my case, there's a few tab buttons at the top of the page, one of them is the 'delete' option. Have you tried that?

Got it. Just removed the categories for you. I like the idea to have all the MSX components in the wiki, guess the author just forgot about the distinction between regular pages and categories

A category "MSX Components" already exists...

Discounting simple IC's like 74LSxxx logic, RAM / EPROM, opamps etc, there aren't that many entries falling in there. A few videochips, a few audio chips, (and why not a few engine IC's too).

Forgot to mention: if you want to know what machines use a particular engine IC, the "what links here" on the page of that engine IC should provide links to most models (once their pages include a link to that engine IC). So it's not necessary to have a category for each engine IC.

For those who think so: and stop where? Create categories for "has grey housing", "has external keyboard", "has built-in floppy drive", "has AZERTY keyboard layout", etc, etc? Then you might as well re-write the Wiki from scratch...

I get the point (and usefulness) of categories, but they shouldn't be (ab)used as random 'tags'. That's not how Wikis work, and that's also not how it's done on Wikipedia for example.

I love to create new fonts and spirits and here is the MSX-BASIC listing of a very simple program I use.

5 ' ZANAC fonts
10 SCREEN 1:COLOR 15,0,0:WIDTH 32:CLS
20 FOR I=0 TO 7:PRINT "00000000";I:NEXT I
21 LOCATE 15,0
22 FOR I=0 TO 12
23 PRINT CHR$(65+I);
24 NEXT I
25 LOCATE 15,1
26 FOR I=0 TO 12
27 PRINT CHR$(65+I+13);
28 NEXT I
30 LOCATE 15,2
32 FOR I=0 TO 12
33 PRINT CHR$(65+32+I);
34 NEXT I
35 LOCATE 15,3
36 FOR I=0 TO 12
37 PRINT CHR$(65+32+I+13);
38 NEXT I
39 LOCATE 0,8:PRINT"?hex$(&b11111110);"+CHR$(34)+"     "+CHR$(34)
40 LOCATE 15,4:PRINT"0123456789"
49 READ C$
50 IF C$="*" THEN 110
60 FOR I=0 TO 7
70 READ CV$:CV=VAL("&H"+CV$)
80 VPOKE ASC(C$)*8+I,CV
90 NEXT I
100 GOTO 40
900 LOCATE 0,12:LIST 1000
1000 DATA "A",00,3E,71,71,71,7F,71,0
1010 DATA "B",00,7E,71,7E,71,71,7E,0
1020 DATA "C",00,3E,71,70,70,71,3E,0
1030 DATA "D",00,7e,71,71,71,71,7e,0
1040 DATA "E",00,7f,70,7e,70,70,7f,00
1050 DATA "F",00,7f,70,70,7f,70,70,00
1060 DATA "G",00,3e,71,70,77,73,3e,00
1070 DATA "H",00,71,71,7f,71,71,71,00
1080 DATA "I",00,1c,1c,1c,1c,1c,1c,00
1090 DATA "J",00,0e,0e,0e,0e,4e,3c,00
1100 DATA "K",00,71,72,7c,74,72,71,00
1110 DATA "L",00,70,70,70,70,70,7f,00
1120 DATA "M",00,71,7b,7f,75,71,71,00
1130 DATA "N",00,71,79,7d,77,73,71,00
1140 DATA "O",00,3e,71,71,71,71,3e,00
1150 DATA "P",00,7e,71,71,7e,70,70,00
1160 DATA "Q",00,3e,71,75,75,72,3d,00
1170 DATA "R",00,7e,71,71,7e,73,73,00
1180 DATA "S",00,3e,71,3c,0e,43,3e,00
1190 DATA "T",00,7f,1c,1c,1c,1c,1c,00
1200 DATA "U",00,71,71,71,71,71,3e,00
1210 DATA "V",00,71,71,71,73,76,7c,00
1215 'DATA "V",00,e2,e2,74,74,38,38,0
1220 'DATA "V",00,71,71,72,74,78,70,0
1230 'DATA "V",00,71,73,76,7c,78,70,0
1240 DATA "W",00,71,71,75,7f,7b,71,00
1250 DATA "X",00,71,3a,1c,1c,3a,71,00
1260 DATA "Y",00,71,3a,1c,1c,1c,1c,00
1270 'DATA "Y",00,71,38,1c,1c,1c,1c,00
1280 DATA "Z",00,7f,0e,1c,1c,38,7f,00
1290 DATA "Z",00,7f,0e,1c,38,70,7f,00
4000 DATA "a",00,00,70,88,F8,88,88,0
4010 DATA "b",00,00,F0,48,70,48,F0,0
4020 DATA "c",00,00,78,80,80,80,78,0
4030 DATA "d",00,00,F0,48,48,48,F0,0
4040 DATA "e",00,00,F8,80,F0,80,F8,0
4050 DATA "f",00,00,F8,80,F0,80,80,0
4060 DATA "g",00,00,78,80,b8,88,70,0
4070 DATA "h",00,00,88,88,F8,88,88,0
4080 DATA "i",00,00,F8,20,20,20,F8,0
4090 DATA "j",00,00,38,08,08,88,70,0
4100 DATA "k",00,00,88,90,E0,90,88,0
4110 DATA "l",00,00,80,80,80,80,F8,0
4120 DATA "m",00,00,88,D8,A8,88,88,0
4130 DATA "n",00,00,88,C8,A8,98,88,0
4140 DATA "o",00,00,F8,88,88,88,F8,0
4150 DATA "p",00,00,F0,88,F0,80,80,0
4160 DATA "q",00,00,F8,88,A8,90,E8,0
4170 DATA "r",00,00,F8,88,F8,A0,90,0
4180 DATA "s",00,00,78,80,70,08,F8,0
4190 DATA "t",00,00,F8,20,20,20,20,0
4200 DATA "u",00,00,88,88,88,88,70,0
4210 DATA "v",00,00,88,88,90,A0,40,0
4220 DATA "w",00,00,88,88,A8,D8,88,0
4230 DATA "x",00,00,88,50,20,50,88,0
4240 DATA "y",00,00,88,50,20,20,20,0
4250 DATA "z",00,00,F8,10,20,40,F8,0
5000 DATA "0",3c,66,66,00,cc,cc,78,0
5010 DATA "1",04,06,06,00,0c,0c,08,0
5020 DATA "2",3c,06,06,38,c0,c0,78,0
5030 DATA "3",3c,06,06,38,0c,0c,78,0
5040 DATA "4",24,66,66,38,0c,0c,08,0
5050 DATA "5",3c,60,60,38,0c,0c,78,0
5060 DATA "6",3c,60,60,38,cc,cc,78,0
5070 DATA "7",3c,06,06,00,0c,0c,08,0
5080 DATA "8",3c,66,66,38,cc,cc,78,0
5090 DATA "9",3c,66,66,38,0c,0c,78,0
6000 DATA "`",7e,c1,dd,d9,dd,c1,7e,0
9000 DATA "*"

You may notice how much effort and time it needs to create a new character and then put it in a DATA line then run the program again to see the fruit of your hard work. Now I have three problems I need you to help me in:

1- I need a character and spirit editor which works in MSX or in Android (I don't need a Windows executable 'cos I can't use my PC due to no electricity in my country).
2- How can I BSAVE the new fonts and BLOAD them correctly when I need?!
3- In my program the fonts return to their original form as soon as the screen changes. So how can I keep the new fonts even after SCREEN command is used?!

Thank you in advance my friends.