From 1996 to 2003 flyguille developed and tested a new BIOS for his MSX2, called MNBIOS (MSX Non BASIC Input Output System). The purpose of this project is creating a new BIOS that increases the capabilities of the MSX2 hardware, without the need of directly addressing the hardware. Without modifying the hardware, MNBIOS supports a graphical screen mode with 341 sprites at a size of 16x16, and a screen of 85x35 characters, giving characters a text and background color, similar to SVGA. MNBIOS is a conmuted multitasking system which supports 1Gb of RAM paged and can manage 7 Z80 CPU's parallel working on single expansions.
MNBIOS is not a continuation of the MSX software standard, but a completely new standard. MNBIOS does not have to be loaded in ROM, it can work from disk as well. There already is a reference manual available in Spanish.
If you want read the programmer manual, you can send an email to flyguille@arnet.com.ar.
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