I've recently received a GFX9000 card; but I'm having some trouble with it. I've been able to lauch picview and seems that the card is working fine; but till now it has been impossible to launch the PowerBASIC or demos from the demodisk. Of course I'm using a TurboR (ST); but I need something more to launch PowerBASIC?, every time I try it it shows an error "direct statement in file", could be the disk damaged or incomplete?.
Also, I've been looking for a GFX9K noob guide, how to install?, how to make some simple programs? and so on; but without luck...

Maybe the disk is faulty. Try to copy to another. If it is faulty, i can send you an image.
I think on the disk there should be some program to load GBASIC. If i am not wrong it was for Turbo-R.
To get info on the card, http://map.tni.nl/resources/ is a good start. There are some libraries made arround by AIRAM.
Also, try on the Sunrise page. You can download a lot of soft for it http://www.msx.ch/sunformsx/
Original documents from Yamaha are too extensive and programing examples are few.

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I've recently received a GFX9000 card

"Caverns of Titan GFX9000" is on the go, jl?

Can you write asm?

How to install? Oo

Useful resources have been mentioned. If you have more concrete questions, just ask them here

(And yes, it seems your disk is broken. But it's easy to get PowerBasic, I suppose?)

Thanks for the info!. I've been browsing all of this sites lately; but I overlooked them cause the PowerBASIC in the Sunrise page seems pretty different of the one supplied with the card. Now I've just download this file and I've found that my disk labelled "G.BASIC/PowerBASIC" misses some files that the LZH downloaded has. So I'm going to replace it and see what happens. Anyway I'll be happy to find full diskimages of the damaged disks...

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"Caverns of Titan GFX9000" is on the go, jl?

Bwahahahahaha!

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Can you write asm?

Sure!

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How to install?

eeeerm....bad expression here....it would be more appropiate "How to set-up the card being a total noob?", all that stuff about that funny extra RGB connector and how to launch in less than a minute a colourfull demo to lure the friend that has come to see your new toy...

www.teambomba.net Download some gfx9000 stuff here. Try the gfx9000 lib

WEll, just connect the connector to a monitor and run some GFX9000 program

PowerBasic is completely different than G-Basic, btw.

Could be possible, that I have similiar problems like Jltursan, but "Underwater demo" works fine
Is it possible to download the XTAZY intro/preview somewhere???

Jltursan, check this
http://www.msx.org/X-Tazy-introdemo-1.2.newspost3687.html
But I couldn't find the first level yet...

Well, use the search function of MRC and find this:

http://www.msx.org/X-Tazy-goes-opensource-2-playable-levels.newspost3816.html

The PowerBASIC is fixed now, I've replaced the files with the ones found in the downloaded version and now it boots fine. I've tested some demos and works flawlessly, well, sort of, seems that the RGB has some kind of problem with a wire (red pin must be loose). I need to do some more test with another TV set just to be sure that's not my problem.
There're tons of info out there!, first I'll try to find the differences between GBASIC and PowerBASIC...

thanx, Manual, I think it was too late yesterday...

POwerBasic is written by Henrik Gilvad and is for turboR only, AFAIK.

GBasic is written by Koen van Hartingsveldt, and works on any MSX (not sure about MSX1). The manuals are online, see also the GFX9000 section on the FAQ: http://faq.msxnet.org/gfx9000.html

GBasic doesn't support the pattern modes, by the way. It does support Video9000 though