Sharksym's MMC/SD Drive Updates

Korean MSX hardware- and software developer Yeongman Seo, also known as Sharksym, is a fellow lover of MSX computers. He continued improving MMC/SD drive and released new firmware with fixes and improvements. Current firmware version is 5.55 and you can read more and get it on Sharksym's blog.

Other projects by Sharksym:

PAC-V: SRAM compatible with PAC of Panasoft but with cool LEDs which visualize access to FM and PSG
paraMSX-R: virtualizer cartridge, allows you to run software with different machines' configurations
FontPack: Kanji and Hangul support for your computer (also some nice extra ASCII fonts too)
T-Wave: audio extension packed with a lot of goodies
M file manager: highly configurable file manager for MSX2 and higher
SLT-Turbo (in development): slot expander with extra features such as support of R800 instructions and Z80 turbo mode

and a lot more.

relevant link: Sharksym's blog
His blog is in Korean language (or Hangul), so a translator might come in handy. There's plenty of options out there on the web.

Commentaires (13)

Par OeiOeiVogeltje

Paragon (1408)

08-02-2021, 23:29

i have almost all his stuff
and ordered the rest
go get it or them!!

Par Pencioner

Scribe (1503)

08-02-2021, 23:45

I have paraMSX-R and SD/MMC v4 and i planned to go for some more (at least PAC-V) but then pandemic screwed up my budget for a while... though i hope the stuff still would be available for a while
SD/MMC is packed with very nice features, and i like that GameRunner modes work when it is in secondary expanded slot

Par gdx

Enlighted (5600)

09-02-2021, 02:02

His productions deserve to be better known. If you have a little time to complete the wiki, please do not hesitate to share your knowledge!

https://www.msx.org/wiki/Category:Sharksym

Par _ThEcRoW

Master (145)

09-02-2021, 22:06

One question about the paramsx cartridge. Does it work on a msx1?. I mean, if i use it on a msx1 can it virtualize a msx2 since it has a fpga?.

Thanks in advance!

Par Pencioner

Scribe (1503)

10-02-2021, 01:33

No, as it uses the host machine video and sound chips (it is not a very small cartridge of Zemmix Neo with everything in FPGA, why would you need that). It only has a dedicated RAM, some PPI implemented to emulate slot switching, and FlashROM with bunch of ready-flashed BIOSes and user area to flash your own machine config is needed, more or less, maybe something else i'm missing here btw because i'm not that much into details. Also it has some hooks to capture host machine disk drive operation so you can use host machine's floppy/SD/CF/IDE whatever you have there in virtualized one. So basically you can virtualize another model of same generation or models of lower generations but not higher 'cause of VDP/F4 port/etc incompatibilities

Par selios2000

Hero (526)

10-02-2021, 21:16

OeiOeiVogeltje wrote:

i have almost all his stuff
and ordered the rest
go get it or them!!

How can I order something on his web? Seems impossible!

Par Pencioner

Scribe (1503)

10-02-2021, 23:00

You have to write him an email

Par gdx

Enlighted (5600)

11-02-2021, 09:28

https://www.msx.org/wiki/Sharksym_ParaMSX-R

Par OeiOeiVogeltje

Paragon (1408)

14-02-2021, 17:23

hmm
It looks like he is a bit annoyed about this article

Par selios2000

Hero (526)

16-02-2021, 18:07

Pencioner wrote:

You have to write him an email

He doesn’t reply.

Par OeiOeiVogeltje

Paragon (1408)

16-02-2021, 22:51

give him a few days
i bet he has more to do than MSX

Par gdx

Enlighted (5600)

17-02-2021, 09:30

I wonder what annoys him so much. He should understand that there is the language barrier. In addition he can explain what shocks him here even in Korean before getting angry, especially since there is a link to his blog in the news to verify it so errors are forgivable. This is not fake news and let alone intentional.

He also made another critic here for a detail almost unimportant instead of editing the wiki itself.

The wiki is not set in stone. It is in perpetual evolution. It can not contain all the full and right information from the start. It's not easy to put together this amount of information. Most are lost or in foreign languages, and it is not by reacting like that that the wiki will evolve more quickly.

Par selios2000

Hero (526)

18-02-2021, 19:27

OeiOeiVogeltje wrote:

give him a few days
i bet he has more to do than MSX

Maybe he spends a lot of time developing and not replying...

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