MSX boot

Hi,

What I dont understand is how the booting of an MSX works.

If you have no disc or cartdridge installed, it just boots from basic rom.
But what if you put in a cartridge, does this go before a disc, or is the disc first ? Which mechanism controls this ?

Even so, the MSX title screen. Where does it come from ? The bios/basic rom ?

Does anyone know this ?

Regards,

PP

Cartridge goes before the disk, and it guess it's controlled in the bios. Also the title screen is in the bios.

Check also [cbios.sourceforge.net] if you are intrested in the bios of MSX computers.

> But what if you put in a cartridge, does this go
> before a disc, or is the disc first ? Which
> mechanism controls this ?

Cartridge is called first time without diskdrive. If cartridge needs diskdrive, it returns control back to BIOS and starts, when it is called second time.

> Even so, the MSX title screen. Where does it come
> from ? The bios/basic rom ?

MSX logo is stored in SUB-ROM.