My Music Memories: Last Night The DJ Saves My Life - Indeep

Talking about basslines, this song has one of the best I ever heard (the other ones are "Radar Love" of Golden Earing and "Another One Bites The Dust" of Queen).

Listen to this bass cover (with tabs to play along) and you know what I'm talking about...

Wanna sheet music to play the song ? Here

Indeep was a one-hit-wonder, but the song "Last Night The DJ Saves My Life" got plenty remixes. The rapper, the female singer, the bassline, the guitar riff, everything is perfectly put in place, a real dance classic.

For some 80s memories: check out the original video
For the strange video ever (but a great remix)here



I love basslines like in the songs of Chic, but that's another
story...

112 MSX Basic games presents: 112-MENU.BAS

If you start a serie with 112 Basic games, you have to find an easy way to start any games without having typing names or numbers. 

So I wanted to make a menu that had room for 112 games and completly can be using with cursorkeys or joystick (1). 

That wasnt easy cause I wanted to create an MSX-1 menu in screen 2, so lots of colorspill and not much space to put texts on. My solution; check the screenshoy below.

The 112-MENU.BAS is allmost complete and fully functional and a version will be released on this blog when I have posted the first 10 MSX Basic games.

Note 1: It will take some time to translate all Dutch texts in any Basic games soon to come, so...stay tuned.

Note 2: of course if you have a AUTOEXEC.BAS menu-program 112 MSX Basic games
will not fit.
CARDS.BAS has 2 games in 1 file, so there was room on the disk for a menu-program.

112 MSX Basic games presents : Adventure (108)

At the time when MSX-1 began, text-adventures were a populair game-genre, cause at that time most computers were not able to create fast high resulution pictures. Not to mention animated pictures...

So there were commercial software based on text-adventures like The Hobbit or De Sekte and of course some MSX Basic programmers that made some very large text-adventures.
I once had a MSX Basic text-adventure that only could run from tape. It was too large to run when Disk Basic was loaded...

But here is a very small text-adventure called Marie Celeste.
I like it cause I like the way it describes the place you are. Like you are really on board on a old ship.
It's no horror story, more a hide and seek.
I never got to the end of the adventure, so many times I checked the listing for mistakes or hidden clues, no luck.

Maybe you can solve it ? If you do, send me a walkthrough please.
After all these years I still wanna know the solution.

Here is a list of commands to get you started: GET KNIFE, CLIMB ROPE, CUT ROPE, LOOK, FORARD, EXAMINE NOTE, GET NOTE, AFT, PORT, FORARD, EXAMINE BUCKET, GET KEY, STARBOARD, EXAMINE CAT, FORARD, OPEN STORES, ....

Download it from: Mediafire or Gavitex

112 MSX Basic games presents : Parrot (109)

This game gave my headaches, cause changing the layout and the controls 

(now also playable with joystick ) was not so simple. 

The maker was very good at using all kinds of MSX characters and I was forgotten that kind of information.

I added an easy and normal mode at Parrot, which is basicly a musical memory game.

Just remember the notes in the right order.

My personal record (easy mode ) is 12, I guess that's  not hard to beat.
In the easy mode you can see the directions, in normal mode you don't.
Have fun and play it with all your friends or family !

Download it at: Mediafire or Gavitex

112 MSX Basic games presents : StarTrek (110)

I hope I dont get any legal problems, the game was just named after the famous SF serie.

So StarTrek is a simple space game. 

You have to dock to fill your energie, shield and fight aliens.

 

To get to 1 position to another you have to warp. 

Warp costs energie and fighting aliens will lower your shield, so you need to get on time to the starbase to dock. 

Docking and fighting is not easy, cause the controls are opposite of what you expect. 

Once again, no joystick needed, cause most commands you need are easy to learn and it's faster to type then go with your joystick sprite to the right place on your screen. 

Of course the docking and shooting seems slow, remember timing is more important than speed...

NB: I didnt have the listingbook anymore, so I didnt know the commands to use.

By playing a lot I found out, so I made a instruction page with all commands you need.

And I changed the difficulty so you can play along in the easy mode without getting out of energie too soon. 

Have fun with STARTREK.BAS.

Download with Mediafire or Gavitex

112 MSX Basic games presents : Cards (112 + 111)

The game Cards was original a collection of 3 listings I put together in a simple menu.

 

But I didnt like the game-listing Plantoon much,
so in the end I forgot to type it over.

Still there are 2 games left:
* the blue "Concentration (Memory)"
* the green "Hi-Low".

I liked the games, cause it looks very transparant and easy to play.

Keyboard is required, I dont miss the joystick at the game. See screenshot and below the links to download CARDS.BAS.

NB : Yes, I modified "Concentration " and the main menu 

to make it more playable.

To download: 

* via Mediafire

* via Gavitex

Fan van Paul Mc Cartney and Wings

I guess that was no suprise, cause I published already some Wordstore demos with his music in it. 

My friend who liked The Beatles  just as much as me, had bought a set of MCs with songs of the The Beatles. Sadly it were no originals but a couple of nobodies singing their songs. But they did a very good job so it took a while before we noticed it. 

Any way, on the last tape there were some songs from Paul Mc Carthey and Wings. 

I liked them so I started to buy Paul Mc Cartney albums, and ...well...in my Wordstore demo's I will explain more about each album.

My older sister liked his music too, so she bought the double live album Wings Over America, Band On The Run on cassettes and Wings Greatest on LP with a couple of hickups in the song "Hi Hi Hi" (a light pick-up arm helped).

But Pipes of Peace was the last album I bought. Why ? Check out my post about my Hey Hey Karaoke Wordstore demo.

And did you know that Paul Mc Cartney also made some nice instrumental songs ?
If I would collect all of them I have on cassttes or LP , I could make a whole CD full.
To number a few I really liked: "Valentine's Day", "L.O.U.P.","On The Cuff Link" and "Rockestra Theme".

You can find the originals all over YouTube, so here are my first pick of covers
from Wings Greatest on YouTube:

"Another Day"
 "Silly Love Songs"
"Live and Let Die"
"Junior's Farm"
"With a Little Luck"
"Band On The Run"
"Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey"
"Hi, Hi, Hi"
"Let 'Em In"
"My Love"
"Jet" 
"Mull Of Kintyre"

Everyone with a guitar or piano can play these songs, but these songs are not so easy to play and sing as they seem to be...