Happy New Year ! (the MSX part)

I just wanted also this year a MSX part with the subject "Happy New Year", but I have to say it's getting harder every year to think something new and fresh.

This was nothing more than a ad-hoc idea I got when I was busy with collecting New Years songs (see my other post).
I used the demo for titlemaker (from a previous uploaded disk ToolZ and DemoZ part C), changed the texts and created 2 screens instead of one.
That's it, nothing more. No audio and no animation. Just plain MSX-1 Basic. And I uploaded it to YouTube.

Check it out. I speedup my BlueMSX emulator when I recording it, so you don't have to wait so long to see the titles being generated.
But I'm pretty sure if I change the listing in a Turbo-Basic/Kun compiler version, the speed will be the same as in the video.

Tot download this little demo:  Mediafire / Pcloud

I hope this little demo will be the start of a yearly tradition to create MSX demo's with NEw Year's greetings.
The Best Wishes for 2017, till next year !!!

Happy New Year ! (the Music part)

I wish you a happy new year and I give you the first part of my New Year song-collection, which I collected together with a enormous amount of Christmas songs.
In my opinion a good New Year song can be happy, sad, aggressive or funny, so I had plenty tracks to choose from.

I ran out of time, so the mp3 tags are incomplete or not completly missing. Sorry about that.
For this 2017 edition I give you the songs ordered in different music-genres, so we have Dance, Rock, Rap, Instrumental, Folk and Pop. I was hoping I could create a sad playlist for New Years Eve and a happy playlist for New Years Day.
Well maybe next year, cause I got the idea a little too late...

I created one big ZIP file, I hope you don't mind. Hopefully the volumes in the songs are okay, cause this is also sometimes I had to do if I had more time.
So if you want the hear lots of alternative songs on New Years Eve or Day, download this ZIP, you won't  be disappointed...

Mediafire / Pcloud

Xmas 2016: Just 1 Xmas music link

It's already Christmas if you are reading this, but I wish you Happy Xmas to you all anyway.
I was busy preparing a nice playlist of all kinds of Xmas music from the 1 of more than 50 CD-Rs I made years ago, but I run out of time to post it before Christmas.

Well I am not so disappointed I didnt make it on time, cause while I was listening to the tracks from the CD-R and to Sky Radio 
(The Christmas -Radio-Station) I noticed the 3 differences between good and bad Christmas songs.

1) A Christmas song must give you a happy feeling
2) Giving a random song the name Christmas makes it no Christmas song
3) Sang or play a famous song exactly as others is only fun for your fans

And looking back at the songs I selected from my first CD-R, only a few could stay on the list if I checked the songs on these 3 rules.
So I dont try to finish the list today, but give you the link to a website with very different Christmas radiostations (and a lot more). They only play Xmas music that conform these rules ealier mentioned.

Here is the link: http://www.accuradio.com/christmas-music/

 
 

Xmas 2016: More MSX Xmas games feat. Xmasman

I promised more  MSX Xmas games, so here is Xmasman (or in Dutch: Kerstman) !!!

But I had to hurry, cause it's almost christmas and I was still busy putting sound, music 
and better controls...

Sorry only a couple of beeps this time, I couldnt insert the sounds and music and still be able to post it before christmas, however it has better controls than the original and it's easier to see how far you are in the game.

It's a memory game with a nice xmas twist, you have to remember the 2 presents you don't see behind Xmasman sleigh.There are 10 rounds, each more presents to remember and you get for each round just 2 tries. It's not so easy as it looks !!!


I wanna thank Jeroen Overvoorde, who made this nice MSX-2 Basic game in 1986.
Yes, it's a MSX-2 game only and runs in SCREEN 8.
The game was published by MSX Club Belgie Nederland on one of their disks.

 Downloading from: MEDIAFIRE / PCLOUD

NB 1: I like the simply but colorfull backgrounds the game generates itself, just look at the screenshots. 
NB2 : Maybe I will add some sounds and music later, but even without these it's a good looking, very playable MSX Basic game.

Xmas 2016: More MSX Xmas games feat. Xmas Quarrel

I already post about MSX Xmas games like Penguin Adventure of Konami and The Snowman of Quicksilva, both commercial released games. But what about all those MSX users who's programs were published on (disk-)magazines, listingbooks ? I tried to find some "home-made" MSX Xmas games, but there are just a few. Would it be a great idea if some big MSX website makes a yearly competition of creating new MSX Xmas games.
Well ?

I started my search on the Millenium CDs of MCM, the Dutch Magazine and lucky for me I found 2 Xmas MSX games on the Clubmagazines of the Belgium MCM. My search is not over yet, but I doubt I can find more Xmas games in my MSX diskcollection...


So the here is the 2nd Xmas game I found, Xmas Quarrel and English title for a Dutch games. Yeah, we Dutch use English words a lot, cause they sound better than the Dutch ones.

Here is a short translation of the controls screen:


SPELER = PLAYER
TOETSENBORD = KEYBOARD

If you choose 2 players with keyboard, the 2nd player had
to use w-a-s-z and shift

SPELER 1: DRUK EEN CIJFER = PLAYER 1: PRESS 1, 2 or 3

Xmas Quarrel is a 2-player game only, so you cant compete again your MSX.  It's a kind of a early PvP game,
like Vortex Raider of Eurosoft with snowmans throwing snowballs at eachother.
Funny, a Xmas fighting game, while real Xmas meaning is totally the opposite...

Again MSX Games World suprises me nicely, so here you can Download and play (Run) it.  Grab your annoying nephew
and show him who is King Snowman. 

MSX Xmas game 2016: The Snowman

Almost I year ago I post the best MSX Xmas game evere made, Penguin Adventure.
And I was sure that there was no other MSX game that had also thart Xmas style.
Until I searched for MSX Xmas demo on YouTube And found a serie of 4 gameplays of...

It's a very old (1984) platform-game from Quicksilva, but with nice looking sprites
fast game play and a little bit falling snow makes it a fun game to play.
Check out the animation if you loses a life...

I know a snowman is not really part of Xmas culture, but do you remember songs like "Frosty the Snowman" and "Let it Snow" ?
That's why I declare "The Snowman" as a MSX Xmas game.

You can "Download" and or "Run" it online at the www.msxgamesworld.com website, so this time no waiting for Mediafire or Pcloud downloads.

And if you are a bit lazy, watch the playlist Penko Tia made.

More Xmas posts will be there noon...

Xmas 2016: The MSX-1 Xmas demo I searched for a long time

I was busy thinking about Xmas and this blog and to me there is not enough Xmas demo's in the MSX-scene. You have to count the snowfalls and open fire demo's to it to get some.
Every year there should be new MSX Xmas demo's made, just to let everybody know MSX is still alive.

Well my search for MSX Xmas demo's brought me to the MCM archive to number 35 with some open fire listings in it,
I browsed through the pages of the PDF and there it was !!!

The listing I was searching for year after year !
I guess I missed it in my MSX disk-collection, cause it had such a common name, KERST (the Dutch word for XMAS).

In the same issue there was a Christmas song called WEWISH and the author of the magazine wrote that it would be nice if WEWISH put together with KERST to get a nice MSX-1 Xmas demo with animation and music.
That was a good idea, so I thought about it a lot and came with a solution that was not perfect, but does the job.

I noticed the animation could use some more speed and playing music at the same time, would ruin the animation completly. So I inserted the music between the animated screens.

Every demo has an intro which has its name and makers in it, this demo hadn't.
Real shame, cause I liked the little animations a lot. Again I thought hard and wrote in a notebook how it should look like, with (of course) a little animation.

My drawing skills are not that good and SCREEN 2 colorspill doesn't help a lot, but I created an intro that I think fits the demo very well.
Finally I changed also the name of the demo from KERST(WENS) to XMASWISH.BAS, so you will see the differences between the original and my modified version.

If you think you are waiting too long, you can press 1 key to go to the next part.
There is an intro and 3 other parts, so it's a short demo.

I also uploaded a video of the XMASWISH demo to YouTube to show that even in MSX-1 Basic you can make a Xmas demo with some animation.
You can see it here.

You can download the XMASWISH listing at: Mediafire / Pcloud

More Christmas posts are on its way, so watch out !

MSX Google: week 47, 2016

Recently I found 3 MSX sites that seemed to be forgotten...

The first one is some MSX pages are from http://andrear.altervista.org/home/msxsoftware.php  with some interesting info, some outdated and a couple downloads with games and demo's. Sadly it's only 1 page.

The second one is a sort of FTP-server with a MSX Archive, mostly in Spanish, called: http://msx2.me/

Lots of scans of MSX magazines and books, even complete mirrors of other MSX  archives !!!
Not all is available anymore, still worthy to browse a couple of hours here.

The lost one is an early MSX web-shop, if you choose English as language you get a lot of errors. Don't worry the site hyperlinks still work. Best parts are MSX Music (remakes/remixes of famous MSX game-music) and Downloads.


Check out the remake of F1-Spirit, it runs even on Windows 10 perfectly. The graphics, the music, the sound, it's just a little better than the original and it gives me still the same feeling when I played the original on my MSX computer. What more can you ask from a remake ? I can only say DOWNLOAD IT BEFORE THE SITE
IS GONE FOREVER !!!

TnC Collected works : TnC ToolZ DemoZ Disk Part E

To end this serie of disks:

After I had almost finished part D, I found more stuff I could not include, cause the disk was already full.

If you have a couple of uncompressed pictures on MSX disks, you know what I mean...

So there was a dilemma, forget it, create a Part E or include them on the first SoundZ DemoZ Disk Vol 1 ?

What was left over filled almost an entire MSX disk,
so I choose to make a Part E.

Part E contains fractal pictures, a Nemesis 2 intro demo (completely made in MSX-2 Basic) and a couple small programs.
With Part F the series of disks with tools and demos has ended, however I have some demos left and together with some musicfiles and soundtools I already busy collecting and modifying these for the new SoundZ and DemoZ serie disks.

Until then have fun with Part E.

All screenshots  are from programs of this disk.
So get your gear at Mediafire or Pcloud.

GameMusic tapes: Press PLAY to START tape 1

On this tape you find no Pinball Sounds or Racing Tracks, just all kind of PC-games with CD-audio. Probably the strangest mix I ever recorded on cassette, every genre is possible.
So I get never bored when I listen to these tapes. To be honest after so many years I dont like all tracks anymore. My taste of music has somehow changed.


Side A: https://www.mixcloud.com/TnC_tapes/press-play-to-start-tape-1-side-a/
Side B: https://www.mixcloud.com/TnC_tapes/press-start-to-play-tape-1-side-b/

I still like the title of the serie "Press PLAY to START", it fits very well.
And if you dont like the tape, you can allways buy a book with the same title...
Here: http://www.johnjosephadams.com/press-start-to-play/

GameMusic Tapes: CD-ROM Racing Tracks Volume 1

The title says it all, Racing music, so lot of up tempo stuff. Ideal for long road-trips.

Well, not like this...
At mixcloud you find some comments about where the music came from and more.

I am still suprised that after so many years, the tapes (in general) still sound like they
were recorded yesterday. Well, they are NOT ! But I can't tell you when, my best guess
is during the mid 90s.

Side A: https://www.mixcloud.com/TnC_tapes/cd-rom-racing-tracks-volume-1-side-a/

Side B: https://www.mixcloud.com/TnC_tapes/cd-rom-racing-tracks-volume-1-side-b/

Right now, I am not sure I will upload every Racing Tracks tape I made, I have still other tapes that might be also interesting to upload...
Check out https://www.mixcloud.com/TnC_tapes/ for more tapes from my past
(and maybe yours too...)

GameMusic Tapes: CD-ROM Pinball Sounds 1

There is not much to talk about this tape, I uploaded side A and B to mixcloud with some additional info in the comments.

So this time I will say something about the Pinball Sounds serie in general,  there were in total 4 tapes made with CD-audio from lot of Pinball games made in the 90s.

I remember that some Pinball games were just Commodore Amiga 500 ports.

Like this one, above...

And I bought mostly 3/4/5 packs of cassettes from companies that made (according to me) the best cassettes in the world, like Sony, TDK, Fuij and BASF.
I had a couple good white label cassettes like Turbo, but couldnt find any info on the net yet...
Funny enough the inventor of the compact cassette, Philips, made the worst tapes
(but I found out too late).

Listen to side A: https://www.mixcloud.com/TnC_tapes/cd-rom-pinball-sounds-1a/
Listen to side B: https://www.mixcloud.com/TnC_tapes/cd-rom-pinball-sounds-1-side-b/

All tapes contain music of the 90s, so lot of electronics, rock and less house, pop...

GameMusic Tapes: An Introduction

Well, instead I go on with the TnC GameMusic Collection I decided to introduce a slightly different series of Posts. Again with GameMusic, featuring tapes I made many years ago.

I was very fond of playing Pinball and Race games on my PC and noticed during playing by accident that the music I heard came from the CD-ROM directly, cause the CD-ROM kept spinning while playing the music. So I put a CD-ROM in my CD-player, skipped data track 1
and listen to the music tracks I never heard before. Then decided to check all the PC-games I had collected over years for CD-audio tracks, cause that is what they were called.

In the end I got so games with CD-audio, I started to record the best tracks on tapes so
I could listen to them on my Sony walkman. Yeah, it was before mp3 became famous.
I created 3 types of tapes with CD-audio, Race games, Pinball games and all other PC-games I could find. After recording more than 24 tapes I stopped, but still there were PC-games with great music but no CD-audio, so I ripped a lot or browsed the net to find those OSTs, converted to 1 format mp3 (192 kbps) and burned a lot of CD-Rs and DVD-Rs.
I believed I made more than 100 CD-Rs and 50 DVD-Rs. Don't worry I wont upload them all or post about every CD-R/DVD-R...

About the music you find on the tapes a very strange mix with different music-genres,
house, hard-rock, swing, rock n roll, boogie-woogie, techno, electronica, cross-over, disco, and plenty more. I always searched for a up-tempo track to start the tape and to reduce the switching of the CD-ROMs  in my CD-player I tried to record 2 tracks of the same game one after another.

I found an interesting website about (new) GameMusic, check this on: http://www.vgmonline.net/ or remixes of famous GameMusic, check: https://ocremix.org/
Lookinmg OSTs of older games, check here: http://downloads.khinsider.com/

Wanna see a strange shop where you still can purchase TDK tapes: https://www.duplication.ca/shop/TDK-SA-90.html  or a complete catalogue of manufacturers of compact cassettes: http://www.c-90.org/catalogue/tapes

112 MSX Basic Games presents: NED-HELI.GAM (82)

I know, I know, Radarsoft made perfect commercial Topografic games for the MSX-1 and 2, but hey, this game THE NETHERLANDS PER HELI shows you dont need ML to create a fast game on MSX.

I got some trouble with translation and tried to make it easy for all to understand how the game works.

Why this game about cities in the Netherlands ?

Well, if you ever visit the Netherlands and you must travel to one city to another, it can be very helpfull if you know where it lies (or at least which direction you must go). Cause not every "big" city will be listed on the trafficsigns...

I like how the introscreen and the instructions were made and the gameplay is very challenging. I dare you the get all levels !

Mediafire / Pcloud

Google week 42, 2016

While I was search for some scary pictures from MSX games, I got 2 websites full of MSX games I never heard of (well most of them) and some are even free to download !

So without any warning, here is: http://www.icongames.com.br/msxfiles/maine.htm

 PS: search for Rare Games...

And the next one, called: http://imanok.msxblue.com/games.html

Both sites wil keep you MSXing until it's spring again !!!

Happy Halloween : MSX Horror Games update

Just after completing the post with the Harror games list, I found a couple more MSX games that absolutly should be on the list as well.
I'm talking about (in random order):

* Dead of the Brain
* Predator
* Tetra Horror
* Shiro To Kuro Densetsu
* Laplace No Ma
* Blinky Scary School

Yeah, there were more scary MSX games then I ever imagined. If you leave a comment I will prepare an update batch of MSX Horror Games.

Until then...have fun google these titles, some of theme have complete webpages from hardcore fans.

Happy Halloween : MSX Horror Games list

It all started when I googled "MSX Horror" and got on a page of the forum of MSX.org, where somebody asked the community for MSX Horror themed games.

Between lot of unnecessary comments, there were some titles of MSX games listed.
I decided to create an alfabetic list and after that I decided collect these
(with some additional titles by myself).

That was not so easy, some titles were only known with their Japanse titles and some websites with MSX files are vanished. So I had to look for others instead.

Most of the games on the list came from a nice website completly dedicated to MSX Games, called http://www.msxgamesworld.com others came from
an unexpected good French emulator site called: http://www.planetemu.net/
When the search was over I had 4 different MSX file-formats with 3 different compress-methodes. I got .PMA .LZH .ZIP files and when decompressed I got .ROM .DSK .CAS and .BIN, not very handy.
I search again now for the 3 best known formats for MSX emulators, .CAS, .ROM and .DSK.

So hereby I presents: The MSX Halloween Games Collection 2016

* Alien 2 ROM
* Aliens CAS/DSK
* Alien Syndrome CAS
* Chiller CAS
* Chima Chima CAS/DSK
* Demonia ROM
* Dracula CAS
* Ghost Busters CAS/DSK
* Ghost Busters 2 CAS/DSK
* Ghost House ROM
* Gremlins 2 CAS/DSK
* Haunted House ROM/DSK
* Haunted Mansion DSK
* Invasion of the Zombie Monsters ROM
* Kikikaikai ROM
* Little Vampire DSK/DSK/DSK

* Mad Mix CAS/DSK
* Mad Mix II CAS
* Mon Mon Monster ROM/ROM
* Mr. Ghost DSK/ROM
* Mr. Ghost 2 ROM
* Socery CAS/DSK* Spirits DSK
* Sanatorium of Romance DSK
* Tengoku Yoitoko ROM
* The Munsters CAS
* Undeadline DSK
* Vampiro CAS
* Vampire Empire DSK
* Vampire Killer ROM/ROM
* War of the Dead 1 DSK
* War of the Dead 2 DSK/DSK
* Youma Kourin DSK
* Zombie Near ROM
* Zombie Incident ROM
* Zombie Hunter ROM/ROM



I put these in 1 big zip-file at Mediafire and Pcloud (if this is still illegal then I am sorry and will remove the links).
I didnt test these games, cause I use blueMSX emulator only and I dont know which one other people are using. If it dont work, you always can google for an other version and let me know where you find it.

Happy Halloween on your MSX computer !!!

NB: I know Shit is a Pacman game, but this cover fits very good for Halloween.

112 MSX Basic Games presents: SUMITUP.GAM (83)

After a serie of action games. Here is another mind game.
The Dutch name was SPROKKELEN, which was hard to translate, sort of collect things. But a game called COLLECT is very boring so I had to think very hard before I came up with the title SUMITUP.

It was not the only setback I had with this game. It seems I downloaded it from a Videotex page with MSX software and at the end there was a nasty bug that cause the MSX to reset.
So I saved the listing in ASCII and deleted the corrupted lines of code.

Then the next problem appeared, the description was made partial in SCREEN 2,
I had to be very carefull with the words I wanted to use, otherwise it wont fit in the screen.
And that was not all, joystick controls were hard to build in, sometimes the game didnt registrate the firebutton. It took me 2 evenings to find an solution.

Was it worth the effort ?
Yes, I believe so, you can play with 2 players or against the computer. I suggest you play against another person, cause the computer is nearly unbeatable.
I forgot what this game SUMITUP is all about. Well, you must get more points than your opponent, by selecting a number every turn until all numbers are gone.

I like the game, cause it's has a good explanation, good GFX design and very playable.
It really deserve a place in the 112 list.

Mediafire / Pcloud

112 MSX Basic Games presents: ASTRO RESCUE (86)

Once I bought a Dutch MSX listingbook with lot of nice true Basic games, which were a bit converted from an earlier TRS-80 listingbook. Most of these games had original animated  sprites, fast enough gameplay and colorfull backgrounds.

And ASTRO RESCUE is no exception to this. When I had typed it in, I was really into the SOUND command, so I created a couple of soundeffects to make the game more enjoyable (or more annoying I dont know).

For the 112 MSX Basic Games collection, I only had to translate it and add more controls
to it. The game itself is quite simple, you have to rescue the people at the other side of
the screen, without being hit by alien spaceships.
Not so easy, the game gets more difficult every time you managed to rescue 1 human.

Have some fun with this ASTRO RESCUE game at Mediafire & Pcloud

AS you can see no more Gavitex, cause they changed the login and now I cant get in, WTH GAVITEX I LOST ALL MY UPLOADS !!!

112 MSX Basic Games presents: Clown Diver (85)

I played a lot of MSX Basic games and some games were so well made, I wanted to included them here in the 112 list. But I felt this 112 list should include MSX Basic games that have more original gameplay.
That means, I wont include any Pacman/Froggy/Space Invaders/Snakey style games. Sadly I re-discover 3 very nice Pacman clones, which could not be included.

Well, if I cant find enough MSX Basic games I maybe reconsider. There were clones and there were clones that had a slightly different gameplay that made them unique.

And CLOWN DIVER is unique. Let a clown jump into a basket is really original game idea.

The original title was PIPO DUIKER, very Dutch, so I translated it into CLOWN DIVER.
I like the idea, the animated sprites and the good gameplay, this time MSX Basic is fast enough to let it work. Well... all you have to do is press the firebutton at the right time.

Mediafire / Pcloud are waiting for you.

I hope I can find a good MSX Basic racing game, but most games I saw so far were too slow or too ugly. I guess MSX Basic was too slow for any racing game.

112 MSX Basic Games presents : HORROR.GAM (84)

While I was looking for more Basic games that were good enough for the 112 list, I realised it was almost Halloween and everybody does something Halloween related.

So on my list to be included in the 112, I found this game, MOUNTAIN of HORROR, a listing from the Dutch MCM Magazine and S. Gommans won a price with it.
Perfect for Halloween.


It pretend to be more than 1 game, with a nice long intro, but that was not true.
Game 2 etc were never made, which is kinda sad, cause game 1 is very difficult to succeed and if you fail, don't blame the programmer,  the game itself runs fast enough.

The game itself is very simple, run from left to right, without being hit by aggresive bats. I have to admit I wasnt able to get to the other side once. Can you do better ?

I forgot to mention I added more controls and the intro so it was a lot shorter and more interactive for the gamer. Strangely the short description was in Dutch, but all other texts were already in English, so not much to translate.

Get it on Media Fire or Pcloud as long as its available...

TnC House Classics presents : 2 Times from Ann Lee

Another mellow track from long ago. There were a lot of songs in that period (1999), made by the same receipe, like 2 Times. 

Easy to sing-a-long, sang by a beautiful young female singer and a slow housebeat. So I easily could suggest King of my castle, or Saturday night, or Feel what you want to feel and many others. 

I choose 2 Times, because I hear the fun the female singer had during the recording of the song.  Some songs are perfectly sang, but was there a computer to help out ? And I don't like Barbies singing, like in the group Aqua. 

Do I need to explain more ?

Then I leave you with some remixes: Italo , Vavva   , Ecstasy G  and Sunloverz 

 

 

MSX Google: week 34, 1996

I'm not very good at counting or remember dates. So here is week 34 after releasing week 35.

This time I was looking for a comfortable way to play MSX-games on a big Smart TV and my Philips NMS8280 computer.
As you may know the joystick connectors and the keyboard connector are on the backside of this computer, which is not very handy if the computer is stored in a tv furniture next to an old X-Box.

So I needed extension cables for both the joysticks and keyboard.
Well, the joystick connectors on MSX are, lucky for us, very common used in all sorts of micro-computers. If you look for Sega extension cables and you have a MSX joystick at hand, it should be easy to find those.  But until now I could not find any keyboard extension cable or the right components to make it yourself.

This is a blind spot on the MSX-market, those MSX companies who sell games should sell also extension cables for any MSX.

Well, I ordered my joystick extension cables (here) and search for some MSX-games cheats.

I found a new fresh website called cheatmsx.com, with a forum, great search options and more. Check it out.

Then I search for some kind of MSX gameloader that works with joystick so you dont need the keyboard to start a game.  And here I found 2 versions, both only for MSX-DOS 2 (which I sold many years ago, without a harddisk I didnt see any improvements with MSX-DOS 1). But there is also an improved MIF-package V2.2 !!!

 I bought on a MSX-fair a MIF v1.0 package, cause I was amazed how nice the (converted) pictures looked on SCREEN 7 or SCREEN 8 when converted with MIF.

MIF decompressing is a bit slow on a standard MSX-2 and the v1.0 PC conversion tool was not very userfrendly, it could only convert pictures in the same resolution as the MSX-2 (with some interlacing).
I havent tried the new MIF package, the screenshots looked very promising.

MSX Google week 35, 2016

From the moment I discover the MSX Emulator BlueMSX, I always searching for new ways to playing MSX games or MSX games related content.

This week I search for MSX related Andriod app and found a nice MSX Ringtones app with some famous MSX-1 and MSX-2 games. It promised some FM-Pac music, but mostly it's PSG and some SCC tunes.

The saddest part however is...there are not a lot of games to choose from, I think maybe
8 or 10 MSX-1 and maybe 8 MSX-2 ringtones. My Acer has standard more than this app !


Check out: the app or go to the Play Store on your mobile phone.

In the past I found all kind of websites where you can download roms, cassettes and disks for free for any old computersystem, like MSX.

It's a nice way to play unknown MSX games for the first times, but I also knew there should be a better way.
I found a couple of websites where you could play old MS-DOS games in your browser and a MSX Emulator written in Java, that crashed with a lot of MSX-games, without any reason.

Then I visited The Filehunter website and I could not believe my eyes, almost every fav MSX-game was ready to play by clicking on the picture in my browser. Aleste, Beamrider,
Hyper Rally, Super Laydock and many many more. THIS IS AWESOME ! And it's called WebMSX.

This is worth the waiting, I havent check if it works with Andriod browser, but what a fun playing MSX games
and you need only a browser. No longer rippen the MSX Roms from your old computer
and put them in a map for the emulator to find (or not)...

MSX Google: week 33, 2016

While I was compiled The Most Ultimate Paranoid Demo (2016 version) and lot of ideas got wasted, due lack of time and programming skills, I got the brilliant idea to add sprites to the demo-parts.

I searched for a good sprite editor and find a great online sprite designer, called TinySprite, from the author of the famous MSX Screen Conversor online, Rafael Jannone.

TinySprite let you easily create sprites, it can also export in a lot of formats or create

a whole MSX-Basic listing for you.

After I designed all the sprites I wanted to use in the Paranoid Demo, I checked Google for more MSX sprites.

To my suprise I found 2 websites totally dedicated to sprites from ANY computersystem
(even MSX...).

Check out these 2 sites: The Spriters Resource
and Sprite Database

If you ever want to create a MSX-game or animation,
you really have to take a look.
But I dont know how you can convert a PNG picture into sprite-data on a MSX computer....