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....