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one is some MSX pages are from http://andrear.altervista.org/home/msxsoftware.php  with some interesting info, some outdated and a couple downloads with games and demo's. Sadly it's only 1 page.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