TnC Collected works : TnC SoundZ & DemoZ Disk Part 2

Here is already Part 2 of the Soundz & DemoZ Disk Collection and is called:
the Parole / Digi Collection.
On this disk you can find some digitized pictures made by mine NMS880 and a collection
of tools (PAROLE) from FRANCE, which still is the only MSX program that can generated Text to Speech !!! I will create a other Post this nice program, so here below is some other interesting stuff (I hope).

Here is a program I worked very hard to make it work but  I stopped working after version 1.7. I still didnt figure out what the differences are between the 1.6 and 1.7 version. The 1.6 version had copyrights of Jos-Tel, the 1.7 version not.
With this program you can create some kind of playlist of FM-Basic listings and it runs on MSX-1 and MSX-2, it stores this information in VRAM in a very clever way. With CTRL-STOP and F1 you can go to the next song.
It was very tough to translated it and keep it working...


Here we have maybe the best FM conversion Elko Duijm had ever made for the FM-Pac (A.P. Duijm is his real name, never asked were it stands for). Of course everybody knows the first notes of Toccata et Fuga, but Elko tried to create an version with an organ that would sound like there original.
So no bass and drums or edited in any way.



This is really painful, my attempt to create Text 2 Speech
for MSX with Wordstore+.
I tried to let it speak Dutch by sampling my own voice.
Due to the limitations of Wordstore+ (it could only handle less than 26 parts of the sample) and the bad recording
it can only say abbreviations in Dutch, like ABN, KLM, etc.
Strangely I made the program in 1990 already in English.
Why oh why ?


Here is one of the only digitized pictures I ever made with my NMS8280. I created those with DIGITIZE-2 program, also on this disk. On one afternoon I just connected my computer to the TV and started digitizing realtime. The results were so good I never did it ever again...
This picture is one of the best, it's a screenshot of the game Boggle on a Dutch TV-channel.
I believe the NMS8280 was very overrated, 256 colours on 256x212 pixels was just not enough to create nice digi's.

So have fun with this Part 2, ofcourse you will find much more programs and music than the ones I mentioned above, just like on Part 1.

Just start the disk and check the menu, if you dont believe me...

Mediafire / Pcloud

TnC Collected works : TnC SoundZ & DemoZ Disk Part 1

This year I started a new collection, called the Soundz & DemoZ Disk Collection.
It's has the same menu as the ToolZ & DemoZ Disks (the text is in different colours) and will contain everything I made (or helped with) for MSX,  related to noise and music.
That's why you hear in the menu a soundeffect and any demo has now some sounds too.

Every Part will be named after the mainpart on the disk.
Part 1 is called "The HaaiDemo Edition". Hereby some more info about what's on thise dfisk.

On the right a screenshot from that demo. I didnt created those pictures full of Dutch shark jokes (Haai = shark), but I made the title screen and the main demo program. I didnt make those screenwipes too, I somehow tuned it to make the wipes a bit faster. Better listen with your speakers on low volume, some wipes takes some time and the noises can be really annoying after a while.




On the left a sort of mozaik generator for MSX-1.
There is some colorspill, here it makes the generated GFX only better and I added some sounds.
On SCREEN 5 it will generate a bit faster (or with KUN-Basic compiler), but I wanted to prove to myself that MSX-1 can generate nice random GFX too.

Next we have the DUST IN THE WIND collection of EMP-Soft.
Of course made by Elko Duijm original, but the FM-version seem a bit boring, so I created the Mad PK Version.
In that version I added a extra voice-channel to the original with specially selected Instruments. I believe Elko liked and hated some of them, to me I succeed in making it less monotoon. The PSG-version with strange combinations of
the S and M parameters of the PLAY command and was translated into German, still don't know why...

Last and least is my attempt to create some original MSX-2 Demo in MSX-Basic It has only 5 parts, mostly modified listings from K&K of MCM. However the introscreen was completly made by me. The sounds were already added in the 2nd version of the demo, so I changed nothing when I included it on this disk.




Now its time to say sorry. I lost my Pcloud account, cause it was linked to a mailaddress, which is now out of order. So all recent files are only available via Mediafire, I guess.

I created a new one a Pcloud so here are the links: Mediafire / Pcloud