Todd Rundgren - No World Order CD-Rom

No World Order CD-ROM by TR-i (or Todd Rundgren Interactive)

This music program tries to create songs by selecting a kind of mood you're in.
Because there are not much to chose from, most so-called songs are sounding
like somebody cut a few songs in parts of 10 seconds and play them randomly...
Yeah, hot stuff...
 
It's a very old Windows program, however when it came out, (1993 maybe, like the album with the same name), computer programs to make music were hard to find, so I don't want to criticize it a lot.


It started off with the cover of the CD and a soundscape with mashup with short pieces of the songs in a terrible order.
I thought the first time my CD-ROM player just crashed, next time it was just annoying.
Not the best way to start a music program.
 
After listening to parts of the whole CD, it was just the first track. Ugh.

The program does not have any mouse arrow, only by the colour changes or the changed shape on the buttons indicates you know what you are doing (most of the time you don't, trust me).
And because the program wants to run completely from CD-ROM, the "music" you make with this program is continuously stutter.
It sounded like a CD player with lots of power failures.
I got so angry I decided to make an ISO and run it.
That was a slight improvement. Not enough to play the music fluently.
So I copied all files of the CD-Rom and started it and I recorded my first attempt to create some sort of soundscape.
I found out if you do nothing, it plays the whole CD of New World Order, which is the basis of this music program.
The whole album seems to have only songs that were cut in 2 parts, some parts were good, some not.
Later I found out it was Todd Rundgren idea, so you could set your CD-player on shuffle and have every time a new New World Order mix to listen too.

At least one song really hit the spot with "Day Job" the only uptempo song of the album,
It comes an gets you with a pumping bassline, raw guitar riffs with lots of echoes, babytalk, the theme of The Twilight Zone.
Does humour belong in rock music? Yeah, it should.

Todd Rundgren may be the worst white rapper of the 90s, he pushed the message through the song and I like it a lot. Even the very misty video shows how many things Todd did on stage to make his concerts more enjoyable for the audiences like nobody else did at that time. Maybe even U2 used some Todd tricks for their concerts?

The artist himself (Todd Rundgren) was a little famous in those days, a real pioneer in interactive music and busy since the early 70s.
A bit like Peter Gabriel, who had better songs at that time...

I have searched on YouTube for some songs. it seems the genius himself (according to his fans) creates lots of (at first hearing) perfect pop-songs, which all change into the opposite of poppy.
Like he does not want to compose anything that may sound commercial.

He was also the producer of Bourgeois Tagg album YoYo (with their hit I don't mind at all),
that way I knew him already.

After I recorded more than 45 minutes to try to know the program and create a decent mix I let the video on my hard disk for more than 6 months. I had no time and no ideas.

Recently I got some spare time and after hearing the 2nd part of the intro song I developed 2 ideas, 1 video with intro track and credits (or the help page) and some videos with the best mix-parts of the 45 minutes session. 

When I finally got 5 videos uploaded I had learned some lessons:
1) If you want to make high resolution, you have to convert your video material to that resolution first
2) Animated title with a duration of 3 seconds is too short, use at least 5 seconds
3) Big fonts can be a bit off screen AFTER exporting, not in the editor, use fewer words.
4) Matching video and music exactly is impossible without good visual on the waveform of the audio, but almost will do the trick.

BTW Todd Rundgren released a year later (1994) also a New World Order lite with the 10 normal songs. Means to me, he did it only for commercial reasons...

 If you still interested: you can listen here to all the songs, well only 1 minute.

I found some footage of  the CD-I version of New World Order, where Todd is demonstration it, check out part 1 and 2 
And a short TV-story where Todd explains how his CD-I works and why he did it.

And an interesting fan-made mix (without the "Day Job") 
Nee more background story about New World Order? Look at 25

TnC Collection Tapes : My Favorite Houseworks 1 + 2

Now I posted about Lush 3-1 I think it's time to blog about the 2 tapes I am most proud of. 

They were made when I started to like house music and bought some low-price CDs with mostly collected tracks in one house genre. At that time there were not many house genres and lots of experimental house track were made in that era. You can find the playlist for mixcloud and the tracklistings too. 

I recorded the tapes back then in the 90s with the best songs of all house CDs I owned. When I listened to them again its a very varied collection of commercial euro house like 2-Unlimited or Snap, some techno hits like Praga Kahn and Orbital, club tracks like music and Captian Hollywood Project and Usura, but also some tracks you never had heard before like Self-Transforming Machine Elves and Flux.

So after all those years ( somewhere in the 90s, I never wrote any date on my tapes) the music is still refreshing and to my humble opinion still not outdated. I liked the tapes soo much I wrote the whole title and the artists, kinda rare. Mostly I wrote the begin letters of each track or left the tape cover completely blank...Not very handy if you want to create a tracklisting on mixcloud. On the picture above you can see the CDs I used for the tapes. 

And in the picture above here you see the tapes and covers I made.
Some quick words about the tracks.

I always liked 2 Unlimited they always made songs you could sing a long very danceable and easily hooked for days in your head. Even their own remixes on maxi CDs were very good. The Plateau song reminds me always at Ayers rock in Australia, a country I always wanted to visit. The battle between the flute and the trumpet with a tribal house beat, I like it. 
When I heard The Man With the Masterplan I had to bought the album of Quadrophonia , what a waste of money. Only the title track and remixes of other artists from these tracks were nice. To my surprise, both hits of Felix are on these tapes (and both made their way to MSX, I used both of them in my Moonblaster House mixes).
There may be also some bonus tracks...

Check them out on my playlist at Mixcloud.

TnC House Classics presents : Lush 3 - 1 of Orbital

I re-discovered this track of Orbital, while I was playing My Favorite Houseworks tapes via Mixcloud. Just a simple house track, with a slow spacy flute, a regular hard bassline with a simple drumbeat and speed up riff loop. 

 
I wanted to create a video with different equalizers, but somebody posted the track Lush 3-1 track with a nice equalizer and the CD-cover as background. So I had to save this idea for another song I update some time later.

Orbital created house music with hard beats and soft melodies, so there are more tracks I liked. Also, I found out they, yes it's a duo, were reunited in 2017 and even created new single and a new album. The track of "Tiny Foldable Cities" is a nice one, check out the video. It's filmed from far above the city which totally fits with the title and the music too.

The remix by "Kareful" is just what they did with "Something Good" of the Utah Saints, just remove all breaks and make it more danceable. Well, you could also say, a bit boring to listen to. 

By the way Lusus 3-1 came from the Orbital brown album with also Lush 3-2 
Never knew why they gave it that title, it had not much relation with 3-1 in any way.
It's an annoying piece of ....

I found 2 remixes by other artists of Lush 3-1, the Underworld version is more Underworld than Lush, the second with the long title is just like old 12" versions, long and not much content added.

Other music stuff : Thomas Happ vs Sub Morphine - Trace Awakens at the Shoreline (Mashup)

I am proud to present to you Trace Awakens at the Shoreline, the first mashup made by my son Jeffrey (aka King ECHatron II). 

He likes electtonic music in general, but does not think in any genres. So he can enjoy retro-rock like Wolfmother and like older stuff like Rob Zombie. Enough said. 

The way he created this mashup is really special. He played a great side scroll shooter called Axion Verge with some great music and relased that one song had the same bassline as a beautiful song he found on YT channel of Electronic Gems of Sub Morphine.

And he decided to mashup these, cause even the BPM matched. 

He started his Audacity editor, cut and paste a little, added a fade out, 1 song was longer than the other....and wham... a new mashup was born. 

Maybe even creating a new music genre, it is Dark Synth Wave versus Chillwave. 

Or Chillout vs Industrial...

Jeffrey created a new title and artists names out of both tracks and send it to me by Skype. 

I think it's an amazing track that you won't forget.

 

Also I was amazed how he could create such a good mashup by simply using Audacity, which is not the easiest program to create multi-track music. 

I decided to create a videomix of it, with some gameplay from Axion Verge and the logos of the game Axion Verge and that other composer Sub Morphine. 

Tried to keep it simple, I had to use 5 different video-editor, before I could produce the video.with VSDC free video-edotor and upload the result to YouTube.

 I forgot the link to VSDC free editor at YouTube, so I put it with the link for Audacity 

in this post and update YT description.

- Mixed/Produced by Audacity Download it for free at https://www.audacityteam.org/download/

- Video produced with VSDC Video Editor: Downlosd it for free at: http://www.videosoftdev.com/free-video-editor/download

Favs PC Games : Firefall from Red 5 Studios

The story of Firefall is one game-developers never should forget. 

It is a story about a good game concept with a nice background story, great GFX and music, good shooter, fantastic coop features, player modified weapons, single or multiplayer missions, open world areas...what could go wrong ? Read the story. 

I think they tried too hard to put more and more stuff in the game, forget it still had to run properly. Also, the fact that it was a free game and the only DLC you could buy was a very overpriced car, which was not worth buying. So, in the end, somebody must pay the salary of those developers and with no income from the Steam PC version, it had to end sooner or later. 

On 7th July 2017, the Firefall servers were closed, but already in November 2016
there were almost no players left when I played Firefall for the last time with my son. 
Lots of missions did not work and you could not level up anymore. 

The game was very broken already. Still the GFX, music, the classes and outfits were still there... I even wrote a review, trying to convince Steamers to play Firefall, specially Defiance players ( cause some things in Firefall were a lot better than in Defiance).
With no luck...

I had to admit TRION did a better job, with their free game Defiance and Defiance 2050. Lots of DLC to buy and not very expensive, better and more cars which are great fun to drive, lots and lots of weapons and with the improved Defiance 2050 they have looked to Firefall very good and introduced also classes...

Not as good as Firefall did, but hey, who cares anymore !. The Firefall server is already down for more than1 year !. 

However, Firefall will always have a special place in my memories, like the gliding from high places and the very original detailed scenery even on older (lower) computers.
I miss it still and so are more Defiance 2050 players...

Check out the Firefall OST and the screenshots in this post.
I played the game for 67 hours, so I think I know what I am talking about...

I think you will not find many online games, where gamers made farewell videos when the servers are shutting down. For Firefall I found a couple, for me another proof that it was not just a game, it was a new experience.

Goodbye, Firefall.

TnC House Classics presents : Something Good of Utah Saints

I can say the same things about this song as "Injected With The Poison" by Praga Kahn.

It has all the classic cliches. I saw the song on MTV, at that time they played video clips and no soaps. If you wanted to know the latest hits, you watched MTV instead of listening to boring radio stations. I love this classic because the whole song is perfectly shaped around the samples of a song by Kate Bush - Cloud Busting -

Although the video-clip was nothing more than a speed-up road trip in psychedelic colours, I loved it from the first second with the violins.

Even the 12" version, which seems only to have a longer duration than the 7" single, 
is still a pleasure to listen to. And on the cd maxi single I bought was also a track about whales (Trance Atlantic Flight), and it was better than the well-known Waterfall...


When I did some research on the "Something Good", the Utah Saints released a new mix of the same some under the name "Something Good '08". They removed all breaks in the original mix and created a dancefloor killer, a 2:55 non-stop adrenaline rush. And a much better and funnier video-clip about the Running Man than the original clip.


Utah Saints more singles mixing samples from pop-songs with own beats, but I never found another "Something Good", but they made a few very enjoyable trance tracks, like "Trance Atlantic Flight", "Massive" and "Solution". 

The song Utah Saints sampled for this track "Cloud Busting" has a real history. 

Kate Bush had read "Book of Dreams" written by the son of Wilhelm Reich, who is famous for his discovery of Organon and his inventions to use it. 

The story of Wilhelm Reich is very sad, he died in a federal prison in the 50s. The American Government put him there after they had successfully removed lots of his supporters and helpers over the years. 

One of his inventions was a cloudbuster, designed to make it rain. There is one occasion in history that described what happened, cause it did rain after just 
1 day of cloudbusting.

I was fascinated by his life, his words and inventions, 
but after seeing and hearing all Organon related stuff 
on YouTube, I believe that Mr Reich really has made 
a discovery, but he could not use it to its full potential, 
cause the technology was not yet invented yet.

So I do believe that things in nature have a kind of energy and maybe we can use it for more purposes 
then just let it rain...

Kate Bush tells the story of Wilhelm Reich and his son with a Cloudbuster, like a fairy-tale.
It ends not well, just like the real story. Still very beautiful to watch and it started my search for Wilhelm Reich.
I found somebody who had such a nice memories of the song, almost a new story.

Fan of The Call

The Call was a kind of religious band and Lead singer, composer and bassist Michael Been was the core of the band. 
They had a history of making 3 albums for a music company, had some success and get fired. I and my sister both bought albums and CDs of the band, which was strange. 
Most of the time we disagree about our musical taste. 

To be honest I only bought 1 album ("Into The Woods") and my sister bought several on CDs (from "Reconciled" till "To Heaven and Back"). 
I bought also the first solo album of Michael Been on CD, great guitar work, but the songs just not good enough to score a radio hit. 

The Call makes rock music with a meaning. The way Michael Been performs each song is not always a pleasure for your ears (sometimes like wolf crying) and it gets you always under your skin. Even today. 
I recorded once the best songs of The Call and it took me 90 + 45 minutes of tape to do so.

The Call had some success with songs "Everywhere I Go" with Bono in the background,  "Let The Day Begin" and "I Still Believe". But I found many other favs on each album. 

At the end like so many groups, the core of the band (M.B.) started a solo career, 
he wrote the soundtrack for a movie "Light Sleeper" and released a couple of albums himself. However, I think the best songs he ever wrote was with The Call. 

You can find here the 2 sides of the C90 tape, which was in good shape consider the date of the recording. The second tape was compiled with some fav of an other underrated band Chagall Guevara with Steve Taylor as lead singer. Maybe I post about them too. Check out one of my favs

Now I will name a few favs of The Call like "Oklahoma", "Into The Woods", "Red Rain", 
"A Swim In The Ocean".

To my suprise his son  Robert Levon Been plays also bass and has the same voice 
as his dad, Michael Been, who died backstage in 2010. And Robert played live with other members of The Call with amazing results. They also still have a website

On YouTube I found an very long The Call Playlist, a tribute to The Call by The Simple Minds and also a (short) Playlist of all the musicvideos they made. 

Listen and maybe you find yourself a new band to listen too.

TnC Internet Adventures : 8Bit-Guy / 8Bit-Keys

This is a YouTuber I am so happy to find by accident. Just searching on YT for Philips MSX keyboard belonging to the Music Creator package for the Music Module I found a guy talking about Meow keyboard, yes you heard it right , a keyboard where you can play a song like a cat , meow songs .It was 8-Bit Keys that demonstrate it and was also a bit exited about this curious thing. Well, other vids about repairing/restoring old keyboard are not that interesting, but I found the same guy has another YT-channel called 8Bit-Guy.
 

Again repairing / restoring, this time computers. But with a few suprises like this serie 
I found, about how old games were made. Very interesting even nothing is told about MSX, only "those" other computers of Nintend, Atari, Apple and Commodore.

And more technical stuff like about bad VHS tapes (or not).

Fan of Virtual Audio Project

Years ago I bought a 2CD pack online at ECI (now called bookspot), a shop with mostly books. They sell also a lot of music, computergames and some game gear, sometimes cheaper than other real games selling shops. The 2CD pack contains a CD called Mystery and the other Relax, I bought it cause I liked synthesizer music and the covers and titles seems interesting enough.

Well after a while I found myself standing at the cashout of a recordshop with more than 10 CD of the Virtual Audio Project (VAPs) in my hands. But most of the CDs I bought from their own webshop, not cheap unless you bought a lot of them together.

And so I did.

Virtual Audio Project is a CD-serie of a music-company in Italy called Cybertracks with maybe 15 composers. Each CD is recorded in Dolby Surround, has its own artwork, sometimes release notes (or inlay book). On each CD there are a lot of different composers with tracks that should fit the theme or title of the CD. 

After more than 35 CDs with different themes, VAP started to repeat themes and music. 

I lost interest buying more. Occasionly I listen to one of the VAPs, although most of the tracks are not house oriented, not a big problem, I still like some of the tracks.

Sadly, I dont have a stereoset with Dolby Surround, so until now I never heard how a VAP CD should sound. with Dolby Surround.

I played with the idea of uploading some of my favs CDs of VAP on YT, but as so many times, somebody else had the same idea. Not all, but bother the trouble of uploading the ones that are not on YT ?

When writing this post I ask myself do I want to buy the rest of the collection of VAPs ?

Well maybe someday, now I have more fun listening to Retro-Wave/Synth-Wave/Retro-Elektro mixes on YT.

Xplora 1 CD-Rom - Peter Gabriel

Let's begin with saying "There is no Xplora 2". You can stop reading here! 

Now I will continue for those who want something about "Xplora 1". 

Peter Gabriel is one of these artists who knows how to use new technologies.
So when the CD-Rom games starting to become very populair, he not only release a CD called "Us" and also a CD-Rom with a musical multimedia experience, with video clips from his singles of the CD "Us", some musical games, puzzles, photo's, sounds and other interesting info.

With the CD-Rom came a beautiful book with more stuff to read,  more pictures, photos like on another magazine ever.

I kept the book somewhere (in other words: I don't know where I put it) and the CD-Rom 

cause I liked the idea of a musical adventure, where you can just watch or explore.

When I bought it, my PC was not capable of running it (too slow) and when I got a faster PC, it won't run it, cause it used an too old version of Video for Windows. Yes, this CD-Rom was made when Windows 3.1 was all around and Windows 95 not yet to be released.

Now recently on my virtual Windows XP, it works a bit, except for the videos.

Lucky for me, others like it too and posted some videos of "Xplora 1".

It was also released for Apple Mac computers and Philips CD-I. Understandable, but CD-I was a very very bad system.

Of the whole CD-Rom, I like the video-clips of the songs of the album "Us" the most.

"Kissing That Frog", "Steam" and "Digging In The Dirt"is very fascinating to watch.

Yeah, I know "Steam" is just another "Sledgehammer", but almost as good.

I will leave you with a short video review and sort of play through by a proud owner of de CD-Rom.

And some videos of my fav songs of "Us" or "Xplora 1"

My Music Memories : Hit Me With Your Rhyme-stick - Ian Dury and the Blockheads

When I was at primary school, Ian Dury was for a short time very popular. 

His first hit "Sex and Drugs and Rock n Roll" was sung by everybody in the translation "Koek and drop and Milky-Way". 



But his 2nd hit with the "Rythme-stick" was even better, and I still like it. 


It's funky, funny and everyone likes to shout HIT ME ! with Ian. 
If some white guys trying to be funky, then this is should be the result. 
The blockheads play like crazy and with the stoïcijns Ian at the front talk-singing 
his crazy lyrics, it's magic. 


Because of these Ian Dury hits, I bought much later the MSX version of Deus Ex Machina, but that's another story 
I already posted. 

After 2 hits I never heard anything from Ian Dury...
Years and years later I bought some kind of greatest hits album of Ian Dury, a bad buy.

All songs even those the other ones with the Blockheads, were just songs you listen to in an empty bar, easy to forget and not worthy to listen to it twice ( well maybe not: Reasons To Be Cheerful part 3 )

Examples: 
- Wake up and make love to me
- Sueperman's Big Sister
- Billericay Dickie
- I Wanna Be Straight
- What A Waste




 
These are just more avant-garde then funky, just not catchy enough. 
No surprise, these titles were no hits in the Netherlands. 
He did want he wanted to do, no concessions in lyrics or music. And no more hits.

But every time I hear "Hit Me" I just smile, turn up the volume and shout "HIT ME !!!" 

Sorry, here are a couple remixes that can compete with the original (sorry Paul Hardcastle).

Some Basics 4 MSX Basic ( part 5 )

Some Basics 4 MSX Basic ( part 5 )

Problem: 
Sometimes you cant start the next program automaticly, for example the Wordstore+ Basic replayer. Why ? Cause the replayer removes the entire Basic program that started the replayer.

Example:

10 PRINT Play the WS+ sample"
20 BLOAD "sample.ws",R
30 A=USR(0)
40 END

It wil not work. After the BLOAD the whole Basic program is gone.

Solution: 
An easy methode is, let the user press a key to start the next part of the program.
 Example:  

10 ' Some Basics 4 MSX Basic 5
20 SCREEN 0
30 PRINT "Press ENTER to run this program again"
40 PRINT:PRINT "run"
50 LOCATE 0,CSRLIN-2
60 END 

The trick is in line 50. The CSRLIN has the value of the current Y coordinate on the text-screen. We extract 2 from the current Y coordinate, so the cursor will be on the first character of the word "run" and we end the program. 

If the user press ENTER, it will start then same program again.
Of course instead of "run" you can use "BLOAD"sample.ws",R".

It's not very fancy, but I used this trick  a couple of times, 
cause I didn't had a better solution.

TnC Internet Adventures: Red Zora (Magix & Ultra Red)

For some posts about Kaleidoscope software programs I had bought in the past, I was browsing in my special CD case full of Multi-media CD-/DVD-Roms.

Before I even found those Kaleidoscope CD-Roms, I re-discovered an enhanced Audio-CD
labeled Ultra Red Red Zora published by Magix. That was very interesting, because it was not only a maxi CD-single (4 tracks), but had also a multimedia part by Magix with demo's and the PlayR remix-program to create your own version of Red Zora.

I never liked the song Red Zora, but the Berlin Jones Remix (track 3) was not too bad. 
The single version reminds me a little too much of the remixes of disco-classics Daddy Cool and Ma Baker of Boney M.

Anyway, I tried to get the PlayR to work on my Windows 10 PC, but Windows 10 didn't let me install it. Too old. When I tried again with a VMware version of Windows XP Professional it installed, but cause my soundcard doesnt support the DirectSound of DirectX6 (yes that is old) the program crashed and never started up again after that incident.

What I saw was to turntables where you could add en remove samples of Red Zora in realtime, so while the music played you can play with the samples. Nice Idea, I saw it earlier in DJ Station, maybe from the same programmer.

There was also a possibility to create your own video-clip, with some visuals and short vids of a moving creapy version of a Lara Croft (Tomb Raider) clone.
I wondered if Magix wanted to create a "Red Zora" horror-movie, glad I could not find it at YT. And I am not planning to create a video myself with these vids, too scary.

I was wondering if I should find all tracks on YT and to my suprise "Red Zora" was not an original song, made with Magix Music Maker ( or any other Magix clone), but a remix of the theme from the TV-series "Die rote Zora und ihre Bande ". The TV-serie was made for children in 1979, but the story was much older, made in 1941 by Kurt Held. After the TV-serie they made a movie called "Die rote Zora" and they used the remix of Ultra Red as the new theme for the movie.Sorry, most info is in Germany language.

From the original music from the TV-serie I found an instrumental version (basic stuff for the remix of Ultra Red), a French version "Zora la rousse" and a German version "Die rote Zota". I liked the French version, cause I dont like any kids choirs...

I tried to find better remixes than in this maxi CD-single, but if you dont like the original,
you will find noty much, so I like only this remix of Tom Borijn, cause he used almost nothing of the original Zora song...

MSX Google: week 17, 2018

After all current my internet adventures I found enough websites to create an other MSX Google week. 

This time I searched for MSX TV and MSX monitor images, to be used in a long video I still want to make of the Moonblaster mix "Between Good and Evil Gabba Heads"  I created already a short video-clip ( "2 Felix" ), but I wanted to use the Kaleidoscope animations from the Philips Designer program also in the long mix and using images of all kinds 
of MSX computers (with monitor or tv) to display those animations, just like in the video clip, only with other images.

 
The results were poor, lots of images of MSX computers, but 99% without any TV or monitor. So I must re-think the whole idea for the video for the long mix.

But all is not lost. I found some websites that had some interesting MSX content. There is also non-interesting MSX content. I don't care much about the history of MSX, 
why it's a failure and why not, where the name MSX came from, etc. etc. 

You can believe msx.org, Wikipedia or any other website. I believe they all have facts and opinions, so I believe all stories are true.

For me, MSX stands for playing very old but good games, programming in powerful Basic
and listening to amazing music from games or made especially for MSX on the MSX by lots of composers.

Enough bullshit, here are some interesting MSX content I found: 

The Nightfall Crew website shows how computer hardware looks like inside and gives lots 
of information about what must be repaired and how it's done .Together with lot of images, it's nice to browse. Not many MSX stuff, but some obscure Philips computers and a Arabic computer, all with interesting technical details. 

Yes, there is still 1 Dutch MSX shop !!!
Not much to buy, a couple of Dutch MSX books, a UMJA controller for using an USB mouse (even wireless) on your MSX computer and a SE-ONE MP3 player with FM radio. An UMJA may come handy, cause 2nd hand MSX mouses are hard to get. 
But a MP3 player ? Why do you want that ? We all know you better play MP3 files on much newer devices. Why prove that MSX computers are capable of playing MP3 files? 
Hellow, it's 2018. Nobody cares. 
Everybody listens to music on smartphones, tablets and laptops. 

Better go on with the next site.

I never heard of Wilbert Berendsen, till I found this page.
He was the programmer of the WBASS MSX assemblers !
Finally, I know where the WB stands for. 
Not. I was never interested in assembler programming, too tough to handle for me. 

Well, that was all the MSX stuff he ever made, but his CV is very impressive.
Now he is an organ player, composer and still a computer nerd, interesting combination.




And now I break a tradition, a non-MSX link in the MSX Google week. While the MSX world is still waiting for the MSX-3 computer, I present to you: the MSX-5 Monitor !!!

Well, that's all Folks !!