MSX Text To Speech: Parole

I mentioned this program on SoundZ & DemoZ Part 2.

I created specially for this post a short demo of my conversion of Parole into English ( or should I say Frenglish...)

There is a short yt vid of this. But nobody used it anymore.

Kaleidoscopes Part 2 : Philips Designer MSX-2

WHE I BOUGH my frst MSX comuter VG 8235 I GOT home office 1 and msx dos and a msx dcursus on disk. at home officw 1 contns a very nice screen 8 drawng program MSX Designer of A koene. LATER i got desgner plus on my nms 8245 and downloade later via my modem the latest videographics for 8280. nw i dont wantto go deeper into the differences between these prorams, they had at least 2 things in common all made by a koene and all run on screen 8. but mx desiner had one feature the other 2 programs did not havem a kaleidiscpoe i like it cause its absolutely random and afterxx visuls it shows he name of the maker. it works in series of circles, triangles or other stuf, however the choosen colors wll hurt your eyes and the multiplying after creatin a visualis not a s fast as i wiss. i like it anyway and used it in the short videoclip 2 felix with a speed up  of 200 or 500 procent

Video was made but mostly drawings with ugly colors. Edit needed badly!

Kaleidoscopes Part 1 : Psychedelia MSX-1

Between my collection of MSX games there was a program called PSYCH, yeah MSX tapes doesnt allow more than 5 charcaters. 
If you start it, you saw the full name called PSYCHEDELIA. It was one of the first visulaizers on any computer, it was made for commodore 6510, ported tozx spectrum and in the end also to msx. with your jkoystick and lots of keys ou could change the patterns, colors speed and a couple of other things. bUT you could create and sae your own set of settings, it didnt respond to any music, like todays visualizers and you could not create your own patterns or texts. so within 15 minutes youhave seen it all and reset your msx to play a real game. and because its a port it doesnt use allMSX 1 colours, only 6 of them, which is a reaL mistake. BUT hey easy money... the software PSYCHEDELIA was when it came out very overprized, and what i like the most in it, is the very high speed of the visuals. the creator made other visulizers the interat to controllers and music, check the website, he improved in many ways his PSYCHEDELIA.
When I started this post I was convinced I had to make a video about the MSX version of PSYCHEDELIA, but after seen YT videos of the Spectrum I saw no differences with the MSX version and therefor no reason to create and upload.

I found the manual of the C64 version, I guess the port to Spectrum and MSX uses the same keys. Maybe it will help to figure out what you can do with the MSX version.

However nobody else tried the same thing on MSX-1 in any way, which is a bit of disapointment for me, considering the amount of MSX-1 software that has been made. 

Link to yt spectrum version needed.

More Wordstore+ Picture Demo : Tug Of Peace - Paul McCartney

Here is the 5th and last Picture Demo, called Tug Of Peace. 

If you know more about the Loup Picture Demo's, check this.

Tug of Peace is a kinda funk version with bits and pieces from Tug Of War song
and the Pipes Of Peace (the Xmas) song. Well, the lyrics are.
And if you search for the message behind the song, good luck to you.

But I like the song from the Pipes Of Peace album a little better than Hey Hey
from the same album, it's just less boring.

Now I think, I said enough about the Pipes Of Peace album, I was very disappointed.
If Paul had recorded more songs in the same style, it could save the whole album.

Somehow I still believe a lot of songs on Pipes of Peace were left-overs from 
the Tug of War sessions.

Any way.
Enjoy the intro in Wordstore+ and listen to the full length of the song in slowly nature animation

More Wordstore+ Picture Demo : Old Siam Sir - Wings

Another song of Back To the Egg Album, the last album of Wings.

It's a solid rock song, and had a great intro which I sampled it in Wordstore+.
When I was listening to the whole song, I was missing something.
 

The song keep repeating itself, so in the end it's quite boring.
If Old Siam Sir had more lyrics or some great guitarsolo's...

The new Wings members were just recruited session musicians, 

so not much input from them.They just play as they told to.

Well I found a nice medley of the best songs of Back To The Egg, 

with a video made from the TV-special to promote Back To The Egg album.

This YouTuber rockchick2112 did a great job.

Enough said about Back To The Egg album, but I found more other interviews
from Steve Holly and Laurence Juber, the newest ex-members of Wings.

Interview with the drummer Steve Holly, the last Wings drummer.
An audio interview with Steve and Laurence

The reason of the end of Wings was of course the cancelled tournee in Japan, cause Paul McCartney got arrested with some soft-drugs.

More Wordstore+ Picture Demo: Reception - Wings

This is already the 3rd Picture Demo I post about.

Reception was the first song of the Back To the Egg album of Wings.
It's a short instrumental, which should have been a great intro for
a funky song. Maybe with even a rappin' Paul in it ?
But no, lucky for us it was edited, cause the long version I found
was more boring than the original.

Did they just record a radio playing in the background ?

There is not much to talk about Reception, the song, so I continue
with my thoughts about the Back To the Egg album.

Back To The Egg was the last Wings album I bought, and it was almost
my favorite album of Paul McCartney and Wings.
But that was before I heard songs like After The Ball, Million Miles,
Love Awake, Winter Rose, and The Broadcast.

Those songs should be perfect on McCartney II, not on a Wings group album.
It seems to me that Paul had not enough songs to record with Wings.
So side 1 "Sunny Side up" was okay, side 2 "Over easy" was a big disappontment.

In some songs Paul sang like he was yelling the whole night before.
Listening at the songs, I can help that some of them are just leftovers
or just other versions of the songs from London Town.

Later I found out Paul was smoking during the recording period.

It sounds good when he have to rock, but when it's a ballad he sounds a bit off-tune.

My favorite songs were Spin It On, Old Siam Sir, Rockestra Theme, To You,
So Glad To See You Here, still not enough to like the whole album.

I found an interesting interview with Laurence Juber, ex-Wings guitarist,
who was playing on most recording of Wings in the period.

More Wordstore+ Picture Demo : Valentine's Day of Paul McCartney

When I had collected all songs from the Beatles I started to collect Paul Mc Cartney albums

and started with his first solo-album, called...you guessed it! (no, not with an I at the end ).
 
He played all instruments and Linda sang sometimes in the background (well, she tried).

I didn't know any song from the album, so I let the record play in the music store.

I heard the first song, Lovely Linda, I didn't wanna buy it anymore.
But the people in the shop were very busy, so I listened to the second song 
(That Would Be Something). Even worse...
Paul tried to sing like Elvis in a song nobody wants to hear, it sounded like a never 
finished demo.

Then the 3rd song began: Valentine's Day and I expected it was another ballad going nowhere. No, it was a short instrumental with a raw guitar, solid drum riff, bass 

and acoustic guitar.
Not too long, just right, and when Valentine's Day ended, I bought the record.

Until now, nobody made a nice video for the song, it certainly deserves one.
And you won't find it on any Valentine's Day album, cause it's not a sweet song.

The rest of the McCartney album had more unfinished than finished songs, 
and the songs that were finished, I didn't like very much.
 

So I liked Valentine's Day (of course), Every Night (Paul has performed this song a couple
of times live) a bit boring, OO You (I will talk about this one later), Sing Along Junk (instrumental version of Junk, ( I liked it better than when Paul sang it) and the first part 
of Momma Miss America, with the catchy keyboard/piano loop and pounding drums,
the 2nd part was a sort of Valentine's Day part 2. What a waste of talent.

Well, you can judge for yourself now.

Some tribute band called Flying Horses tried to play Valentine's Day live, 
no thumbs up from me.

More Wordstore+ Picture Demo: 99 Luftballons of Nena

The first Picture Demo in the series.

99 Luftballons was the biggest hit of Nena, mostly successful in the German language. 
The English version called "99 Red Balloons" had other lyrics, which the band members afterward did not like, so they always played the German version.

I thought it was the only hit Nena had. But it depends on which country you live.
In the Netherlands, we knew almost nothing of Nena, while in America, UK and of course Germany the group had a couple of hits.
 

I listened to some and I liked "Nur Getraumt", "Rette Mich", "Lass Mir Ein Pirat Sehen", "Leuchtturm", "Es Regnet", "Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann" in the original German or English versions and the remakes of 2002.
I prefer the German version more than English, the translating is fine, Nena just sounds better in the German language. "Anyplace Anywhere, Anytime" (with Kim Wilde) and other remakes of 2002 are a bit different from originals, mostly just better.
 
Which is rare, I remember Alannah Myles and her own remake of the "Black Velvet" hit 
and it was like she sang along the same old music tapes.
Still, still a great song...I mean...99 Luftballons of course.

More Wordstore+ Picture Demo's (Introduction)

It has been a long time since I released the last Wordstore+ Karaoke demo. 
To be precise, 7th of December 2014. In the meantime, I was now and then working on the Wordstore+ Mixer Demo's, cause I didn't know what to do with the other Demo's, 
with the working title Wordstore+ Mega Demo.

As you may know, when you play a Wordstore sampler with the Basic replayer, 
you can't execute any other Basic commands. So any animation during playing the sample is impossible. I already tried a couple of ideas for creating some kind of animation and make it interactive, like in my LOUP demos. I just could not find fresh ideas for those demos for the Mega Demo. Until last year, 2017.

After creating some kind of workflow for my Mixer Demo's, but it seemed so much work 
I did not dare to start building it. Instead, I throw away the idea of a Mega Demo and start to create a Picture Demo. I searched for pictures, convert them to SC2 and SC8, just like in the LOUP demos, made a better loop for each Wordstore+ sample and collect them on separate disks. Each demo was not more than 1 SC2 or 2 SC8 pictures that were shown while the sample was played. A bit boring. 

So I had the idea of creating a Mega Picture Demo on 1 disk, with a nice menu and where you could choose between 1 Picture Demo or all Picture Demo in any order. 
There were 5 Picture Demos, so the menu had to show 5 pictures, I used Photoscape album page function to do the trick, but I had to edit a lot to get the names of the demos at the right position. Then all fall down. 
The Picture Demos and the menu pictures didn't fit on a single 720kb disk, which is my standard format (2DD if you like). 


I had the rethink the whole project and I felt like I never gonna finish it.
After a while, I realized it could be a 2 disk Picture Demo so some demos would be on disk 1 and other on disk 2. However, this was also the end of playing all demos in sequence.
You can only play 1 demo at the time, then you had to start the menu again.
Not the best solution, but I believed it was the only way to release those 5 demos.

And more trouble was coming my way. I had to check somehow which disk was in the drive and I want also the Picture Demo to work with 2 drives so it could start any demo from any drive.I searched in my toolbox, checking on diskname and number of drives. 
Checking on disk name means editing the boot sector and starting a demo on disk 2 from disk 1 and otherwise, were new obstacles for me. 
I did not like the idea that you had to modify the boot sector, before the demo would work on a new disk. And starting a demo on disk 2 from disk 1 was too much for my computing skills. I didn't know what to do with it. 

This was all done in 2017. Then it was March 2018 and I had just finished some small videos and a disk of Fourseasons MSX Software, with a new menu I made from scratch.
I found my Wordstore Demos map again, start my latest unfinished software and saw what went wrong. No so much and I liked the menu as it was. 
New ideas came up for a much easier disk check and I disabled the 2 disk support.

First I made the SC8 menu (which was maybe 70% already made in 2017) complete, 
then I found out I need to make a SC2 menu too. So again I started to collect new ideas how to create a nice SC2 men, without the MSX-2 features I used.
The colorspill on SC2 was always a bit of a problem, but it look okay now, I think.
When the SC2 and SC8 menu were finished, I had to look at the AUTOEXEC.BAS.

Yeah, well, it tried to perform some tests to make sure it's a MSX-1 or higher with at least 64kb ROM, but how can I test it in Basic ? I decided to display a warning if the computer was an MSX-1. Wordstore+ works only on 64 Kb ROM MSX computers. 

And because all Picture Demos were also made for MSX-1, the AUTOEXEC.BAS will ask, 
when you have a MSX-2 computer, if you want to see the MSX-1 versions.

BTW: If you choose l (instead of y or n), you will go to the secret LOUP Demo menu.

I add it to disk 2, cause there was so much diskspace left and somehow the LOUP Demos seemed to be in its place on a Picture Demo disk. I included also the hidden ones, before nobody would notice them.


So on Disk 1, you find the Picture Demo's : ( Mediafire / Pcloud )
- 99 LUFTBALLONS
- VALENTINE'S DAY
- RECEPTION

On Disk 2, you find the Picture Demo's : ( Mediafire / Pcloud )
- OLD SIAM SIR
- TUG OF PEACE
- LOUP

I will go into details about each song in other posts, except  the LOUP Picture Demo's

Albert Sgaggero MSX Basic Collection (MSX part)

I may have spoiled the fun in my last post, but here I will go more into detail about the MSX stuff of Albert Sgaggero (BCO). When I started to collect his MSX listings, it was clear you could catalog them in the following sequence: 

 

* kaleidoscopes

* Xmas demos

* games

* other demos

* tools

Most of the listings are not that long. The best parts are the Xmas demos, most of them are very colorful and original. The games are quite simple, the most finished one is 

Mr. MoneyEd. I didn't know you could create a whole game when you only have to press 'z' the whole time...

I mentioned the kaleidoscopes earlier, Albert Sgaggero made also a SCREEN 2 and SCREEN 3 variation, with some random notes playing, in a very clever way I never have seen before. 

From the other demos, I like the rectangles of ASCII characters in SCREEN 1 very much, cause until now I didn't know it was possible. And it's not slow either.

There were not many tools, but I like the simple sprite editor, although a self-generated sprite loader is missing. Now I can make a sprite, but I must figure out how to display it.

When I was finished collecting I put them on a 720 Kb MSX disk-image.

Enough programs so I started to create a menu program with a little color animation in it

and submenus.  It took more time than expected, cause not all listings worked as expected

and submenu's given me headaches.

In 1 listing Mr. MoneyEd (again) I got an "Out of data" error. First I blamed the creator to publish a listing with errors and try to fix them, by adding more data lines and change the intro-screen. When I looked at the video of the game on YouTube and checked the listing on the website http://fourseasons.altervista.org it was exactly the same listing! So where came the errors from? BCP used the é and the í to create money signs and walls, but when converting these characters from PC (website) to MSX (BlueMSX), MSX created from the é 2 very different graphics sign, same happened with í. I tried to find the é and í on my (emulated) MSX keyboard and changed the listing until it worked again.

All is fine now, so you can download the MSX disk with BCO stuff.

Mediafire / Pcloud

 

Albert Sgaggero MSX Basic Collection ( WWW part)

Remember a post I made for a nice MSX Xmas demo completely written in MSX-BASIC,  with music? 

That was Albert Sgaggero. Recently,  he uploaded a kaleidoscope SCREEN 1  version 2.0 

I was always interested in automatically generated graphics on my MSX,  so I went to the website fourseasons.altervista.org to see if there was more MSX Basic stuff. I'm glad  I did. 

There was a small selection of MSX listings, but also some Amiga, PC and Vic 20 stuff.  

#Fourseasons was a group which published mostly puzzle games. But also a nice 1vs1 pinball game I wish someone would remake it on MSX 2. It is simple, just play against the CPU, but it could be a great game on MSX 2.

Now you can play it in your browser, cause it is a flash game. 

I don't know if Albert Sgaggero, alias BCO, still like to be creative on MSX or Amiga or PC. 

The latest videos on YouTube are all MSX, so maybe. 

I don't have anything against people that liked more than 1 computer system.

When (many years ago) the MSX world tried to proof MSX was better than CBM 64 

and MSX-2 was better than Amiga 500, I knew better.

Maybe I will mention the subject in a post about MSX Highlights or MSX Failures.

For now, check the MSX stuff and play the PC flash game, a good waste of time.

Amazing short MSX-1 demo: Wintergatan Marble Machine by Guillian & WYZ

I was just browsing for diskmagazines on MSX Games World (yes, they have them too). Then I found a collection of known and unknown MSX demos. Including this one.

 "Wintergatan Marble Machine". The screenshots made me curious about the demo, 
so I watch the YouTube video. It was unbelievable, moving pictures on SCREEN-2 while playing PSG music ? 

 I did not believe it, so I downloaded the Rom and played in BlueMSX. Yes, it really played on SCREEN 2. How was this possible ? I still don't know. But the composer WYZ (see logo below) has a lot of stuff made on Soundcloud using only (MSX) PSG and SCC soundchips.

Of course the pictures were "borrowed" from the original YouTube video
 but it is still amazing how only 2 people, WYZ and programmer Guillian made this short MSX-1 demo.
The original song is much longer, but I guess the Rom had its storage limits.
There is also a maybe even more impressive Minecraft cover completly made with redstone and noteblocks. Enjoy.

Xmas 2017: Forgotten MSX Demo's

Maybe this will be the last post about Xmas. Every year I am afraid I have run out of ideas. Let's face it, there is not much MSX Xmas related stuff to find. And there is too much Xmas music in any genre to post about. Just Google and you will have it. This year my idea for an MSX post about Xmas was: collect all Xmas Demo's of any Diskmagazine I could find, upload it to YouTube and blog about it. I started with the famous Sunrise Picturedisks and I found one. Then I browsed to all files on the MCCM CD1 and CD2 trying to find more. 
Just 2 more.

While I tried to buy any diskmagazine on any MSX fair and was subscribed on Future Magazine, MCCM and Sunrise, still my collection was incomplete and the Xmas came nearer and nearer. I decided to put the 3 demo's I found on YouTube and finish that MSX post about Xmas 2017.

That wasnt easy, cause somehow my video-editor did some terrible things with the original audio,  making it sound like a speaker with bad wires. I had to re-record the sound and put it together with a silent video to make it work. I was always a big fan of Microsoft Movie Maker, but in Windows 10 it just kept on crashing. For these 3 demo's I used a very old ShowBiz DVD 2 of ArcSoft from 2004. It's still works on Windows 10, but most of the Export formats are no longer functioning.

Hereby info about each demo:

DTC XMAS Demo: 

This is the intro demo of Paradise 2, 
a Dutch  MSX diskmagazine of MSX Club DTC. There were not many issues, only 3.

Their most famous member was JetSoft, who made very nice pictures on MSX-2. 

The demo itself is short and makes good use of the standard MSX-2 startup screen. 
It had no sound so I search at MSX.org for Xmas music made on a MSX computer. 

They had a competition MuSiXmas with the original MSX format and a mp3 version.

The first mp3 track I played was Iceworld of Frederik Boelens. I loved it for the start and it fits the DTC XMAS Demo like a glove. 

IOD XMAS Demo : 

This is one of the demo's on Sunrise Picturedisk 10, made by a famous MSX group called Instruments Of Darkness. 

Their little demo puts falling snowflakes to a small animated picture. And the worst MSX version I ever heard of "Jingle Bells". 
The samples are funny enough, but they better asked member DanDan to compose some sounds.

The easiest way to play the demo on a MSX is by starting XMAS.LDR, otherwise you have to play some levels of Pixess to get to the demo.

Harald Stutz / Patrick Leijt Kerst Demo:

I am not sure if Patrick Feijt changed more than just the Dutch xmaswish at the end of the demo, but Harald Stutz made a nice demo with 2 animated parts with music. 

It's completly written in MSX-BASIC,  but uses some BGM files ( Bit2 Synyhesaurus ) to play music. That BGM replayer is so good ,you can execute other Basic commands without interupting the music. 

The first part looks a bit like the IOD XMAS Demo, I prefer this one. Great job mr. Harald Stutz and thank you Patrick Feijt for sending it to the Dutch MCCM, so I can add this nice demo to my collection.

All these 3 demo's can be found on a playlist on YouTube.

Earlier I made an other playlist with MSX XMAS Demo's.

I hope you enjoy these demo's. Happy Holidays !!!

Btw : I have no plans for post I ng about New Year, but you never know.

MSX Demo: MSX Animated Painting

PAINTING.DEM is an MSX-1 Basic animation like I have never seen before. Of course, there are plenty MSX-1 demo's made in machine code that can do so much more than this simple Basic program, but you are missing the main reason why I posted it.

If you have ever written an MSX Basic program that created graphics in SCREEN 2, you know why I like this short demo. Still not impressed? The demo moves all the waves of the sea, the birds, and the sailing ship, without any delay. I never saw a sea of changing waves on SCREEN 2 and moving more than 1 sprite at the same time is not easy in MSX Basic.
I needed KUN Compiler in my MSX-1 Paranoid Demo to get some speed with sprites.

The real programmer is unknown, I found it on a disk full of MSX Basic games I collected many years ago and I really feel bad, not able to giving this MSX-er the credits for this simple but wonderful demo.

There were minor editing by me, I put the title on the screen, correct the tree a little bit
and remove some spaces to get some extra speed.

Hurray to this unknown MSX-er.


Mediafire / Pcloud

Google week 40, 2017

I haven't googled MSX things lately, but since I got some ideas about my "Mega Wordstore+ Demo" (about using the MIF package to create new looking converted pictures for my Wordstore+ demo's), I googled again.

Well, there was an interesting topic about the updated MIF package on msx.org. More than that, there was a whole forum about MSX software on msx.org with more interesting stuff.
And that is what this post is all about, just forum posts about MSX software from msx.org.

* To take off, of course, the topic about the updated MIF package, currently v2.3 but not for use in MSX-Basic anymore
* Then a new feature of Google, you can search for similar pictures, mentioned in the topic about finding the name of some MSX games
 and so I found this website full of MSX cassette images of a lot of commercial games and magazines  this is a real treasure chest, maybe some are good enough to be translated for my 112 games list
* A free new MSX game (2 games into 1), this is really good platform game(s)
* Next, a Dutch MSX magazine which was also famous, the MSX-gids, it has not an online archive (sadly), but in the topic, you find some links for some issues
* A list of the weirdest MSX games can be very amusing, so here is the topic, you will find also videos and download links
 * An MSX-1 demo made by an Amstrad CPC coder. Well, it's a little better than a Commodore 64 coder, but he really shows what MSX-1 can do, where are the MSX coders now?
* I also found a topic about every pinball game ever released on MSX. Most of them are MSX-1 and look a bit crappy. I still love Rollerball of HAL, not Fireball and sometimes Pinball Blaster. Some of the pinball games you can play at www.file-hunter.com
* A topic about free race games got me download 2 free games, Car II and Lotus F3
* Last of all I found out the MSX-2 point-and-click adventure ZOO of Radarsoft was translated in English and French, I still have the original Dutch version somewhere.

TnC Collected works : TnC ZoundZ and DemoZ Disk Part 8 (Final !)

Part 8 final ? Yes, it is.

When I was compiling Part 5 and 6,
I was sure I had enough stuff for at least
10 Parts.

But when I looked closer to the FAC SOUNDTRACKER music files and all the versions I collected of the song "Every breath you take" I began to see that lot of these were not interesting at all.
So I decided to sort things out until I could fill the last 2 disks, Part 7 and 8.

I wanted to call this Part 8,
the "Every Breath You Take " edition,
but when I listen to all versions, all with the same errors or more, I wanted to create just 1 good version, so this edition is named "Soundtracker Edition Part 2".

Mostly cause the main part of the disk is filled with Soundtracker music, players, and info.
However, there are also some nice tools for the Philips Music Module, mostly samplers and a long FAC's FM-FAC sample of the song "Here We Go Again" of the synthesizer-rock band "Mad At The World" ( see Part 7 for more info).

The FM-PAC demo "Every Breath You Take" of the band The Police has a long history.

Originally was the song made in Synthsaurus V2.00 by Elko Duijm and when it was converted to Basic, it was too big to fit in the memory of any MSX computer.

Later there was a converter made BIT2BGM, but after conversing the tempo was wrong, instead of 120 it played 80!


I liked the song Elko Duijm made, so I cut the song in SynyhSaurus V2.00 in 2 parts and converted each part into a Basic listing.

More problems came to the surface,
when I played the 1st part in Basic.
After the refreins, the whole song got timing issues and the drums, the bass melody played out of sync.

I believe Elko Duijm tried to fix some of these issues in SS2 later, but I could not find any better version than the onces I collected earlier.

Anyway, for Part 8 I wanted to create
1 complete version by getting rid of all the same strings with music data and put together part 1 and 2 after that.
I listened to part 1 and I heard so many out of sync channels, I had not the courage to start fixing these.

So I made a cut-off sped up version with only the intro and 2 refreins, cause after that all the errors began.

 I had already converted pictures for a menu with "Every Breath You Take " versions, cause I decided to use only 1 version, I took the best picture merge it with the cut-off spec up version and voila there was the "Every Breath You Take" FM demo.

Now I  forgot there is a lot to read about FAC SOUNDTRACKER on this Final disk, like info about the music files , tips for use, my Basic replayers and info about all samplers.
Again I tried to find some info on the net about these songs:

Some of these songs are from the FAC Demo 4 "Facmanschap is Meesterschap" and MSX-Fan magazine  (via Unicorn Coorporation - Library #1)

But the song "Diver" (of Unicorn Coorporation again) came from a listing in MCCM 41, see page 29 or the screenshot on the left.

"Dremo 2017" was original a song in MUSIX (with drums), but was used (without drums) in Booty or Kick It  ofcourse all published by Aackosoft.

"No-Acid Part 1" was the pre-version of the song you hear in NO-PROMO demo  
What can I say, except unfinished?

 "Because" was a song of The Beatles of their best album "Abbey Road". And I found lots of good covers, remixes of this (mostly) acapella song. Even a movie "Across The Universe" that had a story based o the lyrics of 33 (!!) Beatle-songs.

But here are some "Because" treasures
I found on YouTube:

- All You Need Was Luv
  (still impressive see someone play all instruments and sing in perfect sync with the video)
- Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets Trailer song
  (yes, it was the trailer song of an action movie, The Beatles with an orchestra well done)
- Across The Universe
  (from that movie I mentioned earlier, acapella and not sang by The Beatles themselves)
- The Hit House
  (another from that Valerian movie, but this time in sort of "Terminator"-style)
 - DMA Reggae Mix
   ( lots of dub or echo, it turns the song into something even better )
- The Zap rmx
  (sort electronic techno style, very non-pop, Kraftwerk vs The Beatles remixed)
- Reggae Remix of tomseal76
  (more reggae, what if The Beatles recorded "Because" as a reggae song ?)
- SHIHA Remix
  (if The Beatles recorded "Because" today, it would sound like this, house music)
- Because the world is round
  ( a spoken version of "Because, but the relaxing music and video makes it soo special)


I don't have to tell you there is "Every Breath You Take" remixes, covers and other stuff related to the song on YouTube. I took a deep breath, dived into the pool and this is what
I found at the bottom:

- Reactable Mix
  (you can watch how the music changes, just by moving some electronic blocks
   on an electronic table)
- Harp Twins - Camille and Kennerly
  (2 beautiful young girls with 2 harps and very talented, impressive)
- Deep Chills Remix
  (lounge version, very relaxing with a bit of saxophone, fantastic)
- Alex Giudici Remix
  (a bit synthwave and a bit Ibiza, go slow dance)
- Scenester Synthwave Remix
  ( I can't help it, I love synthwave 80s style)
- Rush West Bootleg
  (uplifting house version, yeah really)
- MINOR KEY VERSION
  (very creepy version, for playing at Halloween)

And so we come to an end. TnC Collected Works is finished now.
All I can do is make new  MSX stuff ;-)

The disk Part 8 is on Mediafire / Pcloud

TnC Collected works : TnC ZoundZ and DemoZ Disk Part 7

Welcome to almost the last part of the series
Soundz & DemoZ Disks, Part 7.

I call this part, "The Soundtracker Edition 1".
I guess I don't have to explain that.

On this disk, you will find some Basic Replayers I once made, some info about each Soundtracker song and an example with lots of comments how to load and play a Soundtracker song in Basic.







And also a long sample of the song Living Dead of Mad At The World, a short of Christian band which sounded like Depeche Mode.

After releasing their 1st album with Living Dead and more great songs, they changed their sound to more hard rock.

I did not like it, the combi of the electric guitar with heavy electronics was much better choice.

On Part 8 you will find another sample of a track from their first album.

I liked this MATW album so much, I not only sampled some song, but after buying the record I bought blindly also the CD version, which had 2 bonus tracks.
Well, after listening I skipped them every time I played the CD.
They were sooooo bad, it made me wonder why the other songs got so much better...
Note: I hope you can listen to the sample, cause BlueMSX plays only silence.

Now I could tell you more about each Soundtracker song on this disk, but you better read the text on the disk.

Sorry, this disk has only 4 items in the main menu,
but I promise the next Part 8 will have much more.

I forgot something, because the Basic Replayers need a lot of Basic space, you have to start the disk with CTRL key pressed when booting.
Then Disk-Basic has more space to run the replayers.

I tried to find some interesting stuff about each Soundtracker song on the web, but no way.

* Here are some alternative wiki pages about the classical composers:

Joseph Kuffner & Francesco Spinacino  & Pieter van der Staak

* And some non-wiki info about the band: Mad At The World


* An MSX info page about Ernst Schulle or Unicorn Corporation 

* Couple of videos I found for Bye Bye Love / Memory / Perhaps Love / Love Me Tender

Yeah, this time no remixes or mashups, just a fresh version or a nice video of these pop songs.

* The PSG version from the original game "Lenam - Sword of Legend - Event 1"
* The guitar book of Pieter van der Staak including "Hiking to Haifa" and "Bound for Bulgaria" (see Part 3)

I am done now with Part 7, Part 8 is much more interesting...
Here are Mediafire and Pcloud

TnC Collected works : TnC ToolZ DemoZ Disk Part D

I completely forgot this ToolZ & DemoZ Disk Part D.
It seemed I was so busy with the "Paranoid Demo 2016" I forgot to post about Part D.

This part is special cause it had lots of graphics tools and some little demos.

Almost 4 screens full of tools demos, so lot to talk about?

Well, no. But I can try.
I did it with every disk.

There are demo's like TV-WALL, Random lines, Blockbox, 000Fractal, Fast MCCA Colorscroll, House 1/2/3/, Pagina, Intro Metal, all experiments for use in bigger programs, you will find them on other disks of TnC Collected works. Because I was already busy with the Soundz & DemoZ series and decided all at once to go on with the ToolZ & DemoZ series, all these demos have annoying random sound effects.

Some are pictures viewers with something special, like: Random Color, MED-Soft, MUP and CAT-PIC. CAT-PIC was one of the last MSX projects
I was working on (1996).

The idea was to create catalog pictures showing a thumbnail of every picture on the disk even if it's was made for a different SCREEN type. Well, I never came so far to implemented the conversion part of SCANMENU. It only creates a catalog picture in SCREEN 8 and creates thumbnails for SCREEN 8 pictures.

The main part is the tools, which can be divided into 3 categories:  converters, text readers, color changers.
I won't name all converters one by one, see for yourself. There are enough pictures on this disk to play with.


Every MSX-er creates text readers, cause it's not so easy
to read texts in MSX-Basic, so I made a couple myself.
Check out: CopyEdje and CataInfo.

With color changers, I mean changing the pallette of the pictures in SCREEN 5, 7 and sometimes 8 too.
Like: Color searcher/converter, EditPal5, palet changer.

But wait! There is more!
For example:

- My favorite copy tool in MSX-DOS 1: Autoload
+ It uses your whole memory-mapper to copy (big) files

- My homemade menu with sub-menus:  Homemade
+ Made for own utility disks with lots and lots of programs
- My twice modified MCM Text Scroller: Scroller
+ In SCREEN 0, but easy to use in your own programs.
- My universal MSX-DOS autoloader: Memman
+ I didn't make it, I just made it a bit user-friendlier.


And I mentioned it earlier there are pictures for SCREEN 5, 7 and 8 to play with.
In the MED-Soft (EMP-Soft v0.0) picture viewer, you see some SCREEN 7 pictures made
by Elko Duijm with Graph Saurus of Bit2 (of course).

You see a lot of the color purple in the screenshots, I just like deep purple...

Still want to download this disk: Mediafire