TnC Internet Adventures: Photo 3D album/screensaver

This was really a discovery, with a lot of patience I found a lot of scènes for this program. It creates a 3d galery in different settings and the 3d design is simple but looks good enough. I made some yt vids with it with pics from a minecraft server.

Mediafire/ Pcloud

TnC Internet Adventures : MSX logos Part 2 - Google

search for "MSX logo" and find 10 different logo's + 1 original MSX logo to start with

Mostly motors so maybe 10 is not reachable.

TnC Internet Adventures : Techmoan

Interesting audio stuff from recent past which still works.

TnC Amazing Discoveries on YouTube ( Introduction)

Just a short introduction. Over the months ( maybe years) I cause across YT video's and channels, that really changed my state of mind. Whenever it's music, or games or movies or animations or history or technical stuff, my YT history has it all. I hope you like my selections and visit those channels , maybe even subscribe. It may not always very amazing , it shows my interests and hobbies.

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).

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...

TnC Internet Adventures : MSX logos Part 1 - Yahoo

To find some background info or covers about MSX stuff I am blogging about, 
I use a lot of times search words with word MSX added to. And when I search for pictures 
I get lots of strange pictures that had nothing to do with MSX computers. 
The word MSX is nowadays commonly used for all kinds of things. 
From motors till Viagra pills, anything is possible. 

I decided it was interesting enough to search for MSX logos, what they mean and for which products they use the word MSX for. 
Well, I can tell you there will be no Microsoft on this list. 
They give their name to the MSX standard (well if that is true is for another post), but they totally forgot about it. 
You might say, world domination fallen with MSX, but with Windows, it worked out fine. Enough about big MS, let's see how other companies use MSX for their products.

This is a collection of MSX logo's I got with a Yahoo search ( it's mine default search engine, cause I use McAfee ), here we go in random order:

MSX was never going international, but there were plenty of countries

where MSX computers were sold. 

I think the logo was to use for all MSX groups and seemed 

to be forgotten.

Honda made a motor called MSX 125 in lots of variations, a fan made this cartoon picture.

Somebody uploade an animated MSX logo in different versions on YouTube, 

but for what use ? I could not find out. 

 

Yes, there is an MSX radiostation and no they dont play MSX music, 

but it's a fake radio-station in GTA games itself.

Check out the D&B music on big YT.

This is a logo from a graphic designer company, do they work as a trio ? 

Cant find the 3 names of these designers.

Next is a musicshop which sells CDs with sounds from real instruments. 

But why do you want so many different cymbalsounds ?.

Here is some other graphic designer company, dont know where the logo was used for.

The site was not very helpfull.

Yes, MSX energy drink !! 

If enough people at Microsoft drink it, maybe they produce 

an MSX-3 as a new X-Box game-console.

 

 

Logo for a bikersclub, for mini bikes only. Mmm, does the M in MSX stands for Mini ?

Well, some people do. 

That other logo seemed to be for another motorgang, 

for some very bad-ass MSX-ers, but the link is broken.

 

The logo of a never existing magazine, somehow I'm glad. Do I like to play Space Manbow on a MetroSexual computer ? So weird.

Another logo from a graphic desgner studio, purpose yet unknown.

I like it. Put this logo on any MSX-3 computer and I will buy it. 

Here is a company called MSX contents and uses MSX in the name of their product, 

like MSX Pressforce... Maybe handy for any magazine publisher.

Strangely their website is called: fivecom.

Does that mean they have only 5 computers and employees ?

A shop that sells outdoors stuff, I like the title MSX Mainstream, it's a good title for a new MSX blog. I dont think I need any of this stuff, I'm too lazy for that.

Well, that all for now. Next time a new search engine. BTW the original MSX logo in this post, came from a very interesting blog of Dave Voyles. In this post, he described briefly the history of MSX computers in a very good article. Take a look to his other posts.

TnC Internet Adventures: Lord Music Academy & Lord Vinheteiro

Lord Vinheteiro is a Brazilian piano-player who can play almost everything from Bach to Lady Gaga. He has very original ideas for his videos and has interesting things to say.
Lord Music Academy is the more serious YouTube channel, mostly in Portuguese so translation in English is very handy. The Vinheteiro channel is the more fun channel with lots of music and some English comments. He wants to show his public that classical music is not boring at all and he proved it with lots of humor.

For example try: How To Destroy Classical Music 1 and 2.
The interaction between the pianist and the drummer staring at you is a must-see.

I always look forward to the next video he uploads, cause every time he comes with a new fresh idea in which he can perform his piano skills.

More examples coming up:
- 13 Types of Pianists
- How To Make Girls Fall in Love with Music
- Happy Songs in Sad Versions
- Evolution of Music (1680 AD - 2017)
- Top 10 of EDM of the 2000s  !!!

 

TnC Internet Adventures: Online Image Editor and Gif Maker

On regular basis, my son had to make some Powerpoint presentations for speeches or overviews for books. And he needs a lot of pictures, but there are always problems like, 
it's too big or too small or it must be transparent to fit on the page, etc. etc. 

Yes yes, there are many many free image editors online, but they all have limitations and you have to pay to get these limitations removed. Not this one.

http://www.online-image-editor.com/ 

Does what it promissed, just a lot of wizards and tools you always wanted to try out on 
your images or photo's. It may be look like an ordinair image editor, it has alway great fun features for photo's. And it's totally free !
I use the transparantcy tool often, it works okay but it takes some time to get the best result.
Well, it's much easier and cheaper than using Photoshop, any way !!!

But wait, there is more.
By accident I clicked on Animation button and discovered another treasure:

http://www.online-image-editor.com/gifmaker/ 

It is so simple to create an animated GIF with this tool, you will not believe it.
Just upload your pictures (make sure they have the same resolution), change the transition (delay between showing the pictures), choose from different transitions by clicking on the box and click on create animation. Then the animated GIF will be made in seconds and by clicking with rightmousebutton, you can save the GIF with your own chosen name. 

I used the GIF maker a lot of times in the latest posts, for me a new way to show more pictures without messing with the texts.

 

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.

Paul says "donk" (10 minutes) - TnC vs Swede Mason

After seeing maybe 3 times "Paul McCartney Rabbithole" of Swede Mason, I knew I had to make a very long "Donk" version of it. So I started cutting the beginning, the "donk" part and the very ending. That was not too difficult, so I had the beginning ready in no-time. 

The "donk" part, that must be looped was very hard and when I let my son hear the pre-recorded "donk" video of 10 minutes, he told me the idea was good, the loop was not. Yeah, "the "donk" loop was the most important part of the video, so I had to go back again, started cutting and pasting the "donk" part in my video editor. 

By accident, I cut off a lot of the start of the "donk" part and forgot to cut just before the "one note". I copied the part 3 times and listened with headphones. No bad, not bad at all. I save the new "donk" loop, created a new project from scratch, copy the beginning, copy-pasted the "donk" loop enough times for 10 minutes and copy the ending in it. I listen to the whole thing for maybe 3 minutes and the ending and I was sure this was much better than the first attempt.

But the ending was also a kind of struggle, first I wanted no more than only the last sentence "I wanna sue this guy" with the original logo of Swede Mason, an extra title by myself and the word "sue" replace by "donk". That was not so easy cause the "donk" was not so loud as the spoken voice of Paul. I had to crack the sound up to get a harder "donk" to put into the sentence. 

And that's not all, cause it's a kind of rap, the sentences and subtitles are soo fast it was not possible to cut just the last sentence. So I start the ending with the drum clash, the 2 sentences about "the meaning" and the last sentence with the "donk" in it.

I don't know if Swede Mason would like it, my editing skills are zero compared to his skills in the original video. I only hope it would get banned and maybe even get a couple of likes.

It was just an idea, like so many others I have, now it's published I can go on with other ideas I still have. Stay tuned.
In the meantime, enjoy your 10 minutes stay at  Paul says "donk"

 

 

TnC Internet Adventures: Swede Mason

The first post in this series had to be about YouTuber Swede Mason. As I was searching for De Eskimo song of Andre van Duin YT showed me Trump vs Tthe Talking Heads. Being a fan of 80s music and a good musical joke I clicked on it and ... This was video editing at it best, Swede Mason cut just words from speeches of the president Donald Trump and let him speak the whole intro, just like in the original song. But that was not all, he let Trump swinging and dancing all over the screen all in perfect sync with the music. I felt completely numb and all my ideas about my next video seemed to be useless and not worthy to spend time on it. This Swede Mason does his magic not once, but in every video, he made so far, from 2010 til now. Some videos are a bit boring, but if you can let the cast of Game of Thrones rap Ice Ice Baby of Vanilla Ice in perfect sync with the video and audio, you are a real magician. Some other highlights are Masterchef Synesthesia ( with several remixes made by DJs) and Paul McCartney playing rapping and singing ("Donk Donk") a techno song, while the whole video is pieces of interviews and other documentaries. Swede Mason meant to be also a big fan of Arnold Swartsenagger, beware..and the Coke video clip, made from clips of a lot of movies, is really something to remember.

And if you like the songs in the YT vids...
Try this: Swede Mason Mini Mega Mix (Fairly Sweary)

TnC Internet Adventures: An Introduction

A new series of posts. In this series want to post about all the things I have found on the net, but don't want to spend a whole post on just 1 subject. Most of them will be not MSX related ( see MSX Google posts ), but these posts will have a lot to do with any music 
I found. These may include some of older stuff from ZooiTroep, most recently discovered.

The internet is big and all the search engines in the world (there are more than just Google and Bing) can find it all. So by using different kind of searches I have found some stuff that seems to be forgotten. In every post, I will try to describe how I find it and will tell something about it why I like it. I guess YouTube will be in the series very often, cause everybody is free to post everything. If it's not get banned of course...

At this point, I don't know if every post will contain more than one discovery. It depends how much I can write about the subject, I guess.

So stay tuned for this new series of posts.  TnC Internet Aventures is starting NOW !!!