Category: MSX
We know you can play MSX games on-the-go on your smartphone, but how about do it using a Sega Game Gear!? It is like emulating an Altair in your Commodore 64, but cooler! Developed in Japan, the GGMSX is an adapter that allows you to use MSX1 cartridges in your Game Gear. The video below shows it in action. [youtube q9lrUXYykJ8 nolink]…
Infocom was the text adventure main publisher in the 80s, being Zork the best-known among the company’s many successful games. A collection of digitized scans from a large cache of documents related to the game publisher Infocom, assembled by Steven Meretzky of Infocom was recently released and made available through Internet Archive. During his time at Infocom, Steve Meretzky meticulously…
Life on Mars is a new game by Kai Magazine, an MSX2 action-platformer game that features good graphics and music. The game will be released as a 512KB megarom cartridge. The requirements are MSX2 or higher with at least 128KB RAM/128KB VRAM (OPL4/MOONSOUND version) or 64KB RAM/128KB VRAM (FM-PAC/MUSIC MODULE version). You can check the game watching the video below….
The #msxdev Compo is a MSX software competition in which all sorts of MSX software is allowed, from games to utilities running on any MSX model. Unfortunatelly, this year’s compo was cancelled due to the lack of interest – the compo didn’t get a single entry so far. Most likely, there won’t be any other editions in the future, according…
Imagine Google Streets inside a museum. This is exactly what this virtual tour is at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, WA. Made by Tosolini Productions, the virtual tour really takes you to any place inside the museum. You can walk, look around, check the computers, etc. The only thing better than this would be to visit the museum in…
The YouTube channel “Nostalgia Nerd” has published a video review about the MSX System & Platform. If you know very little about the MSX platform, it is a good opportunity to learn more about it. It tackles the platform history, going from its origins, different models, hardware overview and games. Probably die-hard MSX fans will find it a little superficial, but…
Game development competitions are always fun to participate if you are a developer, and always fun to follow if you are a gamer looking for modern games for your beloved platform. Earlier this year we saw great games coming out of ABBUC’s Compo for Atari 8-bits and the CPCRetroDev compo that brought to us many more amazing games for the Amstrad…
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting) and Jack Nutting (not hosting) Host’s Topic: Internet of Dumb Things Are our 8-bit programming skills going to be relevant again? In this upcoming Internet of Things world, underpowered is back. The IoT and the return of 8-bit computing Retro Computing News: Ken Olsen, DEC documentary (20 minutes) 10 computers time forgot Jupiter Ace emulator (iOS) Gene…
We have been hosting a forum for many years, but with so many good forums around the internet, we assume we never were able to gain regular members, helping to increase the interest. For many months, we’ve been using the Facebook groups more actively, and the results are really amazing, with interesting discussions, news, photos and whatever comes to your…
WMSX is a browser-based emulator released by Paulo Peccin (great name, btw!) made with HTML5/Javascript, not requiring any plugins. It lets you load any disk image, support keyboard and controllers and also full screen mode. New in version 0.95: Selectable 60/50 Hz native V-Sync Complete line accuracy Screen mode splits now supported 7 Debug modes 3 Sprite modes Link: WMSX
