Category: MSX
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
There are people studying Latin, Archeology, Ancient History and other “Vintage Subjects” all around the World. How about using MSX BASIC to teach your Computer Science studies some coding. The teacher at Dublin Institute of Technology did that. He gave to his students an assignment that made them use an MSX (emulator) to read some code to be then translated…
If you are around 40 years old or younger you’ve probably never used a punch card to code. I, when started college in 1988 also didn’t have a chance to do it, by one semester (I know, 1988 and still using punch cards is kind of weird, but my College didn’t have a big budget!). Now you can experience it (and…
As reported by MSX Resource Center, after being offline for a while, Cheatmsx is back up and running! Started by Hydragon in 2009, CheatMSX is a collection of gameplay-related information about MSX games. For now, the database contains 29 cheats, 220 maps and 14 walkthroughs, and hopefully these numbers will grow.
The MSXdev team has announced the first entry for the contest! Wing Warrior, a vertical scroll shooter for MSX. Based on the released screenshots, the game is very promising with nice graphics. MSXdev’15 will accept entries until 03/20/2016. For all the rules, access the link below. Link: MSXdev’15
