Category: MSX
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
The new edition of MSXdev, the most important MSX1 development contest in recent years, has been announced. As games are announced, their entries will be created in MSXBlog where you will find all available information as their authors add comments and notes. Also, of course, as they become available for download, you can do it. If you are considering to participate, these…
Paulo Augusto Peccin has created a new MSX Emulator totally written in Javascript, and it can run directly from your browser, preferable Chrome. Features: 100% HTML5/JS, no plugins needed Runs in any modern Web Browser. Tested in Chrome and Firefox Put games or any MSX software in webpages easily Only standard MSX 1 support for now Full Savestates support Export…
Lavadeira blog announced directly from the MSX mother land that a new physical store will open soon in Akihabara. The store will offer retro computers, retro games, arcade games, and fan made items. The biggest news mainly for those that can afford to visit the store is a stock of brand-new-never-opened MSX computers Pioneer PX-V60. They go for about USD$180 – a…
FPGA Arcade is a retro computer system developed by MikeJ and can be used to emulate (in hardware) many retro computers such as: Amiga, Apple II+, AtariST, Atari 800XL, BBC B, Commodore VIC-20 / C64, MSX and the Spectrum. Mfilos has received his FPGA Arcade and has built the system inside a mini-itx case. You can follow his progress on…
My favourite MSX blog has be in a hiatus for almost 6 months, but now it has been updated with two new articles, tackling the concepts of assembler programming for the MSX. Lavandeira is also starting to accept contributions from Patrons, through the service Patreon. On the first one, Relearning MSX #19: Assembly language concepts he teaches the very basic assembler…
If you ever thought about learning a bit of MSX Assembler, today is your lucky day. The Nestruo, Toni Galvez and Wonder entered MSXdev’14 with “World Rally”, a car racing game, but they weren’t able to finish it on time. After some time they realized that they wouldn’t finish it at all, since there are several routines that needed to…
