Category: MSX
[youtube cyDB-eg0vtA nolink] You know how YouTube keeps playing new videos after the one you were watching has finished, right? Because of that, I accidentally/luckly learned about this new video series called MSX Mansion, where the user Banjo Guy Ollie reviews MSX games. The reviews are really well done, and his narrative is entertaining as well. So far, there are…
[youtube oi3WrkgRGsQ nolink] Zombie Incident is a Platform/Zombie Smasher game which is being launched this week on Nintendo’s European eShop. The interesting bit is that it was originally developed by a team including NeneFranz in 2011 for a contest, in which multiple games were developed on retro hardware. It won MSXdev’11 which, as the name suggests, challenged teams to create…
The Code Generator (CG) is responsible to take the intermediate code generated by CF (the TCO file we saw in the previous posts), and create the assembler source code for our program. Lavandeira tells you everything about it on this new article of the series “Relearning MSX”. Link: Lavandeira
Continuing the article about C development on MSX, Javi Lavandeira explains the Function Parameter Checker (FPC.COM). If you are new to the MSX, or never develop for it, Lavandeira series of articles is a must-read. Or you can try yourself reading the guide from the picture above! Link: Lavandeira Website
Javi Lavandeira has been posting an amazing series of articles entitle “Relearning MSX”, where he explains how to get up and running with MSX, a C programming environment and much more. The purpose of this new article and the ones to follow is to allow users who already have some experience programming in C to dive deeper into software development…
[youtube VTdjdy5G5ow nolink] The final edition of the demoparty Payback has happened from January, 30th to Feb 1st in Finland. MSX Resource Centre is the first outlet to report their own favourite machine entries and the results. MRC user NYYRIKKI has entered the Old Skool 8bit section of the party with his demo named To The Future, and Dromedaar Vision…
[youtube B-mEvJ_gevw nolink] Kier Kracht has always been a big MSX enthusiast, and back in the 90’s he was always seen carrying a video camera visiting and filming MSX events. He once shared his videos with MSX-Posse who recently published them on their freshly created Youtube channel. Some of the videos I checked have no subtitles, but is still worth…
[youtube nJGshW0DdGk nolink] With 70% of the votes, Pointless Fighting by Baka-Yo! Softcorp wins the #msxdev competition and takes home 100 euros! The very impressive fighting game can be download for free, or you can watch a preview video on YouTube. Download: #msxdev Source: MSX Resource Centre
Two decades ago, Javier Lavandeira created a game called ‘Matrix – Quest for deliverance’, complete with some nice Moonblaster 1.4 stereo music and released it to close friends only. The game is a Breakout/Arkanoid clone. It has great FM-PAC / Music Module music composed by Carlos García. Coding and graphics are all by Javier Lavandeira. It runs fine on the…
“Zombi Terror” is an adventure game, divided in two parts, where you can move through the different locations and make special actions by the options displayed on screen, and with a “battle system” based on “dice rolling”, just like some rpg-board games. In addition to the amount of graphics, Kabuto Factory have composed an audio soundtrack to ambient the game…
