At the end of the previous chapter we had a working MSX-DOS2 installation. Those of you using openMSX now have a setup like this:

Current MSX setup under openMSX

Disk drive names under openMSX

From this point on, the explanations in these series will work the same on an emulator and on a real MSX computer, unless I explicitly point out the differences. One of the things that you’ll have to pay attention to if you’re using your MSX are the drive letters. They may be different in your machine.

Let’s dive in.

Another old application programmed by me in 1993 or 1994. This one is a music disk for MSX2 computers (or higher) with at least an FM-PAC. Also supports MSX Audio for stereo sound and digital samples. I thought this was already available in The MSX Archive, but looks like it wasn’t. I’m also releasing this one to the public domain.

Get it here: MoonBlaster_Mania.zip (180 KB)

It works fine under the openMSX emulator with the mbstereo extension.

Most of the songs are by Carlos García. Graphics, code, and the two crappy songs (guess which ones) are all my fault.

NOTE: The samples in the last song (‘Warrior‘) seem to be corrupted. It doesn’t matter much, because we used this same song for the intro of MATRIX.

Thanks Paco for reminding me about this one, and mars2000you for pointing an online archive that still had it!

MoonBlaster Mania

Here’s a game for MSX2 computers that I released on October 1994. It was never released commercially, but I gave copies to friends. I’m now releasing it to the public domain.

The game is just another Breakout / Arkanoid clone. It has great FM-PAC / Music Module music composed by Carlos García. I’m guilty of all the coding and graphics.

It runs fine on the openMSX emulator, but at least on my computer (a 2010 Mac Pro) the timings aren’t correct and the music breaks up a bit. You will need to run the emulator with both the fmpac ROM and the mbstereo extension to be able to listen to the music.

Download the disk image here (now public domain): matrix.zip (206 KB)

Thanks RCastillo for recovering this!

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“Imagine how much more fun we would be having if we plugged it in!”

MSX Magazine (Japan), November 1984 issue

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