MoonBlaster Mania

Project sheet

Year

1993

Status

RELEASED

Type

Music disk

Platforms

MSX2
MSX2+
MSX turbo R

Sound chips supported

MSX-MUSIC (Yamaha YM2413)
MSX-AUDIO (Yamaha Y8950)

Media

3.5" 1DD floppy disk (360Kb)

Language

MSX-BASIC with 3rd party routines for music playback

License

Public domain

Summary

Description

This is a music disk for MSX computers that I released somewhere in 1993, when I was 18 years old.

My cousin Carlos composed all the songs except the first one. I'm responsible for the first song, the graphics and the coding.

Back then I was giving it away on a floppy disk to friends at MSX computer meetings, and I think that at some point I also had it available for download at my BBS.

System requirements

It runs on MSX computers (requires an MSX2 or higher).

Supports the Yamaha YM2413 chip (MSX-MUSIC) and the Yamaha Y8950 (MSX-AUDIO). If both are installed then music will play through both at the same time in stereo. If neither is installed then the disk will still run, but there will be no sound at all. The Y8950 songs use audio samples (some for the drum track, some for melody portions).

Comes in a floppy disk, but it will also run when installed on a hard drive.

Emulator compatibility

Runs fine on modern MSX emulators.

However, I recommend using openMSX because it supports both sound chips (Yamaya YM2413 and Y8950).

Other emulators (such as the WebMSX window below) only support the Yamaha YM2413 chip, so you will only hear the songs in the lower-quality chip, and without digitized samples.

Download

This application is public domain. You're welcome to freely use and redistribute it.

Download link: MoonBlaster_Mania_1993.dsk (360Kb)

Emulated version

Note: This playable version below is emulated thanks to WebMSX. It runs fine on the browser, but only with MSX-MUSIC sound. The MSX-AUDIO channels of the songs won't play.

Controls:

Cursor up/down: choose song
Space key: play song