The popular demogroup Bandwagon surprised both MSX-lovers and people who never even saw an MSX with their stunning MSX1 demo's. Many people have wondered how these demo's were created. Although there are no real hints on techniques or source codes it might be interesting to read the newspost on their website.
Bargain 13.10
A new version of BARGAIN, an image compression toolkit for all MSX screen modes has been released.
BARGAIN 14.11
Japanese developer KATSU has been working on the image (de)compression toolkit BARGAIN, fore more than 21 years. A few months ago, Katsu released the final and completed version.
Hans Otten pointed us to the following message on comp.os.cpm:
"I, Leor Zolman, hereby and forever more release all rights to BDS C to anyone and everyone who'd like to make copies, download, use, sell, whatever, both the original retail packages and all source code, including to the compiler itself, wherever they may be able to get a copy"
This BDS-C compiler is a C compiler for cpm that a
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Andrea Rossetti from Italy wrote a brief tutorial on how to build a Bison parser for MSX using the SDCC cross-compiler; the resulting .ROM program can read an input sequence, do a syntax check and perf
A new development team composed of users with a clear goal in mind, to make MSX2 games.
Bitbuster 1.2
We have just added Bitbuster 1.2 to our ever growing MSX downloads database. Bitbuster is a (de)compression toolkit with which you can create decently compressed data which can easily and rapidly be decompressed on MSX.
Source: HRA's room
HRA released and english version of BMP2MSX. BMP2MSX is a tool to convert PC Bitmap images (.bmp) to MSX format (binary).
Source: Arjan Bakker on the MSX Mailinglist
Team Bomba have updated their entire site and released a promo of their level editor. With this editor you can edit levels for the ruins world.