Projects - MSX
I am a member of the MSX user group TNI. Before that I used to be in Datax until it died, and also in Soksoft for a very short while (where I didn't do much useful).
Projects
There are a number of projects I am working on or have been working on in the past:
- MSX Assembly Page
- A site for MSX documentation. Or should I say, the site.
- MSX fair Bussum
- From 1999 to 2008 I have organised the annual MSX fair in Bussum, one of the largest MSX fairs of the Netherlands. The first couple of years this was done in co-operation with MSX gg Zandvoort (Jaap Hoogendijk in particular), and it was pretty much the continuation of the Zandvoort fairs. As of 2002, I have taken over the organisation of the fair under the banner of TNI, with the assistance of Patriek Lesparre and others.
- Tiger Hash implementation for Z80 (finished)
- Just a quick and nice side-project to see how well MSX could handle the supposedly well-scalable 64-bit Tiger hash algorithm. DOS 2 executable and sources included.
- TI-83 tools (finished)
- I made several tools to support development and communication between an MSX and a TI-83 graphical calculator.
- TERM4MSX (beta, stalled)
- TERM4MSX is a terminal program that uses the Erix Fossil-drivers and supports ANSI colours. There is a beta version available for download.
- JoyNet (finished)
- JoyNet is a joystick port-based ring network standard that was created collaboratively by Maarten ter Huurne, Alex Wulms, Sean Young, Werner Augusto Roder Kai, Patrick Lina, Maico Arts, Jeroen Smael, Laurens Holst and other people active on the MSX Mailinglist in 1999 (archives). It is easy to make, and compatible with the F1-Spirit 3D Special network cable when two computers are connected, but it also allows you to connect a whole chain of computers.
- Strategic Army
- A Real Time Strategy game. Worked on it in the past, but a rewrite from scratch is due. No page up yet, but you can check out the two pages on old Datax website: Overview and Work in Progress. The latter has a couple of early screenshots.
- SA: Ancient Phoenix
- Role Playing Game with cool story line, in same universe as SA. Will utilize v9958 for smooth scrolling…
- Guru Logic (abandoned)
- I left the team mid-2004 to pursue other interests.
- MSX-DOS 3
- A multitasking module-based operating system tentatively named DOS 3. Just a couple of ideas really.
- TCP/IP stack (abandoned)
- Pretty cool stack I have been working on for quite some time, but unfortunately (for the most part) lost due to a hard disk crash. A shame, because it worked pretty well already. I could dial in, and do all the protocols and negociation up till the IP level (I was able to ping addresses). I was trying to get preliminary TCP support when I lost all my work except for a very old backup.
Datax stuff
From about 1996 to 1999 I was a member of the MSX group Datax. During that time we released a couple of products, which I have put up for download here, along with short descriptions:
- Music Power #1 (ZIP download)
- The first MSX music disk released by Datax (in 1996), containing 29 MB-stereo tracks. This demo was released not long before I became a member of Datax.
- Track issues 1-6 (ZIP download)
- The MSX diskmagazines released by Datax (in 1996-1998, if I remember correctly). Includes the #1.5 MCCM special.
- Overload (ZIP download)
- The second MSX music disk released by Datax (in 1997). Has 10 OPL4 tracks and 19 MB-stereo tracks. If I remember correctly, the OPL4 player got the timing wrong when running at 60Hz (due to compensation by my code, while the replayer also already compensated for it), so you might want to avoid that.