bitsofbas @bitsofbas@mastodon.technology
I make games for a living! Other than that, I'm pretty much stuck in the 80's with my MSX computers.
Joined Apr 2017
New #MSX game today! It's the weird Comic Bakery game where you have to keep raccoons out of your bread making machinery. Fail and you won't be able to feed the kids.
Looking very sharp, except for the spine which is pretty much shot. -- And... anyone got a spare manual?
Teaching the kid how to cheat his school math homework with #MSX BASIC.
Grab the floppy rip for "The Games Collection" here! Seems like there's no good working version around atm, so I ripped a DMK version. You can use these with openMSX. Quick and dirty pdf manual included.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yqi7miahku0oin1/The_Games_Collection.zip?dl=0
Some new Philips #MSX hardware. Especially the printer is an item that I never had in my hands before. It's incredibly cute and surprisingly still working 35 years later. Could do with some cleaning love though for when I've got some time.
Like any other mentally balanced grownup from the eighties, I'm getting out the Lego for the Christmas season.
Progress! Lazer Towers now fire in all four directions even though they clearly need some more FX love. -- Inching towards a playable game! #MSX #cubedroid
Running on a real #MSX what gets me every time is the stretched pixel aspect ratio. It's definitely not 4:3 -- But I refuse to compensate for it, it'll have to do.
Seeing as there's no transparency on the #MSX videoprocessor, I'm trying to use dithering to give the impression of semi-transparent tiles. Not sure if I like it yet. It feels a bit messy 🤪 #cubedroid
And another "not so great" #MSX game, this one from Sony. But the box is pretty cool and the price was right. Very iconic line of games from back then!
Received a, very near, perfect copy of Konami's Golf today. --More than can be said from the game itself, HAL were definitely better at making golf games for the #MSX
Two #MSX parcels from the mailman! Hyper Olympics 1&2 and Yie Ar Kung-Fu! Good testosterone-boost for my collection today. 😅
Also came across this great looking Freespace 2 box! Even though I can hardly remember it, I used to be into space dogfighting sims back in the late 90's and early 00's.
Sunday afternoon rummaging through my #MSX stuff. Look at this big Antarctic Adventure patch! Any idea where this came from originally?
Shalom, Shalom! And welcome to my collection. -- No matter how much you're "Knightmare III", you're just not the easiest to love #MSX game. Those walls and walls of Japanese text might have something to do.
REALLY enjoyed playing/cheating my way through Ghost for the #MSX
nitpicking:
* No item descriptions in-game
* Fair amount of places where you just have to know the map layout - and start over from scratch while you don't
Controls, graphics, sound, are all great ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A quartet of Quartets arrived! Ready for their new owners.
Get yours now if you're an #MSX homebrew fan! https://www.ebsoft.fr/shop/en/home/92-quartet.html
Finally created *PERFECT* ( yes, nothing less ) crate pushing.
Quite the struggle to get it _smooth_ and bug free. Double-buffering combined with switching between static drawings and an actively updated sprite when pushing, were tricky to control. #MSX #CubeDroid
Lucky to find this great looking King's Valley II for the #MSX - These games are getting rarer and rarer! ( Anyone got a cheap Contra or Metal Gear 2 lying around for me? 😜 )
Hey guys! I've got a friend looking for Green Beret for the #MSX. Can anyone help?
The Green Beret in the picture is mine. And stays mine - we're good friends, but not that good 😂
I make games for a living! Other than that, I'm pretty much stuck in the 80's with my MSX computers.
Joined Apr 2017
