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In the previous article we learned how to extract the default font pattern from an MSX machine to the TinySprite tool so we could change the design and create our own personal fancy pants font, but all this knowledge is useless if we don’t know how to bring that awesome piece of modern art back to our beloved machine, isn’t right? To show this process I wanted to create something nice so it wo...

In the previous article we learned how to extract the default font pattern from an MSX machine to the TinySprite tool so we could change the design and create our own personal fancy pants font, but all this knowledge is useless if we don’t know how to bring that awesome piece of modern art back t...

Some time ago Breno Motta, who is one of the members of Facebook’s MSX Brasil Oficial group published a picture of a short BASIC program that creates a “compressed” font style with 4 x 8 pixels on Screen 2 based on the text showing on the screen. It was really interesting to see how the program was able to create a really perfectly readable font with such a small footprint, and I got really cur...

Some time ago Breno Motta, who is one of the members of Facebook’s MSX Brasil Oficial group published a picture of a short BASIC program that creates a “compressed” font style with 4 x 8 pixels on Screen 2 based on the text showing on the screen. It was really interesting to see how the program w...

After studying, reading, and playing a lot with assembly code on the MSX, I finally decided to start to develop a proper game. As Voltaire once said - “Perfect is the enemy of good”, and trying to achieve the best knowledge possible about the subject would end in a quest that could take years and I really want to have something to deliver now, so we will have to start with what we have now and...

After studying, reading, and playing a lot with assembly code on the MSX, I finally decided to start to develop a proper game. As Voltaire once said - “Perfect is the enemy of good”, and trying to achieve the best knowledge possible about the subject would end in a quest that could take years an...

Any game creation should start with a story, a premise, a reason explaining why things are happening, or anything that justifies the events we will witness develop on our screens. It doesn’t need to be a Shakespearean screenplay or even make any sense at all, as long as it can be translated into a playable game. I tried to imagine a game concept that could be simple to create but at the same t...

Any game creation should start with a story, a premise, a reason explaining why things are happening, or anything that justifies the events we will witness develop on our screens. It doesn’t need to be a Shakespearean screenplay or even make any sense at all, as long as it can be translated into ...