09/01/2023
I just want to get this off my heart, regarding the stuff being produced for MSX these days.
Not even a week ago, I got my hands on a music disk that was re-released end of last year and it would have more music added to it. I wanted to see it obviously and did some off-stream testing.
Yet again, I was glad that I did so, since this release once again was an utter dissapointment, don't get me wrong I love new stuff released for the MSX.
But please make sure it works with the real MSX models and hardware like the MegFlashRom, Carnivore and such!
https://msx.org/news/music/en/scc-music-disc-1 -438098
This is the disk we're talking about, I contacted one of them by mail, and guess what: 0 response, I posted a comment as you could see and once again, no replies.
What is actually happening with this release, well we know with the MFR, you need to boot the dsk-image with EMUFILE.COM.
Once MSX boots, hold cursor up and select Disable RAM Expansion, this is very important, if you want to hear the SCC soundz.
The disk will show a loader screen and hit the intro screen, there's a text scroller visible, all good right?
Untill this point it would be a yes, but that's it, hitting the SPACEBAR, gets us to a loading screen again, and all the way right on the screen, I see some small sprites ( I guess ) under each other and it seems to be changing up there, but here's the issue, it never leaves the loading screen.
Developers for the MSX, please test not just in emulation, get more people to test it as well on real hardware, if you lack the computers.
Even more sad, that there's no feedback or response given by the developers of this disk!
Earlier last year we had such problem with a demo released for the MSX, but hats off to these guys, they saw my report and contacted me personally to review the problem and send me some beta versions, to test possible fixes and the issue got resolved! So kudos to The Pets Mode for that!.
Now we need Fuzzy Logic to take that as an example, make sure it's well tested also with the modern hardware people use with their MSX's.
The legendary MSX group Fuzzy Logic pulls a hat-trick with the release of a heavily refurbished and souped up version of their classic SCC Musix Dizc #1.
