MSX computers were a standard from Microsoft Japan and ASCII corporation from 1983. They were manufactured by various companies and have a Z-80 CPU and standard video and audio hardware. They were an attempt to standardise 8-bit computer hardware, but really only caught on in parts of Europe, Japan, Korea and Brazil.

With a 256x192 pixel 16 colour graphics screen and colour clash, where there is a limit of two colours in an 8 pixel horizontal row, the Ludogix 14-sided truncated octohedron logo had to be adapted. The Chinese character - wan - play - is retained.

The executable below is an MSX-DOS com file, and runs on MSX1 and later computers, and on MSX emulators.

MSX downloads

Games coded by Matthew :

Semaphore - a simple 3 in a row abstract game. MSX-DOS COM file.
Blastoid - an entry into the MSXdev22 competition. MSX1 32Kb ROM. Playable online at the File Hunter.

Computing downloads

Learn to program in Multiply - a programming language written in Go, implementing one operator of Forth, so you can satisfyingly say “I program in Go, Forth and Multiply”

Multiply - a dumb programming language for Windows x86. Go source code.

MSX links

OpenMSX - an MSX emulator. (You can use the MSX2 Philips NMS 8255 machine for Semaphore. Others will work if they can boot to MSX-DOS)