• MSX Basic source
• MSX Basic source modified for zx font
• Updated version unveils most of the maths related portions

When using Padial’s 4mb memory expansion CPM3 but it didn’t boot directly and before this modification MEMTR had to be used before booting CPM3

Note that the first two BIOS sources are originals from Spectravideo. The C.U.C. version is a much enhanced, bilingual (german/english) version by the wellknown programmer Peter Zevenhoven.

• Spectravideo SVI-328 CP/M 2.24 CBIOS
• Spectravideo SVI-328 CP/M 2.2 CBIOS A.P
• Spectravideo SVI-328 CP/M 2.2 CBIOS C.U.C. v1.8

This is a simple program which tries to solve the problem with main mapper in Panasonic machines (MSX2+ and turboR). See the readme.txt in the archive

The MemTR program searches all the memory mappers connected to the computer, selects the bigger in capacity memory mapper and places the 4 pages of the main memory (the ones which MSX-DOS uses) in that mapper.

The program is only working, at this moment, with DOS1.

(c) 2004 Armando Perez Abad (Ramones)

Disassembled and commented by Louis Claudio Grosso

Disassembled and commented, made by Luis Claudio Grosso

Disassembled and commented, made by Luis Claudio Grosso

Since this is a MSX standard it is also applicable to other MSX RS232 implementations!

By Luis Claudio Grosso

(MK Public Domain 1990)

MSX2+ demonstration program (MK Public Domain 1990)

KUN compiler demonstration programs and documentation

This utility was extracted from ‘The Nemesis Tools’ a Brazilian MSX utility package.

Louis Claudio Grosso made some modifications on the program, apart of disassembling it with no authorization 🙂
Delay added to fix VDP access timing on non Brazilian MSX’s, orphaned code and data removed.
Exit key changed to ESC, Ugly character generator removed.
Program texts translated to English. Full assembly sources! Article by L.C.Grosso

See the page devoted top the HAL Handy Scanner for more

Software for the Hal scanner

by Victor van Acht

Connect two MSX computers via a joystickport: another diskrom!

Victor van Acht

Communication software

3 versions:

“slave” adds drives to a computer without drives

“master” shares the drives of a computer to another computer

“bidir” shares the drives of this computer AND adds the drives of another computer.

NOT multi-master multi-slaves allowed (didn’t finish that)

cable:

– connect trigger 1 from joystick port 2 from computer 1 and trigger 1 from joystickport 2 from computer 2

– connect trigger 2 from joystick port 2 from computer 1 and trigger 2 from joystickport 2 from computer 2

– connect GNDs

– insert cable when BOTH COMPUTERS ARE SWITCHED OFF!!!!!

(It might be the case that I changed the software (because during the experiments I blew up my joystick port of the master) that for the master joystick port 1 has to be used. Again: insert cable when BOTH COMPUTERS ARE SWITCHED OFF!!!!!)

FAT16 patched for convenient loading

Running fat16 again results in the driver being reloaded.

Using dos 2.41 which can search for files in given paths this patched driver is nice for “quick” switching of the driver.

is patched already.

This patch is made as follows: Fat009.com is renamed to fat16.com

The fat16.com file is patched at:

1C1: 2D to BB

1C2: 03 to 07

The adresses are absolute (Hex editor) not relative to program start.

z80dis was used to disassemble the program.

Command 2.41

The author Fokke Post has made this utility freeware and also made the sources available!

If you look for a FAT16 patched version of Command 2.41: here it is (made by Okei)

Command 2.41 sources

FAT16 patched version of Command 2.41

Patched Erix fossil driver

Now the solution is here!!!

Roberto Vargas patched this driver in such a way that it does not go to basic anymore. DOS2 will be always present, then. Furthermore, if you execute it together with another program, it will be executed after installing the driver:

Example:

DRIVER DIR /P

Then the driver will be installed, and after it, a DIR /P will be executed.

Flash Rom Loader 2.3 (DOS 2 Compatible) for LPE-FLASH G

Including the sources in assembler!

The LPE-FLASH G board in all four of its current versions is a data storage device with a capacity of 512KB with different mappers.

It is perfect for loading (mega)rom images and since it uses non-volatile flash memory it keeps its contents.

This MSX-DOS (2) program allows to clear the flash ram, store ROM images and execute them. Also choice of european or japanese keyboard and 50/60 Hz is possible. Comes with english and spanish manual and sources. Freeware, please keep the archive intact when republishing

Diskrom (dis)assembler sources

In this archive you find:

– Source of ATAIDE diskrom by Novatec

– Disassembled source of MSX Club Gouda SCSI diskrom (pre-Novaxis) by Dick van Vlodrop

– Disassembled and patched sources of HSH SCSI diskrom by Ries Vriend and Ramon van der Winkel

– Sources of Connect, a diskrom based network via joystick port by Ries Vriend

Alwin Henseler made a disassembly of the NMS8245 diskrom

Collected texts about diskrom: hooks, routines, fat12 disk layout, hooks and system area

See also the B.E.R.T. sources for the SCSI diskrom of B.E.R.T. and the disassembly of an older B.E.R.T. rom by Floris van Gog.

Jon de Schrijder wrote an article how MSX with disk roms assigns drive letters to drives.

See also the BEER IDE interface for the diskrom source.

NMS8245 diskrom

Collected texts about diskrom

B.E.R.T. sources

Disassembly of an older B.E.R.T. rom

Drive number assigment

Connect diskrom, assembler sources in WB format

MCCM 72 MSX-2 plus schermen article

MCM 47 Technische details nieuwe schermen 10,11, 12 MSX2+

MSX-2 plus schermen

Technische details nieuwe schermen 10,11, 12 MSX2

MST products

The MST software products based on memory management with Memman and various TSR’s are important tools for Basic and MSX DOS users and programmers.
Many MST tools (tsr’s) are freeware. Some of the products were not free (with permission of the authors of the MST Robbert Withmar, Ries Vriends, Ramon van der Winkel now all are freeware!).

Here are those products (dutch documentation!):

• MST Tracer, a Basic debugger
• MST Jansi, ansi code support
• MST Improve
• MST tsr development kit
• MST tsr collection
• MST Quintus drawing program
• MST Diskview (see next section)
• An uptodate archive with MEMMAN 2.4 including english introduction and a large selection of tsr’s

Tracer Guide and disk

Jansi Guide and disk

Improve Guide and disk

TSR development kit Guide and disk

TSR collection Guide and disk

Quintus Guide and disk

An uptodate archive with MEMMAN 2.4

Programs written by Steven van Loef

Here you find the programs, he also made available some sources.

DISAS(2) disassembler, Diskview 2.1 disk editor, SHOWEM gif viewer, MORE (incl source), many basic programs, MSXSLT etc

NYYRIKKI has uploaded a new version of Diskview (Ver: 2.1)
He also made a small configuration utility to change those awfull original default colors and added a option to boost the startup speed a bit.

Sources: LIST-command extension, disasembler, debugger callable from Basic

MSXBUG, DISAS

Diskview

Diskview (Ver: 2.1)

Sources by Steven van Loef

CP/M Plus for MSX-2 computers

Disks

Pascal (mostly Turbo Pascal)

Pascal programming environments (Graphpak, Beunsoft, MDL-LIB, MSXPAD)

Hans Otten Pascal programming, my productions in Turbo Pascal such as CNVS and INDEX

Articles on how to program in Pascal on the MSX: many example programs in Turbo Pascal for MSX!

For example Uzix was made with this toolset. You can use the htc and htlibr programs in combination with the Hi-Tech C compiler and a cpm emulator. The htc script uses the gcc preprocessor and you can use the Makefile system to automate testing with an MSX emulator, e.g. openMSX.

You can get htc, htlibr, cpmemu and Hi-Tech C from the Uzix web site, in the downloads section.

Also look for Hitech C and examples and libraries (like the one made by Pierre Gielen) on funet and the MSX libraries made by Nestor Soriani.

See also the dutch article Hisoft C++: een C-compiler

MSX libraries made by Nestor Soriani.

Hisoft C++: een C-compiler

ASCII MSX-C

A nice page with the compilers, make utility and examples by Freddy Vulto

Two versions exist of the ASCII C compiler:

MSX C V1.10

MSX C V1.20 (MSX DOS 2 oriented)

Articles written by Alex Wulms for Sunrise about MSX-C
On the MSX Plaza you will find also a corrected include file from MCCM 90

MSX C V1.20 Compiler disk

Articles written by Alex Wulms for Sunrise about MSX-C

The author Leor Zolman made the compiler freeware, including the sources.

Her you find

– Documentation of the Microsoft products
– The package itself
– A version running under MS-DOS

Note that ASCII C also includes M80/L80

Macro-80 reference

Link-80 reference

Lib-80 reference

CREF-80 reference

L80/M80 package

M80 running on MS-DOS

– MSX 1 Champ

– MSX 1 Zen

– The assembler from the Hisoft DEVPAC 2 package, running under MSX-DOS (GEN80/MON80/ED80)

– WBASS2 (embedded in Basic, nice for starters) by Wilbert Berendsen. Now public domain and with sources.

Champ package

Zen documentation
Zen package

Userguide in pdf format of GEN80

GEN80 program

WBASS2 assembler

Basic

Microsoft Basic-80 compiler for CP/M V5 documentation

Microsoft Basic-80 V5

Archivers

Archiver PMARC PMEXT etc also running on MS-DOS

LZHPack (LHA format also on MS-DOS/Windows/Linux, for example with WINRAR)

LZHPack

Tools made by Luis Claudio Grosso

ZX81 emulator by Luis Claudio Grasso: Digging deeply in my hard disk, I found a ZX81 emulator I enhanced some years ago.
The original program has no disk routines and the printer is handled in text mode. It also has some bugs in the joystick routine.
I wrote a disk and a new printer routine in graphic mode.
When I wrote it, I never thought I could share it with another users, so, it’s writen with my computer and peripherals in mind.
It is : SVI738 720k 3 1/2 internal and 360k 5 1/4 external disk drive, Citizen 180D dot printer.
This computer has 128k VRAM and MSX 1 and MSX 2 roms. The emulator runs in both MSX1 and MSX2 mode and it doesn’t use the extra video memory, so I think it will run OK in a standerd SVI738. The disk routines also support 360k SS 3.5″ disks (the standard SVI disks). I mainly used this emulator to transfer my TS1500 software to disk, taking advantage of the good tape data input the MSX has.
The loader for a SONY MSX was never tested in a real SONY, it was only tested in the CJS emulator in SONY mode.

Here are some utilities for MSX I wrote in the past
and an exellent Z80 cross assembler for PC I downloaded from a local BBS.
– The CODEBIN utility is for helping me to write .COM files with the DUAD package that only writes code files (bloadable files).
– The EP and EP2 utilities are for disprotecting EP and EP2 protected games
– The HEXCODE is for converting HEX files produced by XASM80 to MSX code files.
– The PCDEBIN and PCXCODE are the PC versions of CODEBIN and HEXCODE.
– And finally XASMZ80 is the cross assembler

The files are zipped in these two subdirectories:
\MSX
CODEBIN.COM MSX code to raw binary file converter
CODEBIN.Z80 source of the above program
EP.COM EP file protection cracker
EP.Z80 source of the above program
EP2.COM EP2 file protection cracker
EP2.Z80 source of the above program
HEXCODE.COM Intel HEX to MSX code file converter
HEXCODE.Z80 source of the above program

ZX81 emulator

Grosso utilities

Telematch was the MSX entry, created by Luis Claudio Grosso.

His program emulates the General Instruments AY-3-8500 chip, the heart of the game consoles known as ‘Pong.

In Telematch five games are available: Practice, Squash, Soccer, Advantage Soccer and Tennis.

Dynamic publisher for MS-DOS

Utilities and sources belonging to the Novaxis SCSI interface: Map source, cd utilities, nfdisk

Sources of many Memman tsr’s: MSXALT, JANSI, SHIFT, ALTLAD etc

Juan Salas Digitize

Quintus, a versatile drawing program taking advantage of Memman

Many TSR’s, Improve, screen edit, miscellaneous sources, a very interesting collection!

Sources of Memman, TED, MSX Connect, many TSR’s, miscellaneous sources, a very interesting collection!

Memman tsr sources: tracer, joysor, mousor, cmdmem

Assorted utilities and sources belonging to the Novaxis SCSI interface nfdisk older versions

Sources of Flexbase, EPROM program utility for Toeprom and Elektuur EPROMmer, turboR character set and assorted sources and information about turboR

• Memman related programs (improved and new tsr’s)
• Code fragments (a treasure collection!)
• Test routines
• Tools
• Targeted at MSX, MSX 2, MSX 2+, turboR, FM-PAC, V9990, IDE

Moonsound Sample Library

With this utility by Arjan Bakker you can combine multiple wavekits into one file (.msl). The utility will automatically remove redundant samples, making the resulting file much smaller (if you use enough of the same samples in multiple wavekits…). Full source code is included, including assembly code for using the msl file on the MSX.th this utility you can combine multiple wavekits into one file (.msl). The utility will automatically remove redundant samples, making the resulting file much smaller (if you use enough of the same samples in multiple wavekits…). Full source code is included, including assembly code for using the msl file on the MSX.

TeddyWareZ has released the sources of SCC-Blaffer NT. Included are the latest updates made together with BiFi.

This program is a tracker that helps you compose music for the Konami SCC chip.

TeddyWarez source building blocks by Jori Seidel aka d-fader and Frederik Boelens aka Chaos

TeddyWarez source building blocks