BASIC Music Pack

Ah.. BASIC MML, who has not started with it before hopping over to tracking! For those who love MSX-BASIC music, sd_snatcher has released a pack of 9 discs full of music made in BASIC, used to test and develop the MSX-Audio BIOS v1.2.

You can use this pack on both the MSX-Audio and MSX-Music. If you have the MSX-Audio BIOS v1.0 you'll need to change the CALL MUSIC command to CALL AUDIO on every song you play. But if you use the MSX-Audio BIOS v1.2-pre4 you just need to type CALL AUDIO once, and from that point it will enable the CALL MUSIC command too, so you can play the music without any modification.

Relevant link: BASIC music pack

Comments (8)

By ant0niutti

Master (158)

04-03-2010, 13:55

Great!

By Google

By MäSäXi

Paragon (1616)

05-03-2010, 11:30

Ok, I need SIMPLE instructions how I can play these DSKs in bluemsx. I tried first disk and it gave me Syntax error in 20 where it tries to use CALL. I thought I could change machine to MSX2+ as it has MSX-MUSIC (or something) inside, but no luck. So what else I should do?

Can I play those with real MSX2 and MSX-MUSIC cartridge?

By JohnHassink

wayward son (3179)

05-03-2010, 13:11

MäSäXi, you're right, the problem is in line 20 of the autoexec.bas.
It tries to initialize the Music Module instead of FM-Pac.

Here's what to do:

Change:

CALL AUDIO(1,0,1)

to:

CALL MUSIC(1,0,1)

...then it will work on any MSX with FM-Pac (and diskdrive ofcourse ).

BTW, that autoexec is actually pretty useless;
as far as I can see, the FM-Pac is initialized correctly in each one of the .FM files themselves.

By MäSäXi

Paragon (1616)

05-03-2010, 20:11

Thanks demonseed! Now it works!

By MäSäXi

Paragon (1616)

05-03-2010, 20:51

Thanks for the nice songs (have listened only disk 2 so far) By the way, I became curious how those songs could sound on original hardware (PSG).

Just removed all MSX-MUSIC/AUDIO related stuff from the listing, and sousa march sounded hellishly good!! Far better than msx-music/audio stuff!! Ok, I´m quite conservative in these things...

By MäSäXi

Paragon (1616)

05-03-2010, 21:23

At last! Flash Dance heard thru PSG!! No need to use Commodore 64 to hear it!! (ok, maybe someday again...)

Flash Dance too sounds FAR MORE better with psg than in fm.

By JohnHassink

wayward son (3179)

05-03-2010, 21:47

Flash Dance too sounds FAR MORE better with psg than in fm.
Hmm, makes me wonder, how it would sound with SCC.
I think that 'buzzy' sound would actually fit this 'Italo Style' well.

By PingPong

Paragon (2011)

06-03-2010, 15:21

At last! Flash Dance heard thru PSG!! No need to use Commodore 64 to hear it!! (ok, maybe someday again...)

Flash Dance too sounds FAR MORE better with psg than in fm.

And you have not yet tryed changing psg with 1 bit sound port. FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR MORE BETTER.

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