Merry Christmas 2017 by Mapax

It's time for more Christmas congratulations messages and Mapax would like to share with you all an animated Christmas demo-card for your enjoyment. Now it is the turn of a hybrid ROM for MSX2 and V9990 videochip featuring a great tune by Meits. It is already available in our download database.

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Comments (13)

By Manel46

Paladin (674)

21-12-2017, 21:55

We have made this rom with two purposes in mind. Firstly we want to congratulate Christmas to all of the colleagues of MSX scene and secondly to show a demo for the V9990 videochip, which I hope will gain supporters among the fans. But it is also a hybrid rom that also works on MSX2. If it doesn’t detect the presence of the V9990, it will run on MSX2.

The version for the V9990 VDP is made, as you suppose, with better quality graphics than any other obtained in an MSX
computer. They are 32768 colors graphics, which are represented with 16 bits per pixel. We have to keep in mind that in screen5 the graphics are 4 bits per pixel and in screen8 mode they are 8 bits per pixel, it’s the case of this demo working in MSX2. Logically, this means that graphic size is twice than screen8

By hamlet

Scribe (4106)