Spellbound MSX

Devlog

• New bug fixing
  February 11, 2024 by Mastropiero

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  #bug, #bugfix, #update

  New version released. Even if I decided not to release any updated version, I have found a terrible bug that escaped the QA process. If, on MSX1 machines, you choose option C at the main title menu (I... Continue reading

  
• Spellbound for MSX final version released!!
  September 23, 2023 by Mastropiero

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  ##release, ##spellbound

  After several months of development and debugging, the final release of Spellbound for MSX is here!! Some bugs have been ironed out since the last release and it is not expected that new relevant bugs... Continue reading

  
• Spellbound for MSX available for download
  May 15, 2023 by Mastropiero

  The day has come. Spellbound for MSX has been released (as a Release Candidate, though). This version is not 100% guaranteed to be bug free, so please, report any issue. As soon as the beta testers fi... Continue reading
• Floppy disk release
  May 15, 2023 by Mastropiero

  Hello MSXers, I have decided to create a .DSK release of Spellbound. It is a 1DD disk (so any Philips VG8235 owner can enjoy the game as well!) that can be dumped to a physical disk or used to be play... Continue reading

  
• Reworking the music (part 2)
  April 22, 2023 by Mastropiero#assembly, #z80, #BGM, #chiptune

  As explained on a previous development post ( https://mastropiero.itch.io/spellbound-msx/devlog/513132/reworking-the-music ), Spellbound had an excellent original music for the Commodore 64 that was t... Continue reading

  
• 50Hz mode can be forced now on any MSX2 machine
  April 12, 2023 by Mastropiero#MSX, #music, #PAL, #NTSC, #60Hz, #50Hz

  While rewriting the music, I realised that music plays faster at 60 Hz (well, no surprise at all... it is the standard behaviour of any MSX game whose background music is synced to the VBLANK interrup... Continue reading
• Reworking the music
  April 07, 2023 by Mastropiero#8bit, #chiptune, #retrogaming, #music

  When I first started porting Spellbound to the MSX, I took the ZX Spectrum 48K as the main reference for both the graphics and the game logic. Once I had a working version, I decided to add the origin... Continue reading

  
• David Jones' Spellbound, finally on MSX
  March 31, 2023 by Mastropiero#msx, #8bit, #zxspectrum, #retro, #retrogaming, #retrocomputing

  Spellbound is finally here! It has taken three months of work but it is finally here. Spellbound , the missing Magic Knight title for the MSX system. The port has been made by disassembling the origin... Continue reading