New release of AGD for MSX

[jltursan]

Lots of fixes and added features. I consider it, finally, not a beta release so it's now v1.0.

You can find it here: AGD MSX Suite

The updates are the following:

Fixed: Sprite flicker bug (MSX freezes) due a byte boundary overrun. Table colltab must not cross a byte boundary to avoid this.
Added: Some cycles saved in plot pixel routine
Added: New command CRUMBLE
Fixed: Keyboard scanning back to 50fps to fix some positioning problems when controlling characters
Fixed: PSG initialization bug filling registers with illegal values
Fixed: Some optimization to the ayFX replayer routine
Fixed: PSG wrong reset sound when multichannel mode active (FX_MODE=1)
Fixed: Serious bug in the PSG dumping routine (PT3 specially affected)
Added: Support for Metablocks (2x2 characters map blocks)
Fixed: UNDOSPRITEMOVE support
Fixed: Sometimes player sprite was not initialized correctly when changing screen
Added: New command SPRITESOFF
Added: New distribution type: CAS (tape). Needs external tool mcp by Apoloval (Thanks Apoloval!)
Fixed: RAM/ROM slot routines changed to a more compatible ones (Thanks JAM!)
Added: Support of forced 50hz/60hz TV freqs
Added: 50hz/60hz TV freqs swappable with hotkey (SELECT)
Added: New command THRUST
Added: LZ compression (Pletter) instead RLE for map screens (gains around 30% per screen)
Added: New command SCREENON
Added: New command SCREENOFF
Added: Full ayFX control: SFX priority, fixed channel selection & dynamic sfx channels
Added: New memory models: 64KB RAM (dsk & cas) and 48KB ROM

Added: Some cycles saved in collision routines

Hope you enjoy this new release!.

[roolandoo]

Brilliant!! Thank you very much for this great job jltursan. I will shortly begin development of my new MSX game and will be able to take advantage of all these new features.

[Minilop]

Great news and many thanks for your hard work jltursan

[jltursan]

Uploaded a new release with the following changes:

Fix: Collectable blocks respawned after a screen restart is now the default behaviour.
Fix: Colour palette working again in 48K ROM & 64K RAM distributions.
New: "Pacman mode" (-b flag) collectable blocks (experimental). Blocks are not respawned after a death or screen restart but they do when a new map screen is entered.

[Packobilly]

Amazing! I will really have to think about developing some game for msx.
Thanks so much!

[joesg]

¡Gracias por tu trabajo jltursan!

Also thanks to Jonathan Cauldwell!