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Beyond Basic

This is a set of articles originally published across two Australian MSX and original Spectravideo magazines in 1988-89. I have since re-published these as part of the revised edition of Spectravideo & MSX Complete User Guide.

Written by: Tony Cruise First Published: Micro’s Gazette – Issue 003 (May/June 1989) This issue I will start to detail the collision detection routine to go with the automatic sprite rou...

Written By: Tony Cruise First Published: Micro’s Gazette – Issue 002 (March/April 1989)  This issue I will start to cover some of the routines that will be used in our extended Basi...

Written By: Tony Cruise First Published: Micro’s Gazette – Issue 000 (November/December 1988) This issue I will explain about the Hook HGONE, which can be used to add extra commands to y...

Written By: Tony Cruise First Published: MSX and Spectravideo Computer Forum Vol. 2 No. 11  In this section, I will explain how you attach extra commands to ROM routines. In MSX computers, ...

Written By: Tony Cruise First Published: MSX and Spectravideo Computer Forum Vol. 2 No. 10 Introduction In this series of articles, I aim to provide an insight into machine code programming ...