MSX MuSICA Beginners Report is Started!

Hello guys! Do you enjoy MSX life still now?

I report MSX MuSica on this blog as a beginner.

What is MuSICA??

MuSICA is a music sound driver and editor integrated environment and

released by ASCII Co. in 1990.

*Unfortunatelly, article of MuSICA does not exist on Wikipedia. (I'll edit in the future)

First released only for japanese environment and integrated into some games or 

construction tools.

PC clone is released in 2008 by nerlaska studio.

This tool  works on BlueMSX core and play sounds as well as real MSX console.

You can download from nerlaska studio.

http://www.nerlaska.com/msx/musica.html

Unofficial port also exists.These version shows english messages on it.

http://www.msxarchive.nl/pub/msx/utils/music-editors/musica.lzh
http://www.msxarchive.nl/pub/msx/utils/music-editors/musica_dsk.zip

Some other upper compatible driveres are released,

for example, Kinrou 5-gou(translation: Woker No.5) and some more.

I still researching such softwares and report later.

Is MuSICA valuable still now?

Ofcource, definitly YES.

It plays all of popular (de facto ftandard) sound chips of MSX,

PSG, FM and SCC totally.

I know, europian power MSX user unsutisfied without MoonSound

or MSX Audio, but I think, these 3 sound chips is de facto standard

and many people can access. It is very important, I think.

Formatting of MuSICA is .MSD and these files are still available

on the Net. Is it so exciting like sulvaging treasures?

There are many ways of enjoying with MuSICA.

Who am I?

I'm Kumo japanese IT engineer and programmer. 

I played and learned piano (as a hobby) some decades ago and

only understand music notes and playing music instruments.

Ofcource I'm MSX user (still now in 21st century) and write

some programs on it, though.

I'll report how we enjoy music on MSX with MuSICA.

Please wait next report.

See you.