Samples

Here is a list of sample programs included with MSXgl to illustrate how to use the library’s various features and functions. To test a sample program, follow these steps:

1. Open a command-line interface in the MSXgl/projects/samples/ directory.
2. Run one of the following commands, depending on your operating system:
   • build.bat s_game (Windows)
   • ./build.sh s_game (Linux & macOS)

Replace s_game with the name of the sample you wish to test (there’s no need to include the .c file extension).

Note: Sample programs use a configuration system that overwrites the default project settings (project_config.js) with a sample-specific configuration file (e.g., s_game.js). This approach allows multiple projects to coexist in the same directory without conflicts.

For standalone projects, this step is unnecessary. To learn how to set up your own project from scratch, see this guide.

Core

Hello World

Program showing the minimal code needed to display a "Hello World!" text.

• File: s_hello.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

BIOS

Program showing the use of default BIOS functions.

• Showcased modules:
  • bios (doc, code)
• File: s_bios.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

Clock

Program showing the use of the MSX2's Real Time Clock (Ricoh RP-5C01) to get current time and save/load data from CMOS memory.

• Showcased modules:
  • clock (doc, code)
• File: s_clock.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

PSG

Program showing the use of direct control over PSG sound chip.

• Showcased modules:
  • psg (doc, code)
• File: s_psg.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

System

Program showing the retrieval of system information.

• File: s_sys.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

Render

Draw

Program showing the use of Draw module with the MSX2 bitmap screen modes.

• Showcased modules:
  • vdp (doc, code)
  • draw (doc, code)
• File: s_draw.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

Graph Mode 3

Program showing the use of Screen 4 (aka Graph mode 3) with various configuration (including unofficial MSX configurations like "Screen 1.5").

• Showcased modules:
  • vdp (doc, code)
• File: s_gm3.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

Print

Program showing the use of graphical print features (bitmap, sprite, effects, etc.).

• Showcased modules:
  • print (doc, code)
• File: s_print.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

Scrolling

Program showing the use of multi-directionnal tile-based scrolling and screen adjust register for smooth scrolling.

• Showcased modules:
  • vdp (doc, code)
  • scroll (doc, code)
• File: s_scroll.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

Sprite Mode 1

Program showing the use of sprite mode 1 and a Sprite Attribute Table flip method to reduce sprite disappearance.

• Showcased modules:
  • vdp (doc, code)
• File: s_sm1.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

Sprite Mode 2

Program demonstrating the use of sprite mode 2 (including multi-colors) and split screen using the horizontal interrupt to modify VDP parameters during screen rendering.

• Showcased modules:
  • vdp (doc, code)
• File: s_sprite.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

Sprite FX

Program showing the use of Sprite Tool module to modify sprite data (support Cropping, Flipping, Asking and Rotating).

• Showcased modules:
  • sprite_fx (doc, code)
• File: s_sprtfx.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

Software Sprite

Program showing the use of software sprite for all bitmap modes using VDP commands.

• Showcased modules:
  • vdp (doc, code)
• File: s_swsprt.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

Software Tile

Program showing the use of software tile mode for MSX2 bitmap modes (only Screen 5 & 8 has been tested).

• Showcased modules:
  • vdp (doc, code)
• File: s_swtile.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

Text

Program showing the use of print module with text modes (all MSX1 and MSX2 text/tiled mode).

• Showcased modules:
  • print (doc, code)
• File: s_text.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

VDP Command

Program showing the use of VDP command to draw several effect in all bitmap modes.

• Showcased modules:
  • vdp (doc, code)
• File: s_vdpcmd.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

Target format

Boot Disk

Program showing the use boot disk target format. The program will be start from disk without going through MSX-DOS but allow to use BDOS function.

• Showcased modules:
  • dos (doc, code)
• File: s_dos0.c
• State: Template:STATE/Partial

BOOT

MSX-DOS

Program showing the use of MSX-DOS 1 routines to load and display image from file.

• Showcased modules:
  • dos (doc, code)
• File: s_dos.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

MSX-DOS

MSX-DOS 2

Program showing the use of various MSX-DOS 2 routines to load and display image, get disk information or handle mapped memory.

• Showcased modules:
  • dos (doc, code)
  • dos_mapper (doc, code)
• File: s_dos2.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

MSX-DOS 2

Mapped ROM

Program showing usage of mapped ROM and segments switching.

• File: s_mapper.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

ASCII8 128K

NEO mapper

Program showing usage of NEO-8 mapped ROM and segments switching.

• File: s_neomap.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

NEO8 8M

Utilities

BASIC USR

Program showing the creation of binary to be load and used from BASIC.

• Showcased modules:
  • basic_usr (doc, code)
• File: s_usr.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

BIN (USR)

Compressor

Program showing the use of several compression algorithms (RLEp, Bitbuster 1 & 2, ZX0 and Pletter).

• Showcased modules:
  • compress/bitbuster (doc, code)
  • compress/bitbuster2 (doc, code)
  • compress/lz48 (doc, code)
  • compress/pletter (doc, code)
  • compress/zx0 (doc, code)
• File: s_zip.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

MSX-DOS

Driver

Program showing the creation of the driver, a code designed to be placed in memory and executed from a main program. Used in #MSX-DOS 2 sample.

• File: s_drv.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

Encryption

Program showing the use of an encoding system to encrypt data. Useful for creating backup codes, for example.

• Showcased modules:
  • crypt (doc, code)
• File: s_crypt.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

Game

Program showing the use of Game state and Game pawn modules. The Game state module offers state management while Game pawn allows to manage characters (display, animation, movement, collision, etc.)

• Showcased modules:
  • game/state (doc, code)
  • game/pawn (doc, code)
• File: s_game.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

Localize

Demonstration of the localization management module with support for multiple languages and management of different character sets.

• Showcased modules:
  • localize (doc, code)
• File: s_loc.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

Math

Program showing the use of mathematics pre-computed tables, pseudo-random generator and quick-computation functions.

• Showcased modules:
  • math (doc, code)
• File: s_math.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

Menu

Program showing the use of Menu module.

• Showcased modules:
  • game/menu (doc, code)
• File: s_menu.c
• State: Template:STATE/Partial

32K

QR Code

Program showing the use of QR Code module.

• Showcased modules:
  • tool/qrcode (doc, code)
• File: s_qrcode.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

QR Code Tiny

Program showing the use of QR Code Tiny module (version optimized for fixed size).

• Showcased modules:
  • tool/qrcode_tiny (doc, code)
• File: s_qrtiny.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

Save

Program showing the use of data save from cartridge (supporting floppy disk and PAC cartridge).

• Showcased modules:
  • tool/disk_save (doc, code)
  • device/pac (doc, code)
• File: s_save.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

WaveGame

Program demonstrate the use WaveGame feature for the Pico+ cartridge.

• Showcased modules:
  • device/wavegame (doc, code)
• File: s_wavegm.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

Devices

Joystick

Program showing the use of joystick and input manager.

• Showcased modules:
  • input (doc, code)
  • input_manager (doc, code)
• File: s_joystk.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

Keyboard

Program showing the use of keyboard and input manager.

• Showcased modules:
  • input (doc, code)
  • input_manager (doc, code)
• File: s_keybrd.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

Mouse

Program showing the use of mouse device and universal port (joystick port) device detection.

• Showcased modules:
  • input (doc, code)
• File: s_mouse.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

Ninja Tap

Program showing the use of NinjaTap device to connect up to 8 joysticks on one MSX machine.

• Showcased modules:
  • device/ninjatap (doc, code)
• File: s_ntap.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

JoyMega

Program showing the use of JoyMega adapter to use 8 buttons Megadrive joystick on MSX.

• Showcased modules:
  • device/joymega (doc, code)
  • device/msx-hid (doc, code)
• File: s_jmega.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K Template:JOYMEGA

Lightgun

Program showing the use of 'ASCII Plus-X Terminator' and 'MHT Gun-Stick' lightguns on MSX.

• Showcased modules:
  • device/lightgun (doc, code)
• File: s_lgun.c
• State: Template:STATE/Partial

32K

ObsoNET

Program showing the use of ObsoNET cartridge using network stack.

• Showcased modules:
  • network/obsonet (doc, code)
• File: s_onet.c
• State: 🚧 Work in progress

16K OBSONET

PAC

Program showing the use of PAC or FM-PAC to load/save data into SRAM.

• Showcased modules:
  • device/pac (doc, code)
• File: s_pac.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

Paddle

Program showing the use of Arkanoid Vaus Paddle module.

• Showcased modules:
  • device/paddle (doc, code)
• File: s_paddle.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

48K (ISR) PADDLE

V9990

Program showing the use of Yamaha V9990 based video cartridge.

• Showcased modules:
  • v9990 (doc, code)
• File: s_v9990.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

Audio Format

Arkos

Program to demonstrate the use of the different Arkos Tracker (AT2 and AT3) music replayers.

• Showcased modules:
  • arkos/akg_player (doc, code)
  • arkos/akm_player (doc, code)
  • arkos/aky_player (doc, code)
• File: s_arkos.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

ASCII8 128K

ayFX

Program showing the use of ayFX sound effect replayer (both using a bank or a single sound file).

• Showcased modules:
  • ayfx/ayfx_player (doc, code)
• File: s_ayfx.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

lVGM

Program showing the use of light-VGM's replayer (PSG).

• Showcased modules:
  • vgm/lvgm_player (doc, code)
  • dos_mapper (doc, code)
• File: s_lvgm.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

MSX-DOS 2

NDP

Program showing the use of NDP replayer (PSG).

• Showcased modules:
  • ndp/ndp_player (doc, code)
• File: s_ndp.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

PCM-Encoder

Program showing the use of the PCM Encoder's replayer (aka. Crystal clean PCM 8bit samples on the poor PSG).

• Showcased modules:
  • pcm/pcmenc (doc, code)
• File: s_pcmenc.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

PCM Play

Program showing the use of the PCM Play's replayer.

• Showcased modules:
  • pcm/pcmplay (doc, code)
• File: s_pcmplay.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

PT3

Program showing the use of Vortex Tracker II's replayer.

• Showcased modules:
  • pt3/pt3_player (doc, code)
• File: s_pt3.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

Trilo Tracker SCC

Program showing the use of Trilo Tracker SCC's replayer.

• Showcased modules:
  • trilo/trilo_scc_player (doc, code)
• File: s_trilo.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

KONAMI 128K

VGM

Program showing the use of VGM's replayer (PSG, SCC, MSX-Music, MSX-Audio).

• Showcased modules:
  • vgm/vgm_player (doc, code)
• File: s_vgm.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

ASCII16 256K

WYZ

Program showing the use of WYZ Tracker's replayer (version 0.3).

• Showcased modules:
  • wyz/wyz_player (doc, code)
• File: s_wyz.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K

WYZ2

Program showing the use of WYZ Tracker's replayer (version 0.3 47d).

• Showcased modules:
  • wyz/wyz_player2 (doc, code)
• File: s_wyz2.c
• State: Template:STATE/Functional

32K