Grauw’s web spot

Website of Laurens Holst.

Active projects

MSX Assembly Page: The ultimate source of information for the MSX programmer. Tutorials, application manuals, reference tables, reverse engineering, translations, code examples, etc.
VGMPlay MSX: VGM player for MSX which supports many sound chips either natively or through emulation. Listen to soundtracks from arcade, console and PC games on real hardware.
Glass Z80 assembler: A cross-platform assembler for the Z80 processor, written in Java 8. Quick and versatile, with powerful macro and object oriented programming support.
FM PCM Player: Plays back 8-bit 15.7 kHz PCM on the YM2413 OPLL MSX-MUSIC sound chip with a new technique using the PG-hold test mode. Also shows a nice wave visualisation.
Tile² game engine: An RPG game engine for MSX2+, with a focus on exploiting the full capabilities of the V9958 video chip. Smooth scroll, particles, and colourful graphics.
Gunzip for MSX: A high performance, open source deflate decompression implementation for Z80. Generates the Huffman decoding code to out-perform most MSX decompressors.