t00b: I agree!

Well, I am interested all of the following that are unique to Holland:

* The MSX and its games
* Arcade games
* Consoles and their games
* Home computers and their games
* Game language patches made in Holland
* Games reporting in Holland
* Local companies that make games
* Homebrew games
* Local music bands that are influenced by games
* TV shows that report on games
* Games tournaments
* Anything based in Holland that is connected to games
* Games related material that can be put on the cover disc

So its ALL good!

Some questions:

1) What can you tell me about Philips and the machines and games they made? I know they licesned out the MSX, they also made a machine called the G7000 and also the CDI. Any other info on this?


2) I have had a look at the downloads section, but there are MANY different items available. I am not sure which are specifically related to Holland, or were made in Holland. Can someone please give me a list of exclusively Dutch related downloads?

Also, does the MSX Resource Center give me full permission to include these downloads as long as I credit them?


3) Does anyone have any screenshots or photographs that I can use, that are related to any of the above?


Otherwise, I have begun work on the article.
At a later date I might have a few more specific questions to ask. If thats ok.

I'm hoping to make this as comprehensive as possible.
The ultimate Dutch feature article in a UK magazine basically.
So be sure to give your thoughts!





PS: What is "fora" that someone mentioned earlier? I cannot find this in the menu bar at the sides.

for a recent homebrew game, check www.bombaman.net !

About 2); MRC is not able to grant you the distribution rights to the software in the MRC downloads database. If you want to redistribute the freeware in that db you should contact the authors...

Ahh, ok then.

Are there any authors on this forum board who like any of their work included?
You would of course recieve full credit, and retain ALL ownership rights to the work.
Otherwise I will keep tracking stuff down. Oh, and thanks for the link, a Netherlands dev team, looks great. Ill be sure to contact them.


What about the photographs on MRC? I see in the photoshoots there are loads of images from Dutch MSX conventions and other cool stuff. Photographs and other imagery is very important, so if you have ANY games related photos from Holland, would I please be able to use them?

Thanks for the replies, if anyone wants to contact me directly, use this email:
megacdman@hotmail.com

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Well, I am interested all of the following that are unique to Holland: * Local companies that make games

I'll focus on this one:

Game development companies in Holland:

- Engine Software (www.engine-software.com) which is my company, basically was a MSX-scene group that turned pro: from MSX-Engine to Engine Software. We made some games as a hobby for MSX (one of them, "DASS", was already mentioned in this topic) and professional games after that for Super Nintendo, PC, Pocket PC, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, and now Playstation Portable and Nintendo DS.

- Guerrilla Games (www.guerrilla-games.com) formerly known as Lost Boys Games, which was a fusion of Orange Games (famous thanks to Jazz Jackrabbit), Formula and Digital Innovation. Got a lot of media attention recently for KILLZONE (PS2). also released Shellshock (published by Eidos).

- Triumph Studios (www.triumphstudios.com), perhaps not that well known company but with a very loyal fancommunity. They were probably the first Dutch company since gaming got this big that scored an international hit with Age of Wonders (PC).

- Playlogic Gamefactory (www.playlogicgames.com): a young company (two years and counting) but with some very good investors. With Guerrilla Games the most 'visible' to outsiders. Released Alpha Black Zero (PC) and Airborne Troopers (PS2/PC). Also developed Xyanide (X-Box) and Cyclone Circus (PS2) which have not been released yet. We did a Gameboy Advance version of Xyanide for them, which has not been released yet either.

- Khaeon Games (www.khaeon.com): also a young company that developed Alpha Black Zero for PC, which was released by Playlogic (see above). Working on two new projects now, but they won't tell me what

- Nixxes: (www.nixxes.com) basically only do ports/conversions or partial development. Best known work includes Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (Dreamcast) and Soul Reaver 2 (PC).

- Streamline Studioswww.streamline-studios.com) founded by two Americans (Hernandez brothers) that got into the industry through the modding scene. Specialize in making FMV sequences for games, and did for example the movies featured in James Bond: Nightfire and Ghost Recon 2.

- Overloaded (www.overloaded.com): focusses purely on mobile content.

- Little Chicken Game Company (www.littlechicken.nl): focusses purely on online games, and are damn good at that.

interesting sidenote for the MSXers: Little Chicken Game Company is the company of the son of Luc 'MSX-Info' Sala

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interesting sidenote for the MSXers: Little Chicken Game Company is the company of the son of Luc 'MSX-Info' Sala

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Tomas is Luc's son? I didn't even know that and I know tomas pretty well.

I believe it's his son, or at least a relative. I briefly met Tomas when visiting one of the dealer info fairs, talking with Luc Sala about the MSX revival... (small world, eh?)

Dutch MSX game makers represented in the MRC download area:
Hegega, Parallax, Team Bomba, Cain, Paragon (they made Construction Craze, afaik), Arno Dekker (I don't actually know him, but his name sounds Dutch), Fony, Delta Soft, Manuel Bilderbeek, FCS, NOP, Olaf Benneker (I don't know him either), TeddyWareZ, MCE, BCF

If you're putting MSX software on the cover disk, adding an MSX emulator would be nice. Under "Articles" in the left column you can find MRC's "MSX Emulator Comparison" which shows you the most popular MSX emulators. blueMSX would be a good choice, so would openMSX (I'm one of the openMSX developers myself). The emulator comparison is only about Windows emulators; openMSX is available for other platforms such as Linux and Mac OS X as well.

Note that if you want to do it fully legally (probably a must for a magazine), you should either contact Bazix about shipping the original MSX system ROMs (I'm not sure whether they're allowed to sublicense, but it doesn't hurt to ask) or use the open source C-BIOS as an alternative system ROM. Since C-BIOS is work in progress, not all of the games will work on it. Most ROM games work, but the games in the download area are mostly disk games. C-BIOS doesn't have a generic disk ROM yet, but with some tricks I can get specific games to load. If you're interested in this, I can help you with packaging disk games for use with C-BIOS.

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Quote: Andre Ligthart and Martijn Maatjens They were the jury of the "Scroll and Logo" challenge. While we're on the nitpicking tour anyway: they were the main jurors of the Bounce Challenge

Oops! Thanks for the correction.

Wow, thanks for all the info.

Im honoured to be surrounded by so many industry professionals.

MrRudi, would you mind if I quoted you in the article with a statement on your thoughts regarding gaming Holland? I think that quoting an industry professional would add gravitas to the article.

Perhaps a sentence or two on:
"What are your thoughts on how gaming has evolved in Holland over the decades?"

"Peoples attitude to classic games."

Anything relevant to the above.


Sorry to keep posting in bits and pieces, but I have been rushed off my feet with work lately.


One more quick question:
Photographs... Can I use the ones on MRC, and does anyone have any good photos related to gaming Holland that I could use?
Any spare photos I would include on the cover disc for people to view and enjoy.

sczepaniak: Most of the pictures used in the photoshoots section were made by me, and I could contact the persons who sent in the other pictures if you'd like to use any of them.

If you send me a list of pictures you'd like to use for the article, I'll see to it that the original photographers get contacted, if needed, to get permission for publication.

Same goes for the products in the downloads section, for that matter. In most cases I still have valid contact information of the persons to which the copyrights belong.

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Quote: interesting sidenote for the MSXers: Little Chicken Game Company is the company of the son of Luc 'MSX-Info' Sala \ Tomas is Luc's son? I didn't even know that and I know tomas pretty well.

Well, erhm, Sala is not a typical dutch name, so chances are pretty big

BTW, Wasn't Luc Sala more like Luc '*-Info' Sala? AFAIK, he did MSX-Info, Commodore-Info, ZX(or was it only Spectrum)-Info etc etc... for a pretty large number of home computers.

He was, he was, but nowadays he mainly is Dealer-info Sala, afaik