X-Tazy introdemo 1.2

A few weeks ago Andre Kuepfer contacted us about X-Tazy, one of the most promising GFX9000 projects for MSX to date. X-Tazy was a high speed, high spec shooter for MSX turboR with Moonsound and GFX9000 that unfortunately never was finished completely. The development team did get very close to creating a final version however, and thanks to Andre Kuepfer we can now offer you a previously unreleased version of the X-Tazy introdemo, which features a never-seen-before ship selection menu. To run this demo, you will really need a turboR, 512kB RAM (1MB preferred), SCSI/IDE/CF medium to load from, Moonsound and GFX9000 cartridge. And the result is more than worth it.

Considering how close X-Tazy got to a final release, it is a true shame that the developers never finished the game. Luckily, Andre Kuepfer - one of the X-Tazy developers - felt exactly the same. Recently, he started to contact the co-developers of X-Tazy in an attempt to release the latest version of the full X-Tazy source code as open source, so that remaining MSX developers can finally - after almost ten years - develop and release a fully playable, polished version of the game after all. Of course, on their own the sources are an invaluable source of information to novice and advanced GFX9000 coders. At the moment, Andre has already contacted most developers of X-Tazy, and gained their permission to open-source the game. If you were involved in the development of X-Tazy and have not been contacted by Andre yet, please contact us and we will get you in touch with Andre.

Right now Andre is in the middle of gathering all sources, adding structure and readme files to the large amount of data involved. Although it might take a while before the actual sources of the game are opened to the public, lets hope the introdemo just added to our downloads database can be considered to be a teaser for something far better, even more impressive to come.

Relevant link: X-Tazy introdemo - version 1.2