you are thinking right: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/cas.cremers/
A cartridge e.g. using dsk2rom would be perfect.
My disks are almost broken
If the original disks are deteriorating, a 'digital' version should be archived for posterity.
Thanks all for your reply. As you already contacted Cas I won't ask double. I hope he replies to you (with positive news). Please let me know what the outcome is. Thanks.
I have the .dsk versions of at least Akin, Blade Lords and Magnar in case if you're interested.
Despite the age of these games, let’s first try the proper / legal approach shall we?
It would be a huge asset to the MSX community if the Parallax games would be legally available again.
i'm ready to give a second life to Parralax's games !
If the authors can contact me, it will be a pleasure to publish the games ...
I have the original disks of Akin (from Sunrise)
Can I have a rom version?
I think Sunrise tried to re-release the games on cartridge, so maybe this is a good time to ask Cas again....
I am still interested in these msx gems!
Reviving an old topic here, but has anyone found any further information about these titles? I'm particularly interested in Akin -- I hadn't even considered attempting to play it these past two years, as my MSX2+ is a Japanese model with only 64kb RAM and I don't like using emulators (I prefer the authentic experience!).
But I recently picked up a "Musical Memory Mapper" cartridge off of eBay that increases my available RAM by a full 1024kb, and while a lot of European games still seem to crash and burn when I attempt to play them with this (BASIC programs tend to crash with Syntax Errors immediately on startup, and the one Future Disk title I tried, "Sir Dan," just hangs on the Future Disk logo forever), I was really shocked to load up Parallax's "Core Dump" promo... and have it work like a charm!
And if Core Dump runs on my MSX2+ with the Musical Memory Mapper, I'm going to assume Akin will probably run as well -- and Akin is a game I've been wanting to play for a long time now!
Only problem is, Akin is virtually impossible to find at this point. I would gladly buy a copy of it if one were available, but even if my only option is a .dsk set, I'd love to be able to give the game a try, and at least confirm whether or not it even works via the Musical Memory Mapper cartridge.
Any information anyone has would definitely be appreciated!
-Tom