This is a proof of concept for displaying the MSX graphic logo on an MSX1 machine.
Doesn't do much, as of now. Just does what the description says.
You just need the files in the dist folder. From MSX-BASIC, type the following command:
RUN "MSX1LBIN.BAS"
You will see the graphic logo being drawn on the screen, and then it will wait for a key press. If you press a key, it will return to the MSX-BASIC prompt.
Every MSX2, MSX2+ and turboR machines have a nice graphic logo when you turn on the computer, but most MSX1 machines don't. I thought this was terribly unfair to the MSX1, so I set out to make a proof of concept for displaying the MSX graphic logo on MSX1 machines. I used the MSX2 boot logo and a vector MSX graphic logo as references for this project, but my version of the logo was actually carefully hand-drawn, pixel by pixel.
This was done because the MSX logo is actually a bit irregular, and since resolution and color limitations prevented me to use any antialiasing, it didn't look right at first, so I decided to redraw it, but taking extra care in making the jaggies as regular as possible. I also tried to make the logo look as close as possible to the MSX2 boot one, both in size and shape. I tried to make it fit in a grid, and you can find both the source PSD file (with the grid and layers) and a generated PNG file (with the TMS9918 palette) in the prototype folder.
I used this prototype as reference for the generator. In the folder you can find both a binary MSX-BASIC file and a plain text version for easy reading on a PC. I used this generator to create binary data that would be loaded by the final proof of concept.
In the final proof of concept, I load both the name and pattern tables, but generate the color tables in order to make it as small as possible in MSX-BASIC. I'm sure it's possible to make it even smaller if Assembly is used.
I always thought about the MSX1 having a nice graphic intro, but never got around to work on it until I stumbled on this forum post. Thanks to Manuel Bilderbeek for the inspiration and to NYYRIKKI for the info about the MSX2+ animated logo size.