SCC Musix Dizc #1 - 2022 Re-issue

The legendary MSX group Fuzzy Logic pulls a hat-trick with the release of a heavily refurbished and souped up version of their classic SCC Musix Dizc #1. It comes crashing into the scene right on the mark of its 30th anniversary.

To put things into context, here's a little nugget of European MSX history. The '90s were the highlights of the Dutch scene considering "music disks". Several groups were competing against - as well as inspiring - each other, creating and releasing many of this type of demo disks.

Typically, these interactive pieces of software would, at the core, consist of a menu that allowed the user to browse through a collection of home-baked tunes - own compositions as well as arrangements of popular game music.
Most of us who recollect this glorious era will reminisce the sound of in particular "MSX-Audio" (usually performed by a then-common Philips Music Module), or, "MB-Stereo" (a tandem of MSX-Audio and MSX-Music played simultaneously). However, this here is a different beast, as it supports SCC, in lieu of the, at the time not yet downtrodden MB-Stereo paths.

The year was 1992. Using the only serious SCC application available to 'Westerners' at the time, being SCC-Musixx, Hans Cnossen a.k.a. "Kid Cnoz" of Pumpkin Adventure III fame, crafted quite the heap of well-made SCC tunes. Of these creations, a total of 25 songs ended up on the roster. As per music demo disk tradition, it was a merry mix of own work as well as renditions of Konami favourites, ditties from the soundtrack of the second Turrican game, a little dash of Alan Parsons Project and even re-imaginings of Christmas carols, because why not. It should be noted that, while SCC-Musixx did not support the PSG channels, the results that mister Cnossen wrought out of those 'mere' 5 SCC channels are more than entertaining.

So, now it's exactly 30 years later, and we're in for a treat! Since the demo's inception, the lead coder of the disk had been toying in his mind with ideas to meet more contemporary hardware possibilities such as HD and SD devices. Converting the sector-based storage of the original software to loose files, he finally succeeded in making it more harddisk-friendly.

Inspired by this innovation, the guys who used to be at Fuzzy Logic, in their wisdom, decided to re-issue this interesting piece of Dutch MSX scene history as SMD1.2022. Not only does this re-issue pack another 15 songs, previously unpublished, but the menus have been greatly improved to be more user friendly including auto-play as a new feature. The icing on the cake is a revamped graphical outlook. Also, for those interested - the text file in the package will provide more in-depth information about the history and technical specifications of this work of art.

Well, without further ado, we at the MSX Resource Center hope that you will enjoy this offering as much as we did!

Relevant link: SCC Musix Dizc 1.2022 Re-issue at the MRC Download Database
Relevant link: SMD1.2022 online at the File Hunter
Relevant link: Video footage of SMD1.2022 at Frank MSX demos channel