V9990

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The V9990 category contains specific cartridges that have a V9990 video processor and software that specifically uses the V9990.

Cartridges with V9990

The V9990 is used in the following cartridges:

• Sunrise GFX9000
• Sunrise Video9000
• Tecnobytes V9990 Powergraph
• TMTLogic GFX-NINE
• TRH9000
• MSX Calamar Kraken Graph

See also the Yamaha V9990 Evaluation Board

No MSX computer has ever been released with this VDP built-in. The different cartridges with this VDP can be used with MSX1, MSX2, MSX2+ and MSX turbo R computers without any compromise, but for running the V9990-enabled BASIC interpreter it's recommended to use MSX turbo R machines.

Software that uses V9990

Demos

• Calculus (Compjoetania TNG)
• Hi-Spec Snowfall (TNI)
• Not 2D (N.I. / Bixmatan)
• Shoot'em up Demo (Bit Vision) (Never available for download)
• Siesta (N.I. / Bixmatan)
• Symbolic Register (N.I. / Bixmatan)
• Tel (N.I. / Bixmatan)
• Underwater Demo (Team Bomba)
• V9990 Curry (N.I. / Bixmatan)
• X-Tazy (Excerpts of a game that was never finished)

Disk Magazines

• Golden Power Disc 12 (Emphasys)

Games

• Attack of the Petscii Robots (RoboSoft)
• Battle Bomber (Bitboyz)
• Blox (Team Bomba)
• Chibi Akumas - Episode 1: Invasion! (Akuyou)
• Codename: Intruder (Bit Vision) [Dual Screen!]
• Dreams Puzzle (Mapax)
• Ghosts'n Goblins (ASM)
• Green Gravity Guy (Bit Vision)
• Life on Earth (Kai Magazine) (cartridge version is also available)
• Metal Dragon (Kai Magazine)
• Mr. Balloon remake (Mapax)
• MSX in a Row! (Mapax)
• Myths and Dragons (Kai Magazine) (cartridge version is also available)

Note: Batman and Head over Heels remakes for MSX2 display a picture on the V9990 screen.

Tools

• G-BASIC (Koen Van Hartingsveldt)
• GFXAGE (Sunrise): graphic editor in P1 mode
• GFX9000 Toolbox (Sunrise): Graphic tool compilation (G-BASIC, GFXAGE, Paint9000, PictView and PowerBASIC)
• MSXgl: C library for SDCC with support for V9990 (Aoineko)
• Paint9000: graphic editor in P2 mode (Sunrise)
• PICVIEW: BMP and GIF files viewer (Sunrise)
• PowerBASIC (Henrik Gilvad)
• SymbOS (EdoZ)
• WiOS: OS never completely finished.