Paragon - Website opened | MSX Resource Center

It looks like the Dutch MSX group Paragon are back in action. Paragon is well known for their MSX port of Rick Dangerous and their interpretation of Sim City for MSX, Construction Craze, which currently holds the 8th position in the overall downloads top 10 of the MRC Downloads section.

After the success of Construction Craze Paragon started working on a GFX9000 port of Dome, called Tara: Beyond Dome. Unfortunately this project was never finished, yet it went open-source in October 2001.

Today they opened the new Paragon website. Although the current contents are nothing but a mere placeholder and there is little known about the plans Paragon have in the future it is very likely we are going to see one or more new Paragon productions for MSX in 2005.

Relevant link: Paragon

Comments (36)

By Manuel

Ascended (19691)

05-01-2005, 11:54

It seems the old site with Tara is offline... Paragon: please put that stuff back online!

By ro

Scribe (5064)

05-01-2005, 12:24

Okay, but uhrm.... where's the site content? there's only an e-mail link

By Abi

Hero (604)

05-01-2005, 14:03

good news, hope to see more on thier website and see more Paragon products.
Leon van Steensel also still in the crew? I met him several times when he lived in Barneveld for a while and in the same street as i lived @ that moment!

By Paragon_Leon

Resident (37)

05-01-2005, 14:37

Still in the crew...
but Abi, no offense, but i simply cannot remember you (just saw photo on msx.org).. any hints?

By Abi

Hero (604)

05-01-2005, 14:46

Goudenstein? RAT? i lived a couple of houses away from you i came tou your house and you let me see the paragon productions.
You lived at Goudenstein 27?
i at 125, but it is about 10 year ago?

By spl

Paragon (1470)

05-01-2005, 14:47

Wow! What a good news!

By Paragon_Leon

Resident (37)

05-01-2005, 14:48

yep, i lived there.
and yes, i must have shown it... but i simply don´t remember.
ah well. It IS about 12 years ago..

By Abi

Hero (604)

05-01-2005, 14:50

time flies and i am a 'liittle' bit bigger now
i will never forget i visit you you let me even show how to play Rick Dangerous and you let me hear you new songs you wrote at that moment

By Paragon_Leon

Resident (37)

05-01-2005, 14:59

that´s what frustrates me... i REALLY don´t remember that..
how did we hook up? What was RAT exactly..

By Abi

Hero (604)

05-01-2005, 15:09

Maybe RAT was founded afterwards.
RAT was a great MSX club of 3 persons, it was a great time!
I dunno exactly how i contacted you anymore
btw i recently was in contact with Remco Schrijvers of Moonsoft, he even did not remember my visit to him when i had troubles with my Panasonic MSX2+ and every music/game disk containing Moonblaster stereo music.
So i think i make not impact on people
maybe we see each other at the fair in Oss??
last thing i remeber of you is that you moved to Amersfoort.

By Paragon_Leon

Resident (37)

05-01-2005, 15:34

I seem to remember RAT... didn´t you make that Shuffle Puck clone that had PCM-samples on a TurboR? Then it does ring a bell..

By Abi

Hero (604)

05-01-2005, 15:43

we made a MSX version clone of it with a ball instead of a puck, 28 levels and a amazing intro demo.
Rhe ball made some strange jumps and there was a story of it well at least we tried
You must play against 28 bosses with names like loek van qouten
named: Psycho-Ball (anno 1993 )

By snout

Ascended (15187)

05-01-2005, 15:44

So euhm, Leon.. you made us all curious... what can we expect from Paragon in the (near) future?

By Paragon_Leon

Resident (37)

05-01-2005, 15:46

What can i say..
keep your eyes peeled on that site in the near future.

By Abi

Hero (604)

05-01-2005, 16:11

hopefully they will try to end Dome

By Whizzy

Master (213)

05-01-2005, 16:19

I can confirm or deny nothing at this point. However i'll ty to retrieve the Tara sources once again and put them online.

Keep an eye on our site.

By DarQ

Paragon (1038)

05-01-2005, 17:08

great.. an entire newspost for an empty site
if you just posted this after they added some decent content...

let me guess, we'll see another post when they actually added some content

By Paragon_Leon

Resident (37)

05-01-2005, 17:11

let me guess...you don´t have a history with Dutch MSX games.

By Abi

Hero (604)

05-01-2005, 17:34

LOL
Yes we are all so glad paragon is back

By DarQ

Paragon (1038)

05-01-2005, 18:02

wrong guess Paragon_Leon
I(h)MO the newsvalue would be higher if your site would contain just a little bit more stuff/info.

anyway, don't stop now and produce something cool! that'd be neat!

By DarQ

Paragon (1038)

05-01-2005, 18:04

btw: where's construction craze for the GFX9000!
i'd like to see that!!

By DarQ

Paragon (1038)

05-01-2005, 18:05

edit:
i'd like to see that being made!!

By Paragon_Leon

Resident (37)

05-01-2005, 19:00

hehe...no harm done.. just came across as someone who wasn't interested in this stuff but wanted to add a sour note anyway.

The whole point of the site right now is to communicate that: yes, we're back and yes, that means something is to be expected. That's all we really want to say at this point. The site will definitely tell you more in the near future.
As for Construction Craze for GFX9000: not a good chance on that being made.. maybe a sequel in the VERY far future..

By mth

Champion (507)

05-01-2005, 19:36

If you're going to do cross-development for GFX9000, you might be interested in GFX9000 emulation in openMSX which is rapidly being implemented right now. Implementation of P1 mode has just begun, but the bitmap modes are already operational. If you'd like to get a development build of openMSX to test things, join us on our IRC channel (#openmsx on irc.freenode.net). The same offer is open to other MSX developers of course.

By the way, our GFX9000 emulation code will probably be integrated in blueMSX as well. Not sure when though.

By DarQ

Paragon (1038)

05-01-2005, 19:59

mth:

mark17 is very glad to hear that

By Grauw

Ascended (10821)

05-01-2005, 20:26

I only know Antal & Willem . They back in action as well?

~Grauw

By Grauw

Ascended (10821)

05-01-2005, 20:28

p.s. shit, I hope you guys don't resume work on Dome, because then I guess I'll have to work really hard to stay ahead with 'Strategic Army' ;p.

By Whizzy

Master (213)

05-01-2005, 20:35

Yes Laurens... it's me.

You better hurry up. I'm a street length ahead of you

By Paragon_Leon

Resident (37)

05-01-2005, 20:37

Willem's not back..it's Antal and Leon. The original line-up.

By Samor

Prophet (2225)

06-01-2005, 14:51

well, I remembered.recognized you almost instantly at Bussum, Abi , so it must be their fault j/k

But I never had contact with demo groups back in those days, allthough I've been to Tilburg in what must've been 1993, since psycho-ball was new then... eggbert from fony was there as well....
anyway, no one who will remember me ...maybe from more recent years... from those 2 guys that are always hunting down old konami's everyone else already has ;P

By Bastiaan

Champion (333)

07-01-2005, 08:54

and still not even a under construction sign to be seen :-)

By Paragon_Leon

Resident (37)

07-01-2005, 17:02

fixed...

By NYYRIKKI

Enlighted (6096)

09-01-2005, 00:45

i had troubles with my Panasonic MSX2+ and every music/game disk containing Moonblaster stereo music.
If you are still having problems, I think, that I can help you.

Basicly the problem is that Moonblaster loader sets bit0 at address #7FF6 in FM-PAC ROM slot and that disables a part of the ROM in A1WX. This is a bug in MoonBlaster loader routine. It should check, is the FM-PAC internal or external, but it does not do that.

By Abi

Hero (604)

09-01-2005, 14:20

i know, thanks anyway, hope that other Panasonic MSX2+ users read this. I have since 1993 a Turbo-R. (ok i sold it in 1997 and bought another i 2002 )
At the moment i had that 2+ it was new for Moonsoft, he could not solved it at that time, i am happy to see it is solved now.

By Whizzy

Master (213)

09-02-2006, 15:38

We are going to be live in 4 days !!

check it out !

By Whizzy

Master (213)

11-02-2006, 16:40

YESS !!

it's alive and running !
have fun

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