3-line Basic games - for MSX

[BigEd]

I wonder if this collection of three-liners can serve as inspiration for ports to BBC Basic?
http://nsg.upor.net/msx/basic/basic.htm

Puzzles, lunar lander, invaders, many more.

One of my MSX-related hobbies was (and, possibly, still is) writing playable game in 3 lines of MSX basic code. Well, it all really depends on definition of "playable" and "game". In any case it was a HUGE fun to write them.
Definition of line of code is an MSX basic line (the one that has a number), not a screen line. It is not as trivial as it may seem, since every line has a limit of 255 characters (not exactly 255 characters, but this not improtant here).

Nice note:

For a long time this program, together with all other programs that I wrote during that period, was presumed lost. Fortunately, on October 2, 2009, while looking for something else entirely, I have found a big fat .arj file and deep inside this file there was a subdirectory inconspicuously named "MSX". And that is where the VETKA.NSG stayed for all these years.

(via this)

[lurkio]

I wonder if this collection of three-liners can serve as inspiration for ports to BBC Basic? http://nsg.upor.net/msx/basic/basic.htm

A slight digression, but do you happen to know how to set up an MSX emulator? I.e. where to get the required ROMs/cartridges and where/how to install them? I know nothing about the MSX at all.

(I tried a couple of emulators but got stuck almost straight away!)

[BigEd]

There's an in-browser emulator which might be worth a try:
https://webmsx.org/

And there's another which doesn't quite run as-is but has pointers to ROMs and might provide the information you're looking for:
http://jsmsx.sourceforge.net/ (also at https://biged.github.io/jsMSX/jsmsx.html)

[richardtoohey]

(I tried a couple of emulators but got stuck almost straight away!)

How hard can it be, I thought to myself?



Eventually managed to get OpenMSX going with one variant of the "standard" (that's the nice thing about standards, there's so many of them to choose from, as the old saying goes):

Sadly when I typed "RUN" I got "Syntax error in 1".