Dear readers, This automated two-weekly email message contains the MSX Resource Center news summary dating from Jun 01, 2004 until Jun 15, 2004. In these two weeks 29 news articles were posted at the MSX Resource center. The complete newsarchive can be found here: http://www.msx.org/newsarchive.html
Kind regards, MSX Resource Center team ___________________________________________________________________________________ RUMSX 0.28 (2004-06-14 11:46:19) Rudolf Lechleitner, also known as Lex Lechz, released a new version of RuMSX, the MSX emulator focussing on MSX turboR emulation. Here's what's new: * Windows XP styles are supported automatically, there is no need to copy a separate manifest-file anymore *... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2079.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ FINAL RELEASE CORAL 2 (2004-06-13 19:52:14) Infinite took the time to polish their contribution to the MRC Underwater Challenge and the final version is now ready for download. The team did some bugfixes and added library support and compressed data. The requirements didn't change: Coral 2 requires... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2078.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BLUEMSX 1.5.0 (2004-06-12 12:55:39) Version 1.5.0 of blueMSX has been released. Initially conceived as a bugs fixing release, this version comes mainly with the following improvements:[LIST] * The entire timing scheme of the emulation and DirectDraw is replaced. The result is higher frame... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2077.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 4TH NOMINEE (2004-06-11 19:56:25) Today we spotted a new nomination for the MSX in the Media challenge without even noticing it. In this forum thread (http://www.msx.org/forumtopicl3386.html) you can read about a nice part on the Sony website (http://www.sony.co.jp/) we discovered thanks... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2076.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ AIKY ASKS FOR FANGAME TO BE REMOVED (2004-06-11 16:28:03) On Robsy's MSX Workshop (http://www.robsy.net/index.htm) we can read some information about recent contacts between Edward A. Robsy Petrus and Aiky. It seems that Aiky has asked the author of the MSX1 fangame Guru Logic to remove the game from the MSXdev'03... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2075.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSXPLUG FOR FOOBAR2000 (2004-06-11 15:14:08) Source: VORC (http://www.vorc.org/en/) Like Winamp, foobar2000 (http://www.foobar2000.org/) is an advanced audioplayer for the Windows platform. It is developed by Peter Pawlowski, member of the Winamp team. Digital Sound Antiques (http://www102.sakura.ne.jp/~ok/dsa/index.html)... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2074.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ 26TH MSX USER REUNION IN BARCELONA (2004-06-11 10:06:32) The Asociación de Amigos del MSX will hold the 26th MSX Users Reunion in Barcelona on the 30th of october 2004. This time, it seems there is a cooperation with BCN Party (http://www.bcnparty.org/) again. We will keep you updated when more information... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2073.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ GENIUS (2004-06-09 23:44:21) Source: MSX Files (http://msxfiles.sites.uol.com.br/) Marcelo from MarMSX (http://www.marmsx.cjb.net/) made an MSX2 version of Genius. Genius is a Brazilian toy created by Estrela (http://www.estrela.com.br/). Outside of Brazil the game is known as... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2072.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX FAIR BUSSUM 2004 (2004-06-09 00:09:22) Laurens Holst (Grauw) has set a final date for the MSX fair in Bussum. This year it will be held on Saturday, October 9th. At the same location as last year, and still from 10:00 to 17:00 o'clock. After that, the MSX Marathon will begin where you are... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2071.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ IT'S A HARD WAY IN THE SUBURBS BY CHABINN (2004-06-08 16:43:42) Source: Vorc (http://www.vorc.org/) Chabinn released a new MSX song on Illusion City (http://ym2413.zapto.org/illcity/) as a WMA file. It's a hard way in the suburbs is a cover of a song Konami used in the arcade game 'Hot Chase'. The song was created... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2070.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ CONTRAIL BY DRMSX (2004-06-08 16:28:32) Source: Vorc (http://www.vorc.org/) DRM Digital Work (http://www.boreas.dti.ne.jp/~nudi-drm/) has created many songs for the MSX computer as DrMSX (http://www.boreas.dti.ne.jp/~nudi-drm/sound/drmsxsoundwork.html). Today, a new song was released called... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2069.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ SMALLEST MSX IN THE WORLD (2004-06-08 16:20:37) Source: Gigamix News (http://gigamix.cocolog-nifty.com/) A Japanese MSX fan (http://ken.akari-house.net/) created the smallest MSX in the world to date. Well, actually it's a very small PC running the latest version of MSXPLAYer, connected to a small... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2068.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ IPS FOR MSX V1.1 (2004-06-08 16:16:00) Just a few days after the release of IPS for MSX (http://www.msx.org/newspost2058.html) Albert Beevendorp has released a new version of this patcher. Here's a list of changes: * Made IPS file optional. Default will be the target filespec.ips * Added extension... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2067.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ GENERATION MSX LISTS SPANISH SOFTWARE (2004-06-08 16:01:47) Generation MSX (http://www.generation-msx.nl/) has been updated, adding a list of more than 250 games created by Spanish developers. There are no screenshots available of the games that have been added to Generation MSX's game information list, but they... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2066.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ DOWNTIME MSX RESOURCE CENTER (2004-06-08 15:58:30) Due to server maintainance the MSX Resource Center was temporarily down today. The maintainance was not announced to us due to a communication error, therefor we weren't able to inform you, our visitors, in time. Nevertheless, the maintainance was necessary... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2065.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ PICTURE 2 (2004-06-07 23:47:13) Jean-Christophe Leconte sent us a demo he created in 1992: Picture 2 (http://www.msx.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=visit&lid=496). The demo is created in Xbasic and contains some digitized pictures and songs Jean liked at the... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2064.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ NAMCO TURNS 50 (2004-06-07 01:11:23) Source: Gamegeek (http://www.geek.com/gaming/gaming.htm) This weekend the Japanese Computer Gaming pioneer Namco (http://www.namco.co.jp/) celebrated their 50th anniversary in Tokyo Japan. You can see some pictures and a report of the ceremony here... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2063.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ TILBURG 1999 PHOTO SHOOT (2004-06-06 21:17:41) Over the last months, a lot of photos of Dutch MSX fairs have been added to our photo shoots (http://www.msx.org/photoshoots.html). Just recently, Remko Koning sent us the pictures he took at and before the MSX fair in Tilburg, 1999. The Tilburg 1999... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2062.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BLUEMSXBOX 1.0 (2004-06-06 16:30:56) Source: MSX Files (http://msxfiles.sites.uol.com.br/) An XBox port of the popupar MSX emulator BlueMSX (http://www.bluemsx.com/) is circulating in the underground Xbox IRC channels. More information on the emulator can be found on this website (http://xboxemu.netfirms.com/bluemsxxbox.shtml).... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2061.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ INTERNESTOR LITE 0.3 (2004-06-05 19:52:15) Nestor Soriano released a new version of InterNestor Lite, a toolkit that provides everything you need to connect your MSX to the internet. New in this version: * Support for the TCP protocol * A TCP console (simplified Telnet client) is included, with... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2060.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ IPS FOR MSX (2004-06-05 00:33:59) Albert Beevendorp (BiFi) recently discovered the IPS patching format and liked it so much he decided to create an IPS patcher for MSX. The tool has been added to our downloads section (http://www.msx.org/downloads.html). You can download IPS for MSX here... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2058.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ GRADIUS 2 INTRODEMO IN PORTUGUESE (2004-06-04 17:17:00) Ricardo Bittencourt translated the intro-demo of Konami's Gradius 2 (http://www.generation-msx.nl/msxdb/softwareinfo/932) (Nemesis 2) into Portuguese. Although he did not implement the translation in the game, you can read it at this website (http://www.700km.com.br/mundobizarro/gradius2.php).... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2057.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ FALCOM AND ARUZE TEAM UP ONLINE (2004-06-04 14:30:18) Source: Gigamix News (http://gigamix.cocolog-nifty.com/) Falcom (http://www.falcom.com/) and Aruze (http://www.aruze.com/) have combined their efforts in order to create online games based on classic Falcom RPG's like Dragon Slayer and YS. 'Multiple... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2056.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ 2.000 MEMBERS ON THE MSX RESOURCE CENTER (2004-06-03 20:02:35) It took a while, but we made it! A grand total of 2.000 members have signed up to the MSX Resource Center! After breaking the 1.000 members barrier (http://www.msx.org/newspost775.html) in October 2002 and launching the restyled MSX Resource Center (http://www.msx.org/newspost892.html)... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2055.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 3RD NOMINEE (2004-06-02 21:38:52) Marlon Braga Leite wrote a message to the Brazilian newspaper O Dia (http://odia.ig.com.br) about the Portuguese version of MSX Resource Center (http://br.msx.org/). The editors of the newspaper decided this news was interesting enough to publish and... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2054.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BANDAI RELEASES XAK FOR VODAFONE (2004-06-02 14:49:03) Source: Gigamix Weblog (http://gigamix.cocolog-nifty.com/) Yesterday Bandai (http://www.bandai-net.com/) released the popular Microcabin (http://www.microcabin.co.jp/) RPG Xak, which was released on MSX in 1989 (Xak - The Art of Visual Stage (http://www.generation-msx.nl/msxdb/softwareinfo/1243)).... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2053.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX PIZZA PHOTOSHOOTS (2004-06-01 13:30:18) This weekend the traditional MSX Pizza meeting was held in Brasilia, Brazil. This meeting is exactly what you think it is: a bunch of MSX users gathering and eating pizza. Sandro Zanello took these pictures (http://br.f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/sandrozanello),... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2052.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ NEW OPENMSX FRONTEND FOR LINUX (2004-06-01 12:15:50) FOX, an Italian MSX user, has made a new frontend for the openMSX emulator for Linux. This frontend is programmed in Lazarus, an open source clone of Delphi available for Linux and Windows. If you want to help FOX to resolve some bugs or to make the Windows... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2051.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ DOWNLOADS TOP 10; MAY 2004 (2004-06-01 00:11:56) It's the first of the month, so it's time to have a look at the downloads top 10. From May 1st to May 31st 2004, the following 10 files were downloaded the most: * Dopefish (http://www.msx.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=visit&lid=484)... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2050.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
