Dear readers, This automated two-weekly email message contains the MSX Resource Center news summary dating from Aug 01, 2004 until Aug 15, 2004. In these two weeks 36 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 2004 MINIGAME COMPO (2004-08-14 22:19:24) For the fourth year in a row an international multi-platform minigame competition is being held over here. The purpose of this competition is to create either a 1K or 4K game on NES, Plus/4, Atari 800, Atari 2600, Commodore 64/128 or VIC-20, Apple 2 or... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2218.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ NYYRIKKI'S SOFTWARE ADDED TO THE DOWNLOADS DATABASE (2004-08-13 19:42:00) More than a year ago Iwein van Caelenberg suddenly stopped hosting the msx2.com domain and all the websites that were hosting on his webserver. Ever since then the MSX software created by the Finnish MSX developer Nyyrikki have been hard to find on the... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2217.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MOPI RANGER REMAKE - TO BE RELEASED SOON (2004-08-13 17:07:55) Henk Bosman announced in our forums his Mopi Ranger Remake is very close to completion. Mopi Ranger was originally released by Konami in 1985 and now, almost 20 years later, there's this win32 remake of it. Some of its features: * Zones 1 up to 4 and... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2216.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSXDEV'05 - COMING SOON (2004-08-13 14:39:33) Yesterday the extremely succesful MSXdev'04 competition was closed. The competition, that ran for 6 months, resulted in 16 new 8kB MSX1 games. Robsy had already announced there would be a follow-up in 2005, of which he has just disclosed the first details... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2215.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSXDEV'04 - CLOSED (2004-08-12 02:21:31) Two hours ago the MSXdev'04 competition closed. The MSX1 game development contest turned out to be a huge success with a grand total of 16 new MSX1 games released since the contest started in february. We already reported about the 12 entries that were... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2214.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ VSCREEN 0.8 (2004-08-10 23:24:16) After releasing an alpha version 6 weeks ago, Olivier Hustin started working on version 0.8 of his versatile smooth-scrolling platform game engine called Vscreen. This version has just been released and you can download it right here. In this release... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2213.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ HISPAMSX AND HISPAMSX.ORG START OFFERING RSS FEEDS (2004-08-10 22:27:03) Both the HispaMSX mailing list and HispaMSX.org website are now offering RSS feeds, so their visitors can add the lastest email topics and hispamsx.org newsposts to their website or RSS client. You can find these RSS feeds at: * HispaMSX (RSS 2.0):... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2212.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 18TH NOMINEE (2004-08-09 23:24:22) The Spanish computer news website MeriStation have published a 10 page article on one of Japans most important game developer companies ever: Konami. The article contains many references to MSX, which is understandable as MSX was an important system to... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2211.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BUSSUM FAIR 2004 RESERVATION FORMS (2004-08-09 22:13:58) Exactly two months left until the fair, and the MSX Fair Bussum 2004 page has a news update. The introductionary letters and registration forms have been snailmailed yesterday and as of today you can also download them from the page. If you're planning... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2210.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ GALL FORCE BGM BY HACKURL (2004-08-09 21:33:46) Source: VGM or Chiptune News Hackurl released an MP3 of the first BGM of Sony's MSX shoot'em-up Gall Force. The MP3 of this song can be found on this website, where you can find many other MSX related MP3 files. Relevant link: Hackurl's Music WebsiteRead more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2209.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ REQUIEM FOR LOST OPL4 SONGS BY WOLF (2004-08-09 02:53:20) Wolf has decided to put a seven minute mix of Moonsound songs online in MP3 format. The MP3 contains 6 unfinished songs, which unfortunately will never be finished due to the fact that the CompactFlash-card holding these tunes crashed some weeks ago.... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2208.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MRC JOINS EBAY AFFILIATE PROGRAMME (2004-08-09 01:18:18) As of today you don't have to miss out on any interesting MSX auction on eBay anymore as the 10 worldwide MSX auctions which are about to end are listed on the left-bottom side of your screen from now on. By bidding on MSX auctions after clicking on the... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2207.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ 26TH BARCELONA RU (2004-08-09 00:43:21) The Asociación Amigos del MSX have determined the date for the 26th MSX user meeting (RU) in Barcelona. The second MSX-RU of 2004 will be held on October 30th, as part of the BCN Party. The meeting has been added to our list of MSX fairs and meetings. Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2206.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSXDEV'04 ENTRIES: COMPUTER WARS AND MR. CHEF AND THE SAUSAGES (2004-08-09 00:27:47) The MSXdev'04 game development competition has brought us two more brand new MSX1 games: Computer wars and Mr. Chef and the Sausages. Computer Wars is a business stragety simulation game created by Crappysoft. The game is all about the 8bit computer... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2205.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ SEAL OF HADES REMAKE (2004-08-09 00:13:13) Leandro Correia has started developing a remake of the Casio game 'Seal of Hades' (the full title of this game is 'Yami no Ryu Ou - Hades no Monshou'). The first version of this remake has just been released. You can download it right here. Like many... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2204.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ KBMEDIA PLAYER VERSION 2.35 BETA6 (2004-08-08 22:08:58) Source: VORC KbMediaPlayer which supports OPX and, when using the MSXPlug plugin, KSS, BGM, MPK and MGS formats, has been updated to version 2.35 beta 6. Relevant link: KbMediaPlayer websiteRead more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2203.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ RETRO PC GAME MUSIC ADDS FRAY (2004-08-08 22:07:24) Source: VGM or Chiptune News Retro PC Game Music have again updated their playlists. This time two track of Fray (for PC98) were added. You can listen to this streaming radio station at http://gyusyabu.ddo.jp:8000/. Most popular mediaplayers support... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2202.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ CHATLOGS MSXPOSSE AND MSX MUSIC EDITOR CHAT NIGHTS (2004-08-08 11:57:52) Last night MSXposse held a chat night on the Undernet #msx channel. At the same time an MSX Music Editor chat night was held on Rizon #msxdev. Of both chat nights a chat log was made by MG-Ray. The chat logs are slightly changed to remove the user hosts.... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2201.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ WHICH MSX HAS THE BEST DESIGN [FINALE] (2004-08-08 00:10:48) Three weeks ago we started a quest for the MSX computer with the best design. After the nominations and four rounds of voting in our active MSX forum this quest is about to come to an end. Only four computers out of 58 nominated MSX computers can win... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2200.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MRC BOUNCE CHALLENGE - 5TH ENTRY BY GUYVER800 (2004-08-07 23:36:51) About three weeks ago we started the MRC Bounce Challenge. In this challenge both experienced and novice MSX developers can show how fun (and easy) it can be to develop for MSX. Today, we have received the 5th entry to this challenge, created in only... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2199.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX MUSIC EDITOR CHAT NIGHT ON #MSXDEV (2004-08-07 18:08:07) Tonight the #msxdev IRC channel on the Rizon network will hold an online meeting, at which MSX Music Editors will be discussed. General users and composers are invited to discuss features they like in existing programs (like Moonblaster or Meridian) or... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2198.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSXPOSSE CHAT NIGHT (2004-08-07 17:47:32) Tonight MSX Posse are holding an MSX chat night in the #msx IRC channel on Undernet. In order to connect to this channel you can either use an IRC client like MIRC or connect to #msx using the MSXposse chatroom. Relevant link: MSX PosseRead more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2197.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ RETRO PC GAME MUSIC ADDS YIE AR KUNG-FU, KING'S VALLEY AND EMERALD DRAGON SOUNDTRACKS (2004-08-07 16:27:06) Retro PC Game Music have again updated their playlists. This time, the soundtracks of Yie Ar Kung-Fu, King's Valley and the PC-88 version of Emerald Dragon were added. You can listen to this streaming radio station at http://gyusyabu.ddo.jp:8000/. Most... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2196.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MOPI RANGER REMAKE 0.01 (2004-08-05 16:02:33) Henk Bosman has just released a small promo version of a project he started recently: A PC remake of the Konami MSX game Mopi Ranger. On his website you can find more information on this project and download the initial release. If you want to discuss... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2195.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ EGG JOINS FORCES WITH D4 ENTERTAINMENT (2004-08-05 13:19:37) Project EGG, the online webshop where MSX, PC-88, PC-98, Sega Master System and X68000 retrogames are being re-released as PC games, is about to move away from Bothtec's Soft City. Until now, Project EGG has been one of the side-activities of the Japanese... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2194.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ DEVCON 2004 SUMMER (2004-08-04 13:36:45) After investigating with the potential guests, 28 August will be the date set for Devcon 2004. Devcon is an MSX-meeting aimed at the northern regions of The Netherlands, for the simple reason that the most important MSX-events were always located in... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2193.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ WHICH MSX HAS THE BEST DESIGN [ROUND 4] (2004-08-04 00:10:06) Just now, the third round of voting in our quest for the MSX computer with the best design has closed and the fourth round of voting has started. There are only eight MSX computers left that can win this prestigious title, and you can decide which one... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2192.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MARTIJN MAATJENS JOINS THE BOUNCE CHALLENGE JURY (2004-08-03 23:22:53) Two weeks ago we already announced that the legendary André Ligthart (the AN of ANMA) was to become the main juror of the MRC Bounce Challenge. As of today we are proud to present the second main juror: Martijn Maatjens (the MA of ANMA, also known as... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2191.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ STRATOS - UPDATE (2004-08-03 22:45:41) More news on the MSXdev'04 competition seems to be coming in by the day, lately. Today the previously released strategy game Stratos was updated. A fast decompressing routine, Pucrunch, a frequency selector and a Hi-Score counter were added. The MSXdev... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2190.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ PROLOGUE FANFARE & REFRESH, CONTINUE OR CHANGE BY SYMRAY_SCOPIO (2004-08-03 22:30:32) Source: ActiveMSX After more than three years of inactivity the Japanese MSX composer Symray_scopio created two new songs and released them as MP3 on a popular Japanese music website. He created two relatively simple songs to regain the feel of creating... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2189.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BUENOS AIRES 2004 PICTURES ADDED TO MISCELLANEOUS SECTION (2004-08-02 21:27:00) We have just added four pictures to the Miscellaneous photoshoots section, sent by Flyguille, the coder of MNBIOS, on a retro meeting which was held on the 30th of July in Buenos Aires, Argentina. If you have any pictures you'd like to share with... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2188.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ LOK - SECTOR EDITOR BY FLYGUILLE (2004-08-02 21:03:04) Another freeware production has been added to our downloads section today: LOK, a tool created by Flyguille in the early 90's. The tool allows you to edit your floppy disks on sector-level. In order to get enough free memory to run the tool, you'll need... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2187.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ ROMLOAD 1.99Q (2004-08-02 19:19:56) Albert Beevendorp has released a new version of his ROM loader for SCC+ cartridges: ROMLOAD. It contains features requested in this forum thread by several users. Changes in this release: * Fixed a bug causing /F not to work anymore after a conversion... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2186.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ GRADIUS CHIPTUNE MIXES (2004-08-01 15:38:06) Source: VGM or Chiptune news Over here you can find an interesting website on which music composers can upload their Gradius (or Gradius related) arrangements and remixes. At the moment there are close to 180 songs online, including some nice MSX remixes... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2185.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSXDEV'04 ENTRY: FACTORY INFECTION (2004-08-01 15:30:23) Karoshi Corporation have submitted another entry to the MSXdev'04 challenge: Factory infection. The purpose of the game is to keep a virus from spreading in the Karoshi corporation productions by shooting it, using two cannons. Of course, there are a... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2184.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ DOWNLOADS TOP 10; JULY 2004 (2004-08-01 00:03:52) It's the first of August, so lets have a look at which files have been downloaded the most in July 2004. In this month, the following 10 files were downloaded the most: * Modplay for MSX1 (147 downloads) * Bounce00 (120 downloads) * 666 The Haunted House... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2183.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
