Dear readers, This automated two-weekly email message contains the MSX Resource Center news summary dating from Aug 18, 2004 until Sep 01, 2004. In these two weeks 37 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ KING KONG 2 FAQ AND WALKTHROUGH AT GAMEFAQS (2004-08-31 20:34:34) BacoKarel announced in our forums he created a new FAQ and walkthrough for King Kong 2. He has uploaded it on Gamefaqs, where you, all King Kong 2 fans out there, can have a look at it. Any comments on it are more than welcome. You can share them in this... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2264.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 29TH NOMINEE (2004-08-31 17:00:42) Pl�nio Felix informed us about the MSXRio banner on brgames. We made a screenshot and added it to the list of nominees of the MSX in the Media challenge. Did you get or spot MSX in the media? Send the evidence to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we will add it... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2263.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ DEVCON SUMMER 2004 - REPORT AND PHOTOSHOOT (2004-08-29 17:00:14) On August 28th the second edition of Devcon, the Dutch MSX developers meeting, was held. Maarten van Strien and Sander Zuidema joined forces and created both a photoshoot and a report of the events that took place during the day. Like the previous edition... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2262.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSXRIO PHOTOSHOOTS (2004-08-29 13:00:29) Just after the MSXRio 2004 MSX user meeting the first photoshoots of the event have already appeared on the web. You can find several pictures at MSXfiles and even more at the official MSXRio website, in the 'Galeria de Fotos' section, where you can also... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2261.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ GIGAMIX ADDS RSS FEEDS (2004-08-29 12:45:35) Gigamix Online, the most active Japanese MSX news portal, have added an RSS feed of their newsblog to their website. If you like you can add the latest Japanese MSX news to your RSS reader or your website by adding this RSS feed. As you probably know... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2260.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MNBIOS WEBSITE RESTYLED (2004-08-28 16:19:01) Flyguille, the creator of MNBIOS, has restyled the MNBIOS website. Apart from general improvements and improvents in the artwork, the following changes were made: * A chart comparing the features of the demo and final versions was added. * The BLOGs were... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2259.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BOMBERMAN SPECIAL PATCH - SCREENSHOTS (2004-08-27 14:28:59) Karoshi Corporation's Viejo_archivero is currently working on a patch for the Hudson Soft MSX1 game 'Bomberman Special'. In this forum thread you can already have a quick peek at some screenshots of how the game is looking now, which is quite an improvement... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2258.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ OPENMSX FORUM OPENED (2004-08-26 22:07:46) To enable even more possibilities to give feedback to the developers of openMSX and to get help from openMSX developers and users, the openMSX team has opened a forum on the SourceForge.net site of openMSX. At the moment there are two forums: a Developers... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2257.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 28TH NOMINEE (2004-08-26 16:28:06) MSX seems to be getting more and more attention in the media these days as we present the 10th nominee of this month: My Symbian. Richard Smit spotted an artcle on fMSX/S60 on this Symbian Community portal, which we added to the list of nominees of the... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2256.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 27TH NOMINEE (2004-08-26 15:18:23) For the second time, the Brazilian Newspaper O globo pays attention to the upcoming MSXRio meeting which hill be held on the 27th and 28th August. Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro spotted the column of (ex-)MSX user B. Piropo and sent us an e-mail about it. The... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2255.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSXRIO 2004 - 27TH AND 28TH OF AUGUST (2004-08-26 15:10:32) Unlike previous announcements the MSXRio 2004 event is going to take place on the 27th and 28th of August and, unfortunately, not on the 29th of August. On Friday the first MSX fans of Brazil will start gathering while the Saturday will be the most active... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2254.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSXPOSSE ADDS RSS FEEDS (2004-08-26 15:04:28) As of today, MSX posse offer RSS feeds of their latest forum posts. If you have an RSS reader you can follow the latest threads on the RSS forums with great ease, by following the feed at http://www.msxposse.com/rss.php. While you're at it you could also... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2253.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 26TH NOMINEE (2004-08-26 01:10:22) Hugo Sutherland spotted a review on the MSX emulator openMSX in the september edition of Linux Format. The article was scanned and added to the list of nominees of the MSX in the Media challenge. Did you get or spot MSX in the media? Send the evidence... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2252.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ COBRA SOFTWARE - LINK ADDED (2004-08-26 00:55:33) We have just added a link to the Cobra Software website at our ever growing collection of links to MSX (related) websites. On the Cobra Software site you can find magazines and MSX software for download. Relevant link: Cobra SoftwareRead more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2251.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ VINTAGE COMPUTER FESTIVAL ITALIA (2004-08-26 00:50:48) Enrico Barbisan informed us about the Vintage Computer Festival Italia, a retro computing event which will be held in Desenzano del Garda, Italy on the 4th and 5th of September. Several MSX fans will make sure the MSX computer system will be well-represented... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2250.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ THE MAKING OF....N-SUB (2004-08-25 21:12:31) The MRC Under Water Challenge has had some very nice entries. One of them is N-Sub, an arcade game from Sega, created in 1980. It was ported to the SG-1000 console but an MSX version never came. Ricardo Bittencourt en Cyberknight thought this had to change... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2249.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ SEAL OF HADES REMAKE - SECOND BETA (2004-08-25 20:22:22) In 1986, Casio released Yami no ryu ou Hades no monshou, a nice MSX1 shooting game. Leandro Correia obviously is a big fan of this game, and is currently developing a Windows version of which you can download the latest beta version right here. The... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2248.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ FIRST ILAC '04 ENTRY: FUDEBROWSER (2004-08-25 20:20:10) Some days ago, we reported about the ILAC '04 (InterNestor Applications Contest). Ricardo Bittencourt has submitted the first entry for the contest: Fudebrowser, a graphical internet browser. You already can see a fully working version of this browser:... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2247.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ METAL GEAR 3 - FIRST ENGLISH TRAILER (2004-08-25 20:10:56) The official Metal Gear 3 website must be one of the most visited Konami pages of all. On this website you can have a look at impressive screenshots and interesting information on this highly anticipated new Hideo Kojima game. In 1987 Konami released... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2246.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ ASMSX V0.10C (2004-08-25 19:26:16) Source: MSX Posse At the moment, Robsy is busy creating a Z80 cross-assembler for the Windows platform. He has released the second public version 0.10c just yesterday and you can all download it at his website right here. In this version, some examplecode... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2245.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MAXIMUM PENALTY (2004-08-24 22:50:16) SLotman of MSXFiles will release a new MSX game on the MSXRio 2004 user meeting: Maximum Penalty. After the fair both the game and its source code will be released on the website as well. For now you can already have a look at 2 screenshots. At the same... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2244.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ ZERO GRAVITY (2004-08-24 17:41:12) Juanma has just sent us a new Crappysoft release: Zero Gravity. The game has been added to our ever growing freeware MSX software archives. Zero Gravity is an MSX1 platform game coded in BASIC. You have crashed your spaceship on a distant planet and have... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2243.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX RESOURCE CENTER GOES MSXRIO (2004-08-23 22:24:55) This weekend (from August 27th to August 29th, to be more specific) the annual MSX user meeting 'MSXRio' will be held in Rio, Brazil. Many active MSX developers and users from all over Brazil will gather to show, look at and talk about the latest developments... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2242.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ PACIFIC 202 BY DRMSX (2004-08-23 22:03:23) Source: Vorc.org DrMSX, known for his high-quality OPLL+SCC+PSG songs for MSX has opened a new section on his website, 157, where he offers MP3 and MGS downloads of covers he created of songs he likes. Apart from an old song (Romeo by Blankey Jet City)... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2241.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MNBIOS - STATUS UPDATE (2004-08-23 12:25:16) About two months ago the second demo version of MNBIOS, a new operating system for MSX, was released. Flyguille, the developer of MNBIOS is now working on a third demo version, which will be released somewhere in september. If all goes well this will... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2240.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ FMSX/S60 1.04A/B (2004-08-23 02:02:43) A new version of fMSX/S60, the MSX Emulator for Nokia Series 60 cellphones, has just been released. Changes in this version: * Emulation save state bug fix redone * Disk image analyzer speed optimization * Support for automatic state saving on emulator... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2239.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 25TH NOMINEE (2004-08-22 15:07:08) The news about the release of Metal Gear 1 for cellphones did not only excite many MSX users, but also got attention on the games blog Joystiq in this article. The article has just been added to the list of nominees of the MSX in the Media challenge. Did... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2238.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ F-1 SPIRIT REMAKE - DEMO7 (2004-08-22 01:19:35) A new demo version of the F1 Spirit remake has been released today. In this forum you can read about the latest updates and download this new demo version, which adds a lot of aspects to the game. There's a discussion on the remake in our forums as well,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2237.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ SJASM V0.39D (2004-08-21 18:10:42) There's a new release of SjASM, the xl2s Z80 cross assembler for PC. New in this version: * Fixed a structure initialization bug * DZ and ABYTEZ directives to define null terminated strings * Some LD, LDI and LDD 'instructions * And, as always, some minor... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2236.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ ILAC'04 (2004-08-20 13:54:55) After the huge success of the MRC and MSXdev competitions, another MSX related development contest has just been introduced: ILAC'04, the InterNestor Lite Applications Contest. The objective? To write applications for InterNestor LIte. The prize? A genuine... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2235.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MESS 0.85 (2004-08-19 22:26:55) Both the Unix and Windows version of MESS, the Multiple Emulator Super System have been updated to version 0.85. With MESS it is possible to emulate a wide range of homecomputers and consoles, including several MSX configurations. MESS is based on MAME,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2234.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSXART (2004-08-19 22:15:24) For the 3rd consecutive year, The MSX Games bOX is organising a Wallpaper contest renamed MSXart '04. To make things more interesting than in previous years, extra attention will be given to participants creating wallpapers according one of the following... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2233.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ OBSONET WEBSITE ONLINE (2004-08-19 20:08:42) A few days ago, we reported about ObsoNET, an ethernet card for MSX. ObsoNET will be a 10Base-T card, Konami cartridge sized and with a RJ45 connector. It will have a BIOS with routines to send and receive packets and it will also hold routines for basic... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2232.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ THING OVER THE DESTRUCTION BY SYMRAY_SCOPIO (2004-08-19 15:41:08) Source: Vorc.org Symray_scopio has released a new MP3/real recording of a song he created on MSX. The song is called 'Thing over the destruction' and can be found on this website. By pressing the red button you'll download the MP3, by pressing the... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2231.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IPS PATCH ARCHIVE (2004-08-19 13:18:24) Today an MSX IPS Patch Archive has been opened where IPS Patch files for MSX games can be downloaded. Currently it contains some IPS Patch files for ROM images that were taken offline some time ago like a patch for creating an English version of Aleste... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2230.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ METAL GEAR 1 RE-RELEASE ON MOBILE PHONES (2004-08-18 17:31:37) Source: Gigamix News Headline Metal Gear fans all around the world have been waiting for a re-release of the original, first MSX2 release of Metal Gear 1 (Konami, 1987) ever since Metal Gear Solid was released on Sony Playstation one. Today, Konami... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2229.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 20TH AND 21ST NOMINEE (2004-08-18 17:10:40) Both Brazilian newspapers O dia and O globo have reported on the upcoming MSXRio meeting which hill be held on the 27th, 28th and 29th of August. Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro spotted it and sent us an e-mail about it. Both articles have been added to the... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2228.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
