Dear readers, This automated two-weekly email message contains the MSX Resource Center news summary dating from Sep 01, 2004 until Sep 15, 2004. In these two weeks 24 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ THE DARKNESS GOD OF DESTROY - RESTYLED AND MOVED (2004-09-13 23:32:40) Today Bodyhammer finished the new 'Darkness God of Destroy' website where he hosts several MSX related files like realtime articles, MWM songs, graphics, photoshoots. Furthermore the website contains an MSX DiskMag list, a tutorial on fMSX for DreamCast... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2288.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ AMUSEMENT CENTER LAUNCHES 'PLUS' (2004-09-12 16:25:41) Last week, we reported about Amusement Center, a website owned by the company D4 Enterprise. Project EGG, about which we have reported often in the past, was moved here. D4 Enterprise now is the company responsible for EGG. Next to EGG, a new website... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2287.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MRC BOUNCE CHALLENGE - 8TH ENTRY BY NYYRIKKI (2004-09-12 13:31:09) Nyyrikki, the developer of the Brainfuck entry to the Snowfall challenge and the Z80/R800 emulator for MSX likes to take an unexpected approach. For the MRC Bounce Challenge he decided not to code an entry in ASM, Pascal, C, Brainfuck or BASIC. It does... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2286.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MMC DRIVE INTERFACE (2004-09-12 12:51:07) Sharksym has published the schematics on how to create an MMC card interface for MSX using an SCC mapper in this forum thread. Over there you can also see a picture of the final result. Using a patched diskROM and a 24kB flashROM BIOS it is possible to... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2285.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ KONAMITO - RESTYLED (2004-09-12 12:40:40) Konamito has completely restyled his website, which contains information on emulation, games, remakes and BASIC programs. The main part of the website consists out of the forums, by which Konamito hopes to contribute to the activity and collaboration... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2284.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ ASCII AND MSX ASSOCIATION DEMONSTRATE ONE CHIP MSX1 AT PLD WORLD 2004 (2004-09-10 22:31:02) Source: Gigamix Online Altera, one of the largest and most well known developers of PLD chips, is holding the 'PLD World 2004' conference in Tokyo on October 29th, 2004. During this event many different companies will show their latest developments,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2283.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 33RD NOMINEE (2004-09-10 22:15:34) The Japanese computer magazine Interface has been added to the list of nominees of the MSX in the Media challenge. In a review on the universal driver creation toolkit WinDriver the drivers of the MSX Game Reader are mentioned as an example of what can... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2282.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ SJASM 0.39D2 (2004-09-10 21:55:18) A new version of the SjASM compiler has just been released, fixing several bugs that were present in the previous release. Apart from that PUSH and POP now accept a list of registers and a 16 bit SUB instruction was added. Relevant link: SjASM websiteRead more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2281.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ GENERATION MSX - MORE UPDATES (2004-09-10 20:17:31) Sylvester has been actively improving the Generation MSX website during the past few weeks. On September 8th a few changes were features were improved and/or added to the website, greatly improving the navigation of the website: * The search index now... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2280.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ PROJECT EGG MOVES TO AMUSEMENT CENTER (2004-09-08 14:33:07) A month ago we reported about D4 Enterprise, a young Japanese company, opening a new website called Amusement Center. We already announced that Project EGG would eventually move to this new website. As of today, this is the case. At the completely restyled... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2279.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MRC BOUNCE CHALLENGE - 7TH ENTRY BY IC (2004-09-08 02:37:22) Less than a week ago IC released an entry to the MRC Bounce Challenge called Vector Scroll. At the time he already announced he would release another Bounce demo soon, which is available in our downloads database as of now: Revival. The demo shows a... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2278.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 32ND NOMINEE (2004-09-08 02:30:09) The Dutch Nintendo magazine [N]gamer seems to be very MSX minded as they are responsible for 3 of the 32 nominations for the MSX in the Media Challenge so far. They were responsible for the first nomination, as Engine Software mentioned their MSX roots... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2277.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSXRIO 2004 PHOTOSHOOT (2004-09-08 01:54:19) On the 27th and 28th of august the annual MSXRio meeting was held in Rio, Brazil. Active MSX users from all over Brazil gathered to enjoy MSX, talk about recent developments in the MSX community and to sell (or give away) MSX hardware, software and magazines.... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2276.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ SOLID SNAKE INTRO BY WOLF (2004-09-06 00:43:26) Wolf has just released a remake of the Solid Snake introdemo song, which he created in 2002. People who had bought the OPL4 CD which Wolf released at the Tilburg fair in 2003 already had a remastered version of this track. Today, wolf decided to release... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2275.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 31ST NOMINEE (2004-09-06 00:16:37) Takashi Kobayashi of Gigamix Online keeps spotting MSX in the Japanese media. This time he found a picture of an MSX computer in a Playstation magazine, Zapure (ThePlaystation). The editor of the magazine spotted two MSX computers at this TVgame exposition... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2274.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ GOLVELLIUS 1 AND 2 MAPS (2004-09-05 23:46:22) On MSX Maps you can find several maps of MSX games. Recently the maps to Golvellius 1 and Golvellius 2 were added to their colelction of maps. If you got stuck in one of these Compile RPG classics, these maps might help you out. Relevant link: MSX... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2273.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 30TH NOMINEE (2004-09-05 23:32:31) Takashi Kobayashi of Gigamix Online spotted a report on on Metal Gear 1 for mobile phones in the weekly Japanese Nintendo magazine Famitsu. In the article they asked Hideo Kojima some questions about this upcoming game. Of course, it's impossible not... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2272.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ GENERATION MSX - SEVERAL UPDATES (2004-09-05 23:07:42) Two weeks ago several interesting features were added to Generation MSX, the online database full of information on MSX games and magazines. Last week a few extra features were added. It's now possible to give each game a rating, the country company overview... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2271.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ INTERVIEW WITH KAROSHI CORPORATION ON MOAITECH (2004-09-05 22:15:55) The Spanish MSX Community website MoaiTech have published an interview with Eduardo Rubsy and Jon Cortazar of Karoshi Corporation in the articles section of their website. In the interview, taken by Harrison, Jon and Robsy talk about the history and future... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2270.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ F1 SPIRIT REMAKE - DEMO9 (2004-09-05 22:07:12) A new demo version of the F1 Spirit remake has been released. This new release offers quite some improvements compared to the previous demo, like * Pit Stops * Improved chicanes * Fuel consumption * Improved graphics * After the race results are displayed... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2269.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ STREAM AND GALLFORCE BGM1 BY HACKURL (2004-09-04 00:38:37) Source: VGM or Chiptune News The Japanese composer Hackurl released two interesting songs: an MSX+SCC version of 'Stream', a song from Konami's Castlevania 3 and an arrangement of one of the BGMs of Gall Force (subtitled PSG Power). Both are well worth... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2268.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MRC BOUNCE CHALLENGE - 6TH ENTRY BY IC (2004-09-02 01:47:16) IC has just sent us another entry to the MRC Bounce Challenge: Vector Scroll. Although this entry was meant to be their second entry to the challenge, they managed to finish this one before they finished their initial idea. This means that apart from... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2267.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MESS 0.86 (2004-09-01 12:02:49) A few days ago a new version of MESS, the Multiple Emulator Super System based on MAME was released. As usual, this version incorporates all changes which were made to the latest version of MAME and some emulation specific changes. As for MSX emulation,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2266.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ DOWNLOADS TOP 10; AUGUST 2004 (2004-09-01 00:08:05) It's the first of September, so lets have a look at which files have been downloaded the most in August 2004. As usual, new releases are doing very well. In this month, the following 10 files were downloaded the most: * 01. Zero Gravity (126 downloads) *... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2265.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
