Dear readers, This automated two-weekly email message contains the MSX Resource Center news summary dating from Sep 17, 2004 until Oct 01, 2004. In these two weeks 38 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX-CLUB WEST-FRIESLAND MEETING -REMINDER- (2004-09-30 21:47:28) In March we reported about the restart of MCWF after a period of silence. Now, we would like to remind you about the meeting that is going to be held this saturday, the 2nd of october 2004. The meeting will take place in 'Buurtcentrum Risdam' in Hoorn,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2330.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ FMSX/S60 1.05A/B (2004-09-30 21:37:16) A new version of fMSX/S60, the MSX Emulator for Nokia Series 60 cellphones, has just been released. Changes in this version: * Support for game specific emulator save states * Keyboard macros * Minor code speed and size optimizations * Bug fixes * Compressed... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2329.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MNBIOS - THIRD DEMO VERSION (2004-09-30 00:02:25) Flyguille has just released the third demo version of his new Operating System for MSX: MNBIOS. All shell commands are now completely functional. As an added bonus, the OS has now become multilingual, supporting both English and Spanish in one single... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2328.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX FAIR OSS 2005 - ANNOUNCED (2004-09-29 23:15:53) About four months ago we reported it was likely that Oss 2004 had unexpectedly become the last edition of the crowded and interesting newyears MSX meetings in Oss, Netherlands. We based this on information sent to the international MSX mailinglist by... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2327.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ CHKMEM (2004-09-29 23:08:57) Marcos Daniel, the author of Final Copy has sent us a useful tool called CHKMEM. This utility searches every slot of the MSX for available RAM, supporting both memory mappers and MegaRAM. The program tells in which (sub)slot these mappers are and how... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2326.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 47TH NOMINEE (2004-09-29 22:59:04) Salvador Perugorr�a Lorente (spl) visited the 4-day computing event Navarparty and managed to get a lot of attention from the media by being the only visitor of the event who had brought an MSX computer. This got him in the newspaper Diario de Noticias... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2325.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ THE CRISIS OF THOSE AUTHORITIES BY DRMSX (2004-09-29 20:04:19) Source: Vorc DrMSX has released a remake of a song he once created for an MSX adventure game. Originally released as an FM-BASIC song in 1990, the new version of 'the crisis of those authorities' now is available in MGS and MP3 format at his website. Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2324.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 46TH NOMINEE (2004-09-29 19:53:50) On September 22nd Konami announced they were going to release Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake for cellular phones. Like their release of Metal Gear 1 for cellulars, the re-release of this MSX game was bound to get quite some media attention, especially since... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2323.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BITWISE WEB HQ - ONLINE (2004-09-29 19:37:13) Today Bitwise have launched a new MSX website at http://www.msx-universe.com/. Over here you can find information on Bitwise, their upcoming hardware and software and several downloads like a small tutorial on how to do a 16x16 rotation and flyers of... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2322.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ METAL GEAR SOLID 3: SNAKE EATER - TOKYO GAMESHOW 2004 TRAILER (2004-09-29 19:29:26) Source: The Magic Box Just like last year, Konami have been giving a lot of attention to Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater on the Tokyo Gameshow. As could be expected, a new trailer of the game was released, showing many aspects of the game and (unlike... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2321.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ NEO CONTRA - TOKYO GAMESHOW TRAILER (2004-09-29 19:22:43) Source: The Magic Box On March 9th we announced Konami was working on a Playstation 2 sequel of Contra. At the Tokyo Gameshow Konami showed their progress with this trailer. The game will be released in November 2004. Relevant link: Neo Contra trailerRead more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2320.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ RETRO PC GAME MUSIC ADDS ILLUSION CITY SOUNDTRACK (2004-09-29 19:17:45) The ever growing retrogaming music archives of Retro PC Game Music have once again been updated. This time, the soundtrack of Microcabin's Illusion City was added. Unfortunately the songs added were not taken from the MSX, but from the PC-9801 version... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2319.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ ROMLOAD 1.99R (2004-09-28 13:33:50) Albert Beevendorp (BiFi) has just released version 1.99r of ROMLOAD. New in this version: * Added option to disable ROM-image with a hot-key * Added option for second cartridge without a second Sound Cartridge * Added support for BASIC text in ROM It... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2318.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ TETRINET (2004-09-27 19:23:25) Source: MSX Files Ricardo Bittencourt surprises us with Tetrinet, a multiplayer tetris variant, programmed for the MSX1 platform. Next to trying to clear lines as fast as possible, you can also attack your opponent with so called Block Powers. The... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2317.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX-DOS3? (2004-09-27 17:21:51) We've found quite an interesting project announcement at Grauw's web spot. Grauw had the idea of making MSX-DOS3 (as a kind of successor to ASCII's/Microsoft's MSX-DOS and MSX-DOS2), which would at least be MSX-DOS2 compatible. He decided to dedicate... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2316.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 45TH NOMINEE (2004-09-27 01:34:04) Adrian Oboroc (dhau) has managed to get MSX in the media at Clickable Culture. After talking about MSX with the webmaster of this blog, the webmaster decided to write a small article about it, comparing MSX with Xbox. You can see it in our list of nominees. Did... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2315.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ 4 NEW SONGS BY MAD (2004-09-27 01:02:15) Source: VGM or Chiptune News MAD, a Japanese composer using GXSCC to give his songs an MSX-feel released 4 new songs, arranged from the arcade games Parodius Da! and Fantasy Zone. You can get them and many other MSX-inspired songs at his website. Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2314.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ YUMIMIMIX BY HACKURL (2004-09-27 00:58:49) Source: VGM or Chiptune News Hackurl has released yet another MSX inspired song: Yumimimix - Yumimi Henshin. It's a PSG-style remix of a BGM of the SEGA CD game Yumimimix. On Hackurl's website you can find many other songs recorded with or inspired... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2313.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ PRINCESS MAKER 4 - ANNOUNCED (2004-09-24 15:06:11) Source: The Magic Box Gainax have announced they will release a fourth edition of Princess Maker for Playstation 2 in the spring of 2005. The first edition of Princess Maker was released on MSX by Microcabin in 1992. Relevant link: Princess Maker... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2312.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ RETRO PC GAME MUSIC ADDS NEMESIS 3 SOUNDTRACK (2004-09-24 15:02:27) Retro PC Game Music have again updated their playlists. This time, the soundtrack of Konami's Nemesis 3 (Gradius III/Gopher's Ambition Episode II). You can listen to this streaming radio station at http://gyusyabu.ddo.jp:8000/. Most popular mediaplayers... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2311.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ POKE -1,170'S AIRWAVES #1 - NUKE/SPACEMAN (2004-09-24 15:00:21) Source: VGM or Chiptune News A retrocomputing lover from the Netherlands, POKE -1.170, has started an airwaves initiative in which he draws attention to several chiptune and mod composer by dedicating an on-line radio show to them. These shows are... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2310.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MRC UNDER WATER CHALLENGE - RESULTS (2004-09-22 19:10:16) The MRC Under Water Challenge turned out to be a real challenge. Not only was it a challenge for the contestants to finish the entries in time, but getting the results of the jury turned out to be quite tricky. It seems like the wisdom of Edward A. Murphy... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2309.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ FINAL COPY (2004-09-22 14:59:04) In an attempt to create the best copy tool around, Marcos Daniel has just released Final Copy. According to Marcos, this is the best MSX Copier ever, being able to create backups of any Floppy Disk, including their copy protections. At the moment, the... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2308.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ FMPSG2 (2004-09-22 14:39:53) Source: ActiveMSX In December 2003 we reported about the FMPSG CD containing several chiptune songs, including some created on MSX. As the release of this CD turned out to be a success a second part in the FMPSG series was created. It will be released... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2307.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 43RD NOMINEE (2004-09-22 14:36:02) Frederik Boelens and Patriek Lesparre spotted an extraordinary MSX in the Media event on the American TV-station PBS. In their TV show The Video Game Revolution they saw a nice box-shot of Falcom's MSX game Dragon Slayer 6 - The Legend of Heroes. Out... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2306.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 42ND NOMINEE (2004-09-22 14:26:13) MSX seems to be getting more and more attention in the media every month. The 42nd entry to the MSX in the Media challenge was spotted by Takashi Kobayashi of Gigamix Online. In a review of several cellular phones at K-Tai Impress, one of the phones has... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2305.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ METAL GEAR 2: SOLID SNAKE RE-RELEASE ON MOBILE PHONES (2004-09-22 13:53:32) Source: Gigamix Online On August 18th Konami re-released Metal Gear 1 for mobile phones. The re-release, based on the original MSX version of Metal Gear and directed by Hideo Kojima himself, turned out to be a great success. On October 1st the second... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2304.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: NOMINEES 34 TO 38 (2004-09-22 13:37:40) We have just added 5 new nominees to the list of nominees of the MSX in the Media challenge. And in all cases, Konami is responsible for the media attention. 4 well known Gamers websites, The Magic Box, Gamespot, The Snake Soup and Gamespy mentioned... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2303.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BOMBERMAN SPECIAL PATCH - DOWNLOAD (2004-09-20 15:21:56) About a month ago Viejo_Archivero announced working on a patch for Bomberman Special in this forum thread. Now you can not only enjoy the screenshots but play the game with the complete new look yourself as Viejo_Archivero has released an IPS patch for... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2302.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BLUEMSX 1.7.0 (2004-09-20 09:11:49) Version 1.7.0 of blueMSX is available! Although it was announced that no new version of the emulator would be released before november 2004, Daniel Vik and his team have decided to release a version with mainly bugfixes and that can be viewed as the required... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2301.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MDL-LIB 2.2 (2004-09-19 13:15:10) Martijn Dekker of MST (MSX Software Team) has released an updated version of his multi-purpose Pascal library MDL-Lib. The latest version of this Pascal library has been declared public domain and can be downloaded from Hans Otten's pages. The library... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2300.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ REDMSX 1.3 (2004-09-19 13:02:44) Source: MSXFiles A new version of RedMSX, the fMSX based MSX emulator from SLotman has been released. This new version adds support for magnified sprites, supports horizontal scrolling on Screen 4 and Screen 5 and features an useful option to mount... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2299.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ SPACE MANBOW RINGTONE (2004-09-19 12:58:45) Revix station created a ringtone of Konami's classic shooter Space Manbow. In order to listen to the ringtone you'll have to install Midradio first. Relevant link: Space Manbow ringtoneRead more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2298.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX FAIR BUSSUM 2004 PAGE UPDATE (2004-09-18 20:32:42) Three more weeks until Bussum 2004! The list of participants is starting to complete itself and from now on it will be available on this page. If you haven't reserved a booth yet, but are planning to, please let the organisation know as soon as possible.Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2297.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX MAGAZINE 3 ANNOUNCED - HELP WANTED (2004-09-17 23:28:31) After the well-received earlier editions of MSX Magazine, ASCII and the MSX Association have decided to extend the series with a 2004 edition. Currently, a lot of work is going on behind the scenes to once again produce an entertaining issue. As some... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2296.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX USB & VGA CARTRIDGES IN DEVELOPMENT (2004-09-17 23:13:26) Poisonic found an interesting website of this Japanese hardware developer who is working on two MSX related hardware projects: An USB interface for MSX and an VGA-output cartridge for MSX. The challenge of the VGA-output cartridge is to create a cheaper... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2295.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ TNIASM V0.41 (2004-09-17 02:40:34) The New Image released a new version of their cross-assembler for Z80, R800 and Gameboy, called tniASM. Version 0.41 is a small maintenance release, but very helpful for people wanting to use extended ASCII in their source files. A completely rewritten... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2294.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ CYBERGAMBA - WEBSITE WITH MSX GAME MAPS (2004-09-17 01:14:45) Source: Asociaci�n de Amigos del MSX Are you tired of getting lost in that dungeon? Have you lost the sense of north when playing a MSX game? There is nothing to worry about! Just point your browser to this website and you will get maps of games like... 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