Dear readers, This automated two-weekly email message contains the MSX Resource Center news summary dating from Oct 18, 2004 until Nov 01, 2004. In these two weeks 34 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ MAZE - FIRST PERSON MAZE DEMO BY XL2S (2004-10-31 21:15:58) GhostP of xl2s Entertainment released a demo version of a first person maze engine (similar to Wolf3D) for MSX. After a discussion on our forums on the subject, GhostP came up with this demo. You can walk around in the maze, slide and change color schemes.... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2421.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX GAMERS WANT RPGS, MSX REVIVAL POLL UP (2004-10-31 15:56:41) On October 1st we started a new poll, asking what kind of games you'd like to see on MSX. About one month and 106 votes later, here are the results: * 01. RPGs (Role Playing Games) (20.75%) * 02. Action games (14.15 %) * 03. Platform games (13.21%) *... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2420.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: NOMINEE 58 AND 59 (2004-10-31 15:38:15) When ASCII and MSX Association announced the return of MSX on PLD World 2004 it was bound to get some serious media attention in Japan. Nominee 58 and 59 of the MSX in the Media Challenge are none other than the huge Japanese news portals ASCII24 and... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2419.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MUMEM (2004-10-31 15:24:47) Source: VGM or Chiptune News A Japanese developer called Hexl25 released a utility called MuMem which is a tool for creating instrument data for wave memory soundchips like the HuC6280 of the PC-ENGINE, the Namco106 sound chip of the NES and Konami's... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2418.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ ONE CHIP MSX1 AT PLD WORLD 2004 - FIRST REPORT (2004-10-30 00:46:16) As we had already announced several times, ASCII and MSX Association held a demonstration and lecture on the upcoming One Chip MSX1 computer at PLD World 2004 yesterday. In a report on ASCII24 we can find an extensive review of the demonstration and lecture,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2417.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ 26TH MSX USER MEETING BARCELONA - REMINDER (2004-10-30 00:08:41) Today and tomorrow the 26th edition of the Aamsx MSX User Meeting in Barcelona will be held. During this fair a quick programming contest will be held. The objective? To code a game inspired by Arkanoid before 12:00 without using any MSX peripherals like... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2416.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ CLS BY UP-SOFT - SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT (2004-10-29 23:51:22) In September 2003 a new MSX game was announced on the NBNO forums. Unfortunately the developers did not manage to finish the game before the annual MSX fair in OSS and for a while it seemed like the project was abandoned. Last month the developers announced... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2415.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSXPLUG 2004-10-29 (2004-10-29 15:29:43) Less than a week after the previous release, Digital Sound Antiques released a new version of MSXPlug, a plugin for WinAmp and kbMediaPlayer which allows you to play several formats of MSX songs on PC. New in this version: * Fixed a problem which caused... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2414.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BOMBAMAN CHALLENGE (2004-10-28 15:20:25) After the Snowfall challenge, the Under Water Challenge and the Bounce Challenge the time has come to start a new MSX development Challenge. This time MRC has teamed up with Team Bomba and Sunrise in the Bombaman Challenge. Now, obviously you will... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2413.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ FIREBIRD BGM BY HACKURL (2004-10-27 19:21:52) Source: VGM or Chiptune News Hackurl has released an PSG/MSX-MUSIC/SCC version of the main theme of Konami's Firebird (Hinotori). You can find it, like many other MSX inspired songs, on Hackurl's website. Relevant link: HackurlRead more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2412.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ YS VI FOR PLAYSTATION 2 - TRAILER (2004-10-27 15:22:16) Source: Magic Box In December 2003 we reported Konami had licenced the Falcom game YS VI - The Ark of Napishtim for a worldwide (English) release on Sony Playstation 2. As of today, the first trailer of this English version is available right here Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2411.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ WAVER 3 - BETA TEST (2004-10-27 15:00:13) Eduardo Robsy of Karoshi Corporation released a Karoshi Games Collection as a test for his high-speed cassette loading tool WAVeR 3. In December 2002 Robsy released WAVeR 2.0, which made it possible to load games through the cassette port at -for cassette-... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2410.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ METAL GEAR 1 - ENGLISH RETRANSLATION (2004-10-27 14:34:36) On November 30th Joy Division, the team behind the Metal Gear Origin plans, announced they would like to re-translate Konami's all-time classic Metal Gear as the English version originally released by Konami missed a lot of detail and contailed quite... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2409.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX ASSOCIATION AT PLD WORLD 2004 - MORE DETAILS (2004-10-26 18:33:41) On September 10th we reported ASCII and MSX Association are going to demonstrate the One Chip MSX on Altera's event PLD World 2004. Last week we could already give you a first peek at the One Chip MSX. As of today some more information was released on... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2408.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ METAL GEAR 2: THEME OF SOLID SNAKE REMAKE BY J-WAR (2004-10-26 13:00:59) J-War just finished the second version of the rearrangement of "Metal Gear 2 Theme Of Solid Snake" (Opening Bgm 1). The first version of this arrangment was released by J-War three years ago. You can download the new arrangement from J-War's remakes page... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2407.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ JAPAN 1998 PHOTOSHOOT (2004-10-26 01:52:15) In 1998 three members of the MSX group Fony went to Tokyo, Japan, experiencing one of the most impressive cities of the world in a search for MSX collectibles. At the time several shops in Akihabara were still loaded with rare Japanese MSX software titles.... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2406.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MEGA DRIVE PLAYTV 6 IN 1 CONSOLE (2004-10-26 00:47:11) Single chip anyone? Since a few days you can order the Mega Drive PlayTV. This small console comes with 6 games and a Mega Drive style Controller. In contrary to all the other TV consoles available , this Mega Drive has real computing power under the... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2405.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ SDCC FOR MSXDOS - NEW VERSION (2004-10-26 00:41:31) SDCC is a C compiler for microcomputers that generates Z80 compatible codem released under the GPL license at Sourceforge. On the website of Avelino you can find a patch for this compiler, which makes the SDCC compiler generate MSXDOS compatible code.... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2404.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSXPLUG 2004-10-25 (2004-10-26 00:29:33) Source: VGM or Chiptune News Digital Sound Antiques has just released a new version of MSXplug, a plugin for WinAmp and KbMediaPlayer that allows you to play several formats of MSX songs on PC. New in this version: * Fixed the problem where the enhanced... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2403.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MRC NEWSLETTER 10 ONLINE (2004-10-25 11:43:11) On April 23rd we sent our 10th newsletter to the people who are subscribed to the MSX Resource Center Newsletter. Today, 6 months later we are going to send the 11th newsletters to our subscribers, which means the previous edition has been added to the... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2402.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ SKOOTER REMAKE - SECOND BETA (2004-10-25 08:12:50) Leandro Correia has just released a second beta version of his Skooter remake. The game is almost completed and, apart from some minor details, the beta version is already fully playable. Further development of the remake will focus on the finishing touch,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2401.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ UP THE LADDER TO THE ROOF BY DRMSX (2004-10-24 17:24:12) Source: Vorc.org DrMSX, known for his high-quality OPLL+SCC+PSG songs for MSX has added a new song to the 157 section of his website. In this section he offers MP3 and MGS downloads of covers he created of songs he likes. Two months ago he released... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2400.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX REVIEW 2 (2004-10-22 20:12:13) On February 19th Manel Collado and Javi�r Perez released the first edition of MSX Review, a full-color MSX Magazine released for free in PDF format. As of today the second edition of MSX Review can be downloaded from their website. The magazine contains... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2399.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ RETROPC GAME MUSIC ADDS SHALOM SOUNDTRACK (2004-10-22 15:11:31) The ever growing retrogaming music archives of Retro PC Game Music were updated with the soundtrack of Konami's Shalom. You can listen to the songs from this game at http://gyusyabu.ddo.jp:8000/. Most popular mediaplayers support streaming radio. Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2398.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MARI�NBERG PHOTOSHOOT - OCTOBER 2004 (2004-10-22 00:31:12) Last saturday the MSX Vriendenclub Mari�nberg held their monthly MSX meeting in Mari�nberg, the Netherlands. A week later than usual, due to the Bussum 2004 fair, it turned out to be a very crowded day. During the day people played games and discussed... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2397.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BOMBAMAN - SECOND UPDATE (2004-10-21 23:05:28) Team Bomba have just released a second update to their popular game Bombaman. It appeared there were still quite some bugs in the custom level mode. When trying to play a custom level that isn't 100% correct (e.g. missing exits, possibility to walk out... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2396.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ HITECH-C MSX-DOS2 TOOLS (2004-10-21 16:02:22) Arnold Metselaar wrote a few interesting tools for Hitech-C, the well-known C compiler for MSX, for use in MSX-DOS2. His tools are available on MSX Banzai! and consist of * CC.COM, a C.COM replacement that ends compilation when an error is found, in stead... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2395.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ POKE -1,170'S AIRWAVES #2 - CHRIS HUELSBECK (2004-10-20 22:31:18) Source: VGM or Chiptune News A month ago POKE -1,170, a Dutch retrocomputing lover active on the MRC forums started an online and offline radioshow on chiptune music. As of today the second edition of his Airwaves show has become available. This show,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2394.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ FINAL COPY 2.2 (2004-10-19 16:29:13) About a month ago Marcos Daniel released Final Copy, one of the best MSX disk copiers ever. Supporting only Brazilian disk interfaces (port-based), this program can create backups of virtually any type of disk (including 360k and 720k 5 1/4" disks), including... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2393.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 57TH NOMINEE (2004-10-19 16:05:27) The Dutch computer magazine PCM have published an article on Bazix and their upcoming MSX activities. You can see it in our list of nominees. Did you get or spot MSX in the media? Send the evidence to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we will add it to the list... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2392.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MESS 0.87 (2004-10-19 15:59:47) 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. In this release no... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2391.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ VOTE FOR TETRINET IN THE 2004 MINIGAME COMPO (2004-10-19 00:41:44) On September 27th Ricardo Bittencourt released Tetrinet, a multiplayer Tetris clone for MSX1. He submitted this game to the 2004 minigame compo. Tetrinet is the only MSX game that entered the competition this year. You can all help promoting MSX by voting... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2390.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ OPENMSX 0.5.0 (2004-10-18 23:29:15) A new edition of openMSX and Catapult, its user-friendly GUI/launcher were just released. The new version of openMSX introduces new functionality, significant speedups and many bugfixes. In this newspost the most important updates are listed, you can... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2389.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ ONE CHIP MSX1 - FIRST PEEK (2004-10-18 12:31:32) Source: Gigamix Online About a month ago we reported MSX Association will demonstrate the first version of the One Chip MSX1 at PLD World 2004 on October 29th. Before this public presentation of the One Chip MSX1 during a large event held and sponsored... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2388.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
