Dear readers, This automated two-weekly email message contains the MSX Resource Center news summary dating from Nov 01, 2004 until Nov 15, 2004. In these two weeks 44 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ NEAR DARK OPENS WEBSITE (2004-11-14 14:04:07) This year Near Dark returned to the MSX Scene by releasing Happy 10th birthday Soepfiskje on the 2004 Bussum fair and, later, in the MRC Webshop. As they are planning to release more MSX products in the future, they have just opened a website at . As... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2465.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ AMUSEMENT CENTER'S PLUS! ADDS DISCSTATION SPECIAL 3 (2004-11-14 11:33:04) Amusement Center have just added a new title to Plus!: Compile's Disc station Special 3. Plus! is, together with Project EGG, the place were classic Japanese retro software is being rereleased for PC. Plus! was launched on September 12th. Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2464.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MULTIMENTE 2.07A/K FAT16 PATCH AT OKEI'S (2004-11-14 04:24:59) On the 20th of July Okei updated her website and added a patch for MultiMente 2.07A. In fact it consisted of a bugfix: the dates in MultiMente were not displayed the way they should be. Recently, the same patch for MultiMente 2.07K was released. Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2463.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ TNIASM 0.42 (2004-11-14 00:55:22) tniASM, the popular Z80/R800 cross-assembler for Windows platforms has just had a minor update. Two minor bugs were fixed, while development of the completely rewritten, soon to be released 1.0 version continues steadily. Changes for version 0.42: * Fixed:... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2462.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX SONG WINS BCNPARTY'100 8BIT MUSIC COMPO (2004-11-13 10:44:47) Source: Vorc Last week BCNparty'100 was held in combination with the 26th MSX user meeting of Barcelona. During this party several competitions were held, including an 8 bit Music competition. This competition was won by Xenon (also known as SPL on... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2461.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ C-BIOS - DEVELOPERS WANTED (2004-11-13 10:37:24) It has been a while since we reported about C-BIOS, the open source BIOS compatible with the MSX BIOS. BouKiChi initiated the development from this BIOS, writing it from scratch. The first version was released in August 2002. C-BIOS can be shipped with... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2460.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ GFX9000 LIBRARY 0.5 + FONT PACK (2004-11-12 22:25:15) Marcel Delorme has just released a new version of his GFX9000 library. This library, intended to be used in combination with SjASM, provides a set of routines that can be used to write your own GFX9000 software. The new version contains many new functions,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2459.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS - RELEASE ON MSXJA� 2004 (2004-11-12 11:06:15) Source: MSX Files This weekend the annual MSX fair in Ja�, Brazil will be held. During the fair, SLotman of MSX Files will release a new MSX game based on the 1980's TV show Dungeons and Dragons. In the MSXRio 2004 photoshoot you can already find some... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2458.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 80TH NOMINEE (2004-11-11 20:37:23) The Dutch computer magazine PC Active have published an article on retrocomputing, mentioning MSX. You can see it in the list of nominees to the MSX in the Media Challenge. Did you get or spot MSX in the media? Send the evidence to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2457.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ REVISTA JOGOS 80 (2004-11-11 16:24:01) On this website you can find edition 0 of a new Brazilian retrocomputing magazine called Revista Jogos 80. You can download the magazine, which focuses on all computers of the 1980's, for free in PDF format. The magazine contains reviews of hardware and... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2456.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 79TH NOMINEE (2004-11-11 08:50:04) Takashi Kobayashi of Gigamix Online spotted another nominee to the MSX in the Media Challenge, as he saw a report on the One Chip MSX in Weekly ASCII Magazine. Better yet, MSX made it to the cover of this magazine. The evidence can, as ever, be found... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2455.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ ONE CHIP MSX AT PLD WORLD PHOTOSHOOT BY ASCII (2004-11-11 08:42:32) On the official MSX Magazine website a small photoshoot of the ASCII/MSX Association stand at Altera PLD World 2004 can be found. Although most of the pictures focus on the One Chip MSX, the booth also contained ASCII's MSX Magazines, the MSX Game Reader... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2454.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSXPLUG FOR FOOBAR2000 - BETA (2004-11-11 08:26:07) Source: VGM or Chiptune News A new beta version of MSXPlug for foobar2000 has just been released. This plugin, based on MSXPlug 2004-10-29 allows you to play KSS, BGM, BGR, MSG, MPK, OPX and MBM files in the popular media player foobar2000. Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2453.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BOMBAMAN CHALLENGE - AND THE PRIZES ARE... (2004-11-10 10:54:22) Two weeks ago we announced the Bombaman Level Edit Challenge, a co-operation between Team Bomba, Sunrise and MRC. As with every challenge you can win some cool prizes by joining. When you send in a valid set of levels to [EMAIL PROTECTED] you can win... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2452.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSXART'04 - STATUS UPDATE (2004-11-10 10:27:09) On August 19th the MSX games box announced MSXArt'04. This wallpaper designing contest closes on January 12th, 2005. At the moment six wallpapers have been submitted, which will be disclosed once the contest is closed. If you'd like to join in on this... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2451.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX REVIEW 2 - ENGLISH (2004-11-09 20:28:57) On October 22nd MSX Review 2 was released. This free Spanish MSX Magazine in PDF format tries to bring the highlights of the latest MSX news, including reviews of (upcoming) software. As of today the most interesting articles of MSX Review 1 and MSX Review... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2450.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ METAL GEAR SOLID 3: PREVIEW - 6 TRAILERS (2004-11-09 19:31:36) On the Hong-Kong based gaming webshop Lik Sang a preview of the upcoming Metal Gear game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater can be found. The Japanese and American versions of this much anticipated game will be released within two weeks. You can order both... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2449.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ ONE CHIP MSX1 - A CLOSER LOOK (2004-11-09 12:14:29) Gigamix Online have just posted an article on the One Chip MSX1 containing several close-up pictures and some extra information. The pictures were taken during the MSX Meeting in Minakan, which was held on November 8th. The first thing that strikes... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2448.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ POLKA 1.1 (2004-11-09 11:24:19) Wolf has just released a small but nonetheless nice update for the SCREEN 2 & 4 tile editor Polka. This editor is of great use to MSX1 and MSX2 developers and is particularly interesting to those who would like to create their own tilesets for the universal... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2447.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ OBSONET PRESENTATION PHOTOSHOOT (2004-11-09 11:15:59) The ObsoNet website has been updated with a photoshoot of the presentation of Obsonet during the 26th MSX RU in Barcelona. For these pictures and more information on this upcoming ehternet device for MSX, please visit the ObsoNet website. In this forum... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2446.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ COMPLETE POPCORN (2004-11-09 11:12:13) Source: ActiveMSX The Japanese MSX group POPCoRN have released a CD-ROM called Complete POPCoRN on which contains all MSX software POPCoRN has released in the past 10 years. Apart from this software the CD also contains some Audio CD tracks with songs... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2445.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: NOMINEE 74 TO 78 (2004-11-09 11:06:32) Once again, five more nominees to the MSX in the Media Challenge have been added to the list of nominees. PC and Parts, Gameguru Media and Videogamenews decided to join the list of media that reported about the One Chip MSX while the HCC-GG Magazines... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2444.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ DIGITAL RETRO BOOK (2004-11-07 13:25:16) Source: CVML This Digital Retro coffee table book with 192 pages and 350 photos, tells you about 44 different computers build in the seventies and eighties. This book reveals the inspiration that lead to the creation of those machines, why there were... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2443.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX TOP SECRET 2 (2004-11-07 09:35:47) Source: MSXFiles In May we reported about MSX Top, who had released an MSX development guide in Portuguese called MSX Top Secret in 1996. At the time of writing, MSX Top were already working on MSX Top Secret 2. As of today, MSX Top Secret 2 is on... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2442.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ ILLUSION CITY ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE 0.4 (2004-11-06 02:58:21) Source: MSX Mailinglist A month ago A&L Software released version 0.3 of the English and Portuguese translation of Illusion City. As of today a new version, the MSX Ja� Edition, is available. Changes in version 0.4: * Fixed many translation errors/typos *... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2441.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: NOMINEE 69 TO 73 (2004-11-05 20:26:20) The announcement of the One Chip MSX is still getting more and more attention in the media. After ASCII24, Slashdot Japan, Tweakers.net, Emu.pl, Warp2search, PCM, i4u, Vintage Gaming Network, Hardware12v, Sektori and retrogames.nl 5 more media decided... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2440.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ UNDER THE BANNER BY SYMRAY SCOPIO (2004-11-05 17:09:04) Source: Vorc The Japanese composer Symray Scopio has just released a new, short OPLL based song called Under the Banner. You can listen to his previous songs, all created on MSX, over here. Relevant link: Under the BannerRead more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2439.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MUMEM 0.01A (2004-11-05 16:54:38) Source: Vorc We recently reported about the initial release of MuMem, a tool for creating instrument data for several wave memory soundchips, including Konami's SCC. As of today a new version is available. These are the changes: * Added support for... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2438.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ TRCAS BY MARTOS (2004-11-05 12:00:42) Source: HispaMSX mailing list The possibility of loading tapes in MSXturboR computers has been discussed for ages. As MSXturboR computers don't have a cassette connector it was said that Panasonic FS-A1ST and Panasonic FS-A1GT computers weren't fully... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2437.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BOMB JACK FOR MSX2 STARTS SHIPPING (2004-11-05 11:56:18) Kralizec has just started distributing on-line the faithful conversion of "Bomb Jack" shown at BCN Party. Requirements for this game are MSX2 with 128KB VRAM. You can buy a copy at Kralizec's website for a price of 15 Euro (shipping costs not included). Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2436.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ GANBARE GOEMON FOR GAMEBOY ADVANCE (2004-11-04 21:58:56) Source: Magic Box Last mont we reported Konami will release Ganbare Goemon for Nintendo DS. Yesterday they announced they will also release Ganbare Goemon (Samurai) part 1 and 2 on Nintendo GBA. The GBA version will be released on December 31st. Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2435.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ FMSX/S60 1.06A/B (2004-11-04 15:44:53) After a bug had been spotted in the big MSX emulation on Symbian OS topic of our forums JR decided to release a bugfix instantly. Furthermore several improvements that were made to fMSX 2.8 were implemented in this new release. On the fMSX/S60 website... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2434.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ 26TH MSX RU BARCELONA PHOTOSHOOT (2004-11-04 13:54:40) Some time ago, we reminded you of the 26th MSX RU, which was held on the 31st of October. MsxKun was there and took some nice photos. You can watch them at his website. Note that the photos are in black and white on the frontpage, as the site explains,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2433.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX VIEWER AND MSXCG- ENGLISH VERSIONS (2004-11-04 08:53:20) Source: Gigamix Online In the past we have reported several times about MSX VIEWer, a Japanese tool to view MSX BASIC listings. As of today, an English version of this tool is available on this website. The page also contaings MSXCG, a tool to view... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2432.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ PSGCOMP (2004-11-04 08:42:36) Source: Vorc.org On the programmers section of this website you can find several PSG related tools, mainly developed for ZX-Spectrum, but some of them are also suitable for (adaptation to) MSX. Today PSGcomp was added to this section, a tool that compares... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2431.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: NOMINEE 64 TO 68 (2004-11-03 20:10:21) It is becoming more and more clear that not only the MSX Community is surprised by and interested in the One Chip MSX. After ASCII24, Slashdot Japan, Tweakers.net, Emu.pl, Warp2search and PCM 5 new nominees were added to the list as the following sites... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2430.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BARGAIN 5.40 (2004-11-03 06:49:42) A new version of Bargain, the MSX graphics compression and decompression kit designed for SCREEN 5 to 12 has just been released. New in this version: * Improved functionality on European MSX2 computers * Various speed optimizations * Switching from drive... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2429.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ DUTCH MSX RESOURCE CENTER - NEWS ARCHIVE COMPLETELY TRANSLATED (2004-11-03 00:03:57) As of today our complete news archive is available in Dutch on http://nl.msx.org/. All 2.200 newsposts that were posted on the MRC so far have been translated to Dutch by a dedicated team of volunteers, only two weeks after breaking the 2.000 translations... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2428.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 63RD NOMINEE (2004-11-02 16:43:54) The Dutch computer magazine PCM have published an article on the One Chip MSX on their website. The article will probably be published on other VNUnet media, including magazines. You can see it in our list of nominees. Did you get or spot MSX in the... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2427.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ AMUSEMENT CENTER'S PLUS! ADDS DISCSTATION SPECIAL 1 (2004-11-02 16:15:19) As of today another MSX title has been re-released on Plus!: Compile's Disc station Special 1. Plus! is, together with Project EGG, the place were classic Japanese retro software is being rereleased for PC. Plus! was launched on September 12th. Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2426.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 62ND NOMINEE (2004-11-02 16:03:28) More and more computer media are finding out it's cool to report on the One Chip MSX as the large allround computer news website Warp2search joins the club. Their newspost on the One Chip MSX was added to the list of nominees of the MSX in the Media challenge.... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2425.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 61ST NOMINEE (2004-11-02 01:36:06) The announcement and demonstration of the One Chip MSX1 is getting more and more attention in the media. After ASCII24, Slashdot Japan and Tweakers.net the Polish Emulation site emu.pl decided to report on the topic as well. You can find the evidence... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2424.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 60TH NOMINEE (2004-11-01 22:10:19) It took a while, but it looks like the MSX Revival is finally starting to get the attention in the larger Western media. Today, the Dutch news website Tweakers.net reported on the One Chip MSX, which was demonstrated and announced on PLD World 2004. You... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2423.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ DOWNLOADS TOP 10; OCTOBER 2004 (2004-11-01 00:05:21) It's the first of November, so lets have a look at which files have been downloaded the most in October 2004. Entries to the Bounce Challenge practically dominate the top 10 this time, but other new releases got quite some downloads as well. In this month,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2422.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
