Dear readers, This automated two-weekly email message contains the MSX Resource Center news summary dating from Nov 17, 2004 until Dec 01, 2004. In these two weeks 28 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ FINAL COPY 2.3 (2004-11-30 09:48:39) Marcos Daniel has released a new version of 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),... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2496.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ NEMESIS 3, STAGE 10 BGM BY HACKURL (2004-11-29 11:11:50) Source: VGM or Chiptune News Hackurl has just released another re-arrangement of a popular MSX song: the BGM to the 10th stage of Konami's shooter Nemesis 3. On Hackurl's website you can download this and many other MSX-(related) MP3 files. Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2495.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MURUROA DISQUALIFIED AT MRC BOUNCE CHALLENGE (2004-11-28 18:13:07) The results to the MRC Bounce Challenge were quite exciting as they were already, things just got even more interesting. Not only was the TNI Bounce entry moved from first to second place and Sphere from third to fifth due to missing the deadline of the... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2494.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ AMUSEMENT CENTER'S PLUS! ADDS DRAGON QUIZ (2004-11-28 15:39:49) Amusement Center have just added a new title to Plus!: Compile's Dragon Quiz. 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 link: Dragon... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2493.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BOUNCE CHALLENGE - RESULTS (2004-11-28 00:26:30) On July 18th we started the MRC Bounce Challenge. A bit more than 12 weeks later the challenge, which resulted in 15 new MSX software titles, was closed. By then we had already announced the legendary Andr� Ligthart and Martijn Maatjens, who created many... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2492.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MESS 0.89 (2004-11-27 23:18:06) Yesterday 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. Relevant link: MESS... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2491.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MADRISX 2005 ANNOUNCED (2004-11-26 18:23:32) MSX Power Replay have announced MadriSX 2005 will be held on March 5th, 2005, on the same location as previous years: Centro Cultural 'El Greco' in Madrid. Traditionally MadriSX is one of the most internationally focused MSX user meetings of Spain. MSX... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2490.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX CLUB WEST FRIESLAND AND MSX VRIENDENCLUB MARI�NBERG JOIN FORCES (2004-11-24 22:06:25) MSX Club West Friesland and MSX Vriendenclub Mari�nberg have decided to join forces. As of january 2005, the clubs will publish a shared paper clubmagazine. They also have plans for other common projects. The clubmagazine still needs a frontpage. For... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2489.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ VIRTUAL FLOPPY DRIVE MANAGER FOR MSXPLAYER (2004-11-24 16:11:40) Source: Gigamix online Tatsu, known from MSX utilities like MSXForm has released a virtual floppy drive manager for MSXPLAYer. This allows you to run ordinary disk images with MSXPLAYer. This manager allows you to change images during emulation, create... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2488.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ HCV MEETINGS OF 2005 ANNOUNCED (2004-11-24 15:58:26) Shortly after adding the MVM Meetings of 2005 we also received the dates on which HCV de Amsterdammer, originally an MSX only computer club, will hold their meetings on 2005. These dates have all been added to the list of MSX fairs and meetings. If you... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2487.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MNBIOS SHELL SOURCES RELEASED (2004-11-24 15:20:40) Flyguille has released the sources of the SHELL of MNBIOS. To be more specific, this are the sources for the files MSXCOMMAND.EXEC and INSTALL.EXEC which, when combined, make the MNBIOS Interface itself. As the source's format is tokenized, Flyguille... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2486.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BLUEMSX LAUNCHER 1.0 (2004-11-23 17:51:21) Sam Elsharif, fan of blueMSX, has created a nifty launcher called blueMSX Launcher. This is the first launcher developed especially for blueMSX. The program enables blueMSX version 2.0 users to start games by their name rather than by their Rom, Disk... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2485.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ POLKA 1.2 (2004-11-23 09:54:15) Wolf_ released a new version of his SCREEN 2 & 4 editor called Polka. Changes in this release: * Block functions: Copy, Delete and Convert to 'use' * FC/BC swap-button * SME cursors (for rapid editing) * Copy/Paste FC+BC colors * Default directories Polka... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2484.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ ORACLE 1.10 - FREEWARE (2004-11-23 09:45:24) This might sound slightly familiar to regular visitors of the MRC, but as of today the music tracker Oracle has been declared freeware by Sunrise. Oracle, a product created by Fuzzy Logic can be used to create songs for the MSX-MUSIC. It has several interesting... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2483.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BOUNCE MANIA - REVIEW (2004-11-22 02:03:03) On the MSX fair in Bussum, 2004 Darkstone released their first MSX game: Bounce Mania. The purpose of the game? Guiding a bouncing ball through a variety of mazes whilst avoiding obstacles. MRC bought the game and put it to the test. The result is the... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2482.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ CIPHER - FIRST ANNOUCEMENT (2004-11-21 23:10:23) Ramon Verlinden, known from the Dutch MSX group Hegega, has added a new section to his SD-Snatcher fansite, announcing his upcoming RPG for MSX2 called Cipher. Cipher is a cyberpunk RPG, mainly inspired by the two all-time MSX classics SD-Snatcher and... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2481.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BARGAIN 5.41 (2004-11-21 22:11:34) A new version of Bargain, an image compression, decompression toolkit for SCREEN 5 to SCREEN 12 has been released. The new version adds a few more optimizations to the code. Bargain comes with a filebrowser that allows you to compress, decompress and... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2480.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MVM MEETINGS OF 2005 ANNOUNCED (2004-11-21 22:09:24) The Dutch MSX user group MSX Vriendenclub Mari�nberg have announced the dates of the 12 MSX user meetings they will organize in 2005. The dates have been added to our list of MSX fairs and meetings. There will be one more MVM meeting in 2004, to be held... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2479.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MEGARAM EXPANSION - DOCUMENTATION (2004-11-20 23:54:08) MSXpro have published an article from Rudolf Gutlich on how to expand a MegaRAM Disk from 256, 512 or 768kb memory to 1Mb or even 2Mb. The article is completed with pinouts and pictures to make things as easy as possible. Relevant link: MegaRAM expansion... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2478.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ POKE -1,170'S AIRWAVES #3 (2004-11-20 23:43:36) As of today the third edition of POKE -1,170's Airwaves is online. This radioshow, broadcast on Enschede FM is a sequel to Airwaves #2. It contains tunes from the Turrican 2 & 3 saga, played on various platforms. MSX gets mentioned as well, as MRC and... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2477.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MCCW 93 - FINAL ISSUE (2004-11-20 14:28:48) Manuel Bilderbeek, editor-in-chief of MSX Computer & Club Webmagazine, has just published the 93rd and final issue of MCCW. It has been more than 4 years since the release of MCCW 92. Although the project died in the year 2000 there were still several... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2476.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BLUEMSX 2.0 (2004-11-20 11:53:37) As of today a new version of blueMSX is available. The most important new feature in version 2.0 is turboR emulation, including PCM support (only playback) and turboR SRAM. MIDI support is planned for future versions. Another surprising new feature of... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2475.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BOMBAMAN - LEVEL EDITING TUTORIAL ONLINE (2004-11-18 20:40:15) Especially for the Bombaman level edit challenge Team Bomba wrote a quick tutorial that explains how to create your own Bombaman levels in just 10 minutes. As you will find out by reading the tutorial, creating Bombaman levels is really easy. As you can... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2474.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ SOUTHERN KANTOU USER MEETING - NOVEMBER PHOTOSHOOT (2004-11-17 22:19:24) We just reported about a huge collection of MSXJa� 2004 photoshoots. If you can't get enough of those pictures we've got more fresh pictures for you: on Manu's website you can find pictures taken on the Japanese Southern Kantou user meetings throughout... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2473.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX JA� 2004 PHOTOSHOOTS (2004-11-17 21:54:48) MSXPro have just published an enormous amount of pictures taken by no less than 12 photographers during the MSX user meeting which was held in Ja�, Brazil last weekend. You can find them all, categorized by photographer, on this website. Some of the highlights... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2472.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX VIEWER 4.1 (2004-11-17 14:22:45) MarMSX has just released a new version of MSX Viewer, a PC tool to load, edit and convert MSX pictures to different screen modes. New in this release: * Dither 64 and 512 bug fixed * Converting to 16 MSX colors by Fuzzy Logic * Some minor fixes and improvements On... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2471.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ SDCC BACKEND FOR MSXDOS - SUPPORT FOR INTERRUPTS (2004-11-17 13:45:41) A new version of the SDCC backend for MSXDOS, about which we reported before, has just been released. In this version the interrupts can be handled by using the new reserved 'interrupt' syntax and the library of functions for altering, installing and... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2470.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ USER MEETING MSX CLUB WEST FRIESLAND (2004-11-17 02:07:38) Saturday november 27th the MSX Club West Friesland will be holding another user-meeting in the 'Wijkcentrum Risdam', Scheerder 1, 1625 VA, Hoorn. The entry costs 3 euros, and everyone is invited for a nice day of MSXing. For more info and directions to... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2469.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
