Dear readers, This automated two-weekly email message contains the MSX Resource Center news summary dating from Mar 18, 2005 until Apr 01, 2005. In these two weeks 49 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ APRIL FOOLS! (2005-03-31 23:59:55) Dear MRC visitors, We have seriously pulled your leg. On March 28th we reported IGN had acquired the MSX Resource Center. Nothing could be further from the truth. It was a 100% genuine April fools joke. For those unfamiliar with the term 'April fools':... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2863.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ DISK-MANAGER 0.10 (2005-03-31 00:39:01) Rudolf Lechleitner released a new version of Disk-Manager, a tool which can be used to browse and alter the contents of disk images. This release adds drag&drop support and fixes a bug which prevented Disk-BASIC and MSX-DOS from accessing some files. Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2862.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX SOLUTIONS - UPDATE (2005-03-30 01:29:17) The MSX Solutions website has been updated. This time a map of Taito's all-time classic Arkanoid II - Revenge of Doh was added to its downloads section. Relevant link: MSX SolutionsRead more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2861.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ YS2 BATTLE BGM BY HACKURL (2005-03-30 00:30:12) Hackurl released two new songs today, one of which is MSX related: a re-arrangement of the battle BGM of Falcom's legendary RPG YS 2 - The Final Chapter. The other song is a re-arrangement from the Famicom (NES) version of Vampire Killer (Castlevania). Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2860.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ TWINBEE BGM BY MAD (2005-03-30 00:25:18) MAD released an MSX inspired song once again. This time, MAD released MIDI (Roland SoundCanvas-55) recording of the BGM to Konami's shooter Twinbee. You can find it, and many other MSX inspired song on the MAD Music studio website. Relevant link: MAD... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2859.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ UNIVERSMSX BACK ONLINE (2005-03-29 09:51:52) Taken offline a fews weeks ago, The French site UniversMSX is now back online and hosted on The MSX Games bOX until the old domain name issue gets solved. Though all posts and members registration details of the message board were lost, all French speaking... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2858.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ GENERATION MSX - UPDATE (2005-03-28 23:59:19) The online MSX software information portal Generation MSX has been updated with the following: * Company info screen * New search engine * New software info pages * More changes A complete list of the changes, in detail, can be found here. Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2857.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ IGN ENTERTAINMENT ACQUIRES MSX RESOURCE CENTER (2005-03-28 23:10:15) After more than 10 years of independence, growth and increasing costs the MSX Resource Center Foundation received an offer we could not refuse. After several weeks of thinking things over we decided to take the next logical, inevitable step in order to... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2856.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ IOMBCC ENTRY 10 (2005-03-28 16:37:15) Earlier today Daniel Vik posted the 10th entry to the IOMBCC (International Obfuscated MSX-BASIC Code Contest) in our forums. This new entry, Rally-X is quite a spectacular racing game, created in just a few lines of BASIC. If you're wondering what's... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2855.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ CHOROQ WORKS (2005-03-28 15:54:20) Source: Magic Box On May 26th, Takara Toys is to release a new ChoroQ game. Although the game is quite different from ChoroQ for MSX, its graphics are still quite recognizable. Over here you can find a preview of the game, which will feature several... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2854.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MOAI-TECH WEBZINE #1 (2005-03-27 23:25:42) Announced in November 2004, Moai-Tech have just release the very first edition of their new MSX Webzine in English and Spanish on their website. The webzine contains reviews, columns, fair reports and more... Relevant link: Moai-TechRead more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2853.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX EMULATION POLL DOWN, MSX T-SHIRT POLL UP (2005-03-27 17:53:39) We have just closed down the poll in which we asked our visitors: Which is your favorite MSX emulator? The results of this poll, to which 112 unique visitors cast their votes, is as follows: * blueMSX (46.43%) * openMSX (29.46%) * NLMSX (9.82%) * RuMSX... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2852.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ 100 NEWSPOSTS WITHIN ONE MONTH (2005-03-27 17:35:03) Yup, you have read it correctly: another MRC milestone. For the first time in history no less than 100 newsposts were posted within one single month, making March 2005 the most active MSX News month on the MRC ever. And they thought MSX was dead... Of... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2851.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ HI-TECH HIPPIES AND COMMISSION BY MAD (2005-03-27 17:22:39) The Japanese composer MAD has once again released several new compositions at the same time, two of which are in MSX style, using PSG, SCC and OPLL (MSX-MUSIC) sounds. Commission is a re-arrangement of a song from a PC-Engine game, while Hi-Tech hippies... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2850.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSXPR� - UPDATES (2005-03-27 17:15:05) The Brazilian MSX website MSXPR� has recently been updated, adding several new contents to its website such as Expert Cinza/DDplus service manuals, Dossie Expert 3 (a FAQ on the Expert 3), CodEprom (a bit inverter for EPROM burning) and much more. Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2849.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ XANADU NEXT FOR NOKIA N-GAGE (2005-03-27 17:02:50) Source: Magic Box Falcom and Nokia are going to release Xanadu Next for N-Gage in the US on April 11th. This game is a follow-up to the RPG Xanadu, which was released on MSX as well. Relevant link: Xanadu Next previewRead more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2848.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ REDMSX 1.4 (2005-03-27 16:37:45) SLotman of MSX Files released a new version of RedMSX, the MSX emulator based on one of the first versions of blueMSX. New in this release: * CAS support * More mappers supported (to support games like R-Type) * Option to enable/disable sprites collisions *... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2847.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ SUNRISE RELEASE MSX1 COMPATIBLE DRIVER FOR IDE AND CF (2005-03-26 09:47:59) Sunrise have released version 2.40 of the driver for their IDE and Compact-Flash interfaces. As of this version the interface can be used on MSX1 as well. When using this version on MSX1, the system does have the following requirements: * A disk drive *... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2846.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX.BAS - A NEW WEBSITE ON MSX BASIC (2005-03-26 01:49:26) Source: MSX Files A new website completely dedicated to developing software in MSX-BASIC has recently been launched. On this website, called MSX.bas you can find news, a forum, a faq and several downloadable MSX-BASIC listings. A link to this site... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2845.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA CHALLENGE 2: NOMINEE 23 AND 24 (2005-03-25 17:48:51) Laurens Holst (Grauw) sent us no less than 2 scans of MSX getting attention in the media, which both have been added to the list of nominees to the second MSX in the Media Challenge. In both cases it considers articles published in Dutch magazine. In... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2844.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ HANS OTTEN'S MSX INFO PAGES - UPDATE (2005-03-25 14:37:48) The MSX section Hans Otten's website has been updated with a translation of the Russian MSXnet manual. This interesting network was used in educational environments in Russia for many years. More information on it can be found in over here. Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2843.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX HARDWARE WEBSITE - LINK ADDED (2005-03-24 23:10:43) Carlos Maidana informed us about his MSX Hardware website, which contains a lot of information on a wide range of hardware projects from Argentina and several pictures taken on ClubMSX meetings. We've added a link to this website to our links section. Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2842.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ JPRETER (2005-03-24 23:06:35) On the HispaMSX website you can find a new development tool from Fifeton called Jpreter. This MSX-BASIC preprocessor is very similar to, and almost completely compatible with NestorPreter, yet can be used in any JAVA compatible environment. Fifeton... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2841.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX-CLUB WEST-FRIESLAND MEETING - REMINDER (2005-03-24 16:53:01) On April 2nd, 2005 the Dutch MSX computerclub MSX-Club West-Friesland will have their MSX meeting. Like previous meetings there will be some regular activities like * Hard- and software demonstrations * Public Domain archive * Game competition * Technical... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2840.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MRC NO! BUTTON CAMPAIGN (2005-03-24 16:42:37) The upcoming MSX website msx.nu have opened a website about the doubts its webmaster, Patriek Lesparre, has about the integrity of the MSX Resource Center team. If you have similar feelings, the site offers a button you can add to your own website. Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2839.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MULTI CARTRIDGE 1.5 (2005-03-23 23:06:42) Shortly after the release of DSKPro 3.0, Marcos Daniel sent us a new version of Multi Cartridge, which now contains the latest version of DSKPro. Relevant link: Multi Cartridge 1.5Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2838.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BAZIX WEBSITE RENEWED, REVERSE ENGINEERS WANTED (2005-03-23 17:20:59) Bazix, the official representative of MSX Association outside Japan, have updated their website with information on their current and future services, such as the upcoming retrogaming platform WOOMB.net. For this service, many Japanese games are to be... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2837.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ OFFICIAL MSX T-SHIRTS ON SALE (2005-03-23 17:08:03) The MSX Resource Center is proud to announce that, as of now, MSX fans all around the world can pre-order an exclusive and official piece of MSX Merchandize: a nice blue MSX T-Shirt with the characteristic MSX2 bootscreen printed on the front. For only... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2836.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ DSKPRO 3.0 (2005-03-23 16:50:59) Marcos Daniel released a new version of his disk image tool DSKPro. The following things have changed in this version: * User can now change foreground and background color * A nice window effect shows the memory found * Added a small help option * Fixed... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2835.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA CHALLENGE 2: 22ND NOMINEE (2005-03-23 16:34:52) CyberMSX sent us a link to the Nintendo section of the Brazilian gaming portal UOL Jogos, where MSX got mentioned in an article on Konami's Gameboy Advance game 'Mystical Ninja', which belongs to the Ganbare Goemon series. Furthermore the first nominee... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2834.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ AUDIO OVERLOAD 2.04B (2005-03-23 15:42:13) Source: Vorc Richard Bannister, a MacOS developer known for his adaptations of fMSX for MacOS has released a new version of Audio Overload, an all-in-one mediaplayer for MacOS, Windows and Linux which is also capable of playing KSS files. Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2833.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ DIGITAL SOUND ANTIQUES - MOVED (2005-03-23 15:38:36) Source: Vorc Due to hosting problems [OK] was forced to move his Digital Sound Antiques website, which contains the MSXPlug plugin for Winamp and kbMediaPlayer and several other sound-emulation related plugins and sources, to a new location. The most... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2832.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ GORGON (THUNDER FORCE 3) BY MAD (2005-03-22 01:08:56) Only shortly after releasing 4 SCC style songs, Japanese compuser MAD released yet another MSX flavored re-arrangement. This time he took a song called Gorgon from TecnoSoft's Thunder Force 3 and turned it into a PSG/SCC/MSX-MUSIC tune. The result is,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2831.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX HIST�RIA - LINK ADDED (2005-03-21 23:51:31) We have just added a link to a new website to our links section. This new website, MSX Hist�ria offers images of cartridge labels for download. With these, people can restore their original cartridges in case the labels were damaged. At the moment you... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2830.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ OPENMSX TCL CHEAT FINDER 0.3 (2005-03-21 18:04:12) Vampier has released the source code to a cheat finder for openMSX in the MRC forums. With this TCL script, you can quickly find data you'd like to change in a game (such as the amount of lives available). The complete source code and several cheats can... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2829.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ NEKOLAUNCHER OPENMSX 0.1 (2005-03-21 02:44:36) Source: msx-emu mailinglist Nekolauncher is a new launcher for openMSX running on MacOSX. The launcher offers all basic features needed to run MSX games from disk or ROM images. You can also get a pre-compiled version of openMSX for MacOSX at this... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2828.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ POKE -1,170'S AIRWAVES #7 (2005-03-20 23:57:40) As of today the seventh edition of POKE -1,170's Airwaves is online. This radioshow, broadcast on Enschede FM is - like the fourth episode of this retro radio show - completely dedicated to the MSX computer system. Not only does POKE play several songs... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2827.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MRC MOVES TO DEDICATED WEBHOSTING (2005-03-20 21:59:10) As of today the MSX Resource Center is hosted from a dedicated webserver in Germany. Due to increasing downtime and slowdowns at our previous ISP and other bad experiences with shared webhosting, we decided to take the next step: a single webserver completely... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2826.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ PALETTE EDITOR (2005-03-19 23:32:52) Today, BiFi released a nice tool for MSX2 and higher called Palette editor. With this tool you can alter the palette of the MSX2 to your own liking (of to one of the presets) in order to make games that don't change the palette (at least all MSX1 games)... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2825.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX ASSEMBLY PAGES - UPDATE (2005-03-19 01:18:34) Laurens Holst has updated the MAP (MSX Assembly Pages), adding some important missing information to the MSX I/O ports overview document. Now the memory mapper, PPI (including primary slot select register) and the subslot select register are documented... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2824.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BLUEMSX 2.2 (2005-03-19 00:17:06) BlueMSX, the MSX Emulator Comparison chart leader, has been updated to version 2.2. Changes in this version are: * addition of a keyboard editor * introduction of a plugin structure that allows adding external programs (dll's) * debugger and trainer... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2823.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ 4 NEW SCC STYLE SONGS BY MAD (2005-03-18 17:41:17) MAD has released four songs created with SCC and PSG sounds: Legend of Silpheed (from Silpheed, PC8801), Green Hill Zone (from Sonic the Hedgehog, Sega Megadrive), a BGM from Super Mario (NES) and an arrangement of the song Nanga Def? (from Technodon,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2822.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ GREATEST DRIVER ON PROJECT EGG (2005-03-18 17:35:06) Amusement Center have re-released T&E Soft's MSX2 racing game the Greatest Driver in Project EGG. On Project EGG Japanese citizens can buy this and many other retrogames previously released for MSX and various other platforms. Relevant link: Greatest... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2821.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ OPENMSX 0.5.1 WITH DEBUG EXTENSION FOR WIN32 (2005-03-18 15:41:12) Boukichi has released a pre-compiled Win32 binary of openMSX 0.5.1 which contains the debug extension he released earlier this week. This way, all you have to do is replace the executable file of your normal openMSX 0.5.1 in order to give Boukichi's debug... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2820.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ FUDEBROWZER CONFIGURATION FILE - UPDATE (2005-03-18 15:38:00) One of the most well known utilities for the multitasking UNIX OS for MSX (UZIX) is FudeBrowZer: a genuine webbrowser for MSX1 and higher. To accomplish this, FudeBrowZer relies on so-called WILD (WWW Intelligent Lowsizer Daemon) servers that pre-processes... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2819.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ TETRINET - SOURCE CODE (2005-03-18 15:19:20) Ricardo Bittencourt has released the sourcecode to his MSX version of Tetrinet on the msx-rb yahoogroup. The file is, amongst others, only available to members of this group. You can join the group by following the instructions on the msx-rb website. Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2818.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BITWISE WEB HQ UPDATED (2005-03-18 14:57:51) The Bitwise Web HQ has been updated, adding two new features: A contact form and an order form for BombJack and future products to be distributed by Bitwise. Apart from this a few improvements were made to the layout and code of the website. Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2817.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ IOMBCC ENTRY 9: PRIME NUMBERS (2) (2005-03-18 01:32:16) Earlier of this week we added 3 entries to the IOMBCC (International Obfuscated MSX-BASIC Code Contest) to our downloads database. One of these entries was Prime numbers, by Daniel Vik, a oneliner that caculates prime numbers. As of now, you can another... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2816.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ PTXTOOLS (2005-03-18 01:02:47) Source: VGM or Chiptune news Sergey Bulba released a new package of PT2/PT3 tools for both MSX and ZX-Spectrum called PTxTools. In this package you can find the following tools: * PT2 player * PT3 player * Universal PTx player * UniSearch * PT2time *... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2815.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ MSX mailing list ([email protected]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
