Dear readers, This automated two-weekly email message contains the MSX Resource Center news summary dating from Jun 17, 2004 until Jul 01, 2004. In these two weeks 29 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 FORUMS: 25.000 FORUM POSTS (2004-06-30 15:22:55) Almost exactly one year ago, we celebrated the fact that our MSX forums contained a grand total of 5,000 forum posts. In the months that followed more and more people started to join the discussions, breaking the 10,000 forum posts barrier in October... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2110.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 8TH NOMINEE (2004-06-29 17:05:44) After Sony Corporation a second big Japanese Company enters the MSX in the Media Challenge by mentioning MSX on their website: Yamaha. Yamaha played an important role in the history of MSX, developing the V9938 and V9958 VDPs, the MSX-Audio (Y8950) and... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2109.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ FRANK H. DRUIJFF HEAD OF UNDER WATER CHALLENGE JURY (2004-06-29 14:33:11) Due to several circumstances it took quite a while before we could announce it on the frontpage, but MSX Resource Center is proud to announce that Frank H. Druijff, former editor-in-chief of the Belgian MCM (MSX Club Magazine) and MCCM (MSX Computer &... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2108.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ SHALOM, TWINBEE AND WARROID SOUNDTRACKS ADDED TO RETROPC GAME MUSIC (2004-06-28 19:52:37) Source: VGM or Chiptune News Last week we reported about the Retro PC Game Music website on which an archive of more than 4000 game songs are hosted. These songs can all be requested to be broadcast on the streaming radio station. As of today the soundtracks... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2107.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ VSCREEN 0.8A (2004-06-27 23:16:07) Olivier Hustin has just released a special alpha-version of his Vscreen platform game engine. New features in this version: * New intelligent (somewhat) enemies available which can move around independently in a level. Stop and turn back when they hit... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2106.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ SD-SNATCHER IS THE BEST MSX GAME EVER; NEW POLL UP (2004-06-27 22:30:36) It was a very close call, but after the Best MSX1 game ever, the Best MSX2 game ever and the Most underrated MSX game megapolls we decided the 6 winners of those polls had to compete on a frontpage poll to sort out which MSX game is the very best MSX... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2105.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ UMAX TO FINISH REALMS OF ADVENTURE? HELP WANTED! (2004-06-27 19:44:52) In the late nineties the first part of Umax's massive RPG Realms of Adventure was released. Right from the start it was the intention to release new parts of the RPG periodically, but unfortunately the second part of Realms of Adventure was never finished.... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2104.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ PASCAL LIBRARY SHAPES TEST - MIKIE (2004-06-27 13:06:18) Snatcher-br is developing a Pascal library for MSX that can work with Shapes in Screen 5. The library can control animation frames, visibility (shape on/off), delete shapes. speed. transparency, automatically add points to the score when an enemy is killed... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2103.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSXRIO 2004 (2004-06-27 12:57:22) Source: MSXBr-L mailinglist Recently, the 2004 edition of the anual fair MSXBr-L have been announced. It is going to be held at the SESC Engenho de Dentro (Av. Amaro Cavalcanti, 1661, Engenho de Dentro, Rio de Janeiro), in July, 30th and 31st, (friday... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2102.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ FM TONE EDITOR (2004-06-26 19:13:55) Source: VGM or Chiptune News Boukichi released an FM-Tone editor for OPLL (MSX-Music) and its compatible VCR7 (NES) soundchip. The tone editor also emulates these chips so that you can listen to the tones you are creating. The tones can be exported... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2101.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ RETRO PC GAME MUSIC - STREAMING RADIO UPDATED (2004-06-26 19:09:53) Source: VGM or Chiptune News Retro PC Game Music have updated their playlists with the soundtracks of two MSX games: Nemesis 1 (Gradius) and Dragon Slayer 4 (Draslefamily). Retro PC Game Music broadcasts video game songs from many platforms like MSX,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2100.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MANHATTAN TRANSFER GAME: VAMPIRO (2004-06-26 18:47:24) Source: HispaMSX Mailinglist Eduardo Robsy Petrus re-released the rare MSX game Vampiro, published by Manhattan Transfer: a well known spanish press group that published two different MSX magazines: MSX CLUB and MSX EXTRA, that later got merged. The... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2099.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ POCKETMSX 0.2A (2004-06-26 18:31:30) Source: MSXfiles Sunbug released a new version of their MSX emulator for PocketPC: PocketMSX. The changes in PocketMSX 0.2: * Fixed PSG emulation * Added SCC emulation * Added sound-graphics for PSG and SCC You can get the new version of PocketMSX... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2098.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX RESOURCE CENTER - NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS (2004-06-26 02:41:15) Two months ago MSX Resource Center moved to a new server location, introducing several optimizations, new features and improvements. Today we have performed some more updates. Apart from the usual minor fixes, here are the major changes this time: * You... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2097.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MNBIOS DEMO 2 - CHANGELOG (2004-06-26 01:11:29) Earlier this week flyguille released the second version of MNBIOS. At the time we could not report what changes had been made since the previous demo version. As the list of changes is quite impressive and important, we decided to dedicate another post... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2096.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 7TH NOMINEE (2004-06-26 01:09:44) Shortly after receiving the 6th nomination for the MSX in the Media Challenge, we can announce the 7th one. Again from the Netherlands, this time MSX was spotted in a local newspaper called 'De Vecht' for Amstel/Rijnstreek on the 24th of June, 2004. The... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2095.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 6TH NOMINEE (2004-06-26 00:57:42) Here it is, the 6th nominee for the MSX in the Media Challenge we started on May 2nd 2004. This time, the Dutch computer magazine PC Consument was nominated. In the July/August 2004 edition, MSX is mentioned in an article about retro gaming, mainly dealing... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2094.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ TRANSLATION OF ALESTE TO BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE (2004-06-25 10:55:18) Luiz H. Lugato created a Brazilian Portuguese translation of Compile's popupar game Aleste. On his website you can find a (ASCII 16k) ROM file of the translated version. Relevant link: Aleste Portuguese translation website Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2093.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 5TH NOMINEE (2004-06-24 17:18:11) On May 2nd 2004 we started the MSX in the Media Challenge. The objective: to get and/or spot MSX in media like TV programs, Newspapers, Magazines and Websites that usually don't report about MSX. Even though the challenge, which runs for a year, has just... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2092.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSXPC 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - REVIEW (2004-06-24 13:08:39) Source: Gigamix Online On this website a small review of the 20th Anniversary MSXPC can be found. This MSXPC is a computer of which all components (motherboard, harddisk, memory etc.) are fit into the keyboard. The machine comes with an MSX Game Reader... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2091.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ DRAGON QUEST VIII (2004-06-23 15:25:53) Source: Gamespot Square/Enix, well known from their Final Fantasy games, will release the Japanese version of Dragon Quest VIII for Playstation 2 this winter. An American release, Dragon Warrior VIII, will follow in 2005. The first two editions of... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2090.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MNBIOS - SECOND DEMO VERSION (2004-06-22 21:42:41) Today a new demo version of MNBIOS was released. MNBIOS is a new OS for MSX which adds several interesting features, like multitasking and long filenames. This new OS increases the capabilities of the MSX2 hardware without the need of directly addressing... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2089.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ FMSX/S60 1.01A/B (2004-06-21 18:40:39) Today a new version of the MSX emulator for Nokia Series 60 phones, fMSX/S60, was released. As usual, the emulator comes in two flavors, an a-version for the Nokia 3650, the Nokia 7650 and the Nokia N-Gage and a b-version for the Nokia 6600. It is not... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2088.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX HARDWARELIST WEBSITE (2004-06-20 14:19:50) Yesterday, Alex Wulms launched a new online version of the MSX Hardwarelist. The new version is database-driven which gives quite a lot of advantages over the static HTML hardwarelist that can be found here. At the moment the database-driven MSX Hardwarelist... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2087.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ LIGHTEST MSX IN THE WORLD (2004-06-20 13:39:58) Source: Gigamix Online After a search for the Smallest MSX in the world , Gigamix has now started a quest for the lightest MSX in the world. To prevent the Nokia 6600 running fMSX/60 from winning both competitions they have added one requirement: the... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2086.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ SPRESIANO RETROCOMPUTING 2004 ADDED TO FAIRLIST (2004-06-18 13:45:48) On sunday the 11th of july 2004, the annual Spresiano Retrocomputing will be held. It's not an MSX-only event, but previous years have shown the meeting gives a lot of attention to MSX. During the day, people can watch and play old and new demos and games... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2085.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ SJASM V0.39C2 (2004-06-17 23:54:26) There's a new release of SjASM, the xl2s Z80 cross assembler. New since version 0.39c2: * More freedom with character constants; in some cases it's possible to use double quotes... * It's now possible to specify include paths at the command line. *... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2084.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ KBMEDIA PLAYER VERSION 2.34 BETA10 (2004-06-17 23:34:41) Source: VORC KbMediaPlayer which supports OPX and, when using the MSXPlug plugin, KSS, BGM, MPK and MGS formats, has been updated to version 2.34 beta 10. Relevant link: KbMediaPlayer websiteRead more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2083.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MESS *NIX AND WIN32 0.83 (2004-06-17 23:21:02) Both the *nix and Win32 ports of MESS, the Multiple Emulator Super System which also emulates MSX, are updated to version 0.83. MESS can be downloaded from here. Relevant link: Official MESS homepageRead more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2082.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
