Dear readers, This automated two-weekly email message contains the MSX Resource Center news summary dating from Jul 01, 2004 until Jul 15, 2004. In these two weeks 22 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 IN THE MEDIA: 9TH NOMINEE (2004-07-14 13:46:13) The Japanese newspaper Nikkan Kougyou Shinbun (Daily Industrial Newspaper) published an article on the MSX Game Reader today. Takashi Kobayashi, webmaster of Gigamix Online spotted it and put a scan of the article online on his weblog over here. The Nikkan... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2132.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MESS 0.84 (2004-07-13 15:17:50) MESS, the Multiple Emulator Super System based on Arcade-emulator MAME has been updated to version 0.84. In the new version, all improvements that were made to MAME 0.84 were implemented, as well as some improvements to Amstrad emulation. Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2131.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ RETRO PC GAME MUSIC ADDS PENNANT RACE 2 AND STARSHIP RENDEZVOUS SOUNDTRACKS (2004-07-13 14:33:52) Source: VGM or Chiptune News Retro PC Game Music streaming web radio are rapidly adding more and more soundtracks of popular computer games to their huge collection of songs which are played randomly or on-demand right here. Recenlty the soundtracks... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2130.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MAD RELEASES 'QUARTH - BGM1' (2004-07-13 14:24:10) Source: Vorc We recently reported about MAD Music Studio, where many arranged versions of MSX game songs are released. Yesterday MAD released a remake of the BGM1 tune of Konami's popular game Quarth. Relevant link: MAD Music StudioRead more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2129.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ RETRO PC GAME MUSIC - STREAMING RADIO UPDATED (2004-07-11 14:47:45) Source: VGM or Chiptune News Retro PC Game Music have updated their playlists with the soundtracks of another two MSX games: Usas and Knightmare. Retro PC Game Music broadcasts video game songs from many platforms like MSX, X68000, PC-8801, PC-9801,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2128.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ PYRAMID QUEST (2004-07-11 14:33:07) Source: MRC Forum In this forum thread Crappysoft announced 'Pyramid Quest'. It is a nice MSX1 platformgame, written in MSX-BASIC but with the use of some ASM routines. The speed of the game is rather slow, but it has a nice intro and for a BASIC game,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2127.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ PUCRUNCH DECOMPRESSOR FOR Z80 (2004-07-11 00:27:58) Jussi Pitkänen (ccfg) has ported the Pucrunch decompressor to Z80. You can read more about it at his homepage. Relevant link: Pucrunch decompressor for Z80 Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2126.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSXDEV'04 ENTRY: T-VIRUS (2004-07-10 01:51:55) Another finished MSX game is now available at the MSXdev'04 contest list: T-Virus, coded by Dioniso, who also participated in MSXdev'03 with PENGUIN RACE. T-VIRUS is an excellent shoot'em-up with cartoonish graphics, fast action and incredible music... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2125.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ DRAGONSLAYER 6 'WORLD-THEME' (2004-07-09 22:08:15) It's a real treat when every now and then, longtime MSX composers such as Wolf and Low_Profile surprise us with a cool arrangement of a famous MSX tune we can all whistle along to. You probably all remember the Dragonslayer 6 intro Wolf did last year. This... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2124.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSXDEV'04 ENTRY: EAT BLUE! 2004 (2004-07-09 21:57:12) MSXdev'04 is a mini-game development competition to promote new games for the first generation of MSX computers. MSXKun, leader of PAXANGA SOFTWARE, has submitted his entry to MSXdev'04. It is called 'Eat Blue! 2004' and can be downloaded from the MSXdev'04... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2123.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MAD RELEASES 'SNATCHER [THEME OF ENDING]' (2004-07-09 21:26:48) Source: VORC Just a few weeks ago, we added a link to the MAD Music Studio. On this website you can find a large collection of often MSX inspired tunes. The composer obviously likes chiptunes and at the moment, he is very active adding many songs to... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2122.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ SHALOM (KNIGHTMARE 3) WALKTHROUGH (2004-07-08 12:29:51) MSX Review have added a walkthrough of the Konami game Shalom to the Miscellaneous section of their website. The walkthrough is written in Spanish and contains useful maps of the game. Shalom, originally only available in Japanese, is currently being... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2121.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ #MSX ON IRC.MSXALL.COM (2004-07-07 22:33:31) Julio Marchi of msxall has started an MSX chat channel on his own IRC server, after the afternet network (on which the popular Brazilian MSX channel was located) had been down for several days. The new IRC server is intended to be used solely for the... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2120.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ INTERNESTOR LITE 0.4 (2004-07-07 22:28:32) Nestor Soriano released a new version of InterNestor Lite, his toolkit which allows you to connect your MSX running MSX-DOS to the internet. Furthermore, InterNestor lite allows you to code your own internet applications. New in this version: * Reduced... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2119.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSXRIO 2004 POSTPONED (2004-07-07 06:31:16) Source: MSXFiles We recenlty announced the 2004 edition of MSXRio 2004 would be held on the 30th and 31st of July this year. However, due to several circumstances, the fair was postponed to the 27th, 28th and 29th of August. Relevant link: MSXRio... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2118.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ 5 YEARS OF MSXFILES (2004-07-07 06:20:44) The Brazilian MSX community website MSXfiles celebrates it s 5th anniversary. What started as an overview of rare MSX software has become a bi-lingual (Brazilian Portuguese and English) news-portal where a lot of MSX news, mainly considering the Brazilian... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2117.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ GRADIUS 2 MANUAL IN PORTUGUESE (2004-07-05 01:46:04) After translating the Gradius 2 introdemo to Portuguese, Ricardo Bittencourt has also translated the manual of this marvellous Konami game, also known as Nemesis 2, to Portuguese. As recently was discovered in this forum thread, the 17 year old game still... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2116.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ FMSX/S60 1.03A/B (2004-07-04 19:35:02) A new version fMSX/S60 has just been released. Shortly after the release of fMSX/60 1.02a/b a bug in the State Saving routines was found and reported in the Symbian Emulator forum-thread. In this thread, which was the beginning of the development of fMSX/S60,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2115.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX NBNO FAIR CANCELED? (2004-07-04 16:07:47) Source: MSX Mailinglist MSX NBNO sent some sad news to the MSX Mailinglist today. They have announced that the two persons who were responsible for organizing the MSX NBNO fairs, held in Oss in January of each year, have decided not to organize new... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2114.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MNBIOS - SECOND DEMO VERSION ADDED TO DOWNLOADS DATABASE (2004-07-02 18:09:42) Today we have added the second demo version of the new MSX Operating System, MNBIOS, to our downloads database. As the current version of the OS only supports the Talent DPF-550 disk drive, this demo version comes completely packaged with openMSX, so... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2113.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ FMSX/S60 1.02A/B (2004-07-01 21:29:19) 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 Symbian 6.1 based phones Nokia 3650, Nokia 7650 and Nokia N-Gage (QD) and a b-version for the... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2112.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ DOWNLOADS TOP 10; JUNE 2004 (2004-07-01 11:25:52) It's the first of July, so lets have a look at which files have been downloaded the most in June 2004. In this month, the following 10 files were downloaded the most: * 01. Vscreen (113 downloads) * 02. Bet your life (96 downloads) * 03. 01 - Dopefish... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2111.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
