Dear readers, This automated two-weekly email message contains the MSX Resource Center news summary dating from Oct 01, 2004 until Oct 15, 2004. In these two weeks 47 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ SKOOTER REMAKE - FIRST BETA VERSION (2004-10-14 18:41:18) Remakes of MSX games seem to be growing in popularity lately: Leandro Correia just released the first beta version of his Skooter remake. All collisions with enemies and blocks are done, graphics are for 99% finished. The only thing missing is different... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2379.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MNBIOS 3RD DEMO UPDATED (2004-10-14 15:26:21) Unfortunately, the DPF550 version of the 3rd MNBIOS demo which was bundled with openMSX had a small packing-problem that caused it to malfunction. The problem was an outdated ROM image which was booted by openMSX. This version, which displayed 'MNBIOS... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2378.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ RETROPC GAME MUSIC ADDS MT-32 VERSION OF ILLUSION CITY SOUNDTRACK (2004-10-14 12:21:34) About two weeks ago the retrogaming music archives of Retro PC Game Music were updated with the PC-9801 soundtrack of Microcabin's Illusion City. On this streaming radio station you can now also find the MT-32 versions of these songs. You can listen... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2377.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ ROLAND MT-32 EMULATOR 0.62 (2004-10-14 12:18:20) More than a year ago we reported about the Roland MT-32 emulator for DOS/Windows, which can be used to hear the MT-32 MIDI songs of games like Illusion City and Xak - Tower of Gazzel. As of yesterday a new version of this MT-32 emulator is available,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2376.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ ROBSY'S MSX WORKSHOP - UPDATED (2004-10-13 13:21:34) Eduardo Robsy updated his website yesterday. He added two PDF documents of some well-known MSX chips to his page: one about the Texas Instruments' TMS9918 VDP and one about the Zilog's Z-80 user manual. These new technical documents have extensive and... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2375.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BUSSUM 2004 - FAIR & MARATHON REPORT (2004-10-12 19:15:53) On October 9th the 16th edition of the annual MSX fair in Bussum was held. During that fair, of which you can find a photoshoot over here, MSX Resource Center celebrated their 10th anniversary, several new products were released and announced and lots... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2374.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MRC BOUNCE CHALLENGE: CLOSED (2004-10-12 12:37:54) On July 18th we started the third MSX Resource Center development contest: the MRC Bounce Challenge. Now, thirtheen weeks later, this challenge has come to an end. Once again, many active MSX developers (novice and experienced) showed their skills by... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2373.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MRC BOUNCE CHALLENGE: 15TH ENTRY BY INFINITE (2004-10-12 12:34:00) The 15th and final entry to the MRC Bounce challenge comes from Infinite, MRC Challenge regulars who won the Under Water Challenge with their demo Coral 2 and ranked third in the Snowfall challenge with their entry Digital Snow. For the Bounce Challenge,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2372.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MRC BOUNCE CHALLENGE: 14TH ENTRY BY TNI (2004-10-12 11:03:49) Last night TNI completed their entry to the MRC Bounce Challenge. TNI's Bounce 2004 demo starts as an ordinary logo and scroll demo. But then... things get really bouncy! This MSX2/MSX-MUSIC demo is certainly worth watching completely. As the TNI... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2371.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX ASSOCIATION'S MSX MAGAZINE 3 PROGRAMMING CONTEST (2004-10-12 10:45:22) Source: Gigamix Online On the website of MSX Association an MSX-BASIC programming competition has been announced. The objective of the contest is to create a BASIC listing that is no longer than 5 screens at WIDTH 40 when listed. Games, demo's, music... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2370.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 50TH NOMINEE (2004-10-12 10:25:58) Thom Zwagers spotted an interesting feature on MSX on the gaming community website NTSC-uk. On this website you can find a collectors guide to MSX with a lot of detailed and recent information on our beloved computer system. The article has also lead... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2369.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BAZIX LAUNCHES WEBSITE! (2004-10-12 02:04:31) During the Bussum 2004 fair Bazix announced they were going to bring the MSX revival to countries other than Japan. In this newspost you can already find some detailed information on the activities of this company. The Bazix website was launched today... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2368.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MRC BOUNCE CHALLENGE: 13TH ENTRY BY RICARDO BITTENCOURT (2004-10-12 01:51:45) Just before the official deadline Ricardo Bittencourt has submitted his contribution to the MRC Bounce Challenge: Revenge of the Boing Ball. In this turboR demo you can see a rotating ball bouncing against the edges of the screen. Indeed: this is the... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2366.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MRC BOUNCE CHALLENGE - 12TH ENTRY BY SCARR (2004-10-11 21:05:12) Scarr just submitted his entry to the MRC Bounce Challenge. It's written in BASIC and shows a nice, almost educational, bouncing effect. The values are definable and he also built in a so-called 'punch'-button. It's surely worth to take a look at. And... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2365.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BUSSUM2K4 REALTIME ARTICLE (2004-10-11 15:43:05) Sjoerd Lammersma, also known as 'Bodyhammer' from The Darkness God of Destroy has published his annual realtime article of the MSX fair held in Bussum last staturday. For an impression of the days before, during and after the fair: you can download Bodyhammer's... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2363.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MRC BOUNCE CHALLENGE - 11TH ENTRY BY NYYRIKKI (2004-10-11 12:18:06) They say 11 is the mad man's number. Well, there must be some truth in it, Nyyrikki surprises us again with his very creative mind and is responsible for the 11th Bounce Challenge entry: Diary. Why Nyyrikki must be a mad man? Just because! Have you... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2362.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MRC BOUNCE CHALLENGE: 10TH ENTRY BY NEAR DARK (2004-10-10 13:25:05) Near Dark have just submitted an addictive game coded in BASIC to the MRC Bounce Challenge. In this game called Mururoa you are John. During an accident you've fallen out of an airplane. The only way you can prevent falling in the radioactive water around... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2361.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ HAPPY 10TH BIRTHDAY SOEPFISKJE - AVAILABLE IN MRC WEBSHOP (2004-10-10 13:09:33) Yesterday on the Bussum 2004 fair Near Dark released a new music disk called Soepfiskje. On this disk you can find 13 well-crafted Moonsound songs packed in a cool interface and two nice demo's. But no worries if you could not make it to Bussum, as Soepfiskje... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2360.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MRC BOUNCE CHALLENGE: 9TH ENTRY BY DESIRE IN ENVY (2004-10-10 12:35:08) Desire in Envy is back with a contribution to the MRC Bounce Challenge. The man behind Desire in Envy, Vincent van Dam entered the previous MRC Challenges with MSX1 games, this time he created an MSX1/64kB/DOS1 demo in the tradition of Bandwagon and Lieves!Tuore.... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2359.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ OBSONET 1.0 - PICTURES (2004-10-10 12:19:37) On the Obsonet website you can have a look at the final version of the ObsoNet 1.0 cartridge. Recently some e-mails appeared on several MSX Mailinglists, letting people know the developers of ObsoNet had succeeded in connecting an MSX to the internet... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2358.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ GANBARE GOEMON FOR NINTENDO DS (2004-10-10 12:15:08) Source: Magix Box Konami have announced they will release a new version of the game Ganbare Goemon (Samurai) for the upcoming Nintendo DS system. Over here you can find some interesting screenshots. Relevant link: Ganbare Goemon for Nintendo DS... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2357.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BUSSUM 2004 PHOTOSHOOT BY MRC (2004-10-09 22:42:15) After the great first views that the photoshoots of MSXposse and Ramon offered us, MRC brings you no less then 93 photo's of the Bussum fair 2004. Enjoy this extensive photographic tour of Bussum 2004! Relevant link: Bussum 2004 MRC photoshootRead more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2356.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BUSSUM 2004 PHOTOSHOOT BY RAMON VERLINDEN (2004-10-09 21:12:52) After the MSXPosse photoshoot the second batch of Bussum 2004 pictures have been published on the website of Ramon Verlinden. Make sure you check them out, as they give a really nice impression of the fair. Relevant link: Ramon Verlinden's Bussum 2004... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2355.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BUSSUM 2004 PHOTOSHOOT BY MSXPOSSE (2004-10-09 20:31:18) While several MSX die-hards are still hanging out on the MSX Marathon, MSXPosse have already published a nice photoshoot of the MSX fair in Bussum that took place today. If you want to have a look at some of the highlights of a day, make sure you pay... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2354.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX VRIENDENCLUB MARIËNBERG - LINK ADDED (2004-10-09 20:26:41) We have just added another link to our MSX links database, which now contains more than 250 links to MSX (related) websites. MSX Vriendenclub Mariënberg is an active group of MSX users who are meeting regularly in Mariënberg, Netherlands. On their website... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2353.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ GLOBAL MSX REVIVAL - BAZIX (2004-10-09 17:24:18) During the current MSX Fair Bussum 2004 some very spectacular news was revealed. The MSX Revival is going global! As you probably all know, retro computing is very popular in Japan. The Japanese company D4 Enterprise has developed an online platform... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2352.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ F1-SPIRIT REMAKE - AC VERSION 1 (2004-10-09 16:02:58) A new version of the F1-Spirit remake has just been released. It's the first release after the RetroRemakes compo, so it's called 'AC (After Compo) Version 1'. You can download it at this website. Relevant link: F1-Spirit Remake Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2351.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ SKOOTER REMAKE - ANNOUNCED (2004-10-08 16:02:53) Active visitors of our MSX forums already know about it. Leandro Correia, known for his Seal of Hades remake has been working on a remake of the popular Bytebusters MSX game Skooter. As of now, a website on this project which includes some preview-screenshots... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2350.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ TILBURG 1990 PHOTOSHOOT (2004-10-08 15:56:32) Sander van Nunen, founder of the MSX Resource Center, found a couple of pictures he took on the MSX fair in Tilburg of 1990. He scanned them, added some nice comments and put them in the MSX Photoshoots section. Here you can have a close look at the first... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2349.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA: 48TH AND 49TH NOMINEE (2004-10-08 14:44:11) Thanks to Keita Takagi or RetroPC.net two new nominations were found for the MSX in the Media challenge. However, these nominees leave a bit of a bad taste in the mouth. The good news is that two well known companies, Sony and Victor (JVC) are mentioning... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2348.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ HAPPY 10TH BIRTHDAY SOEPFISKJE - RELEASE IN BUSSUM (2004-10-08 14:08:42) 10 years ago Near Dark released a music disk called Soepfiskje. In the years that followed they released many other products, but after the MSX fair in Zandvoort of 1997 they left the MSX scene. Now, 7 years later, they are back in action. Tomorrow, on... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2347.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ ROBSY'S MSX WORKSHOP - UPDATES (2004-10-08 13:35:37) Eduardo Robsy (also known as pitpan) has updated his website once again. In a new, Spanish only, section called Rincón del ensamblador a tutorial for programming games in Assembly can be found. As an example, the game Pong Classic 0.1 is included, with... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2346.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ FEEDBACK ENGLISH - RELEASE IN BUSSUM (2004-10-08 13:24:30) Delta Soft is known to aim for a release each fair. Sofar they haven't disappointed us and it almost seemed like they would break that aim, but just one day before the fair in Bussum their translator Tsunami managed to finish the translation of Feedback.... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2345.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ SPACE INVADERS - COLECOVISION VERSION PORT TO MSX (2004-10-08 00:06:22) Ricardo Bittencourt has just released a port of a Colecovision version of Space Invaders, which is very close to the original Arcade version which had the early gamingworld in its grasp for a long time. The Colecovision port, Space Invaders collection,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2344.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MRC BOUNCE CHALLENGE - AND THE PRIZES ARE... (2004-10-07 12:35:26) On July 18th we started the MRC Bounce Challenge. We have already received several entries to the challenge, which can be downloaded over here. As the challenge closes on October 11th we thought the developers who are working on the finishing touch of... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2343.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ SPANCE MANBOW, TWINBEE AND GRADIUS 2 SONGS BY MAD (2004-10-06 01:50:48) Source: Vorc The Japanese compuser MAD has released yet another series of MSX related MP3 files. On his website you can now found re-arranged songs from Level 4 or Gradius 2, the Space Manbow battle theme and two Twinbee songs. Relevant link: MAD... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2342.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ FUTUREMARE - LINK ADDED (2004-10-06 01:46:07) Mark 2 is an active MSX developer well known from games like Moscow 2024, Ark-a-Noah and Don't cock it up. Recently, Mark 2 returned to MSX thanks to the MSXDev'04 competition with two entries: Seleniak and Sink King. Over here you can find Mark 2's website,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2341.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ SDCC PORT FOR MSXDOS (2004-10-05 17:06:27) As a complement to the patch for the compiler SDCC, which generates ROM files for MSX (published by Boukichi on ), a new patch was developed for this cross-compiler that generates MSX-DOS compatible .COM files. For more information you can check avelino's... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2340.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ VSCREEN 0.9A (2004-10-05 12:49:15) Maggoo has released a new version of his fantastic MSX Platform game engine VScreen. In this new version the following things were changed: * Two new bonus types: Power (invincible) and Life (1up) * Independant movement and collision properties for NPC... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2339.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ 5 NEW MSX GAMES: DRAGON WANG, MAXIMUM PENALTY, MIKIE, ORGUSS AND STARJACKER (2004-10-04 18:59:40) After demonstrating them at MSXRio 2004. SLotman of MSX files has now released 5 new MSX games at the same time. Four of these games are ports of Sega SG-1000 games. Dragon Wang, Mikie ( Shinnyushain Tooru Kun), Orguss and Star Jacker bring some classic... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2338.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ ILLUSION CITY PORTUGUESE 0.3 (2004-10-04 18:44:07) After releasing a new version of the English translation of Illusion City, Adriano da Cunha released a new version of the Portuguese translation of Illusion City as well. The changelog of this new version is the same as the one for the English version... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2337.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX FAIR BUSSUM 2004 -REMINDER- (2004-10-04 11:28:54) The biggest MSX fair in Europe is only a few days away! Of course, if you're a die-hard MSX-er, you have the date 9th of october 2004 written on your forehead for quite some months now. For the record, this newspost isn't meant for you. We would remind... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2336.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ ILLUSION CITY ENGLISH 0.3 (2004-10-04 09:55:45) Source: MSX Mailinglist Some time ago we reported about the latest A&L Software translation project, Illusion City English. They have just released a new version 0.3. Some updates: * Fixed many translation errors/typos, including intro screens * Fixed... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2335.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ FMSX 2.8 (2004-10-02 13:31:10) A new version of fMSX, the basis for almost every MSX emulator around, has been released. Changes in the new version: * Fixed initial envelope volume in AY8910.c, * Fixed a problem with 8kB/16kB cartridges failing to execute in MSX1 mode * When guessing... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2334.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BARGAIN 5.31 (2004-10-01 14:58:39) Source: Gigamix Online A new version of Bargain, an image compression toolkit for MSX, has been released today. Apart from several optimizations which increase compression and decompression speed, the following things have been changed: * Removed support... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2333.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ PANASONIC FS-A1GT TURBOR IS THE BEST LOOKING MSX, GAME DEVELOPMENT POLL UP (2004-10-01 01:15:33) On August 8th we started the finale of the 'Which MSX has the best design' megapoll. Today, the time has come to count the votes and pick a winner. After the nominations and 4 rounds of voting in the MRC forums only 4 MSX computers remained. A grand total... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2332.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ DOWNLOADS TOP 10; SEPTEMBER 2004 (2004-10-01 00:46:52) It's the first of October, so lets have a look at which files have been downloaded the most in September 2004. As usual, new releases are doing very well, and so do the entries for the Bounce Challenge. Keep in mind, you have less than 2 weeks left to... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2331.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
