Dear readers, This automated two-weekly email message contains the MSX Resource Center news summary dating from May 18, 2004 until Jun 01, 2004. In these two weeks 24 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ USAS ALTERNATIVE VERSION (2004-05-31 16:23:16) On January 17th in Oss, Delta Soft showed a slightly changed version of Usas, where the Japanese emoticons are changed to graphical ones. BiFi has made a patch for it and put it on his Home Page (http://www.bifi.msxnet.org/). At the moment the patch is... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2049.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ AMATEUR MSX GAMING LIST (2004-05-30 14:19:08) The MSX Games bOX (http://www.msxgamesbox.com/) have opened a new section called 'The Amateur MSX Gaming List' containing a comprehensive database of all 'amateur' games released since 1992. The section is still in development and will be completed over... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2048.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ YS3 - WANDERERS FROM YS FOR PLAYSTATION 2 (2004-05-29 15:26:53) Source: The Magic Box (http://www.the-magicbox.com/gaming.htm) Taito (http://www.taito.co.jp/) have announced they will release Playstation 2 remakes of Falcom (http://www.falcom.com/)'s classic RPG's YS3 (Wanderers from YS), YS4 (Mask of the Sun)... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2047.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MBWAVE 1.16 (2004-05-29 14:46:55) After 3 years of silence, a new version of this music tracker for Sunrise (http://www.msx.ch/sunformsx/) Moonsound has been released. New in MBwave 1.16: * Added solo function * Bugfix: 2 settings where not saved in the cfg file The new version of MBwave... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2046.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ OPENMSX 0.4.0 (2004-05-29 01:43:25) It was a long wait, but it happened: openMSX 0.4.0 was just released. The highlight of this release is Catapult, which has grown to be a fully featured GUI for openMSX. Also, the following improvements were made: (read release notes for more details) *... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2045.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MAXLOAD 1 IN AKIHABARA SHUT DOWN (2004-05-28 18:49:07) At the Gigamix Online (http://gigamix.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2004/05/1.html) website, some unfortunate news could be read. As of May 17th, the Maxload 1 store in Akihabara, Tokyo, has merged with the main Maxload store (also in Akihabara) and thus had... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2044.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MEMTR (2004-05-28 18:34:17) On Hans Otten's website (http://www.hansotten.com/) an interesting tool for Panasonic MSX2+ and turboR machines can be found: MemTR. Unlike other MSX computers the BIOS of these Panasonic machines places page 3 and page 2 in its internal memory. If an... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2043.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ 1.500.000 VISITORS AT MSX.ORG (2004-05-28 17:04:15) The MSX Resource Center team (http://www.msx.org/who.html) are extremely pleased to see that, within five months after breaking the one million visits barrier (http://www.msx.org/newspost1719.html), MSX Resource Center has attracted a total amount of... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2042.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MAMP - MSX SKIN (2004-05-28 16:15:33) Source: MSX Files (http://msxfiles.sites.uol.com.br/) MAmp is a MIRC (http://www.mirc.com/) script developed by SLotman for Mirc 5.8 or higher. It is an MP3 player that allows you to view the song title, artist name and a lot of other information in... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2041.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MAD - LINK ADDED (2004-05-28 16:11:42) Source: VGM or Chiptune News (http://www.vorc.org/) MAD is a Japanese composer who often uses MSX as a source of inspiration for his compositions. He also likes to use the characteristic sounds of the PSG and SCC chips regularly. On his website (http://park19.wakwak.com/~cherry/oto/)... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2040.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ SHALOM PORTUGUESE BETA 12 (2004-05-28 16:04:28) Source: Ricardo Bittencourt's mailinglist Ricardo Bittencourt has released a new beta-version of the Portuguese translation of Konami's Shalom (http://www.generation-msx.nl/msxdb/softwareinfo/946) (Knightmare 3). The translation project is very close... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2039.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX TOP - LINK ADDED (2004-05-28 15:54:40) Source: MSX-BR-L mailinglist Today we added a new link to our section of MSX websites (http://www.msx.org/links.html). MSX Top (http://www.geocities.com/zone51502000/msxtop) is a Brazilian MSX community website available in both English and Portuguese,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2038.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX CLUB WEST FRIESLAND - REMINDER (2004-05-27 20:07:47) Source: comp.sys.msx In March we reported about the restart of MCWF (http://www.msx.org/newspost1883.html) after a period of silence. Now, we would like to remind you about the start of a new series of clubmeetings. The first one has been scheduled... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2037.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MAGGOO'S WEBSITE UPDATE (2004-05-26 00:52:33) Maggoo (http://users.skynet.be/bk263586/) has updated his website, adding the AudioWave #3 music disk to the downloads section. Furthermore, a new section about unreleased projects is opened. It contains some (very) old IOD and Abyss projects that were... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2036.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ EGG STARTS SALES OF JAGUR (2004-05-25 12:07:42) Project EGG (http://www.soft-city.com/egg/) have started selling the popular MSX game Jagur (http://www.soft-city.com/egg/catalog/list.cgi?mode=data&no=301), a game by Compile (http://www.aiky.biz/) and Hudson (http://www.hudson.co.jp/) in their Retro-software... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2035.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ TEAM BOMBA UNDER WATER - UPDATE (2004-05-23 23:40:21) One of the 11 entries in the Under Water Challenge (http://www.msx.org/newspost2023.html) was a GFX9000 demo created by Team Bomba (http://www.teambomba.net/). As of now you can download an updated version right here (http://www.msx.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=visit&lid=490).... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2034.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSXPLUG 2004-05-23 (2004-05-23 22:21:58) Source: VGM or Chiptune News (http://www.vorc.org/) Today, Digital Sound Antiques (http://www102.sakura.ne.jp/~ok/psa/) released a new version of MSXplug, the WinAmp plugin that allows you to play several formats of MSX music files on your PC. Here... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2033.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX VIEWER 1.00 (2004-05-22 00:24:27) After a short series of beta version, the first official release of MSX VIEWer (http://www.minagi.jp/msx/), a Windows tool that allows you to view and edit MSX-BASIC listings on your PC, has just been released. Although the interface of the program is... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2032.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX GROUP FOR GIRLS (2004-05-20 14:32:27) The MSX Community often seems like a men's world, but nothing can be further from the truth. Yumiko ShimaMura (YSMSX) created a Yahoo Group especially for all the MSX-minded ladies. Over here she would like to talk about the good times she had with MSX,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2031.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ PENGU RACER 1.4 (2004-05-18 22:13:39) One of the 11 contributions to the Under Water Challenge (http://www.msx.org/newspost2023.html) was the MSX1 game 'Pengu Racer', which was completely coded in BASIC. As of now, an improved version of this game is available here (http://scarr.g-rave.nl/pengu).... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2030.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MESS 0.82 (2004-05-18 14:03:41) Two days ago a new version of MESS (http://www.mess.org/), the Multiple Emulator Super System based on MAME (http://www.mame.net/) was released. This time, there's something new for MSX users as well, as in this new version MSX2+ emulation was added.... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2029.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ GREEN BERET REMAKE (2004-05-18 13:59:15) Source: KlaxMSX (http://www.klaxmsx.tk/) TDB Soft (http://www.tdbsoft.tk/) created a Windows remake of the classic Konami game Green Beret. This remake was created in 2001 and based on the C64 version, but it's still nice to have a look at it anyway. Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2028.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ KLAXMSX - RESTYLED (2004-05-18 13:53:33) Last week (http://www.msx.org/newspost2007.html) we reported about the new SMMSX Bulletin (http://www.klaxmsx.ideaplus.com.br/modules/tinycontent/) at KlaxMSX (http://www.klaxmsx.tk/). Unfortunately, the frontpage of the KlaxMSX website was defaced shortly... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2027.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ HANS OTTEN'S WEBSITE - UPDATE (2004-05-18 13:46:24) Hans Otten (http://www.hansotten.com/) has updated his website with more than 200 pictures of his computer colelction. You can see many MSX computers, peripherals and magazines from many brands in his Computer collection section (http://www.hansotten.com/compcol.html). Relevant... 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