http://www.msx.org/ The latest news from the MSX Community. en-uk http://www.msx.org//themes/Classic/images/msxlogo.gif http://www.msx.org/ rss@msx.org http://www.msx.org/Invasion-of-the-Zombie-Monsters-launched.newspost5389.html This weekend, while some MSX nerds were seen sitting at their desk discussing IotZM sprites, El Viejo Archivero and his team were at the succesful retro fair RetroMadrid 2010, releasing Invasion of the Zombie Monsters, a new MSX / Spectrum platform game. The game was met with much enjoyment by the visitors, Spectrum users liked it too. Invasion of the Zombie Monsters MSX cart... Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:49:16 +0100 http://www.msx.org/Invasion-of-the-Zombie-Monsters-preview.newspost5388.html Invasion of the Zombie Monsters, an upcoming MSX / Spectrum platform game by Relevo Videogames (a fork of Karoshi), was previewed today on the Spanish gaming website Metodologic. The preview, accompanied with screenshots, discusses its difficult and addictive gameplay, reminiscent of and seemingly inspired from classic arcade games like Legend of Hero Tonma and Ghosts 'n Gobl... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:20:14 +0100 http://www.msx.org/Spanish-subforums.newspost5387.html The new website, MRC2k10 (previously known as MRC2k9, also known as MRC2k8, initially planned as MRC2k7) is on its way. But until its release, we're stuck with MRC2k2. We won't spend too much time on tweaking old code, but a desperate howl from the Spanish section touched Jorito (our website maintainer and 2k10 builder) deeply. And so, as of today, the Spanish forum has four sec... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:58:39 +0100 http://www.msx.org/MRC-Download-Charts-February-2010.newspost5386.html Tsk Tsk! A week over due, but what can you do.. It's time to put the most popular downloads into the spotlight again. So, without further ado, the statistics from February and a week from March! MSX downloads Top 10 - February * 666 The Haunted House (81 downloads) * PCM Encoder (73 downloads) * Protracker (59 downloads) * Default General MIDI soundbank (56 downloads) ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:42:31 +0100 http://www.msx.org/msxDS-0.8.newspost5385.html After a whopping three years, a new version of msxDS was released a few days ago. This emulator for the Nintendo DS/DS lite is based on fmsxDS v.0.07, and currently emulates MSX, MSX2 and MSX2+. New in this version: * compiled with devkitARM r27 and libnds 1.4.0 * the libfifo library has been optimised by Cooper * new sound routine (it's more clean and faster) * loader window is... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:27:47 +0100 http://www.msx.org/Push-Space-Key.newspost5384.html Spanish composer commandcom has finished his E.P., a Konami tribute containing three well known MSX themes. In this collection you'll find the modern James Bond styled Difficult Move (SD Snatcher), Power of Anger (Salamander) and Stage one of King Kong II. All songs feature consistent production values and are well worth the download - which is free anyway, so what are you waiti... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:56:33 +0100 http://www.msx.org/Super-X-videos.newspost5383.html Super-X is a Swiss army knife when it comes to debugging or patching on MSX. However it's not the easiest program to get started with because of all the features it includes. To make things a bit easier, NYYRIKKI has created a series of videos to demonstrate Super-X. Currently there are only three videos online, but more will follow if people find them useful. Relevant lin... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:45:16 +0100 http://www.msx.org/Mecha-Taisen-on-Planet-Oldskool-Plus.newspost5382.html Miniboss wolf_ doesn't like it if we repost forumposts to the front page, so be sure to keep this one a secret to him. DamageX updated and released the source code of his underrated MSXdev '06 Super Robot Taisen inspired tactical RPG Mecha Taisen on Planet Oldskool, cleverly naming the new version Mecha Taisen on Planet Oldskool Plus. The update, that smells a bit according to M... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:59:44 +0100 http://www.msx.org/MSXRio-2010.newspost5381.html The Brazilian MSX usergroup MSXRio announced the first 2010 meeting, everyone is invited to pay this event a visit! It will be held on March 13th, in SESC Engenho de Dentro (Avenida Amaro Cavalcanti, 1661 - Engenho de Dentro), near the railway station and the João Havelange Olympic Stadium (Engenhão). The place will be open from 10:00 to 17:30. More information about the meet... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:25:34 +0100 http://www.msx.org/BASIC-Music-Pack.newspost5380.html Ah.. BASIC MML, who has not started with it before hopping over to tracking! For those who love MSX-BASIC music, sd_snatcher has released a pack of 9 discs full of music made in BASIC, used to test and develop the MSX-Audio BIOS v1.2. You can use this pack on both the MSX-Audio and MSX-Music. If you have the MSX-Audio BIOS v1.0 you'll need to change the CALL MUSIC command to ... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:48:42 +0100 http://www.msx.org/fMSX-PSP-3.5.40.newspost5379.html A new version of fMSX-PSP has been released. New in this version: * Improved saved state format - will automatically switch to appropriate system settings * PSPLIB updated to latest version * Images are now saved under PSP/PHOTOS/fMSX PSP * Virtual keyboard updated, option for "toggle display" mode * Screenshot previews in file browser Relevant link: fMSX PSP... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:23:47 +0100 http://www.msx.org/Tutankham-conversion-source-code.newspost5378.html Back in 2008, we saw a stream of ColecoVision/SG-1000 to MSX conversions, fueled by a one-sided arms race between Muffie and his good friend SLotman. Today, Muffie released the complete source code of his Tutankham conversion. His intention is to help potential MSX developers with converting other ColecoVision games, like Gyruss or Roc 'N Rope. Mufster's code is not very orga... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:45:30 +0100 http://www.msx.org/Zukkoke-Yajikita-translated.newspost5377.html Zukkoke Yajikita Onmitsudoutyuu (ずっこけやじきた隠密道中 if you know how to read it), an MSX2 RPG by HAL, was translated to English recently and published earlier today on DJANGO's blog. Perhaps DJANGO's incentive is to let another translator continue where he left off. If it's not and you don't mind playin... Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:21:56 +0100 http://www.msx.org/CheatMSX-Undeadline-map.newspost5376.html It's been a while since we heard from map regular MSX Solutions, and some people may get a bit nervous from this lack of maps in recent months. It's almost like smokers missing their daily shot of nicotine! But, have no fear, DemonSeed is here! DemonSeed spent some of his spare time on the creation of a map of the 1989 shoot 'm up Undeadline, by T&E Soft (now D-Wonderland). The ... Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:37:21 +0100 http://www.msx.org/openMSX-0.7.2-dev11297.newspost5375.html The road to a new major openMSX release is as adventurous as an RPG. During the epic journey to openMSX 0.8.0, the barbarians, mages, archers, necromancers and elfs of the team gradually show new features in their so called dev versions. After a period of less activity, CheatMSX finally managed to put up a recent openMSX dev version, built for Win32 and Mac OSX. A new feature... Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:14:23 +0100 http://www.msx.org/SDCC-libary-for-assembler-and-UNAPI-interop.newspost5374.html Konamiman has updated his MSX page with a new library for the SDCC compiler: ASMLIB. This is a library that allows to execute arbitrary assembler code (for example BIOS routines or MSX-DOS functions) from within C code. Also included are special functions for interacting with UNAPI implementations. Two example applications are included within the library package: a simple fil... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:51:26 +0100 http://www.msx.org/Vampier-videos-massive-update.newspost5373.html Dutch flavored US resident Vampier updated his popular YouTube collection in the past weeks, let's have a look at all that's new. * Ashguine 3, by Micro Cabin * Green Beret, by Konami (though outsourced to The United Kingdom, which shows..) * Romancia, from the Dragonslayer series (this is a preview of the translation), by Falcom * Psycho World, by Hertz. Vampier already m... Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:19:13 +0100 http://www.msx.org/MVM-Auction-photos.newspost5372.html The annual Dutch MSX Auction in Mariënberg, organised by MSX Vriendenclub Mariënberg, attracted many MSX collectors yesterday, temporary making Mariënberg the most crowded city in the Netherlands, by MSX population. With OeiOeiVogeltje as hammerman (secretly a comic book hero wearing an invisible mask, cape, and sporting a big H on his back), many goods were sold. This included ... Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:28:55 +0100 http://www.msx.org/VEDIT-Plus-2.33-for-MSX.newspost5371.html VEDIT is an excellent text editor for the CP/M operating system that was released as freeware by Greenview Data Inc. A new MSX version is configured to run properly on an MSX machine and has a wrapper included, that allows it to run from a subdirectory under MSX-DOS2. You can use it to edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT and any other BAT or text configuration file on your MSX machine. Rel... Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:46:23 +0100 http://www.msx.org/Walters-Nijmegen-video.newspost5370.html As was announced in the Nijmegen announcement, Walter from France would visit this MSX fair and make a video of the event. And so he did. After editing the whole lot, Passion MSX reports that the video is done and online. The fair itself was of course very successful, with foreign guests and more booths than before. We live in a time of affordable photo and video cameras and man... Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:03:53 +0100 http://www.msx.org/RUNDOS1-tool.newspost5369.html RUNDOS1 is a small utility developed by sd_snatcher. It enables you to run MSX-DOS v1.x on top of MSX-DOS v2.x. As weird as it sounds, doing this allows you to run a lot more games, since it will free quite a bunch of RAM for memory hungry games. It solves the problem of running the Playball III - Enhanced HD version over MSX-DOS v2.3x, but can also be used with any other gam... Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:09:19 +0100 http://www.msx.org/R-Type-Addition-updated.newspost5368.html Exactly one month after its creation, BiFi, a Dutch MSX and Z80 guru, updated his R-Type Improvement Addition. On request, he kindly added 50/60Hz selection, and a Turbo feature for MSX computers that disobey ASCII's speed limit of 3.58MHz. The update can be obtained from BiFi's website, in the Downloads section, under Bugfixes. Relevant link: BiFi's Home Page... Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:12:18 +0100 http://www.msx.org/Vampier-videos%3A-Metal-Gear-2.newspost5367.html Vampier has uploaded a complete walk through of one of Konami's biggest hits and franchises: Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake. Like his other recent videos, the sound is clean 'n crisp while the graphics are in razor sharp HD. As long as YouTube is free, Vampier will without doubt continue to fill her up with MSX walk throughs. Do you have a special walk through request? Let's hear it! ... Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:46:43 +0100 http://www.msx.org/meisei-1.3.1.newspost5366.html When MRC webmaster hap isn't hunting for outlandishly odd references to be used in his newsposts, he spends part of his time on his little emulation toy: meisei. It's not as big an emulator as 'the big two', and it's restricted to MSX1. However, meisei's strength lies in the toy factor: changing palettes, inspecting and changing tiles, changing waveforms for the PSG. If you just... Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:33:55 +0100 http://www.msx.org/Antarctic-Adventure-weirdness-review.newspost5365.html With Vampier generating half of the MSX game videos on YouTube, of which half gets posted to MRC by MSX- and YouTube fan wolf_, it's unexpected to witness yourself reading this newspost. A few days ago, an anonymous Canadian videogame critic posted a weirdness review of Antarctic Adventure, the primal MSX game attractively anagrammed to Unattractive Dancer by NYYRIKKI two years ... Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:25:22 +0100