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/QBIQS-video.newspost5502.html A few days ago, QBIQS was released, finally. Hailed by some as one of the best MSX games in recent times, that should certainly make the remaining MSXdev months exciting. Have we seen a likely candidate for the gold medal, or is this early release an extra motivation for the competition to come up with an even better entry? MRC webmaster Hydragon grabbed his Nowind cartridge and... Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:06:12 +0200 http://www.msx.org/Konamimans-MSX-page-updated.newspost5501.html News from Konamiman! He updated his MSX page with the following information: * Added a new UNAPI specification, this time for TCP/IP stacks. * Added InterNestor Lite 2.0, which implements the TCP/IP UNAPI specification. * Simple networking applications (PING, TCP console, TFTP and FTP) have been ported to the TCP/IP UNAPI specification. Moreover, two new applications have be... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:17:34 +0200 http://www.msx.org/MRC-Download-Charts-August-2010.newspost5500.html The holidays are over, a new educational and professional year is afoot. Overlooking this society of new MSX developments is our download machine. This twin brother of Little John registered which software was downloaded the most in the past month, and here's the result of what you all did! MSX downloads Top 10 - August 2010 * King's Valley remake (207 downloads) * 666 The ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:39:56 +0200 http://www.msx.org/PlaySoniq-on-sale.newspost5499.html When the news of SuperSoniqs' PlaySoniq was fresh out, it was announced that this device was targeted for August, and it just made it, just in time! PlaySoniq is a PCB with lots of fun things on it, and will eventually be presented with the famous large Sunrise cartridge cases by the end of the year. By then, buyers can apply for a free product box (cartridge case is included... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:32:23 +0200 http://www.msx.org/MSXdev10-2-QBIQS.newspost5498.html For quite some time now, MSX developer Z80ST had been brooding on a product which easily qualifies as one of the most anticipated MSX games over the past 4 years. Since its announcement, QBIQS sparked enthousiasm among the MSX scene for being a remake of Konami classic Quarth. However, QBIQS would work on any MSX machine instead of only MSX2 and higher, having all the gameplay e... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:12:15 +0200 http://www.msx.org/Ghostbusters-Password-Generator.newspost5497.html After a considerable amount of reverse engineering, Lars The 18th finally managed to decode the complete password (banknumber) system from the MSX version of Ghostbusters. With this knowledge, Lars wrote an Online Ghostbusters Password Generator! Now you can generate your own account, just enter your name and the amount of money you would like to have and the generator gives you... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:42:41 +0200 http://www.msx.org/Retromallorca-2010.newspost5496.html Those who have planned a holiday to Majorca at the end of next month should feel lucky; on September 25th the city of Palma will be the location for the first edition of Retromallorca: a classic computing and videogaming meeting. It will be a fair/exposition organized by a few local retrocomputing enthousiasts, where visitors will be able to see and even use some of the home com... Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:25:42 +0200 http://www.msx.org/MSX-Info-Update-2010-Lieves%21Tuore-compo-entries.newspost5495.html At the moment, the MSX Info Update party takes place in Helsinki. Among other activities, there are competitions going on. Here's news fresh from the party floor: the entries by Lieves!Tuore! * Adnukes, a slideshow for MSX1 using rapidly alternating tiles, like you may have seen earlier in dvik&joyrex demos * Ebykti, a catchy and highly detailed PSG song by Yzi * Silence of ... Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:05:53 +0200 http://www.msx.org/msxDS-0.85.newspost5494.html A new version of msxDS, an MSX/MSX2/MSX2+ emulator for DS/DS Lite, has been released today. New in this version: * Added many crc32 of Korean MegaROMs * Fixed 32KB ROM mirrors * Rewrote sprites routines (full emulation) * Super Pierrot mapper support * Some small fixes in the MegaROMs mapper routines. * Fixed status register 0 of VDP in MSX1 mode (Zaxxon, published by ... Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:47:31 +0200 http://www.msx.org/Sunrise-update.newspost5493.html Sunrise, a longtime MSX foundation providing hardware and software, has informed us with the following news flashes. * Still being a popular device, the new batch of Compact Flash readers has been ready for quite a while. Those who want to obtain one simply need to contact Sunrise. * Sunrise now also ships The Goonies 'R' Good Enough. * The latest version of Denyonet's BIOS,... Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:20:18 +0200 http://www.msx.org/MSX-Solutions-Invasion-of-the-Zombie-Monsters.newspost5492.html MSX Solutions has been silent for a few months, but cartographer only_69 is back on the map again. This time he has tackled Relevo Videogames' Invasion of the Zombie Monsters. Due to the multilayers of the game, the map can't be 100% authentic, but it's still more than enough to give an impression of the game's five levels. It must have been a tricky business making a single map... Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:01:36 +0200 http://www.msx.org/MSX-Village-Fair.newspost5491.html France, 2010. MSX in this region would appear to be dead. Well, not really.. A small Gallic village, led by druid Jipe, refuses to meet the Grim Reaper and strives to make MSX life in the surrounding areas quite a bit better. Comics aside, the MSX village is a non profit organization which aims to protect and promote MSX in France and French speaking countries. This organizat... Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:43:22 +0200 http://www.msx.org/Interview-with-Konamiman.newspost5490.html To most MSX fans, our Spanish friend Néstor Soriano, better known as konamiman, isn't quite an obscure person. You may know him for such things as being the creator of NestorBASIC or for being the first ever to send a tweet using an MSX machine. In case you ever wondered what makes this man tick, you're in for a nice surprise, since Konamiman has been interviewed for Kirainet by... Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:54:34 +0200 http://www.msx.org/Time-Out-playable-demo.newspost5489.html Spanish MSX developer Pepe Vila has released a new demo of his Time Out remake which we reported about a while ago. Already featured in this version: * it's already possible to fire, although there's only sound for now - sprite of the bullet is not seen * you can duck and jump * game map features 6 screens The packages contains two versions; one with, and one without slow... Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:28:11 +0200 http://www.msx.org/Assembly-TV.newspost5488.html Here's something you don't see every day! During the world famous Assembly '10 demo party in Helsinki, last week, a couple o' guys were interviewed on Assembly TV: Evilpaul/Ate Bit, TMC/Role and.. Haohmaru, otherwise known as BodyHammeR. In this interview (in English), the MSX demoscene was discussed among other things. The MSX bits have been edited together by NYYRIKKI and uplo... Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:50:25 +0200 http://www.msx.org/NMS-8245-game-covers-casemod.newspost5487.html During yesterday's MVM meeting, ray2day (famous for the large MSX logo tattoo on his leg) showed his new MSX casemod: a Philips NMS 8245 MSX2 completely covered with MSX game covers! For those who like to have a similar casemod, or just for those who want to know how on earth all this was possible; his website features information, in Dutch, on how this was done. To see this ... Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:12:57 +0200 http://www.msx.org/MSX-Info-Update-2010-reminder.newspost5486.html Next weekend, MSX Info Update 2010 will take place, an MSX party in Finland for which you may have seen the invitation video some while ago. The event has grown over the years, and apart from the usual Finnish attenders there will be visitors from The Netherlands and Italy this year. Activities include a demo competition, music competition, hardware competition and gaming compet... Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:03:56 +0200 http://www.msx.org/MSX-Repository-updated.newspost5485.html After a more quiet period, MSX Repository, the website collecting the paperwork of MSX games such as labels and manuals, was updated with eight new items. One of these includes the sticker and paper airplane from Compile's timeless shooter Aleste 2. The other new items are Final Zone Wolf, Samantha Fox Strip Poker, Sorcery, Terramex, The Living Daylights, Underground and War of ... Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:25:44 +0200 http://www.msx.org/GEM-1.0.newspost5484.html A new version of TNI's GEM has been released, at its tenth anniversary it finally landed at version 1.0. GEM is a Gameboy emulator for MSX and uses dynamic recompilation in order to archive enjoyable performance. Since version 0.9990, released back in 2007, a Graphics9000 is required. This version features a lot of improvements, categorized under the following sections (more det... Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:13:54 +0200 http://www.msx.org/Fantasm-Soldier-Valis-2-video.newspost5483.html Recently, MRC webmaster DemonSeed spent his time on making a large video walkthrough of one of his favorite MSX games: Fantasm Soldier Valis II, by Telenet. This MSX2 action platformer is famous for its multilayers (though at the cost of smooth movement), music, outstanding graphics and slight adult content. DemonSeed just uploaded the complete walkthrough to YouTube for us to e... Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:01:54 +0200 http://www.msx.org/BlueMSX-Wii-1.0.2.newspost5482.html After a long period of silence, Tim Brugman and Maikel Bloemendal released a new version of BlueMSX-Wii. Earlier, version 1.0.1 was released silently, as it only contained a few minor bugfixes and version 1.0.2 was scheduled for release shortly after that. New in version 1.0.2: * Updated devkitPPC (R21) and libogc (1.8.3) * Fixed vertical offset bug on NTSC wiis * Fixed gl... Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:59:24 +0200 http://www.msx.org/Retroaction-4.newspost5481.html In September 2009 Retroaction issue 3 was released. Like the first two issues, it looked polished and actually contained MSX articles and shorts, a rarity these days. It's been eight months since, and while the fourth issue is here now, the huge delay didn't bode well during the waiting period. The magazine will stop, unfortunately, as time is not on the side of the chief editor... Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:44:13 +0200 http://www.msx.org/Sonyc-VGM-pack.newspost5480.html ValleyBell, from the SMS POWER! forum, has released two music packs containing both the FM and Moonsound music from Sonyc. This MSX2+ game was made by Analogy in 1997, with music by MRC web maintainer Jorito. Once you've followed the instructions in the relevant forum thread, all you need to do is drag 'n drop the m3u files onto the VGM player, and use B and N to skip through th... Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:56:49 +0200 http://www.msx.org/MCM-online-update.newspost5479.html Almost three months ago we reported about the MCM online project: an initiative where the Dutch MSX Computer Magazine and MSX Computer and Club Magazine would be scanned and put online. By now, all the magazines have been scanned, with help of Wammes Witkop. While the magazines still can't be read, and not all covers have been put online yet, there's at least a small glimpse of ... Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:13:37 +0200 http://www.msx.org/Kings-Valley-remake.newspost5478.html We just added leegoukko's King's Valley remake to our downloads section. This project is a faithful recreation of the old Konami classic from 1985. It's still in development, things are missing - like sound -, but given time it may all come together. For discussions you may refer to the original forum thread of this remake. Relevant link: King's Valley remake... Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:57:06 +0200