MSXPLAYer announced
Source: Ikeda's MSX Print (27-02-2002)
Kuniji Ikeda also announced that the MSX Association (founded by Kazuhiko Nishi after he quit ASCII) will release the MSXPLAYer for Windows and Windows CE on April 15th, 2002.
Source: Ikeda's MSX Print (27-02-2002)
In Ikeda's News Print, Kuniji Ikeda let us know that the Terra Network System stopped producing their 4MB Addram memory mappers. Fortunately there are still some mappers in stock. This could be your last chance to get a cheap memory mapper. The price will be 6000 yen, about € 51,- If you want one, just mail Ikeda
Source: MSX Mailinglist and MSX Newsgroup (comp.sys.msx)
In a previous posting, we mentioned the Konami auction at this years Tilburg MSX fair.Thanks to Saku Taipale, the auction will include an original Konami A1 Spirit with steering wheel.A1 Spirit is a special version of F1 Spirit and was sold together with this steering wheel.For Konami collectors, this is an absolute masterpiece
Italian MSX user-meeting
Source: MSX newsgroup (comp.sys.msx)
On Sunday, March 3, 2002 "Bre(M)S(X)cia 2002" will be held in Brescia, Italy. During the meeting, there will be demostrations of software and hardware from several developers, like Matra, Imanok and Team Bomba. There will be some trading as well.
fMSX 2.6 released
Source: fMSX website
Marat Fayzullin has released version 2.6 of the mother of all MSX emulators: fMSX emulator. There are now seven different versions of this emulator for several (operating) systems.
Randar III English
I just read some more translation news @ Generation MSX.Over there you can view the first screenshots of Randar III English. What makes this translation so special is that the translator made a new intro-screen and a new font.
We already reported about the first version of Snatcher Portuguese. In the mean time a new alpha-version of this translation has been released and can be downloaded here.
fMSXSO v0.93 released
On the fMSXSO website you can find a new release of this fMSX-based emulator called fMSXSO. This MSX2+ emulator focusses mainly on OPLL (FM-PAC) emulation by using an external MIDI device.
NLMSX v0.38.1 released
Source: NLMSX site
Frits Hilderink releases update after update of the NLMSX emulator. Thanks to a lot of interesting features (like good emulation of MSX-Audio with 256KB sample-RAM) this emulator is getting more and more popular.
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