The Asociación Amigos del MSX have announced the date and location for the upcoming (28th!) Barcelona MSX user meeting: On the 3rd of December, 2005, MSX users from all over Spain will gather in the Sala l'Altell de Cotxeras de Sants, Barcelona for an active day of MSXing.
During the day, several game competitions will be held, while a
The German library on Generation MSX, the online MSX software information database, was updated with scans of German books, magazines and flyers.
After the initial nominations, and the first round of voting, the time has now come for our "what MSX game-cover has the best artwork" poll to hit round 2.
ViewMSX 0.02
ViewMSX, a new MSX-graphics viewer for Windows, was just added to MRC's downloads database. With ViewMSX you can easily view many different MSX graphics files, including compressed files from programs such as AGE, Graph Saurus or even the ancient Dynamic Publisher.
On the Bussum 2005 MSX Fair, Sunrise released their version of the MSX Game Reader, which was previously only available in Japan.
Vscreen website moves
Olivier Hustin has moved the Vscreen website to a new location. The website, dedicated to the impressive smooth scrolling platform game engine Vscreen, has also been updated with new documentation on the engine and its file structure.
From now on, you can register yourselves as a booth holder for the MSX fair in Nijmegen on 14 January 2006. You can do this by filling in the registration form which is now available on the MSX Fair Nijmegen 2006 homepage.
After adding Aleste 1 to their catalog, Amusement Center have re-released Compile's classic MSX2 shooter Aleste 2 in
Eduardo Mello is a Brazilian programmer fascinated by both ColecoVision and Konami MSX games. This is the reason why he is currently porting Konami MSX games to ColecoVision, which is a real challenge because the ColecoVision console has less RAM than MSX1 computers. Read the first part of an interview with this developer here.
Since a few months a VG5000 emulator is being developed by a team specialized in the emulation of the French Thomson computers. The Philips VG5000 can be seen as a pre-MSX1 machine but it uses a different videochip, being the STM EF9345.