Downloads top 10, April 2006
It's the first of the month, so lets have a look at which files have been downloaded the most during the previous month.
Although probably more people had run into the problem before already, Diederick76 recently started a thread on our active MSX forum, mentioning the trouble he had when using xcopy on FAT16 partitions. Sooner or later, an 'Invalid attributes' error would occur.
MSX Advance 0.2
About a month after the release of MSX Advance 0.1, the first (and currently only) MSX1 emulator for Gameboy Advance, an update has been released.
Konami is currently working on a Castlevania game for Nintendo DS called Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin.
In memoriam: Giorgio Poggi
On April 23rd, 2006, Giorgio Poggi - an active MSX user from Italy - passed away, after a long battle with a disease that leaves no escape. Giorgio was known from the Italian translations of many MSX games, including Metal Gear and YS. Our sympathy goes out to Giorgio's friends and relatives.
Diederick de Vries has released three products on his website, available for free, under the GNU Public License.
- MKD - A replacement for MSXDOS2's mkdir command, which allows you to create several directories at once
- Libposix - A library of useful Hitech C functions (strtok(), strcspn(), strspn() and strpbrk())
FMPSG5 - Elemental master
This Saturday, the fifth edition of the FMPSG compilation series will be released on the M3 (Music + Mediamix Market) event in Tokyo, Japan. The album contains 27 chiptune tracks, including 4 tracks recorded from MSX.
Starquake map
MSX Solutions has been updated once again with a complete map of Starquake, released by Bubble Bus in 1985.
XZR in Project EGG
Amusement Center have re-released the PC-8801 version of Telenet's RPG XZR. The game was released on MSX as well, in 1988.
