On December 3rd, 2005, the 28th MSX user meeting in Barcelona, organized by the Asociación Amigos del MSX, was held. Four active Dutch MSX users (Arjan Bakker, Marcel Delorme, Jorrith Schaap and Sjoerd Lammertsma) visited the meeting and took many pictures during their stay in Barcelona.
Penguin killer
Norakomi of RenovatiO, the developers of Space Manbow 2, has released Penguin Killer, a remake of the BGMs to Konami's popular MSX games
SymbOS for MSX - preview
Regular visitors of our active MSX forum could have followed it all from the start. On October 30th, 2005, in this forum thread, the first steps were taken that would lead to porting SymbOS to MSX.
After releasing the final version of Universe: Unknown, another bug was discovered in Infinite's impressive shooter. The mid restart-point in level 6 was placed in the middle of a wall. In the version released just now, this bug was fixed.
GEM 0.8 - MSX2+ fix
The MSX IPS patch archive was updated once again with a patch for TNI's impressive Gameboy Emulator GEM. The patch fixes a bug which caused corrupted output on MSX2+ computers.
Computer wars - English
mars2000you, MRC regular and webmaster of msxblue, has released an English version of Crappysoft's entry to MSXdev'04: Computer Wars. The manual to the game was translated as well. With this adaptation, the game now runs from DSK, allowing you to run the game in R800 mode as well.
blueMSX 2.5 - beta
The blueMSX team have released a beta version of the upcoming release of blueMSX, version 2.5. One of the main new features in this release is IDE emulation, allowing you to use large harddisk images. If you want to give IDE emulation a try, the beta version just released already supports it.
SaveR, a Spanish MSX user member of Club MESXES, has launched bgMSX, a new site dedicated to songs from MSX games and demos.
MSXdev'06 - Status update
A bit more than a month ago, the MSX1 game development competition MSXdev'06 was launched. With more than 7 months to go to the deadline, a lot has been announced already. Time for an overview:
- Brain Eaters - a new MSX development team, featuring Alfonso D.C.
