Are you ready for some serious voting? Right here you will find the fourth round of voring in the Most essential MSX event (1982-2005) megapoll. From the initial 78 nominees, 26 moved on to this round. Every single vote counts, and the more votes the better so what's keeping you?
It's the first of the month again, so lets have a look at the most popular downloads from the previous month.
FMPSG006 - Cyanic beat
The FMPSG group have announced FMPSG - Cyanic beat is to be released on October 9th during the m3 hobby music market. The CD is to contain 27 tracks (8 originals and 17 re-arrangements).
Edson Pereira has put several pictures, taken on the MSX Pizza 2006 meeting in Brazil, on this website. This meeting was held in Novo Friburgo, Brazil on September 23rd.
On October 8th, another edition of the Italian retro computer meeting Spresiano will be held. Spresiano is an all-round retro computing event with a lot of attention for MSX. This edition is dedicated to the loving memory of Giorgio Poggi (Italian translations of Japanese videogames, for ex.
MSX80 release 2
JR, developer of fMSX/S60 - the MSX emulator for Series 60 mobile phones - has just released the second version of MSX80, an MSX emulator for the Nokia 9300, the Nokia 9300i and the Nokia 9500 phone models.
PSPMSX 1.0.6
Yesterday ZX-81 released a new version of PSPMSX, an MSX emulator for the Sony PSP.
mailing list
D4 Enterprise have just announced that more than 4,500 people have shown interest in the One Chip MSX, which means that sales of the One Chip MSX is to start soon.
3MHz have just released a nice tool called SCMD, which converts your SCC cartridge into a 5-channel PCM player. Add an extra SCC in slot 2, and you even have 10 channels at your disposal. On the website, a sample mp3 file can be heard.
SymbOS 1.1 alpha4
A new preview version of SymbOS - a multitasking, window-based GUI - for MSX has just been released. New in this version:
- Linear graphic support in SymSee, which allows to load 4 and 16 colour SGX files of any size
- Some improvements and bug fixing
For more information on SymbOS please visit the SymbOS website.
