X-Tazy introdemo 1.2
A few weeks ago Andre Kuepfer contacted us about X-Tazy, one of the most promising GFX9000 projects for MSX to date. X-Tazy was a high speed, high spec shooter for MSX turboR with Moonsound and GFX9000 that unfortunately never was finished completely.
Universe Unknown: final
After several weeks of additional development -and admittedly a break of a few months- Infinite released the final version of Universe: Unknown, the horizontal shooter which, based on points from the juryreport, became runner-up in the
TinySprite 0.4.2
Rafael Jannone has just released TinySprite 0.4.2, a Javascript MSX Sprite Editor with the following features:
- 16x16 sprite editing for MSX1 and MSX2/2+
- automatic "OR" layering on MSX2/2+ projects
- customizable color palette (double-click)
- exports to Basic, ASM, Pascal and C (with optional loader for Basic
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.
