Without a doubt, DJANGO is one of the most active game translators in the MSX community. Recently, he translated Let's take the A-Train to English.
BARGAIN 14.00
The all-screen-mode image compression toolkit BARGAIN as received yet another update, stepping up to version 14.
The ever-expanding shrine of maps, known as MSX Solutions seems to be on a roll once more.
After a lot of hard work, combined with efforts from the MSX community, Brazilian MSX fan sd_snatcher offers his latest work to the community: enhancement patches for Konami's classic puzzle platform game
The game Nuclear Bowls allows you to be a cute robot attempting to prevent a nuclear catastrophy. Those who ever played it know it's not quite easy. Once again, MSX Solutions comes to our aid.
For quite a while TNI has been working on MS², a new tracker based on MBFM and MBWave but nowadays with almost entirely rewritten code. MBFM and MBWave are by now stone age tools to create music for the Moonsound, and utmost creativity was required from composers to deal with the limitations in order to get something decent out of it.
Nextor 2.0 Alpha 1
Konamiman has released the first version of his new development: Nextor, an enhanced version of MSX-DOS 2. The features that Nextor adds to MSX-DOS include:
- Native support for the FAT16 file system. No need to install any patch. Also, booting from a FAT16 device is possible.
- New, enhanced and fully documented device driver system.
Polka! Color Changer
Imagine you have a Polka! file with a lot of tiles and now you need to change the palette order of the colors for some reason (typically you want to use multicolor sprites in screen 4). Until now, the only way to do that was to change manually the colors on all the tiles. Now you can use Polka! Color Changer.
Dutch readers, especially those who lack early issues of MSX Computer Magazine in their collection, will be delighted to know that some of the really old issues have finally been put online. This is a fairly large project, so it's not complete yet. It's not just about scanning the lot, it's also about acquiring permission to publish these old articles. Not every author has been found yet.
