Complete POPCoRN
The Japanese MSX group POPCoRN have released a CD-ROM called Complete POPCoRN on which contains all MSX software POPCoRN has released in the past 10 years. Apart from this software the CD also contains some Audio CD tracks with songs from their productions.
Once again, five more nominees to the MSX in the Media Challenge have been added to the list of nominees.
Digital Retro Book
Source: CVML
This Digital Retro coffee table book with 192 pages and 350 photos, tells you about 44 different computers build in the seventies and eighties. This book reveals the inspiration that lead to the creation of those machines, why there were build that way and with all specifications per machine.
MSX Top Secret 2
In May we reported about MSX Top, who had released an MSX development guide in Portuguese called MSX Top Secret in 1996. At the time of writing, MSX Top were already working on MSX Top Secret 2. As of today, MSX Top Secret 2 is on sale.
Source: MSX Mailinglist
A month ago A&L Software released version 0.3 of the English and Portuguese translation of Illusion City. As of today a new version, the MSX Jaú Edition, is available.
The announcement of the One Chip MSX is still getting more and more attention in the media.
The Japanese composer Symray Scopio has just released a new, short OPLL based song called Under the Banner.
MuMem 0.01a
We recently reported about the initial release of MuMem, a tool for creating instrument data for several wave memory soundchips, including Konami's SCC. As of today a new version is available. These are the changes:
- Added support for signed 7-bit data
- Added a function to invert odd data only
- Minor bugfixes
TRCAS by Martos
The possibility of loading tapes in MSXturboR computers has been discussed for ages. As MSXturboR computers don't have a cassette connector it was said that Panasonic FS-A1ST and Panasonic FS-A1GT computers weren't fully MSX compliant. Now Martos has created a program that makes possible to load tapes in MSXturboR computers through the PCM input connector.
Kralizec has just started distributing on-line the faithful conversion of "Bomb Jack" shown at BCN Party. Requirements for this game are MSX2 with 128KB VRAM. You can buy a copy at Kralizec's website for a price of 15 Euro (shipping costs not included).
Relevant link: www.kurarizeku.net
