Slide show disks
Source: MSX-Files
Slotman and Lumberjack made 3 disks with slide shows. Images chosen are a collection of snails, a collection of Amstrad game screens and a collection of hentai screens converted from PC and arcade games.If you like pictures, you should check them out.
Source: MSX Mailinglist
In the past, Yamaha released two soundmodules for the Yamaha CX5M MSX computers. To use these expansions on other MSX computers, a special adapter is needed. Both expansions were quite ahead of their time. The software of the SFG-01 was only capable of saving to cassette, while the software of the SFG-05 could save to disk as well.
Source: MSX Files
Shalom, the sequel of Maze of Galious, has reached a new stage in Portugese translation. The new beta 8 allows you to beat bosses 4 and 5.
MSX Artwork Contest
The MSX Games bOX is organizing an artwork contest which you are free to participate in. Participants are free to submit any new home-made design on the MSX Theme, be it wallpapers, screensavers or an 'artistic' contribution. Deadline for submissions is set to 31 October, 2002.
C-BIOS 0.11
New versions of the MSX Compatible BIOS (C-BIOS) arrive almost every day now. In a very short timespan, Boukichi released version 0.10, 0.10a and version 0.11.Since version 0.09, several bugs were fixed, and the init_SC5 routine was added.
Hans Otten pointed us to the following message on comp.os.cpm:
"I, Leor Zolman, hereby and forever more release all rights to BDS C to anyone and everyone who'd like to make copies, download, use, sell, whatever, both the original retail packages and all source code, including to the compiler itself, wherever they may be able to get a copy"
This BDS-C compiler is a C compiler for cpm that a
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C-BIOS 0.09
After releasing SDCC 0.1, Boukichi also released a new version of the MSX-compatible BIOS: C-BIOS.
MSX Pad 1.4
Source: MSX Files
Iconsoft released a new version of MSX Pad. The cross-development Pascall IDE.
Source: MSX-Files
After creating a fully compatible PSG replacement in FPGA, Marco Antonio Simon Dal Poz succeeded in creating the MSX PPI in FPGA as well. Both projects are now part of the 'Brazilian MSX Revival', which aims to recreate all MSX-chips - and thus an entire MSX computer - in FPGA.