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Steampunk casemod

by Hydragon on 03-02-2011, 00:43
Topic: Hardware

Lord S.M.Zett recently submitted his entry DAQ Lord of Idar to MSXDev'10, yet keeps himself busy with his other MSX hobby: case mods. You may have seen one or more of Darkstone's spectacular case mods during fairs and meetings. His latest case mod, in a style called steampunk, is mainly made of wood and contains an NMS8245 motherboard.

Bargain 12.01

by snout on 03-02-2011, 00:08
Topic: Software
Tags: Utilities

Katsu has once again released an update of his image compression suite Bargain.

Near Dark re-launch website

by snout on 02-02-2011, 23:45
Topic: Websites

A few days ago, the SMDNearDark released a new version of Runit - a tool to run disk images directly from IDE/SCSI based devices on real MSX computers.

The mp3 corner of our free MSX downloads database just got a massive update, as MrRudi and his fellow composers gave us permission to add all the tracks from Arranger - The Complete Works for all of our visitors to enjoy.

MSX Control poll down, MSXdev10 poll up

by wolf_ on 02-02-2011, 14:29
Topic: MRC
Tags: Polls

In December, we started a poll in which we asked how you would like to control MSX software. After 88 votes, here are the results:

  1. Keyboard (72.73%)
  2. Joystick (19.32%)
  3. Joypad (7.95%)

The vast majority favors the keyboard, and for some models - like the excellent Philips NMS8245 - it's certainly a joy to use it.

C-BIOS 0.25

by wolf_ on 01-02-2011, 21:18
Topic: Emulation

A new version of C-BIOS, the free system ROM for emulators, has been released only moments ago.

MSX-BASIC Contest 2010 - Results

by JohnHassink on 01-02-2011, 14:41
Topic: MRC
Tags: Challenges

All the thrill and suspense of this year's MSXdev freshly came to a conclusion and as we speak, the jury probably retreats to decide upon an undoubtedly hard verdict. In the mean time, another popular game development contest was running at Konamito.

MSXdev10 - Closed

by wolf_ on 01-02-2011, 00:45
Topic: MRC
Tags: Challenges

The yearly MSX game programming challenge has come to an end. Not with the big last minute rush we hoped for, but nonetheless with eight entries; eight brand new MSX1 games, all for free!

Ultimate MSX Game Character Battle Brawl [round 8]

by snout on 01-02-2011, 00:24
Topic: MRC
Tags: Polls

With only 10 contestants left, the choices are getting harder and harder in our Ultimate MSX Game Character Battle Brawl! What started as a massive tournament with no less than 296 contestants is now rapidly progressing towards an exciting finale.

MRC Download Charts - January 2011

by snout on 01-02-2011, 00:11
Topic: MRC

The first month of 2011 has come to an end already - and while we are waiting on the last details of the MSXdev 2010 finale - we might as well have a look at some statistics. With a distance, the newly released DISK tops the charts.

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