Sometimes dreams come true, and this time is the announcement that the MIDI-PAC will start selling at the next Nijmegen fair. Cloaked in a little cartridge this device holds three processing units, with the main one running at eight times the speed of your z80. It does only one thing: real-time conversion of OPLL data to MIDI commands.
MSX-Datapack scanned
The MSX-Datapack is the most complete official documentation about the MSX standard. Konamito and Dioniso scanned all the manuals and made it available. If you have good knowledge of the Japanese language you are invited to help out with the translation project.
PSGed v2 announced
Last December, Amusement Center released Compile's diskstation no. 6 in the EGG store. You can read the English announcement below. With all those English pages up and running we have the obvious question: when may gaijin start to order?
Slotman informs us about yet another Colecovision conversion: Roc'n rope.
This time you are some blue monkey, who is in urgently need of throwing ropes to get to higher grounds. With all kinds of pesky enemies and fitting music hours of fun for family and friends.
The games will be released through Matra's Shockware program, to please even more friends.
Bargain 12.00
The Japanese SCREEN0-12 image compression suite Bargain has been updated to version 12. Unfortunately the page doesn't reveal much of the new functionality. Ready to dive into the deep?
Konamiman informed us that two updates have been submitted to his website:
DenYoNet TCP/IP UNAPI BIOS 0.4. This is a ROM file that will made your DenYoNet compatible with the TCP/IP UNAPI specification, so that you can use networking applications directly, without having to install a separate TCP/IP stack.
GETURL.COM: URL extractor 1.0.
meisei 1.3.2
A new version of meisei was just released, exactly a year after the previous version.
Space Manbow TurboFix
Here's a great new year's gift for fans of Konami's Space Manbow - and who isn't!
It's high time for a new round in our Ultimate MSX Game Character Battle Brawl! We're slowly closing in on the grand finaly with 32 characters left in the tournament which started with the massive amount of 296 competitors. In this round, things are going to get particularly tough as some of the 'usual suspects' are likely to not make it to the seventh round.
