The Lord dies, long live the Lord! From Lord Zett comes the sixth entry for MSXdev'10: Daq, Lord of Idar. In this dice controlled board game, four aspiring players battle for the title of Lord.
Happy 2011
With the whole crew finally sober again: we wish you all the best for the new year, may your MSX activities prosper! At least for us it will be a special year; the msx.org domain will celebrate its 15th anniversary in 2011, but more importantly: we will launch our new website. "I have heard that before" you may think, and that's right. And so has the crew, since 2007. But this year..
Mariënberg auction 2011
An ongoing tradition, Dutch MSX club MSX Vriendenclub Mariënberg will once again organize their annual auction. The auction is meant to preserve all sorts of MSX hardware and software from the bin, and find a new owner for it. It doesn't matter whether it's modest, rare, great or expanded; everything is welcome and all the profits go to the seller.
Vampire Killer TAS
Konami's Castlevania is a game franchise of 38 games already, one of them being our own good old Vampire Killer. A gamer named scrimpeh managed to finish this game in a mere 17:32 using openMSX and its range of emulation tools.
The Pets Mode have released an update of their MSXdev'10 entry Hans' Adventure. Adjustments have been made towards the map and the English texts in various parts of the game and manual.
Meanwhile, the main prize has grown to €266 and a Nowind cartridge.
A new year, a new month, most probably a new website this year, but foremost: a new overview of what has been downloaded the most in December 2010. As can be expected, new entries do very well.
It's time to start the fifth round of voting in the Ultimate MSX Game Character Battle Brawl! Of the 296 characters that initially joined the competition, 60 made it to the current round. Only 30 will move on to round 6. You can help decide which game characters are going to move on, by filling in a votesheet in this forum topic.
Happy Square Christmas!
For all the fans of 8-bit computing, developer group 303bcn has created a Christmas wish in MSX demo style, programmed in C (SDCC) + ASM.
