Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves / Scheherezad-ie had a thousand tales / But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves / You got a brand of magic never fails / You got some power in your corner now / Some heavy ammunition in your camp / You got some punch, pizzazz, yahoo and how / See all you gotta do is rub that lamp / And I'll say / Mister Aladdin, sir / What will your pleasure be?
The fourth quarter of 2k10 has just begun, and to the majority of our visitors that means the days are getting shorter and the weather is getting colder. Not a bad setting at all to spend some more time behind that trusty old MSX, is it?
MSXRio 2010
The MSXRio user group invites everyone to visit the 2010 edition of MSXRio, the meeting for MSX fans in or around Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). It's been organized since 1997 already, making it one of the more successful MSX meetings world wide, so write down October 9th into your agendas!
At the end of this week, the Bonami Retro Fair takes place. It's in the time slot where the former Bussum fair used to be, and can thus it be seen as a kind of replacement. The list of booths is probably complete by now - 37 names.
Game developer Imanok is no stranger in these revival years. One just has to mention games like Traffic Jam and the hilarious Txupinazo! to be convinced by the general quality of his output.
Today was the day of Retromallorca, a meeting full o' computer legends from the 80's; MSX, Commodore, Macintosh, Apple, Spectrum, Amiga and more! There's a lot of photo and video coverage of this event, including media coverage.
GXSCC for Mac OS-X
Mac OS-X users can now easily run the unique GXSCC player on their Macs. It's a wrapper that's allow easy use of GXSCC on the Mac environment almost like a Mac application.
For the sixth time in a row, January will be the month of the annual MSX Fair in Nijmegen. In 2006 it took over the time slot left open by the discontinued MSX fair in Oss. After the MSX fair in Bussum was discontinued it has since become the only pure-MSX fair in The Netherlands.
Darkstone has been working on a new MSXdev entry for a while already; a mix of action and puzzle. The title suggests a typical fantasy environment; the era of wizardry and knights.
msxDS 0.86
A new version of msxDS, an MSX/MSX2/MSX2+ emulator for DS/DS Lite, was released yesterday.
