Students, and a lot of young and mid-aged professionals, used to be (or still are) demosceners. Sometimes these roots find their way into their career, like in case of Markku Reunanen from Finland. He made a thesis about the demoscene for his study at Aalto University, a subject that - in a formal way - hasn't been documented a lot, so far.
It's summer time! Temperatures are tropical, two major MSX countries face eachother in the World Cup, schools 'n colleges are probably over for a few months. In short, things are splendid, and time for a new poll it is! Prior to the new poll, let's have a look at the outcome of the previous poll. How to distribute modified commercial games?
MSXdev'10 - New sponsor
Goonies 'R' Good Enough
They call themselves "The Goonies" - The secret caves. The old lighthouse. The lost map. The treacherous traps. The hidden treasure. And Sloth...
The MSX2 remake of arcade blockbuster Pengo, under development by Spanish software producer Paxanga Soft has left the factory and was launched at the 37th edition of the RU (Reunión de Usuarios)
Brazilian MSX user Ricardo Bittencourt (ricbit) has created a fun little demo in screen 5, showing a fiery animation which also has some interaction to offer; close your eyes (or keep them open to see it better) and give it your hand to use the left and right cursor keys in order to control the movement.
Pandora-MSX 1.1.0
Yesterday, Pandora-MSX 1.1.0 was released. This is Marat Fayzullin's fMSX, ported to Pandora, the compact handheld featuring a Qwerty keyboard and lots more. Once again a penguin gazes at you, at the Pandora website, certainly the most popular inhabitant of Antarctica we've ever come across.
The first part of another game exposed by only_69: Mortadelo y Filemon II, known also as Clever & Smart II or Mort & Phil II.
msxDS 0.84
A new version of msxDS, an MSX/MSX2/MSX2+ emulator for DS/DS Lite, was released today. New in this version:
- Fixed a small bug in the keyboard
- Added Kanji ROM support
- Added emulation clock (RTC)
- Improved ROM support
