Two years ago the last spanish magazine CALL MSX disappeared. AAMSX announced a new Spanish paper magazine: MSX AREA. The first edition will be for for sale at the upcoming meeting in Barcelona on Saturday June 19th. The people behind MSX AREA are Juanmi Ortuño and Julio Gracia.
CVML Meeting 2010
On Saturday, September 25th, there will be a retro gaming and computing day in Putten, the Netherlands. This event is organized by the Computer Verzamelaars (collectors) Mailing List. During the day, you can talk, trade or show here your MSX or other retro computing stuff. The doors of the CVML Meeting are opened from 12:00 till 17:00.
In some past few years, the MSX community was overjoyed with the MSX2 remakes of two vintage isometric labyrinthine games, Alien 8 and Knight Lore, created by Manuel Pazos (Guillian) and Danie
C-BIOS 0.24
A new version of C-BIOS was released today. New in this version, apart from fixing the usual minor niggles:
- VRAM size is now properly checked, fixing R-Type's V9938 detection
- C-BIOS doesn't lie anymore about the interrupt frequency
- Don't di; halt when no ROM is found, the warning in openMSX may be confusing
Pengo gameplay video
A few days ago, we reported about the playable Pengo MSX2 Demo, which lets you play two levels. Today, Paxanga updated their website with a new gameplay video. The video contains four levels and gives you a very good impression about the development.
MIDI-PAC Sample Music
The development of the MIDI-Pac is going well according to SuperSoniqs.
On June 19th, Kralizec will release their new game: The Goonies 'R' Good Enough. Compared to Konami's title, this version is a more accurate adaption of the well known movie from 1985. This new Kralizec game will be on sale at the 37th MSX users meeting in Barcelona.
msxDS 0.83
msxDS, is an MSX emulator for Nintendo DS and DS Lite, which is based on fmsxDS v.0.07 by Nyagosu. msxDS supports MSX/MSX2 and MSX2+ emulation. Today Popolon released an update for msxDS. New in this version:
- Fixed a bug in the management of background color for screen 0 mode
- Added tape emulation.
Over the years, Konami sent penguins all over the world, even into space! While traveling in France, this bird from the South Pole met Django and what happened after that is easy to guess.
