100% Music by STUFF
During the preparations of the large FutureDisk newspost, one additional product by S.T.U.F.F. was made ready for release. As it isn't a FutureDisk, it just got its own spot in our downloads section.
Back in the 90's, our MSX scene witnessed a number of 'me too' trends. It all started with the music revolution by way of FAC Soundtracker. Suddenly lots of people wanted to make a new tracker, partly because Soundtracker lacked a few essential features, but partly because it was just fun to do. Music disks followed and suddenly everyone was making a music disk.
Those who keep a close eye on only_69's maps will notice that he favors Spectrum conversions. Some of these conversions are colorful, others are monochrome but with excellent artwork nonetheless. That's the beauty of these maps, to see how game maps are built, which is excellent study material for game developers.
blueMSX 2.8.2
A new version of blueMSX has been released.
MSX Solutions: Colony
Once again does the Walhalla of game maps feature a new map: Colony. At first sight this 1987 game by Mastertronics looks like it's not a large game, but it's nonetheless great to have a map for it. Perhaps looks are deceiving and the actual game time is considerable, at least one famous map maker knows.
MSX Solutions changed a little bit this weekend. Clicking a map in the downloads section still gives that pop up window, but only_69 now adds some background information about the games he has mapped.
MSX Solutions: Zanac
blueMSXnano 0.9
This year has been an interesting year for emulator fans. Many MSX emulators for different host computers have seen the light. Today Daniel Vik released a new text only MSX1 emulator that runs in a DOS shell. The emulator is intended to support enough hardware emulation to run MSX basic in a DOS shell.
Since its creation, a few weeks ago, the new game brand RELEVO Videogames has been quite active.
With all these maps by only_69, it's easy to forget that there's another MSX fan around who has regular contributions to the MSX scene: Django. With 51 partial translations of Japanese MSX games (including many text based games such as RPGs) he makes the life of non-Japanese gamers a lot easier.
