Retroaction reports on MSX
The digitally published Retroaction Magazine puts the focus where you expect it: retro platforms. A landscape format magazine with quite a lot of pages, all in full color.
MSX day Hoorn
On May 30th, MSX Club West Friesland has been around for five years, after a restart made in 2004. To celebrate this milestone, everyone is invited to visit this Dutch club.
New blog by ricbit
Brazilian MSX user Ricardo Bittencourt (ricbit) just started a brand new blog. This blog contains, among others, pictures from MSX games. The blog is available in the Portuguese language.
J.E.T.P.A.C.
Imanok's latest MSX game, J.E.T.P.A.C., is going to be released on cartridge at the 35th Barcelona RU, the 30th of May. It is a horizontally scrolling shooter game which takes place in the near future.
MSX in rklok's showroom
Ronnie van der Kolk, who often uses our trading & collecting forum for MSX software and hardware, has just opened a real showroom in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands. In this showroom, various Japanese retro products can be found, for Nintendo, Sega, PC-Engine, Neo Geo, and MSX!
MSXart unlimited - Konamiland
MSXosaure has submitted an image for MSXart unlimited, the neverending picture challenge, organized by Passion MSX. It's a park with a pond, surrounded by various Konami characters from the -very- early days. Currently five images have been submitted already, which is more than the 2008 edition ended with.
Split it 1.0
Teambomba programmer msd has just released a small DOS2 utility called Split it. With Split it it's possible to extract disk images from a concatenated disk image. A simple example would be a multi-disk game and a relevant savegame disk all concatenated into one.
MSX1EMU 1.2
A new version of MSX1EMU has been released and added to our ever growing freeware downloads section. MSX1EMU emulates an MSX1 on an MSX turbo-R.
The Castle - article
Passion MSX just added a review/walkthrough of The Castle to their article section. The article features screenshots of the various rooms you'll be wandering through during this game, complete with a little guide as for what to do. The Castle is a large maze-like platformer, released by ASCII halfway the 80's.
MSXdev regulars Karoshi Corporation are joining the parade again. This time Karoshi Corporation they will enter the arena with a new puzzle game: Ba-Boon! In this game your task is to get all bananas of each stage by bombing your monkey away in order to get all the fruits during its flight!
