Bargain 6.60
A new version of Bargain has been released. Since we last reported about the tool, error messages were improved, support for interlaced images was added, the user-interface was improved, it has been optimized for speed and better compression and several bugs were removed.
The new year has just begun and with our New Years wishes online it's high time for the MRC Download Charts of December 2008.
Happy 2009!
Finally, with the MRC crew sober again (and the hangovers long gone) it's time to wish you a very, very happy 2009! Looking back on 2008, one can safely say it was yet another good year for the MSX community.
C-BIOS 0.23
Barely a week after the release of C-BIOS 0.22, the C-BIOS team manages to whip out version 0.23! C-BIOS is a substitute BIOS which can be used for running MSX emulators.
MSX explorer only_69 shows he's at his game again in 2009. This time he has mapped Goody (MSX2), an adventure game by Opera Soft.
In three weeks, January 24th, the annual MSX Fair in Nijmegen will take place again. Currently, the following participants will be present at this event:
- openMSX Team - Demonstration of the upcoming openMSX 0.7.0., the new Catapult and the debugger GUI.
There seems to be no slowing down for Django in the new year. While 2008 has already shown a great many partial translations from him, his first new partial translation of 2009 has already seen the light of the day. It concerns the adventure Jikuu no Hanayome, also known as Time Lady / Heroic Fantasy.
In less than 36 hours, 2008 will be a goner. And still, Brazilian map expert only_69 manages to spice up the last days with three new maps.
New Nemesis remake
On MSX, the Nemesis saga is one of the most popular game concepts by Konami, perhaps only topped by their Metal Gear games. And not without reason: the Nemesis games (including Parodius and Salamander) were great action games with memorable music, stunning graphics for MSX1 and great gameplay.
Swedish MSX programmer Sdw has just finished his first MSX demo. It's a production with a style similar to modern retro demos on other systems, in other words: no boring scroll 'n logo, just great effects such as bumpmapping, fullscreen plasmas, etc. Requirements for this fresh new demo are: MSX1 with 64kB RAM and 16kB VRAM. Enjoy!
