Time flies when you're having fun: the first round of voting in our quest for the Best MSX demo ever has already been closed. All entries have now moved on to the second round, in which they will compete in a different order. Only the top 66% of both rounds combined will move on to the third round.
A new month, a new poll! Prior to presenting the new poll, let's have a look at the outcome of the poll from January. How should the MSX evolve?
meisei 1.0.2
A new version of meisei has been released. This emulator gained quite some attention during its first release as it has a number of unusual features such as mirroring the screen and a back-in-time feature to create perfect speedruns.
The annual Mariënberg auction of last Saturday turned out to be a succes. Tens of people showed up, including Dutch MSX icon Wammes Witkop, former chief editor and publisher of MSX Computer Magazine and MSX Computer & Club Magazine.
The 1985 Capcom game Ghosts'n Goblins has been ported to MSX! The original game had been ported to many systems already, but an MSX port was never realized. In this platform game you control knight Arthur through the various stages to save his beloved who's been kidnapped by a messenger of Satan.
On the rapidly expanding 1chipMSX information page new tutorials have been published as a result of continuous requests from a part of the 1chipMSX community: a tutorial about using disk images, a tutorial about the ESE-RAM and ESE-SCC and a tutorial about loading ROM images.
Last week MRC visitors could cast their nominations for the 'Best MSX demo ever' megapoll. The result is a list of 74 great MSX demos from various groups that are now running for the prestigious title. During the next 3 days you can cast your votes in the first round of the megapoll right here. It's simple and fun!
Airwaves 26
Chiptune encyclopedia poke-1,170 has released episode 26 of his Airwaves radio show, which is dedicated to chip music and electronic music.
The next version of the MSX/MSX2/MSX2+ emulator, fMSX, has just been released! Starting with this release, fMSX-Unix support is reintroduced. The new fMSX-Unix is available in the source code form from the web site. Here is the full list of changes, additions and fixes in fMSX 3.5:
- After a long pause, the fMSX-Unix port was finally updated.
This saturday, february the 9th, dutch MSX club MSX Vriendengroep Mariënberg will organize her annual MSX auction. With this auction, the club aims to prevent MSX software and hardware from ending up in the trash bin, and this event is thus the ideal place for collectors to hunt for MSX goodies. The meeting opens at 10:00.
