SMRC2 - #8: The Lost Battle
With only a few days left, some late-minute entries start coming in.
Since recently, our ever growing free downloads database keeps expanding with content from Bart Roijmans.
Bargain 5.50
A new version of Bargain, a lossless image compression/decompression toolkit for MSX was released today. The toolkit claims to achieve impressive results in both compression ratio and decompression speed.
SMRC2 - #7: Omnifarious Steps
From AuroraMSX we received the 7th entry to the Scene Music Remake Challenge #2: Omnifarious Steps.
Last weekend a large group of MSX fans, mainly from the Netherlands and Belgium, traveled to Nijmegen to visit the third annual MSX fair/user meeting in Nijmegen.
Danjovic has managed to write a bitbanged serial routine which is able to transmit data to a PC at speeds of up to 19200bps. In order to accomplish this a TTL to RS232 level shifter is needed, implemented using a transistor.
Using a small program it is possible to intercept the LPRINT hook used by MSX-BASIC to direct output to the serial port.
MSX Posse have updated their website with a large amount of pictures taken on the MSX fair in Nijmegen, which was held last Saturday. The photo shoot includes pictures taken by OeiOeiVogeltje and Malz.
MSX Taper 1.0
Today, cesco released the first version of MSX Taper, a nice utility that can be used to create, edit and manage MSX tape images (.CAS files) for use in MSX emulators.
MSX Solutions - update
Cartographer only_69 has truly found a niche in the MSX scene with his maps.
