Today an update of openMSX Catapult 0.6.0 was released. It is a bug-fix release for Windows users. Shortly after release, the developers of openMSX found out that a small number of users had problems with some registry keys, caused by the wxWidgets library used.
Last night we started taking votes on the 'Most important MSX news of 2005' megapoll, showing working late at night can have some disadvantages. As some nominees were missing and the votesheet contained some errors, we decided to re-start the first round voting with a brand new and now complete list of nominees.
MSX Party Weekend 2006
Following the success of MSX Party Weekend 2005 Dutch MSX community website MSX Posse is to organize another MSX Party Weekend this year. The party is to be held on March 11th and March 12th and takes place in Deventer.
It took us quite a while, but there it finally is: the first round of the 'Most important MSX news of 2005' megapoll. In this megapoll you can decide which is going to be considered as the most important MSX news of 2005.
Ramon Verlinden has published a photo shoot of the MSX fair in Nijmegen on his website. The photo shoot gives a nice overview of the fair.
The Japanese chiptune composer Hackurl has released a remix of the theme songs of several well known Konami shooters. You can download this and many other MSX related mp3 files from Hackurl's website.
JAVA MSX emulators
Both an anonymous Korean developer and Erik Duijs have recently released JAVA based MSX emulators with which you can play MSX games on several platforms.
For the second time, a large box set with classic game music is to be released in Japan. The second Legend of Game Music contains no less than 9 CDs and 1 DVD.
The website of The Darkness God Of Destroy got a little update. First of all, some old content was removed, and some cosmetic changes where made to some of the pages.
MSX Computer Auction
MVM will organise it's annual MSX auction on Saturday, February 11th, 2006. This is a great opportunity to buy or sell your MSX hardware and software. If you've still got some MSX stuff at home you want to get rid of, or are looking for nice MSX goodies, you're welcome to attend. No fees are charged for selling or buying something on the auction, and admission is free as well.
