Manuel Bilderbeek recently sent us a link to an installation guide for openMSX in MacOSX, published on the French Mac emulation website Mac-emu.net.
ag0ny has just submitted a very interesting post to his weblog, stating the One Chip MSX1 might go on sale any time now.
MSX Blue - launched
A new MSX community portal, MSX Blue has been launched. This bilingual (English and French) website includes a forum and intends to be an independant place for MSX information and discussion.
MSX História - Updates
The Konami cartridge label preservation website MSX História has been updated with a new layout of the frontpage. The site now contains 25 Gradiente-style cartridge labels that can be printed and then used to make damaged cartridges look like new again.
As we reported earlier, Falcom announced a new Ys game, of which little more than the title was known. Now, more information and screen shots can be found on the Ys: The Oath in Felghana website.
MSXPró - Updates
The Brazilian MSX portal MSXPró has been updated once again, adding datasheets of the following MSX (related) chips:
- HD6845 - 80 column video controller (VMX-80)
- LM1889 - Video encoder and RF modulator (HotBit)
- MC1374 - RF modulator (Expert)
- MC1377 - RGB encoder (Expert)
- 4164 - RAM (Expert/HotBit)
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Cross Blaim in EGG
Amusement Center have added dB-Soft's Cross Blaim to the online retrogaming store Project EGG.
Palette Editor 1.1
Albert Beevendorp released a new version of Palette Editor, a tool which can be used to alter the palette of the MSX2 to your own liking (or to one of the presets) in order to make games that don't change the palette (at least all MSX1 games) look different.
Source: MSX Mailinglist
Patriek Lesparre has updated MSX Banzai! with Henrik Gilvad's original documentation to V9990 PowerBASIC. On MSX Banzai!, you can also find a frequently updated V9990 programmers manual.
Jon Cortazar Abraido (Viejo_archivero) sent us a special nominee to the second MSX in the Media Challenge: The Spanish TV Station Antena3 used a Sony MSX computer as a prop in a Star Trek parody for the TV-show Homo Zapping.
