Our Dutch visitors probably know the television show Game Kings, which is regularly being broadcast on the Dutch Music TV station The Box.
The Dutch MSX group MCWF announced the dates of the first three MCWF meetings of the year, which are to be held on January 29th, April 2nd and June 4th. More information on these MSX user meetings in Hoorn can be found in our list of MSX fairs and meetings.
For the second year in a row we are going to try and find out which of the newsposts published on the MRC was the most important MSX news of the year.
KSR Sound Driver 050108
Boukichi is rapidly improving his KSR Sound Driver, as just a couple of days after the previous version a new one is released.
As we announced ealier Konami has re-released Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake for mobile phones. nf_ban of Gigamix Online made a photo-report of the commercial comeback of this great MSX 2 classic.
Bargain 5.42
A new version of Bargain, an image compression, decompression toolkit for SCREEN 5 to SCREEN 12 has been released. In the new release the '^' key can be used to change drives in the filebrowser, while the compression information block while displaying images now also shows the filename. As usual, the source codes are included as well.
Recently a few more IPS patches have been added to the MSX IPS Patch Archive:
- Hinotori cheat patch made by Patrick van Arkel (Vampier)
- SD-Snatcher improved translation patch
Note the SD-Snatcher improved translation patch is the first IPS patch for disk images made for MSX.
On MSX an IPS patch can be applied with <
blueMSX Launcher 1.2
A new version of the launcher for blueMSX, developed by Sam Elsharif, has been released and is available on the resource page of the blueMSX site.
New features are:
- you can create more than 2 databases
- you can drag and drop a new file to an existing database
KSR Sound Driver 050105
A couple of days after the previous release a new version of the KSR Sound Driver was released.
