aaMSX.org offline
aaMSX.org, once a very active and useful MSX website, is offline. The domain points to the owners' (Agony) personal blog. On that blog a small page on MSX can still be found. Though the famous MSX 'newbie' articles, amongst other interesting information, seem lost.
Yupipati - Promo
Magapeich of Paxanga has just released a promo version of the game Yupipati, a cool variation to the old paper, scissor, rocks principle he released on the 26th MSX User meeting in Barcelona. This promo version is limited to four characters and versus mode.
Today the Brazilian MSX portal MSXPró are celebrating their sixth anniversary, adding the following contents to their website:
- Schematics of the DDX MSX1 to MSX2 convertor kit
- Schematics and a picture of Leonard Silva de Oliveira's OPL3 sound cartridge, which is partially MSX-AUDIO and partially Moonsound compatible
Paragon - Website opened
It looks like the Dutch MSX group Paragon are back in action.
Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha released the following patches for ExecROM today:
- Nemesis 1 - invincible mode, infinite "HYPER" password, "Twinbee" mode
- Nemesis 1 SCC - invincible mode
- Nemesis 2 - invincible mode
- Nemesis 3 - invincible mode
- Salamander - invincible mode
- Parodius -
KSR Sound Driver 041230
On December 30th, 2004 Boukichi released a new version of his KSR Sound driver.
Source: Ikeda's MSX PRINT
Chabinn, the well-known Japanese music composer of AlgoRhythm, has created a classic game song by using PSG, SCC and OPLL (using the MPK Music driver) and the [blueMSX emulator.
News2004 by Infinite
A year ago nobody had ever heard from Infinite. But after this fresh MSX group released Digital Snow during the MRC Snowfall Challenge on January 5th, 2004, all that changed.
Their first MSX demo ever became 3rd on the Snowfall Challenge.
On May 14th, 2004 the Portuguese MSX Resource Center was launched. As with the Spanish and Dutch MSX Resource Center, a dedicated team of volunteers spend a lot of time on translating the latest - and older - MSX news from the original English MRC.
The online MSX software, screenshots and cheats database Generation MSX has been updated once again. Siince we last reported about it a lot of software titles released by Alamaiah were added to the database. Apart from that the navigation of the website has improved a little.
