BiFi sent us the fourth entry to the MRC MuSiXmas challenge: an entry completely written in MSX-BASIC: Oldschool MSXmas.
Manuel Bilderbeek informed us about a Metal Gear virus that disables antivirus software and filebrowsers on Symbian OS. People who run fMSX/S60 to play Konami's Metal Gear on their Symbian phones can relax, as the virus has nothing to do with this combo.
Konamiman has just released a new utility for MSX that allows you to create a ROM image from the contents of a DOS2 RAMdisk. The result can, for instance, be flashed on a Mega Flash ROM cartridge, resulting in a read-only diskdrive with the original contents of the RAMdisk.
Gremlin B.2.3
Cyberknight released a new version of the disassembler called Gremlin. It recognizes both the Z80 and the R800 instruction set and comes with many options that make it easier to disassemble large files.
On December 16th we started the MRC MuSiXmas Challenge. The objective? To create a christmas tune on MSX withih 10 days. The prize? A cool MSX button for every contestant and an ASCII MSX Magazine 1 (including MSXPLAYer) for the winner.
Pasmo 0.5.1
A new version of the Z80 cross-assembler Pasmo has been released.
Amusement Center have just added a new title to Plus!: Compile's Disc station Special 4. Plus!
Maggoo has just released a small demo which demonstrates what an MSX port of the popular Gameboy Advance game Kuru Kuru Kururin could look like.
SjASM v0.39e
A new version of SjASM, the XL2S Entertainment two pass macro Z80 cross-assembler (supporting local labels, modules, source include, binary include, conditional assembly, 32 bit expression evaluation, storage maps, structures, a lot of undocumented Z80 opcodes and who knows what more) has just been released.
Only some small bug-fixes in this release:
- Unreferenced labels are indicated wit
