And there it is: the third entry to the MRC MuSiXmas Challenge created by Meits from Near Dark. Meits created an MBWAVE tune inspired by the popular TV Series X-Files called Xmas files.
Today we received the second entry to the MRC MuSiXmas challenge, created by composer Atsushi Sugiyama, who is also known as DrMSX.
On the Japanese website MSX Laboraty an article on how to clean the keyboard of the Panasonic MSX turboR was published. The article contains a lot of pictures and therefore is very understandable.
Yesterday we reported about Poke -1,170's Airwaves #4, a one hour radioshow on the local Dutch radiostation Enschede FM, broadcast streaming on the internet over here and also available as a
Konami announced they will release a limited edition of their succesful Playstation 2 game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake eater in Japan on March 29th, 2005.
MSX Vriendenclub Mariënberg announced they will hold an MSX auction on their meeting in February. Anyone who wants to sell or buy MSX products is welcome to join in. The meeting will be held on Saturday, February 12th, 2005.
Pasmo 0.5.0
Earlier this year we reported about Pasmo, a Z80 assembler which can be used for cross-development. Recently a new version of the assembler was released. This version can also generate 8086 code from Z80 sources in binary format for MS-DOS .COM files or in CP/M 86 CMD format.
MSXPro have published a new article on how to create an MSXDOS2 cartridge. This cartridge is needed if you want to use MSXDOS2 on an MSX which has not got these ROMS internally. Most (if not all) IDE and SCSI interfaces already contain MSXDOS2 though.
SDCC 0.3
A new version of the SDCC compiler for MSX was released today. SDCC is an opensource C-compiler for Small Devices. The version Boukichi created compiles C-sources into code that works in an MSX ROM cartridge (.ROM files). In version 0.3 a problem with using global static arrays was fixed.
C-BIOS 0.18
C-BIOS 0.18 has just been released. Its new features are:
- First release since moving to SourceForge.
- Much improved support for MSX2 games
- Graphical boot logo
- Included machine config files for several MSX emulators
- Various bugfixes
The release is packed in a ZIP file, which contains the ROMs, the source code and emulator configuration files.
