Eduardo Robsy updated his website yesterday. He added two PDF documents of some well-known MSX chips to his page: one about the Texas Instruments' TMS9918 VDP and one about the Zilog's Z-80 user manual. These new technical documents have extensive and in-depth specifications of both the MSX core and graphics engine.
On October 9th the 16th edition of the annual MSX fair in Bussum was held. During that fair, of which you can find a photoshoot over here, MSX Resource Center celebrated their 10th anniversary, several new products were released and announced and lots of used hardware and software products found their way to new owners.
MRC Bounce Challenge: Closed
On July 18th we started the third MSX Resource Center development contest: the MRC Bounce Challenge. Now, thirtheen weeks later, this challenge has come to an end. Once again, many active MSX developers (novice and experienced) showed their skills by creating nice bouncy demo's or games.
The 15th and final entry to the MRC Bounce challenge comes from Infinite, MRC Challenge regulars who won the Under Water Challenge with their demo Coral 2 and ranked third in the Snowfall challenge with their entry
Last night TNI completed their entry to the MRC Bounce Challenge. TNI's Bounce 2004 demo starts as an ordinary logo and scroll demo. But then... things get really bouncy! This MSX2/MSX-MUSIC demo is certainly worth watching completely.
On the website of MSX Association an MSX-BASIC programming competition has been announced. The objective of the contest is to create a BASIC listing that is no longer than 5 screens at WIDTH 40 when listed. Games, demo's, music and utilities are all allowed, and so are international entries.
Thom Zwagers spotted an interesting feature on MSX on the gaming community website NTSC-uk. On this website you can find a collectors guide to MSX with a lot of detailed and recent information on our beloved computer system.
During the Bussum 2004 fair Bazix announced they were going to bring the MSX revival to countries other than Japan. In this newspost you can already find some detailed information on the activities of this company.
Just before the official deadline Ricardo Bittencourt has submitted his contribution to the MRC Bounce Challenge: Revenge of the Boing Ball. In this turboR demo you can see a rotating ball bouncing against the edges of the screen.
Scarr just submitted his entry to the MRC Bounce Challenge. It's written in BASIC and shows a nice, almost educational, bouncing effect. The values are definable and he also built in a so-called 'punch'-button. It's surely worth to take a look at.
