Altera, one of the largest and most well known developers of PLD chips, is holding the 'PLD World 2004' conference in Tokyo on October 29th, 2004. During this event many different companies will show their latest developments, demonstrating the power of FPGA.
The Japanese computer magazine Interface has been added to the list of nominees of the MSX in the Media challenge.
SjASM 0.39d2
A new version of the SjASM compiler has just been released, fixing several bugs that were present in the previous release. Apart from that PUSH and POP now accept a list of registers and a 16 bit SUB instruction was added.
Sylvester has been actively improving the Generation MSX website during the past few weeks.
A month ago we reported about D4 Enterprise, a young Japanese company, opening a new website called Amusement Center.
Less than a week ago IC released an entry to the MRC Bounce Challenge called Vector Scroll.
The Dutch Nintendo magazine [N]gamer seems to be very MSX minded as they are responsible for 3 of the 32 nominations for the MSX in the Media Challenge so far.
On the 27th and 28th of august the annual MSXRio meeting was held in Rio, Brazil. Active MSX users from all over Brazil gathered to enjoy MSX, talk about recent developments in the MSX community and to sell (or give away) MSX hardware, software and magazines. During the meeting several presentations were held and several new games were released.
Solid Snake intro by Wolf
Wolf has just released a remake of the Solid Snake introdemo song, which he created in 2002. People who had bought the OPL4 CD which Wolf released at the Tilburg fair in 2003 already had a remastered version of this track. Today, wolf decided to release the song seperately from the cd.
Takashi Kobayashi of Gigamix Online keeps spotting MSX in the Japanese media. This time he found a picture of an MSX computer in a Playstation magazine, Zapure (ThePlaystation).
