Snatcher-br is developing a Pascal library for MSX that can work with Shapes in Screen 5. The library can control animation frames, visibility (shape on/off), delete shapes. speed.
MSXRio 2004
Source: MSXBr-L mailinglist
Recently, the 2004 edition of the anual fair MSXBr-L have been announced. It is going to be held at the SESC Engenho de Dentro (Av. Amaro
Cavalcanti, 1661, Engenho de Dentro, Rio de Janeiro), in July, 30th and 31st, (friday and saturday).
FM Tone Editor
Boukichi released an FM-Tone editor for OPLL (MSX-Music) and its compatible VCR7 (NES) soundchip. The tone editor also emulates these chips so that you can listen to the tones you are creating. The tones can be exported as MML instrument data.
Retro PC Game Music have updated their playlists with the soundtracks of two MSX games: Nemesis 1 (Gradius) and Dragon Slayer 4 (Draslefamily). Retro PC Game Music broadcasts video game songs from many platforms like MSX, X68000, PC-8801, PC-9801, X1 and FM77.
Source: HispaMSX Mailinglist
Eduardo Robsy Petrus re-released the rare MSX game Vampiro, published by Manhattan Transfer: a well known spanish press group that published two different MSX magazines: MSX CLUB and MSX EXTRA, that later got merged. The creator of the game, J.L.
PocketMSX 0.2a
Sunbug released a new version of their MSX emulator for PocketPC: PocketMSX.
Two months ago MSX Resource Center moved to a new server location, introducing several optimizations, new features and improvements. Today we have performed some more updates.
Earlier this week flyguille released the second version of MNBIOS. At the time we could not report what changes had been made since the previous demo version. As the list of changes is quite impressive and important, we decided to dedicate another post to this promising new (not-backwards-compatible) BIOS for MSX.
Shortly after receiving the 6th nomination for the MSX in the Media Challenge, we can announce the 7th one. Again from the Netherlands, this time MSX was spotted in a local newspaper called 'De Vecht' for Amstel/Rijnstreek on the 24th of June, 2004.
Here it is, the 6th nominee for the MSX in the Media Challenge we started on May 2nd 2004. This time, the Dutch computer magazine PC Consument was nominated. In the July/August 2004 edition, MSX is mentioned in an article about retro gaming, mainly dealing with Commodore 64.
