This weekend the traditional MSX Pizza meeting was held in Brasilia, Brazil. This meeting is exactly what you think it is: a bunch of MSX users gathering and eating pizza. Sandro Zanello took these pictures, while Parn made this photoshoot.
FOX, an Italian MSX user, has made a new frontend for the openMSX emulator for Linux. This frontend is programmed in Lazarus, an open source clone of Delphi available for Linux and Windows.
Downloads top 10; May 2004
It's the first of the month, so it's time to have a look at the downloads top 10.
Usas Alternative version
On January 17th in Oss, Delta Soft showed a slightly changed version of Usas, where the Japanese emoticons are changed to graphical ones. BiFi has made a patch for it and put it on his Home Page. At the moment the patch is only available in the Archives.
Amateur MSX Gaming List
The MSX Games bOX have opened a new section called 'The Amateur MSX Gaming List' containing a comprehensive database of all 'amateur' games released since 1992. The section is still in development and will be completed over the next couple of months with additional data, storylines, pictures and possibly downloads as well.
Taito have announced they will release Playstation 2 remakes of Falcom's classic RPG's YS3 (Wanderers from YS), YS4 (Mask of the Sun) and YS5.
MBwave 1.16
After 3 years of silence, a new version of this music tracker for Sunrise Moonsound has been released.
openMSX 0.4.0
At the Gigamix Online website, some unfortunate news could be read. As of May 17th, the Maxload 1 store in Akihabara, Tokyo, has merged with the main Maxload store (also in Akihabara) and thus had to disappear.
On Hans Otten's website an interesting tool for Panasonic MSX2+ and turboR machines can be found: MemTR. Unlike other MSX computers the BIOS of these Panasonic machines places page 3 and page 2 in its internal memory. If an external memory expansion is used, many old software tiltles and MSX-DOS 1.xx will not use this external memory.
