Deep in the dark moisty dungeons below Wolf's studio, the evil skeleton who keeps track of all the backup CD's and does all the financial administration, notified Wolf about four unreleased covers. Since these covers were done in 2001 already, they have a slightly dated sound.
Karoshi Corporation has created a tiny PC/Win32 application that automatically converts programs written in MSX BASIC and produces a MSX ROM, fully compatible with the MSX standard specifications and supported by the original BIOS.
Creating MSX ROMs never has been so easy: you can code them now in pure BASIC without any additional programming.
Big Eddi's Revenge
The German MSX group 'Ultralex' released a Public Domain turboR demo called Big Eddi's Revenge on the MSX fair in Doetinchem in 1993. This demo was created to promote their font editor called 'Big Eddi'.
After a suggestion by Wolf on our forums, we decided we had to start a new mega-poll: a search for the most underrated MSX game around. There are a lot of MSX games out there, and due to the immense popularity of games like SD-Snatcher, Metal Gear and other MSX masterpieces, some tend not to get the attention they deserve. Now, the time has come to set things straight.
The time has come to have a look at the most popular files in the MSX Resource Center Downloads Database once again. These are the 10 most downloaded files, counting since we started our database (or added the files to it):
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MRC Under Water Challenge
Here we go again! You all remember our Snowfall Challenge. With many cool prizes and an independant juror, Wammes Witkop, the challenge turned out to be a huge success, resulting in 25 new MSX demo's in just 6 weeks.
Two days ago we opened an RSS newsfeed, allowing our visitors to add the latest MSX news to their websites, desktops or PDA's. As of today we also offer RSS feeds with the latest forum posts and reactions.
Music! It's definitely one of the most talked about aspects of the MSX scene. Somehow, MSX seems to be a perfect computer to express musical creativity. As a result of this, there is a huge variety of soundchips- and software available for MSX.
The MSX Tribe is a new website which is entirely dedicated to MSX music.
Right after launching a website and releasing some Super Puzzle Fighter 2x graphics, Karoshi Corporation releases another quick peek at one of their upcoming products: the Final Lap. On their website you can download a part of the introdemo of this upcoming racing game.
Karoshi Corporation have released a small graphical demo of their upcoming game Super Puzzle Fighter 2, showing the two fighters in action. The demo can be downloaded in the projects section of their website.
