After four rounds of voting in our forums the time has come for the finale of the 'most important MSX news of 2003' mega-poll.
MNBIOS website - moved
Today, the MNBIOS website moved to http://www.mnbios.com.ar/. MNBIOS is a new BIOS (not backwards compatible with the standard MSX BIOSes) for MSX that is about to be released. You can follow the progress of the developer and read the programmers manual on his website.
MSX Reminiscences
One of our active forum users, Jonemaan, created a Moonblaster Wave song today, using the Moonsound emulation in NLMSX.
Bombaman -review-
Only a few days left until the official startshot is being given for a new MSX year. The MSX 2004 fair in Oss is going to be a fantastic showcase of what our community is capable of.
Yesterday Project EGG released Palamedes for PocketPC. This addictive puzzle game by HOT-B was released for Windows a year ago. The original MSX2 version was released in 1990.
GFX9000 library 0.001
Marcel Delorme has started development of a GFX9000 library. This library is coded in assembly and contains many useful routines which can be used in other assembly productions by other programmers. The first version doesn't contain many functions yet, but it can already be used. Marcel is looking for other coders who would like to help him extending this library.
Karoshi is currently working on a new PSG Tracker. As a first step, a beta-version of Karoshi's PSG Sampler was released. This MSX ROM lets you edit PSG sounds and makes it easy to configure volume and frequency with its graphical interface.
ASCII-Store have just started a limited time offer during which it is possible to order the MSX Game Reader and the MSXPC. A month ago, pre-ordering of these products stopt as 278 MSXPC's and 3860 Game Readers were sold.
On the Japanese Yahoogames a section was opened about the history of computing in Japan. Of course, this website contains an MSX Section.
We have already arrived at the final round of forum-voting in our quest for the most important MSX News in 2003. By submitting your votes here, you can decide which news posts you thought were most interesting.
