On November 22nd 2003, we started the MSX Resource Center Snowfall Challenge. On January 7th 2004, the challenge was closed. In this timeperiod, it has showed that we have hit the right spot.
We have just started the third round of our current mega-poll. In the end we will know what news is considered to be the 'Most important MSX news of 2003' by our visitors. Do you want to decide what news was the most important? Fill in this votesheet. Happy voting!
TPM.CO Software
We have just added a link to TPM.CO Software to our downloads database. TPM.CO develops MSX games. You can download several of their productions on the website.
Bombaman - Finished
Team Bomba have just updated their website, adding Bombed, the Bombaman level editor and opening the 'Maps' section. But, most importantly, after 5 years of hard work: Bombaman is finished! The long awaited game will be released this saturday on the MSX Fair in Oss.
Sourc: VGM or Chiptune News
Digital Sound Antiques, the developers of MSXplug and NESplug are currently working on an FPGA implementation of the Yamaha YM2413 chip, also known as the OPLL.
MSX Banzai! updated
MSX Banzai! was updated today with the following:
- Updated the Gfx9000 Programmers Manual with information about partial VRAM Address and Palette writes and initial testing results regarding palette snow and vertical scrolling behaviour.
- Added more information about the MSX2+ SubROM Emulator to the Software section, thanks to
2003 was an extremely active MSX year with many, many interesting newsposts. We would like to know from you, or visitors, what you thought was the most important (or the funniest) MSX news of 2003, by filing in a votesheet in our forums. We already arrived at the second round of this mega-poll, 26 newsposts are still 'in competition'. It is up to you to decide which 14 will move on to round 3.
Z80 at 99MHz
The Z80, the core of the MSX Computer, is used for many, many other purposes and therefor the best-selling CPU ever. According to Zilog, this processor was used in over a billion end-use devices world wide. One of those devices is the Nintendo Gameboy.
On this website, a subsection of Vorc.org, you can find a list of commercial MSX Magazines that were published around the world.
