MSXdev'03 results
On March 13th Eduardo Robsy Petrus opened the MSXdev'03 competition. With this competition he celebrated the 20th anniversary of MSX and he challenged people to develop one or more games for the computer on which it all began: A genuine MSX1 with 16kB RAM and 16kB VRAM.
Many people accepted the challenge, but only little succeeded.
On july 27th we started our quest for the best MSX Game Song ever. Because the huge amount of nominations we decided to split the mega-poll up in three smaller mega-polls. One for PSG, one for MSX-MUSIC and one for SCC. After many rounds of voting in a tournament-system six game songs came out on top.
Arno Dekker, who was working as a GFX artist for Flying Bytes in the early 90's, sent us some more files for our downloads database. We were already hosting some of his GFX creations for the never released game Final Future in our Graphics section.
MSX Maps - YS1 map added
Two days ago, a new set of maps was added to the MSX Maps website. This time you can get maps for Falcom's classic RPG YS (Ancient YS Vanished)
MNBIOS website opened
As of today you can find the official website of MNBIOS (MSX Non Basic Input Output System, a new not-backwards-compatible MSX-BIOS we reported about earlier) at http://usuarios.arnet.com.ar/flyguille/. This website will move to a different location soon.
It goes without saying that 2003 was a good year for the MSX Community. It has been a long time since we had so many new hardware and software products in one year. And then there were the revival-activities in Japan and the many activities of (ex) MSX users on the internet.
Vscreen 0.7
A new version of the platform game engine VScreen was released. This engine, that comes with two exciting demo levels, makes it possible for beginning developers to create their own high-quality platform game. Sources are included, so it is a must-have for every MSX user (from newbie to advanced developer).
Snowfall demo by TAoA
We have just added the 10th entry to the MRC Snowfall Challenge to our downloads database. This demo was created by D-Tail, Lord Zett and LdH of The Army of Assholes.
Generation-MSX added scans of the covers of six dutch and five italian MSX magazines to the website today. Amongst the magazines are MSX Club Magazine, MSX Computer magazine, MSX Gids and many more. Also some flyers and advertisments from Sunrise and from the United Kingdom were added.
Today, MSX Resource Center proudly welcomed the 1,000,000th visitor since August 6th, 1996. Yes, you have read it right: Only six months after we reached 500,000 visitors our Nedstat Counter registered the millionth visit to our website.
