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Earlier this month we already published the pictures taken on the trip to Japan, separated in a Nippon 2003 photoshoot with pictures taken in Tokyo and on the MSX fairs 'MSX Magazine Matsuri' and 'MSX Waku Waku Park' and a special <
From 1996 to 2003 flyguille developed and tested a new BIOS for his MSX2, called MNBIOS (MSX Non BASIC Input Output System). The purpose of this project is creating a new BIOS that increases the capabilities of the MSX2 hardware, without the need of directly addressing the hardware.
LogiBoot 2.2
KdL of GnO~GnI has released a new version of LogiBoot, the Boot Sector editor for MSX. New in this version:
- Auto-selection of MSX2 and MSXtR machines
- CPU MODE for MSXtR (v2.2 only)
- Speed Drive does not work on MSXtR!! (hidden in version 2.2)
An English manual will be published soon.
As you know, many demos and diskmagazines are downloadable on MRC. If you hesitate to make your choice, MSX Valley, a French site can help you. After the presentation of the three Flying Bytes demos and the Pulsar demo of Syntax Error, the webmaster has developed an extended section "FAC/FCS". This section will also include the productions of A.C.E.
At the home page of Zac Game Station you find a few games that are inspired by great classics such as Gradius. You can download IFRIT, a Gradius look alike. Also on this page is the game Acter World, a game with a strong resemblance of Bubble Bobble.
With both the best MSX Game Song poll ever and the year 2003 coming to an end, we thought it would be a good idea to launch a new mega-poll. This time we will try and find out which news post on the MSX Resource Center was considered to be the most important one of the year 2003 by our visitors.
Source: Benoît Delvaux
A few days ago, MSX Gamesbox announced the winners of the 2003 artwork contest. If you want to know which artwork won (and which 5 got close to winning), have a look here.
Sunrise played a key role in the MSX Community in the early and late 90's. Apart from releasing hardware and software from various groups they also published three disk magazines: Sunrise Magazine, Sunrise Picturedisk and Sunrise Special.
Source: ccfg
Yes, you read it right the first time. Bandwagon demo's and a real MSX computer were visually backing the experimental music of Kokeellisen Elektroniikan Seura from November 27th to December 7th at an exposition in the 'Kunsthalle' in Helsinki, Finland.
