Vic Viper.com is a website totally devoted to the Gradius game series. Nicely designed site, with a lot of background info and screen shots about all Gradius versions.
Irem has put some great looking wallpapers of R-Type Final on their official R-Type Final homepage. Wallpapers are downloadable at 800*600 and 1024*768 pixels.
Match Maniac freeware
Maggoo and Sunrise surprise the MSX Community with a pleasant christmas gift: the Abbyss game Match Maniac has been declared freeware. On Maggoo's website you can download the game and its manual.
Thanks to Benoît Delvaux of Marsupone and MSX Valley we were able to add some interesting downloads to our freeware downloads database today.
FMPSG preview disc MP3's
FMPSG is a Japanese chip music club, who have just released a 'preview disc'. This CD will be sold at the Japanese comic/cult shop Comic Market 65. On the CD you will find 19 songs, of which several were created on MSX.
Asia in Amsterdam
With all those MSX users flying off to Japan lately, I thought it would be nice to find some nice Japanese / MSX related places in my own town to spend some time at and share the good places with you.
Jussi Pitkänen (also known as ccfg) sent us the ninth entry to the MRC Snowfall Challenge today. His entry shows 192 snowflocks falling on any MSX1 computer. The assembly source code is included, so you could have a look at them and see how Jussi did all this.
MSX Hinter - link added
We found a link to a website that wasn't listed in our downloads database yet on MSX Posse. The MSX Hinter website offers hints to many MSX games in both Dutch and English.
MSXpro updated
The Brazilian MSX website MSXpro was updated with several photo shoots of recent MSX fairs MSX Jaú and MSX Rio. Some information on upgrading Brazilian MSX computers was added as well.
