Metal Gear Box
Patriek Lesparre spotted an article on the Metal Gear Box, a product with quite a strange name as it seems to have nothing to do with the Konami Metal Gear series. The Metal Gear Box is an external aluminum sATA harddisk box which connects to a PC using USB2, manufactured by Eumax. We wonder how Konami feels about this product
blueMSX 1.0.2
We reported about this new emulator, called blueMSX, two days ago. Already, a new version is available which adds DirectX sound support and improves DirectX video behaviour.
256 byte flame demo
Ricardo Bittencourt has succeeded in creating a user-controleable flame demo in just 256 bytes. You can download this tiny yet impressive demo at Ricardo's site. To give you an idea of how small this program is: this newspost is exactly 256 bytes long. Amazing, isn't it?
MRC Snowfall Challenge
It's almost December which means winter, Christmas and short dark days in which it's tempting to use your computer(s) even more than usual. As we all know, the MSX is a lovely computer system to develop for, so the MSX Resource Center challenges you to do exactly that.
What's the challenge?
One more round and the forum-part of our current mega-poll, the quest for the best MSX-MUSIC game song ever will come to an end. After that, the 2 best PSG game songs ever will battle against the 2 best MSX-MUSIC game songs ever and the 2 best SCC game songs ever on a frontpage poll in order to decide which is the best MSX game song ever created.
Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha has been working on adapting Knightmare to play rearranged CD-quality background music.
On the ASCII MSX Magazine website interesting information on the upcoming MSX Magazine Festival can be found. During this day both the 20th anniversary of MSX and the release of MSX Magazine 2 will be celebrated.
Newsletter 8 sent
We have just sent our eight newsletter to all members who are subscribed to our mailing. We really had a huge amount of news since our last newsletter, which appeared at July 28th.
