We have only two more rounds of voting to go and then we will know which 2 of the following 6 songs will compete on the Best MSX game song ever frontpage poll. In this stage, every single vote counts. We invite you to enter the tournament, now!
MBFM Voice Manager
In the past few days Wolf made a small utility that lets you insert your own FM voices in the default voicelist of MBFM. This is very handy since the default voicelist has stoneage voices (remember FAC soundtracker?), and most of them aren't really useful anyway. This (PC-) util is Public Domain, so enjoy!
requirements: Windows 9x or higher, a 1024x768 minimum resolution and a mouse
AcaBoom is very simple game written in BASIC. It runs on every MSX with at least 32KB (compatibility with 16KB MSX has not been tested, but will probably work). The aim of the game: you have to "explode" all the cells in the minimum amount of moves. If you perform a good record, submit it to Andrea, so others can try and beat it!
The game and its instructions are in English.
Commodore 64 vs MSX
Somewhere in the 80s of the 20th century, an enjoyable fight emerged between the users of two 8bit computers, Commodore 64 and MSX. That fight lasts until present day. Many of us remember having arguments with other schoolmates about which computer is better and why.
Tilburg 2004 announced
The organization of the annual MSX fair in Tilburg, CGV-Tilburg, have let us know their upcoming Big Computer Meeting will be held on April 24th, 2004. Soon the standholders of last year will receive a letter with more details and a stand-reservation form.
Omega's pages - moved
Tristan Zondag, a.k.a. Omega has moved his website to http://www.omega.cistron.nl/. On his website you can find information on Funet, MSX Radio and several Moonsound songs he created.
MSX Info Pages - update
Hans Otten has once again added several things to his MSX Info pages:
- SVI 738 system disk archive
- Telematch - the game and its sourcecode
- ReMouse/NiceMouse software
- German MSX-BASIC 3.0 ROMs (modified by Hans Oranje)
Lady COCO (DrMSX song)
We reported before about DrMSX (Atushi Sugiyama), who put up a website containing music he created on MSX.
With only 10 songs and 3 rounds to go, things are really getting excited in our current mega-poll: our quest for the best MSX game song ever.
SjASM v0.37
There's yet another new version of SjASM. This Z80 cross assembler now also works on PCs running Linux. And of course there were some 'minor' bug fixes.
Relevant link:www.xl2s.tk
