RuMSX 0.27
Almost a year after its previous release, RuMSX 0.27 hits the net. RuMSX was the first emulator that could emulate (part of) the MSX turboR computer. Many people have always considered this emulator to be very user-friendly.
Today is a very special day for the entire MSX community. The MSX standard is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
Super Optimizador
Ricardo Bittencourt send us an e-mail to let us know that he is working on a very special utility at the moment: 'Super Optimizador'. This Super-Optimizer generates highly optimized Z80-Assembly out of ordinary C commands.
You can pass a command through the Super Optimizer, which will then look through all possible options that have the right outcome.
A Portuguese Aleste 2 manual has been put online by Ricardo Bittencourt at Bizarro World. The manual has been translated an put online including some nice graphics from the manual as well.
The MSX Association has started a programming contest for MSX-BASIC. The winning programs will be listed in the upcoming MSX-Magazine 2, which will be released this autumn.
There are little rules to the contest: The code must be BASIC. The program must work in MSXPLAYer.
Best MSX2 game ever [round 4]
After an exciting and very hard third round of voting, 32 MSX2 games moved on in the run to become the best MSX2 game ever. If you want to have a say in which game that is going to be, join the mega-poll in our forums!
Today a new version of fMSX emulator, the mother of all MSX emulators, has been released.
Almost 10 years after the release of YS V Falcom has announced they will release another episode of the YS Saga, of which the first 3 games were released on MSX as well.
YS VI - The Ark of Napishtim is the first YS game running on a 3D-engine, but from the look of the gameshots Falcom have succeeded in keeping the gameplay intact. YS VI is being developed for Personal Computers running Windows.
MSX.ms - link added
Recently a new MSX website arose on the internet. http://msx.ms/ is a website aiming to increase the activity of beginning MSX developers. It contains information on several emulators and some easy programming examples for MSX-BASIC. Also some MSX-DOS commands are explained.
Best MSX2 game ever [round 3]
We are already heading for an exciting finale of the best MSX2 game ever mega-poll as we enter the third round, in which 54 games are struggling to move on to the next round.
If you want to have a say in which is the best MSX2 game ever, join us as a member (if you have not already done so), log in and vote!
