The MITS Altair 8800 was announced on the January 1975 cover of Popular Electronics, which boasted you could buy and build this powerful computer kit for only $397. Thousands were ordered within the first few months after the announcement, starting the personal computer revolution as we know it today.
Tomorrow, the Dutch MSX-Club West-Friesland will have an MSX meeting. Again, the meeting is held in 'Buurthuis De Cogge' at 'De Akkerwinde' in Zwaag (near Hoorn, 30 kilometres above Amsterdam) and will start around 12:30 o'clock.
MRC forum: 3000 posts
Less than two months ago we were very proud to announce over 2000 messages were posted in our MSX forum. Now, we are pleasantly surprised to see that we reached yet another milestone, 3000 forum posts, already.
MSXBOARD forum online
Today, MSX Posse have put their MSX forum online at www.msxboard.com. The forum is being hosted by Fixato.
The forum has also been added to our MSX links.
We decided to take the diskmagazine post down after a week (and 188 votes), in order to put op a real battle of the titans, suggested by Ivan in our forums. In our previous poll, we asked you to vote for the best diskmagazines. The results were quite surprising. The top twelve MSX disk magazines of the nineties is:
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The popular Falcom games YS 1 and YS 2 were restyled and re-released in a special package a while ago.
Bargain 4.60
A new version of Bargain, an image compression tool for MSX has been released. In this version the compression method changed, making new Bargain files incompatible with older Bargain files.
Point Crisis
Andrea Gasparrini has released a new MSX game called Point Crisis. From the look of the screen shots it's an anime/hentai based puzzle game. The game can be ordered at Andrea Gasparrini for 25 euros.
Andé Ruiz, a Brazilian MSX user found a way to connect a PC joystick to an MSX computer. He documented the way to do this, including some pictures and schematics, on this website. All documentation is in Portuguese.
Source: Leonardo Padial on hispamsx mailinglist
Leonardo Padial announced that a new stock of his PC keyboard adaptors for msx (LPE-PCK-V2) are available. This hardware will allow you to connect any DIN or PS/2 PC keyboard to you msx using a MSX cartridge. Its price is 50 euros.
