Poll results
With a clear result and more than 300 votes in a short timespan, it's time to move on to another poll already. We asked the visitors of MSX.org to share their age with us, here's the results after 321 votes:
- 9,03% of our visitors is younger than 19 years. They were born after the birth of the MSX standard
- 24,61% of our visitors is aged 20 - 24.
MSX plug version 0.26 is released. And this release has support for the MoonBlaster MBM format!
Microsoft Japan has the MSX Magazine in its online software catalog. They don't have the option to order it directly, but link to the MSX Magazine website instead.
On february 1st 2003 the Dutch MSX-Club West-Friesland had one of their meetings. A photoshoot was made of that day and the photo's can be viewed in the photoshoot section.
Dutch people may recognise some pictures of a television program from 1986 where the Music Module was promoted, hosted by the legendary (?) futurologist Chriet Titulaer.
On the ASCII MSX Magazine website, a full photo report of the MSX festival, held last weekend, was added.
Spanish based Traposoft released an Operation Wolf clone named "Operation Havoc". You can download this MSX1 basic game from their download page.
DSKexplorer 0.83
JP Grobler released a new version of DSKexplorer.
MegaFlashSCC
Source: MSX Mailinglist
A few days ago Armando Pérez Abad and Manuel Pazos announced the specifications about a new flashcartridge.
Due to high demand on the SCC model of the MegaFlash and finding SCC cartridges to build the FlashSCC around it difficult, Armando and Manuel offer people a discount if they send an SCC cartridge of their own for FlashSCC converting.
For info contact Manuel P
Finally the web portal to the #MSXDev IRC channel (Aniverse network) is fully working again.
Those who are unable to use mIRC or another IRC client can now actually join the discussions in stead of only viewing them silently.
In a report on the MSX Festival @ Famitsu.com the MSX BASIC for Robo-education project was announced. Thanks to our anonymous sources we got to know a little more about this project.
In Japanese schools, children aged 14-15 have to learn the basics of programming, writing small programs containing FOR...NEXT and IF...THEN lines. Understandable, most kids think of this as extremely boring.
