ASCII24, a very well visited news site in Japan reports about the MSX festival held this weekend. The reports contains some extra, interesting pictures and a summary of the entire event.
Mega FLASH ROM
On February 10th Armando Pérez Abad and Manuel Pazos announced the specifications of a new flashcartridge on the hispamsx mailinglist
It is available in 4 differents versions:
- A basic model, equipped with 512 KB, with ASCII8/16 memory map type
- A SRAM model, equipped with 512 KB, with ASCII8/16 memory map type and 2 or 8 KB of SRAM memory.
Source: Enrico Barbisan
On NRGO's page, a photo shoot of the Spresiano MSX & Retrocomputing meeting was added. The photo shoot consists out of 29 pictures, completed with useful descriptions. The meeting was held in October 2002.
Kuniji Ikeda has found a way to get V9958 as well as Y8950 chips. However, to keep the chips affordable, he should order quite large amounts at a time.
The V9958 is the VDP of MSX2+ and MSX turboR computers. It is needed to convert an MSX2 to an MSX2+. The chip unleashes SCREEN 10 t/m 12 and diagonal scrolling mode. The Y8950 is the legendary MSX-Audio chip set as featured in e.g.
Since we launched our new site on December 18th 2002, many things changed. As we were hoping, more and more people started to use the new and improved functionality of our site. Especially the forum drew a lot of attention. Within a very short timespan, more than 1400 posts were made on our forum.
We've all heard about the new Nokia Gameboy wannabee, even on CNN. But what is all the fuzz about?
It's a mobile phone with a 4096 color tft screen, build in 4MB flash memory, Stereo FM Radio, it can play mp3 and AAC music files. It comes with software to connect to your pc. With this software you can make and upload mp3 and AAC music to the device.
Bombaman news update
Team Bomba has given us an extensive update on the progress of their highly anticipated game 'Bombaman'. As their briefing actually says it all, we decided to print it down here.
"After a while of silence, we decided it was time to update everybody on our never ending project Bombaman.
Sunrise - missing orders
While browsing the web we noticed that Sunrise had quite a problem with their mail server from November 2002 to January 2003. It is assumed that many, if not all orders placed in this period are lost in cyberspace.
The MSX Affiliates Forum (M.A.F.) is looking for a new logo and is seeking the creativeness of MSX users worldwide!
The contest is now open and the complete rules & guidelines can be read on the forum's special topic:
www.fixato.nl/msx-boards/viewthread
