As a lot of people might expect, Metal Gear Origin is not a new Konami sequel (or prequel) in the famous Metal Gear series. Even a brief look at the website might let you believe that this site comes straight from the 'real thing'. However, Konami is not behind all this...
A new team of developers, called Joy Division, have started to make a fan-game based on the first Metal Gear releases.
Liksang.com back online
Liksang.com, the online Hong-Kong based company is back online. After a dispute with Sony and Microsoft for selling modchips they will not be selling these anymore, but you still can order a lot of other neat stuff.
Many of the msx.org visitors are interested in the developments regarding the MSXPLAYer and the possible new MSX computer. The current poll shows it is 'a hot item'.As we have reported earlier, a major part of the current MSX revival is the release of a new ASCII MSX Magazine.
Shalom english beta3
Source: MSX files
A new version of the english translation of Shalom (Knightmare 3), originally by Konami was released today. In this version you can play the game up to the point where boss 7 and 8 are beaten. According to the website about 90% of the game is translated.
fMSXSO 1.31
A new version of the Japanese fMSX-port fMSXSO has been released.
#msxdev at irc.aniverse.com is a new IRC channel that focusses on development of MSX software and related subjects.Whether you're experienced, just starting or only interested, #msxdev is the place to ask questions and discuss projects and developments in the MSX world.And, visitors will be kept up-to-date of the latest news by the MSX Resource Center bot!
For those that don't know what IRC is,
GXSCC beta236E
Source: Gashi
About a week after the release of the Japanese GXSCC beta223, a newer, English version arrives.GXSCC enables you to play SMF, MID and RPC files on a software-emulated SCC chip. New in this version compared to beta223J:
- The pre-process (acquisition of a music name, play time, etc.) of buffering was accelerated considerably.
The International MSX 2003 fair will be held at 25 January 2003, in 't Oude Theater, Bram v.d. Berghstraat, Oss, The Netherlands. Some highlights:
- Free entrance for visitors
- 2 euro per table (max.
Magazines update
After the completion of the West-Friesland archive with the booklets of the magazines, Hans Otten helped making more magazines available online.Not only MSX-Club West-Friesland magazines can be found in the archive, but also MSX-Club Friesland-Noord and MSX-Club Kennemerland are added to the archive.All magazines are in Dutch.
HansO site update
Source: comp.sys.msx
Hans Otten updated his MSX website which contains lots of documents on MSX hardware, software and coding. New on his site:
- SVI 728 power connector information
- Many pointers to hardware documents from MSXPRO about MSX chips
- PSG stereo mixer for PSG, By Ivan Isidro
- Datasheet FDC controller 1793 as found in e.g.
