MSX Resource Center timeline [1996 - 2006]

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1996 - 2000; The 'static' years
November 21st, 1996 - Move to msx.org domain name announced
June 30th, 1997 - Move to own webserver
August 2nd, 1997 - Konami announce Metal Gear Solid; many MSX fans got reminded of their old beloved MSX computer. In a way, this release initiated the 'internet MSX revival'
August 2nd, 1997 - Konami Antiques for PSX; helped in getting MSX and its great Konami games back on the maps as well
November 1st, 1997 - MSX World Expo announced - For this MSX fair in Japan, Mr. Yokoi of the Japanese MSX group Frontline - organization of the fair - invited Kazuhiko Nishi to visit the fair. This directly lead to the start of the MSX Revival and Mr. Yokoi's - now D4 Enterprise - involvement in it.
2000 - 2002; The 'ASP' years
May 17th, 2000 - MSX Resource Center re-launched; Coded entirely from scratch in ASP, the MSX Resource Center modernized with user-generated content (links, submit news, post reactions)
June 9th, 2000 - First announcement of a new MSX computer; Although there were speculations, the FPGA approach and ESE's role in the development eventually lead to the One Chip MSX
June 20th, 2000 - MRC MILESTONE: 100 members
August 16th, 2000 - MSX DenYu Land announced; in a lecture of Kazuhiko Nishi, the official MSX emulator MSXPLAYer was announced
September 27th, 2000 - MSX Resource Center forum opened; with a very slow start and a couple of re-launches, it finally became the most active MSX forum on the web
November 12th, 2000 - MRC MILESTONE: 100,000 visits
March 31st, 2001 - Nishi's visit to 2001 announced; One Chip MSX's first mention on msx.org
April 5th, 2001 - MRC MILESTONE: 500 members
April 22nd, 2001 - Report of Nishi's lecture to Tilburg 2001; the publication - and the big news on the MSX revival - boosted visits to the MRC significantly
September 25th, 2001 - MSXPLAYer beta preview; removed several days after publication, MRC had managed to get their hands on a very alpha beta version of the emulator. Again a huge peak in our visitor count and quite a bit of downtime because our server could not cope with it.
December 15th, 2001 Bombaman promo, support on MSX fairs, future Team Bomba releases and reactions to it finally lead to the release of this great MSX game
December 19th, 2001 - The first release of Meridian; although a final has still not been released, a lot of features were implemented after requests on the MRC
February 3rd, 2002 - ZICA announced; showing MSX can go internet/IRC as well
March 7th, 2002 - CIEL3++ - Super MSX announced; unfortunately this project seems to have stalled, but who knows...
March 31st, 2002 - MRC MILESTONE: 200,000 visits
April 26th, 20002 - EGG starts selling MSX retrogames embedded in MSXPLAYer
June 6th, 2002 - Emulator Comparison published; first of its kind head-to-head emulator comparison
June 11th, 2002 - Sunrise CompactFlash interface; revolutionizing the way MSX fans use their MSX computers
July 7th, 2002 - First rumours on ASCII MSX Magazine returning
July 30th, 2002 - ESE-MSX achieves MSX1 compatibility in FPGA; the ESE-MSX was later to become the One Chip MSX
August 13th, 2002 - Bandwagon stops MSX development
August 25th, 2002 - MRC MILESTONE: 2,500,000 visits
September 14th, 2002 - ASCII announce return of MSX Magazine, Shuwa Systems announce MSX book
September 27th, 2002 - Moonsound support for Meridian announced
October 15th, 2002 - MRC MILESTONE: 1,000 members
November 30th, 2002 - First (back then unofficial) Windows version of openMSX released
December 8th, 2002 - MSX Resource Center defaced
December 2002 - Present; The 'PHP' years (from here on divided by year for readability)
December 18th, 2002 - MSX Resource Center completely restyled; user activity on MRC went to the roof after this restyle, on which the site is still mainly based
December 18th, 2002 - MSX Resource Center becomes a Foundation
December 20th, 2002 - MSX Game Reader announced
December 21st, 2002 - Internestor 1.0 released; allowing MSX developers to code internet applications/games for MSX
December 23rd, 2002 - ASCII MSX Magazine 1 hits the streets; in the end selling more than 30,000 copies
December 25th, 2002 - MSX Association launch website
2003
January 1st, 2003 - First MRC Happy new years post with statistics on the year passed
January 2nd, 2003 - MSX Association announce MSX logo policy; huge discussions, anti-MSX revival, manifest against the MSX revival and manifest against the manifest against the MSX revival follow
January 9th, 2003 - MSX Resource Center installs policy to keep atmosphere on the site clean
January 24th, 2003 - Compile files for bankrupcy
January 27th, 2003 - RealFun (MoonSound tracker) trial version released
February 10th, 2003 - MegaFlashROM announced
February 17th, 2003 - MRC MILESTONE: 2,000 MSX forum posts
March 20th, 2003 - MSX Resource Center visits - and reports about MadriSX 2003
April 4th, 2003 - MRC MILESTONE: 3,000 MSX forum posts
April 23rd, 2003 - MSX Assembly Pages open; vital resource for MSX developers
May 20th, 2003 - Freeware MSX downloads corner opened on the MRC
May 31st, 2003 - MRC MILESTONE: 500,000 visits
May 31st, 2003 - MRC MILESTONE: 1,000 news posts
June 4th, 2003 - MSX: 20th anniversary demo released
June 16th, 2003 - MSX-BASIC for Robo-Education announced
June 27th, 2003 - MSX celebrates 20th anniversary
June 29th, 2003 - MRC MILESTONE: 5,000 MSX forum posts
July 31st, 2003 - fMSX for Nokia Series 60 released; MSX games move to cell phones
August 8th, 2003 - (Limited) MSX2 compatibility for the ESE-MSX2
August 15th, 2003 - MSX-BASIC for Robo Education wins science price; The educational value of the MSX computer and its BASIC are still recognized
September 18th, 2003 - MSXPC 20th anniversary edition, MSX Game Reader and MSX Magazine 2 announced; ASCII puts its shoulders under the MSX revival
September 21st, 2003 - First version of VSCREEN released; Do it yourself platform toolkit for MSX!
October 3rd, 2003 - MRC MILESTONE: 10,000 MSX forum posts
October 20th, 2003 - Spanish MSX Resource Center launched; MSX Resource Center becomes multilingual
November 15th, 2003 - MRC MILESTONE: 1,500 members
November 21st, 2003 - First version of blueMSX released
November 22nd, 2003 - MRC Snowfall Challenge; first MSX development competition initiated by MSX Resource Center (not counting the Scroll & Logo challenge)
November 23rd, 2003 - Dutch MSX Resource Center launched
December 6th, 2003 - MSX Resource Center goes to (and reports on) ASCII MSX Magazine Festival Japan; snout shakes hands with Nishi, setting the first steps for the MSX revival outside Japan
December 26th, 2003 - Sunrise announce European MSX Game Reader
December 27th, 2003 - MNBIOS announced; multitasking (BI)OS replacement for MSX?
December 28th, 2003 - MRC MILESTONE: 1,000,000 visits
December 30th, 2003 - MRC MILESTONE: 1,500 news posts
2004
January 1st, 2004 - Second MRC Happy new years post with statistics on the year passed
January 7th, 2004 - MRC Snowfall Challenge closes with 25 entries
January 11th, 2004 - Bombaman gets 'gold' status; development of the highly anticipated game finally leads to release
January 13th, 2004 - Wammes Witkop head of MRC Snowfall Challenge Jury; the legend returns... shortly
February 4th, 2004 - MSXdev'04 announced; the beginning of the MSX1 game frenzy
April 27th, 2004 - MRC MILESTONE: 20,000 MSX forum posts
April 27th, 2004 - eMSX2++; Padial proposes new super MSX mainboard for 230 euro
May 14th, 2004 - Portuguese MSX Resource Center launched
May 16th, 2004 - MRC Under Water challenge closes with 11 entries
May 28th, 2004 - MRC MILESTONE: 1,500,000 visits
June 3rd, 2004 - MRC MILESTONE: 2,000 members
June 5th, 2004 - IPS for MSX released; allowing for simple and legal distribution of software patches, e.g. game translations
June 11th, 2004 - Aiky enforces removal of Guru Logic fangame version
June 27th, 2004 - Initiative to continue development on Realms of Adventure
June 30th, 2004 - MRC MILESTONE: 25,000 MSX forum posts
August 15th, 2004 - Obsonet: Ethernet for MSX announced
August 16th, 2004 - MRC MILESTONE: 2,000 news posts
September 8th, 2004 - Amusement Center launched; D4 Enterprise established
October 9th, 2004 - Bazix established to bring MSX Revival outside Japan
October 12th, 2004 - MRC Bounce Challenge closes with 15 entries
October 18th, 2004 - One Chip MSX board spotted for the first time
December 5th, 2004 - MRC MILESTONE: 2,000,000 visits
December 14th, 2004 - Bombaman level edit challence closes with 13 entries
December 27th, 2004 - MRC MuSiXmas challenge closes with 11 entries
2005
January 1st, 2005 - Third MRC Happy new years post with statistics on the year passed
January 25th, 2005 - muZiX - Anonymous developer(s) take the MSX community by surprise
January 27th, 2005 - MRC MILESTONE: 2,500 members
January 30th, 2005 - Tilburg fair changes approach to MSX; the end of an era
February 22nd, 2005 - MRC MILESTONE: 2,500 news posts
March 4rd, 2005 - Realtime texturemapped 3D for MSX2; say what?
March 4th, 2005 - MRC Airwaves Challenge closes with 7 entries
March 20th, 2005 - MRC moves to dedicated web hosting; MRC has grown to need a whole web server of its own
March 23rd, 2005 - MSX T-Shirts on sale; coloring all MSX fairs since in blue
March 28th, 2005 - IGN Entertainment acquires MSX Resource Center; Well... in our first April Fools joke, they did
April 1st, 2005 - Obsonet - First batch released; luckily, this wasn't an April Fools joke
April 29th, 2005 - ASCII MSX Magazine 3 hits the streets
May 20th, 2005 - ASCII start taking pre-orders on the One Chip MSX; unfortunately less than 5,000 pre-orders were taken, stalling the project for more than a year
May 21st, 2005 - MSX World 2005 report and photo shoot; Another huge MSX fair in Japan, MRC was there to take the pictures!
May 27th, 2005 - MRC MILESTONE: 2,500,000 visits
June 3rd, 2005 - Infinite launch 4-motion final
June 22nd, 2005 - ESE MSX System 2 status update; future One Chip MSX becomes more accurate in mimicing the MSX2
June 29th, 2005 - Wave megademo for MSX1 released; taking MSX1 demos to the next level
July 10th, 2005 - Bazix offer ASCII One Chip MSX pre-order outside Japan
August 5th, 2005 - MRC MILESTONE: 50,000 MSX Forum posts
August 26th, 2005 - ASCII decides not to produce the One Chip MSX
September 1st, 2005 - ESE MSX System 3; future One Chip MSX gains MSX2 accuracy, MegaSCSI, SCC+ and SCC-disk compatibility
September 2nd, 2005 - MSX Fair Nijmegen announced; A new MSX fair in the Netherlands
September 14th, 2005 - One Chip MSX to be demonstrated on Tokyo Gameshow; OCM on display on the booth of CESA, organisation of the gameshow
September 19th, 2005 - Bazix reveals more info on the One Chip MSX; as the display on Tokyo Gameshow hinted, the OCM project is not dead yet
September 29th, 2005 - MRC Oneliner Challenge closes with 36 entries
September 30th, 2005 - Sunrise starts sale of MSX Game Readers
October 23rd, 2005 - One Chip MSX is to get a second change
November 6th, 2005 - Project Dumas announced - Ethernet, USB and memory mapper in one for MSX!
November 7th, 2005 - Dahku; new Kralizec platform game for MSX
November 27th, 2005 - Russian MSX Resource Center launched
November 27th, 2005 - MRC MILESTONE: 3,000,000 visits
December 21st, 2005 - MSXdev'05 closes with 21 entries
2006
January 1st, 2006 - Fourth MRC Happy new years post with statistics on the year passed
January 18th, 2006 - Space Manbow 2 preview; very, very, very impressive shooter
February 25th, 2006 - MSX Unleashed; taking MSX1 megademos to the next level once again
March 6th, 2006 - MRC Scene Music Remake challence closes with 12 entries
March 18th, 2006 - Konami and IIJ launch retro games section on i-revo; Konami joins the MSX revival
April 17th, 2006 - MSXdev'06 starts
May 4th, 2006 - Dragons Lair for MSX2 introdemo; full-screen video on MSX2
May 14th, 2006 - Knightmare Gold 2.0; taking a Konami MSX1 classic to the MSX2
May 23rd, 2006 - MRC MILESTONE: 3,000 members
May 28th, 2006 - SymbOS for MSX; a multi-tasking windowed OS for MSX
June 22nd, 2006 - MRC MILESTONE: 250 links to MSX websites
July 28th, 2006 - MRC MILESTONE: 65,535 MSX Forum posts
August 11th, 2006 - One Chip MSX mkII; D4E announces new One Chip MSX
August 15th, 2006 - X-Tazy goes opensource; Will this highly anticipated highspec shooter ever be finished?
September 15th, 2006 - Wii loves MSX; MSX games to be re-released in Nintendo Wii Virtual Console
October 12th, 2006 - One Chip MSX on sale in Japan
October 17th, 2006 - WOOMB - There it is!; Bazix launch English counterpart of D4E's retro gaming platform Amusement Center
November 2nd, 2006 - One Chip MSX available for pre-order; Bazix start taking pre-orders for the One Chip MSX
November 5th, 2006 - MRC MILESTONE: 4,000,000 visits
November 8th, 2006 - Phantomas Saga: Infinity for MSX
November 12th, 2006 - Bazix pre-sells 50% of OCM stock
November 12th, 2006 - MSXArt'06 closes with 25 entries
November 15th, 2006 - MSXArt'06 really closes with 27 entries

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