Naoki Ito releases his latest MSX game
2004 minigame compo
For the fourth year in a row an international multi-platform minigame competition is being held over here. The purpose of this competition is to create either a 1K or 4K game on NES, Plus/4, Atari 800, Atari 2600, Commodore 64/128 or VIC-20, Apple 2 or MSX.
Pixel artist Justin Cyr created no less than five hundred 32x32 women's portrait studies in the MSX Palette.
Editing gfx for MSX on a PC is one. Converting it to screen 5 is two. But the palette. That's always hard third.
New MSX game from Brazil
ASCII MSX C page
Not new, but perhaps unknown: a website dedicated to the ASCIII MSX C compiler at http://fvu.myweb.nl/Projects/Msx/Web/msx.htm. The pages are written by Freddy Vulto. Here you will find not only information about this official MSX C compiler, also example programs and utilities like MAKE utilities.
ASM's GFX9000/turboR game Ghost 'n Goblins gets more and more features complete, with the addition of an SCC soundtrack composed in TriloTracker.
asMSX 0.11c
Today a new version of Eduardo Robsy's Z80 compiler asMSX was released. In this new version a few minor bugfixes were implemented. What is more important is that it now comes with a set of easy-to-use tools that come in very handy when developing MSX software. The included tools are binDB, RLEpack, PCX2MSX and MSXwav.
asMSX 0.12e
A new version of Karoshi's assembler asMSX has just been released. In this new version several improvements were implemented, most notably the direct support for creating megaROMs. Several macros have been predefined, allowing you to create megaROMs easily.