Tilburg 2004 report
After publishing the Tilburg 2004 photo shoot we now bring you the Tilburg 2004 report. Here, you can read all about the stand holders that were present and the things they were demonstrating and/or selling. Also, you get a general impression of the fair, in case you missed out on it.
Downloads top 10; April 2004
It's the first of the month, so it's time to have a look at the downloads top 10.
Minesoko and Mabu are two composers who frequently submitted MSX songs to the popular MSX magazine 'MSX Fan' in 1992. Now, they have added 21 songs they once created for MSX Fan in MP3 format to the sounds section of their website.
We have just added a link to Silicon Cave, a retrocomputing portal with links to active groups, developers, resources, collections, museums etc. The website is trying to put current retro-developments in context.
The programming language BASIC, on which MSX BASIC is based, is becoming 40 this may. In 1964 BASIC was developed by John Kemeny en Thomas Kurtz at the Darthmoud College in New Hampshire.
About a month ago we started a poll, investigating the popularity of several Z80 assemblers that are used by MSX developers. Compass has turned out to be the most popular of them all. After 204 votes, these are the results of the poll 'Which is your favorite assembler?'
- 1. Compass (28.62%)
- 2. WB-Ass2 (21.08%)
- 3.
MSX Posse renewed
We reported before about some changes that took place on MSX Posse, an active MSX portal. As of now, MSX Posse and MSX Board have merged into a big, full featured messageboard with Dutch, English and 'bull' sections. The forum already contains close to 5000 messages.
Just at the time a discussion arose on our forums about a potential new MSX mainboard , Leonardo Padial announced his eMSX2++ project on HispaMSX.
The eMSX2++ is a 100% MSX2+ compatible fitted on a very small 15x20cm mainboard.
After the launch of the new, improved MSX Resource Center website on December 18th the activity on the MSX Resource Center forums got a huge boost. In October 2003 our forums reached 10.000 posts.
