Although we had reported about the website several times before, a link to MSX História had not yet been added to our links database. MSX História is a website dedicated to the restoration of cartridge labels, manuals and covers.
JEmu2/MSX 2.2
Last week, a new version of JEmu2/MSX was released. Changes in this version:
- Added preliminary MSX-2 support. (sprite colours not correct yet, some missing VDP opcodes)
- Added enhanced drivers for Knightmare and Nemesis 2, which make background scrolling smoother
- Released the source code (see the 'about' page)
We just added a link to the MSX.bas website to our links section. MSX.bas is a Portuguese website which focusses on the development of programs in MSX-BASIC. So, if you're a BASIC developer who can read a little Portuguese, be sure to check this site out.
Do you have (or know of) an MSX website not yet listed in our links section?
SMR #8: BDD's Theme 3
Erik van Hezik sent us the eigth entry to the MRC Scene Music Remake Challenge. From Impact, he re-arranged BDD's Theme 3.
On January 26th we started taking votes for the first round of the 'Most important MSX news of 2005' megapoll. Now, the time has come for the fifth round, to which 6 out of 90 nominees continued. The more people vote, the more exciting it's going to be so please do contribute and fill in the votesheet right here.
The Japanese chiptune composer Hackurl has yet again released several MSX/SCC flavored chiptune remakes on his website. This time, he remade the first two stage BGMs from Gradius 2 - Gofer no Yabou, and a tune from Sexy Parodius.
F1 Spirit Remake AC6
Yesterday, a new version of the F1 Spirit Remake was released.
On November 13th, the HispaMSX BBS opened its doors. Thanks to ObsoNet or RS232 it's fairly easy to connect to this BBS from a genuine MSX computer, allowing you to e.g. read the latest posts on various MSX mailinglists and newsgroups from your own MSX computer.
Almost a year ago, thanks to this forum thread, Adriano Cunha created a partitioning tool for the BEER 202 IDE Interface. The BEER 202 IDE interface was originally designed by Egor Voznesenski of SOLID.
Arnold Metselaar has made libfix, a package of various additions, bugfixes and other improvements to the libc.lib and libf.lib that come with HiTech-C. It contains changes by Pierre Gielen and by Arnold Metselaar. The new libc.lib is designed to work under MSX-DOS 1. For MSX-DOS2 users there is libdos2, which has also been updated.