It's the first of the month and thus time for the MSX Download Charts - our monthly overview of which files from our freeware MSX downloads corner have been downloaded the most in the past month. As of this months we have decided to expand the MSX Related Downloads charts from a monthly Top 5 to a monthly Top 10.
MSXdev '07 - Results
In the last few years, the MSXdev competitions gained much praise from the community. Not only did it increase the amount of new content for the good-old MSX1 system, it also made game developers more active.
Last night, the second Scene Music Remake Challenge came to an end. After a slow start and an extended deadline, several entries came in after all. As a result we have 8 songs from 6 different composers that entered the challenge.
Mankind has had barely enough time to inspect his giant Bastard map and explorer only_69 comes up with the next map already.
SMRC2 - #8: The Lost Battle
With only a few days left, some late-minute entries start coming in.
Since recently, our ever growing free downloads database keeps expanding with content from Bart Roijmans.
Bargain 5.50
A new version of Bargain, a lossless image compression/decompression toolkit for MSX was released today. The toolkit claims to achieve impressive results in both compression ratio and decompression speed.
SMRC2 - #7: Omnifarious Steps
From AuroraMSX we received the 7th entry to the Scene Music Remake Challenge #2: Omnifarious Steps.
Last weekend a large group of MSX fans, mainly from the Netherlands and Belgium, traveled to Nijmegen to visit the third annual MSX fair/user meeting in Nijmegen.