It's the first of August and we're right on time: the monthly download statistics, our monthly overview of the most downloaded files from our Freeware MSX Downloads corner. The MEGA-Challenge entries did well again as well as the regular bag with MP3 rearranges.
The second entry for the sixth edition of MSXart comes from Konamito. The wallpaper is based on Ocean's isometric game Head over Heels (1987).
In little over two weeks, on the 8th and 9th of August to be exact, the annual meeting of the vikings takes place in Helsinki, Finland. Recently, the website has been redesigned, from a hacky yet typical Nyyrikki look to something mankind can identify as a website!
Hideo Kojima, the creative mind behind the classic Metal Gear who has just released MGS4, has stated that 'the next level of gaming" isn't yet possible on the current-gen hardware.
ViewMSX 0.06b
A few days ago we received from MRC user and fellow admin Tobias Keizer (Sonic_aka_T) a new version of ViewMSX. ViewMSX is a tool designed for Windows PCs that allows the user to view a wide range of supported MSX image/video formats.
Vampire Killer article
The French/English MSX website Passion MSX has published an extensive article about Konami's classic platform game Vampire Killer.
MSX Posse drew our attention to an interview with Manuel Pazos, published on El Blog de Manu, the weblog of Manuel Sagra.
On Sunday October 5th, Bonami will organize an all-retro fair in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, on which many retro platforms will be represented. Among them: ZX Spectrum, Atari, Commodore, VideoPac and, let's not forget it, MSX!