New in the freeware MSX downloads section: Micro Music 3.1 a TSR that can play the music from several Microcabin games, such as the Xak series.
Less than half a year after reaching the 2.000.000 milestone in December last year, we've already reached the big 2M5!
Only a week after ASCII opened up a website where the One Chip MSX can be pre-ordered no less than 1.000 One Chip MSX computers were sold.
Screen 2 Show
MarMSX released a new utility called Screen 2 Show, which is a Win32 program that creates binary .SCR files that contain compressed pictures for SCREEN 2 that can be displayed on MSX using BLOAD "FILENAME.SCR",R.
On April 16th we started a new megapoll, in search of the most favorite MSX game character. Out of 162 nominees, 24 managed to get a place in the fourth round, of which you can now cast your votes right here. This round closes on May 29th, 23:59 CET. Happy voting!
Jordi Roca has updated his Knightmare Saga website with a huge map to the third part of the Knightmare saga: Shalom.
At Robsy's MSX Workshop you can download a tiny package that includes the asMSX sourcecode to replay 22,050 or 11,025 Hz WAV files in MSX using the keyboard click function. A program in C is also included to convert 8-bit mono WAV files to the 1-bit format that the program uses.
We received a message from an unknown MSX friend, pointing us towards the Sony PSP related website PSP Hacker. Over here, an fMSX 3.0-based MSX emulator for this new Sony portable device can be found, called HitBit emulator 0.0.
fMSXSE 0.13
On June 19th, 2004, the HCC Commodore GG organized a retro computing event which attracted many visitors from a wide range of retrocomputing scenes. This year, another retro computing day will be held, organized by a group of people who really liked the 2004 edition.