The Japanese Touhages group have released a remake of the classic game Afterburner, which was released on MSX in 1988 by Activision.
MSX History - updates
MSX History was updated with the second part of an exclusive interview with Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha, author of Uzix, ExecROM, and many other well known software titles for MSX. Furthermore, a section for scanned manuals was added to the website.
With less than a month to go, the deadline of the MSXdev'05 contest is getting closer, so you can expect a bunch of new MSX games very soon. The first example is a new finished entry by Karoshi Corp., not previously announced. This game is Saimazoom, a frenzy old school adventure, originally released for spectrum in 1984 by Dinamic.
Just now, our Webstats4u counter (previously NedStat), which has been counting the visits to our website ever since August 8th, 1996, has passed the 3,000,000 visits milestone. Once again, the MRC team is pleasantly surprised by the enormous and ever growing amount of activity on our website.
A few days ago, Moacyr Alves published a photo shoot of the MSX Jaú MSX user meeting in Brazil, which was held on the 12th to the 15th of November, 2005.
After a long period of silence, Ademir Carchano has returned to developing and producing MSX hardware. As a result, the small size slotexpander and 512kB MegaRAM cartridges are back on sale at the MSX Projetos website.
After offering our news in Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese, the MSX Resource Center is very proud to announce that our website interface, together with the latest MSX news and a large part of our ever growing news archive is now available in Russian as well.
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Active visitors of the MSX Resource Center already knew that Arturo Ragozini had found a way to enable VDP commands in SCREEN 4. During vblank, a switch to SCREEN 5 is made, enabling VDP commands.
Source: International MSX Mailinglist
Alex Wulms has released the MODplayer for MSX turboR which he released as Xelasoft in the mid 1990s. The player is capable of playing MODfiles in mono on PCM, but also can use the DAC of one (or even two) Philips Music Modules, resulting in stereo replay.