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 second round, to which 46 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.
Tabajara Labs - update
Tabajara Labs is a Brazilian website on computer electronics, with tips and circuits for many personal computers, including some good coverage on MSX topics. The website has just been updated with an article on how to convert a DDX2.0 to a DDX2.0+ and the circuitry to a 64kB RAM cartridge for MSX1.
Amusement Center have re-released the PC-9801 version of Bothtec's shooter Topple Zip in Project EGG.
We have just added a new link to our ever growing MSX links directory. This time, the restyled German MSX community page VanDyrks MSX website was added to our database.
SjASM 0.39g
XL2S Entertainment released a new version of SjASM, the Z80 cross assembler.
Today an update of openMSX Catapult 0.6.0 was released. It is a bug-fix release for Windows users. Shortly after release, the developers of openMSX found out that a small number of users had problems with some registry keys, caused by the wxWidgets library used.
Last night we started taking votes on the 'Most important MSX news of 2005' megapoll, showing working late at night can have some disadvantages. As some nominees were missing and the votesheet contained some errors, we decided to re-start the first round voting with a brand new and now complete list of nominees.
MSX Party Weekend 2006
Following the success of MSX Party Weekend 2005 Dutch MSX community website MSX Posse is to organize another MSX Party Weekend this year. The party is to be held on March 11th and March 12th and takes place in Deventer.
It took us quite a while, but there it finally is: the first round of the 'Most important MSX news of 2005' megapoll. In this megapoll you can decide which is going to be considered as the most important MSX news of 2005.