Zukkoke Yajikita Onmitsudoutyuu (ãšã£ã“ã‘ã‚„ã˜ããŸéš 密é“ä¸ if you know how to read it), an MSX2 RPG by HAL, was translated to English recently and published earlier today on DJANGO's blog.
It's been a while since we heard from map regular MSX Solutions, and some people may get a bit nervous from this lack of maps in recent months. It's almost like smokers missing their daily shot of nicotine! But, have no fear, JohnHassink is here!
The road to a new major openMSX release is as adventurous as an RPG. During the epic journey to openMSX 0.8.0, the barbarians, mages, archers, necromancers and elfs of the team gradually show new features in their so called dev versions.
Konamiman has updated his MSX page with a new library for the SDCC compiler: ASMLIB. This is a library that allows to execute arbitrary assembler code (for example BIOS routines or MSX-DOS functions) from within C code.
Dutch flavored US resident Vampier updated his popular YouTube collection in the past weeks, let's have a look at all that's new.
MVM Auction photos
The annual Dutch MSX Auction in Mariënberg, organised by MSX Vriendenclub Mariënberg, attracted many MSX collectors yesterday, temporary making Mariënberg the most crowded city in the Netherlands, by MSX population.
VEDIT Plus 2.33 for MSX
VEDIT is an excellent text editor for the CP/M operating system that was released as freeware by Greenview Data Inc. A new MSX version is configured to run properly on an MSX machine and has a wrapper included, that allows it to run from a subdirectory under MSX-DOS2.
As was announced in the Nijmegen announcement, Walter from France would visit this MSX fair and make a video of the event. And so he did. After editing the whole lot, Passion MSX reports that the video is done and online. The fair itself was of course very successful, with foreign guests and more booths than before. We live in a time of affordable photo and video cameras and many people have one.
RUNDOS1 tool
RUNDOS1 is a small utility developed by sd_snatcher. It enables you to run MSX-DOS v1.x on top of MSX-DOS v2.x.
R-Type Addition updated
Exactly one month after its creation, BiFi, a Dutch MSX and Z80 guru, updated his R-Type Improvement Addition. On request, he kindly added 50/60Hz selection, and a Turbo feature for MSX computers that disobey ASCII's speed limit of 3.58MHz.
