Pengo MSX demo
Let's face it: SEGA had a hedgehog, MSX has a penguin. Every once in a while, this animal pops up in an MSX game, most of them by Konami. Paxanga joined the penguin parade by hiring a red penguin to lead the game Pengo. A demo of Pengo has been made available at Paxanga's web site.
For all the lucky people currently having a three day weekend, MSX Translations decided it was the right time for some interesting game patches! This time not just one, but three game translations are released: Romancia for MSX1 & MSX2 and Dragon Slayer 4 for MSX2. All three games have been translated completely. Besides the translated texts, a number of enhancements have been made.
Active developer Atheus, a well known figure in the French MSX scene, jumps to the rescue of AZERTY keyboard users, taking away their fears of ever hqving to type in the Tzilight Wone qgqin when using their 1chipMSX.
The media art site Rhizome is dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology. Quite a mouth full! This week, Rhizone concentrates on demos, the phenomenon that evolved from classic game cracktros to an artform that keeps thousands of artists and programmers in shape.
More than a week too late, but what can ya do. Yours truly spent some more time on game development than on MRC, so that's in a way a good thing.
Every once in a while, NYYRIKKI, code wizard from the land of the vikings, empties his harddisk. Following his SIDplay, we've also added PSG2SCC to our freeware downloads database.
SIDplay 0.3
We just added NYYRIKKI's SIDplay 0.3 to our freeware downloads database. This is a SID-player ported from Sam Coupé to MSX. Minimum system requirements are MSX1, 128KB RAM and a disk drive (MSX-DOS).
MegaFlashROM SCC+
A new version of the MegaFlashROM is available. MegaFlashROM cartridges are a well-known way to play ROM files on a real MSX computer, as if they were working from the original cartridge.
MSX BASIC game videos
Manuel Bilderbeek, the curious MSX fan and devoted openMSX developer, is lately reminiscencing about old MSX Basic games, as we all do some time.
As the uploading of the Micro's Gazette magazines resulted in positive feedback, Tony Cruise has decided to go further back into the history of Spectravideo and MSX in Australia to the point where the original user group in Australia was formed.
The user group magazine was published for a quite a few years and slowly T