MSX Resource Center welcomes its 1000th member!Within two years after the launch of the 'new' MSX Resource Center website, one thousand MSX users chose to join the MSX Resource Center as members. After starting as a website with links to MSX websites in 1994, the site had a complete make-over in 2000.
La Mulana is the title of the latest game by the staff of the GR3 project. The game is not yet finished, but a preview and an "experience" version can be downloaded though. The English version of the game does not contain music yet, and is not bugfree also. The good news though is that this Maze of Galious look a like platform game is again (just as GR3) of amazing quality.
A great new clone of the famous Gradius has been made by the staff of the GR3 project. The clone is completely written in java and thus working in a browser and standalone. The staff has created an amazing piece of software.
Source: MSX Mailinglist
After translating the game, the enitre manual of Parodius has been translated from Japanese to English as well. Head to the Parodius translation site for both the game and the manual!
C-BIOS 0.14
Boukichi is still very active at creating a set of ROM files that is compatible with the MSX BIOS. In version 0.14, extra (Japanese) comments were added to the source code. Also, an English version of the C-BIOS manual is available at his site now.
After more than 2 weeks of downtime due to upgrades, the msx2.com server is up and running again. During that time the updates to the site couldn't be uploaded. However, today the site could be updated again. You can now read and download the Newsletter issue 43 and view the meeting photo's.
Mario, aka Lumberjack informed us about the following:
Slide Station, the new disk magazine for MSX 2 that will have its first issue launched in this month, is being developing for be viewed by FlyBrowser 1.8 (a modified version of the brazilian MSX browser FudeBrowser and that will be always built-in on the disk magazine).
Shortly after the release of openMSX 0.2.0 for Linux, a port of the previous version (0.1.9) to Windows arrived at the MSX Resource Center headquarters. This version was ported by an unknown Japanese person, who considered making this port a joke.
Gilberto Dosvualdo told us he might be willing to produce new FM-Pak cartridges with the YM2413 FM Sound synthesizer if enough people are interested. Gilberto is setting up a list of people who are interested.
Albert Beevendorp, also known as BiFi, coded a new feature for the MSX Resource Center. MG-MRC stands for Metal Gear, MSX Resource Center and it's a MIRC-bot.With MIRC it's possible to chat on IRC-networks like Undernet. On Undernet you can find two popular channels where active MSX users gather: #msx and #msxbr.