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.
Source: Adriano da Cunha on the MSX Mailinglist
Adriano added 4 screenshots to his website, and fixed Parodius to let it work with RuMSX.
Execrom 1.2a
Source: MSX Files
More news from Adriano da Cunha, who has been very active lately.
Konami will release two new Contra titles. Contra; Shattered Solider for the Playstation 2 and Contra Advance; the Alien wars EX for the GameBoy Advance.
MSX Xpress Bussum Report
Apart from our very own fair report and photoshoot, the second Bussum fair report just got online.