Michiel de Vries, developer of the MIDI player/editor Meridian posted the following message on the MSX Mailinglist: I was wondering if there are Moonsound users who are satisfied with the existing editors for the Moonsound. As far as I know only Moonblaster can be used for editting songs for the Moonsound.
C-BIOS 0.12
Boukichi released version 0.12 of his MSX compatible BIOS. This time there are a lot of improvements. The most important one is that the first steps were made to emulate disk-access. C-BIOS 0.12 can already handle normal double sided disks. If such a disk is detected, you can select a file and run it right at the boot. Disks with special bootsectors etc.
Source: MSX Mailinglist
Slotman of MSX Files started translating Shalom to English. Most of you will know this game as Knightmare 3. After Ricardo Bittencourt translated a large part of this game to Portuguese, he gave the translation programs to Slotman in order to make an English translation.
Slide show disks
Source: MSX-Files
Slotman and Lumberjack made 3 disks with slide shows. Images chosen are a collection of snails, a collection of Amstrad game screens and a collection of hentai screens converted from PC and arcade games.If you like pictures, you should check them out.
Source: MSX Mailinglist
In the past, Yamaha released two soundmodules for the Yamaha CX5M MSX computers. To use these expansions on other MSX computers, a special adapter is needed. Both expansions were quite ahead of their time. The software of the SFG-01 was only capable of saving to cassette, while the software of the SFG-05 could save to disk as well.
Source: MSX Files
Shalom, the sequel of Maze of Galious, has reached a new stage in Portugese translation. The new beta 8 allows you to beat bosses 4 and 5.
MSX Artwork Contest
The MSX Games bOX is organizing an artwork contest which you are free to participate in. Participants are free to submit any new home-made design on the MSX Theme, be it wallpapers, screensavers or an 'artistic' contribution. Deadline for submissions is set to 31 October, 2002.
C-BIOS 0.11
New versions of the MSX Compatible BIOS (C-BIOS) arrive almost every day now. In a very short timespan, Boukichi released version 0.10, 0.10a and version 0.11.Since version 0.09, several bugs were fixed, and the init_SC5 routine was added.
Hans Otten pointed us to the following message on comp.os.cpm:
"I, Leor Zolman, hereby and forever more release all rights to BDS C to anyone and everyone who'd like to make copies, download, use, sell, whatever, both the original retail packages and all source code, including to the compiler itself, wherever they may be able to get a copy"
This BDS-C compiler is a C compiler for cpm that a
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