The next version of the MSX/MSX2/MSX2+ emulator, fMSX, has just been released! Starting with this release, fMSX-Unix support is reintroduced. The new fMSX-Unix is available in the source code form from the web site. Here is the full list of changes, additions and fixes in fMSX 3.5:
- After a long pause, the fMSX-Unix port was finally updated.
This saturday, february the 9th, dutch MSX club MSX Vriendengroep Mariënberg will organize her annual MSX auction. With this auction, the club aims to prevent MSX software and hardware from ending up in the trash bin, and this event is thus the ideal place for collectors to hunt for MSX goodies. The meeting opens at 10:00.
Following a request in this forumthread, MRC has added Maggoo's experimental car game example (made with his VScreen engine) to the downloads section.
Ever since the early 1990s MSX developers around the world used impressive MSX demos as means to show their impressive development skills. Creating effects that often were deemed impossible on MSX, making us laugh with funny animations or just plain old egoboosting: the MSX demo scene had (and still has!) a lot to offer.
XL2s - Projects page
XL2s Entertainment have made a projects page on their website, roughly a week ago already. This projects page gives some insight in what this Dutch MSX duo is working on. An overview of their activities:
- Dash! - A Boulderdash clone.
There can't ever be enough maps from MSX games, and this is what drives map maker only_69. His website approaches 30.000 visits, and can thus be considered highly popular.
A new private MSX mailing list in Spanish has been created at Yahoo Groups. It is called "MSXError51" and aims to be the successor of the Club MSX Argentino mailing list (that is going to disappear on the 10th of February).
It's the first of the month and thus time for the MSX Download Charts - our monthly overview of which files from our freeware MSX downloads corner have been downloaded the most in the past month. As of this months we have decided to expand the MSX Related Downloads charts from a monthly Top 5 to a monthly Top 10.
MSXdev '07 - Results
In the last few years, the MSXdev competitions gained much praise from the community. Not only did it increase the amount of new content for the good-old MSX1 system, it also made game developers more active.
Last night, the second Scene Music Remake Challenge came to an end. After a slow start and an extended deadline, several entries came in after all. As a result we have 8 songs from 6 different composers that entered the challenge.