Runit 1.03
Near Dark released a new version of Runit, a tool which can be used to start disk images from IDE and SCSI media such as Harddisk, ZIP or CompactFlash. The tool is an improved version of the popular START.COM, but uses less (and a different part of the) memory, making it possible to run more games with it.
The Japanese chiptune composer Daria has released a new arrangement, based on the classic arcade game "After Burner'. The PSG track was made in MuSICA.
Amusement Center have re-released the PC-9801 version of Hummingbird Soft's RPG Record of Lodoss War in Project EGG.
MSX Café - Link added
We have just added a link to the French MSX community portal MSX Café to our section of links to MSX websites. On MSX Café you can find news, a forum and several other community related activities.
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Shortly after the announcement of La Abadía del Crimen for mobile phones, we spotted a 3D fangame based on La Abadía del Crimen is currently in development.
As we announced earlier, the Japanese developer Falcom is developing a strategic game based on the popular YS series.
ViewMSX 0.03
ViewMSX, a MSX-graphics viewer for Windows, that was recently added to MRC's downloads database was just updated. The latest version of ViewMSX, v0.03, can now also view G9B files that are larger than the actual screen-size of the particular display mode. This means you can now view images that may be as large as the image-space.
Godzilla walkthrough
As announced in our MSX Forum earlier today, Fabio of MSX Solutions has updated his website with a walkthrough for the game Godzilla, which was released by Toho in 1985.
The tremendously popular MSX game La Abadía del Crimen, programmed by Paco Menéndez with graphics made by Juan Delcán, is to be released for mobile phones at all the Spanish operators (Movistar, Amena and
G9BVIEW 0.41
Marcel Delorme has released a new version of G9BVIEW, a utility to show compressed .G9B files on GFX9000. The utility was previously only available, bundled with the GFX9000 library.