We've placed a textual report on the MSX fair in Bussum this year online. If you weren't there you can read about what you've missed and why you should be there next year. If you did visit the fair, read about it and know why you should be visiting again next year
Source: MSX Mailinglist
Illusion City was one of the best MicroCabin games, released only for MSX turboR computers, released only in Japanese. After translating Parodius to English, a team of Portuguese and Japanese MSX users started translating Illusion City into Portuguese.
Source: #MSX on undernet and the MSX mailinglist
Adriano da Cunha translated Konami''s Parodius, which is originally only in Japanse, into English. Besides that he also translated some portions of the manual into English.
Michiel de Vries announced on the MSX Mailinglist that he will (try to) make the Moonsound work in Meridian. This is great news, since the structure of Meridian allows users to use more features of the Moonsound cartridge than Moonblaster does.
Alexandre Antoniutti Passos has scanned another MSX book, and a lot of magazine's: "Guia do programador MSX" and all of Magazines ("Revistas" in portuguese).
Bussum 2002 is over. It's too late already in this timezone, but we didn't want you to miss out the photo's. Check out the photo report. We add more info later.
C-BIOS 0.13
Boukichi released version 0.13 of his MSX compatible BIOS. Not much changes but it has something interesting:
- Improved init_sc5
- Sources commented in English
Roxy Muzak PSG Player
MK II made a music player that enables playing PSG musics that are made without any tracker like we are used to lately. It seems this allows us to do things with the PSG even Konami didn't do in their PSG musics. The way to do these things are explained in the accompanied text file (which is in Spanish) to make your own musics.The player already comes with 2 musics.
Source: MSX Files
After releasing two disks with slide shows less than a week ago, Lumberjack created a website and two more slideshow disks for MSX2. You can download all 4 slide collections at this website.