On this years Wireless Japan, which is a mixture of an Exhibition, a Conference and a Workshop, there will be demonstrations of MSXPLAYer as part of the Open Contents Platform Association activities.
Nyyrikki released a new version of his Z80 emulator for Z80 today. This new version redirects all I/O and memory routines.
Gradius V
This fall, Konami is going to release a new game in the Gradius (Nemesis) Saga: Gradius 5.
As officially announced today, Engine Software and worldwide publisher Playlogic International have signed a cooperation agreement spanning 2.5 years. Besides that, Playlogic International has also purchased 49% of our shares, previously owned by the Foreign Media Group.
The MSX Assembly Page (MAP) has been updated today. Since its launch on April 23rd this year, the MAP is a very interesting website on which you can find in-depth information on MSX software development. As the name of the site indicates, most attention goes to coding Z80 assembly.
Retro Games Magazine
By the end of this month a new computer magazine will be intruduced in Spain: Retro Games Magazine. The magazine will cover information on retro games and retro systems. Our beloved MSX system will also get some coverage. Every three months a new magazine will be released. of course MSX is inside too!
MSX info pages updates
Source: comp.sys.msx
Recently Hans Otten has added some more valuable material to his website. The following material was added:
- SVI.738 communications ROM disassembly
Another file for the software section. This is the SVI738 communications ROM disassembly and the RS232 system variables. Since this is a MSX standard it is also applicable to other MSX RS232 implementations!
Win32, *nix and Mac ports of MESS have been updated to version 0.70. The cores and sources of these releases can be found at the official MESS website www.mess.org/download.html
When we started our mega-poll in search of the best MSX2 game ever, we didn't suspect it would be even more succesful than the Best MSX1 game ever mega-poll. However, right from the start an average of 50 people contributed to nominations and voting in each seperate round.
New Poll: MSX and copyrights
A few days ago one of our visitors, Robert Wilting, spotted some doubtful contents on a CD-ROM that came with the summer edition of the Dutch PC-Magazine. A discussion on copyrights arose on our forums.