Snail Maze - Finished
While the MSXdev'04 competition is about to close, Robsy has finished his demonstrational entry to this programming contest, Snail Maze, of which a beta version was released 6 months ago. The game is a port of game Snail Maze, which is hidden in the BIOS of all Sega Master System consoles.
Translators wanted
As you all probably know the MSX Resource Center is not only available in English, but also in Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch.
Konami did it again! On the Konami TYO website. the division of Konami that is developing Neo Contra, MSX gets mentioned in the History of Contra section.
Retro PC Game radio have added the soundtracks of Daiva (PC-Engine version) and Konami's classic Quarth to their massive collection of Video Game Music.
blueMSX 1.6.0
Version 1.6.0 of blueMSX has just been released. The emulator now comes with a customizable shortcuts editor: the user can remap a long list of features to keys, combinations or keys or to the joypad buttons, create different profiles or modify the existing profiles. An alternative interface, DIGIblue, has been implemented as well.
Slowly but steadily the MSX in the Media Challenge demonstrates that MSX has not yet been forgotten by the international media. After appearing on websites and magazines for several times, MSX appearing on TV was bound to happen.
JB Harlold's Murder Club, released by Microcabin on MSX in 1988, has recently been re-released by Vodafone Live Japan.
MAD has released an SCC version of the second part of the Illusion Introdemo song in MP3 format on his website. Originally, the song from this splendid Microcabin turboR game was written vor OPLL+PSG or MT32. On MAD's website you can find more MSX related arrangements.
After an exciting first round of voting there are still 30 different MSX computers running for the prestigious title 'MSX computer with the best design'. You can decide which one of them is going to win, by filling in the votesheet of round 2 before July 30th, 23:59 CET.
Source: Avkooi
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