MVM december '07 report
Yesterday, MSX Vriendengroep Mariënberg held her last meeting of 2007. MVM has written a (Dutch) report of this event which can be read on their website.
Exomizer 2
Metalbrain, originating from the ZX Spectrum scene, created a decompressor on Z80 for the Exomizer 2 compression algorithm.
The 1chipMSX information page on the MSX Banzai!, on which we reported some days ago, has been updated with new information for users and programmers.
The new information:
- A list of locations and descriptions of interesting programs and files on the 1chipMSX CD-ROM
- Slot layout: which (internal)
Everyone who uses diskdrives might have encountered the highly annyoing situation already where the drive belt simply gave up. French MSX user GuilianSeed has written an article, published at the French website MSX Café, with instructions on how to replace such a belt!
Last month, along with their fresh new website, the Dutch club MSX Vriendengroep Mariënberg have announced their meeting schedule for 2008. Every month a meeting is held in Buurtgebouw De Grendel, W. Hentostraat 17 in Mariënberg (NL).
It's December 6th already so it's high time to reveal the MSX Downloads Charts - our monthly overview of which files from our freeware MSX downloads corner have been downloaded the most in the past month.
Another game has been converted from tape to disk.
Manbow 2: The new batch
After the success of the shooter Manbow 2, people who weren't able to get their copy wondered whether they had really missed the boat. As of today, it's announced that a new batch will be released by Sunrise! Everyone who has pre-ordered the game Manbow 2 will be informed as soon as the new batch is ready.
MSXdev'07 - Bag Man
Another finished entry has been submitted to the MSXdev'07 contest! Bag Man is a platform game from Andrea Gasparrini, who has already entered the contest earlier with his game Balloon City.
MSX Advance 0.3
A new version of MSX Advance, the MSX emulator for the Game Boy Advance, has been released today.