The Dutch website Gamert reports that Hideo Kojima (the key ingredient of the success of Metal Gear), will be handing out autographs from 15:00-16:00 in the Mediamarkt at the Amsterdam Arena Boulevard.
RU Barcelona reminder
In little over a week, on June 7th, the RU Barcelona meeting will be held. At the moment nine booths have been confirmed:
- AAMSX - Latest AAMSX news, sale of the cartridges Operation Wolf, Majikazo and Traffic Jam, Lucky Darts, Carnival Bomb Ring, Música de MSX - Stage-01.
The New Image has just announced that they will organize an event next month in Den Dolder, Netherlands. The event will be sponsored by MSX Association and tables are free.
Kralizec is working on a new MSX game called 'The Goonies'. Compared with the Konami title, this version is a more accurate adaption of the well known film.
fMSX-Maemo 3.5.3
A new version of fMSX for Nokia Internet Tablets (N800/N810) has just been released. New in this version:
- Better frame rate synchronization, so that it consumes much fewer CPU cycles
- Keyboard input and audio playback improvents
SymStudio developer Trebmint is desperately searching for people to help him test SymBasic and SymStudio. He has put up a new website and plans to upload the latest SymStudio and tutorials for SymBasic shortly.
It's been a while since we have heard about Guru Logic Champ. Internal affairs had stalled the nearly finished project years ago after it was presented as a game with a promising future. It would've been a game even to be commercially published, licenced by Compile. The game was to be an MSX port of the popular Gameboy Advance hit by Compile in 2001.
The first entry for the drawing contest MSXart'08 is in! MSXosaure opens this year's gallery with his collage of Hyper Olympics and Hyper Sports Konami boxes. If you think you are capable of creating a wallpaper yourself as well, why not join this challenge? The best twelve entries will appear on a calendar while the overall winner gets a free copy of this calendar.
Antoni Burguera interview
Spanish website Nakoko has placed an interview with Antoni Burguera, the coder of the winning MSXdev'07 entry Caos Begins. This lengthy article dives into the programmer, his relation to MSX, future plans, and much more. A highly recommended article!
