The latest issue of the Spanish magazine @RROBA was just released. It's a consolidated computer magazine, distributed in the whole of Spain. For this issue, the chief editors of the magazine were attracted to La Corona Encantada, the new MSX and ZX-Spectrum game from the the Karoshi Corporation.
BEER IDE interfaces
Some Argentinian MSX users, who are subscribed to the Yahoo mailing list MSX Error 51, have managed to build themselves twelve BEER IDE interfaces. This IDE interface for MSX was originally developed by Egor Voznesenski and its design is freely available on the Internet.
It's finally possible to run the popular Micro Cabin games from harddisk or CF-IDE on a real MSX now. It doesn't matter which type of bus (e.g. SCSI or IDE) you are using or which filesystem (e.g. FAT12 or FAT16).
The website of Leonardo Padial Ortiz has been offline for quite a while. Luckily it's now back in action again! Padial creates and sells interesting hardware for our MSX systems. His catalog ranges from slotexpanders to Z380 chips, from flashrom to interfaces for PC keyboards and mice.
Tomb of Genghis Khan is a platform game by Impulse 9. It was an MSXdev'08 entry which eventually ended up seventh. It's generally a tough game to play, but you can leave it up to Brazilian mapmaker only_69 to eventually come up with a map. And so he did!
The Spanish leading videogame website MeriStation recently published an article about Konami's Snatcher saga of no less than twelve pages. The article appears in a series of writings dedicated to retrogaming called Regreso al Pasado (Back to the Past).
The entire site is in Spanish.
sd_snatcher has just published an XML extension to allow openMSX to use the A&L's FAST!DiskROM v1.1. This is is a new and very optimized DiskROM for CDX-2 standard floppydisk interfaces created by Adriano.
ExecROM v1.2f
A new version of ExecROM has been released. New in this version:
- The /T option to set a specific MSX type for games that detect the MSX version/region, is now executed after the XPC patch is applied.
Syntax Infinity
In the past few days, the annual demo party Breakpoint took place in an idyllic village called Bingen Am Rhein, Germany. While these parties typically feature PC, Amiga and C64 content, sometimes an MSX-production manages to squeeze itself in!
