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• 1 January 2012
  • Happy New Year! Not only does the year 2012 mark the 15th anniversary of MSX Banzai!, it also marks the 10th anniversary of the #msxdev IRC channel that is the source and catalyst of so much MSX activity and development.
  • Coinciding with its anniversary, #msxdev launches an annual MSX development competition that is open to all types of software running on any MSX hardware. Simply called the #msxdev Compo, read all about it on the #msxdev Compo 2012 website!
• 18 August 2011
  • The MoonBlaster 1.4 driver for MSX-BASIC was updated to fix a bug with MSX-DOS2.
• 8 April 2011
  • In addition to the MoonBlaster 1.4 driver for MSX-BASIC you can now download a fixed version of the official driver source code at the Software section.
• 3 April 2011
  • Another year, another update ;) Today BiFi of The New Image released a MoonBlaster 1.4 driver for MSX-BASIC with support for MSX-DOS2 and MSX turboR. Download it at our Software section!
• 17 May 2010
  • In preparation to coming changes, which are still in the pipeline (see December 2007 ^^;), the #msxdev news and shouts were split up in separate lists.
• 4 November 2009
  • Thanks to Armando Pérez Abad and Dioniso we now have 4 very interesting tutorials with example source code for MSX developers in the Software Development FAQ.
• 6 July 2009
  • Added AniMecha manual to the Software section. This is an English translation of the Spanish translation of the original Japanese manual. Apologies to k0ga for taking so long!
• 28 June 2008
  • Added ODO v0.4 to the Software section. This is a ROM loader for MSX1 by Armando Pérez Abad & Manuel Pazos.
• 25 June 2008
  • Updated the ESE MSX System 3 information page with better DIP switch information, ESE3 software downloads, and a bit of explanation on the current state of the USB ports.
• 7 February 2008
  • Updated the ESE MSX System 3 information page with tutorials on using disk images and the ESE-RAM and ESE-SCC functions.
• 6 January 2008
  • Updated the ESE MSX System 3 information page with information about reprogramming the FPGA with a cable, and a schematic for such a cable. Thanks Edwin_!
• 7 December 2007
  • Updated the ESE MSX System 3 information page with location and descriptions of interesting files on the CD-ROM and technical information regarding the Slot and SDRAM layouts.
• 2 December 2007
  • Finally an update! There are big things coming for this site, but as usual delays upon delays have proven to be inevitable.
  • Added a ESE MSX System 3 information page to the Computers section.
• 27 August 2006
  • Version 1.3 of IPS4MSX was added to the Software section. Several bugfixes in this release, so be sure to get it!
• 18 June 2006
  • Added the successful #msxdev News and Shoutbox to the front page, with news from the MSX scene and messages from #msxdev visitors.
• 20 May 2006
  • The V9990 PowerBasic manual was updated with information for using COLOR=(p,r,g,b) to set 15-bit RGB values. Thanks Derpaux!
• 15 April 2006
  • Version 3 of LIBDOS2 added to the Software section! New in this release are mkdir(), rmdir(), opendir(), readdir(), closedir() and rewinddir() functions accompanied by the new header file dirent.h.
• 12 February 2006
  • New releases of Arnold Metselaar's Hitech-C tools have been added to the Software section. The new LIBDOS2 fixes very long strings in printf(); and MAKE can now filter objects and replace suffixes from lists. LIBFIX is a set of Hitech-C replacement libraries with fixes and additions, while keeping MSX-DOS1 compatibility.
  • The page for IRC channel #msxdev now has a News and Shoutbox, interfacing the WWW and IRC!

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