After a little break, the AAMSX team strikes back for the next MSX users meeting wich already has some interesting news.

The date for the next users meeting is the next 12th June. The place, the same used on the last meeting: Cotxeres de Sants. The scheduled hours and activities still cannot be announced, because we are waiting for cotxeres de sants managers confirmation. Shortly, we will start the stands reserve for all those interested on organize one, but first we must update and finish the "next users meeting" section.

More news: The AAMSX is going to be present at the RetroMadrid 2010 fair, that is going to be celebrated next 13th March at the informatic university of Madrid. There, AAMSX will share a little stand with Manuel Pazos, Kralizec and the Sprite Girls. There, you will find the next stuff available for visitors:
    - The final version of The Goonies are Good Enough game (but it isn't going to be selled yet)
    - All the released games by the AAMSX until now ( Perfect Fit, Cold blood, Traffic Jam, Monster Hunter, Majikazo and Operation Wolf). Every cartridge will cost 18€ except Monster Hunter (30€).
    - Two new game cartridges: One is the cartridge version of the Bomb Jack game for MSX2 that also will include an exclusive Sheet only available on the retromadrid fair. The other game is the cartridge version of the Stray Cat game, 3rd classified on the last msxdev09 contest. Every game will cost 18€ too.
    - Manuel Pazos will sell the game available on his online shop (Caos begins, J.E.T.P.A.C.,...) and also he will sell his well know flash cartridges.
    - The Sprites Girls will sell a renewed collection of her fridge magnets.

And, for last, here its the last new, about the Monster Hunter game. The first batch released of this game (available on the last MSX users meeting of Barcelona) its defective. First, the game has bug with the savegame manager that don't allow users delete previously saved data. Also, the packaging was defective too, so the box and the manual booklet must be changed too. So, these users that has one of these cartridges have the possibility of change their defective units, and the first oportunity is going to be at the next retromadrid fair. Of course, its necessary that users present their defective units for changing it. New ways for changing the defective units will be announced here shortly. The AAMSX and Nerlaska apologize for any inconvenient caused for these defective units.

The 36th MSX Users Meeting of Barcelona has been a success.


Fifteen exhibitors came from all the country and, again, we enjoyed the visit of an international group (this time was a dutch group). During all the day we have had arround 150 visitors and during the meeting several activities were organized with lots of people taking part on them. The meeting in general has enjoyed of a constant abundance of people on the room, that has been there during the 8 hours the meeting lasted.

To the exhibitors, visitors, collaborators and websites that helped us with advertising and all this kind of stuff, thank you for make this users meeting one of the most important MSX meetings on the world. Thank you very much to everybody, and see you soon on the 37th edition!

Last week was a really intesive week full of news for next users meeting. Let's start with the new confirmed exhibitors:

This year the users meeting will enjoy, again, of a guest platform, and this year the choosed one is the Commodore 64, one of the most selled personals computers, very popular in such a competitive markets like de USA one, offering greats technical spech with a competitive price. It's sound chip was popular too, the SID, that nowadays its still used by a lot of music composers... For next users meeting, a group named c=64 friends will show us a c=64 and a c128 with games, demos and music composition using the Mssiah system.

Another group that visit us again is TNI, this time k0ga, will show us their lasts software creations.
One more: Imanok, is going to be present on the next users meeting, and there he will shell again some cartridges os his last game, J.E.T.P.A.C., and also he will show the game where he is currently working on.
The last confirmed stand its the Taburoto one. They usually never show anything new, but they will be present just for playing some games a let visitors play with their computers.

News aren't only for confirmed exhibitors, there are also scheduled activities inside the users meeting. The added activities are a little quiz game organized by jamque (with msx related questions, of course), and a round table meeting to debate next question: MSX1 games? or MSX2 games? wich one? where everydoby can take part of it and express its opinion. Scheduled hours are available on the Next meeting seciont.

Oh, I forgot it, here you've got the new compilation cartridge that is going to be released by the AAMSX for this users meeting:

The game list included on the cartridge is the next one:Cosa Nostra, Golden Basket, Gonzzalezz, Goody, Last Mission, Livingstone Supongo (2 partes), Mundial de Fútbol, Mutant Zone (2 partes), Rescate en el Golfo (2 partes), Sol Negro (2 partes), Solo -Gunstick- , Soviet (2 partes) i Ulises. Also, the cartridge will include all the tipical extras (50/60hz selector, r800 speed up option on TurboR computers,...), and the price hasn't changed: 25 euros. As allways, all the money that the AAMSX gets from these cartridges goes for payment of future users meetings (just remember that the access to everybody is free).

Next users meeting date is near (only two weeks left), and the confirmed stands list is still growing. Here we have the new stands:
Alifort chapas is going to sell all kind of MSX merchadising (sheets, turnkeys, magnets...)

The second stand is the one from the AUIC (Asociación de Usuarios de Informática Clásica), the organizers of the most important retrocomputer meeting in Spain: RetroMadrid. They will inform visitors about the last news of the AUIC and their activities, and also they will organize a little chat:"8 bit golden age, the spanish expierence" (the hour still must be scheduled). Also, there you will find some merchadising too.


The last stand is from the obsonet software coder, sd-snatcher, who will show us the new ethernet controller for MSX. The cartridge still doesn't has name, price and release date, so only a few coders has access to the prototype for development stuff.

Two weeks left, and we already have 10 confirmed stands. Hurry up if you want reserve one!!

Well, here we'got more stands for next users meeting. The first one is The Pets Mode, from Barcelona. Its their second visit to the Barcelona MSX users meeting and this year are going to present a better version of Escape from Dwarves' Goldmine, the game presented on the 2nd MSX basic games contest from Konamito website. Basically, the new version is programmed in assembler (the game is faster) and also features new extras on game play (intro, ending, new enemies...).


The second confirmed stand is RELEVO Videogames. Jon Cortazar (know on the MSX comunity as Viejoarchivero), ex-member of Karoshi corp, is going to visit us again, showing the lastest games released ( La Corona Encantada, What's "in the Box"?, ...) and also, and if its possible, his actual work in progress game: Ba-Boon!, presented on the MSXDEV09 contest. Oh, I forgot. Joined to the relevo stand, there will be the 1beerMSX stand, the perfect place for drinking some beers for free while you play some MSX games on the other computer mounted at the stand.


Finally, here we've got, again, an international stand, but this time it's not from our friend Walter. This time, the international visitor comes from Netherlands: SuperSoniqs, a dutch group specialized on MSX hardware. On the next users meeting, on SuperSoniqs stand you will find their last creation: Franky.
Franky its a powerfull video cartridge with a Sega Master system VDP built in, wich will allow you play adapted SMS games on our MSX, or show better graphics and smooth scrolls on new games using this card. Also, SuperSoniqs team want include a 4MB memory mapper and the MOS 6581 soundchip (SID), but this stuff is still under development and cannot be showed.

With these, we currently have seven confirmed stands, just 1 month before the Users meeting date arrives. So, we recommend to all the not announced stands: please don't wait until the last day to reserve a stand. With a bigger list of confirmed stands, we can encourage visitors for coming to the users meeting, and this is good for everybody. Also, the room where the user meeting is celebrated it's small, so we can't guarantee an stand for everybody.

As you can see, the choosed game for this users meeting edition contest (organized in all the editions) its que Qbiqs game, from Z80ST software. This year, the AAMSX is hard promoting new MSX software for our computers.

Thanks to the Nerlaska Studios and the AAMSX efforts, now we can finally announce that in the next users meeting, the AAMSX is going to sell the long awaited extended version of the MONSTER HUNTER game, the MSXdev06 contest winner.

We're not speaking about the same game released back in 2006 for msxdev. We are speaking about a new extended version with lots of new features and improvements (it can be considered as a new different game). The new caracteristics are:
    * New history.
    * Intro and ending scenes.
    * In game scenary extended and modified.
    * New enemies.
    * New bosses.
    * New OST composed by DRM (a japanesse composer).
    * New audio system that allows you use PSG combinated with SCC and OPLL.
    * Save game memory built in on cartridge.
    * Autodetection of MSX TurboR machines.
    * Autodetection of MSX2+ computers with 7mhz mode.
    * Instructions booklet in english and spanish language.
    * 4Megabit Cartridge game.

Monster Hunter is a new RPG tourn based game compatible on all the MSX with at least 16KB of RAM.

The game benefits goes to the AAMSX to organize future users meetings (and the same happens with the others games selled by the AAMSX).

Here you've got some screen shots.



Also, one of the Monster hunter creators, Nerlaska, is going to be present the next meeting with a stand, where he will present and sell the Monster Hunter game.

Are you going to miss it?

First of all, the exhibitors. On the last 3 weeks, the aamsx has reserved two stands. The first one is the Konamito stand. On his stand you will find some MSX t-shirts and 2nd hand games for selling. There also will be a 1chipMSX computer with the basic games of the konamito.com MSX-BASIC game contest. That's not all: visitors can also get information about the MSX material preservation campaign that konamito is organizing and, of course, info about his MSX website.


The second exhibitor is Z80ST software. Again, Sapphire will show the visitors the last version of the game actually developing: Qbiqs. Also, will show a little surprise, a new game in development: KNT.

More stuff: The AAMSX contest. This year the contest is going to be a bit special, because the selected game is Qbiqs. As Sapphire has almost finished the game (its completly playable right now, and has got a lot of levels), this can be the perfect occasion for test the game in a two players mode before its final release to the market.

Stay tunned, because soon there will be more news!

Well, at last, we finally have got a date for the next 36th MSX users meeting. Saturday, 5th of December it's the choosed data. Where? The same place where last users meeting where celebrated, at cotxeres de sants.


This year, the AAMSX adds a new service for exhibitors: A material renting service. For those who don't want come by car to the users meeting, carry a television or a MSX computer with the luggage can be really annoying. But the AAMSX can bring you any hardware you need for your stand so you don't have to worry about.

Need more info? just go to the Next meeting section, or click here. There you will find all the info necessary to all the possible visitors or exhibitors. Right now, the only confirmed stand its the AAMSX one, but in the next days its sure that more stands will be confirmed so, stay tunned for future news because next months are going to be full of surprises! Are you prepared?

First of all, welcome everybody to the new AAMSX english version website. We're not good at english, so it will be really easy to find mistakes on the texts. If you find one, please contact with makinavaja and help us to correct the mistake.

Well, as the post title says, we're working to get a date for the next users meeting. As soon as the place date for the users meeting is fully confirmed, we will post it on the website, but right now we can't assure you a real date for the meeting.

More news will be available next days so please wait until then.