Oss 2005 photos
MSX fair Oss 2005 photos
The room of the fair didn’t have a lot of light, and my camera is kinda cheap, so forgive me if some of the photos are a little darkish…
Waiting for the train to Oss to arrive at ’s Hertogenbosch station… I just missed the 11:37 train :(, I should have hurried more when I arrived.
Met Maarten in the train… Blinded a little by the sun :).
We’re there! Oss station.
Entrance of the fair. No ‘MSX’ sign, but we found it :).
Observe, Patriek’s ‘big change’ (heh, he just bought a suit, I thought he would be shaved bald or something).
A couple whose names I do not know playing Bomb Jack, a new Spanish game by amongst others some members of the former Matra (or so I understand), imported by Bitwise.
On the left, Peter Meulendijks, next to him is Maarten (Wolf), then a friend of Peter who is in Umax as well (but whose name I forgot), and on the right, André.
Two MSX RPG’s in development! On the background, Cipher, and on the foreground, Realms of Adventure pt. 2!
The MSX NBNO stand, the people who organised the fair.
The game CLS, by Up-soft and Darkstone. I didn’t play it very thoroughly yet, but it seemed like a nice puzzle game. Also cool to see a product coming from MSX-NBNO, as they were usually only doing distribution and magazine publishing.
Anne doing a counter-camera attack!
Anne again, this time without camera. Ladies, watch out for this man!
OpenMSX development, Rinus watching on the left, and Eric working on/showing Gfx9000 support.
Alert! Alert! Hayamara Nights 2 not suitable for children! Well, the plot isn’t, I guess :). A wonderful game, very international project, and working very smoothly. Will definitely buy it when it’s released!
Tristan, Maarten.
Marinke and Debby, two true MSX chicks!
Jesús ([DK], from Spain!) and Sjoerd.
This is a truly embarrassing photo of Filip who just had his eyes closed when I took the picture, and which I promised not to put online, but… I can't resist!
Some random people… In the back, Robert Vroemisse trying to show Anne and Ramon (the creator of Cipher) that he is really good at standing on one leg.
OpenMSX team, showing stuff. Eric, Manuel, and Maarten.
Jorrith and Arjan; they are cursed, they never look good on photos!
Rieks, and Robert, they look so happy! And André is happy too!
Pretty Bomb Jack advertisement poster! With shocking texts, former Matra style clearly visible ^_^. Also, note the copyright-free MSX logo ;p.
Intro screen of Bomb Jack.
Another intro screen of Bomb Jack.
The Sunrise stand; Ben, the brother of Rob (who was probably walking around), and Koen.
Jan Lukens and his spouse Iris, chatting with Patriek.
Up-soft (aka MSX-NBNO ;p), selling their CLS game.
Same thing.
Delta soft, who just showed me their upcoming Konami Quiz 2. They rule! ^_^
Rinus, and KoetjeMSX whose real name I don’t know. Today, I received issue 2 of MSX World Wide (from their hands) by mail, too!
Two Gfx9000’s at the Sunrise stand. One of these was borrowed to Rudi, who seemed really enthousiastic about it and was already dying to make a game for it. I'm anxious to see what will come of it!
Two things. First off, The Lost World, rereleased with the MoonSound music they promised so long ago! Secondly, I must say that tiny screen they sell at the Dixons looks pretty sexy :).
That’s right, Sunrise is going to start producing a new batch of MoonSounds again! All of them with 640k SRAM, so Wolf will be happy too ^_^. Note that there were only two Compact Flash interfaces left, and because they’re now producing MoonSounds that means they won’t have resources to make new CF-IDE’s for a while, so be quick if you still want one! (Update: Sunrise says they still have a stock of 5 CF-IDE’s in total)
Some magazines on the msx.org stand… Interesting Spanish magazines, recent too! I didn't know they were still there.
Same.
Patriek’s very hip shoes :). He looks like a Yakuza man now! ^_^
And the traditional after-fair fastfood dinner. Hmmm… I'm not a real fan of Burger King :).
Things I forgot to take a photograph of: Bas and Ditta Kornalijnslijper’s little baby girl Quintie (link). And Edwin, too. And Rudi, and his shining MSX! (link)