I keep thinking of silly ideas to do some tinkering with electronics, just for the sake of having fun. Today's idea: an adapter to use #Amiga mice on #MSX computers. That way one could use one of those newfangled USB “tank” mice in one more retro architecture, while looking period correct. I imagine somebody could have done such an adaptor back in the late 80s of early 90s, possibly using some i8051 microcontroller... Betcha @foone would have liked that, given how their “it's always an i8051” is their equivalent of Dr. House's “it's never lupus” :blobeyes:
I have spent months on a PCB for this pairing, but I have finally got my Sony HB-F1XD outputting properly to my Atari SC1224 display. #MSX#retrocomputing#retrogaming
i may have just became the owner of a #MSX computer.
I've been tempted for ages but got distracted by an amstrad CP and then an amiga has eaten up all my time & to be honest more than its fair share of cash.
but I am honestly having more fun with the amstrad CPC 464 so I thought another 8 bit Z80 computer would mean double the fun.
now I gotta wait for the postal service to do it's thing before I get to play with it.
and who knows where I'm storing all this stuff tbh.
Still 🤯 after learning last week than you can run unmodified CP/M software from MSX-DOS. Here’s WordStar 3 running on my Sanyo Wavy23 MSX2 machine #RetroComputing#MSX#CPM
Well, that didn't go as planned.
I was hoping to make grandpa's #SpectraVideo#MSX complete by adding a data recorder to it.
Unfortunately I didn't do proper research and so I ended up with the wrong one. The plug doesn't match.😤 #RetroComputing#retrogaming
silicium collection. Un bel #msx : Goldstar FC200 de 1984.
Le géant coréen, qui n’était pas encore LG, pensait vendre cette machine en France puis s’est ravisé.
On apprécie son clavier coloré façon terminal et surtout son trou. Sais-tu à quoi il sert ?
Pour le reste, c’est un MSX parmi les autres.
46 Hours to go and counting. Its nearly there, the best modern built (and old IMO) Retro Joystick that out of the box works on ZX Spectrum (via Kempston), Amiga, Classic Atari Computers and Consoles, Amstrad CPC, C64, Sega Master System and far more with an adaptor including MSX. Fully featured with button for up toggle and...
Sealed games rarely interest me because I just want to play. This Hole in One has a Special (ha!) place in my heart though. The cover art is one of my favs for #MSX and the series is just fun to play!
Besides, someone offered it to me for cheap. So what was I going to do? 😋
while waiting for the delivery of my #msx I thought I'd download the toshiba hx-10 manual and browse it.
only copy I could find was a scanned version while ok, had a lot of bleeding through of images and text from when it was scanned. so having an hour or so to spare I tried cleaning it up and I think its came out ok.
I'll convert it to a PDF at somepoint later today and upload it once I figure out best place to put it online so others can have it if they want a copy #retrocomputing
Questa non è un’ode all’MSX (me la terrò in serbo per una prossima volta), però cazzo se è buono l’MSX. Ora che lo guardo un pochino meglio, per molti versi sembra decisamente più allettante del NES, e mi sa che rischia di diventare la mia piattaforma #retro preferita, dal punto di vista dello #sviluppo#software. (Riguardo il gaming invece, si continua ad andare semplicemente dove stanno i giochi volta per volta, il resto conta meno di zero.) 🥶️
Lo stereotipo che i giochi #MSX scrollano di cacca in parte è vero, e certamente il NES sotto quel punto di vista rimane migliore, però per il resto… l’audio è oggettivamente migliore (ha più roba dei 4 canali), il video negli altri ambiti è più potente e flessibile con anche diverse modalità (e con MSX2 diviene tutto ancora meglio), e per il resto… l’MSX è uno standard per home computer, non una console, per cui si gode di più memoria senza bestemmie, supporto di prima classe a dispositivi come mouse e tastiera, o anche espansioni più oscure. 👹️
Volendo quasi quasi programmare per questa piattaforma quel recente giochino che ho in mente, perché credo di riuscire a fare qualcosa di artisticamente più valido con le limitazioni d’epoca (ma sento che il NES rischia di essere un mal di testa troppo grosso), ho provato a cercare qualcosa… E inizialmente mi stavo un po’ scoraggiando, non riuscendo a trovare materiale soddisfacente, ma continuando a scavare ho trovato MSXgl; sembra una #libreria multimediale eccellente, permette di #programmare in #C con astrazioni comode per quasi ogni cosa. La documentazione non è perfetta, molti dettagli non sono detti quindi un po’ ho dovuto guardare i sorgenti dell’engine e degli esempi, e un po’ cercare in giro… ma è comunque sorprendentemente ottima. 😻️
Per iniziare a prendere familiarità col tutto, ho fatto giusto questo po’ ora: una ROM che mostra due linee di dialogo senza senso all’avvio, e poi cambia scena e inizia a riprodurre una musica. Ovviamente, gli assets sono quelli di #esempio, non ho ancora iniziato a produrre nulla, anche perché devo prima capire quale modalità video è la migliore per questa mia applicazione… 🧐️https://octospacc.altervista.org/2024/05/18/msx-more-like-sex/
I honestly think that #Microsoft are going to exit the hardware arena and turn #Xbox into a software/service brand.
Meaning they’ll publish games for other platforms (like #SEGA did), let anybody use their Live and streaming services, but more importantly, I think they’ll periodically release specs to hardware manufactures so they can make Xbox-compatible devices.
Remember, Microsoft already did something very similar in the 80s with their #MSX platform.
The MSX classic The Maze of Galious was actually Knightmare 2.
An interesting feature of the game depended on what was inserted into the MSX's second cartridge slot.
If the first Knightmare was in, you could resurrect your companion 99 times. If there was Q-bert, you started the game with bonuses like extra gold and a full health bar...☺️👍🕹️
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46 Hours to go and counting. Its nearly there, the best modern built (and old IMO) Retro Joystick that out of the box works on ZX Spectrum (via Kempston), Amiga, Classic Atari Computers and Consoles, Amstrad CPC, C64, Sega Master System and far more with an adaptor including MSX. Fully featured with button for up toggle and...