Alex Wulms
Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:15:46 -0700
] That is not my impression. My impression is that Nishi is very enthusiastic. ] But I cannot explain his contradicting remarks. Dear all, As you could already have read approximately one year ago in the section "Japanese MSX news by Ikeda" on "The MSX Plaza", Mr. Nishi is indeed very enthousiastic about MSX. But he is only enthousiastic on a personal title. On the other hand, ASCII corporation is a commercial company with a not-so-good financial position. So, ASCII corporation must be very carefull and can not effort to loose money on making a new MSX if the new MSX would turn out to be a failure. Therefore, one year ago, they already made up a very carefull roadmap, which can be summarised as follows: Step 1: make a new MSX magazin. Step 2: make an MSX emulator and set-up a software vending system on the internet. Step 3: make a new MSX Now, one year later, we can see that ASCII has really taken steps to stick to this roadmap. Step 1: the new MSX magazin from ASCII is reality. It exists. Step 2: the new MSX emulator seems to be being worked on. Also, ASCII seems to have been talking with Konami and others to make the old MSX software available for the internet vending system. Step 3: this is currently being worked on by amateur groups, which do have the permission from ASCII to use MSX roms, etc. And apparently, ASCII is in discussion with Sega for mass-production. What ASCII also said that step 2 would depend on the succes of step 1 and step 3 would depend on the success of step 2. So, the new MSX is not a reality. Not yet. And there is still a big chance that it will never become a reality. And for the rest, the bla bla about MSX in refrigerators, etc: there is already a big consensus in the IT sector about the fact that household appliances like refrigerators, televisions, etc will get more intelligence and will be hooked-up to the internet. For example so that the refrigerator can order new bottles of milk when you are almost running out of stock... Too make this kind of intelligence affordable, you must have standardised (single-chip) solutions that can be mass-produced. Which was exactly one of the requirements behind the MSX system back in the 80's of the previous century. So, it is rather logical to extend this idea of a standardised home computer system to the idea of a standardised internet-enabled household appliances system... Kind regards, Alex Wulms -- Visit The MSX Plaza (http://www.inter.nl.net/users/A.P.Wulms) for info on XelaSoft, Merlasoft, Quadrivium, SD-Snatcher on fMSX, the MSX Hardware list, XSA Disk images, documentation, Japanese MSX news from Ikeda and lots more. **** Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/ ****