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> Van: Rieks W. Torringa[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Verzonden: maandag 22 februari 1999 7:55
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Onderwerp: Re: Your typical MSX history & hardware setup
>
> Hi...
>
> I didn't follow this story from the beginning, but from Laurens' message
> and the subject, I get the impression that this is about MSX history and
> the like...
>
> To go in short... I was born in 1979 (as they say, I can't clearly
> remember)...
Is there any scientific proof that you are born in that year? Maybe you are
a Vampire and you are taken into home by your (current) mother. Maybe you
will suck her dry in a few years and go search for some new ignorent parents
where you can again practise your habit of drinking unholy blood. I don't
say this is true, but maybe........
> I was a very happy kid, often playing outside with friends
> and so on...
Outside? Was it night or were you properly protected from the sun
> on
> my own with the GameBuilder, but let me not dig those nightmares up
> again... (Ah well, nightmares, I had a lot of fun making them, but their
> quality was... GameBuilder).
>
The Vampires and She Vampires. Hmmmmm I'm beginning to see a pattern
here.....
> But I wanted to keep this story short (there has been published a
> MSX-story of mine on various diskmagazines, e.g. FutureDisk and
> Defender), so let me finish... In 1995 there were some troubles with
> MSX-Code and I decided to leave the club (which, shortly afterwards,
> disappeared). At that time I also worked together with Jan Wilmans and
> Aaldert Dekker, two ML-programmers, and we decided to form the team
> 'Pigeonsoft' (this was a name with nostalgic value to me, as I also used
> this name when I was just making shit in BASIC before entering
> MSX-Code). Ofcourse, we needed more teammembers, and eventually Johnny
> Hassink, Sven Neve and Robert Vroemisse entered the team as respectively
> musician, graphic designer and musician/graphic designer. After all, we
> found the name 'Pigeonsoft' not that charming, so we decided to change
> the name to 'Sargon' and that's what we're still today... We started the
> Defender-project, a diskmagazine on half-yearly basis and began lots of
> games of which, sofar, none has been completed (snff...). We also made a
> music demo (Twisted Reality)
Which is actually quite nice. When I come to to think about it. The disk is
actually very GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> and some gametipsdisks (Guide through
> Gameworld 1 and 2). Our first products to be released now are Defender 6
> and Twisted Realtity 2.
>
> Next to Sargon, I also was for two years editor of the magazine MSX-User
> and I wrote now and then something for FutureDisk and some other
> magazines (not that frequently, however).
>
> My greatest fun with MSX is not the MSX itself anymore, but the scene
> that uses it... For example, fairs, friends coming to drink a beer and
> play pool,
Any persons in particular maybe?
> MSX-parties, etc... If I want to play games nowadays, I
> mainly use my PlayStation or SNES... For playing games, I really reject
> PC's, but they really come in handy when you want to do desktop
> publishing or Internetting or so...
>
> Oh, and about that Japanese language... I'm now studying Japanese, not
> because now I really want to understand those games (but that's also
> nice, ofcourse), but my interest came because of the games... I'm not
> THAT fanatic...
>
> Then my MSX hardware setup...
>
> - MSX2 NMS8255
> - MSX Turbo R ST
With a vage kabel and stoffige veertjes
> - Music Module
> - Panasonic FM-Pac
> - MoonSound
> - External 512kB memory mapper
> - Philips NMS1431 matrix printer
> - Two Philips full-colour monitors
One is very vague
> - Two Philips mouses
> - Some old joysticks
> - MT-Telcom modem, which crashed shortly before I went to Japan
>
> Well, possibly I forget something, but well... These are the main
> things...
>
> So far my story (I guess...) !
>
> Bye,
> Rieks
>
Bye
Robusu - sama
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