Hi,
Injustice against the MSX system? Read on.
Seeing that the University Monash (?) in Australia host
a wonderful Japanese learning language directory with
loads of computer programs for very different platforms
(ms-dos, windows, unix, linux, amiga, acorn, apple....)
I reached the maintainer and told him about the MSX
homecomputer system and a cartridge consisting of
a Japanese-English dictionary. I thought that would
very interesting to add to the directory so that people
could learn about another computer system (ours)
and the program available. To my surprise the reply
justifying why the MSX rom would not be added he told
me literally "It's such and old package too". Pathetic.
So here I include the reply I have written and emailed
him. I had previously emailed him the rom and two
captures wasn't he able to find an emulator or run
the rom (even though I gave detailed instructions
on how to use it with fmsx-dos).
Anything to say? Follow this thread.
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Hello Jim Breen,
> Thanks for the attachmemts. I looked at them as best I could (no
Unix
> emulator for MSX).
Pardon me, but there *is* an MSX emulator for Unix. I have attached
it to this message, for your convenience's sake.
> On thinking about it, I don't think I'll add it to the archive.
> Somethinga s specific as that would be obtained from an MSX
archive.
> It's such an old package too.
I see. Well, I can't agree with you. MSX is and old AND alive
computer system. As a matter of fact people all over the world
still use MSX computers (not as widely spread as PC, of course).
Brazil, The Netherlands, Spain, Italy and Japan host most of their
users, yet not all of them.
The reason why I was talking about an emulator was purely
because I thought it would be much easier for you to check the
program with an emulator than with a real MSX computer.
What MSX users actually do is use the cartridge or run the rom file
on with a launching application program.
And I don't think age should be a key factor when deciding which
software to upload to the directory. As a matter of fact, the directory
currently includes approximaltey same age Amiga Japanese
software which I think can't justify age as an excluding factor, when
quality should should be the issue taken into account.
What's more, if I were someone interested in learning what
computer systems have Japanese-learning software programs
coded for, I would certainly like to know about _all_ of them.
Sincerely,
Manuel
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