Manuel,
Be honest...
Do you EVER play casette games???
I thought so.
Keeping such things standard can never be what they meant by the MSX
standard. If they did, then they could have predicted it would never become
THE standard, because as time goes by the computer gets enhanced more and
more with new technologies, but the old not-used-anymore are still there,
resulting in the machine getting more and more expensive as unnessecary
parts are still being built in, and at the end you have a machine which has
got a seperate Z80, R800 and Z380 in it and with a cassetteport, a
diskdrive, a CD-ROM player, a ZIP-drive, a harddisk, an LS-120 drive and
whatsoever.
If this is the thing the MSX standard was based on, I must confess it's a
really BAD standard. Backwards compatibility is good, but there's got to be
a limit to it.
~Grauw
> > > Not, it's really simple: the MSX standard defines a cassette port. If
t=
> > he
> > > compputer does not have the casssetteport as described in teh
sstandard
> > > (see MSX Technical databook), it's not an MSX...
> >
> > It's a MSXturboR :)
> > The cassette is defined on the MSX and MSX2 standard, but not
> > on MSX2+ and MSXturboR standards.
>
> Which makes it incompatible with MSX and MSX2. What was not the purpose of
the
> MSX sytem: keep it compatible.
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