ag0ny wrote:
> > The only way to make the new MSX a success is to produce a machine that is
> > cheap, uses advanced hardware, and is somehow compatible with -say- directX
> > (dreamcast, PC, MS X-Box) so that games easely could be ported from other
> > platforms, has a DVD player, so that people will buy the system sooner
> > because they know that if no software is produced for the system, they still
> > can use it as a dvd player, has a build in mpeg layer III decompressor chip
> > (another reason for people to take a change and buy the system)
>
> What you want isn't a new MSX, but a cheaper PC! This is not the 'MSX
> way'. MSX has been always an easy-to-program, user-friendly system, where
> users make hardware developments and upgrades themselves. This should
> continue this way. The MSX has a place in market as a cheap HOME COMPUTER
> system (remember: HC, not PC!).
>
> Don't think about professional video edition on the MSX, or graphics
> renderization. Think about the children that are bought their first
> computer by their parents. Think about small companies that can't afford
> buying 10-15 PCs just to use the web and send email. Think about schools
> and think on the MSX as a learning machine. This is what the MSX is, and
> this is where the Wintel platform can't beat us.
But you can have all this and still be easy to program. Imagine a MSX with a sound
processor that can handle mp3 files by hardware. With basic you could do, for
instance:
10 print"my mp3 collection"
20 print"i'll play now Cindy Lauper - goonies theme"
30 playmp3"c:goonies.mp3"
and voil�! your little son just made a small mp3 player using basic in his new
advanced MSX!
you can think about similar programs doing animations with poligons, render, etc,
everything
using a new basic in rom (or CD,dvd, HD). You should remember that when MSX1 was
released in 1983,
you could write musics using 3 channels using psg in basic, and that was great at
that time, when many
people still playing atari2600 with musics using only one channel...
All you need is a basic interpreter that supports all of these advances (mp3,
mpeg1 or mpeg2, 3D textures, and
whatever). A MSX with enough power, would sell many machines because it will be
easy for children to learn
about computers and write powerful programs. And then you could have software
company's like Konami developing
software for it... It's just a matter of doing it a great machine. If you just put
a modified v9958 and the old fm sound,
then you won't be able to compete with PSX, Dreamcast and even PC's...
[]s
Mauricio Braga.
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