At 00:00 10-7-00 +0200, you wrote:
>] At 21:50 9-7-00 +0100, you wrote:
>] >On 9 Jul 2000 20:44:01 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Laurens Holst) wrote:
>] > > I heard there were sold quite a lot. I don't remember correctly
>] > anymore, but
>] > > more than 50, maybe 100 if I recall ok.
>] > >
>] >We sell about 200 GFX9000
>]
>] Don't you think it's a bit strange so many have been sold already, but
>] still so little programs that actually use it?
>Panasonic has sold over 200.000 MSX turbo R's. And Sony, Panasonic and the
>others have sold a few million MSX 2+ systems. Yet, both the 2+ extensions
>and the MSX turbo R extensions are hardly used by any software.
The it's about time we're gonna make much more for MSX 2+ and MSX turbo R.
However, the only extension I know of for the MSX 2+ is just the new VDP
(so YJK-pictures and hardware horizontal scroll should be used more often
when detected.
>Do you really believe that that will be different for a hardware extension of
>which a mere 200 exemplars where sold?
You're right about that. But still, why is Europe (and other parts of the
world) so fixated on MSX 2, with MSX-MUSIC and MSX-AUDIO then? Sometimes
(not THAT frequently) SIMPL/Covox is used and MoonSound is used more and
more these days, but that's really it. What do people have with
sound-extensions these days? Many of them are used, but when it comes to
video extensions (digitize and superimpose for V9938, V9958 and V9990 and
just MSX2+ features and Gfx9000) is hardly used.
And please don't use the Dutch phrase "Wij Nederlanders zijn zuinig!",
because if you have heart for MSX, you just need to support these kind of
developments.
GreeTz, BiFi
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