On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 08:34:02 +0200, Albert Beevendorp wrote:
>>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.
Screen 10 is great for games with little background changes.
>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.
This is because it's possible play a game without sound... but it's not
play it without image! (-:
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