Hi,
You just can't blame software piracy of any kind for killing the MSX
world. If software piracy could destroy a standard, surely I wouldn't be
using a PC with M$ software... I have been using these @#&$@%# PC-like
machines for 10 years, and NEVER gave one buck to IBM, M$, Borland, or
any else PC software company.
You must realize that the Japanese aren't like the Americans, for
example. When the Americans do some thing, they do it already thinking
in how to sell that thing and how to dominate the market selling that
thing. It seems that the Japanese companies made/want the MSX only for
Japanese users and for the Japanese market.
I am sure that the Japanese software companies never knew that were
400.000 MSX machines here in Brazil, and another hundred thousands in
Europe... and even they knew, they wouldn't care at all...
You must remember that 15 years ago...:
1 - A MSX machine was too cheap. Disk drives and printers were
extremely expensive when compared with the CPU.
2 - Electronic parts (Chips) and RAM were too expensive too. A fast MSX
with a comfortable amount of RAM (640 Kb ?) to run great applications
would make
the MSX too expensive.
3 - There were too many companies selling MSX, so the market was too
much divided, and it may seemed to all companies that selling MSXes was
not a good business.
4 - MSX was intended to be a HOME computer... Maybe his own creators
never saw the possibilities we still see for MSX today... There was no
HD or easy/cheap HD interface for MSX, and RS-232 was not 'standard'.
Joystick ports though, were standard...
Here in Brazil we never had original MSX software being sold in shops.
The only ones I saw, came here travelling inside bags hidden among
clothes...
Greets
Werner
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