Allrighty, I tried to translate the text. But I did it in a
hurry, so please forgive me for any mispellings.
The article (from a dutch magazine which is
published by Luc Sala who once published MSX-INFO)
MSX-Revival
It really sounds amazing, but according to Sander Zuidema there is an
MSX, once the predecessor of CD-I and rival of C-64 as Microsoft
Extended Basic in the pre-DOS time, revival going on in Japan. Once
there were tons of software, but the argument between Kay Nishi and
Gates (leading to the lack of support for CD-I in MS-DOS en that
Philips had to choose OS-9 for OS) and on the other hand the coming
of PC's made MSX bleed to death.
In the Netherlands there was, thanks to Philips building the hardware
and the fact that the Philips Homecomputerclub made the change from
P-2000 to MSX, a quite large group of MSX users. Eventually it all
died, but we published the MSX-INFO magazine for years though.
And now there are new plans being made, at ASCII, and Kay Nishi is
yet again involved. It's all about an MSX emulator for the PC, that
will give you the opportunity to use that old software again, but
they have also been talking about new hardware with a 150MHZ Z-80 CPU.
Who would have thought this or is this computer-archeological work?
The commercial background is that MSX software is fairly good for
internet-downloads, is nice and compact and there's a lot of software
for young kids and minors.
Sander
