On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, [iso-8859-1] Beno�t Delvaux wrote:
> But I can't agree with the vision "No future for MSX" that Arnaud
> shows on his site: in some months comes the ASCII emulator, and that's
> an important step to go to the MSX 3, the computer of our dreams since
> 10 years !!!! MSX isn't an obsolete computer, his new version will be
> the computer of the future !!!
I also can't agree with Arnold, whatelse let's see: since all the original
manufacturers had stopped the production of MSX and all of its
peripherals, some users and groups could create:
- many SCSI interfaces
- ATA-IDE interface
- Moonsound
- GFX9000
- EVA (and EVA-IDE)
- Many excellent games
- MUST and VIP
- UZIX
- FlyBrowser running over UZIX (I saw it personally)
- and we can't forget Tsujikawa's VDP over FPGA project!
I don't have anything against ASCII projects, but I don't like their
approach for a new MSX. IMHO, I would bet in Tsujikawa's approach, for
some reasons:
- It promises to be hardware compatible
- It's a way for rebuilding chips in an affordable way
- It's reconfigurable
- I also work with FPGAs (reconfigurable logic)
So, I still think that MSX has a future, but I am realistic: MSX is
commercially dead, however who cares? MSX is not electronically dead while
one of us is still plugging it to the electrical net.
Let's keep the hobby, producing good software and hardware!
Greetings from Brazil! Perhaps, some day, you could see a very old car
being monitorated by a MSX built-in computer, ops, I think I am saying too
much, better stop by here.
PS: I think that Arnold is coming to the dark side of the force (aka M$)
-----------------------------------------------------------
Marco Antonio Simon Dal Poz "Dal Poz Motorsport!"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lsi.usp.br/~mdalpoz
--
For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
