> I understand.. but he says some weird things like:
>
> "From 1993, Konami placed us on new projects and I came back to France to
> follow all this up from far. I received from time to time one or two
> cartridges coming from Japan as well as the already-cracked games from
> Spain. I continued to crack them so I did not lose the hand on it and sent
> them to Sacramento to say it was not worthwhile anymore to send cartridges
> to test and that pirated copies were already there Konami then moved out
of
> the MSX scene in Europe."
>
> So Konami moced out of the MSX scene in europe after 93? Sure....
Effectively .. there's a chronological problem.
The question was about the Konami strategy in 1988. We all know that the
Konami productions of 1989 and 1990 (the last ones for MSX) were very
difficult to find officially in Europe. After that Konami had moved from MSX
zone to the arcade zone. I think that this French guy talks about the same
problems of piracy in the arcade zone in 1993, but these problems were real
in 1988 for MSX.
>
> "A big drawback of the MSX standard was that you needed whatever the
machine
> you were using to ensure all software was compatible with former versions
> and with all MSX computers"
>
> Sure, just like the PCs we now all use (well I'm using a Mac, but a Mac is
> mostly backwards compatible too)
>
The MSX compatibility is a real compatibility : if the programmers have
produced a game or an application that respects the MSX Book rules, a MSX 1
game or application work without any problem on a MSX 2, MSX 2 + or MSX
TURBO-R
It's not really the case in the PC world, especially in the Windows
environnement : a Windows 3.1 program can not really work with Windows 95.
Between Windows 95, 98 and 2000, it can also happen that a program gets
problems with a new version of Windows.
That's not compatibility !
> "The MSX Games Box: Could Konami be interested in this new project?
>
> Well they have already put their new suits on and contacted their old
teams
> from 10 years ago they contacted me to be their consultant in France."
>
> So Konami is forming the old teams again? Surely this guy must be mistaken
> or he didn't understand the question? Now I'm confused :)
>
> Overall, foggy! :)
>
> Greetz,
>
> Collin
I agree with you : the answer for this last question is really foggy. I
don't know if this French guy speaks about MSX or about the new projects of
Konami (old MSX games in Java format). I suspect confidentiality problems to
explain this lack of precision.
But this is also the problem of the real attitude of Konami about the MSX
revival: is Konami really interested by this project ? Actually, we don't
know the answer .... maybe ASCII selfs doesn't know the answer !
Beno�t "Le Martien" - http://www.marsupone.com -
Red�couvrez les plaisirs de l'ordinateur MSX !
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