This page contains several articles that I received from
K. Ikeda from Osaka,
Nippon(Japan). On this page, you can find a short summary of the article
and a link to the full article.
Announcement of ASCII MSX Magazine 2. Furthermore, you can order MSX Magazine,
Hapy!! MSX Emulator & Games magazine and
EGG Official Guide book from Ikeda.
Sales of MSX MAGAZINE in Japan is very succesfull. Another succesfull
book in Japanese book magazines is also an MSX title:
"Happy!! MSX Emulator and Games". It comes together with a
CD with emulator and games. You can order it via mr. Ikeda.
More info on pre-ordering of MSX MAGAZINE. News that mr. Ikeda can now deliver
silicon belt for disk drives in stead of rubber belt. The silicon belt is
stronger.
Info on how to order ASCII MSX MAGAZINE via Mr. Ikeda. Info about a new
FM PAK, being made by an Itialian hardware developer. Info about several
MSX chips that you can order from Mr. Ikeda.
News about several European MSX fans who visited Ikeda. Also message about
MSX in the japanese press. Announcement of EGG official guide book. More info
about ASCII MSX Player Magazine. Announcement of C-BIOS; a clone of the
MSX BIOS, for emulators. Last topic: development of FAT16 patch program
will be stopped.
More news about MSX Revival project. Information about project EGG, which
redistributes old MSX games, bundled with MSX Player. Announcement of
ASCII MSX Player magazin, to be published at MSX Denyuland. Furthermore,
news about progress of ESE MSX PLD project and a call to the MSX Brazilian
crew to join the ESE MSX PLD project.
A lot of news surrounding MSX Player and MSX Association; distribution of
SYNTAX games in Europe and distribution of Sunrise games in Japan.
Explanation about commercial version and free version of MSX Player.
Photo of FPGA MSX proto type. Editorial note: the Single chip
MSX, prototyped in FPGA, is the next step in the MSX Association MSX
revival plans. The MSX Association Single chip MSX project is independent
of the ESE-PLD MSX project, which is a hobby project to build an MSX
in FPGA technology.
Initial list of classic MSX Games that will be distributed by Egg with
MSX Player for Windows. More news on MSX Association. Announcement of a
new book about old MSX games. Re-confirmation that Syntax will distribute
NV-Magazine/MSX Player combination. Price list of second hand (MSX) computer
store in Osaka.
Various news; Yokoi and Ikeda are interested in CIEL3++ and MSX Mother board
project of Ademir Cachano from Brazil. Perhaps officialize BIOS Roms via
MSX Association? More news on MSX Player; announcement of Linux and Mac
versions. ASCII will publish Magazine of MSX. Small note on how to
change CPU Clock via software on Panasonic FS-A1WX/WSX. Announcement of
new version of Zodiac.
More news on MSX Player; confirmation distribution of NV Magazine by SYNTAX
in MSX Player format, Fujitsu will include MSX Player in windows CE handy
computer, EGG (Japanse company which re-publishes classic console games
on windows via emulator technology) will add MSX Player with HYDLIDE to
its portfolio, Yokoi (driver behind MSX Revival/MSX Player project) wants
to publish guide book of MSX Player together with programming tool. Also
news about potential licensing models of MSX Player. Hopefully for free but
not sure yet. Other (good!) news: Yamaha corporation will NOT take legal action
against FM-PAC emulation code. Also some clarifications around MSX
Association and MSX Copyright ownership.
Various news: Announcement small device C compiler at sourceforge (open
source?). Production stop of AddRAM2 4MB memory expansion. MSX Association
will start distributing MSX Player in April 2002. Fujitsu will
include MSX Player in their computer. SYNTAX will distribute NV Magazine
issue April 2002 with MSX Player.
Announcement of CP/M Open Source project and free download of CP/M 3.0 MSX
version. Article about how to use Panasonic word-processor floppy drive in
MSX turbo R. Article about how to change CPU speed in Panasonic FS-A1WX/WSX.
Exhibition of MSX Player alpha version, MSX Association and of old
and/or rare hardware. Agenda of lectures by Maeda (Matsushita),
Ryoozoo YAMASHITA (ASCII) and Kazuhiko NISHI
(MSX Associtation, special advisor to ASCII). List of stand holders
Link to a page how to repair diskdrive of various Panasonic MSX
models (MSX2, MSX 2+ and MSX turbo R). Furthermore, article about a speech
that Mr. Nishi gave about MSX at ASCII corporation.
Announcement of negotiations between Nishi, Yokoi and Microsoft
regarding license-rights associated with MSX Player. Message about SoftBank
(a big asian technology investment group) paying 120MYen to ASCII. Unclear
what this has to do with MSX revival or MSX Player. More background info
on Nishi. Announcement of foundation of OCPA (Open Contents Platform
Association). A new consortium around intent, in which several big players
participate. Can be indirectly associated with the ideas behind MSX
Player/MSX Software distribution via the net. And obviously it is also
linked to the fact that MSX Player runs on intent...
More news about Nishi and ASCII corporation. Announcement of
"MSX Assembly in Nagoya" fair. Announcement about "MSX DENYU LAND 2001" fair.
It is subsidised and will take two days. Correction of previous news about
Intent. Background info on need for 1-chip-MSX.
And last but not least, an updated, international MSX fair calendar.
News about a free test version of Intent and news that Nishi
resigns from vice-president of ASCII corporation! Furthermore, an updated
MSX fair calendar.
More news about ASCII MSX Emulator (dubbed MSX Player). Details about
the presentations on the Tilburg MSX fair by Nishi (vice president ASCII),
Yokoi (Head of Frontline) and Tsujikawa (Member of ESE Artist's Factory).
Furthermore, more answers to questions asked by various peoples. And
news about (un)availability of spare parts for the MSX turbo R!
Answers to questions asked by various peoples. Amongst others about
ASCII MSX Emulator on Intent platform, about www.msxmagazin.com, about
the OPLL emulator and about MSX DENYU LAND 2001 event.
Report about visit of Ikeda, Yokoi and a few others to Barcelone MSX
meeting. Yokoi showed ASCII official MSX emulator at the Barcelona meeting.
Furthermore, Ikeda and the others visited Aktu publications in NL, which
is the publishing company from Wammes Witkop, that used to publish MCCM.
Stay tuned for more information!
Announcement that Ikeda and Yokoi will visit Barcelone MSX meeting of
9th december. News that Bernard and Anne visited ASCII Corp. Announcement
that ASCII is looking for name of ASCII MSX emulator. All suggestions
are welcome and can be sent to Ikeda.
Report about MSX DEN-YU land 2000. Only few visitors: just 1000 people.
Report about lecture by Nishi, about ASCII's future plans with MSX.
News that Ag0ny from Spain will join ASCII corporation. Ag0ny will bring
connection to Europe and Brazil into ASCII. Furthermore, report about
lecture by Yamashita from ASCII corporation, about history of MSX, how
the Amiga almost became the MSX2 and other interesting stuff. Yamashita also
officially announced ASCII MSX emulator.
The MSX print finishes with links to other magazines and news sites that
provide official news about ASCII MSX emulator, etc.
More details about MSX DEN-YU land 2000. Announcement of pre-fair party.
Announcement of new game for MSX from commercial softwarehouse.
Pre-announcement for MSX Emulator from ASCII, which will run on
"Elate" operating system from "Intent".
"Elate" is a operating system/virtual machine that can run on
many host operating systems and processor types.
Two VIPs from ASCII corporation (Nishi and Yamashita) will give
a lecture. List of stand holders. Call for more stand holders. Spanish
MSX supporter Ag0 will visit the fair.
More news about new MSX. Japanese group Frontline has received
permission from ASCII to develop new MSX. Some legal issues about VDP
emulation. Furthermore, a report about the MSX fair held in Tilburg,
the Netherlands. This article is also available in dutch. Meer nieuws
over nieuwe MSX. Japanse group Frontline heeft toestemming van ASCII
om een nieuwe MSX te maken. Er zijn wat wettelijke problemen met
de VDP emulatie. Verder een verslag van de MSX beurs in Tilburg. Dit
artikel is ook in het Nederlands.
Report about MSX World Expo '99 fair. List of Japanese products that
where for sale. Report on non-Japanese (Brazil, Netherlands, Spain, Finland)
products that where shown or for sale. News on ESE DSP system that can
emulate PSG, SCC and FM. DSP project will be put on hold for development
of new MSX using FPGA technology to emulate all existing MSX hardware. Some
news on EVA Movie player. More news on ASCII involvement in new MSX. Talks
about making MSX DATA PACK available again, but cheaper. And also in
English version for European people because European people make COOL
hardware and software. To do this good, having technical information is vital.
Furthermore, some photo's of the fair.
Report about MSX DEN-YU land fair. Many visitors, many former
MSX VIPs visited the fair, what was for sale, etc. A few photo's of
the fair. Report of Lectures by VIPs like Nishi (ASCII) and Niitani (Compile).
News about plans from and Imamura (SYNTAX). Call for article about
European MSX history for new ASCII MSX Magazine. Idea mentioned to use
FPGA technology for new MSX
First talks that new MSX will not be produced by ASCII but that
the new MSX will be made by various groups (Frontline, Syntax, ESE Artists
factory). Furthermore, announcement of new MSX magazine by ASCII. Furthermore
a list with specs for new MSX
ASCII comes back to MSX world, meeting between Kazuhiko Nishi of
ASCII corporation and various Japanese MSX groups. First talks about
new MSX by ASCII (Nishi likes idea but ASCII does not like idea, since
most probably not enough MSX computers will be sold). MSX Festa fair
will be renamed to MSX DEN-YU LAND and ASCII will sponsor this fair.
Another call for cool European and Brazilian MSX stuff to show at fairs.
Various news: photo's of MSX EVENT in Osaka, announcement for
MSX Festa fair on 22-August 99, call for European/Brazilian MSX hard-
and software for MSX WORLD EXPO'99 fair on 21/22 November '99.
News about ACE001 MSX computer mother board from Brazil. List
of specs and future plans. If at least 20 people are interested,
the project will be continued.