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Quote: Quote: 4. Manuals. Only in Japanese? Nop, Bazix is to distribute the One Chip MSX outside the Japanese market, and of course all the documentation that comes with it will be localized to English. I hope you do realize real localization means translating it not only to English, but also Dutch, Spanish, Portugese, Italian, German, etc.

It will be great to have all manuals and instructions in spanish . Anyway, if Bazix is going to distribute it, I'll surely get one!. What about a design contest about how we think the casing will be, snout?.

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Quote: Quote: 4. Manuals. Only in Japanese? Nop, Bazix is to distribute the One Chip MSX outside the Japanese market, and of course all the documentation that comes with it will be localized to English. I hope you do realize real localization means translating it not only to English, but also Dutch, Spanish, Portugese, Italian, German, etc.

..and I hope you do realize that would about triple the costs of the European One Chip MSX (and it's 'time to market'), and would also drastically reduce the time we can spend on other MSX revival related productions. One can be too demanding, you know

As for the casing: The European and Japanese One Chip MSX will be using the same casing. I'm about to go back to the Netherlands soon and will post 3 pictures with potential designs in the photoshoots section. Of course, a design contest would be cool, but we can not guarantee any of the community-designed casings will be used in the end. The casing has to be practical, not too expensive and should not involve too many changes on the One Chip MSX board. If you have any ideas though, feel free to contact Bazix with your design ideas and we will bundle them and send them to ASCII Solutions. One can never tell, still it -would- be a long shot.

Really, the 'step by step'-idea behind the MSX Revival still stands. Just like ASCII, in order to deliver affordable One Chip MSX computers to the European/Brazilian market, we have to be able to sell substantial amounts. In order to take a new step in the MSX revival, the previous step must have been succesful enough in order to make the next possible. This summer, WOOMB.net will be lauched; somewhere at the end of the year, the pre-ordering of the One Chip MSX is likely to start, who knows what is going to happen next...

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Of course, a design contest would be cool, but we can not guarantee any of the community-designed casings will be used in the end.

/me not thinking about that thing will ever happen

Just thinking about a contest when everyone can show his point of view about how the 1cMSX will look like and show it to the community. Never thinking about it can become a reality . Just a cool contest to show creativity . Then, people would vote for his/her favourite homebrew design for the 1cMSX case.

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This summer, WOOMB.net will be lauched; somewhere at the end of the year, the pre-ordering of the One Chip MSX is likely to start, who knows what is going to happen next...

Who would ever think about reading those words a couple of years ago?. Can't wait to know the pre-ordering official date!. Be sure I will get one of these babies, muahahaha

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http://www.intolect.com/images/products/psk3100_2.JPG http://www.casco.com/psk3400.htm

24.99 USD with PS/2 connector (+ $2 with USB)... http://store.yahoo.net/precision-square/keyboards.html

Not very expensive.

Thanks for moving the post to "Revival" but because the One Chip MSX is going to be launched/real, I put it in "Hardware"