Hello, my name is Peter, I live in Sint-Truiden, Belgium. I'm 30 now. My native language is Dutch.

I had my first MSX when I was eleven. It was a cute Toshiba HX-10. First I learned MSX-BASIC, afterwards I learned Z80 assembler.

I used tapes in those days. A bit later I bought an external floppy drive. Soon I subscribed to MCM (Dutch magazine) where I discovered Z80 assembler. I still program Z80 assembler nowadays.

I also owned a Philips NMS-8250 with a whopping 256 kB of RAM.

I began to write an MSX-Emulator in 1995, but that project died. I posted the emu (named: MSX-Emulator v1.0 PD) on some newsgroups but it was far from complete. I wrote it in 80286 assembler for MS-DOS. It did run well on an 80286.

At this moment I don't have a real MSX anymore. I still play games on emulators. I really love to play Maze Of Galious.

I've never really contributed software to the MSX community, and there wasn't a real MSX community where I live. We had a big Tandy shop, so everybody has a Schneider. Nevertheless I learned most of my programming skills on the MSX computer, and I'm still active in the computer business (I write WDM drivers for mobile data-cards. WDM is not nice).

As a personal note, I want to say there is one very negative point in the hardware design of the MSX. The VDP's memory can't be accessed directly, rather I/O must be used. This is very bad for video performance. I personally belief this point has prevented the MSX of becoming an more popular architecture.

Cheers!

And welcome here, Anvil!