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\o/ hop by @ MRC for a random sc2-gfx chat orso..

Yes. I hope you still have the Polka! sources. My new laptop has a video card that doesn't cope with 'Cls' the right way. It just doesn't clear
So bring it if you can.

I had to redo all tools I made myself in B+. But I could need a good working Polka! too. It's workable but not handy.

Nah, P2 is now really under construction, not by me, but by Edwin_ (P2's functional design became a bit too large-scale for me ) We'll have to see whether dev7 is in the way or not. I actually hope to be able to use P2 for dev7.

Hi there, I will probably be attending the fair tomorrow in hopes of getting a nice desktop MSX2 system. But to free up space, I wanted to sell my MSX1 system (Philips VG-8020) and a whole load of tapes that came with it. I think among them are games in those fancy plastic cases too.

So my question is, just to be sure, is it okay for me to go around and ask if someone wants it?

Of course, it being such an old MSX and with just tapes, I would not ask much at all for it.

Drop by at the "FiXato & Friends" stand and you can put it for sale there Space enough for another person at the 'booth'

Thank you for your offer. I will see if I can make it! Although I do not intend to spend my day at the booth there. I just need to sell the MSX and move on, really.

Sure, I think we can work something out there Just look for the Dutch geek with long hair (and a beard atm). I'll prob be wearing a white Ruby on Rails polo-shirt.

And off we go to Bussum See you all in 45 minutes or so ;p

is anyone there with internet that can send us images or impressions?
A webcam and a microphone would be great to get the feeling over there

Well, I'm just back from there. (sorry, no pictures) Had a good time. Unfortunately it gets a little smaller every year. But there was some good stuff. Everybody rushed to get a copy of Manbow2 ofcourse There was a OCM on display. I got a copy of Phantomas Saga: Infinity from the Bitwise stand. Talked a bit to the guys from MSX Retrodevelopment (They made some very good PC Tools for they MSX(1) game in development) The biggest amiss would be the absence of RepairBas. And the OpenMSX team showed some good progress in their emulator as well. Kudos to TNI for organizing yet another great MSX get together.

Thanks!
How was the game from retrodevelopement?
and how is space manbow2?

Bussum fair was great! I liked to meet all you people there, it was a very interesting and socialising meeting!
@Patsie: Unfortunately we didn't meet, did we? (I am still a bloody newbie somehow)
When do we have the first pirctures online? (this time I forgot my camera, shame on me)

Oh, btw, thanx to...
- the OpenMSX team for helping me with getting the console finally running!
- the MP3MSX team Dennis and Yobi for some interesting talks
- Alex for showing the OCM in live. Hope we get the MegaSD driver working soon.
- Sunrise for selling me Manbow 2 and another G9K card
- Latok, Wolf and much more for additional interesting talks
- and MSD of course: for finding out, that his idle task is much faster than myone (and all this other interesting stuff!)
Oh, I missed Repair-Bas and Snout! Hope they are in Nijmegen, looking forward to it!

@ARTRAG: The game from Retrodevelopment looks very promising! (keeping in mind it's going to be an MSX1 game) I'm quite keen to give it a go, once it's finished. Manbow 2 (not space manbow 2) is damn fine indeed. The packaging is very neat (altho the sticker on the cartridge wasn't ready during the fair, so Sunrise will send them by mail to all buyers, very good of them and kudos to sunrise for the nice packaging as well). The game itself is quite hard the first time you play it, but that's a good thing. Wouldn't want to finish it already in 1 day, would we? and a nice feature is the built in savegame(!) Yes, there's a savegame feature in a ROM cartridge. Probably some sram+battery. Nice feature indeed.

@Prodatron: I don't think I've seen you either. I was there with 2 friends and we were pretty early, from about 10 till 11:30. We're always pretty fast in and out Too bad to have missed you tho Perhaps next meeting.

@Patsie: drats, then I also missed you. It'd be nice to meet one of the team members of 'that other project group' (BrainGames) after all the hard work

I had a great time! There were interesting things to see. Alas, I could not sell my MSX1 or the games, but I got a very good MSX2 (NMS8250) and two boxes worth of games.

Again many thanks to FiXato for letting me display my unsellable stuff