No, but if there's a special reason it's nice to share
- Sony HB75P modified to 60hz (MSX1)
- Philips VG 8235 (MSX2)
- Panasonic FSA1-WSX upgraded to 512Kb RAM (MSX2+)
- Panasonic FSA1-ST (MSX turbo R)
- Zemmix Neo (FPGA)
- 1ChipMSX (FPGA)
Why? I love the system, I wanted to have at least 1 model of every step in the MSX family (MSX, MSX2, MSX2+, MSXtr, FPGAs).
- Philips NMS8220 (my first MSX
)
- Sony HB-F9S
- Philips NMS8250
- Mitsubishi ML-G1
- Panasonic FS-A1WSX
- Sony HB-F1XV
In the past a Sony HB-F700P, another NMS8250 in mint condition (why I sold it? ), Sony HB-G900P + superimpose unit, Panasonic FS-A1WSX, Sony HB-F500P, ESE MSX System 3 (aka 1ChipMSX) and a Sony HB-F1.
MSX is like a drug, suddenly you feel the need to sell some hardware or software because they are stored for a long time unused in a closet and sooner or later the first signs of regret comes to you...
Nostalgia Section
When I was a kid, I had a "Gradiente Expert" and my father had a "Sharp Hotbit". After some time my father bought a PC and I could use both MSXs. The Expert is still with me, the Sharp was given as a gift to someone and was lost in time. This year I bought other Sharp Hotbit so now I have the same "setup" that I had when I was a kid.
- Gradiente Expert 1.1 + ACVS2+ Kit (my first one)
- Sharp Hotbit 1.1
2+ Section
I had a plan to have one 2+ of each official manufacturer, so I bought one A1WX, one Sanyo PHC-70FD and one Sony F1XDJ. But, after some time, i sell the Sanyo and the Sony. Only the Panasonic is still with me. If all goes OK next year, I will have one 2+ from Sony and from Sanyo again.
- Panasonic FS-A1WX
Curiosity Section
These were bought because they have some feature that I want to see, study or to check. There is a lot of machines that I want to add to this section, but by now I will live with only these:
- National FS5500 (trackball and SuperImposer)
- Sanyo PHC-77 (the portable setup)
- Sony HB-T7 (modem)
- Panasonic FS-A1FM (modem)
- Casio PV-7 (small)
- Casio MX-10 (smaller)
Hidden MSX Section
Those are the results of my search for hidden MSXs.
- Mitsubishi ML-G30 (not a hidden MSX, but the keyboard of this MSX is compatible with the other two machines)
- Pioneer UC-V102 (Hidden MSX2)
- Aucnet NIA-2001 (Hidden Turbo-R)
Ok, ok... I try as well... Since after all these years I'm not very sure anymore what belongs to who, here is combined list of my and Ahti's MSX computers. Is it all here? I'm not sure, but I'm happy that I got to 40 I did not actually do any inventory and I calculated only devices that have natively MSX-BIOS inside.
Al Alamiah AX-170 Canon V-20 Casio MX-10 Daewoo CPC-400 KAON KFC-N660 One Chip MSX One Chip MSX Palcom PX-7 Panasonic FS-A1F Panasonic FS-A1GT Panasonic FS-A1ST Panasonic FS-A1WX Panasonic FS-A1WX (Broken) Philips VG-8020 Philips NMS-8250 Philips NMS-8250 (2 drives) Philips NMS-8250 (2 drives, 7MHz, 256KB RAM) Philips NMS-8280 (2 drives) Philips VG-8235 Philips VG-8235 Sony HB-75P Sony HB-G900P Sony HB-G900P (with U-Matic interface) Sony HB-G900P (with U-Matic interface) Sony XV-T550 Spectravideo SVI-728 Spectravideo SVI-728 Spectravideo SVI-728 Spectravideo SVI-728 (Boxed, mint) Spectravideo SVI-728 (Broken) Spectravideo SVI-738 Spectravideo SVI-738 Spectravideo SVI-738 Spectravideo SVI-738 Spectravideo SVI-738 (MSX2+) Yamaha CX-5M Yamaha CX-5M Yamaha YIS-503 Yamaha YIS-503 (Broken) Zemmix CPC-51
- Aucnet NIA-2001 (Hidden Turbo-R)
So jealous .
Sanyo PHC-77 (the portable setup)
Sony HB-T7 (modem)
Would be great to see dumps and internals of those!
I only have one MSX2 Sony HB-F9S and MSX Turbo R Panasonic FS-A1ST
Why? Because i´m poor and i can´t buy more machines
Sanyo PHC-77 (the portable setup)
Sony HB-T7 (modem)
Would be great to see dumps and internals of those!
PHC-77 internals are here : http://usbsecretbase.michikusa.jp/wavy77/
Note that this machine will require to support MSX-WRITE (1), it's inside the machine and the cartridge version does not work in emulators ... except RuMSX !
And Sony HB-T600 internals here : http://usbsecretbase.michikusa.jp/hb-t600/index.html
Check the MRC wiki for differences with HB-T7 !
This might be a nice way to (re)introduce myself. I'm an MSX enthousiast from Rotterdam, the Netherlands. I like reading about 8-bit CPUs and video chips, and as I grew up with my VG8020, the MSX has always had a special place. And here's a small confession: even though I really admire the MSX architecture as in my eyes the best 8-bit effort ever made, I wish the video chip would've been more like that of the NES. Or at least have some decent horizontal scrolling.
So... my systems:
Philips VG-8020
This is my first 'real' computer (I had an Atari 2600). On my 11th or 12th birthday, my parents suggested I'd ask everyone for money as a present and then buy a home computer. That's what I did, and with no knowledge whatsoever (my parents didn't really know anything about computers either), we bought a used VG-8020 with one of those huge NMS data recorders and a small black and white television. After a few weeks of just playing games, I got a book a MSX Basic from the library and I've programming ever since. Fun fact: I've used it until the 486 PCs were new. And yes, I saved every single program I wrote up until then to TAPE. When I close my eyes, I still have visions of notebooks full of tape offsets and friggin' pencils (that data recorder ate so much tape in its life).
Philips VG-8020
Hey, haven't you already told that whole story abo... Yeah, yeah, but this one is near mint, no polymer degradation, complete in its box, styrofoam, manuals, cables, everything! I bought this off of Marktplaats (a Dutch auction website) when I was around 20, I think. It's nice to have the brand new version of my first MSX.
Sony HB-F700
This is the machine that I use for programming. I bought it around the same time as the 'new' VG-8020. It was expensive, but it's fully decked out with a 7MHz switch, MSX2+ BIOS switch, a V9958 instead of the standard V9938 and it came with a 1MB memory mapper cartridge. I love this machine to death and I use it often. The memory mapper comes in handy for Compass—plenty of memory for source code.
Panasonic FS-A1ST
This has been my dream computer ever since I saw pictures of it in MSX Club Magazine. The model, the color, the keyboard, the dashboard/control panel thing, it just looks so bad-ass! I know the GT is the better turboR, but I like the looks of the ST best. It looks like something out of an 80s sci-fi movie. This one is complete as well. I don't use it that much, only for games pretty much.
Four in total. I've had two NMS 8250s and a VG-8235, but I gave those away to friends in the hopes that they'd discover the joy of MSX. They're probably collecting dust or *shudder* have been brought to the Milieustraat (look that up if you don't speak Dutch—a horrible place for an MSX).