Hello MSX forum! I'm just getting into MSX and am very excited reading some of what's here! I'm a bit of a wallflower in the video game preservation scene so I'm currently trying to find service manuals for VHD players. That way the Domesday Duplicator can be adapted to work with VHD (it currently works to make replicas of laserdisc and VHS tapes). If we have Domesday Duplicator working then VHD games themselves (not just the cassettes) can finally be backed up! Someday it could even become possible to play them without requiring a giant esoteric hardware collection.
For the time being, I do need to start assmebling that esoteric hardware myself for testing purposes.
I got particularly excited by popolon's work on the IF-C9D. My attempts to reply to his thread directly seem to be going in a black hole (maybe my account is too new?) but I'm hoping there's a BOM (bill of materials) for how to build an IF-C9C replacement using his open source schematics for the IF-C9D plus the dumped ROM for the CALL VHD command. That seems like it might be the best way to get a working VHD interface if it works!
Anyways, happy to be here regardless. Nice to meet you all!
