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i always wondered could you buy konami msx games in the uk and other European countries or if most of the good games were japan only

Robocop 2 wasn’t a cpc game converted to cartridge format, it was actually a gx4000 exclusive.

I have a 464 and connect the m4 board via the centronics port and an adapter, so not sure where yours has gone?

Great overview for those of us who never saw these back in the day. Thanks for the run down.

Thank for the review. By mistake I bought this radio. It is really annoying and not worth buying. What a load of rubbish!!, it went to the dust bin…

I have one and I love it

Ahh Elite... wish my memory was more complete but it was a long time ago. Mr Micro were commissioned by Firebird to convert Elite to a variety of platforms. It was one of my first tasks there. Another programmer had started it on the Tatung Einstein and I took over. I wrote the version for the MSX for sure. I don't recall us producing an Einstein version but considering how close the hardware was between the two, maybe I did as a sort of by product. As I said, a lot of water has passed under that bridge. What I do know is that due to some contractual problems, I converted the versions blind - the only code I had was the algorithm to generate the planet names and the raw 3D models for the ships. In an attempt to get more speed and overcome the lack of a multiply instruction in Z80, I used log maths for a lot of the 3D stuff. Problem was this introduced rounding errors and the 3D vectors representing the orientation of the models collapsed over time - if left along the spinning space station would get smaller and smaller. Therefore every 256 matrix operations (rotation), a routine ran to reset the 3D vector (XYZ) back to 1.0 which meant that if you watched closed, the space station popped back out in size. After the MSX version, I wrote the ST and Amiga conversions which were a lot more fun!

The comment about using it as a development machine very much echoes my own experience at Mr Micro. I used both the Tatung, the Amstrad PCW and the Amstrad CPC as development systems to write Z80 code for Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and MSX. I too put together a parallel interface to the target machine. I'd done electronics at University so it was a relatively simple interface but boy was it fast. I remember starting to use the excellent SLR Z80 assembler which was lightning fast compared to what I'd used before. What I can't remember is which text editor I used...

I think QL might have succeeded more if they made the Microdrives just a peripheral only; and provide tape and floppy options. it looked damn good though.

The sinclair QL was let down by not having proper serial ports, you couldn't use it i with the coming bulletin boards and early computer networks !! followed by the micro-drives HOWEVER,, in other respects it was much like the Atari ST,,, like a Spectrum but with 32bit cpu & more memory I had 512KB add on Ram, twin floppies, Tony tebbys toolkit, mouse etc,,, it was a very usable machine !!!!!

I had one of these mid 80s, jet set Willy, gronks, chunky egg, is there an emulator anywhere online?

I had one in 1984. It had a black box that plugged into the back of the c.genie, called 'wizard' then a cable from there to a 5 1/4" floppy disc drive...why did i sell it !!! 😢 had a few games: fuss, country gardens, colour kong, exterminator:the birds, droids, ice, bak pak etc.

Thank you for the review. It is an interesting little unit.

first comment pin me please

Wow that is super cool. I was looking for a cool case for my Raspberry Pi 3B+, and thought a Turbo Grafx 16 case would be cool. Very neat PC engine build. So cool that you're using actual discs.

This is my dream

I was surprised the case fitted back on with those tiny resistors in that array

They should have made Super CD games compatible with the PC FX. What were they thinking making a lot of bad decisions. I would have fired them all. Just a waste of time and money fooling with the people making the PC FX. I really think they wanted the gaming business to fail. Maybe somebody was paid a whole lot of money to make very bad decisions.

Dankpods headphone testing music :)

It only offers the Taiwan 🇹🇼. For tuning? I’m in the USA

MSX was very succesfull in Brazil with two models: Gradiente's Expert and Sharp's HotBit.

pro-tip: Get a megarom/flashrom cartridge with SCC if you intend to play Konami games. A lot of them use the SCC, and without it they sound decidedly awful.

If it wasn't for shipping, you could probably pick up 6 or 8 systems from Japan for $300-$400 or less.

Superb collection you've got there, sir!

Ugh, how in the fuck does a guy who don’t care for DragonBall, or hasn’t even seen the show be the guy to review an obscure ass DBZ rpg game?!?! lol whatever

A solution, looking for a problem. 😂

I have managed to get a Casio EV-600 handheld TV to work with DVD and a chromestick using an RF modulator. This severes no actual purpose except that I now own a functioning handheld TV that's is a proud part of my retro 90's collection 😂😍

This machine, especially the 256, it makes me a bit sad inside to think what we might have had in the UK market, I mean a maching with 192Kb of VRAM!!! Take that, or uniqueness like the Jupiter Ace, or consider what might have happened if the Sharp X68000 had be marketed here! We could have dominated the industry with these fascinating and clearly somewhat puissant machines! This is great content and fond memories - I didn't have such a machine, I was an army brat in Germany at the time but I Dad had a massive collection of home computing magazines from both sides the the pond I used to read them and practically drool! Kind of emulating the computer inside my head! The Tatung, the Oric Atmos, the Enterprise 128, the various Apricot machines ... Loved that, was a great way to lose myself in fantastic digital world, and I have been an IT geek and programmer ever since! Thank you again!

What is that cable he has connected from the palcom player to the laser disc player the round one

Looks like a pretty lousy radio, thanks for the review

If you could easily bind the forms to a database this would have been a killer app, especially for stores checkout / inventory in the early 90's (DOS run on pretty much anything).

The first one is just the code sakurai used in his example

Boring

This deserves more views!! I liked it. I saw one of these, a relative had it. They were common in Latin America

I remember asking my mum for a computer in the late 80s. I was too young to know much about them though. She dutifully looked at ads in the local paper, went out and come back with this. Like most kids I wanted games so it didn't take long for me to realise she'd made an horrendous error.

Very cool work!

That's a pretty cool keyboard

Hi, what kind of video they read on usb ? .avi ?

At 1:30 you say there aren't any games written specifically for the 2+, but then you accidentally show exactly one of the very few games that were actually made just for the 2+, namely "F1 Spirit 3D Special" 😂 It will let you run the game on MSX2, but it's not working properly - they should've added a check! There's only very few other games that are 2+ only, Laydock 2 springs to mind... maybe there's a few more? -- Cool video either way, cheers!

this is the best game ever made...to bad it is only for the pioneer laseractive

Randomly I just came across your channel watching videos of the Tatung Einstein computer and thought I'd be nosey at some of your other videos. I'd like to say VB6 takes me back, but I still use it most days to maintain a very large existing codebase! I also used to work in the hospitality industry, as I developed an entertainment system that connected to hundreds of different EPOS systems, again something that started life in VB6. Funnily enough, I also wrote a dummy EPOS system that looked very much like your example in this video too.

They really should have included a mini-hdmi input so you could hook it up to things with HDMI output since the 7" screen looks very nice.

🎉so little

Thanks for playing Ghost Rush. I was watching Erin Plays and she mentioned this game! Good Stuff - Thumbs Up!

Can you boot on SD card and use it like a mini TV? like if you watch a MP4 video from the sd card it will start the next one after it or juste end and back to the selection screen?

The first castle/keep you come too is definitely a timing game. After a few tries of waiting for the shark to pass, you should be able to get all party members safely inside. Make sure to open barrels and search to get gear for your characters, as there will monsters (much easier) to fight and beat inside. I played this on PC when it first came out back in 1989. Graphics and sound are about the same as the Marty too. To fight the large dragons, your characters need to be almost max level. PC version is in English too by the way.

Does anyone know where I can get a replacement charging cable for the Zodiac?

From where I can buy direct from china

My Marty has the screen corruption too exactly the same way. I wonder if there is a fix.