Yes, but erhm.....I think this project doesn't have anything to do with Nishi's plans. It's a relatively cheap fun educational homecomputer. Great initiative. But NOT integrating LAN really would be a mistake. In my humble opinion.

Don't forget the possibilitys of the USB.

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And do you see this design does not have a seperate Z80 anymore?! The Z80 is implemented in FGPA!! The prototypes shown so far (including the one at Sunrise) always had a dedicated Z80 chip. It seems A LOT of progress has been made that we weren't aware of

Not quite right, it is so that in the beginning the z80 was already implemented.
Since Bussum we became an update from Ese with the extra features of keyboard and Vga and dos2 support.
So that kind of info I donot see, but it surely will also be in that new design.
The last one worked but the the first two didnot unfortunately. We are still trying to see what it is.
But because of the extra features , tusjikawa mailed me to use a separate z80 in order to let it work since there was not enough space into the fpga.

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tusjikawa mailed me

WHO?! :\

Tsujikawa, I think If I'm not mistaken it's Tsujikawa Kazuhiro from ESE Artists' Factory.

Not enough room on the FGPA? Why not add another one instead of a Z80? Adding a Z80 would make the whole thing more static and less dynamic.
Maybe I am saying compleetly stupid (I think the FPGA is the big chip in the centre).

Henk, THE FPGA showed by us and shown on the Ese website is another FPGA.
So that explains the difference .
To be exact in the protoype ( I call it that way) had a xlinx fpga and now is chosen for an Altera cyclone
D-tail is ofcourse right although kazuhiro is his first name.
My compliments, you did some homework !
And Guyver donot tell me you were not there on sunday in 2001 !

Oh well... I just wait and see... There is nothing more I can do right now

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D-tail is ofcourse right although kazuhiro is his first name. My compliments, you did some homework !

I know my MSX celebrities, sunrise...

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And Guyver donot tell me you were not there on sunday in 2001 !

I sure was! A great day that was
At the dinner Tsujikawa and I sat accross from eachother at the Greek restaurant, but he couldn't decide on what to order, and he said he was really hungry and that he'd take whatever I was taking.
So we both ended up getting a big plate of greek food, of which he managed to eat a few pieces, after which he was FULL

In retrospect we could probably have shared the plate Those Greeks sure now how to stuff themselves, don't they

The lesson I learned from that: Japanese people have smaller stomachs than us (and Greeks!)

In all honesty, I didn't completely finish the plate either, but I think I was at 90%

Tsujikawa is a really cool guy!!!

Guyv: I think the lesson you needed to learn is that Japanese people don't care much for Greek food... The poor bastard was probably starved! (not that I was there )

He was. He ate the most strangest things afterwards

o.O

Well, he told me he was full...

Not that I mind at all if he just didn't like Greek food... It wasn't my choice to go to the Greek restaurant anyway

But, it has to be said, it's a really good Greek restaurant. Much better than one in my town (haven't tried others ^^...

http://www.tweakers.net/nieuws/34890

check this out!! :-D

EDIT:
quite strange though. they use the penguin as "msx logo" and the source is msx (and not mrc or msx.org (or even bazix)).

I think that newspost has been edited already: I for one don't see a penguin

But yes, it's a shame they don't have changed 'MSX' into 'MSX Resource Center'...