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PingPong
msx master
Posts: 1026 |  Posted: June 20 2006, 15:51 |
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| Since the msx1/msx2 differ relatively in small things with respect to colecovision why not looking for a vhdl guy to do the job?
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That's the funny part, all of the software and hardware are already done or at least in a very advanced stage...Right now the problem is, still being an "amateur" project, who can comercialize it?.
It's a very simplistic approach to the real problem anyway 
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Not all the sw/hw parts: as far i know, there is no fpga v99x8 implementation. And it is a hard to do job, especially considering the VDP QUIRKS!.
Regarding the amateur project: most "amateur" projects are best that commercial ones!
A thing should be considered: MSX is not (actually) a businnes for anyone. Let 's start with VHDL coding, when all is fine and completed, i'm pretty sure that someone will be interested in small productions. The real mistake is to think as OCM as a 'business'. Only a stupid people can think on 2006 to gain money with projects like OCM, this is because the are not 5000 msx users really interesting in buying OCM!
Do you really think that the developer of FPGA is solding a lot of colecovision?
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snout
msx legend
Posts: 4992 | Posted: June 20 2006, 18:05 |
PingPong - I know it's been silent for a long time, but I would not draw conclusions too quickly. With very limited information (no casing, MSX1 only, no casport ^_^, ...) and a short pre-order period outside Japan (too short to gain attention in printed media), close to 3500 One Chip MSX computers were pre-ordered. I can reveal little at this moment, but an improved OCM (see this newspost for the highlights) is planned to be released (without pre-order bar!), likely this fall. Just hang in there until there is official news, it might surprise you quite a lot... |
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PingPong
msx master
Posts: 1026 | Posted: June 20 2006, 18:47 |
Sorry, probably i got a mistake, my previous message was referred only to the "second chance" posted on oct 2005, not to the first msx1 OCM. I'm not happy to see this long silence, however, as for most other 8bit of 20 years ago, it's normal that the number of potential people interested is low. So if we want a new real MSX hw, I think it can come only from interest of people around the world, not by a company that see in OCM only a way to get money...
Snout: "I can reveal little...." Who are you to tell this?
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wolf_
msx legend
Posts: 4781 | Posted: June 20 2006, 18:51 |
a representive of msx-association perhaps? |
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PingPong
msx master
Posts: 1026 | Posted: June 20 2006, 18:54 |
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And it is the people that has link with the company making OCM? (Sorry for ignorance) |
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snout
msx legend
Posts: 4992 | Posted: June 20 2006, 19:11 |
err.. yes... I'm one of the three partners in Bazix, the company that represents MSX Association outside Japan. Perhaps it's reassuring to know that the activities of MSX Association (and future activities of Bazix) are a mix between fan-developments (the One Chip MSX, for example, is developed mainly by Mr. Tsujikawa of ESE Japan, who also created the MegaSCSI) and business.
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