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Ramon
msx lover
Posts: 91 |  Posted: November 27 2006, 22:16 |
Hey everyone,
I found this great video on youTube about MSX.
It is from a 1986 British tv show and it features Bill Gates, Kazuhiko Nishi and mr Sinclair.
Look at what the presenter does btw when he demonstrates the compatibility between different MSX models;
He changes cartridges between two different MSX models while they are switched on (!!). The MSX's don't seem to mind, they just keep working 
Here's the link:
youtube.com/watch?v=2-kI0urN9tI
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[D-Tail]
msx guru
Posts: 3017 | Posted: November 27 2006, 23:04 |
Oeh, check that young dude who's called Bill Gates  Oeh, and Kazuhiko Nishi is there too! 
Ramon: it has been reported that several MSX machines have hardware reset switches built into the cartridge slot(s), which cause the MSX to reset when it's switched on and a cartridge is inserted. Don't know whether it concerns 'the Hitachi' and the other machine though. |
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wolf_
online
msx legend
Posts: 4713 | Posted: November 27 2006, 23:15 |
great find, already added it here |
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djh1697
msx professional
Posts: 549 | Posted: November 28 2006, 00:23 |
On the video Bill Gates accurately predicts the one chip MSX back in 1986!
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cax
msx professional
Posts: 1017 | Posted: November 28 2006, 08:35 |
The song played on Yamaha keyboard in this video is "Take me to the moon", known widely in the world as Frank Sinatra's song. Anime lovers know this song from "Neon Genesis Evangelion" series.
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tfh
msx addict
Posts: 493 | Posted: November 28 2006, 08:49 |
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| Ramon: it has been reported that several MSX machines have hardware reset switches built into the cartridge slot(s), which cause the MSX to reset when it's switched on and a cartridge is inserted. Don't know whether it concerns 'the Hitachi' and the other machine though.
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True.. My first MSX (Toshiba HX-10) had a resetswitch in the cartridge port. Nevertheless the guy I sold it to after I bought my first MSX2, blew it up in a couple of days (With my Antartic Advanture cart, which survived  ) |
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POISONIC
msx professional
Posts: 883 | Posted: November 28 2006, 12:27 |
bill is talking abouth a 1chip msx
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snout
msx legend
Posts: 4991 | Posted: November 28 2006, 13:44 |
And it features the big question: why doesn't it have a cassette port? [although aimed at a different computer]
btw... the idea behind the MSX2 already was to implement as many features as possible on a single chip, nishi talked about this in his Tilburg 2001 lecture. |
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hap
msx addict
Posts: 471 | Posted: November 28 2006, 15:58 |
Nice find, Ramon!
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DamageX
msx freak
Posts: 168 | Posted: November 29 2006, 05:55 |
Spectrum is 2-3x more powerful than MSX!?
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Latok
msx master
Posts: 1727 | Posted: November 29 2006, 09:26 |
It's the first time I actually see and hear Bill Gates talking about MSX |
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AuroraMSX
msx master
Posts: 1248 | Posted: November 29 2006, 13:48 |
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| Spectrum is 2-3x more powerful than MSX!?
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Clive knows that the reporter in front of him has no clue, and neither won't most of the viewers. So he can spit out bullcrap like this and no one would notice...
What I found most interesting, was the fact that all the people interviewed and asked, admitted that the newer models of their computers (QL vs Spectrum, C16/C4+ vs C64) were not compatible with the old models and that that was not an issue at all! It definitely looks like they're putting real effort in minimising the possible impact MSX could have on the market... |
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wolf_
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msx legend
Posts: 4713 | Posted: November 29 2006, 14:34 |
..but we had Konami back then |
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cax
msx professional
Posts: 1017 | Posted: November 29 2006, 15:41 |
Allmighty Bill said PC is a high-end and MSX is a low-end computer, compartible between them is some way
(well, as we all know MSX floppies can be read and written on a PC).
If I understand it right, when PC became affordable, that effectively was the evolutionary end of MSX era.
The high-end brother eat up his small bro.
Too bad, massive integration of MSX in TV sets even didn't start.
Imagine MSX built-in in almost every TV, just as, for example, teletext...
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Niles
msx professional
Posts: 519 | Posted: December 02 2006, 00:37 |
Oh my god... I really LOVE the purple dress for the girl presenting on the video :  |
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