MSX represented at the Atlanta VCF

cool... wrong side of the US though for me

Great, except for that font on the T-shirt... looks Commodore to me!

Hi guys!. I think is a good idea to present to the American audience the MSX like a system that has a very actual and active scene with various hardware developers all around the World working in new and better expansions for the MSX machines. It´s a way to show that, although the standard has 30 years old, still is alive and seems that in good shape. Maybe interest to show the "new MSX machines" as the FPCGA [OCM, Altera DE1,DE0, etc boards] based devices or even better the GR8BIT machine from Eugeny Brychkov. The challenge and the fun of build your own MSX2+ computer can be something that catch the attention of the visitors... The web of GR8BIT has been updated with some videos that can be show to the visitors too, like interviews with a very young Bill Gates and Kazuhiko Nishi. Maybe the MSX is almost unknow in the USA, but every body knows Microsoft and who is Mr. Gates.

And if you think well about it, the MSX is half American, starting by it´s name [ MicroSoft eXtended...i know, i know there is some controversy about the name and the letters,but, officially until now, this is the only confirmed name ]. This could be a good entry point!!

By the way, i like the T-Shirt. It looks very "eighties", with that geometrical design!. Good luck in the VCF!

Best Regards from Spain

Thanks Capitan Goto, and I definitely agree that a lot of interest in the MSX could be generated quite a bit simply by educating visitors that have maybe never been all that familiar with this computer standard in Four main points:

A) The history of the MSX as a standard and Microsoft Platform founded by Bill Gates and Kazuhiko Nishi of Ascii Corp.
B) Demos and videos of software
C) The MSX scene is still alive and well, and active and global.
D) How you can be a part of this scene and learn more about MSX / Direction to projects such as GR8BIT development kits for hardware enthusiasts. : ) (*Maggoo and I haven't finalized what would be on this yet, but I have enough DVD's and unlimited webspace from a server I rent each month that I can very easily fill them up with interesting content to hand out at the fair.

Definitely plan to lead folks to websites such as the MSX Resource Center, Ultimate MSX FAQ, The MSX Channel on YouTube (A friend of mine, MP83, from the Ancient Land of Ys Falcom community runs it), The MSX Cartridge Shop, Generation-MSX, GR8BIT and more. I know there are many more wonderful places of information about MSX and these mentioned are just but a few, so if you know of others or have some of your own that you definitely would like to see mentioned, by all means plug them here. : )

cklayman, nice to meet you and that is a very generous offer! Between us, Maggoo and I have at least 4 machines, but not quite sure on how many actual Konami games or popular MSX Games that we can showcase as physical copies. Maybe we can chat over email sometime. My email is in my profile here at MRC. Whereabouts are you in the United States?

Are you currently listed on the MSX Users Worldmap? I just discovered this recently at MSXLegend's website.

-Thomas

It was great that Maggoo, Skywelse and Serge attended the first ever Vintage Computer Festival Southeast!
I know several of us have had very little exposure to the MSX platorm and were very taken by it. And it looked like many attendees were too.
I'm going to be trying to consolidate the photos taken at the show, once I get something worthwhile up, I'll post a link.

It seems like all I have done since getting home last night is hitting the various MSX sites on the net. (Hopefully my boss doesn't expect too much work today! ) (now if I can get this F#*@3 emulator to work)

Subby/Brad

Subby: If you state which emulator you're using, expect lots of help There's even an emulator section on the forum here. Welcome to MSX!

After the first picture I get an access denied when trying the next picture on
http://www.msx.org/photoshoots/msx-exhibit-vcfse
Can somebody take a look at his. I really want to see those pictures... :D

Hi Maggoo, I had a great time at the VCFSE as well and I really liked how our MSX exhibit celebrating the 30 years MSX has been alive turned out. It was a lot of fun and next year we'll have even more MSX goodness to share. Thanks for posting some of the pictures. I have quite a few different shots as well that I can submit once I have them ready, which I'm aiming to be later this evening EST. I'm at work right now, so not much is going to happen until after I get home.

We do have a website and new Youtube channel where we plan to make all of the material we used at the show, the videos, slides, photos, binder content (102+ pages featuring 2 MSX machines per page, most courtesy of Homecomputer.de used with permission) and several edited by me.) Once I have it ready, I will post the link to the website and Youtube channel here.

Brad, it was very nice meeting with you at the fair and I'm quite pleased that we managed to perk your interest in MSX computing. If you have any questions, the MSX Resource Center is definitely the place to gain a lot of insight on the current MSX scene and a great place to ask any questions you have. And of course, we would be happy to help as well.

-Thomas