VSU project

Oazem don't know how much it will cost yet, but he told me he wants this "ready" this year

So it won't take long before we can play with the VSU!

And yeah, Sim City MSX rox!

While technically very interesting and appealing, the problem is of course: support from developers and user base. Who knows, perhaps ppl will find this one interesting, but for even one of those 4 chips (1 single gfx9000) we've yet to see structural support.

Then why didn't you (or anyone else) submit a news post!
Maaaaybe because it was 5 a.m. and I was more sleepy than awake?

I agree with wolf: the most today sw does not nearly use the features of a plain msx2. Before going to manage a SVGA 3d accelerated card plugged into msx computer, there must be sw that use

msx2 capabilities
msx2+ capabilities
turboR capabilities

While technically very interesting and appealing, the problem is of course: support from developers and user base
Well, at least me, and Daniel Caetano are very interested in developing stuff for it, so *for sure* there will be software for the VSU. Maybe (this is me thinking on it) some of it could even run on a plain gfx9000 (without the extras), so even people with simple gfx9000 could benefit from it. But I can't promess that

I agree with wolf: the most today sw does not nearly use the features of a plain msx2.
Well, on this I have to agree with Oazem: He tells me, if he's going to develop something new, then he should do it the best thing he can make.
Also, the biggest problem on MSX always was the slow VDP. With the VSU, we'll get a huge improvement on that

Maybe some sort of "MSX-BASIC plus", dedicated to the VSU would make the threshold substantially lower for possible developers?
That BASIC that works with gfx9000 works on VSU (the tR only and another one which works on MSX2 and up) - the two v9958 on the VSU works normal on BASIC, you just have to make one OUT to select which one is active (or to make them all active at once) - so using it from BASIC is no problem at all
(Those demos on youtube were all made in BASIC by Oazem - Even the Prince of Persia demo!)

Well, for europeans won't be any expensive at all, specially with the exchange rates of real and euro

I dont know if it will be a single board or whatever, Oazem is the one making it, and he still designing the final board (he still need to integrate the OPL4 chip into the layout). And although he already have all the necessary components to produce the VSU, he doesnt know how much it will cost.

For now, let´s just wait until MSXRio (which could be in May) where he will show the latest prototype

Leaves the second question .DIY or not

Those demos on youtube were all made in BASIC by Oazem - Even the Prince of Persia demo! Really...
Well, the run"demo1" sort of gives it away.
So count me in then!!!!!

Nope, this is NOT an April´s fool joke - it´s for real.

Also Oazem told me VSU will be an external board inside a case (just like an external disk drive + disk interface).
As for the price, still the same, he is still developing the board with OPL4 (he has plenty of them already, and can buy more if necessary) - so he cant give a price just yet.

Let's make a poll of this shall we?

Would you buy a VSU if the price is about XXX?
Yes
No

Sad to see this as a dead project, I would kill only for a simple V9990 + OPNA combo...

Yeah, it would be que dream coming true. If sometimes money/time is THE problem on these projects i often ask myself if it can be solved with some type of kickstarter fund.