Help me spread the word about MSX

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Por Haohmaru

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18-12-2008, 18:09

O_o Why hasn't anyone mentioned PARODIUS yet? o_O

Por JohnHassink

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18-12-2008, 22:29

Parodius, good one!

Just thought about the Hydlide series.

Por JohnHassink

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19-12-2008, 01:02

Herzog seems to be a classic too.

Now I'll quit spamming. I hope. :)

Por Pulstar

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19-12-2008, 18:02

Thanks to everyone who posted in this topic! I'm thinking of a larger 80s home computers article since I don't think I have enough info to write a long article for the MSX (besides the aforementioned games of course)

Happy holidays! Santa

Por Ivan

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19-12-2008, 20:25

First home computer that spread massively the 3.5 inches floppy disks:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

"Sony introduced their own small-format 90.0 mm × 94.0 mm disk, similar to the others but somewhat simpler in construction than the AmDisk. The first computer to use this format was Sony's SMC 70 of 1982. Other than Hewlett-Packard's HP-150 of 1983 and Sony's MSX computers that year, this format suffered from a similar fate as the other new formats: the 5¼-inch format simply had too much market share. A variant on the Sony design, introduced in 1982 by a large number of manufacturers was then rapidly adopted. By 1988 the 3½-inch was outselling the 5¼-inch.

By the end of the 1980s, the 5¼-inch disks had been superseded by the 3½-inch disks. Though 5¼-inch drives were still available, as were disks, they faded in popularity as the 1990s began. The main community of users was primarily those who still owned '80s legacy machines (PCs running MS-DOS or home computers) that had no 3½-inch drive; the advent of Windows 95 (not even sold in stores in a 5¼-inch version; a coupon had to be obtained and mailed in) and subsequent phaseout of standalone MS-DOS with version 6.22 forced many of them to upgrade their hardware. On most new computers the 5¼-inch drives were optional equipment. By the mid-1990s the drives had virtually disappeared as the 3½-inch disk became the predominant floppy disk."

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