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1 . Entries should be on a postcardclearly marked with the name andaddress of the entrant

2 One of 20 64K MSX computewill be oered to the fit 20correct entries drawn aer theclosing date.

3. Thejudges' decision is nal andno correspondence will be enteredinto.

4 The competition is not open toemployees of Haymarket Publishing, their agents or supplie,nor the employees of companiespaticipating in the competitionNo overseas entries can beaccepted

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The sheer proliferation of compterand soware systems looding themarket lodly nderlined the need for a

nied standardSo the major companies jointly

developed a single compter andare system The reslt - MSX -the format that will be standard for alltime

And those in the know wll not besrprid that Mitsbishi are in thevangard of the MSX movement. For,with the Fseres, Mitsbshi oerseverything that MSX is and more

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Maximm reltion of 256 x 92pixels with all 6 colors available on thereen at the ame tme 32 sprites in wosizes and two magnications allowingeasy creation of3D graphics 255pre dened characters al of which can sed as straight text or easily mxedwith graphics

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can otpt throgh the lodspeakers at any volme, individalyor simltaneosly, at any of the available

8 taves All three channels can se the'noise generator for stnning sondeects

KAR3 moving keys, ergonomically

designed for many hors of fatige eese Lrge crsor control keys which areexcellent for both programme editingand game playing 5 nction keys giving0 pre dened fnctions which caneasily redefined om BASIC singthe command

AMSX BASIC is possibly the most

comprehensive version of the originallangage There is a complete t ofcommands for creating graphics andnds, maniplating text and movingsprites. addition to this there arebiltin interrpt rotines for detectingsprite collisions, fnction key selectionsand joy stick re bttons.

PAThe Mitsbishi 64k MlF80 and 32k

MLF48 are both eqipped with 2cartridge ports, 2 joy stck ports and acentronics compatible parallel interface.It is throgh these devices that the MSsystem can be expanded for se withdisc drives, printers, serial interfac�s,modems and other peripherals.

AR Ae MSX system n load and v

data onto cassette at 12 or 24 buand nlike certain other homecompters, the Mitsbishi ries cbe sed with a normal domestic tarecorder for this prpose.

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together, with the knowledge thatMitsbishi is e largest manfactrr Maiame compters nJapan, th the know will immediately recogi tre potential of the Mitsbishi ri



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compute education n a wold wheompute liteacy is now o oemostimportance SX oes oad a oeducational ae With simplepogammes o the very young thougto omplx pogammes o oldestudnts like language leaing.

Al the gapics systm o theitsubisi compute ensues tat theMSX vrsions o you avourite games

a repruced with incediblespeed and ac1acy

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edution and entetainment.And you can cue in the

knowledge that egadless o tuedevelopments, any invesents made inMSX adwae, wae andipheals ty lways compaable with the itsubishi fies.

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port on the side of their computers, but protected with aspung lap . Canon's potectionseems a ittle lke an after

thoughtThe expansion port is for

caidges or peipheals wthcatidge type end blocks Fitting an accessory such as theSpectravdeo disk drive is notpossibe without modiicatonto pug or socket

The two conficting means ofmakng the expansion port maycause confuson in the initialmonths of MSX The oldersystem, su ppoed by Spectravideo Sanyo Toshiba and

othes has the advantage ofmoe being a be to fit t. However most o the periphera makers in Japan are keen to adoptthe newer catidge edgeconnector.

This new connector wil itboth the catdge and the

expansion pot The MSX standad specifes only one su ch 50

line po so this appoachwould easily enable budgetmachines to be built The olderconnector ofes moe versat ility at the moment The ideasolution woud be fo someenterprising accessory manufactue to make a convee sothat perpherals can be connected to ither nteface

Anyway Canon have optedfor two catridge pos. Sotwae cartridges cou d be connected to the side socket as

wel as the one on the top o thecompute.At pesent Canon have few

peipheal pns that wll makethe wold st up and take noticeThey make a range of quaitypinters and these ae aeadywell established in the homeand busness compute mar

Canons33 coour printr(top) aks a v aractivaccsso Th hug cursor kys (abov) ar a boon but th

kyboard ovra (bow) dosnt iv uptoI good ks.

so can be connected to tCanon o any othe MSX oputer Thee will be no pritdesign ed cosmeticay oftional y speci fcalyfothe V-2untl next yea

The joystick piced at £2

in racing geen and owht ltis dentical to the joystcks have seen from JC, ToshiSanyo and the comptcompanies One Japan

Some games plae

prefer loose osik

o sier versons

ls a maer

of personal

oejoystick manufactuer mst b

making a very tidy sum ot

the MSX boomThe joystick has two

buttons one atop the stck fou suction cups to hod it t desk lt moves in eght drtion s and has a vey sack tt Some games playes ploose joysticks to stife sions its a matter of pchoice The Canon mdwoks as a the other idtiones weve seen and is reabe vaue fo money If it styed to match the UK tda d 0 compute istd beng in white and gr would be better

Next yea we shoud aso a gaphcs tablet that is Mcompatibe and bears tCanon na me No fuher dton that ae avaiabe at tmoment

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KEYBOARDPE u ll ave

48apae25 oro keysadard ey rsoroo

UERP No

VIDEO DISPYTT 40araesx24ies

RP ai resouo256 x 92 piel

OLOUR 6PRTE 32 depedey

prograabe

OUTPUT oo

SOUNDEERTOR 3 aesw

8oave rage

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INTERFAES

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RTRE PORT 2

PRTER x Ceois

ERLPORT No

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RES No

DENSIONS 39x28x 60WxxH

EGT 24kg

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can cuse ee tal 40 clumn display ata tage hat is the extent a he 80 clumn caidge yu want un P/Mae it s essenta nt, a expensie l uxuy

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e appearae brgd up omewa by e key oe we for e araer key, w ar

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wit no ea sope to

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a rge red STOP key. I pe of ze, you're u key o by ade

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ad eay o fd, w ueful f youre eerg a argeumber of grap ymboo a program

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tis (l ine drawng, shape fil li raphs and the ke) an dse dea of what the mach ineis apabe of in the way ofts usic, sound effectsd busness programs.

aphics are taken s ightyte in the next pogram,it soe pretty patternsi drawn on the screen But dt now why ths fairlyisbstantia pogram u dntae been ncluded n theious one t wou d havesed oad ng tm e when runi tough the ta pe

ext comes a keyboardter. Ths cetany won'ttr you into a 00 words pete touch typst as t gives uide as to which fingersld hit which key t mayl peope who haven't used a

yard befoe to fnd out

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astly, thee s a maths testi a choce of addition orltplicaton Ths has thest aphcs of al theses.

l l te software is l istable.

ded you are encouraged toad study the programs i nd to learn progammingtiues. t sn t the hghestlity software aound ands't reay use theies fac ities to the fu 1 1 t tll eep the rest of theil y aused wh le you read

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Toshba s launchng a fewnterestng perpheas at thesame tme as the machin e

The joystick s the samemode adopted by many of theother manufactures, incudng JVC, Canon, and SanyoOrgna lyToshiba was gon g tocha rge more than some of theothers for the oystck but

ma rket forces' (Sanyo wo'e?} have broug ht the pric edown to £2.9 5.

The data recorder ooks a tte ike a persona stereo Aprice wasnt avalabe at thetme of wrtng.

or those who I ke hard copy,there are two printers. TheHXP550 is a fai ry standa rd dotmatrix, at £34995 But whatsmore nterestng s theHXP570 fourcoour plotterprinte. hs compact machinetakes A4 or rol paper. hecoours are provded by fourpens n a rotatng mo unt whic hmove fom side to sde. Pottng is ach eved by moving thepaper back an d forth.

Ths excelent ittle machinewi l se l fo aound £250,ncuding cabe paper rol hold er and the necessary conto l ng software

VcSo wha' he verdc Well,he HX10 In' he o exci ng MSX copuer Bu aaround £280 l' reaonablyprced for a 64K achine . Andany people ay regard pricea beng ore poan han

Fairlayout ad good qual keys make theToshba HX10 curso key pad

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puely cosmetic. e keyboardas a ul l complement o 47a panumeic keys and 25control keys wit a cusokeypad to te rigt o tekeyboad prope. unctionkeys are above te mainkeyboad everying else iswere you ae used to seei ng i t.

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tose on te Commodoe 64 oVi 2 wose se entai sendess OKEing o nmbesntovaios memory loc ationsM cosot on te ote andas given MSX BASIC twosimplecommands U SRITEto place a spte onto tesceen and SRITE$ todene aspite

Yo can expect a wide angeo dawing com mands sc asLINE RESE SET ONCIRCE and AINT Eac

gapi cs statement as seveal optons. o instance INEcan daw ectangles andsaes wit te option to i 1 i tn any coo as wel asstaigt l nes wi le teCI RCLEcommand can daw el l ipsesacs p e carts a 1 1 witcoo optons too.

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an use Z80 proesso onw o baseeir mios, anss an arrges are n eong rom various ompa nesas wel as mu mo re asseebase sofwae.

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eanwhile, Micooft ale m anager hi Sut

le poke o hi optimimading MSX aing:ltogh MSX wi 1 at f t beithed at the home markete arval of MSXDOS mean velopment w 1 head intoe traditional aea o thebit marketplace, ie dicaed oftware

idgese added, howeve, that he

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en SXDOS arive aongi ultpan, he ad,ang that he aw the MSXaket a be ng the ame a in the longterm

On the buing ide, Chrita ook like beng welated or Kuma i eleaing5 more program then , brng the total number o MSXram to 50 We havenideed ptting three oftee title on cartridge, bute roblem i the cot, a id

ale manager on Da, whoied that cartrdge woudt aound £20 ea ch

e program concened aeiel to be geared towadall bnee; veicalaket oftwae i alo beinglanned

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ing out thi month forcation and thee wi beared towad 9 to 3 earl Specific app icatio n aeed, eg multip cation andntal aithmetic , with partic ant ppoed to wokaaint the cock

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market ndoubtedl geaedtoward i ntel l igent game, a oppoed to the tpe where oudetro the whoe of creatonon ceen, wth gun, battle hi p and imuated bomb

M Allwood ha a efehngattitude to the matter and feelthat women wold athe runpactical pogam than thetraditonal bamzapzoomadventretpe One cant he lpeelng he ght, except ofcoue when ove had a rowwith ou bohuband andma need to let off teamNovember houd ee 5 o hiintell igent game at £695,p lu ive traditi ona l arcade andaventre game to keep themore murderou membe ofthe ami l happ

We are negotiating theright to other title withapanee oftware houe,

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Melbourne House arebeing diferent and bringingot a book in midNovembe

enttled The Complete MSXrogrammer Gide nor tunatel, detai of prce andathor wee notavai abe a wewent to pre Thi wil jo inCentury Communication'£7.95 paprback M nnrducon

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actca pogam fo homeue ae planned b lvan Bergand wi l l nc lde home edca tion, ef improvement D Yand faml medical htorpogram on caette anddic Caridge wil l onl beued i the 256K ROM comedown n prce crentl, theae $25 for 00,000 makingthe end er price a whacking£40 to £50

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onto MSX i it bow the ightwa, the wil l conde dicoftwae bt or the time bei ngtheir on te eleae i DikWario, ot on tape (£ 95

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PSS wil l do their next batch

o game in ping, leavingChitma eeae to themore taditional market Dur ng that time, the wil beworking on an edcationalerie o the Commodore 64and ma we l adapt it or MSXmachne

In concluion, one thing ifo ure eople wanting Brit ih machine have ueedevethn g from falt ROM tonondeliver, with man problem being caued b bad

ditbutionhe atte i a probem had

lke to afct the apaneewth their readmade ditrb tion otlet, and the cancetainl ret aed thatthei o far potle epta ton wi 1 1 eve them wel l inmaketing MSX

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bt by copper codctvetracks o a igid lamiateboard. As te circt is pieo te board sg similatecqes to tose se ncip prodctio te oad icaled a pited cicit boaor PCB fo sot.

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ter mafactre s a highlyatomated rocess he irststage o rodctio iseigthe chs to the CB, iscarried ot by a ece ofeimet cal led a ite

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tas he ositios of com iseio machie whicheimet cal led a ite Obviosy the isetio

he them to the hoed i ed i the boad. A ewawkwad o ey agi e comoet ae ti ieted byhad.

U to owthe cha d othecomoet hae ot beeixed to the boad i ay wayhe ata igi eotheead, cto ad gaty keethem i ac e. he ext tak ito x them emaety to theccit boad i good eectcacotact with the boad coe tack hee ae o maycoectio to be made, be twee a coe of h ded adeea thoad (deedgo the ize ad comexity ofthe bod, that it wod beecoom ica to make them by

e competed oads

go toug an automatic

test pocedue wic

spots aulty oads

had. The otio me.The boad i aited with amateia that ode w 1 1 ot

tick to Sode i a mxte ofead ad ti that met at aeatie y ow temeate ado it ca be ed a a ot oeectica y codcte g e tocoect a the comoettogethe. he ace wheecomoet ead ae to beked to the boad ae etaited

a oce caed owodeig, the boad i aedaco the face of a bath ofmote ode which oy

oto ad tck to the aited aea. I actce theode eed ome aitaceto wet the boad ad comoet ead, o the meta ace to be odeed ae fitcoated wth a x that theode wi oto ey eai y.

Deicate comoet thatmight be damaged by the heato the od e bath ae ertedby had at a ate tage hecometed boad go thogha atomatc tet ocede

which ot oy ot ay atyboad, bt ao idetie thefat. Ay boad od aetake ot fo d da ecto ad eai

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o ite Utmatey theeogam ae icooateito ome o the comtech i at maacte heyaear of the comte , toe a o it memoy ca ed eaOy Memoy, o OM A itame gget, the comteca oy ead the ogacotaied i OM chi. ca ot ate them . Howeewhe a ew mode o comtei eeaed, thee emaeto edet ogam aeofte toed i chi ca ePOM eaab e , ogammabe OM.

POMS ae eadiy aaab e geea oe meoh i which ca be ogamed with aythig he

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Gareth Jeerson has

been investigatingwhat MSX is like

in Japan

pie In the computerndust� have been

saying, for the last o othree years at least that theJapanese computer will beariving on these shores Inorce any time now - and when they do British computein dust� look out!

But it didn't happen. True,NEC sold a few of thei PC-

8000 series machines Shaphave made a easonabepenetration with thei econo

mical MZ computers and ahandful of the other big namesare there lurking in the background But compaed with thefamilia Brtish names (Sinclair Acon Oric Dragon andso on) the Japanese are hadlyeven also-ans unti nowhe MSX computes now starting to come in fom apanepesent a concerted effo bythe mastes of industral cooperation to change the face of British computing. The thinkingbehind the MSXstandard issimple enough but first somebackgound on the martial artsof industrial domination.

After the devastation of thelast wa when apan tookstock of its situation it reased that a population doubethat of the United Kingdom withvey little usable land and

virtually no natual resouces was hadly a ecipe fo success. So apan decided toinvest in hgh valueaddedgoods; first steel then shipsthen motobkes and carscameras and electronic components. In the process itleant some valuable lessons



leant some valuable lessons

and standardisation.Experience has proven over

and ove again that the standardisation of products is theway to gain wide acceptance,and nowhere is this more truethan in the area o high technology One reason every

household in the and has arecord payer is that any payer wil pay any record- 'Sory, Icant buy that eco 'cause Ivegot a JVC recod payer andthats a Yamaha disc! is something, thankfuly, you wonthea But Euope and Americahas not aways been so eceptive to the idea of standardsFacsimie machines for exampe were a European invention, but it was the apanesewho got togethe and produced

the Gl and Gll standards, sothat myToshiba FAX can tak toyour Panasonic FAX Needessto say, the Japanese nowdominate the FAX market heytied with video ecoders,theye doing the same withaudio Compact Discs and asevideo discs

We tend to think o Japan asa county o immitators rathethan innovators, and to some

'In the computer field

the Japanese, like the

rest of the world,

have had to follow

the Americas

extent this is true n thecompute ied the Japanese,ike the rest of the word, havehad to folow the AmeicansConsequenty, the few standads there ae have beenAmeican standads; and itsamazing how few standadsthere ealy ae he IBM singesided singe density eightinchdisk is one Other hadwaestandads and uasistandads incude the Centronics paae printe port and

the RS232C seria pot (astandard honoured moe inthe beach). Software hasared itte better, though theCP/M operating system hasbeen hugey successfu (moerom want o any bette standard than from intrinsic meit),Micosofts MSDOS is now the

de-facto standard fo 8088and 8086 based 16bitcomputers, and Micosots BASC80is as nea as BASC has evemanaged to get to a standard

What a this ack of standardisation means to both thehadware and the softwae

manuactue can be Iikenedtothe situation we wouId have if any gramophone recod coudnot be payed on any ecord

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playe As things stand, aprogram written for the Spectum wi not run on the BBCmico And not only that, it wi

not even un on the AmstadCPC464, which uses the sameZ80 microprocesso Eveyoneoses, the softwae manufactuers, who have to makeumpteen vesions o their pograms, the hadwae manufactures, who can go out o business if too itte sotware is

poduced fo their machinesand the buying pub Iic, which isat the end o the chain aongwhich a the increased costsare passed

he eary micocomputerswere made mainy by gaageand attic outits run by the

young, enthusiastic computer hobbyists Natuay they hadno agreement between themon how the cicuits shoud be

conigued and how the software shoud work Such anachy was a very we fo a whie,but not the way he mega

corpoations of Japan ikethings done What they wantedwee standards

Kabushiki aisha ASCI isJapans eading pubisher of compute magazines and ·amajor sotware house as wehei agship pubicationASC Magazine is the most

prestigious and biggest seicomputer peiodica i thcountry he companys stantiaconnections with esection of the apanese cputeindustry made it a natapatner or Ameicas Mic Coporation, and the two fir

set up a joint ventue, AIIMicosoft, to pomote hAmerican software in the tdomestic market hchaked up a whoe sti maketing coups that estalished Microsot BASI aJapans favouite pogaming anguage, and MSas the opeating syeoffeed by a the eai16bit makes But thei eatiumph was to achieve tseemingy impossibe, ce

ate a hadware/software tadad fo 8bit micros in cpeation with vituay a11 the Japanese names he techicaI deta i s of this standad arcovered esewhee in thimagazine and need t consideed here. The imprtantthin g isthat giantssuc aSony, Nationa, Hitach aeven manframe maker Fjitae a seing MSX comptethat ae cheap enogh fanyone to buy At the ast co

(miduy 1984) thee were 2 sepaate apanese irms maing 26 diffeent MSX mo(see the 'MSX Whos Who ).Prices range fom £155 f thYamahaS303 up to £460fr the de uxe Paxon fom Geea the mode is¥64,800, a

'Their real trumph w

to achieve the seemngy

impossble, to creat

a hardware/soare

stadard

£200 lt is inteesting to tehow many of the modes r'com _peting companies haidentica prices Thee ae femodes at¥54,800 (£1712)and five at 64,800

(£20250) Athough there arantitust aws in Japan, apice fixing is supposed t iega, this is a very commphenomenon and is not cined just to computes

With thei eyes on massiexpot saes, it isnt suprisithat RGB (ed geen be)



Micosoft s MS DOS is now the business if too itte sotware is ASC Magazine is the most that RGB (ed, geen, be)



Japanee keyard have njl character marked on the key

abot the diiclties o eterg, displayig ad pritigcharacters that ca be madep o as may as 20 separatestrokes or more Bt help s athad or MSX owers. amahahas aoced a RM car trdge that plgs drecty tother compters or ito otherMSX machies sig a smpeadaptor. he amaha KajiRM ad word processor sesor the eqivalet o a veyreasoable£155.

Pioeer are keepg a highproe with some exctghardware ad rather sasotware heir PXV7 s oe o

the atest MSX maches; itappeared i late May. t has abilt iteace to coectdirecty to the Pioeer V500aser disc player, makig vdeodsc cotrol by compter aaordable xry. Soy arealso sppotg this cocept,bt so ar oly with therpmarket SM70 (oMSXcompter. Compter cotrol

ed vdeo dscs have greatpoteta as edcatioa aids,bt their games potetal hasot bee overooked either.he rst home comptersimato game o vdeo disc a war game set i the JapaSea has bee aoced byPioeer specialy or se wthMSX compters, presmablywth their PXV7 md.Poeers extesio to MSX BASC caled PBASC icldescommads sch as WPE toalow adig betwee vdeopt to the moitor ad compter geerated over ays othe moitor scree.

JVC, kow Japa asNiho Victor, ows the amosHis Masters Voce logo (otoshbaEM as yo might sppose ad s also a avdsppoter o the adio visalpersoal compter cocept.heir HC6 also allows ratherice sperimpositio o compter geerated graphcs ototeevisio pictres take o air

A eection o machinethat are currety one In Japan

or rom video discs. Smilarcapabltes are bilt ito theMPC11 rom Sayo.

Edcatioal ad games sot ware the MSX ormat s owtoo meros to cataloge,ad jst to add to t, oshbaEM (the record compay joitvetre has aoced 60ew games titles o cassette,to be marketed der theoemilad brad ame ama ha are very active too. Aparom the Kaj word processometioed above (which i cidetally, has a optioal 16x 16 dot matrx prter orKaj pritig at £280 theygive lots o sppot or silicocomposers. here are 44 ad49key keyboards that pgto the back o the S503compter ad severa poparpieces o msic makig sot ware, al o cassette at arod£24 a time.

'Educatonal and games

soare for the MSX

system s now too

numerous to catalogue

Some srprisig actsemerge whe yo ook at who isbyig MSX compters iJapa. he percetages varyslightly rom oe brad toaother, bt the geera tredis cear, so let's ook at theigres or jst oe prodct,the Matsshita (Natioal C2000. t sels or 54,800(£170 so, athogh ot thecheapest, t is oe o the eastexpesve. ver 50 per cet othe peope who have boght it

are teees ad weeies 19years old or beow. 14 per ceto prchasers are betwee 20ad 29. 17 per cet arebetwee 30 ad 39, abot 10per cet are betwee 40 ad49 ad jst over 5 per cet areaged over 50 he remaiigew per cet ddt ill i theircards right

Ad what are all these peo ple dog with ther MSXs?Lookg at the breakdow orthe same C2000 w id

that 43 per cet boght them toear abot compters, 35 percet admit to havg boghtthem or playg games adthe remaig 22 per cetboght them or seros applicatios sch as bsess,ord procss ad msccomposi.

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maintained in the United Kig

dom? Or, asseemsmorelikey,

wi1 MSX compters be boghtby a s ighty older ad morkowledgeabe pblic? imwil tel

All the sal optios are tobe had, rom joysticks throghhigh speed data recorders toightpes, micro loppy diskdrives ad speech sythesisers. a word, theres somthig or everybody Eve thbsiessma is catered or Cao took the opportity oths years Japa BsiessShow to ach the easy to sMltipla bsiess sotwaror MSX machies sig 3.ch loppies.

MSX compters irst saw thight o day jst abot a yearago i Japa ad have made sgiicat, i ot as dramatia impact as some had expected he MSX share o thpersoal compter marketad that icldes sma bsi ess machies sch as NCs

PC8000 series is jst over15 percet terms o mbero ts sold. Amog MSXmakers themselves the biggest share is hed by orcompaies, Soy, Matsshit(Natioal, oshiba ad jit s Betwee them theaccot or abot 20 perceto MSX sales ad are prodig abot 10,000 its each moth

Next i the leage tablcome Cao, Nippo Gakki

(amaha, itachi, Sayo adMitsbishi. hey get a slice othe cake o betwee 5 ad 1per cet ad each prodabot 5,000 MSX comptersmothly. Next come Nhocor ( eeral ador. he rsalso ras



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gdies around the corner. But ek that with the Sincairs ore Commodores o this wordd you' et a competeyferent response

oo Iitte, too late Suffesall te estictios of a fixedtem', ust a gimmic fomaa copoated' ae amogte moe polite aswes youigt expect fom te estab lied ome compute maos.

leal a Iittle moe scutiyf te MSX suppotes' claimsi eeded Wie compaiesot maig a age of equip et desiged aoud a eweatig sstem ad stadaised featues ca be ex ected to appy lbea quatities of cold wate o te ideawat do MSXfims mea speci

ficaly we tey ta about tefue expasio of tetem?

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ultimate lfeblood moey.Moe specfcall, a tecoo gy tat wo't suddely cageodisappeatomoowtedstoattact a moe sustaied po gamme of ivestmet. Ayeades doubtig te logevityof MSX sould emembe tatis elatosip aso wos teote way oud

Wi11 te fis cop of MSXmacies be Too ltte too

late' i ommdoes immortalwods? Well all MSX models

cay a stadad 32K ROM ofBAS tepete wic epe sets quite a espectablevocabuay i tself But tisca be upgaded wit a exacip accessed by a ouie ite stadad ROM pac Somefims wi11 ave eaced ROMat lauc lie te Soywit a

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KeyboardsMSX also uses pope pus butto eboads toug

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d t l t f e t a 16K Hitaci's comp te used fo peipeals Up to 16

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