Building a DIY MSX Mega Cartridge
[Mike] from Leaded Solder has a soft spot for old computers, and a chance encounter with a friend sent them deep down the deep hole that is the world of …read more Continue reading Building a DIY MSX Mega Cartridge
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Portable MSX2 Brings the Fun on the Go
Something of a rarity in the US, the MSX computer standard was rather popular in other parts of the world but mostly existed in the computer-in-a-keyboard format popular in the …read more Continue reading Portable MSX2 Brings the Fun on the Go
EXPS/2 Keyboard Adapter Translates PS/2 and USB to MSX
Say what you will about suitcase computers, but at least most of them still have their keyboards with them. [danjovic] has this vintage Brazilian computer from the 1980s called a …read more Continue reading EXPS/2 Keyboard Adapter Translates PS/2 and USB to MSX
An MSX With A Nintendo Controller
Console owners inhabit their own individual tribes depending upon their manufacturer of choice, and so often never the twain shall meet. But sometimes there are those what-if moments, could Mario have saved the princess more quickly through PlayStation buttons, or how would Sonic the Hedgehog have been with a Nintendo …read more
Raspberry Pi Cyberdeck Inspired by Rare MSX
When we see these cyberdeck builds, the goal is usually to just make something retro-futuristic enough to do William Gibson proud. There’s really no set formula, but offset screens coupled with large keyboards and a vague adherence to 1980s design language seem to be the most important tenets.
Granted the …read more
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Pitting 8-Bit Chess Games Against Modern Foes
UltraChess is a vintage chess game for the 8-bit MSX platform, running on the Z80. [flok] wondered just how capable the game really was, and set forth to test it against a variety of other chess engines.
Having been designed in the 1980s, UltraChess is far from up-to-date as far …read more
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An Old Video Game Controller on Even Older Computer
For those of us not old enough to remember, and also probably living in the States, there was a relatively obscure computer built by Microsoft in the early 80s that had the strong Commodore/Atari vibe of computers that were produced before PCs took over. It was known as the MSX and only saw limited release in the US, although was popular in Japan and elsewhere. If you happen to have one of these and you’d like to play some video games on it, though, there’s now a driver (of sorts) for SNES controllers.
While the usefulness of this hack for …read more
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