30 Mar
2013
30 Mar
'13
10:17 p.m.
An attention-getting red joystick and superior BASIC makes for an
interesting home computer. My Spectravideo SV-318.
http://youtu.be/LwvYpojtr0I
Terry (Tez)
31 Mar
31 Mar
11:20 a.m.
Oh, a MSX computer (or something like) :oD
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Subject: My Spectravideo SV-318 on YouTube
An attention-getting red joystick and superior BASIC
makes for an
interesting home computer. My Spectravideo SV-318.
http://youtu.be/LwvYpojtr0I
Terry (Tez)
11:42 a.m.
Yea, something like. In fact the SV-323 (big brother to the SV-318) was
the prototype for MSX computers according to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX
Terry (Tez)
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Alexandre Souza - Listas <
pu1bzz.listas at gmail.com> wrote:
Oh, a MSX computer (or something like) :oD
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Subject: My Spectravideo SV-318 on YouTube
An attention-getting red joystick and superior BASIC makes for an
interesting home computer. My Spectravideo
SV-318.
http://youtu.be/LwvYpojtr0I
Terry (Tez)
3:39 p.m.
Yea, something like. In fact the SV-323 (big brother
to the SV-318) was
the prototype for MSX computers according to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX
But the 318 is one of my dreams, that red joystick is fun squared :oD
BTW, just got a Spectrum Plus here...THANKS A LOT you know who :o) I
never ever saw an original Speccy in front of me! ;oD
2 Apr
2 Apr
8:15 a.m.
Very interesting Terry. MSX never made it stateside, so I was curious to
see this. In particular I'm a big Coleco Vision and ADAM computer nut, and
was surprised to see the splash screen and game options screen on the game
that you showed. The game option screen looks identical to the one
presented on Coleco Vision cartridge games to the letter. I wonder which
came first, because the specifications for the two machines are virtually
identical.
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Terry Stewart <terry at webweavers.co.nz>wrote:
An attention-getting red joystick and superior BASIC
makes for an
interesting home computer. My Spectravideo SV-318.
http://youtu.be/LwvYpojtr0I
Terry (Tez)
9:08 a.m.
Not sure what you mean, both Spectravideo and Yamaha released MSX machines
in the US. They never caught on, so it wasn't for a significant amount of
time. But they were here.
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Geoffrey Oltmans <oltmansg at gmail.com>wrote:
Very interesting Terry. MSX never made it stateside,
so I was curious to
see this. In particular I'm a big Coleco Vision and ADAM computer nut, and
was surprised to see the splash screen and game options screen on the game
that you showed. The game option screen looks identical to the one
presented on Coleco Vision cartridge games to the letter. I wonder which
came first, because the specifications for the two machines are virtually
identical.
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Terry Stewart <terry at webweavers.co.nz
--
Marty
wrote:
An attention-getting red joystick and superior
BASIC makes for an
interesting home computer. My Spectravideo SV-318.
http://youtu.be/LwvYpojtr0I
Terry (Tez)
12:30 p.m.
On 04/02/2013 09:08 AM, Martin Goldberg wrote:
Not sure what you mean, both Spectravideo and Yamaha
released MSX machines
in the US. They never caught on, so it wasn't for a significant amount of
time. But they were here.
It wasn't the first time a Japanese-origin idea didn't catch on. How
about TRON?
--Chuck
12:57 p.m.
If they did it must have been extremely limited distribution, I've never
seen an MSX variant in a store or in the wild ever.
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Martin Goldberg <wgungfu at gmail.com> wrote:
Not sure what you mean, both Spectravideo and Yamaha
released MSX machines
in the US. They never caught on, so it wasn't for a significant amount of
time. But they were here.
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Geoffrey Oltmans <oltmansg at gmail.com
wrote:
Very interesting Terry. MSX never made it
stateside, so I was curious to
see this. In particular I'm a big Coleco Vision and ADAM computer nut,
and
was surprised to see the splash screen and game
options screen on the
game
> that you showed. The game option screen looks identical to the one
> presented on Coleco Vision cartridge games to the letter. I wonder which
> came first, because the specifications for the two machines are virtually
> identical.
>
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Terry Stewart <terry at webweavers.co.nz
> wrote:
>
> > An attention-getting red joystick and superior BASIC makes for an
> > interesting home computer. My Spectravideo SV-318.
> > http://youtu.be/LwvYpojtr0I
> >
> > Terry (Tez)
> >
>
--
Marty
3 Apr
3 Apr
11:48 a.m.
AFAIR, it was widely distribuited. Look for spectravideo computers and
CX5M/CX7M computers
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If they did it must have been extremely limited
distribution, I've never
seen an MSX variant in a store or in the wild ever.
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Martin Goldberg <wgungfu at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Not sure what you mean, both Spectravideo and Yamaha released MSX
> machines
> in the US. They never caught on, so it wasn't for a significant amount of
> time. But they were here.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Geoffrey Oltmans <oltmansg at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Very interesting Terry. MSX never made it stateside, so I was curious
> > to
> > see this. In particular I'm a big Coleco Vision and ADAM computer nut,
> and
> > was surprised to see the splash screen and game options screen on the
> game
> > that you showed. The game option screen looks identical to the one
> > presented on Coleco Vision cartridge games to the letter. I wonder
> > which
> > came first, because the specifications for the two machines are
> > virtually
> > identical.
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Terry Stewart <terry at webweavers.co.nz
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > An attention-getting red joystick and superior BASIC makes for an
> > > interesting home computer. My Spectravideo SV-318.
> > > http://youtu.be/LwvYpojtr0I
> > >
> > > Terry (Tez)
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Marty
>
2 Apr
2 Apr
1:27 p.m.
Yes, I'm sure they were available in the U.S. Spectravideo was a U.S.
company and the SV-318 was announced at the winter CES in Las Vagas. (see
http://www.samdal.com/sv318.htm)
Just not very visible maybe?
Terry (Tez)
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Martin Goldberg <wgungfu at gmail.com> wrote:
Not sure what you mean, both Spectravideo and Yamaha
released MSX machines
in the US. They never caught on, so it wasn't for a significant amount of
time. But they were here.
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Geoffrey Oltmans <oltmansg at gmail.com
wrote:
Very interesting Terry. MSX never made it
stateside, so I was curious to
see this. In particular I'm a big Coleco Vision and ADAM computer nut,
and
was surprised to see the splash screen and game
options screen on the
game
> that you showed. The game option screen looks identical to the one
> presented on Coleco Vision cartridge games to the letter. I wonder which
> came first, because the specifications for the two machines are virtually
> identical.
>
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Terry Stewart <terry at webweavers.co.nz
> wrote:
>
> > An attention-getting red joystick and superior BASIC makes for an
> > interesting home computer. My Spectravideo SV-318.
> > http://youtu.be/LwvYpojtr0I
> >
> > Terry (Tez)
> >
>
--
Marty
1:32 p.m.
Yeah... I Googled quickly and saw they were a US based company... this was
a bit of a surprise to me... for some reason I always figured they were a
UK based outfit.
In any case, yes, not very visible. I think I do recall seeing an
advertisement or two for them in Creative Computing magazine but apart from
that not much else.
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Terry Stewart <terry at webweavers.co.nz>wrote:
Yes, I'm sure they were available in the U.S.
Spectravideo was a U.S.
company and the SV-318 was announced at the winter CES in Las Vagas. (see
http://www.samdal.com/sv318.htm)
Just not very visible maybe?
Terry (Tez)
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Martin Goldberg <wgungfu at gmail.com> wrote:
which
--
Marty
Not sure what you mean, both Spectravideo and
Yamaha released MSX
machines
in the US. They never caught on, so it wasn't
for a significant amount of
time. But they were here.
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Geoffrey Oltmans <oltmansg at gmail.com
to
wrote:
> Very interesting Terry. MSX never made it stateside, so I was curious see this.
In particular I'm a big Coleco Vision and ADAM computer nut,
and
was surprised to see the splash screen and game
options screen on the
game
> that you showed. The game option screen looks identical to the one
> presented on Coleco Vision cartridge games to the letter. I wonder > came first, because the specifications for
the two machines are
virtually
> identical.
>
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Terry Stewart <
terry at
webweavers.co.nz
wrote:
An attention-getting red joystick and superior
BASIC makes for an
interesting home computer. My Spectravideo SV-318.
http://youtu.be/LwvYpojtr0I
Terry (Tez)
3 Apr
3 Apr
11:47 a.m.
Very interesting Terry. MSX never made it stateside,
so I was curious to
see this. In particular I'm a big Coleco Vision and ADAM computer nut, and
was surprised to see the splash screen and game options screen on the game
that you showed. The game option screen looks identical to the one
presented on Coleco Vision cartridge games to the letter. I wonder which
came first, because the specifications for the two machines are virtually
identical.
Do you know a Brazilian (called Eduardo Mello) adapted some MSX games to
Colecovision and vice-versa, and made some homebrew games for the
Colecovision?
Many MSX games were made for MSX and Colecovision on it's time...
12:02 p.m.
Yes, I am familiar with him. The biggest difference between the CV and the
MSX are the sound chip, and the amount of RAM they have. The CV only has 1K
of SRAM. He did that super game module to add 32K of RAM and the sound chip
from the MSX to make conversions easier. That should
make changes mostly a
matter of adapting the controller inputs, and remapping the
IN/OUT calls in
the game programs.
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Alexandre Souza - Listas <
pu1bzz.listas at gmail.com> wrote:
Very interesting Terry. MSX never made it stateside,
so I was curious to
see this. In particular I'm a big Coleco
Vision and ADAM computer nut, and
was surprised to see the splash screen and game options screen on the game
that you showed. The game option screen looks identical to the one
presented on Coleco Vision cartridge games to the letter. I wonder which
came first, because the specifications for the two machines are virtually
identical.
Do you know a Brazilian (called Eduardo Mello) adapted some MSX games
to Colecovision and vice-versa, and made some homebrew games for the
Colecovision?
Many MSX games were made for MSX and Colecovision on it's time...
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