> > Philips 8235, 8245, 8250, 8255 and 8280 were all sold with 128K mapper.
>
> Only Philips did it? Did other manufacturers do only 256kb of Mapper
> built-in?
See the hardwarelist: e.g. SOny HB-F700P: 256KB of Mapper.
> > Hydlide 3 is 512K.
> > ROM version of Royal Blood is 1MB.
>
> 8-megabit Megarom??? That's impressive! Is it downloadable in any site?
It's on ftp.komkon.org/pub/MSX/Carts/Mega I believe.
> Here in Brazil the only way to get MSX2 was doing conversions! Only
> actually Ademir Carchano produces boards of MSX2+, previously all MSX2 and
> MSX2+ were converted from MSX1.
Which MSX1 machines were used? Only Hotbit and Gradiente?
> > In Europe, for a long time software was available in normal stores. But
>
> Was Japanese software available in normal stores?
Konami ROMs were. And some others too. Clubs imported software, later. But in
the beginning, there were even made tape-versions of Japanese software, under
license. (Like Zanac, e.g., see a previous thread about Eaglesoft/Aackosoft).
> Importing games? Wasn't it too slow and too expensive?
Appearantly not!
> Total: 71 clockcicles. Conclusion: you're right, it's not possible to use
> 1.2Mb or 1.44Mb disks with Z80 at 3.57MHz. It's BAD!
Too bad!
> Then, there's still a chance only for Turbo-R.
And 7.16 MHz MSX2!
Grtjs, Manuel
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