>>And nobody was interested in transforming MSX1 to MSX2?
>
>I don't think any company ever offered such a conversion. Conversions from
>MSX2 to MSX2+ were offered though. Some included only V9958, others
>included new ROMs and/or internal MSX-MUSIC.
There were (are?) conversion-kits for that, I'm sure about that.
~Grauw
>
>>But ROM cartridges are very expensive. A memory expansion with exactly the
>>same format than Megarom games was a more intelligent solution than buying
>>several cartridges. Why didn't people from Japan create a kind of Megaram?
>
>Maybe they don't like doing illegal things?
>Anyway, they did finally create one: the ESE-SCC. But it's main use is as a
>RAMdisk/DOS2 cartridge.
>
>The reason MegaRAM type cartridge was never developed in Europe is probably
>that 128K and 256K machines (SONY700) were sold. A lot of people had their
>MSXes memory expanded to run cracked megaROM games.
>
>>There was another problem here in Brazil (and perhaps in Europe too):
>>there was no japanese softwarehouses representatives here! What were we
>>supposed to do?
>
>In Europe, for a long time software was available in normal stores. But
>around 1990 we had to rely on imports for games like SD Snatcher and Solid
>Snake. I guess the European market was not profitable enough to make
>English versions of those games. One of the reasons was the large-scale
>copying.
>
>>Do you know a FDC that supports 1.2Mb and 1.44Mb drives and is still being
>>produced, and have good documentation?
>
>Note that 3.5MHz is too slow to allow reading of 1.44MB disks. The "inner
>loop" of the sector read routine is too slow to cope with the data flow. So
>if you want to create 1.44MB drives for MSX, you either have to use 7MHz
>Z80 or use some kind of buffer for reading sectors.
>
>Bye,
> Maarten
>
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