> I heard stories (Anne, can you verify this one for me?) that MicroCabin
once
> wanted to translate
> some Cabins to English and sell them in Europe, but nobody seemed to be
> interested.
Yes, this is true, Microcabin showed interest in the European market. So did
i.e. Hertz (Hydefos, PsychoWorld)....This was in the period when we as
Flying Bytes sold a lot of European products in Japan using the
TAKERU-system. In those days, we had some interesting contacts with some
'major' developers for MSX. Microcabin was one of them...We told them not to
go on with it, though...The market was no longer there in Europe at that
time...
For what concerns the new MSX. The japanese visitors to Tilburg2000 spent
the night before the fair at my place. I together with Rieks were the first
persons to hear Yokoi's story about this new MSX (also for Ikeda this was
new). As far as I understood Yokoi well, this new MSX is just a matter of
time. It is about 100% official there WILL be a new MSX on the market.
Strange thing is though that it will be a computer like the turboR..But with
some more RAM and some other minor developments. I discussed with Rieks
already that this 'new' MSX should bring much more then what Yokoi told us.
It won't impress you guys at all!! It still is an MSX. In Japan, they seem
to think REAL different. They see MSX as a computer which is easy to use and
to program...They think even in these days, people want such a machine...I
have my doubts, but that's what they say in Japan...
Something about that PS2...YES, that indeed is almost a homecomputer and I
am VERY happy with that...It has a CPU and a VIDEOchip which are not to be
replaced. This means we can measure certain achievements on the system
again. It is not a matter of putting a better graphics card and I can show
more then others. It becomes again a matter of programming...Maybe the days
of impressive demos, games are near again!! I am sure that if the PS2 is
being sold together with some EASY to use OS, I WILL try and program things
for this system. It seems very cool to me....
Anne
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