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Posts by Mayor McCheese
4 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jun 2013
Live or let dial - phones ain’t what they used to be
MSX: The Japanese are coming! The Japanese are coming!
Thursday 27th June 2013 22:05 GMT
Pretty good article
But you missed out the MSX 2+.
In my opinion, the reason it all went wrong in the UK was that programmers here never figured out you could put multiple sprites on top of each other in order to make a multicoloured sprite. They must have taken one look at the specs and assumed it was just another Spectrum. A load of sloppy Speccie conversions followed, in some cases even with the stripey loading screen lines. And those of us who were used to Konami's quality as a bench mark couldn't believe what a load of crap the British software was.
Anyway, happy days. I still remember the glow of the LEDs on my VG-8235. The feel of the keyboard on my NMS-8280. Proper, decent, stylish computers with decent cursor keys. Sniff.
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