MSX places to visit in Tokyo
Hi!
IMHO they always have something MSX in the Super Potato or any of the Trader shops in Akihabara. The actual MSX computers are quite overpriced but you can sometimes find some cheap cartridges.
Honestly, I'm convinced that the best MSX shopping place is Osaka 
And don't ask the guys in Super Potato how much the Turbo-R is. They'll tell you "don't worry" anyway. 
(Which seemed a bit odd to me but I guess they didn't know how to say "It's not for sale" in English 
)
I wouldn't be surprised.
Someone once told me that if you ordered a GDG (the custom chip in Sharp MZ-800/1500) from Sharp they would make it, but not cheaply at all.....
I wouldn't be surprised.
Someone once told me that if you ordered a GDG (the custom chip in Sharp MZ-800/1500) from Sharp they would make it, but not cheaply at all.....
I think that Sharp has something to do with Masked ROM chips too.
Until some years ago, it was possible to order the MSX-MUSIC chip direct from Yamaha.There was even the PDF that states about the FM music on MSX systems.
Retrocomputing is getting bigger and bigger on the modern world.
You can pull them from various network and other equipment, if you are lucky enough. If you are even more lucky you can buy them on eBay for a decent price (but that doesn't happen often as all the Amiga guys are after them 
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You can pull them from various network and other equipment, if you are lucky enough. If you are even more lucky you can buy them on eBay for a decent price (but that doesn't happen often as all the Amiga guys are after them ).
The problem with Amiga is that their would need a 150 ns or faster CARD, most of the Memory Cards are 200 ns or slower ... Slow external memory is not much a problem for MSX, only the inner Memory Mapper on MSX Turbo R is that works at 'full speed'. There are some nice memory expansion cards made by Panasonic itself! Another good feature of the SRAM Cards is that their would hold the content of memory for months or even years ...
