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Graham Prout

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Aug 20, 2009, 5:11:58 PM8/20/09
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I goto one of these from a car boot sale in 2006 and today i loaded my first
piece of software onto it.
Can i connect a floppt drive to it, what about memory expantions.

Whats the difference between an MSX2 and an MSX2+?

Regards

Graham

Eric Boon

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Aug 22, 2009, 12:11:51 PM8/22/09
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http://www.faq.msxnet.org/ :-)

Martijn Dekker

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Aug 27, 2009, 10:15:23 AM8/27/09
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In article <C_ijm.6515$xj1....@newsfe07.ams2>,
"Graham Prout" <graham...@ntlworld.com> wrote:

> I goto one of these from a car boot sale in 2006 and today i loaded my first
> piece of software onto it.

That's nostalgia there. I learned to program on a HX-10 at age 11 and
12. :)

> Can i connect a floppt drive to it,

Yes. Good luck finding a floppy drive interface, though.

> what about memory expantions.

No, the original MSX supports 64K of RAM maximum and that's what the
HX-10 came with.

> Whats the difference between an MSX2 and an MSX2+?

The MSX2+ has extra, more capable video modes compared to MSX2. The
MSX2+ only ever came out in Japanese versions, but there have been
unofficial extensions for European models. Otherwise, very little.

Note that the HX-10 is an original MSX (a.k.a MSX1), though, and the
difference between MSX1 and MSX2 is much greater.

- M.

Graham Prout

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Aug 27, 2009, 1:06:39 PM8/27/09
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Yeh i did see that there were big differences between msx1 and msx2 i am
thinking of buying one this weekend.


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Eric Boon

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Aug 27, 2009, 1:22:25 PM8/27/09
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Martijn Dekker wrote:

>> what about memory expantions.
>
> No, the original MSX supports 64K of RAM maximum and that's what the
> HX-10 came with.

Beg to differ. The MSX has a slot-system which provides for memory
banking. The standard defines 4 slots, and each slot can again be
extended to 4 sub-slots.
So, on an MSX-1 you can address 4x4x64kB = 4096kB. 32kB are filled
with the system ROMs, leaving a theoretical max of 4064kB of RAM.
On MSX-2, the limit goes up a bit further since each subslot can
contain a memory mapper with up to 256x16kB.

Graham Prout

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Aug 27, 2009, 5:58:02 PM8/27/09
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Are there any DIY floppy interfaces out there


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