Vague and misleading title regarding AGA...

[commodorejohn]

...because all the cool kids are doing it!

Actually, though, I'm just wondering if anybody else here is into the MSX at all. I nabbed a decent little MSX2 machine this fall (and a flashcart some time later, thanks to agonizingly slow shipping from continental Europe,) and I've been having a blast with it. I've also been dabbling with programming on the thing, and it's a surprisingly sane, well-documented architecture for an 8-bit machine. Quite a nice variety of games for it, too, now that I've hacked up a NES controller to work with it...

[Iggy]

I always liked MSX systems. Its baffling why Microsoft didn't promote them in the US.

[Retro_71]

I wouldn't mind one they look like a nice system to play with, but you don't see them much here in OZ.
There are still quite a few systems I want to collect (much to the great agony of my wife... Yes dear I really do need all those computers... No dear will not cost me anything... ), but around my parts somethings are hard to get while others you would have to sell your house to buy (well not quite but almost).

[nikodr]

...because all the cool kids are doing it!

Actually, though, I'm just wondering if anybody else here is into the MSX at all. I nabbed a decent little MSX2 machine this fall (and a flashcart some time later, thanks to agonizingly slow shipping from continental Europe,) and I've been having a blast with it. I've also been dabbling with programming on the thing, and it's a surprisingly sane, well-documented architecture for an 8-bit machine. Quite a nice variety of games for it, too, now that I've hacked up a NES controller to work with it...

I have 2 msx machines,a philips vg8235 and a philips nms8280,the latter was used as a digitizing machine to display subtitles on movies in the 80ies,well for an 8bit machine it could produce 256 colours in screen 8,which was nice,also it could have many memory mappers and have many megabytes of ram.

I have been collecting konami msx games,one of my favorite machines.Also with symbos by prodatron you can have multitasking and a windows style operating system,plus it can take an mp3 cartridge and play sounds.

Magnificent but the lack of good ports was a bad idea,while technically more advanced than a spectrum or amstrad the direct ports were bad.