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MSX memories
It was with great delight that I read the article in LXF286 on the MSX emulator. That took me back to the early 80s when I had a Yamaha MSX computer, the one with the built-in FM synthesiser. I would spend hours on that tinkering about, playing
Chuckie Egg
and
Alien 8,
and inputting music scores for the synth to play. It would be nice if that FM synth was emulated at some point in the MSX emulator.
In those days we didn’t have PCs, but I worked in what I believe was Scotland’s first computer shop (which opened around 1976). Back then we worked with Cromemco computers. They were 21-slot S100 bus-based, with a Z80 CPU and built like Sherman tanks. They were capable of running seven simultaneous users, each with their own bank of 63K RAM (the top 1K was reserved for bank switching and system use). Seven users could quite happily run
WordStar, Multiplan
or
dBase
on that one lowly processor under the Cromix operating system (which was a Unix work-a-like).