A splash of Diskette Futurism for your feeds with a swish MSX 2 sibling, the Philips VG-8235. 💾🔥 The MSX is a fascinating series of computers, an attempt to create the 'VHS of computers', a standardized architecture that could be manufactured in various forms. - ThreadSky

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sharkabytes.bsky.social • 119 days ago

A splash of Diskette Futurism for your feeds with a swish MSX 2 sibling, the Philips VG-8235. 💾🔥

The MSX is a fascinating series of computers, an attempt to create the 'VHS of computers', a standardized architecture that could be manufactured in various forms.

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warai-0toko.bsky.social•12 days ago

I still own one! I remember trying coding on it to make some bird drawings using vectors

elmadkiller57.bsky.social•119 days ago

the ad is in french. Why is it in french ? Did Philips released it in France ? :/

warai-0toko.bsky.social•12 days ago

I had one and I'm in Spain so... I Guess they did? 🤷

roazena.bsky.social•117 days ago

My one experience with an MSX emulator told me that the BASIC onboard disregarded any variable name characters past the first four, meaning POSITIONX and POSITIONY ended up pointing to the same thing. If that was not the standard I apologize.

robertofaria.com.br•90 days ago

My MSX made quite the happy kid for long while

artunbekannter.bsky.social•118 days ago

That cool light trail never happened when I threw floppy disks around :(

sharkabytes.bsky.social•118 days ago

Same ;; Tried it just now with one of my Amiga disks and no cool trail! Boo.

leggoiseggo.bsky.social•118 days ago

hey im stealing this for my banner :3

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