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Grimpen@lemmy.ca 1 year agoFor some reason I’m reminded of the Colecovision and the Colecovision Adam. Did those share any architecture with the MSX devices?
Coleco were more early 80s machines and I think MSX was more late 80s
Though you got me curious, so looking into it just now, they all use Z80 processors apparently! Which I guess is unsurprising given how successful it was in consoles in the 80s.
On the face of things, it looks like MSX has a bit more in the graphic capabilities department, but that’s just me looking at a handful of screenshots, so take that with a pinch of salt
I think the association came from emulation. IIRC, you can sometimes play Colecovision ROMS with the MSX emulator in RetroArch, although it’s been a while since I dealt with this.
It is common to use the bluemsx core for ColecoVision emulation. As well as MSX, that core can also emulate the Sega SG-1000.
Having said that, we use the fmsx core for MSX/2 emulation, and gearsystem for the SG-1000.
Redkey@programming.dev 1 year ago
Very similar variants of the same CPU and VDU were used in the Colecovision, the MSX, and Sega’s early systems, among others.
I’ve also read that there were several ports from the ZX Spectrum to the MSX, due to them sharing essentially the same CPU at the same clock speed, and the MSX VDU having a video mode that could operate similarly to the Spectrum’s display.