MSX

CANON V20 MSX (MSX2, MSX2+ and TurboR) is a Z80-based family of home computers from japan consumer electronic corporations like Canon (on the picture), Sony, Sanyo, Toshiba, Yamaha, Philips (Holland), SpectraVideo (USA) - which appeared in 1982 as an attempt to establish a single standard in home computing. They were popular in Asian (Korea, Japan) and South American (Brazil, Chile) countries as well as in Europe (Holland, France).
Rumours says, that MSX stands for MicroSoft eXtended, because Microsoft Basic was used as common language for all MSX computers.

EMULATORS
RuMSX 0.23 MSX/MSX-2/MSX-2+ and TurboR emulator for Windows 95/NT Author's Homepage
fMSX for Windows 1.5w0.2 Good MSX/MSX-2/MSX-2+ emulator for Windows 95 -- fMSX port from Japan (freeware) Author's homepage
NLMSX 0.34 MSX-1/2/2+ emulator for Windows (freeware) Authors' homepage
Virtual MSX 1.1 beta Good MSX-1 emulator for Windows (shareware) Virtual MSX distribution site -- author
Woom 0.3 beta MSX-1/2/2+ emulator for Windows (freeware) Authors' homepage

PROGRAM  RESOURCES
Games resource ROM images



SPECTRAVIDEO

SVI-318 Before Spectravideo introduced their first MSX computer SVI-728, they had their SVI-318/328 non-MSX compliant models in production already (1983). The "318" featured rubberkeys, integrated joystick, Z80 CPU, 32 KB RAM and 16 KB ROM in basic configuration. The SVI-328 had couple of improvements, e.g. more memory, better keyboard etc.

EMULATORS
SVI-318/328 emulator 0.31 SVI-318/328 emulator for DOS (freeware) Author's page

PROGRAM  RESOURCES
The Unofficial Spectravideo Homepage ROM images

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