Went to the Nijmegen MSX Fair today! There was so much cool stuff to see and people to talk to!

Went to the Nijmegen MSX Fair today! There was so much cool stuff to see and people to talk to! It was an absolutely amazing day, and definitely worth the super boring trip by train and bus ^^

A Wii drumkit was connected to a MSX Turbo-R (there were a *lot* more of these on show than I expected!) for playing a rhythm game, but I really sucked at it, and someone brought an MSX made out of lego. Not functional, as far as I know ^^

I also managed to buy a Gouda 1MB Memory Mapper for my MSX2, which means I’ll be settled for life, RAM wise… on MSX at least.

Of course there were plenty of games on show and sale, and although those aren’t my primary interest, some of them looked pretty cool. Seems like MSX scene definitely has a knack for publishing their games on shiny looking carts, with boxes, manuals, and all that jazz included. Fancy!

Also had a chat for a while with someone that interfaced a xylophone to his MSX! As far as I understand it works with relays that are triggered by software written in MSX-BASIC. It can go as fast as 64th notes at 255 BPM! (I of course had to ask how fast it could go ^^)

And of course, plenty of setups with port expanders filled to the brim with all the fancy toys an MSX user could wish for.