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MSX FDC-600 floppy disk controller review

Retro computer’s floppy drives are a species facing extinction. With all moving parts and sensible mechanism, it is hard to keep them working properly. For those who have an extensive collection of floppy disks, the options are to copy them to any modern mass storage solution or to pray for their floppy drives not to die… MSX owners have an…

Spanish Government still uses MSX for Driver's License Test

The Spanish government uses a computer with some handlers connected to asses the future driver hand-eye coordination. In some of the locations that apply the test, there are still MSX computers in operation. Lavandeira.net has published some photos taken on Nov 6th of such equipment: a Mitsubishi ML-G1. That is the second time this type of news comes out. The first…

New store in Japan to sell brand new MSX machines

Lavadeira blog announced directly from the MSX mother land that a new physical store will open soon in Akihabara. The store will offer retro computers, retro games, arcade games, and fan made items. The biggest news mainly for those that can afford to visit the store is a stock of brand-new-never-opened MSX computers Pioneer PX-V60. They go for about USD$180 – a…

Learn MSX Assembler with Lavandeira.net

My favourite MSX blog has be in a hiatus for almost 6 months, but now it has been updated with two new articles, tackling the concepts of assembler programming for the MSX. Lavandeira is also starting to accept contributions from Patrons, through the service Patreon. On the first one, Relearning MSX #19: Assembly language concepts he teaches the very basic assembler…