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1 Chip MSX To Be Built Date: 10/23/2005 |
It's been announced comercial production of 1 chip MSX will commence. The news came at PLD WORLD 2005 held in Tokyo on October 21st. The company ASCII did have plans to mass produce the new compact version of the classic Japanese computer which became known for several popular RPG's and Konami games (Metal Gear 1-2). The official hardware specs will correspond to MSX2 as follows: Main RAM256KB, Kanji ROM internals, MSX-DOS2 OS, PS/2 terminal accesories, Two MSX cartridge slots, SD/MMC card slot used as external memory, Two voice terminals (monaural), TV video out, FPGA I/O pin (40 pins and 10 pins), USB Terminal, VGA Terminal. 19800 yen of excluding tax and ASCII because manuals and attachments CD-ROM (Game software etc. are scheduled collection as a sample) attach to the AC adaptor as an accessory. The retail will be 20,790 Yen. 5000 units will be produced. |
Source: Anime News Service |