Source: https://webmsx.org/

MSX machines have been somewhat underrepresented in our magazine so far. In issue #09 we had a modern incarnation of an MSX2 compatible machine in it, but apart from that, MSX has hardly been a topic so far.

And unjustifiably so, actually. This week we learned, that the many MSX variants were not only very successful in Asia, but especially our friends in South America, (noteworthy Argentina and Brazil) had and still have a lot of fun with the architecture.

Anyway, rebuilding a MSX as described in issue #09 is certainly tempting. But you might still have your old machine lying around somewhere. At least a cleaning and re-capping will be necessary after such a long time. If you don't have time for that, but still want to have some white letters on a blue background, then the project by Paulo Peccin might be interesting for you.

WebMSX is one of the numerous MSX emulators, but it runs in the browser independent of the operating system. It's always fascinating to see that top notch technology of the 80s can be emulated in a browser today. What's special about Paulo's project is, that he makes all the source code available on github, so that - given time and interest - you can also build your own customized version of the emulator. Or just understand how it works.

Exciting project, not only for MSX friends.