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The Ultima box and contents are absolute mint (and it was the cheapest item!). Three other games are all very playable games, been after Spelunker for ages.

This one was developed by Taito in house as well I believe. Taito didn’t have a huge number of titles for MSX, unlike most of the other Japanese developers. And they are not all good conversions, but this one definitely is.

Thanks, I like to give every game a quick try (as long as I can get them load of course)

Bubble Bobble has to one of the very best arcade conversions on MSX 2 and such a fun game too. That Ultima box and contents are pretty much mint. The cat overlord approves of your communication ;)

It does add a lot of pressure on the player, they definitely made games harder back in the day.

I live to serve my cat overlords :) I’m not sure my brain has enough space left to learn Kanji but you never know one day! I really enjoyed all of these games (but seriously need a translation patch for Ultima IV)

We live to serve our cat overlords :)

Bubble Bobble on MSX 2 is absolutely fantastic good showcase of the platform. He is my buddy (and overlord of course :))

8-Bit Milli Games, his website is called console moo.

It is a curious and interesting machine. I have just finished working on the AV mod, so another video coming up soon.

Finally have a weekend at home so hoping to get it going and record some more video.

Mmm I’ll read the open ones first but cool!

Now that one sounds really interesting probably top of the list to have a look at.

Some very nice art.

:) thank you for sending the items to me lots of interesting stuff to have a look through.

Yes it has definitely been a bit chilly, only a couple more weeks and we will be in spring so it should start to warm up a bit. I am looking forward to seeing if the Amstrad still works and have a play with it.

There were quite a few surprising items in there in the end. Looking forward to checking out the computer.

I haven’t actually ever played that one.

@@electricadventures I played it using an emulator, and it was not that fun it was released by Ocean Software.

Yes both quite different, but each have their own appeal and show off the systems capabilities quite well.

My first two books I published myself using Amazon, you basically just get paid a margin per copy sold (digital or physical). I had to do everything myself of course. My latest book I worked with the publisher Manning, I had a copy editor throughout the writing of the book, then access to a group of peer reviewers, another team that put the online version together, then another team who worked on the print copy. They paid me an advance, and you get more royalties once the book sales have paid off the advance. Working with the Manning team has allowed me to put together a much more professional and validated book this time, so I would happily publish with them in the future.

@@electricadventures Thanks, cheers mate.

He still managed Virix in the base Coleco 1k too which is quite well done.

Thanks for watching.

It is quite a unique system I am going to play with it some more soon.

I did find it very difficult to get it to work the first time as well as the solder pads on the PCB were very small. Reflow all of the connectors again and see. The fact that you can hook the Pi up to the PC means the Pi is still working.

@@electricadventures Thanks, will do. What's odd is that if I put it in the coleco, the Led turns on. But it won't load. Then while the coleco is on, if I plug it into my pc USB port, it loads right up and plays fine as long as it's connected to USB. Strange.

@@electricadventures you hit it on the head. I reflowed everything and now they work fine. Thanks for your help!

Thank you, it’s very cool to finally have physical copies :)

A very lucky find been sitting in someone’s garage storage for 20 years apparently.

It probably made sense at the time I have thrown away a couple of computers in the past that I regretted later. There have been a few surfacing later, found in storage when renovating like this one.

Yes all the cool systems came out in the 80’s!

I was totally not expecting that a very cool feature.

Cool it seemed to reach more places than I knew. I remember your video on the composite mod, I am going to do the 2nd one that taps onto the points going into the RF modulator.

@@electricadventures Great. Should improve that picture quality. Cheers

It plays really well, very much a fan of the Darius series of shooters and nice to have this version in a physical cartridge.

They really put a lot of effort in, I need to play with the computer side of this system some more.

That tape seems quite impressive but most Dick Smith items were designed for ease of use ie they didn’t just import them they made localisation changes and added extra documentation to all their systems. I would say that tape has been left in the system for a while.

They did a lot of work with partners in Hong Kong for all of their systems. They sold the successor computer only system the Laser 2001 after this as well.

I did not realise it did that but I haven’t really played with the computer part of it much before. Have to try it out some more in part II :)

@@electricadventures I'm sure it doesn't work on the speccy as most data recorders have a mono tapehead

Yeah most 8-bit tape players only have a single cable for the in signal.

I did not realise it did that, have played it as a console but not much looked at its computer capabilities before.

Yes it has had the upgrade kit that was supplied after the joysticks broke too easily and the updated rom with the difficulty adjusted. I would still like to install the Berzerk/Frenzy multi-board just haven’t been able to get hold of one so far.

My favourite computer (of course) hopefully you can find the power supply the video hookups are fairly standard ones

@@electricadventures Yeah, hopefully the power supply cable is in the same box as the msx, i have loads of the video cables

The main place to go is the GitHub page or the thread on Atariage. I’ll check which links I added to the video description a bit later.

I just checked and both links are there in the description the GitHub one would be your best bet.

It will read CD backups but they have to be PC Engine titles.

It is a classic for sure ;)

Thank you, I hope it assists with your NES programming journey.

Thank you

Yeah translating sprite coordinates and size to a matching area in your background graphics requires a fair bit of effort on 8-bit systems. C64 is on my list of systems to cover, so never say never :)

Ah good to know it is finally available on Amazon as well (much better postage rates for those outside the USA). I am working on a revised edition of the Coleco book and it will be available as a print book directly from Amazon.

Thank you, great to finally have physical copies :)

I really need to have another go at this, really enjoy racing games and especially with proper driving controls.

I actually have a couple of Zip drives I should dig them out and give them a try.

I didn’t see one advertised or in store anywhere. There was stock of this one available for a while though.