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Hello, I guess you all are pretty familiar with plastic box protectors. A long time ago I bough a buch of Channel F protectors. I thought 25 were enough. Stupid me. Anyway... It´s been a while I´m looking for some more but I just can´t find them. The original seller ("keep´em minty" on eBay) no longer stocks them. Coudn´t find them online too. Does any of you fine gentlement knows were to find it? Or is any of you using a replacement that works OK at least? I´ve read on a forum that Atari Lynx protectors might do the trick but they seems very different from one another. Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

Hello, If someone have a spare Cosmic Commuter (Activision, A2600) complete, boxed with manual, for sale please let me know. Thank you.

Thank you, CatPix! I´ve found a few Grundig on German eBay. But for what I´ve found there is no direct RGB port (like SCART), right? There is still some gutting and soldering to do? http://circuit-board.de/forum/index.php/Thread/6302-Grundig-Super-Play-Computer-4000-Scart-RGB-Netzteil-Mod/ So for both Interton and Grundig there is some modding. The advange of the later over the first is that is RGB instead of composite, and you can use a regular PSU? Thank you once again, really appreciated it.

Gents, I once had an Interton and never managed to make it work (It´s 220v and PAL-G, I´m in Brazil, 110v and PAL-M wich isn´t compatible) so I sold it without ever turning it on. Anyway, I am deeply interested on getting another one and this time using it properly. My main concern is the lack of a proper A-V out so I just cannot easily get this baby running. I found an A-V mod for Interton. Have any of you nice gentlemen ever seen / tried it? Does you guys know another A-V / RGB mod for that purpose? http://circuit-board.de/forum/index.php/Thread/4486-Interton-VC4000-AV-Mod/ Thank you all in advance and best regards.

Forgot to mention: Yes, MSX now is VERY expensive to collect. The best, juiciest games sell for about 150-200 USD complete. Some Konami games can sell for up to 600 USD (Magical Tree) or even 1.000 USD (Konami Shin Sinthesyzer). But there is still a lot of nice loose games that goes cheap. But with a flashcart and a drive, there´s not a real problem. Just have fun!

Here´s a nice video with 100 MSX1 games. Most of them are really A+. You should check some MSX2 game videos.

May I jump in? :-) I am a dedicated collector of MSXs. They were HUGE down here in Brazil in late 80´s and early 90´s, all cool kids had one. Then Amiga came and destroyed everything. Anyway, I digress. As I was saying I am a dedicated collector. I do own about 300 assorted boxed games. They are spectacular, almost every japanese game feels like a "collector´s edition" with hard case and loads of interesting printed material, from stickers (even bumper stickers!) to 100+ pages, full color manuals. Spectacular, no less. About the best "intro" system... I was talking about it with an American last month on MRC. Was it the OP of this thread? Dunno. :-/ So... There are basicaly four different platforms: - MSX1: Simplest, common, cheapest. Some very interesting games specially when you look for the "MegaROM" ones. BTW, Opcode is porting those to Coleco + SGM. There is a lot of interesting games for it, a LOT of Spectrum ports, a lot of nice Japanese games - Not only JRPG! And forget about the language barrier, most of it you can play without any hassle. Bear in mind that MSX1 was a little limited (16 colous, 3 audio channels) so it might look like an NES with bad scrolling. - MSX2: Now things get interesting. More colors, more RAM. GREAT games, some very interesting software around. And the computer can still be easily found. - MSX2+: My platform of choice. 19268 colors, a special audio board (MSX-MUSIC, AKA "FM") and in most micros an attached 3.5" drive. With them you can play everything from MSX1, MSX2 and MSX2+, with nice audio. And since discs are compatible with PC all you have do to is create your discs directly on your PC an play, no hassle, no supernatural setups. There are 3 companies that made MSX2+: Sony, Panasonic and Sanyo. I like the Panasonics, they are gorgeous. Sonys are cute. Sanyo... Errr, nevermind. :-) If you choose to grab a MSX2+ just be sure to grab one with MSX-MUSIC! There is one Panasonic and one Sanyo without it. I think all Sony had it. Also you should look for a computer with 128kb of RAM, native or expanded. It makes a difference. The last one is TurboR. There are 2 models only. They are *EXPENSIVE*, hard to get, and since they don´t use Z80 but R800 for extra speed there are some compatibilities issue. I truly don´t think they worth the trouble. I do have one A1-ST boxed, complete (a TurboR model), but daily I use a MSX2+, Panasonic´s WSX. Also you DEFINITELY should look for a flashcard. Take a look at this one from MSX Cartridge Shop: It is an IDE + flash cart + drive emulator + memory expansion + it have an extra sound chip, SCC, for Konami games. It is a must. http://www.msxcartridgeshop.com/ With an MSX2+ and a SCC+ you will be able to play about 99.8% of everything ever made for MSX, including all of the best games. It´s hard to look impartial here, I am a HUGE fan of MSX. :-)

I am also interested in one. Are they still available? Thanks!

YES! Mine is #55, I was getting quite anxious!

Hi there, Is there still room to order a cart? :-) Regards, Marco

In the letters to the editor in issue #8, no mention of the name was made. Here is the letter: Whoa, wait a minute: "A box that opens like a book"? That´s completely different from the auctioned box, isn´t it?

Gentlemen, Me and a bunch of friends were discussing the recent Boxed Air Raid extravaganza and there´s a few question that neither one of us (nor google / AA) could answer and I was wondering if any of the pros in here could enlight us. Since that´s the first box ever seen and no manual has ever surfaced, how the heck the name AIR RAID (or its manufacturer MEN-A-VISION) was found? Is there any printed catalog / magazine ad / magazine review regarding it? I mean, there´s no logo in the cart or in-game, so how did you guys found out that it was called like that? Secondly, how did you guys knew it was officially distributed (even poorly) in US? It seems that its scanlines are not 100% NTSC-compatible so how did you know for sure it was not a pirated / "chinese ripoff" of some sort that were never officially sold in US? Thank you for any help on it. Regards, Lazzeri

Wow now THAT was a low blow... Honestly? I dunno... It worked flawlessly under DOS emu in Linux, so i guess it will work also on DOS emu in Macs... But don't have a clue... Care for some testing? Regards, Lazzeri

Why don't you do it yourself? I mean with AHD (and the appropriate .AHD file, already available for this particular game) this would be piece-of-cake... Take a look at the hacks session, there's the link for the software in there... Sorry, just shameless advertisement of my piece of software...