In 1983, the software company Microsoft, together with ASCII from Japan, decided to create a standard for home computers.

This disconnected the software writers from the hardware makers and is essentially a mirror of the IBM-PC clone scene. The MSX is based around the Z80, which has a 16-bit address bus, restricting ...

[danjovic] has this vintage Brazilian computer from the 1980s called a Gradiente Expert. These were MSX machines with Z80 chips that ran BASIC, DOS, and CP/M, and they looked like state-of-the-art ...