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MSX custodian Kazuhiko Nishi has launched not one but four new crowdfunding games relating to the MSX0, one of several units in Nishi's suite of planned MSX revival computers; these campaigns are for watch, keychain/accessory, card and stamp form factors and are all anchored around M5's line of IoT chips:

Nishi successfully crowdfunded a standard MSX0 unit earlier this year, and they've also announced plans for a stamp-based version that can be installed directly onto the board of classic MSX hardware in place of the Z80.

When Nishi retired from ASCII a few years back, they negotiated to forego their retirement plan in exchange for the ownership rights to all of ASCII's MSX-related content—trademarks, brands, software, publishing, media, the works—and they've shared a lot of very ambitious plans for future MSX models, including a high-end "MSX3" and a "MSX Turbo" supercomputer. Even so, for as much as all these lofty ideas are keeping in the spirit of MSX's legacy as an open computer platform, the majority of the consumer interest seems to be coming from people who just like and/or want to play classic MSX games, and the original MSX0 probably wouldn't have been funded if not for an eleventh-hour deal with Project EGG to ensure a library of emulated games and to republish 100+ games formerly owned by ASCII, so I really wonder if there's a genuine audience for eight hundred different tinker-toys with the MSX name slapped on 'em, and if Nishi even cares either way.

(One other neat initiative of Nishi's, which kicked off a few weeks back: they've begun providing official digital uploads of MSX Magazine to a free online digital library, with plans for print-on-demand options https://akasik-libraries.jp/modules/booklist/booklist.php?genre=24 )


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