Wanting to buy an MSX soon. Which one would be best for me?

[rbudrick]

I found out that the Turbo Rs also have Japanese-only keyboards and often-faulty floppy drives.

Does anyone have a good link for how to do basic commands in MSXDOS on a 2++? You know, copying disks, starting games, looking at directories...stuff like that.

-Rob

[opcode]

I found out that the Turbo Rs also have Japanese-only keyboards and often-faulty floppy drives.

Does anyone have a good link for how to do basic commands in MSXDOS on a 2++? You know, copying disks, starting games, looking at directories...stuff like that.

-Rob

Japanese only keyboard? Keyboard is standard qwerty. It can be used to enter Japanese characters, but you will need to turn on the kana key.
MSXDOS commands are the same as MSDOS1: dir, copy, del, type, etc.

Eduardo

[rbudrick]

Well I see qwerty on the pre-turbo R systems, but check out this auction:

http://page7.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/g22366689

If you enlarge the pic, you will only see kana keys on the keyboard...not roman letters....

The whole Japanese-only notion on the Turbo Rs I got from Manuel who made that MSX faq linked above...

-Rob

[opcode]

Well I see qwerty on the pre-turbo R systems, but check out this auction:

http://page7.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/g22366689

If you enlarge the pic, you will only see kana keys on the keyboard...not roman letters....

The whole Japanese-only notion on the Turbo Rs I got from Manuel who made that MSX faq linked above...

-Rob

Check those pics:

http://www.aamsx.org/course/1/a1st-main.jpg

http://www.aamsx.org/course/1/a1st-frontleft.jpg

I have a Turbo R myself, so I can assure you it has a qwerty keyboard....

Eduardo

[rbudrick]

Ahh, you're right. When I enlarged the pic before, the qwerty looked not right at all, but I can plainly see the uiop after it. Interesting. The other turbo r model is qwerty too:

http://www10.ocn.ne.jp/~d-binder/A1GT.htm

Thanks, opcode. Glad I took a second look. I guess my eyes were playing tricks on me based on blurry enlergements, bad info and uhh, stuff.

-Rob