MSX extensions (1): I/O bus; digitizer; 8-bit I/O port

EE 66 January 1986 The concept of MSX makes it possible to design programs and add-on units that will work with any MSX compute": In a short series of articles we will offer you designs for a number of useful extensions intended to enhance the computers abilities to control external equipment The coming of the MSX series of computers has been a success in so far that incompatibility problems among different computer types have largely been overcome, both in the software and in the hardware field. With standardization finally at a practical level, it is now possible to develop programs and add-on units that will work on any MSX computer, irrespective of its make. The first part in this series of articles will deal with a versatile MSX input /output bus and a digitizer plus 8-bit I/O port to plug into it, thus considerably enhancing the computer"s abilities to control ex- ternal equipment. Microsoft Extended BASIC (MSX) is now the software base for a whole group of computers with la...