Keyboard
Attach a Philips NSM825x keyboard to a turboR or equivalent Panasonic machines. In spanish, design by usario_msx2
Useful if the keyboard is malfunctioning.
Philips keyboard on turboR
Cables
How to build RGB cable for japanese MSX computers and J-SCART devices.
Read how to build this cable
Diagram of DIN- RGB Scart kabel
Joystick cable between 2 MSX computers: F1 Spirit 3D special/Joynet/Connect cable
7 wires
1-6, 2-7, 3-8, 6-1, 7-2, 8-3, 9-9
MCWF joystick cable (for their *slag games and Four on a Row)
pin 6 for transferring 0, 7 for transferring 1 (master slave principle)
3 wires
1 on 1: 6-6, 7-7, 9-9
Build yourself a MSX Mouse adapter:
PS/2 mouse to FMTowns/MSX interface by Anikun.
Build the ps2 to fm-towns mouse interface. JP Grobler did that and it works on his MSX in Meridian 3 and “windows 2000”- msx version.
Replace the MA723 diodes with 1N4148 . You can use a 16F84A/20p
Add a reset button to the PIC – the original documentation mentions the mouse pointer becoming unstable? this should solve the problem.
Cost : PIC 3.5E , rest 1E, 1 hour of soldering, cutting etc.
Extra floppy disk for Sony HB-F700P/D and Philips computers
Connect electronic typewriter to MSX
German article to build a serial interface for a printer
RS-232C interface for NMS1250 and Telcom modems”
By Huib Walta, author of MOD for datacom
Same kind of interface mod by Hans Oranje
Connect MSX RGB to VGA monitor
Design notes by JP Grobler
Change NMS1205 modem I/O adress
Mari van der Broek
MSX 2+ circuit diagrams by ASCII
Convert a PC mouse to a standard MSX mouse:
Re Mouse and Nice Mouse
The Bytewizards: Victor van Acht, his brother and Albert Huitsing build a device to convert a PC mouse (serial) to a standard MSX. The device was sold in the Netherlands as Remouse and repackaged as Nice Mouse available from Mirisoft in Italy.
Here you will find the circuit diagram and PCB layout,
the assembler source (dutch documents) of the programmable Atmel controller used in this project and a text file describing
the mouse protocols used.
The disks that come with the Nicemouse/Remouse product are downloadable here.
Upgrade VRAM in your your MSX2+/TurboR to 192KBytes
This upgrade is about adding to your V9958 VDP 128Kbytes of VRAM extra 64Kbytes of RAM.
Read how to perform this upgrade