Mastodawn

FiXato (fallback)Sep 11, 2019

@vertigo why rip out the VDP when you can already slot in a Sunrise #Graphics9000 or #Tecnobytes #V9990 #Powergraph; both expansion cards based on the #Yamaha #V9978 VDP?
https://www.msx.org/wiki/Yamaha_V9990
https://www.msx.org/wiki/Sunrise_GFX9000

This expandability was one of the beautiful things of the #MSX standards.

And while my #Philips #NMS8250 #MSX2 isn't as pretty as this one, I definitely have fond memories of growing up with it.
@thegibson @requiem

Yamaha V9990 - MSX Wiki

The Yamaha V9990 is the successor to the V9958 and supposedly a stripped down version of the never finished Yamaha V9978, which was meant to be used for the MSX3. The V9978 supposedly would have backward software compatibility with the V9958, and there are some never confirmed rumours about other features of the V9978 like a 16-bit databus and DMA support.