User Meeting for MSX users
Bianual meeting of MSX creators and users
Scheduled Activities
Booths
Rules
Booth booking
Material renting
Second Hand Market
Where and when
The meeting will be celebrated next Saturday 14th June 2025, at the Meetings room from Centre jove la Fontana, located at 190th Gran de Gràcia street, close to the Fontana metro station (L3, green).
Doors will open to the public at 11:15am, but expositors will be able to enter at 10:00am to prepare the booths.
Remember that Espai Jove la Fontana, the place where the meeting is held, closes its door from 14:00 to 16:00.
You can arrive to the Centre Jove by using the Metro, Fontana station, L3 (the green one), and walking 1 minute from there. L3 metro line is well communicated with some of the more important train stations in the city, such as Sants-Estació, Passeig de Gràcia or Plaça Catalunya.
If you need more info about how to arrive there, just click here to see its location on google maps.
Playing area for players, visitors, for everyone. Do not be shy:
Come and play with any of the
MSX computers therein.
If you want a specific game, let us know and
we will try to get it for you.
Scheduled activities
Note: The activities schedule can change due to several factors. The published time for an activity is the one that AAMSX expects it to start, although we can't 100% guarantee it.
Doors are opened to visitors.
MoltXalats will set up a gymkhana, and we couldn’t be more grateful! Here’s a summary of the rules:
1. Participants, at the start of the users meeting, should pick up an answer sheet at the MoltSXalats stand.
2. The goal is to find 10 QR codes attached to diskettes scattered around the room and booths.
3. Each QR code contains a question related to MSX.
4. Once all 10 questions are found and answered, participants can return the answer sheet to the MoltSXalats booth to validate them.
5. Those who answer all questions correctly will receive a small gift.
6. At 13:00, a raffle will be held among all participants and the winner will get a special prize.
Tournament organized by our friends of Retroscroll. Here are the rules:
- Registration will begin at the start of the users meeting: If no one is looking for/ chasing/harrash you to participate, go to the Retroscroll booth and express your intention to join the tournament.
- The maximum number of registrations is 16 players.
- The matches will be of 4 simultaneous players, all of whom will play with controller pads.
- The top two from each round will advance to the next round.
- Depending on the time availability, the rounds will either be played as a single match where the first two better scores win, or multiple matches will be played until a player reaches two victories, with the last match determining second place in case of a tie in victories among the remaining 3 players.
Espai Jove la Fontana will close the doors from 14:00 to 16:00, so booths and visitors can have lunch and take a short break.
This year, the friends of Conexion MSX are back at the event and will once again serve as masters of ceremonies in the conference room.
A well-equiped room is reserved to do alll the talks.
You can follow all the conferences live on YouTube:
https://aamsx.com/directo-ru
David Martínez Armesto will show to the attendees the current state of the game he has been working on the last years: Walküre - In a Wonder Journey, an action RPG with FM music for MSX2 or better computers.
Albert Molina, a member of MSXBarcelona, will show to the assistants two recently released hardware projects for MSX: Goaul'd and the MSX Pico. What do they offer? How do they work? How much do they cost? You can find out all this and more during the talk.
Ramón Rivas, a member of the ConexiónMSX podcast, will give us a presentation about the upcoming Dutch fair Msx2GOTO40, which will be held on September 13th and will feature very interesting guests and activities.
It's time to tidy up everything as it was
Rules
During the the installation (from 10am to 11:15am), only two members of each booth are allowed to be on the place.
We kindly request visitors not to wait at the entry while the expositors are mounting the stands to avoid crowds.
The material showed at the stands must be 100% MSX-related stuff. Only guest platform stand is allowed to show material of the platform it's showing. Also, if you're showing another material but you've got reasonable arguments (merchandising, t-shirts, any association info...), it can be allowed by the AAMSX. Personal computers are allowed too when they're used as tools for the stand (for copying files to a flash card, for showing videos, emulators, ...). Anyway, if you've got any questions about that, don't hesitate and send us an e-mail with your questions. We will answer you as soon as possible.
Use of loud speakers is forbidden, and the max height allowed should be no higher than 25cm.
During the meeting, we kindly ask both exhibitors and visitors to keep a friendly behavior with all the visitors, trying to avoid any conduct which might disturb others. Also, we ask you to please keep quiet during the booths presentation, so the other visitors can listen everything without problems.
Consumption of alcohol is forbidden during the event.
Estands confirmats
Alma de origami returns back with their extensive catalog of merchandise. Magnets, keychains, clothing, and many other crafts will be available at their booth.
They will bring their CSX computer, a handcrafted MSX computer implemented in FPGA, based on ESE Artists' Factory well-known 1chipMSX sold in 2006.
It offers interesting extras such as 4 cartridge slots and other expansion ports not available in other FPGA solutions on the market.
FKD producciones brings us a musical work, a new album called MSX Midi Remakes 4 Super arranged.
It's an CD album with 18 classic MSX tracks reimagined with current technologies to achieve a different and renewed sound. Its price will be 6€.
Antonio Cano, the creator of the Flashjacks card, is visiting us again. At his booth he will have the card available, and its creator will share all the latest updates included in the most recent releases. He will also provide technical support and assist with updates to anyone who visits his booth.
MoltSXalats, a group of developers specialized in the use and promotion of Fusion-C development libraries, won't miss the event. At their booth they will showcase various games and docs created around these libraries.
They will also sell digital copies of the game Binary Land and, if everything goes as planned, maybe they'll organize a special activity during the meeting.
MSX Barcelona will have pre-assembled Goauld cards available for purchase and might even do a live demonstration of how to install one. They will also have some MSXPico units, which is a multifunctional cartridge for MSX that uses a Raspberry Pi Pico to implement all its features. Those includes: compatibility with Nextor, 16MB of FlashROM, FM-PAC, SRAM, SCC, SCC+, dual PSG, MP3 player, and many more.
Besides their cables, accessories, and flash ROM boards, they also hope to continue delivering units of their Krakengraph card to those on the waiting list.
MSXMakers are back, and not with empty hands! In addition to their assembly kits, which will be available at their booth, they are preparing a group purchase for:
- The JFF project, a 100% functional recreation of an MSX1 computer.
- The Goauld project (still in development), a card capable of replacing the Z80 in our MSX1 to upgrade it to MSX2+
- Apple ][, also still in development, which, although not an MSX, fits very well within the MSXMakers philosophy and is a very interesting project for those wanting to build one themselves.
This time, in his booth we will have disks for sale of what will be the last issue of the Dutch disk magazine Future Disk. Its creator, Koen, has announced that the 50th issue will be the final one he publishes.
Also at their stand, you will find the latest units of the games Westen House and Trucho for sale.
Danitear, the developer behind the game Rocketman, is returning to show the latest version of his game. According to its creator, the game only needs to finish some sound aspects, the introduction, the final boss, and all the testing that a game requires.
Xavirompe isn't coming empty-handed and has some new things. Besides their rookiedrives, RAM expansions, MFDC controllers, USB disk drives, or his Arkanoid paddles, at his booth, you'll find the first batch of Ninja Tap XR (a device that allows connecting up to 4 controllers to a single joystick port of our MSX).
We will also be able to see the Debug Gadget, a very developer-oriented interface. With this device, you connect your MSX's printer port to the PC, and by adapting the MSX code to the Debug Gadget's functionality, you can monitor in real-time any resource you want to inspect on your MSX from the PC.
Booth booking
The place where the meeting is held is not very large. That's why we recommend all possible expositors to make the reservation as soon as possible. This is good to everybody: you get more guarantees of getting your own stand (sometimes no tables are left free), and more visitors are compelled to visit us as more expositors are confirmed.
The available bo oth tables dimensions are 200 x 80 cm. Due to a reduction on the available assets, we're limiting the number ot tables per booth to one.
As every year, admission to visitors is free. Also, booths are free to book, except for those that only sell second-hand games.
The booth's price list is as follows:
- If your stand sells second-hand material like games or other stuff, the price is 40€.
- If your stand sells second-hand games and computers, you must pay 40€ but, for every computer on sale in your booth, 3€ will be subtracted from the final price.
- If your stand represents a MSX-related association, a coders group, MSX website, MSX merchandise, MSX music... the booth is free.
To book your own booth, just click here and fill the form. We will receive you request, and the booth will be confirmed as soon as possible.
Material renting
You also can make a reserve of material: MSX computers or televisions for your stand. If you're not from Barcelona, and you don't want come by car, you've got the possibility of use another transport and forget the problem of taking with you any heavy and annoying luggage. You can rent us any hardware you need and we will take it to the users meeting for you. Here its the price of every hardware:
- MSX1 computer withouth disk drive -> 20 euros.
- MSX2 computer with disk drive -> 30 euros.
- MSX2+ computer -> 40 euros.
- MSX TurboR computer -> 50 euros.
- Standard 14" Television -> 30 euros
- High quality 14" TV (Sony CRT) -> 40 euros
If you're in need of something else (Slot expander, RAM, FMpac, a Flash cartridge...) let us known in the booth reservation form and we'll see if we can get it and at what price.
Second Hand Market Service
As every year, we offer you the second-hand market section so you can sell any MSX product that you do not use (games, hardware, books, magazines, ...).
This service is free so we ask you that, in order to be agile and not overload our collaborators, follow these rules:
- The second-hand market starts when opening doors until 14:00. Any left item after that hour won't be supervised by the AAMSX and its responsibility will be on its owner.
- All material on sale must be 100% MSX-related.
- It is mandatory to download, print and fill in the product list form (download it form here). AAMSX won't have available forms in the RU anymore, this way we intend to speed up the assembly of the stand.
- Material on sale must be previously notified to the AAMSX by mail. We want to avoid past situations where we were collapsed with material to sell and the assigned space for this stand is smaller every year. If we see that some items may take up too much space, the AAMSX reserves the right to reject them, notifying the owner in advance of the date of the RU. Please send us back the products list form once filled in via e-mail.
- It is also mandatory to label all products in advance. Put the label in the front top side of the article with the same reference as in the product list form and its price. Once the products list is delivered, the AAMSX will review it and compare it with the one received via e-mail and the items on sale to verify that everything is in order.
- The deadline for sending products list is June 8th. Any application sent after this date will be immediately rejected.
If you have any questions, you can contact us through our contact mail available in our web.
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