User Meeting for MSX users

Bianual meeting of MSX creators and users
User Meeting for MSX users
Where & When Arcade Zone Scheduled Activities Booths Rules Booth booking Material renting Second Hand Market

Where and when

The meeting will be celebrated next Saturday 17th January 2026, 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 open to everybody, don't be shy!

Come and play with any of the MSX computers available there.

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.

10:00h - Free access only to exhibitors
11:15h - Opening doors

Doors are opened to visitors.

11:40h - Quiz : Molt SXalats

Once again, the members of MoltSXalats will test us with questions where all visitors can participate and win a prize.

12:10h - Presentació Stands

With a Microphone, the president of the AAMSX will give you a guided tour of the RU65 exhibitors to present all the new products.

12:40h - Tournament: Minimagos

Retroscroll is organizing some magician fights at its stand.

You can practice here: website

There will be a prize for the winner: A KokaijuBalls game cartridge

14:00h - 16:00h - Closing doors for lunch

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.

16:10h - Conexión MSX Conference room Opening

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

16:30h - Talk - MSX Diagnostics: Your Checkup Tool

Cesar Rincón Knightfox presents a diagnostic program for the MSX1 family of computers.

17:15 - Talk - DevCon 14 Summary: MSX3 and V9968 Status

Akira Tsukamoto brings us the latest news from Nishi san and his collaborators who are working on the MSX3 and other MSX projects.

Talk in English

18:15h - Talk - Book presentation MSX: EL NACIMIENTO DEL PRIMER ESTÁNDAR

Jordi Orte presents his book published in 2025 and will also talk about MSX in the UK.

Book signing.

19:30h - 20:00h - End of the users meeting

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

Flashjacks - LINK

Antonio Cano, the creator of the Flashjacks cartridge, is visiting us again. At his booth he will have the cartridge available, and he will share all the latest updates included in the most recent releases. He will also provide technical support and will help applying the update to anyone who visits his booth.

GS·RUN - LINK

GS Run is a MSX publisher. They’ll have games like Bungarua, Dahku, Blade Lords and Moonlight Saga, along with some t-shirts from November’s 24th RUN.

MoltSXalats - LINK

Programming in C for the MSX. They'll have a working V9968 in a WonderTang, demoed in the booth.

MSX Barcelona - LINK

MSX Barcelona will have pre-assembled Goauld cards available for purchase. 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.

MSX Calamar - LINK

MSX Calamar designs and sells wires, accessories and hardware for MSX: OPL4, V9990, flashROMs and advanced solutions for classic computers and consoles.

MSX MEN - LINK

Prince of Persia BETA version display for play and testing.

Sword of Ianna, Brunhilda's Loves, and Mutants from the Deep games are for sale.

MSX: el nacimiento del primer estándar - LINK

Jordi Orte's book "MSX: el nacimiento del primer estándar" will have their own booth. Book signing, and a booth dedicated to speak about the book and MSX's live experiences. If you want the book we recommend you have to reserve it.

Reservation: conexion.msx@gmail.com

Retroscroll - LINK

Our friends from Retroscroll team, a video games blog and a podcast from all genres and eras, will be in charge once again of setting up the Arcade Zone.

Rocketman - LINK

The videogame "Rocketman" is already complete, so it will be shown in the booth. Sign in the list of interested people in buying the game in the summer's RU.

The Pets Mode - LINK

Presentation of new projects for MSX2, improvements in the SEV9938 sprite editor and presentation of the game Magical Caveman (placeholder name), similar in gameplay to Magical Tree but for MSX2.

Xavirompe - LINK

Introducing the new version of the Rookie drive firmware: updated Nextor, improved bootloader, etc. 

Alma de Origami - LINK

Alma de origami returns with their extensive catalog of merchandise for different platforms, including MSX. Magnets, keychains and of course origami, along with many other crafts that will be available at their booth.

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: MSX computers, TV, ...

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 January 9th. 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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