59th MSX Barcelona users meeting
January 2023
Where and when
The meeting will happen the next Saturday 28th of January 2023 in the Can Jaumandreu building in the street Perú #52 in Barcelona, next to Glòries metro station.
The doors will open at 09:30 o'clock in the morning for visitors and at 9:00 for the booths.
It is possible to go there by metro as Glòries (metro line L1) and Clot (metro lines L1 and L2) are close to the building.
If you need more information on how to got o Can Jaumandreu, click here to check the building location at google maps.
Live Talks: Youtube Streaming Talks
Show what and how you work with your MSX. Bring your laptop, your MSX computer, or whatever tool you use, and show us your artwork in MSX.
Book your space,
contact us.
Retroscroll and MSX para todos presents the playing area for players, visitors, for everyone. Don't be shy: Come and play!
If you want a specific game, let us know and
we will try to load it for you on any of the
MSX machines available there.
Scheduled activities
Note: The activities schedule can change easily so, the hours showed on the table aren't accurate.
08:00h - Free access only to expositors
09:30 - Doors opens to visitors
The Users Meeting starts.
10:15 - Institutional welcome
Welcome speech from UOC staff before Dr. Kazuhiko Nishi's DEVCON#2
10:30 - DEVCON#2 with Dr. Kazuhiko Nishi
Dr. Kazuhiko Nishi will be here to organize the DEVCON#2, where he will be showing the MSX0 prototype and, ifit is finished on time, the MSX3 SDK.
To be able to assist to the talk it is mandatory to register through the formulary in the UOC symposium platform. Registration will be available the 10th of January at 9 AM CET. The number of seats is limited.
12:30 - Conexión MSX
Jordi Orte and Ramón Rivas, members of MSX Connection, will do a live transmission of their podcast in the act room while doing a review of the users meeting.
13:15 - MSX1 Graphics to the limit: abusing TMS9918
Manuel Martínez Torres, also known as Salutte,will explain to us how does the graphic production work with the MSX1 TMS9918 chip. He will expose the limitations and the virtues of our old friend.
15:00 - Live with MSXConnection
Conexión MSX will organize an online talk with MSX scene members not present at the users meeting, and it will be live streamed online.
16:00 - Nextor: Resurrection MSX-DOS
Nestor Soriano, most known as Konamiman, will speak about all his work on the last version of the operative system MSX-DOS, Nextor.
17:00 - Development of Westen House by Santi Ontañón
From Filadelfia, Santi Ontañón is one of the most active developers from the scene and winner in many occasions of the MSXDEV contest. He will give a talk about the process of the development of his last work, Westen House and its extended version that will be soon as a cartridge.
18:00 - MSX's History
Jordi Orte will explain how Microsoft USA intervene on the MSX standard.
19:30 - 20:00 End of the users meeting
It's time to tidy up everything as it was
Rules
We request the public assistant that please don't wait at the entry while
the expositor are mounting the stands. Its just to avoid people agglomerations.
During the the installation (from 09:00 to 10:00), only two members of
each booth are allowed to be on the room.
The material showed at the stands must be 100% MSX related.
Only the guest platform stand is allowed to show material of the platform its
showing. Also, if you're showing another material but you've got reasonable
reason (merchandising, t-shirts, any association info...), it can be allowed
by the AAMSX. Personal computers are allowed too when they're used 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 question about it and we will answer you as soon as possible.
It's forbidden the use of powerful speakers, and the max height allowed n
ever will be higher than 25cm.
During the meeting, both exhibitors and visitors, please everybody must
have a friendly behavior with all the visitors, trying to avoid any conduct
which might disturb other people. Also, we ask you please keep quiet during
the stands presentation, so the other visitors can listen everything without
problems.
Consumption of alcohol is forbidden during the event.
Confirmed booths
Stand de la AAMSX
The AAMSX will be there to inform visitors about last news on the AAMSX affairs and also will be the info point for visitors.
Associació Retromaniacs.es - LINK
They will provide infromation about their association (what they do, activities...) and will have some MSX machines to play in their booth.
MSX PARA TODOS.
Come, play and enjoy. This is the “MSX for everybody” slogan, a new confirmed booth for the next users meeting. This year they will be the guys behind the Arcade Zone together with Retroscroll with several computers and TVsets ready to be enjoyed by the visitors.
The website specialized classic videogames is back again with a great booth. Besides the promotion of their website, they also are going to colaborate together with MSXparatodos with the AAMSX, with an impressive Arcade Zone where you will find several computers connected to CRT televisions set. The best place to enjoy playing on real msx comptuers.
Unepic Fran has already finished his last game Pampas & Selene, the non-official sequel to the classic Maze of Galious for MSX2. It has been developed along with Nenefranz (graphics) y Gryzor87 (music). In the meeting he will be distributing the reserved copies, however there will be a version to try there just in case you are considering buying this game.
In this meeting they will be showing their latest works: A remake of Spring Warrior, that they will be selling, and a new DRIBOL, an almost finished game that we will be able to test in the meeting.
Antonio Cano, the person behind RetroMSX, will have his booth in which we will be able to see his flagship: Flashjacks. There we will be able to update our Flashjacks or ask questions about the project.
NOP, the veteran group from Holand will be in the meeting for their first time. They will be selling their last creation, Sales discontinued. This is a very ambicious graphical adventure for MSX2 computers with 512KB RAM and Moonsound soundcard.
Club MSXVR
Club MSXVR, a group born from the union of several enthusiasts of this computer: Moai-Tech,MSXVR Computer, Demon Videogames… In the booth they will show machines ready to be used. Also, they will have the last units of Space Ranger for sale and also a demo of one of the latest developments for the MSXVR: Hollenburg.
He will have several cartridge of his last two games: Tina’s Adventure Island and Shump! Kai. Also, there will be a scoop with the presentation of his new game still in development: Chikubi Ninja, an action game for MSX2 that, also, if you play it on an MSX2+ or turboR computer it will have extra features.
In his booth you'll be able to buy the classic cables, adapters and replacement parts available in his website.
Paxanga will be presenting their new MSX1 game: Godzilla Balls, a puzzle/arcade game in which we control Godzilla and Gamera.
In their booth they will have a playable version for test during all the meeting.
Th MSX podcast focused on the MSX scene. They are the ones organizing all the activities at the conferences room during the users meeting. One of those activities will be the live streaming of a new podcast.
CustomMSX, never failing to come to any meeting, will be there with very interesting things such as their own artisan 1Chip or their Steampunk Edition of OmegaMSX that was very appealing to the users in the previous meeting.
Aside from the well known Rookiedrive, this time Xavirompe will present new stuff:
He will be showing a new MIDI controller for our MSXs which is still on the prototyping phase. Also, he will have some paddles compatible with games such as Arkanoid. Also, a new paddel prototype will be show, an improved versions that uses magnetic sensors instead of pots.
Future Disk, our second international booth for this edition, will visit us again with their new number of their disk magazine, the 47th. Inside we will find very interesting things like:
Z80workshop will show a new megarom multimapper cartridge with a built in autonomous mp3 music player.
Dani Tear
He will show us the latest version of the game he's working on: Rocketman. This game is an arcade game with some RPGesque touches for our MSXs. The game will include a cover made by Ángel Luis Sánchez, a well known ilustrator for his work in several games from Zigurat.
Pabliibiris
In Pablibiris' booth we will find, among others, 4MB RAM expansions, SD mappers or zemina game compilation cartridges.
Booking
The room where the meeting is celebrated isn't big. That's why we recommend to all possible expositors
that please make the reservation as soon as possible. This will be good to everybody because you get
more guarantees of getting your own stand and also, this will bring more visitors to the users
meetings when they see that there are a lot of confirmed expositors. Last year, only one stand place
was free, but this year maybe all the available places will be occupied.
This year, the room where the users meetings is going to be celebrated, has been changed for another
one, so, the tables has changed too. The new sizes are 140*60.
As other years, the access for visitors to the users meeting its free
Also, the booths are free too.
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.
- Normal Television 14'' -> 30 euros
- High quality 14''TV (Sony CRT) -> 40 euros
Second Hand Market Service
Due to a series of organization matters, for this users meeting there won’t be 2nd hand market service available.
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