Justification for picking the Willy, X-Mass, Nova modern CPC peripherals:
* Willy is a simple PC LPT connection adapter. Nothing , so nothing modern about it. Also the The OPL3 chip has been released in 1990 . The MIDI protocol was created in 1983 and General MIDI has been adopted in 1991
* The IDE/PATA mass-storage interface has been designed in 1986
* The NVRAM in Nova is useful to handle the FAT filesystem in mass-storage without using the CPC RAM (for compatibility with old CPC software) and without the performance penalty of using the mass-storage itself as NVRAM. Also some older RTC chips suffered from the Y2K bug and so are useless in the 21st century