'''4 generations of MSX were produced''', each with it's own system specs upgrades and retro compatible with past specifications.
It was a serious technical concurrent to the '''Amstrad CPC''' range, later specifications being closer to 16bit computers than other 8bit systems.Yet a lot of similarities and differences between the 2 systems.
Despite having the colour attributes logic (MSX1 mostly, the other through retro compatibility), it wasn't as bad as on the [[ZX Spectrum|Speccy]].
*The machine has a proper VRAM, sort of proper graphical card as comparable to IBM PC.
As a Z80 based computer, many European Sofware Software developers did those awful scrappy [[Speccy Port|Speccy Ports]], which Japanese couldn't understand ("why do they have so sclappy glaphics such sloppy graphics ?")
Later MSX standards (MSX2, MSX2+ and turboR) included a large panel of extra video modes without the colours clashes.
But The MSX 2 introduced hardware vertical scrolling but it wasn't until the MSX2+ that the MSX could do proper smooth Scrollings, hardware horizontal scrolling; the Video video card having trouble to do smooth makes software Scrollingscrolling very difficult, so only as of the MSX2+ and later specs got a proper is smooth Hardware Scrolling implementedscrolling available.
The MSX was perhaps to Japan what the CPC was to France (keeping to the proportions of course).
A "serious" computer mostly used as home computer for gaming purpose by kids.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX Wikipedia page]
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