Les caractéristiques sont absolument étonnantes. Aucun FPGA mais une virtualisation avec un Raspberry pi 3B+ et une carte PCB personnalisée.
Après plusieurs proyotypes FPGA, l'équipe (Alberto de Hoyo, Víctor Martí, Paul Theobald) a abouti à la conclusion que la virtualisation était plus flexible et offrait de meilleures améliorations dans les performances qu'un FPGA.
Regardez notament l'intégration de l'alimentation avec le Raspberry, les boutons power/reset/pause,les horloges temps réel, le système audio, le graphisme 1920x1080x32bits.
Emulateur BlueMSX.
Le VR-DOS interagit avec la machine (scripts, lancement exécutables) et est personnalisable à l'aide de thèmes.
Programmation ASM native, Code-Editor, VR-Script orienté objet, ...
Cette machine est géniale.
Touches Cherry MX, choix de la couleur du boitier.
Des émulateurs C64. ZX Spectrum et CPC tournent déjà dessus puisque c'est du Raspberry à la base.
Promo Video
Project Presentation
VR-DOS introduction (see the flexibility)
VR-BASIC Introduction (see the program editor !!!)
VR-SCRIPT
Project story (translated) (choix du hardware)
Prix: $400 par email (faire un moule pour le boitier coute énormément).
From the team:Probably all of these will be customizable:
- Approximately 400 units preordered
- The amount of units paid is inferior to the minimum needed to start production but Alberto de Hoyo has 100% confirmed that the project will go on and the computer will be produced
- A second batch is not guaranteed. Alberto de Hoyo has confirmed that they will produce a bit more units than those paid (there will be some stock left but not much)
- Preorder and first payment period will be extended one month (throughout October)
- Most chosen colour of the case: red, black and blue (in this order)
- Most chosen colour keyboard layout: 80% grey/black, 20% rest (black, white)
- "Anti-ghosting" keyboard
- Raspberry 4 is completely discarded (lots of issues) and will be not used for the MSXVR
- Preorders coming from everywhere (mostly from Spain, The Netherlands and Japan)
- Type of Cherry MX keyboard switches: blue or brown
- Design of cursors keys: PC or MSX alike (Sony HitBit)
- Colour of the cursors (they can be different from the colour of the case)
- Colour of the cartridge slot covers (they can be different from the colour of the case and even transparent)
- Security fuse ? (clarification from the MSXVR team needed!)
- Cherry MX Brown: introduced in 1994, tactile and non-clicky switch. Great multi-purpose switch with good balance for gaming and typing
- Cherry MX Blue: more modern, introduced in 2007, tactile and clicky switch. Loudest of all of them and more suitable for typing (developers), great for confirming that you have pressed a key.