61th MSX Barcelona users meeting
February 2024
Where and when
The meeting is going to be celebrated next Saturday 4rd February 2023, at the Meetings room from Centre jove la Fontana , located at 190th Gran de Gracia street, near the Fontana metro station (L3, green).
The doors will be opened to the public at 11:15am, but expositors will be able to enter at 10:00am to prepare the booths.
You can arrive by using the Metro, Fontana station, L3 (the green one), and walking 1 minute from there.
If you need more info about how to arrive there, just click here to see its location on google maps.
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.
Playing area for players, visitors, for everyone. Do not be shy:
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 easily so, the hours showed on the table aren't accurate.
10:00h - Free access only to expositors
11:15 - Opening doors.
Doors are opened to visitors.
11:30 Conexión MSX Conference room Opening
This year our friends of Conexion MSX will be masters of ceremonies in the conference room.
A room equipped to do alll the talks.
12:00 - CONEXIÓN MSX ROOM - Unepic Fran
Unepic Fran will explain the how were the developing process of his last game: Pampas & Selene
13:20 - CONEXIÓN MSX ROOM - MSX VR
The MSX VR team will talk about the actual state of the their project and also will show to the attendants the last updates they've ready.
16:00 - CONEXIÓN MSX ROOM - Disassembling "La Pulga" by Miguel Colom
Miguel Colom recently has been working hard disassembling and inspecting the code of La Pulga video game. On his talk, Miguel will explain all the interesting facts and curiosities that found during the process.
17:00 - CONEXIÓN MSX ROOM - MoltS Xalats - Cross C developing for MSX computers
MoltS Xalats will show how are and how to code with the cross developing tools for C that they use on their productions.
18:00 - CONEXIÓN MSX ROOM - Flashjacks
Antonio Cano, the creator of the Flashjacks cartridge, will show the last updates added to the new firmware of his flash cartridge.
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 10am to 11:15am), 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
CustoMSX is back with his homemade 1chipMSX, available to the users to see and test it on his booth.
MSXCalamar booth visits us again with their classic MSX hardware like cables, accessories or adapters but,... that’s not all, since he will also bring long awaited hardware to his booth:
- Krakengraph, the long awaited GFX9000 based card announced years ago is finished, and the final version of the board will be present at MSXCalamar booth. This means that very soon users will enjoy those graphic cards on their MSX computers
- WozEnhanced, another music cartridge based on Sunrise's Moonsound, will be present on his booth too.
Msxgoto40
Koen, one of the Goto40 organizers and the man behind the MSX disk magazine Future Disk, is going to visit us again with a booth from far away. This time in his booth we will find very interesting material for selling: Back to port Island, the last work from TECHNOuchi, and Proto, the last musical work from Tadahiro Nitta. Both of them can can be attained signed!
MSXMakers is back again with a booth where you will find quite a lot of the open projects where MSXMakers has been working: Omega MSX2+ computers, disk controllers, sound cards… All those projects are very well documented and ready to create your own at home with your tools. At his booth you will see some of those projects and also you can ask any doubt about them to the MSXMakers teams, who kindly will help you with any info you ask.
Rocketman
Danitear, the main developer of Rocketman game, visits us again to show us the last version of the game is developing.
On his both, like always, you can try the last version of the game and also tak with the developer: Any opinion/feeback about the game can help to the development.
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.
Usuarios MSX de Málaga
At the Málaga MSX users association we will find Dani Padilla and Raul Santa Cruz. There, Dani will offer brand new slot expansors, arrow pads and other MSX HW devices. Raul Santa Cruz, aka Grayfox77, is going to sell several second hand MSX games.
At Xavirompe booth we will find for selling their classics rookiedrives (MSX cartridges to load dsk files from usb devices) and the Breaker pads, MSX paddles compatible with the ones created by Taito for the Arkanoid games.
The booth specialized on hand made MSX merchandising like clothes, hamabeads, keychains, magnets and much more.
Fundas del Pasado is back with his MSX merchandising and with their hand made clothes to protect our MSX computers from dust while we’re not using them.
Also, this time he will offer hardware like controller adapters, keyboards or even monitors.
MoltSXalats is a dev group specialized on Fusion-C libraries for MSX. With it, they developed a game submited on the last MSXDEV: Bricks. On his booth they will show to the visitors the characteristics of Fusion-C libraries and how to work with them as well.
The team behind this ambitious project visits the users meeting again with a booth fully dedicated to the MSXVR computer. There they will show the last updates of the system.
bitsofbas
In his booth he will sell game cartridges with his last creation: Cube Droid, a puzzle game for MSX2 computers we could already test on the last RU60 at the Future Disk Booth.
ASSOCIACIÓ RETROMANIACS - LINK
Retromaniacs, association for the preservation and dissemination of video games, arcades, classic game consoles and the pinball. Also, the organize the Barcelona retro fail Arcandreu.
Retroscroll is an association from Barcelona dedicated to the dissemination of the history and the actual video games history.For the next users they will bring several computers and screens ready to be used by the visitors.
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 200*80.
As other years, the access for visitors to the users meeting its free.
Also, the stands are free too, but these expositors that only have 2nd
hand games for sale must pay for the stand.
Here its de prices list:
- If your stand only has got 2nd hand games, you must pay 40€
- If your stand has got 2nd hand game but it also has computers for sale, you must pay 40€. Also, for every computer for selling found in your stand, the final price of the stand will be reduced 3€.
- If your stand represents any MSX related association, a coders group, MSX website, MSX merchandise, MSX music... the stand will be 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. 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
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 that, in order to be agile and not overload our collaborators, follow the rules:
- Only up to 15 items per person can be placed.
- All the material for sale must be 100% related to the MSX.
- The second-hand market closes at 15:00
- Download, print and fill out the product list form. (Download form here)
- Label the products (if possible, in the upper part of the front), with the reference and the price.
If you have any questions, you can contact us in the mail of the association that you will find on our WEB.
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