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'''MSX ''' was a standardized range of Z80 based 8 bit computers developped developed by Microsoft and various (mostly) japanese Japanese producers to exploit... microsoft softwaresMicrosoft Software.

'''4 generations of MSX were produced''', each with it's own system specsupgrades and retro compatible with past specifications.

Despite having It was a serious technical concurrent to the colour attributes logic, it wasn't as bad as on the [[ZX Spectrum|Speccy]]''Amstrad CPC''' range, later specifications being closer to 16bit computers than other 8bit systems. Yet as a Z80 based computer, many European Sofware developpers did those awfull scrappy speccy ports, which Japanese couldn't understand ("why do they have so scrappy graphics ?")lot of similarities and differences between the 2 systems.

Latter MSX standard included extra video modes without Despite having the colours colour attributes logic (MSX1 mostly, the other through retro compatibility), it wasn't as bad as on the [[ZX Spectrum|Speccy]]. *the MSX1 attributes are 8×1 pixels instead of 8×8 pixels (Speccy).*the machine includes proper 1bpp Hardware Sprites, which enable to have no attribute clashescompared to software sprites.*The machine has a proper VRAM, sort of proper graphical card as comparable to IBM PC.

The MSX was to Japan what the CPC was to France.Or what the ZX As a Z80 based computer, many European Software developers did those awful scrappy [[Speccy was to England or eastern europe (Port|Speccy clones mostly...Ports]], which Japanese couldn't understand ("why do they have such sloppy graphics ?")

[http://wwwThe MSX 2 introduced hardware vertical scrolling but it wasn't until the MSX2+ that the MSX could do proper hardware horizontal scrolling; the video card makes software scrolling very difficult, so only as of the MSX2+ and later is smooth scrolling available.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX Wikipedia page]