Around 1984-5 Sony gave away a computer free with one of their video cameras. This was the first computer I owned, at age 3! It had a version of Microsoft's MSX Basic, and could play games. The Sony Hit Bit was part of a range called MSX computers. There's a site with Hit Bit game ROMs and references to an MSX emulator. The wikipedia page for MSX is informative. The Sony Hit Bit started me on my lifelong hobby and career with computers.
There are quite a few fan sites for MSX computers at the end of this post. I've included some pictures of the manuals for MSX-BASIC. They contain some basics for learning programming. I'd like to start a Sony "Hit Bit" computer fan club. Please add your comments here if you ever owned one of these. It would be great to see a real one working, or find an emulator. rom-world.com site has an MSX emulator and games.
Hit-Bit memories: One game was the only computer game my mother has ever enjoyed playing. You played a fireman, running up and down ladders to save mice from fires. I also remember a maths game where you had to walk along platforms collecting numbers and operators to make the correct sum, before some water rose up and filled the screen.
There seem to be several emulators that would play these games, it looks like amusement-center.com/compile might have a commercial one, under their Project Egg. But it's all in Japanese and I don't understand it.
Related articles:
- MSX Resource Centre
- MSX emulator in Japanese! (translation)
- MSXcafe.com in French - with full dossiers of all the MSX computers (translation)
- John C Dvorak asks "Whatever Happened to MSX Computers?"
- MSX Computers on Wikipedia
- List of MSX models, including the Sony Hit Bit (HB series)
5 comments:
i had the same machine and same books, i still remember, i wrote my first BASIC program.
Me too, I wrote my first program in 1987 on these machines - very lovely days
Thanks for sharing
Hi!
I got a hitbit from my father in law.
I am looking for game cartridges but i can't find any.
Does someone have an idea where i can find some?
Greetz!
Nia
i have a hit bit still in the box with leads but no tape recorder and im thinking of selling it but dont know what it is actually worth could somebody please email me at daishrek123@hotmail.co.uk to give me some advice thank you
david lewis
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