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This looks delightful. Is it possible to get it to boot to BASIC?

I really want to get my son something which looks like daddy's laptop but recreates some of the early joys of that level of computing.

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If it is msx it boots to basic. By definition.

Unless it boots from a floppy image - then it goes into MSX-DOS.

I think. It's been a very long time.

CP/M or so, the father of DOS

They should be able to boot into CP/M. Even MP/M should be possible.

You need to provide the firmware, because they aren't free to distribute. There's an open source one, but it doesn't boot to BASIC and can only be used to run cartridges.

And it is because is not an MSX, it emulates one with an FPGA.

You can find all roms easily though and then indeed boot into basic.

Thats a boomer. So no real MSX, but sorta kinda MSX inspired…

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