MSX hardware

General Instrument AY-3-8910

The TMS9918 is a video display controller (VDC) manufactured by Texas Instruments and introduced in 1979. In TI's manuals it's called a "Video Display Processor" (VDP). The TMS9918 and its variants are used in the Casio PV-2000, Coleco Adam, ColecoVision, CreatiVision, Hanimex Pencil II, MSX, Memotech MTX, NABU Personal Computer, PECOS, SG-1000, SC-3000, SV-318, SV-328, Sord M5, TI-99/4, Tatung Einstein, and Tomy Tutor.

FM synthesis sound chip by Yamaha

video display processor

right|thumb|R800 The R800 is the central processing unit used in the MSX Turbo-R home computer. The R800 was designed by ASCII Corporation of Japan and built by Mitsui & Co The goal was a modern and pipelined CPU binary compatible with the Z80, and therefore with MSX software, while also maintaining compatibility with older MSX Z80-based hardware.

Video chip

ROM cartridge medium for MSX computer software

An MSX-ENGINE chip is a specially developed integrated circuit for home computers that are built according to the MSX specifications. Generally, such a chip combines the functions of many separate, older/simpler chips into one. This is done to reduce required circuit board space, power consumption, and (most importantly) production costs for complete systems.

Moonsound is a sound card for the MSX home-computer system. It was produced by the Netherlands-based Sunrise Swiss in 1995. It was named for its accompanying Moonblaster software that was written to take advantage of the sound card's features.