In a previous posting we already told you a bit about the MSX-BASIC for Education program.
In japanese schools, students must learn the basics of programming, writing small programs containing FOR...NEXT and IF...THEN lines. Since the MSX-BASIC is a great language to learn these elementary things, the MSX Association came up with the idea to create a nice visualization of the effects of an MSX-BASIC code and they started developing a robot that can be controlled using CALL statements (or OUTs). Thus, a robot can be controlled while programming on your MSXPLAYer or your real MSX.
We can now reveal that there has been written an adapted version of MSX-BASIC which offers more education facilities, for example the controlling possibilities of this robot. It seems like this new MSX-BASIC is compatible with the BASIC in MSX2+ computers. To get more info on this spectacular development, we suggest you to take a look here.
The price for this new MSX-BASIC for Education is 9500 Yen. We don't know yet if it is possible for non-Japanese residents to place orders.
On the internet, a whole MSX-BASIC for Education community, named Edu-Ba, is being carried out. One will has to have a subscription to be able to access this community. The annual fee is 3000 yen. Until march 2004, though, you can access this member website for free.
Relevant link: www.fcm.co.jp/msx/ed/index.html
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