Source: MSX Forum
Regular visitors of our active MSX forum could have followed it all from the start. On October 30th, 2005, in this forum thread, the first steps were taken that would lead to porting SymbOS to MSX. SymbOS (SYmbiosis Multitasking Based Operating System) is a fast and stable multitasking operating system for the Amstrad CPC, complete with a neat window-based GUI and several games and applications. As the MSX and Amstrad - like many home computers from the 1980s - both have a Zilog Z80 CPU, porting the OS would mainly rely on using the MSX VDP properly.
On May 8th, this forum topic initiated the rapid development of the MSX port of the OS, in which SymbOS developer Prodatron quickly discovered the advantages of the VDP. Within no-time, a preview of the OS was released, which you can download over here, so if you want to see SymbOS in action - you can!
With SymStudio, it gets very easy to create games and applications on your own. As long as no hardware is being addressed directly, porting software from Amstrad SymbOS to MSX SymbOS should take little to no adjustments at all. If you have any comments or suggestions to the port, please do post them in this forum topic, which is being followed by the SymbOS developers.
Relevant link: SymbOS for MSX - preview
Relevant link: SymbOS for MSX - video (requires DivX 5 or higher)
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