> The original MSX was very similar to the Colecovision in terms of power and the games can be somewhat underwhelming.
And in fact the Coleco Adam was pretty much 95% of the way to being an MSX, but not quite enought to be compatible - a similar story to the first series of SpectraVideo machines (318 and 328) (edit: and the Memotech MTX series)
edit 2: perhaps 95% is a little overgenerous, Adam used a different audio chip (and didn't use MS Basic[1]), so maybe 80% of an MSX
[1] although the basic wasn't in ROM, so in theory you could have msbasic loaded from an external source anyway, although I don't think it was ever ported to the adam. Instead it used a 'clone' of appleBASIC.
And in fact the Coleco Adam was pretty much 95% of the way to being an MSX, but not quite enought to be compatible - a similar story to the first series of SpectraVideo machines (318 and 328) (edit: and the Memotech MTX series)
edit 2: perhaps 95% is a little overgenerous, Adam used a different audio chip (and didn't use MS Basic[1]), so maybe 80% of an MSX
[1] although the basic wasn't in ROM, so in theory you could have msbasic loaded from an external source anyway, although I don't think it was ever ported to the adam. Instead it used a 'clone' of appleBASIC.