That's awesome! Thanks so much!

i posted a link to your auction on another site which should get you a little bit of action. good luck with it!

That's totally OK!

Ah, Sorry Akira!
Due to my employers dicking me around at the moment though, money has become a bit of a priority.

Oh, just when I got another sampler!

Just a quick heads-up to let anyone who may be interested know that this is now on ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? … :MESELX:IT

Cheers all!

Yeah, I like the novelty value of it though, and the colour scheme's a little different too. Sits nicely next to my grey boy.

alas, in terms of use it isn't any different then other msx computers. it's an msx, not an msx2 (the wavy 23 is).
Still, you're lucky to have one

Still a cool story though! I hope the oil baron's happy with his Amiga, I know what I'd prefer!

Used to be a shop near me that dealt in second hand stuff, but they had a "No Computers" policy. If anything like that came in with a batch they'd usually just dump it.
Luckily, I'd spotted this out back and managed to convince them to sell it to me anyway, thus rescuing it from destruction.
Some may call me a hero...
Anyway, it was a tiny business and I don't think they knew much at all about computers, so I guess they were worried about unwittingly selling faulty products and getting lots of returns and angry customers. Makes you wonder what sort of shit-hot stuff they might have dumped though.

*edit* Sorry, that didn't really clear up the mystery of how it got into the country. I like to think a rich oil baron brought it with him on a business trip, then part-exchanged it for an Amiga before returning home.

How did you come across this? I got my first MSX recently and saw these Arabic machines on various sites, and was just curious as to how they'd ever make their way into Europe! Both of the Wavys are very fucking cool.

actually it is worth something in msx circles. Al sakhr or alamiah "made" these msx-es, well they didn't since
it's essentially a sanyo made msx in the "wavy" series ( like the sanyo wavy 23, in blue grey).
It's rare in that sense that the casing has arabic on it and the rom contains arabic writing, so.
They're not realy useful, but they're collected regardless.

this is the one I got in that wavy line. I forgot what # the arabic ones are exactly

Damn straight! Playing it's like injecting a pint of testosterone straight into each eyeball! My girlfriend tried it and instantly grew a beard.

Pretty Sheep: the absolute most manliest game ever created. ever.

I'd be all over this if it was japanese, msx2, and if you were in the states.