Editing MSX BASIC (section)

=== MSX BASIC 2.0 / 2.1 ===
* Bundled with [[MSX]]2 computers
* 32 KB in size (First 16 KB directly available, second 16 KB in other slot and has to be paged in/out for usage)
* Added support for new available screen modes, including graphic modes with 212 progressive or 424 interlaced lines:
** Updated Screen 0 (text mode 80 x 24)
** Screen 5 (graphic mode 256 x 212/424 pixels, 16 colors out of 512)
** Screen 6 (graphic mode 512 x 212/424 pixels, 4 colors out of 512)
** Screen 7 (graphic mode 512 x 212/424 pixels, 16 colors out of 512)
** Screen 8 (graphic mode 256 x 212/424 pixels, 256 colors, no palette)
* Added support for multicolored sprites (16 colors)
* Added support for hardware accelerated graphics functions (copy, fill, blitting, etc.)
* Added support for using the lower 32K RAM of the computer (not directly visible because the BIOS and BASIC interpreter ROMs take over the addressing space) as a limited RAM disk (only certain types of files could be saved). MSX BASIC 2.1 supports using the memory mapper (if available on the machine) to expand this RAM disk to almost 90 KB.

MSX BASIC 2.1 exists on computers like the Philips MSX2 machines (except for the VG 8230), the Yamaha YIS-805<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leningrad.su/museum/show_calc.php?n=218|title=Yamaha YIS-805 (Soviet Digital Electronics Museum)|author=Sergei Frolov|accessdate=2011-04-06|date=April 2011}}</ref> and Sanyo MPC-2300.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leningrad.su/museum/show_calc.php?n=396|title=Sanyo MPC-2300 (Soviet Digital Electronics Museum)|author=Sergei Frolov|accessdate=2011-04-06|date=April 2011}}</ref>