Enero:
- Our web get more visitors, getting up to 10 daily visitors and we get 4.000 visitors.
- In @rroba magazine the MSX gets an own section, now our club can inform about our activities trought this Internet oriented magazine of Spain.
- Leonardo starts the planning of a new generation of slotexpanders and he continues with the Z380 comercial version development that will be launched in March.
- Eurobid.com, an Internet bid channel publish a MSX bid section thanks to 2NDF.
Febrero:
- We receive all the information about Tilburg from CGV, we did not want to miss this edition, so very soon we got the tickets and we confirmed our presence in the fair.
- Second Foundation finish a Z380 programming CD, with the best programation tools and documents about the Z380 board.
- We receive some confirmations of MSX expositors in MadriSX´2000, but some big ausences like Hnostar and Matra.
- Padial finish the commercial Z380 board version after printing the last board design and making the first commercial units, he starts the development of the new 4 Evolución slotexpander.
Marzo:
- We celebrate the VII edition of MSX fair of Madrid, MadriSX´2000, we only get 58 visitors and 9 expositors, it is destacable the presence of the Z380 board in its commercial version, Padial presents the new 4 Evolución slotexpander. Moai presents the new Nash game, also Mesxes sell a new Music CD with some MIDI covers and Gunkan sell a japanese learning CD. We receive the visit of a japanese girl called Chiho (girlfriend of Saver, a member of Mesxes). AAM, VAJ and PCM were in the fair too. And users like Zorita, a great Z380 collaborator and Jose Angel Morente with the Legacy 3.0 CD, a great compilation CD with thousands of ROM files.
- Padial announces the finish of the 8 bits production, he wants to dedicate all the time to the 16/32 bits boards for MSX, but he will maintain the 8 bits productions under minimum orders of 10 units.
Abril:
- Padial finish the new 32 bits slotexpander called 4 Evolución, a revolutionary slotexpander with great characteristics (DMA, linear, high speed...) designed to be the hearth of MMSX and support for the Z380 CPU, just presented in Madrid fair (commercial version).
- We travel to Tilburg for presenting the commercial version of the Z380 board and the system slotexpander for MMSX: the new slotexpander 4 Evolución, the persons who represent to our club are Iván Isidro, Rafael Corrales and Leonardo Padial. In this meeting we stablish relationship with several japanese users (Ghost, Ikeda...) and we make a big import of japanese MSX products, every of them sold in Spain.
- @rroba magazine dedicates an article for the MSX meeting in Madrid and Padial news.
Mayo:
- From Italy we receive good news, they have got us a new stock of Philips NMS 8245 computers with a good price, we have a new opportunity for getting new users and rescue old users.
Junio:
- Incredible MSX activity, in our club we get sales with 300.000 pts of value in only two months, in italian MSX computers, our products and 4 Mb expansions, no doubts that MSX lives.
- We get contact with the Museo Español de la Informática (spanish computing museum), its manager Rafael Morales presents us an ambicious project of a new cultural entity which will support to computing clubs like us, we will have a official support and an excellent medium for promoting our system in all the subjects.
- We get 5.000 visits in our web, just before the big renovation.
Julio:
- Padial finish the first ten 4 Mb expansions, this system (minimum orders for 8 bits products) is better and cheaper for us. Thanks to this Padial starts to develope a FM PAK cartridge.
- We start to manage the GIE MSX in the Museo Español de la Informática.
Agosto:
- Our club starts to sell MSX Covers Collection CD, dedicated for MSX lovers, it contains hundred of great scans from game covers. This CD is made by Angel Carmona.
- We visit the curious computers collection of Juanjo, a great MSX user of Madrid who has a nice and curious collection of computing stuff, during this visit we have a meeting with the MEI manager and we make the new computers collectors GIE.
Septiembre:
- The Spanish computing museum (MEI) is presented in a press release, the MSX will have a big support thanks to this museum.
- We are moving to Wanadoo ISP, we get at the same time 6000 visitors.
- EKO, magazine about bussines in Internet contact with the club for asking some questions, and they will inform about this club in their magazine.
- We publish a real time report about MSX Den Yu Land 2000, we receive instant news and photos directly from Japan and we are the first web with this info.
Octubre:
- Angel Carmona finish the second edition of MSX Covers, he add a new multimedia CD called Destraler. Matra receives the Moskow 2024 copies, so very soon this products will be added to the MSX Power Replay products list.
- Rafael Morales (MEI manager) tell us that we will have space in the SIMO TCI fair for an MSX journeys. We start to prepare this event.
Noviembre:
- We went to SIMO TCI for doing a MSX journey, but the planning can not be done.
- EKO publish a curious report about computing collections and MSX, obviusly they told about some MSX groups like AAMSX of Barcelona and us, they made a mistake publishing a photo of Javi Lavandeira (AAMSX) and writing down the name Rafael Corrales.
- LPE or Leonardo Padial Electronics wants to be completely independent from the club, breaking all the relations. But the club will continue supporting him.
Diciembre:
- We travel to Barcelona for enjoy with the XVIII Salón del MSX, we have a big success and the meeting get new records in visitors number and quality. We sell the new MSX Covers + Destraler edition and we receive a lot of visitors.
- Our web gets 8000 visitors. And we got a record of 87 visits on a day.
- During 28th of December our club had the happy idea of making a big joke, we announced that we had MSX Turbo-R from Ikeda with a price of 10.000 yen, inmediatly we got the reactions, as you can see the message looked too real (spanish) -> HERE
- The best way for finishing the millenium was a mass importation from Japan trough Ikeda, as you can see it was a succesful operation: