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Emulator
An emulator for a machine nearly 20 years old that didn't see a commercial release and used a custom chipset - a bit optimistic aren't you?
Well, actually - thanks to the fact that the Flare one technology was sold to Bellfruit, it's not just a possibility, it actually exists. Now of course, there is a caveat. It's not actually a Konix Multisystem that's been emulated; it's the Bellfruit implementation of the Flare one chipset which was the basis for the early Multisystem prototypes. The difference is that a different processor was used in the Multisystem (an 8086 over a Z80), slightly more ram was used, and the Flare one chipset was condensed from four chips down to just the one Slipstream ASIC.
Enough has been learnt about the differences for a programmer to take the Slipstream technical reference document and emulate the Bellfruit Cobra motherboard. There are still things the programmer is trying to work out, but as more code becomes available to him, the better his understanding will be and the more accurate the emulator will be.
So we now have a working flare one emulator - if we ever find copies of the game code that developers were working on for the Multisystem, it would not be a massive stretch to modify the existing emulator to accommodate the Multisystem.
Then... a quick game of AMC anyone?