NOLA_Gaffer
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It was primarily intended to play smaller 8cm CDs (Think Gamecube-sized) but the center spindle was adjustable so you could also play standard-sized discs.
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Let's take a moment to celebrate the golden age of Japanese design
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It was primarily intended to play smaller 8cm CDs (Think Gamecube-sized) but the center spindle was adjustable so you could also play standard-sized discs.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
That reminds me of the tweet from NEC some weeks ago about the PC-9801 and other series going in a japanese museum.
Really interesting design.
When I think of cyberpunk, I always think first of the weird but cool japanese designs from the 70s to the 90s.
When I first saw that monitor I was like "you know I can totally understand if they made the screen that shape to display things similarly to the way we display information on a piece of paper". Especially since it is paired with a printer.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
On the subject of RGB monitors, even old ones like the Sony KX-14CP1 still look pretty cool.
IrishNinja
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^goddamn, that NSFW tag came too late man
surprised no one's yet posted the briefcase PCE setup
strong +1 to this post
agreed so hard, fuck i miss that system!
surprised no one's yet posted the briefcase PCE setup
Those colours! That contrast! Perfection. I'd forgotten videogames could look so striking.
HDR's got nothin' on a CRT.
strong +1 to this post
Real talk though, the Master System 1 is peak 80s chic.
agreed so hard, fuck i miss that system!
sixteen-bit
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On the subject of Sony CRTs, this one from 1983 is so cute. Shame it's RF only.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwE3QK31hNo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwE3QK31hNo
FairFriend
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Sony hit-bit 101, a msx1 model (1984)
always been a fan
always been a fan
speedlolita
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On the subject of RGB monitors, even old ones like the Sony KX-14CP1 still look pretty cool.
I'm glad that people share this photo as much as they seem to.
I have it sitting on the floor right now... lol
SatelliteOfLove
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For every job, its tool.
Oh.
I shouldn't have read this.
Not at all.
sixteen-bit
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:O I love it!
russian box
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Are there any keyboards or other items like this which can be used today?
such as how people still use the old IBM keyboards.
such as how people still use the old IBM keyboards.
petran79
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Fortunately I avoided that DOS era. Because I had the fortune to play games on this, though I never owned one.
It provided the perfect environment for computer games, something the Japanese machines were not ready for.
Lets compare the two best computers of that era: Sharp X68000 and Amiga 2000.
Amiga 2000 had much better value for money than a Sharp X68000.
Sharp had 2500$ launch price. Amiga 2000 had 1300$. With that same money you could add a video card and an accelerator card on the Amiga and you had a beast machine.
Sharp was sprite based since it was arcade focused. Hence why it was never exported to the West. Its focus was mainly arcade games, just like the PC Engine and Neo Geo.
As an arcade gaming machine Sharp was the best but it lacked as a general purpose gaming and computer.
Amiga was for general purpose since it had copper/blitter and was fully programmable.For that reason Amiga's gfx chipset was years ahead of the Sharp. One reason you hardly see games like 3d flight sim/racing or first person rpgs on Sharp, while Amiga had dozens (F18, Falcon, gunship, indy 500, lotus turbo challenge etc). Also parallax scrolling was added only to a few Sharp games because it was difficult to materialize, while on the Amiga it was free due to blitter.
It also did lack in sound featuring just FM Synthesis and 4-bit PCM.
Sharp's OS was an MS-DOS clone. Amiga's OS was light years ahead.
West would certainly benefit with the advent of Japanese computers, but things were already set in motion with the multimedia revolution of Commodore and Atari computers. Microsoft realized it and stole many ideas from them. But even at copying they suck...
Fortunately I avoided that DOS era. Because I had the fortune to play games on this, though I never owned one.
It provided the perfect environment for computer games, something the Japanese machines were not ready for.
Lets compare the two best computers of that era: Sharp X68000 and Amiga 2000.
Amiga 2000 had much better value for money than a Sharp X68000.
Sharp had 2500$ launch price. Amiga 2000 had 1300$. With that same money you could add a video card and an accelerator card on the Amiga and you had a beast machine.
Sharp was sprite based since it was arcade focused. Hence why it was never exported to the West. Its focus was mainly arcade games, just like the PC Engine and Neo Geo.
As an arcade gaming machine Sharp was the best but it lacked as a general purpose gaming and computer.
Amiga was for general purpose since it had copper/blitter and was fully programmable.For that reason Amiga's gfx chipset was years ahead of the Sharp. One reason you hardly see games like 3d flight sim/racing or first person rpgs on Sharp, while Amiga had dozens (F18, Falcon, gunship, indy 500, lotus turbo challenge etc). Also parallax scrolling was added only to a few Sharp games because it was difficult to materialize, while on the Amiga it was free due to blitter.
It also did lack in sound featuring just FM Synthesis and 4-bit PCM.
Sharp's OS was an MS-DOS clone. Amiga's OS was light years ahead.
West would certainly benefit with the advent of Japanese computers, but things were already set in motion with the multimedia revolution of Commodore and Atari computers. Microsoft realized it and stole many ideas from them. But even at copying they suck...
There's a Windows-esque OS you can get for the X68k, although HumanOS (the DOS clone programmed by Hudson) was the most commonly used.
I'd argue the FM synth capabilities (hooked into an MT-32) was better than the 4 channel MOD format and its low sample size and panning (though I do like MOD music too and actually tried my hand at making a track or two back in the day
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I love many of the posts here. The Sharp X1, the PC-Engine + original CD-ROM2, The FM-Towns, the X68000 (I would love to own one someday).
I've also always wanted a Sharp TV C1. The TV with a Famicom built-in. I remember seeing one abandoned on the side of a road once. Unfortunately, I was out cycling and it had been raining, so I had no practical way of getting it home, but I've been kicking myself ever since for not carrying it 30 miles in the rain.
I would also love a PC Engine LT.
I've also always wanted a Sharp TV C1. The TV with a Famicom built-in. I remember seeing one abandoned on the side of a road once. Unfortunately, I was out cycling and it had been raining, so I had no practical way of getting it home, but I've been kicking myself ever since for not carrying it 30 miles in the rain.
I would also love a PC Engine LT.
sixteen-bit
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too recent?
Robot Carnival
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this and
these remind me that I've actually seen that design in the Ghost In The Shell manga, in a form that's closer to the second one. I always wonder where that came from.
