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2025年04月15日 - トミー TV FUN 601 When I saw the Tomy TV Fun 601 on Mercari, I thought it was a pretty handsome machine, but after looking a bit more, I see the previous version of the TV Fun was actually much more sophisticated-looking with its wood grain case and silver knobs. But this is still pretty nice-looking! 続き⇒ |
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2025年03月16日 - SORD M5 CREATIVE COMPUTER I made an article about the Takara Game Pasokon a while back, but recently I came across the machine that the Game Pasokon is a clone of, the SORD m5. 続き⇒ |
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2025年03月01日 - NEC PC-98DO+ The PC-98DO+ sounds good on paper. It's distinguishing point is that it can run PC-9801 and PC-8801 software from a single computer. The DO purportedly stands for "dual operation" but I just call it "PC-98 do". You know, "do", like the word, "do". I was told this is wrong and was laughed at. I was also told that the machine is incompatible with a number of games on both the PC-88 and PC-98 side. 続き⇒ |
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2025年02月12日 - BASIC1・トミーぴゅう太 This is a relatively uncommon expansion pack. I don't know for sure, but I imagine this is geared more for the Tomy Pyuta mkII than the original, because the mkII lacks a true BASIC environment. But it will also plug into an original Pyuta just fine. To install this, it goes into the expansion port, not the cartridge slot (kind of obvious when you look at the connector). In addition to BASIC, it also provides printer connectivity. 続き⇒ |
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2024年12月28日 - カシオ PV-1000 I found a small stash of Casio PV-1000 and PV-2000 game cartridges on Mercari a bit ago. The PV-1000 is a game console, and the PV-2000 is a computer (at least, in the same sense that the SG-1000 was a console and the SC-3000 was a computer). The PV-2000s I see are usually in terrible shape and cost a ton of money, while the PV-1000s also tend to cost a ton of money but aren't necessarily in such rough shape. I found a PV-1000 that was in somewhat rough shape but not too bad, and it ended for a comparatively reasonable price, so I stuck the winning bid on that. I was excitedly waiting for the PV-1000 so I could play with this hot stash of games. 続き⇒ |
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2024年12月01日 - トミーぴゅう太mkII I picked up a Tomy Pyuta mkII on Mercari recently. This is a follow-up to the original Pyuta, similar to how the Commodore 64C followed the Commodore 64. Except while the Commodore 64C was a cost-saving implementation of the Commodore 64, this one looked like it provided a minor upgrade. From the outside, at a glance, it looks like they just swapped out the keyboard, offering a short-travel plastic keyboard, which was much more usable than the rubber chiclet keyboard that the original sported. 続き⇒ |
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2024年11月19日 - MZシリーズの何か The Sharp MZ series has a counterpart to the X1 Widget which is the MZ Thingie. Perhaps it's a paper weight, though it seems a bit too vertical for that. Perhaps just a decoration that could be used as a paper weight at your own risk? I'm pretty sure it's not a pen holder, as the X1 Widget turned out to be. 続き⇒ |
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2024年11月09日 - TOWNS OS 1.1 L10 There was a surprising amount of extra content on the FM Towns 1.1 L10 CD. I guess it shouldn't be that surprising, as they had space to burn (literally!), but it's a curious thing, computer manufacturers at the (1987-ish) rarely had 500MB+ of storage with nothing better to do than fill it up, so what would they come up with? Well here's Fujitsu's answer. 続き⇒ |
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2024年10月31日 - APPLICATIONS・MZ-80K2E This is a collection of programs bundled with the MZ-80K2E that demonstrate various things that could be done with the system. Most systems of the day had such tapes, some better than others. This system is light on multimedia, so it doesn't pack too much of a punch, but it makes due with what it has. It loads from BASIC, so you need to ready that first. 続き⇒ |
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2024年10月24日 - MZ-700・MZ-1500のジョイスティック - MZ-1X03 As part of a bulk lot of MZ-1500 items I picked up recently, I got this MZ-1X03 joystick. It is in great condition. 続き⇒ |
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