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2024年01月27日 - NEC PC-8801のシステムディスク As far as system software and demos go, NEC is pretty solid. The system disks for the PC-8801mkIISR are no exception. There are two disks - N88 BASIC and Demonstration.
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2024年01月24日 - シャープPC-3100Sの修理！ I got the PC-3100S quite a while ago and it *mostly* worked, it powered up into BASIC and you could throw direct commands at it and have it fire back at you, but something was wonky about the way it was storing program lines. You can check for more details about that in the main PC-3100S system article. 続き⇒ |
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2023年12月29日 - シャープ MZ-1200 The MZ-1200 is a continuation of the MZ-80K series, following the MZ-80K2E and preceding the MZ-700. A similar model was released in the western world as the MZ-80A. It has double the RAM (now 64KB) and a much more standard-looking keyboard. Interestingly, it's not necessarily a better keyboard. It still has the same problems that the MZ-80K2 has, no real number pad, and you have to type at a controlled pace or it will drop input. 続き⇒ |
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2023年12月25日 - 応用プログラム集・PC-6001mkII For a year or two, I had the PC-6001mkII and didn't know that it supported 15 colors. I thought it was limited to 8, like most digital RGB-endowed PCs of the early 80s. One thing did seem kind of off... when I typed anything into the included word processing software, I couldn't see any characters. I guessed that it needed some sort of expansion to function properly. One game (game is used a bit loosely here) was very hard to see, but not impossible. I thought it was just poor color choice by the programmers. Maybe they work on monochrome monitors or something. 続き⇒ |
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2023年12月16日 - JR-100のデモンストレーションテープ With my recent purchase of the National JR-100, I received the demonstration tape, which was sold bundled with the computer back when it was new. 続き⇒ |
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2023年11月18日 - ジョイジョイパックスペシャル Despite reading the description, I didn't really know what I was getting myself into with this purchase. It's a never-opened (until now) Joy Joy Pack #3 for the MZ-1500. It contains two QuickDisks with two main games, Drol and Shooting Wars. It also came with a board game, but the board game is based on Drol, and relies on loading side B of the Drol QuickDisk.The software on side B acts as the dice and also produces in-game messages. 続き⇒ |
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2023年11月08日 - FM TOWNS マーティーの色違い This is the second Marty article in this blog. I already blogged at greater length in the other article, but this is the Marty I prefer. The color is that of the earlier dark gray FM Towns systems. And the lighter gray one has a more modern design sense to it, and also the origin of the more modern style controller. 続き⇒ |
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2023年10月28日 - NEC PC-6601SR The PC-6601SR makes two major changes from the PC-6601 - it adds FM sound generation, and it comes as a desktop unit with detachable keyboard. Those are nice features, but I wasn't looking for a PC-6601SR, and if I were to have selected one, I would have preferred the red one, but we all know red is three times more expensive. I got this because it was part of a big lot. There was a lot of stuff not pictured here. A looot of stuff. It was pretty unbelievable, but I've let most of the other stuff go already. The system is a bit scratched up, and the plastic they used for the case is among the cheapest I've seen NEC use, but it does have some cool points to it, for sure. I was relieved as always to see it powered up and the floppy drive worked. 続き⇒ |
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2023年10月25日 - 日本語カード I took these photos two and a half years ago! And I stuck them in a folder called "FM77AV20EX Nihongo Card", and am only now getting around to uploading them, so forgive me for having lost a few details of what exactly is going on here. 続き⇒ |
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2023年10月25日 - 青い宇宙の冒険・MSX I found this kind of strange tape called Aoi Uchu no Boken (Adventure in Blue Outer-space) on Mercari. I saw some screenshots of it in via Google Images and thought it was pretty interesting looking. I decided to buy it. When it arrived, I noticed that it used to have two labels, but one was removed and placed directly on the tape case. Both labels have, in very hard-to-make-out writing, "SAMPLE" printed on them. The exposed side had a plain white label that said "DEMO MSX". I thought it was a game, but it was a non-interactive demo. 続き⇒ |
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