Playing with my new x68000 tonight....

Just an awesome system. Amazing color on the screen....




I made a video of it here showing the Gradius II intro:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acItFyQbjdM

 

Buy Lagoon Heh. I forget if Inindo is MSX or Lagoon

 

Very cool. What'd that cost you?

 

Nice machine, I was surprised by some of the videos, ESPECIALLY the Starwars one! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ferGvLwQjc

If only the Virtual Boy had that game!

 

There are a ton of x68k videos on YouTube. Really nice job by those guys.

 

My cost was about $350 for the system and 28 games. I got it on Yahoo.

 

Incredible machine, isn't it ? :icon_bigg

The Castlevania is a must-have, and Ys too. Love this computer...

 

The Star Wars game is really good used to fire it up on the emu regular iike.

 

That's like the one I used to have. Do you have Super hang On for it? That's really good !! Makes the Meag Drive one look really poor. Chase HQ on the other hand is really bad on the X68000. One of my fav' games on the systems has to be Castlevania and Final Fight. Just like having the arcade in your room.

Yakumo

 

I bought a defective one of these, when I thought my X68000 Pro was going out. The X68000 and the Neo Geo are probably the top two 2D home systems. And, the X68000 is the 'meanest' looking game system around. The SuperGrafx is probably the second 'meanest' looking system.

 

I am really shocked, this was an unknown machine to me before your post Japan-Games. Are these machines easy to come by? How common are the games? Is there a big interest for the machine in Japan and the trading stores?

 

Despite being such a great machine it sold about 200,000 units in total... It was a nice machine as it could multitask as well as the Amiga could and do it better as it could run OS/9. The machine was designed originally by Hudson (who also made the PC-Engine), just think what the PC Engine could have been if they had not used the lathargic 6502 and used a real CPU instead.

I've only seen a few in the wild and even then they were a bit expensive and shipping would have been a killer, but the place that had them was Maxload and they closed down a few years ago. :crying:

Here is a link to show you how great it was

http://retropc.net/archives/2005/05/1.html

Okay, the x68000 doesn't look that great but they had about 4 shelf stands full of just x68000 games when I went there in 2004 and they were cheap too. They also had a cracking MSX, FM-Towns, FM-7/77, PC-6x01 / 8x01 / 98x1 and much more. I miss it :crying:

 

Whoa whoa, PCE doesn't use a NMOS 6502 like the Ataris or FC. It's CMOS, has a MMU (to address more memory than most PC apps running in real-mode at the time) and is clocked at an insane 7MHz for an 8-bit. 6502 CPUs do something twice per clock cycle (two phase clock), one of the things is always a bus access, so at 7MHz it accesses memory faster than the MD (and SFC/original X68K/Neo Geo). Considering that the 65C02 has a 13th of the transistors of a 68K and most CISC operations aren't used in games (and a lot of math stuff can be put into lookup tables), it's not like 68K based games are computationally running circles around PCE games, unless the game is also a scientific application.

 

cool one ! powerful one !! these cost much :/

the problem is very few people in occident know or want to deal with this machine (except just plug some floppies in and play)

some here can remember i made a thread on shmups, and it was near none people interested.. we found so many unknown good games !

mine in few months..

 

The X68000 works with modern LCD monitors? :O It has VGA out or something?

 

no, it hasn't. But there are VGA adaptors available. check ebay:thumbsup:

 

This may only interest me, but I love the deep clicking sound the keyboard makes when you press a key...heh.

You can find these, but usually they are old or a bit used/dirty, or they are in good shape and the price is pretty high. I've been browsing for them for about a year and decided to finally jump on this one. You can get the right system if you're willing to wait for it. I'm not a tech guy so I needed something ready to go out of the box. The extra software was a bonus.

(shameless plug: it's on eBay now...)

 

dude i want one of those so bad....

 

What adapter are you using? Is it just a standard Japanese RGB to VGA adapter?

If so, what kind of LCD are you using?

Supposedly most X68000 games can be set to play in a VGA compatible mode. But, I can't find any information on setting this up.

 

Many of the bigger name titles give an option of 15mhz or 31mhz so I guess it's only the 31mhz games that will run.

Yakumo