i always wondered could you buy konami msx games in the uk and other European countries or if most of the good games were japan only
@ReEnthused2 күн бұрын
You could, but they tended to be on tape and fairly cut down compared to the cartridge versions
@mashk3 күн бұрын
Robocop 2 wasn’t a cpc game converted to cartridge format, it was actually a gx4000 exclusive.
@ReEnthused3 күн бұрын
Whoops, you are quite correct, it was released on the Spectrum and C64 but not the CPC. Thanks
@spenny451083 күн бұрын
I have a 464 and connect the m4 board via the centronics port and an adapter, so not sure where yours has gone?
@ReEnthused3 күн бұрын
The centronics port is there, the external drive port is missing (I misspoke, but added a comment)
@spenny451083 күн бұрын
@@ReEnthused Changing over to the Centronics port was a big mistake by Amstrad IMHO
@ReEnthused3 күн бұрын
@@spenny45108 Agreed, i've never found out why they did it, maybe to make it easier to connect stuff? Maybe to force newer versions of hardware?
@spenny451083 күн бұрын
@@ReEnthused DDI addons for the CPC were then obsolete on the 464. Using a standard interface like the Centronics was cheaper I suppose.
@TG6263 күн бұрын
Great overview for those of us who never saw these back in the day. Thanks for the run down.
@ReEnthused3 күн бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@sjandal015 күн бұрын
Thank for the review. By mistake I bought this radio. It is really annoying and not worth buying. What a load of rubbish!!, it went to the dust bin…
@6ixfamily1537 күн бұрын
I have one and I love it
@RobNicholson123413 күн бұрын
Ahh Elite... wish my memory was more complete but it was a long time ago. Mr Micro were commissioned by Firebird to convert Elite to a variety of platforms. It was one of my first tasks there. Another programmer had started it on the Tatung Einstein and I took over. I wrote the version for the MSX for sure. I don't recall us producing an Einstein version but considering how close the hardware was between the two, maybe I did as a sort of by product. As I said, a lot of water has passed under that bridge. What I do know is that due to some contractual problems, I converted the versions blind - the only code I had was the algorithm to generate the planet names and the raw 3D models for the ships. In an attempt to get more speed and overcome the lack of a multiply instruction in Z80, I used log maths for a lot of the 3D stuff. Problem was this introduced rounding errors and the 3D vectors representing the orientation of the models collapsed over time - if left along the spinning space station would get smaller and smaller. Therefore every 256 matrix operations (rotation), a routine ran to reset the 3D vector (XYZ) back to 1.0 which meant that if you watched closed, the space station popped back out in size. After the MSX version, I wrote the ST and Amiga conversions which were a lot more fun!
@RobNicholson123413 күн бұрын
Just found a reference page to the Einstein version of Elite - produced by Merlin under license from Firebird. So maybe my memory is correct and Mr Micro didn't do this version. I'm struggling to recall which of the development systems mentioned was used for the MSX version. But it certainly started life on the Einstein. I personally had an Amstrad CPC at the time and worked with my friend Alex on the basic 3D math in BASIC - proof of concept as such. Much quicker to write in BASIC and then convert to Z80 assembler. Alex studied Math at uni so his knowledge of mathematics was better than mine although I was pretty proficient by the end. He should have been credited.
@RobNicholson123413 күн бұрын
The comment about using it as a development machine very much echoes my own experience at Mr Micro. I used both the Tatung, the Amstrad PCW and the Amstrad CPC as development systems to write Z80 code for Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and MSX. I too put together a parallel interface to the target machine. I'd done electronics at University so it was a relatively simple interface but boy was it fast. I remember starting to use the excellent SLR Z80 assembler which was lightning fast compared to what I'd used before. What I can't remember is which text editor I used...
@ReEnthused13 күн бұрын
Thanks for your information Rob, I can only repeat the information I read so it's always great to get first hand experience.
@alanmacmillan695715 күн бұрын
I think QL might have succeeded more if they made the Microdrives just a peripheral only; and provide tape and floppy options. it looked damn good though.
@ReEnthused15 күн бұрын
Yeah the commitment to the Microdrive didn't help.
@matthews415918 күн бұрын
The sinclair QL was let down by not having proper serial ports, you couldn't use it i with the coming bulletin boards and early computer networks !! followed by the micro-drives HOWEVER,, in other respects it was much like the Atari ST,,, like a Spectrum but with 32bit cpu & more memory I had 512KB add on Ram, twin floppies, Tony tebbys toolkit, mouse etc,,, it was a very usable machine !!!!!
@OOOSHHUK20 күн бұрын
I had one of these mid 80s, jet set Willy, gronks, chunky egg, is there an emulator anywhere online?
@ReEnthused20 күн бұрын
It does have one of the best versions of Chuckie Egg - which, as everyone knows, is one of the greatest games ever created. I've never used an emulator for it, but according to the Tatung Reborn site, MAME supports it www.tatungeinstein.co.uk/front/imagefiles.htm
@stevehoare708721 күн бұрын
I had one in 1984. It had a black box that plugged into the back of the c.genie, called 'wizard' then a cable from there to a 5 1/4" floppy disc drive...why did i sell it !!! 😢 had a few games: fuss, country gardens, colour kong, exterminator:the birds, droids, ice, bak pak etc.
@ReEnthused21 күн бұрын
It is a lovely machine
@BUYBOTH24 күн бұрын
Thank you for the review. It is an interesting little unit.
@Legendary_editz-y8u25 күн бұрын
first comment pin me please
@samuelbanya27 күн бұрын
Wow that is super cool. I was looking for a cool case for my Raspberry Pi 3B+, and thought a Turbo Grafx 16 case would be cool. Very neat PC engine build. So cool that you're using actual discs.
@ReEnthused27 күн бұрын
Thanks, don't forget to watch the next video on the case - which adds even more media options
@kutman433229 күн бұрын
This is my dream
@stevviebАй бұрын
I was surprised the case fitted back on with those tiny resistors in that array
@ReEnthusedАй бұрын
There is, fortunately, quite a lot of space in there. Although, I have since redone it with more suitable resistors
@orlandoturbo6431Ай бұрын
They should have made Super CD games compatible with the PC FX. What were they thinking making a lot of bad decisions. I would have fired them all. Just a waste of time and money fooling with the people making the PC FX. I really think they wanted the gaming business to fail. Maybe somebody was paid a whole lot of money to make very bad decisions.
@ReEnthusedАй бұрын
Oddly you might not be a million miles away there. There does seem to be some evidence that changes in the board at NEC had changed how they thought about their business, and were concentrating more on the computer side
@orlandoturbo6431Ай бұрын
@@ReEnthused A guy told me that a secretary that works for TTI inc said it was Hudson Soft of Japan that kept saying no to games that TTI wanted to bring to United States.
@elyuwАй бұрын
Dankpods headphone testing music :)
@ReEnthusedАй бұрын
I imagine we both fish in the KZbin music pool :)
@theguy12322Ай бұрын
It only offers the Taiwan 🇹🇼. For tuning? I’m in the USA
@ReEnthusedАй бұрын
I can’t say if it would work in the US or not - it works here in the UK, which probably means it won’t work in the US (for digital TV), but there might be a US variant out there - it’s not like these companies to leave money on the table
@therealnotanerd_account2Ай бұрын
MSX was very succesfull in Brazil with two models: Gradiente's Expert and Sharp's HotBit.
@NumptyMcNumptyfaceАй бұрын
pro-tip: Get a megarom/flashrom cartridge with SCC if you intend to play Konami games. A lot of them use the SCC, and without it they sound decidedly awful.
@ReEnthusedАй бұрын
Yeah I’ve got a better cartridge now, the cheap thing I had at the time was very flawed
@JesterEric28 күн бұрын
F1 Spirit sounds much better than the footage here
@cdotyАй бұрын
If it wasn't for shipping, you could probably pick up 6 or 8 systems from Japan for $300-$400 or less.
@MrWaalkmanАй бұрын
Even then the price is still much better than you would normally get on eBay in the USA. I use Zen Market. I got a MSX2 from Japan and it wasn't bad at all. I got my TurboR from Spain, and it wasn't horrible either. My MZs and CZs came from all over and shipping was about $50 USD on average, with one of them being shipped for free. The price of them (the Sharp CZ-7xxs) were in the neighborhood of ~$250 USD. One came from Japan, and was damaged in shipping - I got a discount from the seller but it forced me to find a replacement from Croatia, which the seller forgot to ship. He apologized profusely, gave me the option of withdrawing my purchase, which I declined. It arrived a month later than anticipated. In the meantime I found a very nice example from the UK. So I'm set when it comes to Sharp CZ-731 (and a CZ-721) computers. :) If I am going to buy from Japan, I would most likely get it using Zen Market as my proxy. They always do a fantastic job of packaging. With two of the last four items damaged in shipping (eBay purchases, not Zen Market), I can't stress enough how important that is. And it simply isn't worth shipping them back.
@esseferioАй бұрын
Superb collection you've got there, sir!
@ReEnthusedАй бұрын
Thank you
@EarselBill-bi4xrАй бұрын
Ugh, how in the fuck does a guy who don’t care for DragonBall, or hasn’t even seen the show be the guy to review an obscure ass DBZ rpg game?!?! lol whatever
@AtariBornАй бұрын
A solution, looking for a problem. 😂
@jimsmith9056Ай бұрын
I have managed to get a Casio EV-600 handheld TV to work with DVD and a chromestick using an RF modulator. This severes no actual purpose except that I now own a functioning handheld TV that's is a proud part of my retro 90's collection 😂😍
@ReEnthusedАй бұрын
I can’t think of a better reason :D
@jimsmith9056Ай бұрын
@@ReEnthused My everyday carry includes a. Palm Zire Z22 PDA and a Psion Series 5 lol. I don't even use a smartphone. But my true passion is Casio electronics. Everything from watches to calculators and everything in between.
@suvetarАй бұрын
This machine, especially the 256, it makes me a bit sad inside to think what we might have had in the UK market, I mean a maching with 192Kb of VRAM!!! Take that, or uniqueness like the Jupiter Ace, or consider what might have happened if the Sharp X68000 had be marketed here! We could have dominated the industry with these fascinating and clearly somewhat puissant machines! This is great content and fond memories - I didn't have such a machine, I was an army brat in Germany at the time but I Dad had a massive collection of home computing magazines from both sides the the pond I used to read them and practically drool! Kind of emulating the computer inside my head! The Tatung, the Oric Atmos, the Enterprise 128, the various Apricot machines ... Loved that, was a great way to lose myself in fantastic digital world, and I have been an IT geek and programmer ever since! Thank you again!
@suvetarАй бұрын
Another thing that I *really* do like is the quality of the output, even on the TC-01 ... that pastel blue works well with that Font which I have to say is one of the best I have ever seen on a machine of that vintage!
@ReEnthusedАй бұрын
Thanks for your nice comments. And yes, it’s a real shame seeing the machines that failed, and the machines that just never left their respective countries.
@schlesinger29Ай бұрын
What is that cable he has connected from the palcom player to the laser disc player the round one
@ReEnthusedАй бұрын
The larger DIN connector is the LD data cable
@cbigcalАй бұрын
Looks like a pretty lousy radio, thanks for the review
@ReEnthusedАй бұрын
Glad you found it useful
@Tigrou7777Ай бұрын
If you could easily bind the forms to a database this would have been a killer app, especially for stores checkout / inventory in the early 90's (DOS run on pretty much anything).
@ssg-eggunnerАй бұрын
The first one is just the code sakurai used in his example
@schlesinger29Ай бұрын
Boring
@BrokenCircusАй бұрын
no u
@asdrubalivan182 ай бұрын
This deserves more views!! I liked it. I saw one of these, a relative had it. They were common in Latin America
@ReEnthused2 ай бұрын
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. And thanks for the information, it’s always nice to hear from people who actually saw this stuff in use
@asdrubalivan182 ай бұрын
@@ReEnthused Yes! My parents also bought me one of those famiclones, it was called "Super Creation" and while it didn't have the keyboard, the controls looked like Sega Genesis'. That was a common practice here for many parents who didn't have the money to buy a PS1 or a Nintendo 64.
@peterainsworth80262 ай бұрын
I remember asking my mum for a computer in the late 80s. I was too young to know much about them though. She dutifully looked at ads in the local paper, went out and come back with this. Like most kids I wanted games so it didn't take long for me to realise she'd made an horrendous error.
@ReEnthused2 ай бұрын
I can imagine most branches of WHSmiths didn't have a great deal in stock for it
@BalduinOrgMusic2 ай бұрын
Very cool work!
@ReEnthused2 ай бұрын
cheers
@ThalassTKynn2 ай бұрын
That's a pretty cool keyboard
@ReEnthused2 ай бұрын
Cheers
@francisdrouin16382 ай бұрын
Hi, what kind of video they read on usb ? .avi ?
@ReEnthused2 ай бұрын
It's quite picky, 720p MP4s seems to work best
@SebastianLambinon2 ай бұрын
At 1:30 you say there aren't any games written specifically for the 2+, but then you accidentally show exactly one of the very few games that were actually made just for the 2+, namely "F1 Spirit 3D Special" 😂 It will let you run the game on MSX2, but it's not working properly - they should've added a check! There's only very few other games that are 2+ only, Laydock 2 springs to mind... maybe there's a few more? -- Cool video either way, cheers!
@ReEnthused2 ай бұрын
Ah, yes you are correct, thanks.
@GenyaArikado2 ай бұрын
this is the best game ever made...to bad it is only for the pioneer laseractive
@Wiggs19792 ай бұрын
Randomly I just came across your channel watching videos of the Tatung Einstein computer and thought I'd be nosey at some of your other videos. I'd like to say VB6 takes me back, but I still use it most days to maintain a very large existing codebase! I also used to work in the hospitality industry, as I developed an entertainment system that connected to hundreds of different EPOS systems, again something that started life in VB6. Funnily enough, I also wrote a dummy EPOS system that looked very much like your example in this video too.
@ReEnthused2 ай бұрын
Great to have you here :). I think it's fair to say that VB6 has become, somewhat, the COBOL of recent times, lots of software using it that is important to keep running, but doesn't make sense to convert to something more recent.
@user-dv9gb2vi3y3 ай бұрын
They really should have included a mini-hdmi input so you could hook it up to things with HDMI output since the 7" screen looks very nice.
@MoyshaPsychoPunk3 ай бұрын
🎉so little
@MrSheltonTV3 ай бұрын
Thanks for playing Ghost Rush. I was watching Erin Plays and she mentioned this game! Good Stuff - Thumbs Up!
@ReEnthused3 ай бұрын
Cheers matey
@Uomodargilla3 ай бұрын
Can you boot on SD card and use it like a mini TV? like if you watch a MP4 video from the sd card it will start the next one after it or juste end and back to the selection screen?
@ReEnthused3 ай бұрын
It will play every video, one after the other, and then loop around when it finishes the last. There are options to change how this works too
@HuyHuy-gs4te2 ай бұрын
Nó được bán ở đâu ?
@ReEnthused2 ай бұрын
Aliexpress
@kirkrowert38353 ай бұрын
The first castle/keep you come too is definitely a timing game. After a few tries of waiting for the shark to pass, you should be able to get all party members safely inside. Make sure to open barrels and search to get gear for your characters, as there will monsters (much easier) to fight and beat inside. I played this on PC when it first came out back in 1989. Graphics and sound are about the same as the Marty too. To fight the large dragons, your characters need to be almost max level. PC version is in English too by the way.
@LlamaRed3 ай бұрын
Does anyone know where I can get a replacement charging cable for the Zodiac?
@ReEnthused2 ай бұрын
It’s annoying that, despite largely just being a palm handheld, Tapwave went for a proprietary cable. Unfortunately, all I can find if one hideously expensive one and a slightly dubious one www.ebay.com/itm/374701992723 www.batteryupgrade.pl/shopBrowser.php?shopGroupId=69925897&tracker=adwords_si_PDA&langId=1 Obviously, neither of these are recommended options and be careful if you go for them
@yajan083 ай бұрын
From where I can buy direct from china
@ReEnthused3 ай бұрын
I've only seen it on Aliexpress, I'm guessing TaoBao would have it though?
@Iruleyou13 ай бұрын
My Marty has the screen corruption too exactly the same way. I wonder if there is a fix.
@ReEnthused3 ай бұрын
It might be that the developer used video memory for other purposes and expected CRT overscan to hide it?
@Iruleyou13 ай бұрын
@@ReEnthused If it was overscan wouldn't it be at the edges of the screen? That's what I thought usually gets cut off on a crt. This corruption is in the middle of the sky and in the road along the horizon.
@JonnBlanchard3 ай бұрын
@@Iruleyou1 ah true, it’s been a while since I played it