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The
successor of the MSX 2+ and thus has many characteristics in common.
New features include: a new PCM sound chip which can produce digitized
sound up to 44 KHz (in assembly language) and a new Z80 downward
compatible R800 processor. The user can select the CPU (Z80 or R800)
by software.
Panasonic was the only company to produce MSX 2 Turbo R systems: the
FS A1. Two versions of the FS A1 were presented, the FS A1 ST and the
FS A1 GT. The GT has 512 KB RAM, a MIDI interface and MSX View in ROM
(MSX View is the Graphic User Interface compatible with MSX-DOS).
Panasonic stopped the production of the Turbo R when they launched the
3DO game system in 1992. They failed with this system and never
returned to MSX. Lot of extensions, however, were produced by
third-party companies to enhance the Turbo R, among them, an OPL4
Sound Card, a hi-res card (Yamaha V9990) with lot of hardware sprites
and IDE or SCSI interfaces.
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Operating System |
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MSX-BASIC by default, MSX-DOS when booted. The 32KB SRAM of the GT also
doubles as a bootable RAM drive |
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Processor |
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3.579545 MHz (Z80 mode), 7.16 MHz (R800 mode - equivalent to a 28.64MHz
Z80 CPU) R800 - Z80A downwards compatible but 5 to 10 times faster than a Z80 |
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Sound |
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AY-8910 + YM-2413 chip (9 channels of music) + PCM = 13 available channels! |
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RAM |
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from 256 KB to 512 KB + 32 KB SRAM up to 4 MB with some soldering |
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Resolution |
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64 x 48 / 256 x 192 / 256 x 212 / 512 x 212 / 512 x 424 |
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Color |
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16 / 16 - 256 / 16 among 512 / 131072 |
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IO Ports |
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Joystick(2), Cartridge(2), RGB, Composite Video, Centronics, External Audio, MIDI (GT version) |
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Media |
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Built-in 3.5'' disk drive |
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Release Date |
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1991 |
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Language |
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Microsoft Extended BASIC (MSX BASIC V2.1) |
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blueMSX is a Windows based application that can emulate an MSX
computer. The blueMSX application simulates behavior of the
hardware components in the MSX computer with software.
Since version 2.0, blueMSX supports MSX, MSX2, MSX2+ and MSX
Turbo-R software. Almost MSX machines like the ColecoVision
console and the Spectravideo SVI318/328 computers are also
supported.
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