EX68 EMULATOR


The 1st emulator made for the Sharp X68000 system! You can see it running on "his " japanese Windows 98 :)

 

 


The EX68 True STORY!! :                                                                                                          


It was around July 1997 and Yamama, a great Japanese guy started a incredible and awesome emulation project :

Build a emulator for one of the best Motorola 68000 based computers!
THE SHARP X68000

No Amiga's, QL's or other systems was comparable to the power of that system!
Here the specs of one model :
NAME   X68000 Super / Super HD
MANUFACTURER   Sharp
TYPE   Professional Computer
ORIGIN   Japan
YEAR   1990
KEYBOARD   Full-stroke keyboard
CPU   Motorola MC68000
SPEED   10 MHz
COPROCESSOR   Unknown
RAM   2 MB (up to 12 MB)
VRAM   512 KB (text) + 512 KB (graphic)
ROM   1 MB
TEXT MODES   Unknown
GRAPHIC MODES   256 x 240 / 256 x 256 / 512 x 240 / 512 x 256 / 512 x 512 / 640 x 480 / 768 x 512 / 1024 x 1024128 sprites (16 x 16)
COLORS   65535 (16 colors in 1024 x 1024 to 65K in 512 x 512)
SOUND   FM Sound (Yamaha 2151 : 2 channels / 8 octaves stereo) + PCM (OKI MSM6258V : 4 bit mono)
I/O PORTS   Joystick (2), Audio IN / OUT, TV Control, NTSC Video Image I/O, Expansion, External FDD, SCSI, RS232
BUILT IN MEDIA   2 x 5.25'' disk-drive
OS   Human 68K 2.01 + SX Windows 1.0
POWER SUPPLY   Built-in PSU
(Thanks to Oldcomputers.com for the data)
Incredible eh?  a real  powerful computer for the 1990!!!

The big shame was : Sharp never sold it outside Japan... But THANKS to the Emulator we can always "use" it for free :-)

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