Opening an X68k treasure chest

[BlueBMW]

What will you find inside?  Who knows!  Probably dead bugs and dust and blown capacitors... at least that's what I typically find in "junk" systems I get from Yahoo Japan...   This time I found a nice surprise.

A while back I picked up an XVI (CZ-634) system off Yahoo JP.   It was "junk" of course, but I figured it was probably fixable.  Finally got around to at least checking it out today.    The power supply was toast as usual, so I went about opening it up and to my surprise, someone had upgraded it with a hard drive!  Being a non HD unit, I didnt expect to find a hard drive, but someone at some point installed an original sharp 80mb drive.  Every time I've found a hard drive in a system its either been dead or empty.   I swapped in a working PSU just to test the system out and found out that the drive actually had some stuff on it.

Its all probably nothing of note, but I noticed that it seemed to load different drivers than normal.  It also had a folder labeled "games" that I'll be exploring a little more in depth.  Ill post some pictures up here of what the boot up screens were.  Let me know if theres anything cool I should concern myself with or if its all just boring crap hehe.





And a brief glance at what was in the games folder:

[eidis]

Excellent find, BlueBMW !

Could you please dump the font driver (this could be very valuable) and upload it to the FTP ?

Eidis

[caius]

Maybe you will find in this hard disk some rare games like Illumination Laser for example...
Please, if you can, do an image of it using a PC with a common SCSI card (I use a cheap Adaptec AHA-2940AU) and WinImage utility, thanks.

[SuperDeadite]

LOL the machine has 177 installed.

[kamiboy]

Mario?! Maaaaario!

Some sort of homebrew version for the X68000 maybe?

[BlueBMW]

Yeah its basically super mario bros 1   plays surprsingly good.

[SuperDeadite]

I have at least 3 versions of Super Mario Bros ports.  All are completely different.  None of them replace the good old NES cart.

[kamiboy]

Well that is certainly par for the course as far as creative mediums go. Nothing replaces the original.

[neko68k]

Can you image the drive and put it somewhere for us please? I'm interested in how actual users did things, historically, and I'd like to look around for myself.