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Soon to be FMT 2 owner needs the crash course.

Started by Clueless, February 06, 2025, 06:53:13 PM

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Clueless

Hi folks, I hope I'm on the right place, I've struggled to find an active FMT community, and this seems to be the one with the most recent activity.

Over the past 7 or 8 months I've been buying junk consoles and repairing them (TBH few need little more than a clean, UK power solution, and an ODE)... 2 nights ago I put a bid on a "junk" FMT 2, the owner couldn't confirm operation as the power cord was broken (otherwise the unit looks clean internally, rust free, some tarnishing on the back plates, and a bent shield around one of those the external ports)...

What should be on my reading list, shopping list, and what mods and modern upgrades should I be looking at... What's the deal with CPU upgrades with these computers... and how can I use modern keyboard/mouse/joypad with this thing? (Please don't tell me I need to spend £300 on original peripherals 😅)


I'm gonna assume the PSU is shot, or a massive fire hazard right out the box, given the age and voltages at play (unlike my consoles where I can just use a nice modern 9v power supply and have very little to worry about ).... So this is probably my first problem to solve.

Thanks

Clueless

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Not sure if it makes a difference to what folks might recommend with regards connecting the unit to a monitor, but I noticed the machine is coming with some kind of additional video adapter...

I can't seem to post images so I'll describe the card:

It has an RGB socket up top, 3 nobs under that labelled colour, hue, contrast. A hole marked "bright" (not sure if there should be a nob there also) and 2 mini dins (that look like svideo) marked in and out.

From the auction images it also looks to be coming with a modem and 2 sticks of ram installed.

The monitor I'd ideally like to connect it to is a NEC MultiSync EA192M ... Which I know supports 15 & 32 kHz but can't find information on its 24kHz support.