Had a conversation with friends in discord about #DE-9 #Gameport #controller standards, and how the #MSX and #FMTowns used the same protocol. Except, as I noted, the FMTowns had two extra buttons, start and select.

So someone dug up the schematics of the FM Towns controller, and how they added those two buttons is genius: Select is actually pressing Left and Right on the dpad together, and start is pressing up and down on the dpad together!

Libble Rabble for FM TOWNS/Marty with XPD-1LR (Dempa Micomsoft)
#fmtowns #fmmarty #micomsoft #fujitsu #marty #retrostuff

On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Rayxanber II”. This is a 1991 horizontally scrolling shoot-em-up developed by Data West & released on CD-ROM2 format. It’s a sequel to a game that originally came out for the #FMTowns. It’s also ridiculously hard!
#Retrogaming #NEC #PCEngine

RT @flxel
I'm happy to announce DMC88 (Delorean) interest survey. Based on successful #FZ1 #3DO #ODE this is ODE for #FMTowns Marty console. Simple plug and play solution for your console.
https://forms.gle/gMCUabWCjBAoyrYP7

#TodayInHistory 1993 - Fujitsu introduces the Marty model of the #FMTOWNS line of computer/game system. Often claimed to be the 1st 32bit CD based video game system. #RETROGAMING

followup to the will wright talk i mentioned earlier:

really enjoyable hour-long seminar by @frandallfarmer in the same HCI course, in which he details #Lucasfilm Games' Habitat and the creation of virtual communities, community building and maintenance.

also has a very rare discussion of Fujitsu's Habitat for the #fmtowns, and the WorldsAway client for Windows 3.1

#gamedesign #gamedev #RetroGaming #history

RT @rpwbrowne@twitter.com

Amazing. Found the FM Towns demo I rendered on about six SGI’s post finishing Microcosm that led to Scavenger 4 / Novastorm! #gamedev #fmtowns #psygnosis https://sp.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2776986

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/rpwbrowne/status/1611884583880101888

By popular demand (thanks to @vga256), have catalogued "The Official Guide To Ultima" into #TheVideoGameLibrary.

Both the 1st and 2nd Editions are listed. Everything you'd ever want to know about the saga circa 1992.

What's your favourite #Ultima game?

👉 https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/the-official-book-of-ultima

#UltimaI #UltimaII #UltimaIII #UltimaIV #UltimaV #UltimaVI #Gaming #VideoGames #VideoGame #PC #PCGaming #OriginSystems #RichardGarriott #AppleII #C64 #Commodore64 #FMTowns #MSX2 #PC8801 #PC9801 #SharpX1 @bookstodon

Inside my #Fujitsu FM Towns Car Marty. Took these pictures when I removed the on-board battery and installed a coin-cell holder instead.

#fmtowns #RetroGaming #retrocomputing

Remember the #Fujitsu FM TOWNS computers? Remember the more rare Marty console? Remember the even more rare Car Marty? Back then when you ordered a Car Marty for your car, you got a free demo CD with it. This is probably the rarest CD in my whole collection. It's nothing special and just contains audio tracks, but still cool to have, making my Car Marty even more complete than it already is. 🙂

#RetroGaming #retro #fmtowns

Not sure how to get more retro computing this weekend - moved from my Amigas this afternoon to playing #c64 soundtrack cd (from new game called #polarbearsinspace ) on my #fmtowns while learning how to setup the recently released #c64os on my #commodore64 with #sid2iec - love the LP record cover on the cd - awesome music too. Polar bears in space is a love letter to Wizball, one of my favourite c64 games of all time :-)

Have you ever seen this #retrocomputer #FMTOwns
I was comparing platforms on which Secret and Return to Monkey Island was supported and found it there. I guess those didn't get to Poland or at least was never common.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_Towns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FM_Towns_games
#retrogaming

Fujitsu took an interest in Habitat and sought out the original developers who helped them to negotiate with Lucasfilm Games to license the Habitat IP.

A seminar was held at Skywalker Ranch between the devs and Fujitsu representatives to explain how it all worked.

The result was the creaiton of Fujitsu Habitat. A fully Japanese language driven virtual world released for the FM Towns in 1990. Featuring higher resolution graphics and sound/music.

#FMTowns #富士通Habitat #Fujitsu #MMO

If anyones interested in the history of virtual worlds, I run a website documenting and archiving stuff about a particular subset of them.

If anyone's familiar with Lucasfilm's Habitat, it's a site about that service and its successor services created by some of the same people from 1985 up till the 2000's.

I'll write a little toot about each service below.

Check it out over at https://renoproject.org

#LucasfilmHabitat #C64 #Fujitsu #FMTowns #WorldsAway #HabitatII #GlassCity #JChat

While I'm not busy coding games with cartoon dinosaurs, I enjoy tinkering with various retro hardware. Some people DMed me about the FMV Towns model I mentioned in one of my previous toots, so here it is.

I got and restored this machine in 2021, and since then I also upgraded it a bit. It's essentially an x86/FM Towns hybrid, compatible with both IBM-PC and FMT standards. It's been my main DOS/W95 machine ever since.

More in 🧵

#retrocomputing #windows95 #fmtowns