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FM Towns
FM Towns Model 2F
Developer
Fujitsu
Manufacturer
Fujitsu
Product family
FM Towns
Generation
Fourth Generation
Release date
JP: February 28, 1989
Lifespan
1989–1997
Discontinued
Summer 1997
Units sold
500,000[1]
Media
Compact disc
Operating system
Towns OS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95
Display
320×200 - 720×512 resolutions, 256 colors on-screen out of a palette of 32 768
Graphics
Fujitsu custom graphics chip
Sound
Ricoh RF5c68 Yamaha YM2612
Related
FM Towns Marty
The FM Towns (Japanese: エフエムタウンズ, Hepburn: Efu Emu Taunzu) is a Japanese personal computer built by Fujitsu from February 1989 to the summer of 1997. It started as a proprietary PC variant intended for multimedia applications and PC games, but later became more compatible with IBM PC compatibles. In 1993, the FM Towns Marty was released, a game console compatible with existing FM Towns games.
The "FM" part of the name means "Fujitsu Micro" like their earlier products, while the "Towns" part is derived from the code name the system was assigned while in development, "Townes". This refers to Charles Townes, one of the winners of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics, following a custom of Fujitsu at the time to code name PC products after Nobel Prize winners. The e in "Townes" was dropped when the system went into production to make it clearer that the term was to be pronounced like the word "towns" rather than the potential "tow-nes".[2]
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notably in Sega's Mega Drive/Genesis video game console as well as Fujitsu's FMTowns computer series. As with the YM3438, it was used by Sega in later models...
minicomputers, small business computers, servers and personal computers (FM-8, FM-7, FM-Towns, etc). In 1955, Fujitsu founded Kawasaki Frontale as a company football...
optimization algorithms Ported to FMTowns, PC-98, X68000 and SNES by Imagineer "FMTowns ROM Archive". SimAnt FMTowns ROM. "1992 Excellence in Software...
including the MSX, X1, X68000, FMTowns and FM-7, have built-in FM synthesis sound from Yamaha by the mid-1980s. By 1989, the FMTowns computer platform featured...
Sega's Mega Drive (Genesis) and Fujitsu's FMTowns Marty as one of its sound generator chips. Throughout the 2000s, FM synthesis was also used on a wide range...
Contraption Maker left the Steam Early Access program. "FMTowns ROM Archive". The Incredible Machine FMTowns ROM. Breckon, Nick (1 October 2009). "PushButton...
FMTowns, PC-98 and X68000 by Imagineer. Ported to SNES by Tomcat System. Ported to Mega-CD by Game Arts. "FMTowns ROM Archive". SimEarth FMTowns ROM...
springboard for off-line creative play". Tux Paint Mario Paint "FMTowns ROM Archive". KidPix FMTowns ROM. Hickman, Craig. "Kid Pix - The Early Years". Dry Reading...
3TR FM (Three Towns Radio) was an Independent Local Radio station based in the ancient market town of Warminster, Wiltshire, United Kingdom. It broadcast...
Europe, while the PC-98, Sharp X68000, and FMTowns became popular in Japan. The Amiga, X68000 and FMTowns were capable of producing near arcade-quality...
McKracken (Japanese: ザックマックラッケン Zakkumakkurakken); for the Japanese Fujitsu FMTowns computer. Produced by Douglas Crockford, it came on CD-ROM with 256-color...
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