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HuC6270 is a video display controller (VDC) developed by Hudson Soft and manufactured for Hudson Soft by Seiko Epson. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This VDC was used in the PC Engine game console series produced by NEC Corporation , and the upgraded PC Engine SuperGrafx .
The HuC6280 8-bit microprocessor is Japanese company Hudson Soft's improved version of the WDC 65C02 CPU, an upgraded CMOS version of the popular NMOS-based MOS Technology 6502 8-bit CPU, manufactured for Hudson by Seiko Epson and NEC. The most notable product using the HuC6280 is NEC's TurboGrafx-16 video game console.
Hudson Soft also named a number of products after the C62, including the development kit for the PC Engine, [9] [10] and a chip (Hu62) that was used in a later version of the hardware. [11] It was also the code name for their console before they settled on PC Engine. [12] A C62 called Mr C6 is seen in Yamataro Comes Back.
The relation between Hudson Soft and Konami can be traced to at least as early as 1985, when Hudson ported Konami's arcade game Pooyan to the MSX and Famicom. But the acquisition process of Hudson Soft by Konami would only begin in 2001. Hudson Soft was severely hit by the collapse of its main bank Hokkaido Takushoku. [18]
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High-speed CMOS (HCMOS) chip [41] [42] SAM9707 1998 4 Quasimidi digital synthesizers (Rave-O-Lution 309, Sirius, Polymorph) Digital signal processor (DSP) core [43] [44] Ensoniq: Ensoniq 5503 1984 32 Mirage synthesizer and Apple IIGS computer [45] Hudson Soft / NEC / Epson: Hudson Soft HuC6280: 1987 6 NEC's PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16) console ...
The Hudson Soft HuC6280 is a modified 65C02 with an effective clock rate of 1.79 or 7.16 MHz (switchable by software). The integrated components of this 8-bit processor include a timer, general-purpose I/O port, and bankswitching hardware (which drives a 21-bit external address bus from a 6502-compatible 16-bit address bus).
This is a list of video games developed or published by Hudson Soft. The following dates are based on the earliest release, typically in Japan . While Hudson Soft started releasing video games in 1978, it was not until 1983 that the company began to gain serious notability among the video gaming community.