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PC-9801 PC-9801F motherboard. The first model, the PC-9801, launched in October 1982, [14] and employs an 8086 CPU. It runs at a clock speed of 5 MHz, with two μPD7220 display controllers (one for text, the other for video graphics), and was shipped with 128 KB of RAM that can be expanded to 640 KB. Its 8-color display has a maximum resolution ...
Thexder quickly became a best-selling hit, selling over 500,000 copies in Japan by 1987. [2] [3] As the PC-8801 platform was only popular in Japan, Thexder did not garner significant attention abroad until it was converted for the MSX (the best-selling platform in Brazil and many Eastern European countries), Apple II, and DOS, eventually becoming an international hit.
PC-UX was a discontinued NEC port of UNIX System III [1] for their APC III [2] and PC-9801 personal computer. PC-UX possessed extensive graphics capabilities at the time of its release. PC-UX and MS-DOS could reside on the same hard drive, with PC-UX containing transfer utilities that allowed for file transfers to MS-DOS.
It was originally released for the NEC PC-6001 and PC-8801 computers in 1984, in Japan only; [5] ports for the MSX, MSX2, FM-7 and NEC PC-9801 were released the following year. A Nintendo Switch port based on the PC-8801 version was released on December 21, 2023 by D4 Enterprise. A Famicom version was released under the name Hydlide Special in ...
The PC-8801 was a Japanese home computer released by NEC in 1981 - and original PC-8801 games (as opposed to titles from later revisions of the platform) started to be made available through Project EGG on November 24, 2001. There have been 184 original PC-8801 titles available on Project EGG, 25 of which are no longer available for purchase:
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Dragon Quest was released in Japan in 1986 for the Famicom, the MSX, [48] [49] the MSX2, and the PC-9801. [ 50 ] Dragon Warrior was released in North America by Nintendo of America under the direction of Satoru Iwata with help from Horii in August 1989 – months before the Japanese release of Dragon Quest IV .
The NEC APC, the first of the series. The N5200 is a series of personal computers released in 1981. The APC is a version of the N5200 that was sold outside Japan. [4]Although its computer architecture is very similar to the PC-98, it was developed and marketed in a different way.