FM Towns - help req.

**sh3-rg** · 12-25-2004

Got some dev stuff earlier this year & in with it was an FM Towns scsi HD, keyboard, mouse, Jap OS, English OS, manuals... all sorts of stuff apart from the computer itself :(

Anyone point me in the rough direction of where I might find my missing pieces 'cause it's bugging me what niceNES might be hiding on the HD. If someone can suggest a haXx0r'd up way to make my old PC read it I don't mind giving it a go as long as it's not too demanding (don't have any real harware skills worth mentioning).

Still got to go through two big boxes of oldskool devshit but the FM Towns HD has been sitting there teasing me for too long now. Also, anyone know if the Amiga 2000 was used to dev anything other than Amiga stuff? It'd make that one possibly more interesting to tinker with if so.

kevin

**Blur2040** · 12-25-2004

I'm pretty sure Atari Lynx development was done on Amiga...as for which model...who knows?

**ASSEMbler** · 12-25-2004

yank the drive out of the external and put it on a scsi card.

**sh3-rg** · 12-25-2004

FM Towns scsi disk format = PC disk format? Simple as that?

kevin

**ASSEMbler** · 12-25-2004

There's a file interchanger out there , ljust like the one for mac to pc

HI_Ricky · 12-25-2004

FM-TOWNS, use MS-DOS(MS MAKE to FM-TOWNS) and windows 2.0j
well, FM-TOWNS use, normal PC format,(FD,CD,HDD)
but FM-Towns appaction and game did not run in normal PC...

FM-TOWNS.(FD,CD,HDD) PC FORMAT
MSX(3.5) PC Format
NEC PC98(5 1/4 special NEC Format),3.5,HDD,CD PC Format

**sh3-rg** · 12-26-2004

Thanks for all your help. I found a helpful person in the UK who is a .jp computer expert & he's supplied me with a step-by-step & software. I'll post if I find some goodies on there.

kevin

**Calpis** · 12-26-2004

What was developed on your FM Towns? FM Towns / Marty?

**sh3-rg** · 12-26-2004

I'll only know once I get a chance to dig through the contents of the HD & I'll be doing that in the new year.

kevin

**retro** · 12-26-2004

hi sh3-rg, welcome to the board :smt033

The Amiga 3000 was the centrepiece of the virtuality machines, albeit with extra custom hardware.

You'd think that Lynx was devved on a Falcon, but apparently the 2000 was used for it. here is an interesting site on the topic.

Babylon 5 had some effects done on an Amiga 2000 with a Video Toaster board, Lightwave 3D and Modeller 3D. In fact, the pilot was rendered on a cluster of 8 Amigas and one IBM PC!

The Amiga was sometimes used for 8 bit coding (e.g. Spectrum, Commodore), it was mostly regarded for graphics work really.

By the way, what part of England are you from?

**sh3-rg** · 12-27-2004

Originally Posted by retro

hi sh3-rg, welcome to the board :smt033

thanks :smt023

All that done on Amiga 2000.... so I suppose there could be just about anything on there ;)

Originally Posted by retro

By the way, what part of England are you from?

Bolton, Lancs.

Thanks again for the tips, keeps me interested in finding out what's on there & what it was used for.

kevin

**Blur2040** · 12-27-2004

Let us know what you find!

**retro** · 12-28-2004

Have you got a SCSI compatible PC? Pop it in and see what you come up with! I can always give you a hand if you get stuck on the SCSI side, or maybe some other board members might offer a hand too :smt023

**Tachikoma** · 12-28-2004

If you have a PC with an ISA slot, I have a SCSI card you can have for a few quid.

**madhatter256** · 12-28-2004

Originally Posted by Tachikoma

If you have a PC with an ISA slot, I have a SCSI card you can have for a few quid.

I'll take that off your hands for ya :-D So as long as its a 25pin SCSI type.

**sh3-rg** · 01-03-2005

Originally Posted by retro

Have you got a SCSI compatible PC? Pop it in and see what you come up with! I can always give you a hand if you get stuck on the SCSI side, or maybe some other board members might offer a hand too :smt023

Originally Posted by Tachikoma

If you have a PC with an ISA slot, I have a SCSI card you can have for a few quid.

Cheers for the offers, I've got an old PC & the scsi card etc to stick in there... the solution requires dos or win95 also for the driver i was given, so I'll have to dig through some old CDs too.

just wish I'd been given the fm towns computer in the first place though ;) 2 keyboards, a mouse, os disks, manuals, HDs... no compy :-(

dpaint4 · 01-10-2005

Originally Posted by sh3-rg

Got some dev stuff earlier this year & in with it was an FM Towns scsi HD, keyboard, mouse, Jap OS, English OS, manuals... all sorts of stuff apart from the computer itself :(

Anyone point me in the rough direction of where I might find my missing pieces 'cause it's bugging me what niceNES might be hiding on the HD. If someone can suggest a haXx0r'd up way to make my old PC read it I don't mind giving it a go as long as it's not too demanding (don't have any real harware skills worth mentioning).

Still got to go through two big boxes of oldskool devshit but the FM Towns HD has been sitting there teasing me for too long now. Also, anyone know if the Amiga 2000 was used to dev anything other than Amiga stuff? It'd make that one possibly more interesting to tinker with if so.

kevin

Its my understanding that you can do some MegaDrive / Genesis stuff with your Amiga. I knew a guy in High School who used a 500 for that. The 2000 is what I have / use for my animation pencil tests (not coding tho'). Lots of European studios used their Amigas to code Megadrive games. Core. Hmmmm... that's all I know and it's not much. Good luck and have fun. Amiga rocks.