The tower case looks like two connected towers, with a retractable carrying handle.2 x 5.25″ floppy disk drives with soft eject.Component RGB In/Out - equipped for NTSC-J Cable TV.VGA Monitor Port - 15/24/31 kHz refresh rates.16 colors per sprite selected from 16 palettes.128 sprites per screen 16 sprites per line.Street Fighter II is an exception which requires 4 MB RAM. Most applications and some games required 2 MB RAM. Motorola-Clone 68000 CPU (HD68HC000) at 10 MHz made by Hitachi.Let’s start with some hardware specs for the standard X68000 ACE model which was released early 1998 (source: 圆8000 User Manual): Sharp 圆8000 System Hardware Specification I hope this becomes a useful article about this vastly unknown, yet wonderful system which was produced in Japan between 19. Below I have compiled some of the details about the Sharp 圆8000 system here, with a focus on the ACE model in the specifications section. I have some basic Japanese skills which does help, but I did need to translate a lot of things. The 圆8000 systems were only released in Japan and where I live in Australia, the most popular systems at that time were the Commodore Amiga and the Atari ST, which I used myself.ĭue to my interest for this machine, I have discovered man y things reading magazines, system manuals and a few Japanese websites/forums dedicated to this system. The Sharp 圆8000 is the one computer system I wished I had the opportunity to own and I only discovered it via emulation and going through the retro computer listings on eBay and other sites. NOTE: This is a revision of a long standing article that I had originally published in 2014 on and again later on.
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