--- title: Fujitsu FM Towns II EX categories: - Computers types: - Home Computer origins: - Japan years: - '1993' cpus: - Intel i80486 DX2 66 params: name: FM Towns II EX image: /media/museum/photos/fujitsu_fm-town-2ex_1.jpg company: /companies/fujitsu company_name: Fujitsu specs: - label: NAME value: FM Towns II EX - label: MANUFACTURER value: Fujitsu - label: TYPE value: Home Computer - label: ORIGIN value: Japan - label: YEAR value: '1993' - label: CPU value: Intel i80486 DX2 66 - label: SPEED value: 66 MHz - label: CO-PROCESSOR value: Unknown - label: RAM value: 4 MB (up to 32 MB) - label: VRAM value: '1 MB srpite VRAM : 128 KB (16 x 16 pixel, 1024 maximum sprites)' - label: ROM value: Unknown - label: TEXT MODES value: 40 x 25 / 80 x 25 - label: GRAPHIC MODES value: maximum 1024 x 768 - label: COLORS value: 16.7 millions - label: SOUND value: 16 bit PCM record/playback (stereo 48 KHz, 1 voice), FM (6 channel-stereo), PCM (19.2 KHZ, 8 channel stereo) - label: I/O PORTS value: Bus slots (3), Overdrive slot (1), SCSI, Centronics, RS232c - label: BUILT IN MEDIA value: one or two 3.5'' disk-drives - label: OS value: MS DOS (?) tabs: - software - emulators - links - videos screenshots: - title: SCREENSHOT subtitle: '' text: Thanks to [fullmotionvideo.free.fr](http://fullmotionvideo.free.fr/) for this picture image: /media/museum/software/fujitsu_fmtowns_ss_3x3eye_1.jpg - title: SCREENSHOT subtitle: '' text: Thanks to [fullmotionvideo.free.fr](http://fullmotionvideo.free.fr/) for this picture image: /media/museum/software/fujitsu_fmtowns_ss_3x3eye_2.jpg - title: SCREENSHOT subtitle: '' text: Thanks to [fullmotionvideo.free.fr](http://fullmotionvideo.free.fr/) for this picture image: /media/museum/software/fujitsu_fmtowns_ss_amaranthiii.jpg - title: SCREENSHOT subtitle: '' text: Thanks to [fullmotionvideo.free.fr](http://fullmotionvideo.free.fr/) for this picture image: /media/museum/software/fujitsu_fmtowns_ss_american-ultra-quizz.jpg - title: SCREENSHOT subtitle: '' text: Thanks to [fullmotionvideo.free.fr](http://fullmotionvideo.free.fr/) for this picture image: /media/museum/software/fujitsu_fmtowns_ss_nobunaganoyabou-tenshouki.jpg - title: SCREENSHOT subtitle: '' text: Thanks to [fullmotionvideo.free.fr](http://fullmotionvideo.free.fr/) for this picture image: /media/museum/software/fujitsu_fmtowns_ss_nobunaganoyabou-tenshouki_2.jpg emulators: - title: FM Towns Bochs Emulator url: http://fmbochs.emuvibes.com/ platform: Windows text: Windows emulator - title: UNZ Emulator & info url: http://members.at.infoseek.co.jp/townsemu/index.html platform: Windows text: UNZ Emulator & info links: - title: ASSEMBLER - FM Towns page url: http://assembler.roarvgm.com/FM_towns_computers/fm_towns_computers.html text: Nice page with a lot of pictures - title: FM Towns Software Database url: http://homepage2.nifty.com/ftowns/db/sdb.html text: The name says it all (in japanese) - title: FM TOWNS world url: http://homepage2.nifty.com/ftowns/ text: Dedicated japanese site - title: The World of FM Towns url: http://ktj.dip.jp/towns/index_e text: Some interesting info here videos: - title: FM Towns II japanese TV commercial url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkPMpmBfwfI text: 'Length: 15 s' - title: FM Towns japanese TV commercial url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SstlqNyuD1w text: 'Length: 30 s' - title: FM Towns japanese TV commercial url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9UlTdrjbr8 text: 'Length: 30 s' - title: FM Towns japanese TV commercial url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y01Pjyin-pU text: 'Length: 30 s' comments: - author: Joseph (United States) date: Thursday 20th December 2012 text: It looks like a Macintosh, minus the optical drive. - author: Joseph (United States) date: Thursday 20th December 2012 text: It looks like a Macintosh, minus the optical drive. - author: Conrad Russo (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) date: Saturday 17th March 2012 text: As far as I know there is no FM TOWNS II EX. The three FM TOWNS machines that come in this style of case that I know of are the UX, UG, and the UR. I have the latter. The UX and UG both have 386SX processors, the UX has a 386SX 16MHz, the UG has a 386SX 20MHz. The UR has a 486SX 20MHz. All three models are limited to 10MB RAM max. The only thing I can think of is you have mixed up a picture of a UX with the stats of the much later MX machine, which does indeed have a 486DX2 66MHz, although that machine tops out at a maximum of 100MB of RAM, not 32. - author: Fork date: Monday 24th October 2011 text: Fm stands for fart monster - author: CLASSIFIED date: Friday 20th August 2010 text: It looks like the tv vcr combo in my room - author: Cal Saliki (Montreal) date: Monday 6th January 2003 text: |- Wow! What a monster :D\ 66Mhz, 1mb VRAM... in 1993... related: - /museum/fujitsu-fm-towns - /museum/fujitsu-fm-towns-ii oc_id: 126 source: url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230528020020/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=126 date: '2023-05-28' --- The Fujitsu FM TOWN II EX is the successor of the [FM TOWN II](/museum/fujitsu-fm-towns-ii/) which used an i386SX CPU instead of the i486 DX2. Even if it is fully compatible with all PC compatibles, it was primary designed to be used as a powerful game computer. It has the common characteristics with game consoles like enhanced sound, hardware sprites and scrolling and video modes : it has in fact four video modes : 640 x 480 (1 screen of 16.7 million colors), 512 x 384 (2 screens of 32768 colors), 1024 x 768 (2 screens of 16 colors among 4096) or 1024 x7\* 768 (1 screen of 256 colors among 16.7 millions). This computer had, as its previous models, a great success in Japan and a lot of multimedia and game applications were developped for it, but however was never launched outside Japan.
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