--- title: Panasonic FS A1 GT categories: - Computers types: - Home Computer origins: - Japan years: - '1991' cpus: - Zilog Z80A params: name: FS A1 GT company: /companies/panasonic company_name: Panasonic specs: - label: NAME value: FS A1 GT - label: MANUFACTURER value: Panasonic - label: TYPE value: Home Computer - label: ORIGIN value: Japan - label: YEAR value: '1991' - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE value: MSX Basic V4.1, MSX View, Japanese text editor, a spread sheat and a sample program - label: KEYBOARD value: |- Full-stroke keyboard, JIS standard layout, 91 keys\ built-in software selector switch, reset button, disk removal button, auto-fire speed adjustment knob, Pause button - label: CPU value: Zilog Z80A and R800 (16 Bit RISC) - label: SPEED value: 'Z80A: 3.579545 MHz / R800: 28.636360 MHz' - label: CO-PROCESSOR value: Video chip must be compatible with the Yamaha VG9938 or V9958, sound chip must be compatible with the General Instruments AY8910 - label: RAM value: 512 KB + 32 KB S-RAM (for backup) - label: VRAM value: 128 KB - label: ROM value: 32 KB (BASIC/BIOS ROM) + 32 KB (SUBROM MSX-BASIC V4.0) + 16 KB (MIDI-Basic ROM) + 16 KB (MSX Disk Basic) + 16 KB (Kanji Basic) + 512 KB (MSX View) + 2 MB (Japanese text editor, a spread sheat and a sample program) + MSX JE ROM (with approx. 32000 characters) - label: TEXT MODES value: 80 x 25 / 40 x 25 / 32 x 25 - label: GRAPHIC MODES value: 64 x 48 / 256 x 192 / 256 x 212 / 512 x 212 / 512 x 424 - label: COLORS value: 16 / 16 - 256 / 16 among 512 / 19268 - label: SOUND value: |- AY-8910 + YM-2413 chip (9 channels of music) + PCM 8-bit synthesizer = 13 available channels!\ MSX-MIDI interface built-in - label: SIZE / WEIGHT value: 425 (W) x 292 (D) x 89 (H) mm / 3.4 Kg - label: I/O PORTS value: Joystick (2), Cartridge (2), RGB video output, Composite Video, SVHS output, Centronics, Microphone output, MIDI interface (IN & OUT), User port - label: BUILT IN MEDIA value: Built-in 3.5'' disk drive (720 KB) - label: OS value: MSX-DOS V2.31 - label: POWER SUPPLY value: 100V±10% 50/60Hz, 22w - label: PRICE value: 99,800 yen (Japan, 1991) tabs: - photos - emulators - links photos: - title: TURBOR FS A1 GT subtitle: '' text: '' image: null emulators: - title: BlueMSX url: http://www.bluemsx.com/ platform: Windows text: Excellent free MSX emulator that can reproduce MSX, MSX2, MSX2+, and Turbo-R. The emulator also supports the SVI318/328, and ColecoVision systems ! - title: openMSX - The MSX emulator that aims for perfection. url: http://openmsx.sourceforge.net/ platform: Multiplatform text: This new MSX emulator can reproduce, among many other MSX, MSX2and MSX2+ machines, both Panasonic Turbo-R models. Be sure to get the catapult frontend and the system roms from FUNET. links: - title: FILE-HUNTER.COM url: http://www.file-hunter.com/ text: Excellent! All MSX emulators, sources and utilities! - title: MSX French Club url: http://www.chez.com/msxfr/turbor.html text: Nice and complete description of the TurboR systems (in French) - title: MSX Ultimate FAQ - Turbo R page url: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/msxtr.html text: Very nice info from this excellent site! - title: MSX-VIEW url: http://www.chez.com/msxfr/msxviewp.html text: A description of MSX-VIEW, the graphical operating system (in French) comments: - author: Roger Jowett (Ulster) date: Thursday 28th February 2013 text: |- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v$zsjTpFR0oYQ please help\ trying to convert 8bit video for sam coupe\ this is still not mode 3 interlaced with hmpr bit 5$6 CLUT alterations per scan line HELP we only need a DMA...\ masterdos/basic atom lite support related: - /museum/msx-turbo-r - /museum/panasonic-fs-a1-st oc_id: 627 source: url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230604043356/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=627 date: '2023-06-04' --- This system is a [MSX Turbo R](/museum/msx-turbo-r/). It is one of the last MSX computer ever made. It is the successor of the [MSX 2+ systems](/museum/msx-2-291/) and thus has many characteristics in common. New features include a new PCM sound chip which can sample sound up to 15 KHz and replay up to 22 kHz. There is an internal microphone for the PCM unit. There is also an additional CPU, the R800 wich is a 16-bit RISC processor. The user can select the CPU (Z80 or R800) by software. The FS-A1 GT follows the [FS-A1 ST](/museum/panasonic-fs-a1-st/), and so introduces some improvements over it. Due to some minor bugs discovered, the mainboard is a bit different (e.g. FM-PAC part is redesigned to decrease influence of the noise from computer's digital parts). The MSX-BASIC, version 4.1 instead of 4.0, has MIDI extensions. Indeed the FS-A1 GT has a MSX-MIDI interface built-in with MIDI in/out connectors! The RAM size is of 512 KB, instead of 256 KB. The MSX-DOS is now version V2.31. There is a SVHS video port and the size of the SRAM is now 32 KB. MSX View, developed by ASCII & HAL, is a Windows-style graphic interface. It is built-in ROM. The OS is delivered with programs such as Page Edit, PageView, Page Link, VShell, VTed, VPaint and VDraw) on 512kB ROM DISK (C: drive). There is no tape recorder port, so strictly speaking, it's not an MSX! Panasonic stopped the production of the Turbo R when they launched the 3DO game system in 1992. They failed with this system and never returned to MSX. Lot of extensions, however, were produced by third-party companies to enhance the Turbo R, among them, an OPL4 Sound Card, a VGA card with lot of hardware sprites and IDE or SCSI interfaces. --- Source : The Ultimate MSX FAQ **David Heremans** reports:\ There is a mixed mode where you can have +4096 colors simultaneously with an extra 16 indexed colors so that still pictures in full color can be displayed while the index palatte of 16 redefinable colors can be used for all kind of effects. But trying to display that would probably be a litle long for the small space reserved for it on the page.