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Fujitsu FM Towns II EX	Computers	Home Computer	Japan	1993	Intel i80486 DX2 66	name image company company_name specs tabs screenshots emulators links videos comments related oc_id source FM Towns II EX /media/museum/photos/fujitsu_fm-town-2ex_1.jpg /companies/fujitsu Fujitsu label value NAME FM Towns II EX label value MANUFACTURER Fujitsu label value TYPE Home Computer label value ORIGIN Japan label value YEAR 1993 label value CPU Intel i80486 DX2 66 label value SPEED 66 MHz label value CO-PROCESSOR Unknown label value RAM 4 MB (up to 32 MB) label value VRAM 1 MB srpite VRAM : 128 KB (16 x 16 pixel, 1024 maximum sprites) label value ROM Unknown label value TEXT MODES 40 x 25 / 80 x 25 label value GRAPHIC MODES maximum 1024 x 768 label value COLORS 16.7 millions label value SOUND 16 bit PCM record/playback (stereo 48 KHz, 1 voice), FM (6 channel-stereo), PCM (19.2 KHZ, 8 channel stereo) label value I/O PORTS Bus slots (3), Overdrive slot (1), SCSI, Centronics, RS232c label value BUILT IN MEDIA one or two 3.5'' disk-drives label value OS MS DOS (?) software emulators links videos title subtitle text image SCREENSHOT Thanks to [fullmotionvideo.free.fr](http://fullmotionvideo.free.fr/) for this picture /media/museum/software/fujitsu_fmtowns_ss_3x3eye_1.jpg title subtitle text image SCREENSHOT Thanks to [fullmotionvideo.free.fr](http://fullmotionvideo.free.fr/) for this picture /media/museum/software/fujitsu_fmtowns_ss_3x3eye_2.jpg title subtitle text image SCREENSHOT Thanks to [fullmotionvideo.free.fr](http://fullmotionvideo.free.fr/) for this picture /media/museum/software/fujitsu_fmtowns_ss_amaranthiii.jpg title subtitle text image SCREENSHOT Thanks to [fullmotionvideo.free.fr](http://fullmotionvideo.free.fr/) for this picture /media/museum/software/fujitsu_fmtowns_ss_american-ultra-quizz.jpg title subtitle text image SCREENSHOT Thanks to [fullmotionvideo.free.fr](http://fullmotionvideo.free.fr/) for this picture /media/museum/software/fujitsu_fmtowns_ss_nobunaganoyabou-tenshouki.jpg title subtitle text image SCREENSHOT Thanks to [fullmotionvideo.free.fr](http://fullmotionvideo.free.fr/) for this picture /media/museum/software/fujitsu_fmtowns_ss_nobunaganoyabou-tenshouki_2.jpg title url platform text FM Towns Bochs Emulator http://fmbochs.emuvibes.com/ Windows Windows emulator title url platform text UNZ Emulator & info http://members.at.infoseek.co.jp/townsemu/index.html Windows UNZ Emulator & info title url text ASSEMBLER - FM Towns page http://assembler.roarvgm.com/FM_towns_computers/fm_towns_computers.html Nice page with a lot of pictures title url text FM Towns Software Database http://homepage2.nifty.com/ftowns/db/sdb.html The name says it all (in japanese) title url text FM TOWNS world http://homepage2.nifty.com/ftowns/ Dedicated japanese site title url text The World of FM Towns http://ktj.dip.jp/towns/index_e Some interesting info here title url text FM Towns II japanese TV commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkPMpmBfwfI Length: 15 s title url text FM Towns japanese TV commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SstlqNyuD1w Length: 30 s title url text FM Towns japanese TV commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9UlTdrjbr8 Length: 30 s title url text FM Towns japanese TV commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y01Pjyin-pU Length: 30 s author date text Joseph (United States) Thursday 20th December 2012 It looks like a Macintosh, minus the optical drive. author date text Joseph (United States) Thursday 20th December 2012 It looks like a Macintosh, minus the optical drive. author date text Conrad Russo (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) Saturday 17th March 2012 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 date text Fork Monday 24th October 2011 Fm stands for fart monster author date text CLASSIFIED Friday 20th August 2010 It looks like the tv vcr combo in my room author date text Cal Saliki (Montreal) Monday 6th January 2003 Wow! What a monster :D\ 66Mhz, 1mb VRAM... in 1993... /museum/fujitsu-fm-towns /museum/fujitsu-fm-towns-ii 126 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230528020020/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=126 2023-05-28

The Fujitsu FM TOWN II EX is the successor of the FM TOWN 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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