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title: Goldstar FC-80 / FC-200
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Home Computer
origins:
- Japan
years:
- '1984'
cpus:
- Z80A
params:
name: FC-80 / FC-200
image: /media/museum/photos/goldstar_fc200_front_1s.jpg
company: /companies/goldstar
company_name: Goldstar
specs:
- label: NAME
value: FC-80 / FC-200
- label: MANUFACTURER
value: Goldstar
- label: TYPE
value: Home Computer
- label: ORIGIN
value: Japan
- label: YEAR
value: '1984'
- label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
value: Microsoft Extended Basic
- label: KEYBOARD
value: QWERTY full stroke keyboard, 4 big blue arrow keys, 4 function keys
- label: CPU
value: Z80A
- label: SPEED
value: 3,6 Mhz
- label: RAM
value: 64 KB
- label: VRAM
value: 16 KB
- label: ROM
value: 32 KB
- label: TEXT MODES
value: 40 x 24
- label: GRAPHIC MODES
value: 256 x 192, 32 sprites
- label: COLORS
value: '16'
- label: SOUND
value: |-
General Instrument AY-2-8910 sound generator\
3 voices, 8 octaves
- label: I/O PORTS
value: Tape recorder, Centronics port (printer), 2 joystick sockets, cartridge slot, expansion slot, RF and composite video outputs, mono audio output
- label: POWER SUPPLY
value: PSU built-in
- label: PRICE
value: |-
394 (August 85)\
199 £ (UK, april 1985)
tabs:
- photos
- adverts
- hardware
- emulators
- links
photos:
- title: FC-200
subtitle: ''
text: Thanks to Mikael Holm for this picture
image: /media/museum/photos/goldstar_fc200_1.jpg
- title: RIGHT SIDE
subtitle: ''
text: |-
Two controller ports and the tape interface
Thanks to Mikael Holm for this picture
image: /media/museum/photos/goldstar_fc200_right-side.jpg
- title: REAR
subtitle: ''
text: |-
From left to right:\
\- Expansion bus\
\- Video (composite) & audio (mono) outputs\
\- RF TV video output\
\- Printer connector\
\- Fuse (230v, 315mA)\
\- ON/OFF switch
Thanks to Mikael Holm for this picture
image: /media/museum/photos/goldstar_fc200_rear_1.jpg
- title: FRONT
subtitle: ''
text: Thanks to Mikael Holm for this picture
image: /media/museum/photos/goldstar_fc200_front_1.jpg
- title: VESTEL VERSION
subtitle: ''
text: |-
**Burak Dincer** reports to us:\
From 1986 this computer was produced in Turkey by VESTEL under the brand name "VESTEL-GOLDSTAR FC-200". Apart from the brand name, the computer was the same as the original FC-200.
Picture from **Burak Dincer**
image: /media/museum/photos/goldstar_fc200_vestelsys_s1.jpg
- title: VESTEL BOX
subtitle: ''
text: Picture from **Burak Dincer**
image: /media/museum/photos/goldstar_fc200_vestelbox_s1.jpg
adverts:
- title: UK ADVERT (APRIL 1985)
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/pubs/goldstar_fc200_adv_1.jpg
hardware:
- title: NATIONAL CF-2131
subtitle: 16 KB RAM expansion
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/national_cf2131_16k-cart.jpg
- title: CASIO OR-216 - 16 KB RAM EXPANSION
subtitle: Box
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/casio_or216_16kbramexpansion_box.jpg
- title: PHILIPS RAM EXPANSION
subtitle: ''
text: |-
RAM expansion and LOGO language cartridges.
Thanks to Daniele from Italy
image: /media/museum/hardware/philips_vg8020_cartridges_s1.jpg
- title: MEGA RAM DISK 256
subtitle: from DDX (Brazil)
text: This is the famous Megaram cartridge made in Brzail, used to play all Konami cracked Megarom games.6401999243
image: /media/museum/hardware/msx_megaram256-ddx_1.jpg
- title: PANASONIC FS-IFA1 & FW-RSU1W
subtitle: Scanner/Printer interface
text: The FS-IFA1 is the printer/scanner interface (left on the picture) and the FW-RSU1W is the handheld scanner (right on the picture). These expansions are for MSX2 systems.
image: /media/museum/hardware/msx_fs-ifa1_fw-rsu1w.jpg
- title: SONY HBI-232
subtitle: RS232c cartridge
text: Used to connect serial printers.
image: /media/museum/hardware/sony_msx_rs232c-cartridge.jpg
- title: 'YAMAHA MOUSE #1'
subtitle: ''
text: |-
This mouse was compatible with all MSX systems. It connects to the first Joystick port.
Thanks to **www.zonadepruebas.com**
image: /media/museum/hardware/yamaha_mouse_s2.jpg
- title: 'YAMAHA MOUSE #2'
subtitle: ''
text: |-
Brand new!
Thanks to **www.zonadepruebas.com**
image: /media/museum/hardware/yamaha_mouse_s1.jpg
- title: PHILIPS VW0020
subtitle: 80-col dot-matrix printer
text: |-
This printer was a rebadged version of the Seikosha GP-500.\
It was a 80-column, 50 CPS model with a 7x5 dot matrix head.\
Commodore and Atari used same hardware basis for their MPS-801 and 1029 printers.
image: /media/museum/hardware/philips_vg8020_printervw0020_s1.jpg
- title: SANYO PHC-DR II
subtitle: Side
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/sanyo_phc-drii_side_1.jpg
- title: SANYO PHC-DR II
subtitle: Front
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/sanyo_phc-drii_front_1.jpg
- title: SANYO DR-202
subtitle: ''
text: The ADSS system allowed to quickly search a specific program in a cassette tape and load it. Seach time for a C60 cassette was less than 1 minute.
image: /media/museum/hardware/sanyo_phc28_dr202tapedrive_s1.jpg
- title: NATIONAL RQ-8030
subtitle: tape-recorder
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/national_tape_rq8030.jpg
- title: BIT-CORDER
subtitle: ''
text: Cassete recorder dedicated to Hit-Bit MSX systems, though it could be used with any home computers.
image: /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb201_bitcorder_1.jpg
emulators:
- title: fMSX for MS DOS Homepage
url: http://www.komkon.org/~dekogel/fmsx.html
platform: MS DOS
text: ''
- title: BlueMSX
url: http://www.bluemsx.com/
platform: Windows
text: Excellent free MSX emulator
- title: BrMSX
url: http://www.lsi.usp.br/~ricardo/brmsx.htm
platform: Windows
text: A Bresilian MSX Emulator written in 100% assembler
- title: CompuJunk's MSX Emulator
url: http://ftp.castel.nl/msx/
platform: Windows
text: A MSX1 and MSX2 Emulator
- title: RuMSX
url: http://members.eunet.at/lexlechz/msx.html
platform: Windows
text: A MSX Emulator for Win95 and Win NT + Direct X
- title: fMSX for MAC OS Homepage
url: http://www.emulation.net/msx/index.html
platform: Apple
text: ''
- title: fMSX official Homepage
url: http://www.komkon.org/fms/fMSX
platform: Multiplatform
text: 'fMSX is a portable MSX emulator ported on : Amiga OS, Mac OS, MS DOS, OS/2, Sony Playstation, Risc OS, Towns OS, Unix / X, Win95 / NT, X68K.'
- 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: Baboo!
url: http://www.baboo.net/baboo.shtml
text: MSX dedicated Yahoo clone. Essential !
- title: FILE-HUNTER.COM
url: http://www.file-hunter.com/
text: Excellent! All MSX emulators, sources and utilities!
- title: FTP da MSXBr-L/MSX.Org.Br
url: http://www.caetano.eng.br/msxsoft/
text: Excellent brasilian software archive
- title: MOAI TECH
url: http://www.moai-tech.com/
text: Spanish/English website with interesting content
- title: MSX Hardware List
url: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/hardware.html
text: An impressive list of MSX hardware. The Bible !!!
- title: MSX Ressource Center
url: http://www.msx.org/
text: Essential site !
- title: Possi's Konami MSX Page
url: http://dynamo.geol.msu.ru/MSX/
text: Nice page dedicated to all Konami MSX games (roms, scans, mids, etc.)
- title: The MSX Games Box
url: http://www.msxgamesbox.com
text: All about MSX gaming (games, covers.etc.). More Fun, Less Mhz!
- title: The MSX Museum BOX
url: http://www.msxmuseumbox.com
text: More than 190 different MSX models in pictures.
- title: The ultimate MSX Faq
url: http://www.faq.msxnet.org
text: Here, you can find near all hardware pieces related to MSX.
- title: Web Wiz CAPTCHA
url: http://www.webwizcaptcha.com
text: The MSX home computer system
comments:
- author: Roger Jowett (Ulster Londonderry)
date: Saturday 6th April 2013
text: |-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v$zsjTpFR0oYQ
we can run zx spectrum 48k and one 128k programs at 6mhz please help
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oc_id: 425
source:
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230605130720/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=425
date: '2023-06-05'
---
Goldstar became LG (Lucky-Goldstar) in 1997.
The FC-80 and FC-200 are the same computers. The FC-200 was the name used for the "export" model (outside Korea/Asia?).
This typical MSX-1 computer was made in Korea. It has no special feature apart from the official MSX specifications...
Or maybe just one weird feature : it has a hole at the right of the cartridge slot to store a lightpen when not used. This lightpen was available as an option with its dedicated cartridge.
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Contributors : Junki Cho, Mikael Holm
<table> <tr> <td></td> <td>We need more info about this computer ! If you designed, used, or have more info about this system, please send us pictures or anything you might find useful.</td> <td></td> </tr> </table>