Thursday, July 8, 2021

The wild world of Chinese famiclone personal computers with Excel,Vcd and Modem support

The YuXing 315D, uses what looks to be interactive VCDs


Older floppy based model


Connect your Famiclone Media System to the world wide web using the rare modem! (ChinaNet service)


Playing VCDs, the number one format in China in the 90's.

The online interface

And finally let's do some Excel office work on our Famiclone, who needs a Windows PC?


Some instruction videos from the Chinatubes

All credits to this Chinese post for gathering all the info: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/48389260
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2 comments:

  1. EdJuly 9, 2021 at 5:27 AM

    Incredible! I had no idea these existed. I bet NES homebrew devs would love to study the internals of these machines.

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    1. Mr^BurnsJuly 10, 2021 at 4:20 PM

      The bios on these things are undumped so that one undertaking that somebody can feel free to do.

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