I’m not much of a YouTuber, but I decided to whip together a video on the FM Towns Marty. The typical videos one finds when trying to research this often misunderstood machine are of the usual “What Went Wrong?” and “Why Did it Fail?” variety. As a result, I wanted to contribute something a bit more meaningful to the conversation.
Featuring an AMD 386SX CPU at 16mhz and wielding both a CD-ROM and floppy disk drive, the Marty is a fun and interesting machine on which to enjoy old games, especially those quirky Japanese ones. It’s also a very unique machine, often getting mistaken as some sort of 5th generation competitor to the likes of the SEGA Saturn or Sony PlayStation, when, in reality, it’s a home consolized version of Fujitsu’s popular FM Towns line of computers.
In this video, I cover a number of items…
- Some light history
- The console itself
- Optical drive emulator (DocBrown)
- Floppy drive emulator (The Thing, GoTek)
- 2MB RAM expansion
- Input peripherals
- Games
While this is a video that so few, if any, people asked for, I do hope some of you out there enjoy it! That being said, allow me to apologize in advance for its poor production quality. I’m just a hacker-engineer who sometimes likes to record videos to share interesting things with the world.