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Ivan
msx professional
Posts: 885 |  Posted: February 21 2004, 22:23 |
Which are the differences between these 4 FM-PACs (forget the PAC on the top-left)?
How many different FM-PACs were produced in The Netherlands?
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Ivan
msx professional
Posts: 885 | Posted: February 21 2004, 22:24 |
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GuyveR800
msx guru
Posts: 3048 | Posted: February 21 2004, 23:43 |
The FM Stereo PAKs have stereo output (obviously  ) and come with the same ROM as internal MSX-MUSIC's, which means only FM BASIC is in the ROM.
The original FM-PAC is the only one with the CALL FMPAC program and has ofcourse the PAC SRAM. |
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Ivan
msx professional
Posts: 885 | Posted: February 21 2004, 23:57 |
Do they have the same sound quality?
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GuyveR800
msx guru
Posts: 3048 | Posted: February 22 2004, 01:13 |
The dutch produced FM-PAC clones are pretty good AFAIK. Not that I speak from experience, but I can't recall hearing any complaints. The Korean FM-Ship is known to be very noisy.
However, to my knowledge, none of the them have the volume switch (low, mid, high) that the original FM-PAC has.
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BiFi
msx guru
Posts: 3142 | Posted: February 22 2004, 07:28 |
The FM-PAK (the stereo variant) has a built-in program as well. Even though the FM-Basic can be used on MSX1 too, the built-in program requires at least MSX2 and can be called with CALL FMPAK.
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GuyveR800
msx guru
Posts: 3048 | Posted: February 22 2004, 22:47 |
I suppose it's a different internal program than the original one?
And, more importantly, is it dumped and does openMSX support it?  |
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mars2000you
msx master
Posts: 1723 | Posted: February 22 2004, 23:06 |
I've a FMPAK cartridge and also a rom image of this cartridge.
I think that the rom image runs correctly in openMSX, but I must check it ...
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mars2000you
msx master
Posts: 1723 | Posted: February 22 2004, 23:28 |
openMSX doesn't seem to support the FMPAK cartridge : I've tried with Catapult and I get the message "Syntax error" when I use call fmpak ... so, it means that this rom is not included in the openMSX rom database ...
In my preferred emulator (NLMSX), no problem at all : call fmpak gives access to the integrated software
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