Why speak about X68000 ? Because the best arcade games and the best MSX games were converted for this computer that was released only in Japan by Sharp between 1986 and 1990 (5 or 6 models).
The MSX conversions are really so good that you have also the MSX feeling. An example : the Gradius 2 (or Nemesis 2) conversion with the SCC sounds that have the perfection of the FM approach !
But why this computer was not called MSX68000 ? Because it's only a Sharp product (at the same time, Sony, Sanyo and Panasonic are in the MSX 2 adventure) and because his architecture is more close to the ATARI ST or Amiga architecture.
Maybe also a problem of strategy. When I see the possibilities of X68000 in 1986, I ask me if the Turbo-r release in 1990 was not too late ....
Maybe it's the result of the battle between giants like Sony, Konami and Matsushita (Panasonic) about the evolution of MSX. We all know that the implementation of FM-PAC in MSX 2+ only comes in 1989, three years after the X68000 !!! Strange, isn't it ???
If you want to discover the (MS)X68000, go to the following site :
You have the choice between three emulators : EX68, Winx68 and XM6.
The best seems to be Winx68 : easy to use and good quality for the music.
You can say the same for XM6, that can start more games than Winx68, but needs a powerful PC.
EX68 is a good emulator, but all his menus are in Japanese, and the quality of music is more approximative.
Please also note that if a game is on two disks, you must insert the first disk in FD 0 and the second disk in FD 1, before to make a reset
I hope that you will appreciate this (MS)X68000 computer !
