anyone heard of these before? Or better yet, own one?
it has a sliding plate in the front that covers either the megadrive, or floppy drive. Turning on either the of the two so you can quickly swap from your favorite windows 3.1 games to sonic. Pretty slick. Apparently it is a PAL thing? Any euro members remember these things?
Found it via this article http://gamerlimit.com/2009/05/retro-rev ... d-mega-pc/ There is a video of the machine in action, but the Horizontal balance is screwed up on the mega drive side. Kinda sad, but expected on such an old console.
What I know about this computer is that it's a computer OR a Genesis, not both at the same time. There was, however, an IBM pc made that ran both chipsets at once and could be used to make simple games (RPGs I think..)
Hatta wrote:Die Hard Arcade has Deep Scan in it. That's like retro inside retro. They must have heard we liked retro (dawg).
Jrecee wrote:What I like to do is knit little sweaters to put on the games.
That's nothing. You know of the Sega Teradrive? Both the PC and Sega components could actually communicate to each other, so you could develop games on the pc side and then run em on the sega hardware. The Amstrad was like taking a Megadrive and stuffing it in a pc (they can't see each other).
I remember reading an in depth review of this system when it first came out. It is really two seperate systems in a pc case. The sliding cover switching the monitor output between the onboard megadrive and pc parts. The biggest problem with this system was that the monitor was nothing more then a low-res atari-ST style monitor with RGB inputs. Low-res interlaced is all it could display. PC software looked quite bad when running apparently. I guess hooking it up to a euro TV with scart socket will yield a beter picture, but that would be no different then hooking up a normal megadrive. Nonetheless I wouldn't mind owning one of these babies anyways.
