Введение
Японская видеоигровая консоль
Japanese video game console
The FM Towns Marty is a home video game console released in 1993 by Fujitsu, exclusively for the Japanese market. It is often claimed to be the first 32 bit CD based home video game system, although it has a 16 bit data bus, like the earlier Commodore CDTV and Sega CD, which both have Motorola 68000 processors that are internally 16/32 bit, but with a 16 bit data bus. The console comes with a built in CD ROM drive and disk drive. It was based on the earlier FM Towns computer system Fujitsu had released in 1989. The Marty was backward compatible with older FM Towns games. In 1994, a new version of the console called the FM Towns Marty 2 (エフエムタウンズマーティー2) was released. It featured a darker gray shell and a lower price (¥66,000 or US$670), but was otherwise identical to the first Marty. It was widely believed that the FM Towns Marty 2 would feature similar improvements to the FM Towns 2, which had a swifter CPU than the first, but this was not the case. It has also been speculated that the Marty 2 featured an Intel 486 CPU, but this was also discovered to be false. There is also the FM Towns Car Marty (エフエムタウンズカーマーティー) for installation in automobiles. It included a built in navigation system with audio and video guidance, and could also be detached from the car and played at home. An optional IC Card for the FM Towns Car Marty allowed it to use VICS,)
RAM
Main RAM: 2 MB (2048 KB)
Video RAM: 640 KB (512 KB VRAM, 128 KB sprite RAM)
Graphics
GPU: Fujitsu custom graphics chip
Display resolution: 256×240, 256×256, 320×240, 352×232, 360×240, 512×480, 640×200, 640×480, 720×480
Bitmap background planes: 1 (with sprite plane) or 2 (without sprite plane)
Virtual resolution: 256×512, 512×256, 512×512, 640×819, 1024×512
Colors on screen: 16, or 256, or 32,768
Sprite foreground plane: 256×240
Sound
Yamaha YM2612: 6 channel FM synthesis
Ricoh RF5c68: 8 channel PCM sampling, 10 bit audio, 19.6 kHz sample rate
CD DA: 1 channel PCM playback, 16 bit audio, 44.1 kHz sampling rate
Data storage
CD ROM, single speed (1x)
Internal 3.5" HD floppy driveFloppy disks must be formatted 1232 KiB (PC98 style). This can be done from the BIOS GUI. The Marty's disk drive does not support 1440 KiB or 720 KiB FAT formatted 3.5" floppy disks. For a PC to be compatible with FM Towns Marty floppies it must have a disk drive, BIOS and OS that supports "3 Mode". There are also USB floppy drives that support "3 Mode". Multi purpose PCMCIA type 1 slot
The Marty's IC Card slot is compatible with type 1 PCMCIA cards, including battery backed SRAM cards (accessible from the BIOS menu) that can be mapped to a drive letter and used as a small drive. Fujitsu also officially released a PCMCIA 2400 bit/s modem (FMM CM301) for the FM Towns Marty. This modem was bundled with the special TCMarty that also came with a printer port. While it is widely believed that the IC Card slot can be used for RAM expansions, this is not correct. Controllers
4 way D pad, A and B buttons, Select, and Run, as well as an extra button above the two "face" buttons
2 standard controller portsThe controller connector is a DE 9, referred to as an "Atari Type" in Japan because it is fundamentally the same connector as an Atari 2600. The Marty's Run and Select buttons are the equivalent of pressing right and left, or up and down at the same time. A six button controller from Fujitsu was available for use with Capcom's Street Fighter II. Capcom also released an adapter for their CPS Fighter stick which made the stick compatible with the FM Towns/Marty as well as the Sharp X68000. Keyboard port
The FM Towns Marty is a home video game console released in 1993 by Fujitsu, exclusively for the Japanese market. It is often claimed to be the first 32 bit CD based home video game system, although it has a 16 bit data bus, like the earlier Commodore CDTV and Sega CD, which both have Motorola 68000 processors that are internally 16/32 bit, but with a 16 bit data bus. The console comes with a built in CD ROM drive and disk drive. It was based on the earlier FM Towns computer system Fujitsu had released in 1989. The Marty was backward compatible with older FM Towns games. In 1994, a new version of the console called the FM Towns Marty 2 (エフエムタウンズマーティー2) was released. It featured a darker gray shell and a lower price (¥66,000 or US$670), but was otherwise identical to the first Marty. It was widely believed that the FM Towns Marty 2 would feature similar improvements to the FM Towns 2, which had a swifter CPU than the first, but this was not the case. It has also been speculated that the Marty 2 featured an Intel 486 CPU, but this was also discovered to be false. There is also the FM Towns Car Marty (エフエムタウンズカーマーティー) for installation in automobiles. It included a built in navigation system with audio and video guidance, and could also be detached from the car and played at home. An optional IC Card for the FM Towns Car Marty allowed it to use VICS,)
RAM
Main RAM: 2 MB (2048 KB)
Video RAM: 640 KB (512 KB VRAM, 128 KB sprite RAM)
Graphics
GPU: Fujitsu custom graphics chip
Display resolution: 256×240, 256×256, 320×240, 352×232, 360×240, 512×480, 640×200, 640×480, 720×480
Bitmap background planes: 1 (with sprite plane) or 2 (without sprite plane)
Virtual resolution: 256×512, 512×256, 512×512, 640×819, 1024×512
Colors on screen: 16, or 256, or 32,768
Sprite foreground plane: 256×240
Sound
Yamaha YM2612: 6 channel FM synthesis
Ricoh RF5c68: 8 channel PCM sampling, 10 bit audio, 19.6 kHz sample rate
CD DA: 1 channel PCM playback, 16 bit audio, 44.1 kHz sampling rate
Data storage
CD ROM, single speed (1x)
Internal 3.5" HD floppy driveFloppy disks must be formatted 1232 KiB (PC98 style). This can be done from the BIOS GUI. The Marty's disk drive does not support 1440 KiB or 720 KiB FAT formatted 3.5" floppy disks. For a PC to be compatible with FM Towns Marty floppies it must have a disk drive, BIOS and OS that supports "3 Mode". There are also USB floppy drives that support "3 Mode". Multi purpose PCMCIA type 1 slot
The Marty's IC Card slot is compatible with type 1 PCMCIA cards, including battery backed SRAM cards (accessible from the BIOS menu) that can be mapped to a drive letter and used as a small drive. Fujitsu also officially released a PCMCIA 2400 bit/s modem (FMM CM301) for the FM Towns Marty. This modem was bundled with the special TCMarty that also came with a printer port. While it is widely believed that the IC Card slot can be used for RAM expansions, this is not correct. Controllers
4 way D pad, A and B buttons, Select, and Run, as well as an extra button above the two "face" buttons
2 standard controller portsThe controller connector is a DE 9, referred to as an "Atari Type" in Japan because it is fundamentally the same connector as an Atari 2600. The Marty's Run and Select buttons are the equivalent of pressing right and left, or up and down at the same time. A six button controller from Fujitsu was available for use with Capcom's Street Fighter II. Capcom also released an adapter for their CPS Fighter stick which made the stick compatible with the FM Towns/Marty as well as the Sharp X68000. Keyboard port
FM Towns Marty — домашняя видеоигровая консоль, выпущенная в 1993 году компанией Fujitsu, исключительно для японского рынка. Часто утверждается, что это первая 32-битная система домашних видеоигр на основе CD, хотя она имеет 16-битную шину данных, как и более ранние Commodore CDTV и Sega CD, которые оба имеют процессоры Motorola 68000, внутренне 16/32-битные, но с 16-битной шиной данных. Консоль поставляется с встроенным CD-ROM-приводом и дисководом. Она была основана на более ранней компьютерной системе FM Towns, выпущенной Fujitsu в 1989 году. Marty была обратно совместима со старыми играми FM Towns. В 1994 году была выпущена новая версия консоли под названием FM Towns Marty 2 (エフエムタウンズマーティー2). Она имела более тёмно-серый корпус и более низкую цену (66 000 иен или 670 долларов США), но в остальном была идентична первой Marty. Широко распространено было мнение, что FM Towns Marty 2 получит аналогичные улучшения по сравнению с FM Towns 2, которая имела более быстрый процессор, чем первая, но это не произошло. Также высказывались предположения, что Marty 2 оснащена процессором Intel 486, но это также оказалось ложным. Существует также FM Towns Car Marty (エフエムタウンズカーマーティー) для установки в автомобилях. Она включала в себя встроенную навигационную систему с аудио- и видеоподсказками, а также могла быть отсоединена от машины и использована дома. Дополнительная IC-карта для FM Towns Car Marty позволяла использовать VICS.
Japanese video game console
The FM Towns Marty is a home video game console released in 1993 by Fujitsu, exclusively for the Japanese market. It is often claimed to be the first 32 bit CD based home video game system, although it has a 16 bit data bus, like the earlier Commodore CDTV and Sega CD, which both have Motorola 68000 processors that are internally 16/32 bit, but with a 16 bit data bus. The console comes with a built in CD ROM drive and disk drive. It was based on the earlier FM Towns computer system Fujitsu had released in 1989. The Marty was backward compatible with older FM Towns games. In 1994, a new version of the console called the FM Towns Marty 2 (エフエムタウンズマーティー2) was released. It featured a darker gray shell and a lower price (¥66,000 or US$670), but was otherwise identical to the first Marty. It was widely believed that the FM Towns Marty 2 would feature similar improvements to the FM Towns 2, which had a swifter CPU than the first, but this was not the case. It has also been speculated that the Marty 2 featured an Intel 486 CPU, but this was also discovered to be false. There is also the FM Towns Car Marty (エフエムタウンズカーマーティー) for installation in automobiles. It included a built in navigation system with audio and video guidance, and could also be detached from the car and played at home. An optional IC Card for the FM Towns Car Marty allowed it to use VICS,)
RAM
Main RAM: 2 MB (2048 KB)
Video RAM: 640 KB (512 KB VRAM, 128 KB sprite RAM)
Graphics
GPU: Fujitsu custom graphics chip
Display resolution: 256×240, 256×256, 320×240, 352×232, 360×240, 512×480, 640×200, 640×480, 720×480
Bitmap background planes: 1 (with sprite plane) or 2 (without sprite plane)
Virtual resolution: 256×512, 512×256, 512×512, 640×819, 1024×512
Colors on screen: 16, or 256, or 32,768
Sprite foreground plane: 256×240
Sound
Yamaha YM2612: 6 channel FM synthesis
Ricoh RF5c68: 8 channel PCM sampling, 10 bit audio, 19.6 kHz sample rate
CD DA: 1 channel PCM playback, 16 bit audio, 44.1 kHz sampling rate
Data storage
CD ROM, single speed (1x)
Internal 3.5" HD floppy driveFloppy disks must be formatted 1232 KiB (PC98 style). This can be done from the BIOS GUI. The Marty's disk drive does not support 1440 KiB or 720 KiB FAT formatted 3.5" floppy disks. For a PC to be compatible with FM Towns Marty floppies it must have a disk drive, BIOS and OS that supports "3 Mode". There are also USB floppy drives that support "3 Mode". Multi purpose PCMCIA type 1 slot
The Marty's IC Card slot is compatible with type 1 PCMCIA cards, including battery backed SRAM cards (accessible from the BIOS menu) that can be mapped to a drive letter and used as a small drive. Fujitsu also officially released a PCMCIA 2400 bit/s modem (FMM CM301) for the FM Towns Marty. This modem was bundled with the special TCMarty that also came with a printer port. While it is widely believed that the IC Card slot can be used for RAM expansions, this is not correct. Controllers
4 way D pad, A and B buttons, Select, and Run, as well as an extra button above the two "face" buttons
2 standard controller portsThe controller connector is a DE 9, referred to as an "Atari Type" in Japan because it is fundamentally the same connector as an Atari 2600. The Marty's Run and Select buttons are the equivalent of pressing right and left, or up and down at the same time. A six button controller from Fujitsu was available for use with Capcom's Street Fighter II. Capcom also released an adapter for their CPS Fighter stick which made the stick compatible with the FM Towns/Marty as well as the Sharp X68000. Keyboard port
The FM Towns Marty is a home video game console released in 1993 by Fujitsu, exclusively for the Japanese market. It is often claimed to be the first 32 bit CD based home video game system, although it has a 16 bit data bus, like the earlier Commodore CDTV and Sega CD, which both have Motorola 68000 processors that are internally 16/32 bit, but with a 16 bit data bus. The console comes with a built in CD ROM drive and disk drive. It was based on the earlier FM Towns computer system Fujitsu had released in 1989. The Marty was backward compatible with older FM Towns games. In 1994, a new version of the console called the FM Towns Marty 2 (エフエムタウンズマーティー2) was released. It featured a darker gray shell and a lower price (¥66,000 or US$670), but was otherwise identical to the first Marty. It was widely believed that the FM Towns Marty 2 would feature similar improvements to the FM Towns 2, which had a swifter CPU than the first, but this was not the case. It has also been speculated that the Marty 2 featured an Intel 486 CPU, but this was also discovered to be false. There is also the FM Towns Car Marty (エフエムタウンズカーマーティー) for installation in automobiles. It included a built in navigation system with audio and video guidance, and could also be detached from the car and played at home. An optional IC Card for the FM Towns Car Marty allowed it to use VICS,)
RAM
Main RAM: 2 MB (2048 KB)
Video RAM: 640 KB (512 KB VRAM, 128 KB sprite RAM)
Graphics
GPU: Fujitsu custom graphics chip
Display resolution: 256×240, 256×256, 320×240, 352×232, 360×240, 512×480, 640×200, 640×480, 720×480
Bitmap background planes: 1 (with sprite plane) or 2 (without sprite plane)
Virtual resolution: 256×512, 512×256, 512×512, 640×819, 1024×512
Colors on screen: 16, or 256, or 32,768
Sprite foreground plane: 256×240
Sound
Yamaha YM2612: 6 channel FM synthesis
Ricoh RF5c68: 8 channel PCM sampling, 10 bit audio, 19.6 kHz sample rate
CD DA: 1 channel PCM playback, 16 bit audio, 44.1 kHz sampling rate
Data storage
CD ROM, single speed (1x)
Internal 3.5" HD floppy driveFloppy disks must be formatted 1232 KiB (PC98 style). This can be done from the BIOS GUI. The Marty's disk drive does not support 1440 KiB or 720 KiB FAT formatted 3.5" floppy disks. For a PC to be compatible with FM Towns Marty floppies it must have a disk drive, BIOS and OS that supports "3 Mode". There are also USB floppy drives that support "3 Mode". Multi purpose PCMCIA type 1 slot
The Marty's IC Card slot is compatible with type 1 PCMCIA cards, including battery backed SRAM cards (accessible from the BIOS menu) that can be mapped to a drive letter and used as a small drive. Fujitsu also officially released a PCMCIA 2400 bit/s modem (FMM CM301) for the FM Towns Marty. This modem was bundled with the special TCMarty that also came with a printer port. While it is widely believed that the IC Card slot can be used for RAM expansions, this is not correct. Controllers
4 way D pad, A and B buttons, Select, and Run, as well as an extra button above the two "face" buttons
2 standard controller portsThe controller connector is a DE 9, referred to as an "Atari Type" in Japan because it is fundamentally the same connector as an Atari 2600. The Marty's Run and Select buttons are the equivalent of pressing right and left, or up and down at the same time. A six button controller from Fujitsu was available for use with Capcom's Street Fighter II. Capcom also released an adapter for their CPS Fighter stick which made the stick compatible with the FM Towns/Marty as well as the Sharp X68000. Keyboard port
RAM
Основная RAM: 2 МБ (2048 КБ)
Видео RAM: 640 КБ (512 КБ VRAM, 128 КБ sprite RAM)
Japanese video game console
The FM Towns Marty is a home video game console released in 1993 by Fujitsu, exclusively for the Japanese market. It is often claimed to be the first 32 bit CD based home video game system, although it has a 16 bit data bus, like the earlier Commodore CDTV and Sega CD, which both have Motorola 68000 processors that are internally 16/32 bit, but with a 16 bit data bus. The console comes with a built in CD ROM drive and disk drive. It was based on the earlier FM Towns computer system Fujitsu had released in 1989. The Marty was backward compatible with older FM Towns games. In 1994, a new version of the console called the FM Towns Marty 2 (エフエムタウンズマーティー2) was released. It featured a darker gray shell and a lower price (¥66,000 or US$670), but was otherwise identical to the first Marty. It was widely believed that the FM Towns Marty 2 would feature similar improvements to the FM Towns 2, which had a swifter CPU than the first, but this was not the case. It has also been speculated that the Marty 2 featured an Intel 486 CPU, but this was also discovered to be false. There is also the FM Towns Car Marty (エフエムタウンズカーマーティー) for installation in automobiles. It included a built in navigation system with audio and video guidance, and could also be detached from the car and played at home. An optional IC Card for the FM Towns Car Marty allowed it to use VICS,)
RAM
Main RAM: 2 MB (2048 KB)
Video RAM: 640 KB (512 KB VRAM, 128 KB sprite RAM)
Graphics
GPU: Fujitsu custom graphics chip
Display resolution: 256×240, 256×256, 320×240, 352×232, 360×240, 512×480, 640×200, 640×480, 720×480
Bitmap background planes: 1 (with sprite plane) or 2 (without sprite plane)
Virtual resolution: 256×512, 512×256, 512×512, 640×819, 1024×512
Colors on screen: 16, or 256, or 32,768
Sprite foreground plane: 256×240
Sound
Yamaha YM2612: 6 channel FM synthesis
Ricoh RF5c68: 8 channel PCM sampling, 10 bit audio, 19.6 kHz sample rate
CD DA: 1 channel PCM playback, 16 bit audio, 44.1 kHz sampling rate
Data storage
CD ROM, single speed (1x)
Internal 3.5" HD floppy driveFloppy disks must be formatted 1232 KiB (PC98 style). This can be done from the BIOS GUI. The Marty's disk drive does not support 1440 KiB or 720 KiB FAT formatted 3.5" floppy disks. For a PC to be compatible with FM Towns Marty floppies it must have a disk drive, BIOS and OS that supports "3 Mode". There are also USB floppy drives that support "3 Mode". Multi purpose PCMCIA type 1 slot
The Marty's IC Card slot is compatible with type 1 PCMCIA cards, including battery backed SRAM cards (accessible from the BIOS menu) that can be mapped to a drive letter and used as a small drive. Fujitsu also officially released a PCMCIA 2400 bit/s modem (FMM CM301) for the FM Towns Marty. This modem was bundled with the special TCMarty that also came with a printer port. While it is widely believed that the IC Card slot can be used for RAM expansions, this is not correct. Controllers
4 way D pad, A and B buttons, Select, and Run, as well as an extra button above the two "face" buttons
2 standard controller portsThe controller connector is a DE 9, referred to as an "Atari Type" in Japan because it is fundamentally the same connector as an Atari 2600. The Marty's Run and Select buttons are the equivalent of pressing right and left, or up and down at the same time. A six button controller from Fujitsu was available for use with Capcom's Street Fighter II. Capcom also released an adapter for their CPS Fighter stick which made the stick compatible with the FM Towns/Marty as well as the Sharp X68000. Keyboard port
The FM Towns Marty is a home video game console released in 1993 by Fujitsu, exclusively for the Japanese market. It is often claimed to be the first 32 bit CD based home video game system, although it has a 16 bit data bus, like the earlier Commodore CDTV and Sega CD, which both have Motorola 68000 processors that are internally 16/32 bit, but with a 16 bit data bus. The console comes with a built in CD ROM drive and disk drive. It was based on the earlier FM Towns computer system Fujitsu had released in 1989. The Marty was backward compatible with older FM Towns games. In 1994, a new version of the console called the FM Towns Marty 2 (エフエムタウンズマーティー2) was released. It featured a darker gray shell and a lower price (¥66,000 or US$670), but was otherwise identical to the first Marty. It was widely believed that the FM Towns Marty 2 would feature similar improvements to the FM Towns 2, which had a swifter CPU than the first, but this was not the case. It has also been speculated that the Marty 2 featured an Intel 486 CPU, but this was also discovered to be false. There is also the FM Towns Car Marty (エフエムタウンズカーマーティー) for installation in automobiles. It included a built in navigation system with audio and video guidance, and could also be detached from the car and played at home. An optional IC Card for the FM Towns Car Marty allowed it to use VICS,)
RAM
Main RAM: 2 MB (2048 KB)
Video RAM: 640 KB (512 KB VRAM, 128 KB sprite RAM)
Graphics
GPU: Fujitsu custom graphics chip
Display resolution: 256×240, 256×256, 320×240, 352×232, 360×240, 512×480, 640×200, 640×480, 720×480
Bitmap background planes: 1 (with sprite plane) or 2 (without sprite plane)
Virtual resolution: 256×512, 512×256, 512×512, 640×819, 1024×512
Colors on screen: 16, or 256, or 32,768
Sprite foreground plane: 256×240
Sound
Yamaha YM2612: 6 channel FM synthesis
Ricoh RF5c68: 8 channel PCM sampling, 10 bit audio, 19.6 kHz sample rate
CD DA: 1 channel PCM playback, 16 bit audio, 44.1 kHz sampling rate
Data storage
CD ROM, single speed (1x)
Internal 3.5" HD floppy driveFloppy disks must be formatted 1232 KiB (PC98 style). This can be done from the BIOS GUI. The Marty's disk drive does not support 1440 KiB or 720 KiB FAT formatted 3.5" floppy disks. For a PC to be compatible with FM Towns Marty floppies it must have a disk drive, BIOS and OS that supports "3 Mode". There are also USB floppy drives that support "3 Mode". Multi purpose PCMCIA type 1 slot
The Marty's IC Card slot is compatible with type 1 PCMCIA cards, including battery backed SRAM cards (accessible from the BIOS menu) that can be mapped to a drive letter and used as a small drive. Fujitsu also officially released a PCMCIA 2400 bit/s modem (FMM CM301) for the FM Towns Marty. This modem was bundled with the special TCMarty that also came with a printer port. While it is widely believed that the IC Card slot can be used for RAM expansions, this is not correct. Controllers
4 way D pad, A and B buttons, Select, and Run, as well as an extra button above the two "face" buttons
2 standard controller portsThe controller connector is a DE 9, referred to as an "Atari Type" in Japan because it is fundamentally the same connector as an Atari 2600. The Marty's Run and Select buttons are the equivalent of pressing right and left, or up and down at the same time. A six button controller from Fujitsu was available for use with Capcom's Street Fighter II. Capcom also released an adapter for their CPS Fighter stick which made the stick compatible with the FM Towns/Marty as well as the Sharp X68000. Keyboard port
Графика
GPU: Пользовательский графический чип Fujitsu
Разрешение дисплея: 256×240, 256×256, 320×240, 352×232, 360×240, 512×480, 640×200, 640×480, 720×480
Битмапные фоновые плоскости: 1 (с плоскостью спрайтов) или 2 (без плоскости спрайтов)
Виртуальное разрешение: 256×512, 512×256, 512×512, 640×819, 1024×512
Количество цветов на экране: 16, 256 или 32 768
Плоскость спрайтов: 256×240
Japanese video game console
The FM Towns Marty is a home video game console released in 1993 by Fujitsu, exclusively for the Japanese market. It is often claimed to be the first 32 bit CD based home video game system, although it has a 16 bit data bus, like the earlier Commodore CDTV and Sega CD, which both have Motorola 68000 processors that are internally 16/32 bit, but with a 16 bit data bus. The console comes with a built in CD ROM drive and disk drive. It was based on the earlier FM Towns computer system Fujitsu had released in 1989. The Marty was backward compatible with older FM Towns games. In 1994, a new version of the console called the FM Towns Marty 2 (エフエムタウンズマーティー2) was released. It featured a darker gray shell and a lower price (¥66,000 or US$670), but was otherwise identical to the first Marty. It was widely believed that the FM Towns Marty 2 would feature similar improvements to the FM Towns 2, which had a swifter CPU than the first, but this was not the case. It has also been speculated that the Marty 2 featured an Intel 486 CPU, but this was also discovered to be false. There is also the FM Towns Car Marty (エフエムタウンズカーマーティー) for installation in automobiles. It included a built in navigation system with audio and video guidance, and could also be detached from the car and played at home. An optional IC Card for the FM Towns Car Marty allowed it to use VICS,)
RAM
Main RAM: 2 MB (2048 KB)
Video RAM: 640 KB (512 KB VRAM, 128 KB sprite RAM)
Graphics
GPU: Fujitsu custom graphics chip
Display resolution: 256×240, 256×256, 320×240, 352×232, 360×240, 512×480, 640×200, 640×480, 720×480
Bitmap background planes: 1 (with sprite plane) or 2 (without sprite plane)
Virtual resolution: 256×512, 512×256, 512×512, 640×819, 1024×512
Colors on screen: 16, or 256, or 32,768
Sprite foreground plane: 256×240
Sound
Yamaha YM2612: 6 channel FM synthesis
Ricoh RF5c68: 8 channel PCM sampling, 10 bit audio, 19.6 kHz sample rate
CD DA: 1 channel PCM playback, 16 bit audio, 44.1 kHz sampling rate
Data storage
CD ROM, single speed (1x)
Internal 3.5" HD floppy driveFloppy disks must be formatted 1232 KiB (PC98 style). This can be done from the BIOS GUI. The Marty's disk drive does not support 1440 KiB or 720 KiB FAT formatted 3.5" floppy disks. For a PC to be compatible with FM Towns Marty floppies it must have a disk drive, BIOS and OS that supports "3 Mode". There are also USB floppy drives that support "3 Mode". Multi purpose PCMCIA type 1 slot
The Marty's IC Card slot is compatible with type 1 PCMCIA cards, including battery backed SRAM cards (accessible from the BIOS menu) that can be mapped to a drive letter and used as a small drive. Fujitsu also officially released a PCMCIA 2400 bit/s modem (FMM CM301) for the FM Towns Marty. This modem was bundled with the special TCMarty that also came with a printer port. While it is widely believed that the IC Card slot can be used for RAM expansions, this is not correct. Controllers
4 way D pad, A and B buttons, Select, and Run, as well as an extra button above the two "face" buttons
2 standard controller portsThe controller connector is a DE 9, referred to as an "Atari Type" in Japan because it is fundamentally the same connector as an Atari 2600. The Marty's Run and Select buttons are the equivalent of pressing right and left, or up and down at the same time. A six button controller from Fujitsu was available for use with Capcom's Street Fighter II. Capcom also released an adapter for their CPS Fighter stick which made the stick compatible with the FM Towns/Marty as well as the Sharp X68000. Keyboard port
The FM Towns Marty is a home video game console released in 1993 by Fujitsu, exclusively for the Japanese market. It is often claimed to be the first 32 bit CD based home video game system, although it has a 16 bit data bus, like the earlier Commodore CDTV and Sega CD, which both have Motorola 68000 processors that are internally 16/32 bit, but with a 16 bit data bus. The console comes with a built in CD ROM drive and disk drive. It was based on the earlier FM Towns computer system Fujitsu had released in 1989. The Marty was backward compatible with older FM Towns games. In 1994, a new version of the console called the FM Towns Marty 2 (エフエムタウンズマーティー2) was released. It featured a darker gray shell and a lower price (¥66,000 or US$670), but was otherwise identical to the first Marty. It was widely believed that the FM Towns Marty 2 would feature similar improvements to the FM Towns 2, which had a swifter CPU than the first, but this was not the case. It has also been speculated that the Marty 2 featured an Intel 486 CPU, but this was also discovered to be false. There is also the FM Towns Car Marty (エフエムタウンズカーマーティー) for installation in automobiles. It included a built in navigation system with audio and video guidance, and could also be detached from the car and played at home. An optional IC Card for the FM Towns Car Marty allowed it to use VICS,)
RAM
Main RAM: 2 MB (2048 KB)
Video RAM: 640 KB (512 KB VRAM, 128 KB sprite RAM)
Graphics
GPU: Fujitsu custom graphics chip
Display resolution: 256×240, 256×256, 320×240, 352×232, 360×240, 512×480, 640×200, 640×480, 720×480
Bitmap background planes: 1 (with sprite plane) or 2 (without sprite plane)
Virtual resolution: 256×512, 512×256, 512×512, 640×819, 1024×512
Colors on screen: 16, or 256, or 32,768
Sprite foreground plane: 256×240
Sound
Yamaha YM2612: 6 channel FM synthesis
Ricoh RF5c68: 8 channel PCM sampling, 10 bit audio, 19.6 kHz sample rate
CD DA: 1 channel PCM playback, 16 bit audio, 44.1 kHz sampling rate
Data storage
CD ROM, single speed (1x)
Internal 3.5" HD floppy driveFloppy disks must be formatted 1232 KiB (PC98 style). This can be done from the BIOS GUI. The Marty's disk drive does not support 1440 KiB or 720 KiB FAT formatted 3.5" floppy disks. For a PC to be compatible with FM Towns Marty floppies it must have a disk drive, BIOS and OS that supports "3 Mode". There are also USB floppy drives that support "3 Mode". Multi purpose PCMCIA type 1 slot
The Marty's IC Card slot is compatible with type 1 PCMCIA cards, including battery backed SRAM cards (accessible from the BIOS menu) that can be mapped to a drive letter and used as a small drive. Fujitsu also officially released a PCMCIA 2400 bit/s modem (FMM CM301) for the FM Towns Marty. This modem was bundled with the special TCMarty that also came with a printer port. While it is widely believed that the IC Card slot can be used for RAM expansions, this is not correct. Controllers
4 way D pad, A and B buttons, Select, and Run, as well as an extra button above the two "face" buttons
2 standard controller portsThe controller connector is a DE 9, referred to as an "Atari Type" in Japan because it is fundamentally the same connector as an Atari 2600. The Marty's Run and Select buttons are the equivalent of pressing right and left, or up and down at the same time. A six button controller from Fujitsu was available for use with Capcom's Street Fighter II. Capcom also released an adapter for their CPS Fighter stick which made the stick compatible with the FM Towns/Marty as well as the Sharp X68000. Keyboard port
Звук
Yamaha YM2612: 6-канальный FM-синтез
Ricoh RF5c68: 8-канальное PCM-сэмплирование, 10-битный звук, частота дискретизации 19,6 кГц
CD DA: 1-канальное PCM-воспроизведение, 16-битный звук, частота дискретизации 44,1 кГц
Japanese video game console
The FM Towns Marty is a home video game console released in 1993 by Fujitsu, exclusively for the Japanese market. It is often claimed to be the first 32 bit CD based home video game system, although it has a 16 bit data bus, like the earlier Commodore CDTV and Sega CD, which both have Motorola 68000 processors that are internally 16/32 bit, but with a 16 bit data bus. The console comes with a built in CD ROM drive and disk drive. It was based on the earlier FM Towns computer system Fujitsu had released in 1989. The Marty was backward compatible with older FM Towns games. In 1994, a new version of the console called the FM Towns Marty 2 (エフエムタウンズマーティー2) was released. It featured a darker gray shell and a lower price (¥66,000 or US$670), but was otherwise identical to the first Marty. It was widely believed that the FM Towns Marty 2 would feature similar improvements to the FM Towns 2, which had a swifter CPU than the first, but this was not the case. It has also been speculated that the Marty 2 featured an Intel 486 CPU, but this was also discovered to be false. There is also the FM Towns Car Marty (エフエムタウンズカーマーティー) for installation in automobiles. It included a built in navigation system with audio and video guidance, and could also be detached from the car and played at home. An optional IC Card for the FM Towns Car Marty allowed it to use VICS,)
RAM
Main RAM: 2 MB (2048 KB)
Video RAM: 640 KB (512 KB VRAM, 128 KB sprite RAM)
Graphics
GPU: Fujitsu custom graphics chip
Display resolution: 256×240, 256×256, 320×240, 352×232, 360×240, 512×480, 640×200, 640×480, 720×480
Bitmap background planes: 1 (with sprite plane) or 2 (without sprite plane)
Virtual resolution: 256×512, 512×256, 512×512, 640×819, 1024×512
Colors on screen: 16, or 256, or 32,768
Sprite foreground plane: 256×240
Sound
Yamaha YM2612: 6 channel FM synthesis
Ricoh RF5c68: 8 channel PCM sampling, 10 bit audio, 19.6 kHz sample rate
CD DA: 1 channel PCM playback, 16 bit audio, 44.1 kHz sampling rate
Data storage
CD ROM, single speed (1x)
Internal 3.5" HD floppy driveFloppy disks must be formatted 1232 KiB (PC98 style). This can be done from the BIOS GUI. The Marty's disk drive does not support 1440 KiB or 720 KiB FAT formatted 3.5" floppy disks. For a PC to be compatible with FM Towns Marty floppies it must have a disk drive, BIOS and OS that supports "3 Mode". There are also USB floppy drives that support "3 Mode". Multi purpose PCMCIA type 1 slot
The Marty's IC Card slot is compatible with type 1 PCMCIA cards, including battery backed SRAM cards (accessible from the BIOS menu) that can be mapped to a drive letter and used as a small drive. Fujitsu also officially released a PCMCIA 2400 bit/s modem (FMM CM301) for the FM Towns Marty. This modem was bundled with the special TCMarty that also came with a printer port. While it is widely believed that the IC Card slot can be used for RAM expansions, this is not correct. Controllers
4 way D pad, A and B buttons, Select, and Run, as well as an extra button above the two "face" buttons
2 standard controller portsThe controller connector is a DE 9, referred to as an "Atari Type" in Japan because it is fundamentally the same connector as an Atari 2600. The Marty's Run and Select buttons are the equivalent of pressing right and left, or up and down at the same time. A six button controller from Fujitsu was available for use with Capcom's Street Fighter II. Capcom also released an adapter for their CPS Fighter stick which made the stick compatible with the FM Towns/Marty as well as the Sharp X68000. Keyboard port
The FM Towns Marty is a home video game console released in 1993 by Fujitsu, exclusively for the Japanese market. It is often claimed to be the first 32 bit CD based home video game system, although it has a 16 bit data bus, like the earlier Commodore CDTV and Sega CD, which both have Motorola 68000 processors that are internally 16/32 bit, but with a 16 bit data bus. The console comes with a built in CD ROM drive and disk drive. It was based on the earlier FM Towns computer system Fujitsu had released in 1989. The Marty was backward compatible with older FM Towns games. In 1994, a new version of the console called the FM Towns Marty 2 (エフエムタウンズマーティー2) was released. It featured a darker gray shell and a lower price (¥66,000 or US$670), but was otherwise identical to the first Marty. It was widely believed that the FM Towns Marty 2 would feature similar improvements to the FM Towns 2, which had a swifter CPU than the first, but this was not the case. It has also been speculated that the Marty 2 featured an Intel 486 CPU, but this was also discovered to be false. There is also the FM Towns Car Marty (エフエムタウンズカーマーティー) for installation in automobiles. It included a built in navigation system with audio and video guidance, and could also be detached from the car and played at home. An optional IC Card for the FM Towns Car Marty allowed it to use VICS,)
RAM
Main RAM: 2 MB (2048 KB)
Video RAM: 640 KB (512 KB VRAM, 128 KB sprite RAM)
Graphics
GPU: Fujitsu custom graphics chip
Display resolution: 256×240, 256×256, 320×240, 352×232, 360×240, 512×480, 640×200, 640×480, 720×480
Bitmap background planes: 1 (with sprite plane) or 2 (without sprite plane)
Virtual resolution: 256×512, 512×256, 512×512, 640×819, 1024×512
Colors on screen: 16, or 256, or 32,768
Sprite foreground plane: 256×240
Sound
Yamaha YM2612: 6 channel FM synthesis
Ricoh RF5c68: 8 channel PCM sampling, 10 bit audio, 19.6 kHz sample rate
CD DA: 1 channel PCM playback, 16 bit audio, 44.1 kHz sampling rate
Data storage
CD ROM, single speed (1x)
Internal 3.5" HD floppy driveFloppy disks must be formatted 1232 KiB (PC98 style). This can be done from the BIOS GUI. The Marty's disk drive does not support 1440 KiB or 720 KiB FAT formatted 3.5" floppy disks. For a PC to be compatible with FM Towns Marty floppies it must have a disk drive, BIOS and OS that supports "3 Mode". There are also USB floppy drives that support "3 Mode". Multi purpose PCMCIA type 1 slot
The Marty's IC Card slot is compatible with type 1 PCMCIA cards, including battery backed SRAM cards (accessible from the BIOS menu) that can be mapped to a drive letter and used as a small drive. Fujitsu also officially released a PCMCIA 2400 bit/s modem (FMM CM301) for the FM Towns Marty. This modem was bundled with the special TCMarty that also came with a printer port. While it is widely believed that the IC Card slot can be used for RAM expansions, this is not correct. Controllers
4 way D pad, A and B buttons, Select, and Run, as well as an extra button above the two "face" buttons
2 standard controller portsThe controller connector is a DE 9, referred to as an "Atari Type" in Japan because it is fundamentally the same connector as an Atari 2600. The Marty's Run and Select buttons are the equivalent of pressing right and left, or up and down at the same time. A six button controller from Fujitsu was available for use with Capcom's Street Fighter II. Capcom also released an adapter for their CPS Fighter stick which made the stick compatible with the FM Towns/Marty as well as the Sharp X68000. Keyboard port
Хранение данных
CD-ROM, одинарная скорость (1x)
Внутренний 3,5" HD дисковод. Дискеты должны быть отформатированы в стиле PC98 – 1232 КБ. Это можно сделать через графический интерфейс BIOS. Дисковод Marty не поддерживает 3,5" дискеты FAT, отформатированные на 1440 КБ или 720 КБ. Для совместимости ПК с дискетами FM Towns Marty требуется дисковод, BIOS и ОС, поддерживающие режим "3 Mode". Также существуют USB-дисководы, поддерживающие "3 Mode". Многоцелевой слот PCMCIA типа 1
Japanese video game console
The FM Towns Marty is a home video game console released in 1993 by Fujitsu, exclusively for the Japanese market. It is often claimed to be the first 32 bit CD based home video game system, although it has a 16 bit data bus, like the earlier Commodore CDTV and Sega CD, which both have Motorola 68000 processors that are internally 16/32 bit, but with a 16 bit data bus. The console comes with a built in CD ROM drive and disk drive. It was based on the earlier FM Towns computer system Fujitsu had released in 1989. The Marty was backward compatible with older FM Towns games. In 1994, a new version of the console called the FM Towns Marty 2 (エフエムタウンズマーティー2) was released. It featured a darker gray shell and a lower price (¥66,000 or US$670), but was otherwise identical to the first Marty. It was widely believed that the FM Towns Marty 2 would feature similar improvements to the FM Towns 2, which had a swifter CPU than the first, but this was not the case. It has also been speculated that the Marty 2 featured an Intel 486 CPU, but this was also discovered to be false. There is also the FM Towns Car Marty (エフエムタウンズカーマーティー) for installation in automobiles. It included a built in navigation system with audio and video guidance, and could also be detached from the car and played at home. An optional IC Card for the FM Towns Car Marty allowed it to use VICS,)
RAM
Main RAM: 2 MB (2048 KB)
Video RAM: 640 KB (512 KB VRAM, 128 KB sprite RAM)
Graphics
GPU: Fujitsu custom graphics chip
Display resolution: 256×240, 256×256, 320×240, 352×232, 360×240, 512×480, 640×200, 640×480, 720×480
Bitmap background planes: 1 (with sprite plane) or 2 (without sprite plane)
Virtual resolution: 256×512, 512×256, 512×512, 640×819, 1024×512
Colors on screen: 16, or 256, or 32,768
Sprite foreground plane: 256×240
Sound
Yamaha YM2612: 6 channel FM synthesis
Ricoh RF5c68: 8 channel PCM sampling, 10 bit audio, 19.6 kHz sample rate
CD DA: 1 channel PCM playback, 16 bit audio, 44.1 kHz sampling rate
Data storage
CD ROM, single speed (1x)
Internal 3.5" HD floppy driveFloppy disks must be formatted 1232 KiB (PC98 style). This can be done from the BIOS GUI. The Marty's disk drive does not support 1440 KiB or 720 KiB FAT formatted 3.5" floppy disks. For a PC to be compatible with FM Towns Marty floppies it must have a disk drive, BIOS and OS that supports "3 Mode". There are also USB floppy drives that support "3 Mode". Multi purpose PCMCIA type 1 slot
The Marty's IC Card slot is compatible with type 1 PCMCIA cards, including battery backed SRAM cards (accessible from the BIOS menu) that can be mapped to a drive letter and used as a small drive. Fujitsu also officially released a PCMCIA 2400 bit/s modem (FMM CM301) for the FM Towns Marty. This modem was bundled with the special TCMarty that also came with a printer port. While it is widely believed that the IC Card slot can be used for RAM expansions, this is not correct. Controllers
4 way D pad, A and B buttons, Select, and Run, as well as an extra button above the two "face" buttons
2 standard controller portsThe controller connector is a DE 9, referred to as an "Atari Type" in Japan because it is fundamentally the same connector as an Atari 2600. The Marty's Run and Select buttons are the equivalent of pressing right and left, or up and down at the same time. A six button controller from Fujitsu was available for use with Capcom's Street Fighter II. Capcom also released an adapter for their CPS Fighter stick which made the stick compatible with the FM Towns/Marty as well as the Sharp X68000. Keyboard port
The FM Towns Marty is a home video game console released in 1993 by Fujitsu, exclusively for the Japanese market. It is often claimed to be the first 32 bit CD based home video game system, although it has a 16 bit data bus, like the earlier Commodore CDTV and Sega CD, which both have Motorola 68000 processors that are internally 16/32 bit, but with a 16 bit data bus. The console comes with a built in CD ROM drive and disk drive. It was based on the earlier FM Towns computer system Fujitsu had released in 1989. The Marty was backward compatible with older FM Towns games. In 1994, a new version of the console called the FM Towns Marty 2 (エフエムタウンズマーティー2) was released. It featured a darker gray shell and a lower price (¥66,000 or US$670), but was otherwise identical to the first Marty. It was widely believed that the FM Towns Marty 2 would feature similar improvements to the FM Towns 2, which had a swifter CPU than the first, but this was not the case. It has also been speculated that the Marty 2 featured an Intel 486 CPU, but this was also discovered to be false. There is also the FM Towns Car Marty (エフエムタウンズカーマーティー) for installation in automobiles. It included a built in navigation system with audio and video guidance, and could also be detached from the car and played at home. An optional IC Card for the FM Towns Car Marty allowed it to use VICS,)
RAM
Main RAM: 2 MB (2048 KB)
Video RAM: 640 KB (512 KB VRAM, 128 KB sprite RAM)
Graphics
GPU: Fujitsu custom graphics chip
Display resolution: 256×240, 256×256, 320×240, 352×232, 360×240, 512×480, 640×200, 640×480, 720×480
Bitmap background planes: 1 (with sprite plane) or 2 (without sprite plane)
Virtual resolution: 256×512, 512×256, 512×512, 640×819, 1024×512
Colors on screen: 16, or 256, or 32,768
Sprite foreground plane: 256×240
Sound
Yamaha YM2612: 6 channel FM synthesis
Ricoh RF5c68: 8 channel PCM sampling, 10 bit audio, 19.6 kHz sample rate
CD DA: 1 channel PCM playback, 16 bit audio, 44.1 kHz sampling rate
Data storage
CD ROM, single speed (1x)
Internal 3.5" HD floppy driveFloppy disks must be formatted 1232 KiB (PC98 style). This can be done from the BIOS GUI. The Marty's disk drive does not support 1440 KiB or 720 KiB FAT formatted 3.5" floppy disks. For a PC to be compatible with FM Towns Marty floppies it must have a disk drive, BIOS and OS that supports "3 Mode". There are also USB floppy drives that support "3 Mode". Multi purpose PCMCIA type 1 slot
The Marty's IC Card slot is compatible with type 1 PCMCIA cards, including battery backed SRAM cards (accessible from the BIOS menu) that can be mapped to a drive letter and used as a small drive. Fujitsu also officially released a PCMCIA 2400 bit/s modem (FMM CM301) for the FM Towns Marty. This modem was bundled with the special TCMarty that also came with a printer port. While it is widely believed that the IC Card slot can be used for RAM expansions, this is not correct. Controllers
4 way D pad, A and B buttons, Select, and Run, as well as an extra button above the two "face" buttons
2 standard controller portsThe controller connector is a DE 9, referred to as an "Atari Type" in Japan because it is fundamentally the same connector as an Atari 2600. The Marty's Run and Select buttons are the equivalent of pressing right and left, or up and down at the same time. A six button controller from Fujitsu was available for use with Capcom's Street Fighter II. Capcom also released an adapter for their CPS Fighter stick which made the stick compatible with the FM Towns/Marty as well as the Sharp X68000. Keyboard port
Слот для IC-карт Marty совместим с картами PCMCIA типа 1, включая карты SRAM с батарейным питанием (доступны из меню BIOS), которые могут быть назначены буквой диска и использоваться как небольшой диск. Fujitsu также официально выпустила PCMCIA 2400 бит/с модем (FMM CM301) для FM Towns Marty. Этот модем поставлялся в комплекте со специальной TCMarty, которая также включала в себя порт принтера. Хотя широко распространено мнение, что слот для IC-карт можно использовать для расширения оперативной памяти, это не так.
Japanese video game console
The FM Towns Marty is a home video game console released in 1993 by Fujitsu, exclusively for the Japanese market. It is often claimed to be the first 32 bit CD based home video game system, although it has a 16 bit data bus, like the earlier Commodore CDTV and Sega CD, which both have Motorola 68000 processors that are internally 16/32 bit, but with a 16 bit data bus. The console comes with a built in CD ROM drive and disk drive. It was based on the earlier FM Towns computer system Fujitsu had released in 1989. The Marty was backward compatible with older FM Towns games. In 1994, a new version of the console called the FM Towns Marty 2 (エフエムタウンズマーティー2) was released. It featured a darker gray shell and a lower price (¥66,000 or US$670), but was otherwise identical to the first Marty. It was widely believed that the FM Towns Marty 2 would feature similar improvements to the FM Towns 2, which had a swifter CPU than the first, but this was not the case. It has also been speculated that the Marty 2 featured an Intel 486 CPU, but this was also discovered to be false. There is also the FM Towns Car Marty (エフエムタウンズカーマーティー) for installation in automobiles. It included a built in navigation system with audio and video guidance, and could also be detached from the car and played at home. An optional IC Card for the FM Towns Car Marty allowed it to use VICS,)
RAM
Main RAM: 2 MB (2048 KB)
Video RAM: 640 KB (512 KB VRAM, 128 KB sprite RAM)
Graphics
GPU: Fujitsu custom graphics chip
Display resolution: 256×240, 256×256, 320×240, 352×232, 360×240, 512×480, 640×200, 640×480, 720×480
Bitmap background planes: 1 (with sprite plane) or 2 (without sprite plane)
Virtual resolution: 256×512, 512×256, 512×512, 640×819, 1024×512
Colors on screen: 16, or 256, or 32,768
Sprite foreground plane: 256×240
Sound
Yamaha YM2612: 6 channel FM synthesis
Ricoh RF5c68: 8 channel PCM sampling, 10 bit audio, 19.6 kHz sample rate
CD DA: 1 channel PCM playback, 16 bit audio, 44.1 kHz sampling rate
Data storage
CD ROM, single speed (1x)
Internal 3.5" HD floppy driveFloppy disks must be formatted 1232 KiB (PC98 style). This can be done from the BIOS GUI. The Marty's disk drive does not support 1440 KiB or 720 KiB FAT formatted 3.5" floppy disks. For a PC to be compatible with FM Towns Marty floppies it must have a disk drive, BIOS and OS that supports "3 Mode". There are also USB floppy drives that support "3 Mode". Multi purpose PCMCIA type 1 slot
The Marty's IC Card slot is compatible with type 1 PCMCIA cards, including battery backed SRAM cards (accessible from the BIOS menu) that can be mapped to a drive letter and used as a small drive. Fujitsu also officially released a PCMCIA 2400 bit/s modem (FMM CM301) for the FM Towns Marty. This modem was bundled with the special TCMarty that also came with a printer port. While it is widely believed that the IC Card slot can be used for RAM expansions, this is not correct. Controllers
4 way D pad, A and B buttons, Select, and Run, as well as an extra button above the two "face" buttons
2 standard controller portsThe controller connector is a DE 9, referred to as an "Atari Type" in Japan because it is fundamentally the same connector as an Atari 2600. The Marty's Run and Select buttons are the equivalent of pressing right and left, or up and down at the same time. A six button controller from Fujitsu was available for use with Capcom's Street Fighter II. Capcom also released an adapter for their CPS Fighter stick which made the stick compatible with the FM Towns/Marty as well as the Sharp X68000. Keyboard port
The FM Towns Marty is a home video game console released in 1993 by Fujitsu, exclusively for the Japanese market. It is often claimed to be the first 32 bit CD based home video game system, although it has a 16 bit data bus, like the earlier Commodore CDTV and Sega CD, which both have Motorola 68000 processors that are internally 16/32 bit, but with a 16 bit data bus. The console comes with a built in CD ROM drive and disk drive. It was based on the earlier FM Towns computer system Fujitsu had released in 1989. The Marty was backward compatible with older FM Towns games. In 1994, a new version of the console called the FM Towns Marty 2 (エフエムタウンズマーティー2) was released. It featured a darker gray shell and a lower price (¥66,000 or US$670), but was otherwise identical to the first Marty. It was widely believed that the FM Towns Marty 2 would feature similar improvements to the FM Towns 2, which had a swifter CPU than the first, but this was not the case. It has also been speculated that the Marty 2 featured an Intel 486 CPU, but this was also discovered to be false. There is also the FM Towns Car Marty (エフエムタウンズカーマーティー) for installation in automobiles. It included a built in navigation system with audio and video guidance, and could also be detached from the car and played at home. An optional IC Card for the FM Towns Car Marty allowed it to use VICS,)
RAM
Main RAM: 2 MB (2048 KB)
Video RAM: 640 KB (512 KB VRAM, 128 KB sprite RAM)
Graphics
GPU: Fujitsu custom graphics chip
Display resolution: 256×240, 256×256, 320×240, 352×232, 360×240, 512×480, 640×200, 640×480, 720×480
Bitmap background planes: 1 (with sprite plane) or 2 (without sprite plane)
Virtual resolution: 256×512, 512×256, 512×512, 640×819, 1024×512
Colors on screen: 16, or 256, or 32,768
Sprite foreground plane: 256×240
Sound
Yamaha YM2612: 6 channel FM synthesis
Ricoh RF5c68: 8 channel PCM sampling, 10 bit audio, 19.6 kHz sample rate
CD DA: 1 channel PCM playback, 16 bit audio, 44.1 kHz sampling rate
Data storage
CD ROM, single speed (1x)
Internal 3.5" HD floppy driveFloppy disks must be formatted 1232 KiB (PC98 style). This can be done from the BIOS GUI. The Marty's disk drive does not support 1440 KiB or 720 KiB FAT formatted 3.5" floppy disks. For a PC to be compatible with FM Towns Marty floppies it must have a disk drive, BIOS and OS that supports "3 Mode". There are also USB floppy drives that support "3 Mode". Multi purpose PCMCIA type 1 slot
The Marty's IC Card slot is compatible with type 1 PCMCIA cards, including battery backed SRAM cards (accessible from the BIOS menu) that can be mapped to a drive letter and used as a small drive. Fujitsu also officially released a PCMCIA 2400 bit/s modem (FMM CM301) for the FM Towns Marty. This modem was bundled with the special TCMarty that also came with a printer port. While it is widely believed that the IC Card slot can be used for RAM expansions, this is not correct. Controllers
4 way D pad, A and B buttons, Select, and Run, as well as an extra button above the two "face" buttons
2 standard controller portsThe controller connector is a DE 9, referred to as an "Atari Type" in Japan because it is fundamentally the same connector as an Atari 2600. The Marty's Run and Select buttons are the equivalent of pressing right and left, or up and down at the same time. A six button controller from Fujitsu was available for use with Capcom's Street Fighter II. Capcom also released an adapter for their CPS Fighter stick which made the stick compatible with the FM Towns/Marty as well as the Sharp X68000. Keyboard port
Контроллеры
4-позиционный D-pad, кнопки A и B, Select и Run, а также дополнительная кнопка над двумя "лицевыми" кнопками
2 стандартных порта для контроллеров. Разъём контроллера – DE 9, известный в Японии как "Тип Atari", поскольку он принципиально такой же, как у Atari 2600. Кнопки Run и Select на Marty эквивалентны одновременному нажатию кнопок "вправо" и "влево" или "вверх" и "вниз". Контроллер с шестью кнопками от Fujitsu был доступен для использования с Street Fighter II от Capcom. Capcom также выпустила адаптер для своей палочки CPS Fighter, который делал её совместимой с FM Towns/Marty, а также с Sharp X68000. Порт для клавиатуры.
Japanese video game console
The FM Towns Marty is a home video game console released in 1993 by Fujitsu, exclusively for the Japanese market. It is often claimed to be the first 32 bit CD based home video game system, although it has a 16 bit data bus, like the earlier Commodore CDTV and Sega CD, which both have Motorola 68000 processors that are internally 16/32 bit, but with a 16 bit data bus. The console comes with a built in CD ROM drive and disk drive. It was based on the earlier FM Towns computer system Fujitsu had released in 1989. The Marty was backward compatible with older FM Towns games. In 1994, a new version of the console called the FM Towns Marty 2 (エフエムタウンズマーティー2) was released. It featured a darker gray shell and a lower price (¥66,000 or US$670), but was otherwise identical to the first Marty. It was widely believed that the FM Towns Marty 2 would feature similar improvements to the FM Towns 2, which had a swifter CPU than the first, but this was not the case. It has also been speculated that the Marty 2 featured an Intel 486 CPU, but this was also discovered to be false. There is also the FM Towns Car Marty (エフエムタウンズカーマーティー) for installation in automobiles. It included a built in navigation system with audio and video guidance, and could also be detached from the car and played at home. An optional IC Card for the FM Towns Car Marty allowed it to use VICS,)
RAM
Main RAM: 2 MB (2048 KB)
Video RAM: 640 KB (512 KB VRAM, 128 KB sprite RAM)
Graphics
GPU: Fujitsu custom graphics chip
Display resolution: 256×240, 256×256, 320×240, 352×232, 360×240, 512×480, 640×200, 640×480, 720×480
Bitmap background planes: 1 (with sprite plane) or 2 (without sprite plane)
Virtual resolution: 256×512, 512×256, 512×512, 640×819, 1024×512
Colors on screen: 16, or 256, or 32,768
Sprite foreground plane: 256×240
Sound
Yamaha YM2612: 6 channel FM synthesis
Ricoh RF5c68: 8 channel PCM sampling, 10 bit audio, 19.6 kHz sample rate
CD DA: 1 channel PCM playback, 16 bit audio, 44.1 kHz sampling rate
Data storage
CD ROM, single speed (1x)
Internal 3.5" HD floppy driveFloppy disks must be formatted 1232 KiB (PC98 style). This can be done from the BIOS GUI. The Marty's disk drive does not support 1440 KiB or 720 KiB FAT formatted 3.5" floppy disks. For a PC to be compatible with FM Towns Marty floppies it must have a disk drive, BIOS and OS that supports "3 Mode". There are also USB floppy drives that support "3 Mode". Multi purpose PCMCIA type 1 slot
The Marty's IC Card slot is compatible with type 1 PCMCIA cards, including battery backed SRAM cards (accessible from the BIOS menu) that can be mapped to a drive letter and used as a small drive. Fujitsu also officially released a PCMCIA 2400 bit/s modem (FMM CM301) for the FM Towns Marty. This modem was bundled with the special TCMarty that also came with a printer port. While it is widely believed that the IC Card slot can be used for RAM expansions, this is not correct. Controllers
4 way D pad, A and B buttons, Select, and Run, as well as an extra button above the two "face" buttons
2 standard controller portsThe controller connector is a DE 9, referred to as an "Atari Type" in Japan because it is fundamentally the same connector as an Atari 2600. The Marty's Run and Select buttons are the equivalent of pressing right and left, or up and down at the same time. A six button controller from Fujitsu was available for use with Capcom's Street Fighter II. Capcom also released an adapter for their CPS Fighter stick which made the stick compatible with the FM Towns/Marty as well as the Sharp X68000. Keyboard port
The FM Towns Marty is a home video game console released in 1993 by Fujitsu, exclusively for the Japanese market. It is often claimed to be the first 32 bit CD based home video game system, although it has a 16 bit data bus, like the earlier Commodore CDTV and Sega CD, which both have Motorola 68000 processors that are internally 16/32 bit, but with a 16 bit data bus. The console comes with a built in CD ROM drive and disk drive. It was based on the earlier FM Towns computer system Fujitsu had released in 1989. The Marty was backward compatible with older FM Towns games. In 1994, a new version of the console called the FM Towns Marty 2 (エフエムタウンズマーティー2) was released. It featured a darker gray shell and a lower price (¥66,000 or US$670), but was otherwise identical to the first Marty. It was widely believed that the FM Towns Marty 2 would feature similar improvements to the FM Towns 2, which had a swifter CPU than the first, but this was not the case. It has also been speculated that the Marty 2 featured an Intel 486 CPU, but this was also discovered to be false. There is also the FM Towns Car Marty (エフエムタウンズカーマーティー) for installation in automobiles. It included a built in navigation system with audio and video guidance, and could also be detached from the car and played at home. An optional IC Card for the FM Towns Car Marty allowed it to use VICS,)
RAM
Main RAM: 2 MB (2048 KB)
Video RAM: 640 KB (512 KB VRAM, 128 KB sprite RAM)
Graphics
GPU: Fujitsu custom graphics chip
Display resolution: 256×240, 256×256, 320×240, 352×232, 360×240, 512×480, 640×200, 640×480, 720×480
Bitmap background planes: 1 (with sprite plane) or 2 (without sprite plane)
Virtual resolution: 256×512, 512×256, 512×512, 640×819, 1024×512
Colors on screen: 16, or 256, or 32,768
Sprite foreground plane: 256×240
Sound
Yamaha YM2612: 6 channel FM synthesis
Ricoh RF5c68: 8 channel PCM sampling, 10 bit audio, 19.6 kHz sample rate
CD DA: 1 channel PCM playback, 16 bit audio, 44.1 kHz sampling rate
Data storage
CD ROM, single speed (1x)
Internal 3.5" HD floppy driveFloppy disks must be formatted 1232 KiB (PC98 style). This can be done from the BIOS GUI. The Marty's disk drive does not support 1440 KiB or 720 KiB FAT formatted 3.5" floppy disks. For a PC to be compatible with FM Towns Marty floppies it must have a disk drive, BIOS and OS that supports "3 Mode". There are also USB floppy drives that support "3 Mode". Multi purpose PCMCIA type 1 slot
The Marty's IC Card slot is compatible with type 1 PCMCIA cards, including battery backed SRAM cards (accessible from the BIOS menu) that can be mapped to a drive letter and used as a small drive. Fujitsu also officially released a PCMCIA 2400 bit/s modem (FMM CM301) for the FM Towns Marty. This modem was bundled with the special TCMarty that also came with a printer port. While it is widely believed that the IC Card slot can be used for RAM expansions, this is not correct. Controllers
4 way D pad, A and B buttons, Select, and Run, as well as an extra button above the two "face" buttons
2 standard controller portsThe controller connector is a DE 9, referred to as an "Atari Type" in Japan because it is fundamentally the same connector as an Atari 2600. The Marty's Run and Select buttons are the equivalent of pressing right and left, or up and down at the same time. A six button controller from Fujitsu was available for use with Capcom's Street Fighter II. Capcom also released an adapter for their CPS Fighter stick which made the stick compatible with the FM Towns/Marty as well as the Sharp X68000. Keyboard port
Прием
Несмотря на превосходное аппаратное обеспечение с точки зрения игрового процесса, FM Towns и FM Towns Marty имели очень низкие продажи в Японии. Они были дорогими, а нестандартная аппаратная часть затрудняла расширение возможностей по сравнению с системами DOS/V (клонами IBM PC с японской DOS или Microsoft Windows). Компьютеры серии PC-98 от NEC также доминировали на японском рынке к моменту выпуска FM Towns Marty, что затрудняло выход на рынок до того, как DOS/V захватили контроль над ним. Это произошло, несмотря на такие революционные функции, как загрузочные CD-ROM и графический пользовательский интерфейс (GUI) на FM Towns PC, что на семь лет опередило появление загрузочного CD Windows 95b от Microsoft. Программное обеспечение сегодня редко и дорого из-за небольших тиражей. Несмотря на обратную совместимость с большинством старых игр для FM Towns PC, Marty страдал от проблем совместимости с новыми играми, разработанными для FM Towns, что еще больше ограничивало его потенциал как полноценной "консольной версии" FM Towns PC. Когда Fujitsu снизила цену и выпустила Marty 2, продажи начали расти, но руководство компании считало проект провальным, и система была снята с производства.
Despite having excellent hardware from a gameplay perspective, both the FM Towns and the FM Towns Marty were very poor sellers in Japan. They were expensive and the custom hardware meant expandability was not as easy as with DOS/V (IBM PC clones with Japanese DOS or Microsoft Windows) systems. NEC's PC98 series computers were also dominant in Japan when the FM Towns Marty was released, making it difficult to break out before the DOS/V invasion took control of the market. This was despite such revolutionary features as bootable CD ROMs and a color GUI OS on the FM Towns PC, something that predated Microsoft's Windows 95b bootable CD by seven years. Software today is rare and expensive due to the low production runs. Despite backwards compatibility with most older FM Towns PC games, compatibility issues plagued the Marty as newer titles were released with the FM Towns in mind, further limiting its potential as a true "console version" of the FM Towns PC. When Fujitsu lowered the price and released the Marty 2 sales started to increase, but the corporate attitude was that it was a lost cause, and so the system was dropped.