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Hey guys,

my knoweldge for this system is very limited...

I have some questions for you

As far as I know the FM Towns had their own OS. The FM OS.
Later, Fujitsu made some official releases of the Windows OS but they were only for the FM Towns system.

1. IS the above true? If the answer is yes, then does this mean that a typical version of windows for PCs (Windows '95 for example) is not compatile with the FM Town because Fujitsu's system needs a very specific version/build of it?

2. Also, if the above statement is true then how PC compatible is the Fujitsu FM-Towns? With the FM OS I guess very limited but with the Win 3.1 or '95?

3. Some games seem to have "double" compatibility for the FM TOwns and Windows based systems (with different specs) (?) Like nowdays with PC/MAC. Do we know how many games they are?
Also, those PC/FM towns games are compatile with marty?

Excuse my poor english.

EDIT :

4. Ah! I forgot this... according to the wiki FM OS is based on win 3.1. But according to this :
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/com ... c=968&st=1
Dave Lundberg says its a predecessor to the Win 3.1 OS ?

:/

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1.) Yes, they are specific versions for the FMT. You can´t use PC versions of MS-DOS or Windows.

2.) and 3.) I don´t know, I can´t test because of the missing hardware.
No any FMT emulator (UNZ, MESS, FM Bochs) exist at moment, which support the protected-mode features in the CPU emulation.
That means, Windows 95 and Microsoft Windows 3.1 L11 are not working on these emulators.
I have tested it.

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thanks for your reply Anna_Wu

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small update: latest code in MESS allows for Win3.1 install on FM-Towns

http://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads. ... #Post76447

this has been possible thanks to a lot of recent work on i386/i486 CPUs emulation. the main focus was on IBM PC-AT emulation (if you loved DOS games for Western PCs too, in addition to Jpn computers, you might like the screens you see by scrolling the various pages in the linked thread ), but FMTowns benefits too since it shares the same code!

Yes, it is a big progress in the FMT emulation.



You have to start Windows 3.1 in standard mode (WIN /S) because the 386 Enhanced mode is not working at moment.

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Further progress ...

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