LGR Oddware - NEC PC-FXGA DOS/V Game Accelerator Card
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Date: 2022-04-14
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pXn
Really ODD seeing Kubota on a Hudson chip - 5: 00
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The Huc6273 (Aurora) was designed by Hudson and Kubota Corp, a tractor and heavy equipment manufacturer based in Osaka, Japan. In the 90s Kubota was cash rich and saw an opportunity in making workstations aimed at 3D graphics applications. Kubota joined forces with companies such as Stellar and Ardent, calling the company Stardent which later became Kubota Pacific, then Kubota Graphics who was then acquired and the name disappeared. Rumour has it that some of its staff later founded a company that would become ATI! Small world- (see: The History of Visual Magic in ComputersHow Beautiful Images are Made in CAD, 3D, VR and AR by John Peddie for more details on Kubota-s foray into 3D graphics)
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Really ODD seeing Kubota on a Hudson chip - 5: 00
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The Huc6273 (Aurora) was designed by Hudson and Kubota Corp, a tractor and heavy equipment manufacturer based in Osaka, Japan. In the 90s Kubota was cash rich and saw an opportunity in making workstations aimed at 3D graphics applications. Kubota joined forces with companies such as Stellar and Ardent, calling the company Stardent which later became Kubota Pacific, then Kubota Graphics who was then acquired and the name disappeared. Rumour has it that some of its staff later founded a company that would become ATI! Small world- (see: The History of Visual Magic in ComputersHow Beautiful Images are Made in CAD, 3D, VR and AR by John Peddie for more details on Kubota-s foray into 3D graphics)
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Red
So as I understand this: This is a PC extension card for a console and it doesn't add any functionality to the PC. It has its own graphics and CPU. It was sold in Japan only, a country known for not being very into PCs, to enable them to play games for a console that did not even sell that well. They need a telly on hand to play anyway. And I guess it probably even cost more than the standalone console.
Who builds something like this? And who are 5 people that ever bought these?
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So as I understand this: This is a PC extension card for a console and it doesn't add any functionality to the PC. It has its own graphics and CPU. It was sold in Japan only, a country known for not being very into PCs, to enable them to play games for a console that did not even sell that well. They need a telly on hand to play anyway. And I guess it probably even cost more than the standalone console.
Who builds something like this? And who are 5 people that ever bought these?
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CHRISMENENDEZ
That card would've been 100 times more useful, and probably would've been a lot more successful, if it actually used the computer instead of having to plug an external TV and everything else to play games. It's an overly complicated setup that makes the PC mostly useless while you're playing.
NEC could've been a mayor PC graphics player if that thing doubled as a graphics card for your PC instead of just, as you put it, being a parasite of a whole PC setup.
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That card would've been 100 times more useful, and probably would've been a lot more successful, if it actually used the computer instead of having to plug an external TV and everything else to play games. It's an overly complicated setup that makes the PC mostly useless while you're playing.
NEC could've been a mayor PC graphics player if that thing doubled as a graphics card for your PC instead of just, as you put it, being a parasite of a whole PC setup.
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SWISS1337
Overboard with anime up skirting? Is that a possibility? I do enjoy your videos. Being born 1990, I wasn't old enough to know anything prior to the SNES, which was fantastic, then moved on to N64 etc. I also had Windows 95 and 98 onwards (mostly 98, but installed 95 and ME to test, because I was inquisitive) so your videos show me more of the stuff, that if I was born in the 70s or the 80s, I know for sure, I'd have been so excited!
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Overboard with anime up skirting? Is that a possibility? I do enjoy your videos. Being born 1990, I wasn't old enough to know anything prior to the SNES, which was fantastic, then moved on to N64 etc. I also had Windows 95 and 98 onwards (mostly 98, but installed 95 and ME to test, because I was inquisitive) so your videos show me more of the stuff, that if I was born in the 70s or the 80s, I know for sure, I'd have been so excited!
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Teeth
How in the world did no one notice that Hu-C6273 chip has both Hudson and Kubota silkscreened on to it! --
Kubota is mainly a tractor/agricultural machinery and construction equipment company, among other things.
Kubota Graphics, the sub-company behind this chip, that eventually dissolved. Was rumored to essentially become the ATI company. Historical Oddware for sure.
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How in the world did no one notice that Hu-C6273 chip has both Hudson and Kubota silkscreened on to it! --
Kubota is mainly a tractor/agricultural machinery and construction equipment company, among other things.
Kubota Graphics, the sub-company behind this chip, that eventually dissolved. Was rumored to essentially become the ATI company. Historical Oddware for sure.
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Matthew
I didn't noticed that there was a PC-FX Card Adapter existed for MS-DOS Computers, I do know that PC-FX looked more like a PC Console than a Gaming Console like the TurboGrafx-16 since NEC used to make Computers like Microsoft does.
By the way, does this PC-FXGA Card Adaptor works on Windows 98, XP, Vista, or 10 since MS-DOS is a Microsoft Product as well?
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I didn't noticed that there was a PC-FX Card Adapter existed for MS-DOS Computers, I do know that PC-FX looked more like a PC Console than a Gaming Console like the TurboGrafx-16 since NEC used to make Computers like Microsoft does.
By the way, does this PC-FXGA Card Adaptor works on Windows 98, XP, Vista, or 10 since MS-DOS is a Microsoft Product as well?
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Jg235
I remember these fm towns japanese pc-s from seeing them in magazines at the time, very attractive, desirable and cool, appeared to be very fast but then you read they were only for the Japanese market and were super expensive especially for a student. Also many were MSX computers meaning they were not PC-s but some proprietary Japanese class of home computers.
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I remember these fm towns japanese pc-s from seeing them in magazines at the time, very attractive, desirable and cool, appeared to be very fast but then you read they were only for the Japanese market and were super expensive especially for a student. Also many were MSX computers meaning they were not PC-s but some proprietary Japanese class of home computers.
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Paul
When you said you were going to mess with the sealed ones, I gasped and said, I don't think the guy that loaned it expected you to open sealed ones! Thankfully because it is you, you burned copies of those from the internet. As if I should have ever been nervous about that at all, you of course knew better! - Great content as always!
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When you said you were going to mess with the sealed ones, I gasped and said, I don't think the guy that loaned it expected you to open sealed ones! Thankfully because it is you, you burned copies of those from the internet. As if I should have ever been nervous about that at all, you of course knew better! - Great content as always!
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Chris
So let me get this straight.
This is a card, that requires another card, to run on a regular TV instead of a computer monitor, except when it does need the monitor to do computer commands, and it's completely rare. Why in the world would anyone want this?
(Sees T Rex riding a dragonfly)
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Worth it.
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So let me get this straight.
This is a card, that requires another card, to run on a regular TV instead of a computer monitor, except when it does need the monitor to do computer commands, and it's completely rare. Why in the world would anyone want this?
(Sees T Rex riding a dragonfly)
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Worth it.
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mercster
Seems a bit pointless since it requires a second display. It even turns on as soon as the machine gets power, you might as well buy the console! :) But I guess it was less expensive. I don't think any of the games took advantage of the 3D chip but we'll see (haven't watched the full video yet.
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Seems a bit pointless since it requires a second display. It even turns on as soon as the machine gets power, you might as well buy the console! :) But I guess it was less expensive. I don't think any of the games took advantage of the 3D chip but we'll see (haven't watched the full video yet.
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