Google Chrome Is My Browser Of Choice, Even On The Famicom

January 2, 2013 - By

Courtesy of Morgan Conley comes the Famicom Software Project, which emphasizes the latter half of the console’s full name, that being the Family Computer.

To be honest, it’s not the wackiest ideas in the world. After all, Nintendo did release Family BASIC in Japan, which allowed one to create their own games for the platform.

The above reminds of the time someone created a special cart that allows the Sega Genesis to run Mac OS, which again is not too far-fetched, given how that system’s main processor is the Motorola 68000, which was the heart of Macintosh during its earliest days.

Unfortunately, I’m unable to find any images online, circa 2013 (happy new year, by the way). Though this old Sega-16 forum thread has some details. Anyhow, Conley also created the following to show what the Famicom version of Photoshop would be like…

Thanks to Albotas for the head’s up!

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  • Jens

    SegaMac was a hoax. Alex Rosenberg demoed it at the MacHack conference in 1993 (I was there.) It did a good simulation of the Mac boot screen, a default Finder desktop, and the menu bar; then popped up a fake bomb box (system crash) when a menu command was chosen.

    The demo was realistic enough that I was taken in, along with many others, but Alex revealed it as a hoax later that evening. In reality the Genesis didn’t even have a full screen buffer (just tiled backgrounds and sprites) so it couldn’t possibly have emulated a real Mac or PC OS. The hack was a clever bit of programming, though.

    • http://www.fort90.com/journal/ fort90

      Hmmm… 

      • Jens

        Again, from what I know of the Genesis hardware, it would be impossible. You need a fully bit-mappable full-screen frame buffer, and the Genesis didn’t have that. Its YM7101 chip supported repeating background tiles, and foreground sprites. You’d need about 1000 different 8×8 pixel tiles simultaneously to emulate a full screen buffer, which is way more than it could possibly have supported.

        [Disclaimer: I'm not a Genesis/Megadrive expert (though I did play Sonic a lot). I am somewhat of a Mac expert, having worked at Apple for 16 years.]

    • B_rock

      grow up

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