Comments on: Family BASIC http://playpower.org/blog/2008/08/family-basic/ Learning Games for Radically Affordable Computers Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:33:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Jellystapler http://playpower.org/blog/2008/08/family-basic/comment-page-1/#comment-1960 Jellystapler Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:34:54 +0000 http://playpower.org/blog/?p=35#comment-1960 During a trip to Japan last year, I bought one of these kits, as well as a Famicom and a Disk System. The keyboard is kind of neat. It plugs into the front. The cartridge has a battery in it, which you can use to save your very simple programs. The cartridge had some sprites from different popular nintendo games. The tape recorder was used to back up the games onto tape. (much like a MicroBee) The disk system plugs into the cartridge port, and adds a disk reader. The disks could be both read off and written to. You used to be able to go to video game stores in the 80's, and download games from kiosk's to your spare disk system disks, or buy blank disk system disks, too! The disk system disks are double sided. 1 side is big enough to fit an entire game! I have a disk with Mario Bros.2 on one side, and volleyball on the other! Some disk system games were so big that they needed both sides. You would start with side 1, it would load into RAM, and then you would flip the disk and load that side, too! anyways, if you want more information, please email me mananime@hotmail.com Im registered on your development wiki as "jellystapler", too. During a trip to Japan last year, I bought one of these kits, as well as a Famicom and a Disk System.

The keyboard is kind of neat. It plugs into the front.
The cartridge has a battery in it, which you can use to save your very simple programs.

The cartridge had some sprites from different popular nintendo games.

The tape recorder was used to back up the games onto tape. (much like a MicroBee)

The disk system plugs into the cartridge port, and adds a disk reader. The disks could be both read off and written to.
You used to be able to go to video game stores in the 80’s, and download games from kiosk’s to your spare disk system disks, or buy blank disk system disks, too!

The disk system disks are double sided. 1 side is big enough to fit an entire game! I have a disk with Mario Bros.2 on one side, and volleyball on the other!

Some disk system games were so big that they needed both sides. You would start with side 1, it would load into RAM, and then you would flip the disk and load that side, too!

anyways, if you want more information, please email me mananime@hotmail.com
Im registered on your development wiki as “jellystapler”, too.

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