Must have been one Expensive 68000 machine!!! Check it out from Japan.

[uniserver]

 

[360alaska]

What exactly is this?

Update: found it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X68000

 

[Macdrone]

well wonder if that OS wiould port to apples or if all the hardware is way off?  Since the whole line from 68000 to 68030 seemed pretty much Apple copied.

 

[CelGen]

well wonder if that OS wiould port to apples or if all the hardware is way off?  Since the whole line from 68000 to 68030 seemed pretty much Apple copied.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! That's hilarious.

Human68K, SX-Window or OS9 Will not port to a mac because they rely on the Sharp manufactured ASICs among other things. The only real thing the x68000 and the mac have in common is the 68000 series processors.

Those are horribly expensive machines by the way. I bought a non functioning machine for $75 and for the damn keyboard had to pay another $140. I can't even find  the damn mouse for under $100. A complete machine with the monitor can easily sell for $700 in Japan. I can totally see a complete machine selling here for $1000+

Here's more info on the X68000.

 

[IPalindromeI]

brb porting AmigaOS to a TI-89.

 

[Gorgonops]

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! That's hilarious.

Pretty much, yeah. Dozens of companies were making 68000 machines, some of them well before Apple was, and if there's any general thing you can say about Apple's machines verses everyone else's is Apple's usually had the *simplest*, most basic hardware. (This might be an arguable point if you're comparing, say, a Macintosh II to something like a Sun 3/60; both are basically "generic computer with a largish flat framebuffer".)

The X68000 is very much the Japanese answer to the Commodore Amiga, for all that implies in terms of possessing hardware to accelerate graphics and sound generation. It's basically a Capcom arcade machine with a keyboard so, yeah, not going to be running its software on a Mac II.

 

[commodorejohn]

It's basically a Capcom arcade machine with a keyboard so, yeah, not going to be running its software on a Mac II.

It would be a fun trick to run Mac software on the X68000, though

 

[Gorgonops]

Unless there's some absolute deal-breaker about its memory map it'd probably be just as easy to run Mac OS on an X68000 as it is to run it on an Amiga or Atari ST. (Both of which could do so relatively trivially through ROM-patching techniques similar to that used by BasiliskII.) If someone *hasn't* already done it it's only because the X68000 was so focused on the gaming segment no one ever saw a point to it.

 

[K55]

I've always wanted one of the crazy 80's japanese pc's. Either a MSX2 or a X68000. Prices are sky high though. But often you got the best sounding/best graphical versions of the original games like castlevania for example.