Batong 686 Famiclone

[doctorlai]

Where did you find it?
if you don't want it, then I want to get one, if you don't mind.

[prince tomato]

Huateng Toy Co.
i don't know how or where,
but they found 4 used ones.

[fcgamer]

I'm not sure that I have that kind of money to be tossing around either at the moment, but that Famiclone does look slick.  My only question though is as follows:  Are we even sure that this is a Famiclone? 

[prince tomato]

after digging around a bit (an d a little help from friends)
my guess is that it isn't.
you it is running on some kind of HT-DOS OS,
where other PC Famiclones will have a custom OS and usually a fake windows GUI,
also it has beem described as an award winning PC somewhere in the early nineties.
the cartridges seen on the right have a weird narrow bit at the bottom, and could possibly be memory expansion carts or something.
so, probably not a famiclone, but a pretty sweet set-up with a timeless design nonetheless.

[Virtvic]

Old thread resurrection!

I've just bought one of these.
Mine doesn't have the disk drive or the 2x expansion slots.
It does have a TV tuner in it though.

I have the original 'basic' cart and the keyboard. I haven't seen my version ANYWHERE on the net. You can only find the disk versions.

The famicom side works ok, I just need to repair the TV part. It has horizontal collapse at the moment.

[UglyJoe]

I am so glad to see a necropost that isn't spam

Can you post some pics of it?

[Virtvic]

Sure!You cannot see attachments on this board.

[Virtvic]

Famiclone side works if you inject +5vdc directly into it and output directly from it to another screen.You cannot see attachments on this board.

[KirbyGod]

The russian video game comrade made a video about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzg2XlJ0Lg8

[P]

Oh seems very sophisticated and much more of a real computer than about any other Famiclone.

So those 2 small cartridge slots in the right compartment are for expansion RAM, the system ROM and various other expansion devices. The third slot is a 60-pin Famicom cartridge slot, though the compartment is a bit narrow for some cartridges and the slot itself seems loose and of poor quality.

It has some sort of disk operating system and a modification of Family BASIC with support for the FDD. It also has a port of AppleSoft BASIC.
Finally there are a number of typical computer programs like text editors, spreadsheet editors and some games.

The biggest surprise is the cassette tape drive in the left compartment. Since BASIC saves to disk it seems almost superfluous (except if playing games like Excitebike which uses the official one). But apparently it can play audio tapes and some sort of unique Chinese data tape which has software on one of the two stereo channels which it can load.