PC with built-in Famicom!

[133MHz]

I recently came across the TwinHead PC-100 computer. It was a 10MHz 8088 IBM PC compatible with DOS in ROM, no hard drive, 720KB 3.5" disk drive, CGA card with monitor & TV out... and a built-in Famicom! It had two turbo controllers with proprietary connectors, optional 72-to-60 pin adapter and a pirate cart with 6 games. It was sold in my country during the early 90s, distributed by a company called Magenta at big-box stores. Since it came with a pirate cart, it disappeared quickly off the market. Information about this machine is extremely scarce. This is the only thing I could find.

The only picture I could find belonged to an ended auction at a local eBay-like site. If it wouldn't have ended I'd buy it in a second. I want one

http://oferta.deremate.cl/id=19588653_computadorconsola-twinhead-pc100

Better steal the pic quickly for the oddities section of the site .

[133MHz]

Found 'better' pictures:

[corisco]

Very interesting! Never heard about this machine, this must be pretty hard to find!

[133MHz]

It is. Very elusive, since it was sold for a very short time before it disappeared because of piracy issues. And very little information on the internet about it. I'll keep looking

[JC]

I see the controllers...where's the Famicom cart slot?

[133MHz]

Apparently it's on one of the sides. And controller 2 seems to have a microphone!

EDIT: Hey JC, If I ever get my hands on one, you'll get a full in-depth review of it for the site, that's for sure .

[manuel]

That looks neat. You are surely not the only one who'd buy it in a second. 

[AB Positive]

... Alli want. My other current gaming obsession is DOS games... don't know what it could do without a HDD but... oh wow. Yeah, I want, lol.

[133MHz]

It comes with DOS in ROM, so you don't need a boot disk. You can fit DOS games on floppy disks and play them on your TV!

[JC]

Does the PC part of this communicate with the Famicom at all, or do they operate 100% separately?

[michaelthegreat]

Does the PC part of this communicate with the Famicom at all, or do they operate 100% separately?

I'm sure it doesn't, but it would completely rule the world if you could play disk system games from 3.5 floppies...

[ericj]

If you had a drive that would read/write the 3" quick disk, would you be able to copy famicom games onto your pc and then make copies? I'm sure there are drives out there that fit these disks, considering how many pirate disk brands there are out  there. How hard would it be to do this and/or find the disks? 

[nurd]

aren't they 2.8"?

[ericj]

According to wikipedia, "The FDS disks were somewhat proprietary 2.8" × 3" 64K-per-side double-sided floppy".

[FamicomFreak]

Totally awesome find!