Konix Multisystem
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| Konix Multisystem | |
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| Manufacturer: | Konix |
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| Announced: | 1989 |
| Release date: | JP: N/A NA: N/A EU: N/A AU: N/A |
| Initial Price: | JP: N/A NA: N/A EU: N/A AU: N/A |
| Discontinued: | 1990 |
Konix joined forces with three x-Sinclair engineers to work together on a concept console.
The machine had an interchangeable controller, designed as to be used in various circumstances such as a yoke, steering wheel or even handle bars. The machine had a 16-bit CPU and was capable of rendering 3D graphics. Games fitted on a 3.5" floppy disc.
Anticipated add-ons included a keyboard, light-pen, light gun with recoil and even a helicopter controller and hydraulic chair.
The console never made it to the manufacturing stage, instead dying with it's company.
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Hardware Specifications
On-board memory: 256K
Processor: 16-bit 8086 chip plus a custom 12 Mhz ASIC chip (includes video generator, colour palette, disk controller, Blitter, ROM, fast RAM, 12 MIP Arithmetic and Logic Unit, RISC Digital Signal Processor, stereo compact disk DACs and digital and analogue ports
Graphics: maximum resolution of 512x200 pixels and 16 colours
Colour palette: 4,096 colours
Sound: 25 (?) channel stereo CD quality sound
Display output: Standard TV or RGB composite video
Sound output: Via TV or through stereo headphone socket
Software format: Customised 880K 3.5" disks and expansion cartridge
Hardware Revisions
Later versions were upgraded to 512K of on-board memory.
Games
List of games in the format:
Peripherals
Emulation
Trivia
Konix coupled with a company called Flare Technology who had created a computer system called the Flare One which was the basis for the Multisystem. Flare had a certain developer called Jeff Minter and Jeff's Mutant Camels game was one of the few completed for the system. Once the Konix Multisystem had failed, Jeff Minter was involved with the Flare Two from the beginning. The system was later sold to Atari and became the Atari Jaguar.
