The PC-88VA was compatible with the PC-8801 and also had a V3 mode that operated in 16bit mode and allowed to run MS-DOS like OS.
This machine had sprites for games in character mode. High quality games
such as R-TYPE were released using this mode.
Unfortunately this machine had no success and was replaced by the PC-88VA2/VA3 series in 1988.
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Yes this model of the PC88 series did get a port of the arcade hit R-TYPE and for the time it was probably one of the best home computer ports out their with full colour and FM stereo sound it was comparable to the Arcade.
Saturday 30th May 2020
JAMES (Ireland)
Yes this model of the PC88 series did get a port of the arcade hit R-TYPE and for the time it was probably one of the best home computer ports out their with full colour and FM stereo sound it was comparable to the Arcade.
Saturday 30th May 2020
JAMES (Ireland)
NAME
PC 88VA
MANUFACTURER
NEC
TYPE
Professional Computer
ORIGIN
Japan
YEAR
1987
KEYBOARD
Full-stroke keyboard with numeric keypad and arrow keys
