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Manufacturer
  
Release date
  
1989

Product family
  
MSX

Generation
  
MSX2+

FS-A1WSX

Operating system
  
MSX BASIC V3.0, MSX-DOS, CP/M

The Panasonic FS-A1WSX was the last MSX2+ made by Panasonic. It was the successor of FS-A1WX and incorporated few changes like S-Video output, no tape support, color printer support and an improved A1 Internal Cockpit software with a Kanji color word processor.

Contrary to other MSX2+ systems the Panasonic FS-A1 used a Z-80 compatible MSX-Engine (T9769x) which could be switched via software to 6 MHz. This model supported up to 256 KB of RAM after doing a little soldering. 512 KB was also possible with a more complicated modification.

Technical specifications

Processor
  • Z-80 compatible MSX-Engine (T9769x) with clock speeds of 3.58 and 5.37 MHz
  • Memory
  • ROM: 1552 KB
  • MSX BASIC v3.0: 80 KB
  • MSX Disk BASIC v1.0: 16 KB
  • Music BASIC (FM BIOS): 16 KB
  • JIS 1st & 2nd class Kanji Support: 256KB
  • MSX-JE: 512KB
  • MSX-JE/WP (MSX Word Processor): 656 KB
  • RAM: 64 KB
  • VRAM: 128 KB
  • SRAM: 16 KB
  • Display
  • VDP
  • Yamaha YM9958 (embedded in MSX Engine)
  • Text: 80×24, 40×24 and 32×24 (characters per line × lines)
  • Graphical: resolution max 512×212 pixels (16 colours out of 512) and 256×212 (19,268 colours)
  • Colours: 19,268 max
  • Sprites: 32 max
  • Sound
  • PSG
  • Yamaha AY-3-8910 (embedded in MSX Engine)
  • MSX Music
  • Yamaha OPLL YM-2413
  • Storage Memory
  • 720 KB 3 1/2" DD/DS floppy disks
  • References

    FS-A1WSX Wikipedia


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