I recently did a refurbishment of a Fujitsu FM Towns II UG20. These are super cool little not-quite-DOS-compatible x86 all-in-one machines. It seems like the information is disbursed all over the place on the web, so I thought I'd do a post of the most useful things I found and the resources I created.
I did streams showing disassembly and tried to point out all of the different types of screws:
www.youtube.com
Reassembly:
www.youtube.com
How to service the floppy drive, modify a 72 pin SIMM to work, and boot from BlueSCSI:
www.youtube.com
I made capacitor maps for all the boards (although I found only the CD-ROM, main power supply, and one cap on the CRT board really needed to be done):
CD-ROM
Neck Board
Main Power Supply
Second (high voltage?) power supply
CRT Control board
Motherboard
AV board
drive.google.com
This is my a zip of my BlueSCSI image (just unzip and copy all the files to a SD card, hold A+B on controller, and boot from SCSI ID 4): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZB_D1jfiavTeT94jPGtFlsRp9_ehI5qI/view?usp=sharing
Useful links for FM Towns from around the web:
Software archive:
How to set up a drive emulator such as BlueSCSI:
gamesx.com
How to mod the 72 pin SIMM for FM Towns:
/edit: I’ll work to clean up the formatting. This is a mess!
I did streams showing disassembly and tried to point out all of the different types of screws:
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
www.youtube.com
Reassembly:
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
www.youtube.com
How to service the floppy drive, modify a 72 pin SIMM to work, and boot from BlueSCSI:
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
www.youtube.com
I made capacitor maps for all the boards (although I found only the CD-ROM, main power supply, and one cap on the CRT board really needed to be done):
CD-ROM
Neck Board
Main Power Supply
Second (high voltage?) power supply
CRT Control board
Motherboard
AV board
FM Towns AV board.png
drive.google.com
This is my a zip of my BlueSCSI image (just unzip and copy all the files to a SD card, hold A+B on controller, and boot from SCSI ID 4): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZB_D1jfiavTeT94jPGtFlsRp9_ehI5qI/view?usp=sharing
Useful links for FM Towns from around the web:
Software archive:
How to set up a drive emulator such as BlueSCSI:
fm_towns:sdscsi [NFG Games + GameSX]
gamesx.com
FM Towns Memory Upgrade
I’m still trying to get my FM Towns in a state to play Wing Commander. It might help if I hadn’t spent so much time playing Truxton 2 on it but I have made some progress this weekend. T…
www.pixsoriginadventures.co.uk
/edit: I’ll work to clean up the formatting. This is a mess!
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