Why do rarities always appear when your absolutely skint? First time I've seen one of these on Ebay...
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Nice. I remember seeing one of these on Bad Influence and wanting one badly. Totally pointless now like, apart from getting VGA out of Megadrive games I suppose. -
Were these different spec-wise to the Amstrad MegaPC?Comment
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Ah ****, that was what was on Bad Influence, not this.Originally posted by Shakey_Jake33 View PostComment
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Been a long time since I saw a MegaPC but vaguely remember them just being an underspecced Amstrad branded PC with an ISA card with all the megadrive stuff. The monitor and power were the only bit shared. Only worked with the supplied Amstrad monitor, only one system could be on at a time and had no TV/audio output. The teradrive was more integrated (can see the TV/audio outputs) and had the megadrive mode available from the PC side.Originally posted by Shakey_Jake33 View Post
MegaPC was insanely expensive when it was released and a good generation behind (386 SX I think) what you could pick up in the high street for around half the price (486 DX).
edit: MegaPC was quite funny in that even though it came with a white megadrive pad, it also came with a popular design at the time white box with stick/single fire button style analogue joystick.Last edited by Boody; 20-05-2010, 20:08.Comment
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I've wanted one of these since since I saw stuff about them back in the day, but to be honest I don't think it would be worth it. It's too low spec to be any use as a retro gaming PC so the only real reason I would want to get one now would be to have a real Mega Drive with a VGA out. I don't think I'd be prepared to pay that much for it, especially with expensive shipping.
Kind of a neat collectors item though.Comment
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Definitely so. I have clear memories of initially being wowed by the idea of a Western equivalent of the TeraDrive (which I'd read about in Sega Pro) then looking at the weedy 386 specs. A decent 486 plus a normal MegaDrive would've cost much less than the Mega PC!Originally posted by Boody View PostComment
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That Teradrive was the Jap version of the MegaPC, the main difference being that the Jap unit came with programming software and book so that you could program the Megadrive part of it although there was no real way of saving your programming outside of RAM, which kind of defeated the object really. The other noticeable difference was that you could use any monitor and speakers with the Jap unit but had to use the Amstrad specific monitor (with its built in speakers and bespoke connection lead) here in the UK and in the US IIRC.
Sugar assumed we were too think over this side of the world and omitted the programming part of the MegaPC when it was launched here.Comment
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The fact that you can use a MegaDrive directly over VGA sounds very appealing indeed.Comment
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Why??Kept you waiting, huh?Comment
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Why not?Originally posted by J0e Musashi View Post
Same way I see the appeal of playing PS1 games on a PS3 over HDMI.Comment
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Nice crisp progessive scanned picture with no filtering, and from real hardware. As good as emulation is, it's just not the same as using the real thing.Originally posted by J0e Musashi View PostComment
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Yes, but the MD doesn't support nice crisp progessive scanned picture. The kid over the road had a Mega PC (as well as a GX4000), and I always thought mine looked way better through RGB Scart.Originally posted by Silanda View PostLast edited by J0e Musashi; 23-05-2010, 13:49.Kept you waiting, huh?Comment
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To be fair I haven't seen one in action, and although it should have been possible to get a progressive output from the MD with some hardware modification it seems that Sega didn't do that. So on this front I appear to be mistaken (and somewhat disappointed), it just outputs the standard RGB signal, so a monitor capable of accepting a 15kHz signal or a scan doubler is neededOriginally posted by J0e Musashi View Post
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I could hook it up to my arcade cab monitor then, that'd be awesome.Comment
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