#subor — Public Fediverse posts
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The childhood loophole. Pretend to learn. Actually play. 🎮📚
Subor. The Famicom in disguise. A keyboard that wasn't really a keyboard. A "study computer" that ran game cartridges.
Jackie Chan's face on the box. That jingle in every 90s kid's head.
Parents thought you were typing. You were saving the princess.
The greatest con of the 8-bit era.
#Subor #FamicomClone #LearningMachine #90sKids #ChildhoodHack #JackieChan #8BitGaming #RetroGaming
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I'm sticking with FloatBASIC. However, without a manual, much less one in a language I can read, I don't know the commands available or the syntax required. I can't even interpret all the error messages. And, beyond knowing that it's a modified version of BASIC originally intended for another machine, I don't have much to fall back on. It seems to be based on MS BASIC and has a somewhat modified ASCII character table, that much I have figured out.
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It's interesting trying to use BASIC when you don't know what dialect the machine wants.
The Subor SB225-B has two flavors - G-BASIC and F-BASIC, or GameBASIC and FloatBASIC. GameBASIC is a modified FamilyBASIC, as published by Nintendo based on HudsonSoft and Sharp's PlayboxBASIC. FloatBASIC is... complicated.
Apparently, it's stolen from another Chinese computer company called Fei Suo, who in turn stole it from a Japanese computer company.
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Managed to find another of my universal power supplies so I could power up the Subor SB225-B and my Composite to VGA adapter at the same time, and then fetched one of my monitors that I knew could handle the resulting video signal. Looks like everything is working great!
My NTSC-J Famicom games will boot, but they don't fill the entirety of the screen and they run slow. I suppose some titles probably won't work at all.
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@djlink looks like #8bitdo looked at the #Faicom #FamilyBasic #Keyboard and asked themselves how a #NES version for the #USA would've looked like....
Has some #Subor #SB926 vibes if said #Famiclone didn't use some 85% layout instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzaRyirU_EI -
@djlink looks like #8bitdo looked at the #Faicom #FamilyBasic #Keyboard and asked themselves how a #NES version for the #USA would've looked like....
Has some #Subor #SB926 vibes if said #Famiclone didn't use some 85% layout instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzaRyirU_EI -
@djlink looks like #8bitdo looked at the #Faicom #FamilyBasic #Keyboard and asked themselves how a #NES version for the #USA would've looked like....
Has some #Subor #SB926 vibes if said #Famiclone didn't use some 85% layout instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzaRyirU_EI