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Famicom/NES / Re: SuperVision C64/128?
« on: November 30, 2020, 11:26:09 AM »
Thanks for posting interesting info. Supervision brand was/is owned by Dar Yar as well as their partner company called Sperry. They dealt with not only Famiclones but also PC Engine clone and even MSX cartridges, but I've never seen their activity related to C64/128!

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Watara Supervision related to Supervision?

As far as I see there's no relationship between them. Supervision mentioned above is from Taiwan. On the other hand, Watara Supervision was created by Fixtron from Hong Kong. More correctly Supervision seems to have been manufactured by a partner company and their joint venture in mainland. Dar Yar had their own partners in Hong Kong and mainland, but they were different companies.

Fixtron registered Watara trademark in North America and West Europe.
Their Chinese joint venture registered Watara/Travelmate trademarks in mainland.

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Famicom/NES / Re: Dongda & Batong keyboard clones
« on: January 09, 2020, 05:58:36 PM »
I think other *86 consoles are not so hard to find. Since Subor released SB-286/386, such kind of naming had become fashionable in China mainland because ignorant mass could easily confuse them with Intel's 286/386/486 CPUs.

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Famicom/NES / Re: My Japanese book related to Taiwanese Famiclones
« on: November 07, 2019, 07:28:13 AM »
Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for your information...

Here's the correct link:
https://www.paypal.me/hallyvorc

Thank you!

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Famicom/NES / My Japanese book related to Taiwanese Famiclones
« on: November 05, 2019, 10:31:18 PM »
Hi,

My little book dedicated to early Taiwanese video games (including many Famiclones) is finally up.

It was named "The Picture Book of Intellectual Properties in The History of Taiwanese Video Games Vol.1"
You can see some sample pages here:
https://sites.google.com/site/hallyvorc/tai-wan-dian-shi-you-le-qi-zhuan-li-tu-jian

Although the language is entirely in Japanese, I decided to release the PDF edition here in limited numbers. If 12 US dollar is not  irritating for you, please visit the following Paypal account and let me know your email address.

https://www.paypal.com/hallyvorc

p.s. I may take 2~3 days to confirm your request.


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Famicom/NES / Re: Unknown Taiwanese Famiclones
« on: October 23, 2019, 12:09:20 PM »
Another unknown target in sight...

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1q4zX4wRrgE6BejyauTF6uOnL82-21nCj

Designed by 上久電子有限公司 in 1989.
This was the only patent registered by the company, and I couldn't find any video game related product by them.


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Famicom/NES / Re: Unknown Taiwanese Famiclones
« on: October 23, 2019, 09:40:02 AM »
Thanks for your information.

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For me it feels just like a mockup and it was never intended to be marketed or sold.
I have the same feeling too.

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佳寶電子工業 (1990) > never seen, probably it never went past the registered trademark as it seems to be portable with a screen, way too expensive and idealistic for a 1990 product.
Another patent tells me that was a NES-Famicom dual slot system. Maybe one of the first of this kind?

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Vk0eHcc20o6ooVF29iAfA-44qOQaxmW8
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y5W8erzesQ4MSZ72bFb-DSHYL1dWNIpa/view?usp=sharing

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As to clones, the first ones are from 1987 definitely. Some IQ-201 have chips from week 4x of 1987. There's advertisements from August 1987 of IQ-201 and IQ-180 (never seen any) that are known to exists. So it's not unrealistic they all planned their Famiclone by mid-late 1987.

There was also a Taiwanese design patent related to IQ-201 that was applied on June 12th 1987 by Tai Shing Electronics (later the right was moved to TXC in 1990). Even before that, Bit Corporation applied their BIT70's design patent on March 4th 1987. Bit Corp and Tai Shing have teamed up at that time. They applied PPU clone patent on April 23rd at the same year. Everything indicates the first Famicom clones were ready in this period.

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But EFA Corp clone is definitely not made for Famicom, cartridge shape doesn't match.
Later I found various evidence which relate the design to Sega. My bold hypothesis is... it may be an early design idea of their Mega Drive, of the time which was called "Mark V".

Thanks,

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Famicom/NES / Unknown Taiwanese Famiclones
« on: October 21, 2019, 09:01:00 PM »
Hi,

Now I'm writing a little Japanese book like this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHZqhNJUwAEbM1J?format=png&name=900x900

Taiwanese patent database has a lot of interesting information revealing unknown historical facts regarding to Famiclones, and for my book I've found various Famiclone designs which were seemingly never seen before. Could someone please identify some of them?

EFA Corporation (I guess it may not be a famiclone because it's totally unusual as of 1987)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHHcQyGWoAEg3D_?format=png&name=medium

SuperTone Electronics (1987, may not be a famiclone)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jxa0EBqc67BqzcNjCHnD_Y-9Y-lIp_tJ/view?usp=sharing

Dar Yar Electronics  (1988)
https://twitter.com/hallyvorc/status/1185458858090647553

Chen Fengyì (individual, 1990)
https://twitter.com/hallyvorc/status/1185607428613656576

佳寶電子工業 (1990)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hx4eLp9khAPNrGMElgcscYr3vss1NHyr/view?usp=sharing

Thank you,

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