@845H Honestly most of them are boring grey/beige cases really. NEC ones certainly go for the same sort of look as western computers of the day for the most part. It was mostly only Sharp* and Fujitsu that made an effort with their industrial design to get past that. Well, aside from MSX but that's more because certain companies tried to use the visuals as a distinguisher as much as the extra features.
*and even then some of the X1 models are as boring as much as some of them are visually impressive.
Ultimately I think the "office" computers had boring looks even in Japan whereas the computers aimed at "fun" were better looking.
@RupeeClock I believe the patents on things like motherboard design and such have all expired. Legal clones tend to appear after 25 years and as long as they don’t put Sonys branding trademarks on it then it’s fine. Using their code would be a big no-no but this is just a pcb.
The musical instrument industry clones stuff all the time.
Anyway there are multiple different board designs and I assume this will be an original one. No point recreating an existing board when one of the purposes is to document it.
That said I’m not sure I see the point in doing so. It’s not like capacitor leakage on to the pcb is a common issue and you still need original components.
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Re: ZUIKI Reveals A Better Look At "The X68000 Z 2"
@845H Honestly most of them are boring grey/beige cases really. NEC ones certainly go for the same sort of look as western computers of the day for the most part. It was mostly only Sharp* and Fujitsu that made an effort with their industrial design to get past that. Well, aside from MSX but that's more because certain companies tried to use the visuals as a distinguisher as much as the extra features.
*and even then some of the X1 models are as boring as much as some of them are visually impressive.
Ultimately I think the "office" computers had boring looks even in Japan whereas the computers aimed at "fun" were better looking.
Re: Almost 20 Years After It Ended Production, A Brand-New PS1 Motherboard Is In Development
@RupeeClock I believe the patents on things like motherboard design and such have all expired. Legal clones tend to appear after 25 years and as long as they don’t put Sonys branding trademarks on it then it’s fine. Using their code would be a big no-no but this is just a pcb.
The musical instrument industry clones stuff all the time.
Anyway there are multiple different board designs and I assume this will be an original one. No point recreating an existing board when one of the purposes is to document it.
That said I’m not sure I see the point in doing so. It’s not like capacitor leakage on to the pcb is a common issue and you still need original components.