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NEC PC-6001 mkII Demonstration Program
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release date : 1981
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This is a small program made by ASCII Corporation in (presumably) the 1980s to demonstrate the PC-6001 mkII. I found it on a tape. To load, set mode to 5 and number of pages to 3, enter CLOAD and then RUN. I used PC6001VX, in which I needed to disable all tape speedup options because they seem to somehow cause the demo to be decoded incorrectly and crash. FDD also should be disabled.

In the BASIC listing there is the following text:
Code:PRESENTED by ASCII corporation DIRECTOR: Hibiki.Godai, GRAPHICS: Satoshi.Uesaka, LOGOTYPE: Mariko.Uemura, PRODUSER: Mitsuhiro.Mazda
added on the 2026-10-12 19:55:27 by fizzer fizzer
There are also more of those in the neo kobe PC-8801 archive (I'm not sure they're relevant here).
added on the 2026-10-12 20:21:23 by hitchhikr hitchhikr
o_O..
Japanese dudes were really way ahead with all that computer stuff.
added on the 2026-10-12 20:50:31 by sim sim
hitchhikr, I believe this one was previously undumped.
added on the 2026-10-12 22:12:35 by fizzer fizzer
This is really cool! Thanks for digging it up! I also didn't know about the PC-6001 yet (too many Japanese computer models in the 80s), while being aware of the PC-8001, PC-8801 and PC-9801 series.

P.S.: In the last third it plays a melody (what's the title again?), which I had to show to my 10yo son, because one of his fav YT gamers (playing some running over millions of keyboard keys in Roblox.. sigh) often sings using this melody. ;)
rulez added on the 2026-10-13 08:11:59 by Dresdenboy Dresdenboy
It's from the William Tell Overture, specifically the finale.
added on the 2026-10-13 09:55:48 by fizzer fizzer
@fizzer:
Oh, I remember! Thx for the pointer!

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