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16 unusual facts about IBM PC compatible|


ACE Centre

The advent of the IBM compatible computer lead to more graphics based programs being developed for switch users such as 'Plocka' (Swedish for 'pick up').

Artdink

By far Artdink's biggest international success was the award-winning A-Train (known in Japan as A Ressha de Ikou, or "Take the A-Train") strategy game released for the PC and Amiga, which was published by SimCity creators Maxis.

Bleem!

Bleem! (styled as bleem!) was a commercial PlayStation emulator released by the Bleem Company in 1999 for IBM-compatible PCs and Dreamcast.

Driving simulator

Advances in processing power have led to more realistic simulators in recent years, beginning with Papyrus Design Group's groundbreaking Grand Prix Legends for the PC, released in 1998

Eagle Butte High School

The school now offers a full range of high school programs, from welding, woodworking and firearm safety to cosmetology, food studies and computers (both Macintosh and IBM).

Flip-screen

These limitations were not exclusive to the Spectrum; many early MSX, NEC PC-8801 and PC VGA games also used the flip-screen technique.

Hellboy: Asylum Seeker

It is a port of the PC game titled Hellboy: Dogs of the Night (or sometimes just Hellboy, depending on where it was released), developed by Cryo Studios North America, a subsidiary of Cryo Interactive of France, and released in late 2000 to early 2001.

Hercules InColor Card

The Hercules InColor Card (GB222) was an IBM PC compatible graphics controller card released in April 1987 by Hercules Computer Technology, Inc. After the success of the monochrome Hercules Graphics Card which gained wide developer support, the market was changing with the release of new colour cards which were becoming increasingly affordable.

Modified Frequency Modulation

--Machines using CP/M is likely to use MFM, but CP/M itself has nothing to do with MFM--> machines as well as IBM PC compatibles.

Nanyang Girls' High School

The campus has an auditorium, two lecture theatres, four computer laboratories (PC), an iMac laboratory and a three-storey library (with iMacs at the third level).

One Must Fall

One Must Fall (OMF) is a fighting game series for the IBM PC compatible, programmed by Diversions Entertainment.

PC-FX

Unlike nearly any other console (except for the 3DO and CD-i), the PC-FX was also available as an internal PC card for NEC PC-98 and AT/IBM PC compatibles.

Roland Corporation

1987 – Roland MT-32 Sound Module: Also using Linear Arithmetic synthesis, it was supported by many PC games in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a high-quality music option until support shifted to General MIDI sound cards.

Trip Hawkins

In 1996 3DO stopped developing the system and transitioned into a video game developer, making games for the PlayStation, PC and other consoles.

Uptech Computer

The company provides PC repair and upgrade services as well as selling custom built PC's.

Xerox Daybreak

It ran the ViewPoint (later GlobalView) GUI and was used extensively throughout Xerox until being replaced by Suns and PCs.


Bio F.R.E.A.K.S.

Prototypes of the game were tested at arcades, but the final arcade release was canceled (although a rom image of the prototype was eventually dumped and works in MAME) and the game was later released for the PlayStation, Nintendo 64 and PC.

Comeau C/C++

Comeau Computing's CEO, Greg Comeau, provided one of the early ports of cfront to the PC.

Composite monitor

From the late 1970s stand-alone composite monitors came into use, including by the Apple II, Commodore VIC 20/64/128, Atari, the IBM PC with CGA card, some computers compatible with it, and other home and business computers of the 1980s.

OpenStep

NeXT's first operating system was NeXTSTEP, a sophisticated Mach-UNIX based operating system that originally ran only on NeXT's Motorola 68k-based workstations and that was then ported to run on 32-bit Intel x86-based "IBM-compatible" personal computers, PA-RISC-based workstations from Hewlett-Packard, and SPARC-based workstations from Sun Microsystems.

SoftGenLock

SoftGenLock is a piece of software that provides Genlock and quad buffer page flipped stereo between a cluster of PCs.

Starglider

Rainbird also commissioned Realtime Games to produce 8-bit versions for the Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, and ZX Spectrum (128k, with a cut-down 48k version without sampled speech or special missions), and also for the IBM-compatible PC running in CGA.