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THIS MONTH’S COMPUTER may be unfamiliar, but NEC’s PC-9800 series, usually shortened to PC-98, was arguably Japan’s most important computer and played an integral part in developing both Japanese language computing and video games. Despite the potential gaming fun offered by this system, there are technical hurdles to be overcome. So after a brief history of the PC-98, let us show you how to emulate the machine as easily as possible.
1 DEVELOPMENT AND LAUNCH
The PC-98 was a strategically brilliant move by NEC, beating Western competition by exploiting their inept support for Kanji: the complex characters inherited from Chinese, used in any formal writing. NEC recognized the limitations of Western rivals and designed its machine from the ground up to provide solid Kanji rendering and input.
NEC based its new computer around Intel’s
