Amstrad Mega PC - PC and Megadrive in one! A short guide

A short guide to the Amstrad Mega PC. This 386SX machine has a Sega Megadrive built in. You can flick between PC operation and Megadrive.

This guide covers getting it going again if you have one in 2008, and it also shows you what it can do.

Lines appearing on the screen are due to my video camera.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Amstrad
• Mega
• PC
• Sega
• Megadrive
• Genesis

[maiki60fps]

I think that monitor needs to be tuned up properly for the 15 kHz video mode - the borders are too big compared to standard TV... Depends if the monitor has any options like vertical stretch etc. for both TV and PC modes together

[filecore]

@maiki60fps Yep you are right, it's because it's not the exact monitor. I've seen a Mega PC with its Amstrad monitor and the borders are more like they should be!

[Lachlant1984]

Were these machines available outside of the UK? Was there a US Genesis model of this system?

[filecore]

Mainly the UK. I think a few in Europe though also. Japan also had the Teradrive, which is kind of similar.

[guitardo2]

Yeah!

Genesis does what nitenDON'T

[katakisLives]

2 words, Genesis does!!!!!

[Bluerooster100]

Megadrive for games, Windows 3.1 for... more games.

And I bet Sonic had this computer in the 90s

[Adolf41er]

So nice... sadly those weren't avaiable in germany. :(

[muldey]

cool vid I have a genesis with sonic the hedgehog 2

[3styler1]

buy a cmos battery dude make so much easier for u, like the pc tho brings back memories

[LarryBundyJr]

The graphical garbage on the bottom of the Mega Drive games is normal, all games do that.

[MattTheSaiyan]

This looks like the ideal gift to give to the person who has everything.

[konataspecial]

i gotta find myself on of those....

[doritostheking]

@RkivUnderground Rare? Expensive? £12 gets you an RGB scart cable last I checked. The border there is part of the megadrive's normal video signal, usually on TVs it's cropped away. PC monitors show the whole image.

[localhbci]

@filecore I don't see anything wrong with the borders on the monitor (except for the general difference between a TV's overscan and a monitor's lack of overscan). That looks like proper PAL aspect ratio to me. Does Sonic 1's music play slow?

[doooomster]

I like how when you mentioned the lines they went away.