Dendy Age in Game Computers

Dendy Age in Game ComputersNot so long ago I told you about the game console Game Boy. But in the 1990s in Russia, along with the Game Boy, a non-hardware console called Dendy was rather popular. By its design, Dendy is a non-official version of the American console Famicom that was first released in 1983; the Dendy was in fact developed by the Chinese company Steepler in 1992, and it is an 8-bit computer based on the 6502 processor produced by the company МОС ТЕХНОЛОДЖИ (MOS TECHNOLOGY). The counterpart of the famous Z80, this processor was noted for its low cost and the same high speed of operation due to the well-thought algorithms. Its operation speed was 1.59Mhz, and structurally the processor was composed of three separate microcircuits. The on-line storage was 16Kbytes, the resolution was 256х240 pixels. The palette had 52 colors the 16 of which could be used simultaneously. The main feature of this console was that it could be in fact adapted for the Russian market as, for example, the console symbol - the elephant-baby Dendy - was pictured by Russian artist Ivan Maksimov. The bad thing about the Dendy was that there were practically no official "non-pirate" cartridges in Russian, and on the whole, the pirate software for the console made over half of the total number of cartridges. But the attempt of the Steepler to switch to the production of Nintendo license games in 1994 led to the bankruptcy of the Steepler that lost the ground to other Chinese consoles - Kengo and Bitman. Nevertheless, some companies continue producing consoles under the name of Dendy (non-license) as for many it has become the synonym of any regular computer console.

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Learn your global gaming history you Eastern Europeans . Famicom was Asian only and the Western version of Famicom was called NES(Nintendo Entertainment System)