The Panasonic FS-A1WSX released in 1989 was the last MSX2+ made by Panasonic. It was the successor of FS-A1WX and incorporated few changes like S-Video output, no tape support, color printer support and an improved A1 Internal Cockpit software with a Kanji color word processor.
Contrary to other MSX2+ systems the Panasonic FS-A1 used a Z-80 compatible MSX-Engine (T9769x) which could be switched via software to 6 MHz. This model supported up to 256 KB of RAM after doing a little soldering. 512 KB was also possible with a more complicated modification.
Technical specifications
Processor
* Z80 compatible MSX-Engine (T9769x) with clock speeds of 3.58 and 5.37 MHz
Memory
*ROM: 1552 KB
**MSX BASIC v3.0: 80 KB
**MSX Disk BASIC v1.0: 16 KB
**Music BASIC (FM BIOS): 16 KB
**JIS 1st & 2nd class Kanji Support: 256KB
**MSX-JE: 512KB
**MSX-JE/WP (MSX Word Processor): 656 KB
*RAM: 64 KB
*VRAM: 128 KB
*SRAM: 16 KB
Display
*VDP
**Yamaha YM9958
**Text: 80ÃÂ24, 40ÃÂ24 and 32ÃÂ24 (characters per line ÃÂ lines)
**Graphical: resolution max 512ÃÂ212 pixels (16 colours out of 512) and 256ÃÂ212 (19,268 colours)
**Colours: 19,268 max
**Sprites: 32 max
Sound
*PSG
**Yamaha AY-3-8910 (embedded in MSX Engine)
*MSX Music
**Yamaha OPLL YM-2413
Storage Memory
* 720 KB 3 1/2" DD/DS floppy disks
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