X68000

The X68000 (Japanese: エックス ろくまんはっせん, Hepburn: Ekkusu Rokuman Hassen) is a home computer created by Sharp Corporation.

The initial model has a 10 MHz Motorola 68000 CPU, 1 MB of RAM, and lacks a hard drive.

The X68000 has graphics hardware similar to arcade video games of the late-1980s, with custom coprocessors supporting scrolling, tiled backgrounds, and large numbers of sprites.

The front of the computer has a headphone jack, volume control, joystick, keyboard and mouse ports.

The monitor supports horizontal scanning rates of 15, 24, and 31 kHz and functions as a cable-ready television (NTSC-J standard) with composite video input.

Many add-on cards were released for the system, including networking (Neptune-X), SCSI, memory upgrades, CPU enhancements (JUPITER-X 68040/060 accelerator), and MIDI I/O boards.

Capcom produced a converter that was originally sold packaged with the X68000 version of Street Fighter II that allowed users to plug in a Super Famicom or Mega Drive controller into the system.

The adapter was made specifically so that users could plug in the Capcom Power Stick Fighter controller into the system.

Main processor board of original 1987 CZ-600C model
Video board of original 1987 CZ-600C model
Cynthia sprite chip in the original 1987 CZ-600C model
VSOP Video processing chip in the original 1987 CZ-600C model
Sharp X68030 and X68000 Expert