Panasonic 3DO Station v. 4.0

kesovo · Post by **kesovo** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:56 am

Hey everybody,

Today, I came across two "3DO Station v. 4.0"'s at a thrift store. I was able to hook them up via an S-video and a normal computer power cable and they booted up fine. Could anybody enlighten me as to what these are and how they are used? Here's a video of one plugged in:

http://vimeo.com/20065331

I know this link has been posted in the past, and there has been a thread concerning these kits, but nobody had been able to answer the questions. I've scoured the internet and there is zero information on these. I extend my hand to this community of 3DO'ers in hopes that one of you is in possession of one of these fine machines or can tell me what I need to know about them. I don't understand how to access the system memory (if there is any) and for some reason where the debug screen shows the specs, one unit claims to have 1mb of DRAM, 2 of VRAM; the other 0mb of DRAM, 2 of VRAM. This confuses me considering the system specs for the original 3DO had 2mb of DRAM and 1mb of VRAM, whereas these machines display different specifications.

I hope that somebody in this known universe can educate the internet and I on the origin of these elusive pieces.

Thanks!

P.S. On the debug screen, there's another message at the top that displays: "MAG-DEB 1.5 6/23/93"

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 7:35 pm

I dont really have any information on this dev station thingy, but wanted to say welcome to the forums.

kesovo · Post by **kesovo** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:05 pm

grimm wrote:I dont really have any information on this dev station thingy, but wanted to say welcome to the forums.

Thanks! Glad to be a part.

Post by **3DOKid** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:04 pm

looks awesome.

sneth · Post by **sneth** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:07 pm

That's pretty cool. What a random find! Gimme!

JohnnyDude · Post by **JohnnyDude** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 7:07 am

Cool! A turbo button!

I don't know a whole lot, but I haven't heard of this. Is it really the development workstation for creating 3DO games? If it is, I would have expected to see a macintosh operating system on it. At least, I know you had to use a macintosh to do any coding. Maybe this is a second machine you'd receive with the whole development package.

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 4:46 pm

Looks cool! Hope you can get the additional info you want. Welcome to the forum.