Zemmix
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Zemmix, trade mark and brand name of South Korea
n electronics company Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd.
, is an MSX-based video game console brand. The brand name Zemmix is no longer in use.
Under the name Zemmix, Daewoo
released a series of gaming console
compatible with the MSX home computer
standards. The consoles were in production between 1985 and 1995. The consoles were not sold outside South Korea.
, have low and high outputs for connecting to a TV and have a universal adapter for connection to the mains 110/220 volts.
The consoles also had a letter coming after the serial number. These letters indicated the color combination of the console. The key is as follows.
For example, CPC 51W would be a white or silver Zemmix V (see below).
Most Zemmix software work with other MSX
/MSX2
/MSX2+ computers too.
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
n electronics company Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd.
Daewoo
Daewoo or the Daewoo Group was a major South Korean chaebol . It was founded on 22 March 1967 as Daewoo Industrial and was dismantled by the Korean government in 1999...
, is an MSX-based video game console brand. The brand name Zemmix is no longer in use.
Under the name Zemmix, Daewoo
Daewoo
Daewoo or the Daewoo Group was a major South Korean chaebol . It was founded on 22 March 1967 as Daewoo Industrial and was dismantled by the Korean government in 1999...
released a series of gaming console
Video game console
A video game console is an interactive entertainment computer or customized computer system that produces a video display signal which can be used with a display device to display a video game...
compatible with the MSX home computer
MSX
MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s conceived by Kazuhiko Nishi, then Vice-president at Microsoft Japan and Director at ASCII Corporation...
standards. The consoles were in production between 1985 and 1995. The consoles were not sold outside South Korea.
Console Models
All consoles were designed to broadcast standard NTSCNTSC
NTSC, named for the National Television System Committee, is the analog television system that is used in most of North America, most of South America , Burma, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, and some Pacific island nations and territories .Most countries using the NTSC standard, as...
, have low and high outputs for connecting to a TV and have a universal adapter for connection to the mains 110/220 volts.
The consoles also had a letter coming after the serial number. These letters indicated the color combination of the console. The key is as follows.
- W - white and silver colors
- R - red and black colors
- B - yellow, blue and black colors
For example, CPC 51W would be a white or silver Zemmix V (see below).
By Daewoo
- CPJ-905 Joystick for CPC-51 console
- CPJ-102K: joystick for CPC-330
- CPJ-600: MSXMSXMSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s conceived by Kazuhiko Nishi, then Vice-president at Microsoft Japan and Director at ASCII Corporation...
joypad for Zemmix CPC-51 console - CPJ-905: MSXMSXMSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s conceived by Kazuhiko Nishi, then Vice-president at Microsoft Japan and Director at ASCII Corporation...
joystick in white (W), red (R) and black (B) - CPK-30: keyboard for Zemmix CPC-51
- CPK-31K: input device for CPC-330
By Zemina
- A Keyboard & Cartridge port divider
- The Zemina Music Box
- An MSX2 Upgrade Kit
- A Zemmix PC card
- MSX RAM expansion cards
- A 'Family Card' that allows the user to play Famicom games on the Zemmix
Software
Korean software companies that produced software for the Zemmix gaming console:- Aproman
- Boram
- Clover
- Daou Infosys
- FA Soft
- Mirinae
- Prosoft
- Screen
- Topia
- Uttum
- ZeminaZeminaZemina was a South Korean software maker brand of Saehan Trading founded in 1981. They primarily made games for the Daewoo Zemmix, but because it was an MSX computer made to look and be played like a game console, they work on other MSX computers as well...
Most Zemmix software work with other MSX
MSX
MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s conceived by Kazuhiko Nishi, then Vice-president at Microsoft Japan and Director at ASCII Corporation...
/MSX2
MSX2
MSX2 may refer to:* Msh homeobox 2, a human gene* The second generation of the MSX home computers...
/MSX2+ computers too.