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by carlsson
Mon Jan 30, 2023 11:32 pm
Forum: Games programming
Topic: WIP: Reversi
Replies: 170
Views: 132803

Re: WIP: Reversi

I don't recall what the state was. I think I solved pretty much all the VBLANK issues and the apparent bugs. It has been many years now since I touched my Creativision or Laser 2001, and even longer since I programmed for it. Perhaps one day I'll get back to it. I found this binary, assembled on Aug...
by carlsson
Sun Mar 20, 2022 12:28 am
Forum: Introduce yourself!
Topic: Hello from Italy!
Replies: 21
Views: 6866

Re: Hello from Italy!

the disk drive format seems to be the same used in Laser 500 How surprising for being VTech! I thought every machine they made was unlike and incompatible with all the others in their line. Speaking of which, there was a fellow on Twitter who had a joystick interface for the Laser 200 series, which...
by carlsson
Wed Apr 07, 2021 11:00 am
Forum: Other VTech systems
Topic: VTech Laser 500 and MSX2
Replies: 0
Views: 2422

VTech Laser 500 and MSX2

In the Facebook group for the Laser 500 series, it was just brought to attention that the Laser 500 computer started off as a project to make a MSX2 computer but that VTech changed their mind and made a custom computer to replace the Laser/VZ series 1xx/2xx/3xx (c:a 1983 IIRC). Read more about the M...
by carlsson
Wed Apr 07, 2021 10:18 am
Forum: Games programming
Topic: I think i must do
Replies: 2
Views: 1800

Re: I think i must do

Good luck! It would seem the demand for physical releases of homebrews is stronger than ever.
by carlsson
Thu Feb 11, 2021 9:08 am
Forum: General CreatiVision forum
Topic: Where could you buy a Creativision?
Replies: 26
Views: 33124

Re: Where could you buy a Creativision?

Late reply: The archive has now closed again, so I can't obtain the full clips any longer. :-(
by carlsson
Fri May 15, 2020 2:44 pm
Forum: General CreatiVision forum
Topic: Where could you buy a Creativision?
Replies: 26
Views: 33124

Re: Where could you buy a Creativision?

At the moment, the Royal Swedish Library (KB) has opened their magazine search engine as a benefit to all bored, self-isolating people. I've made a number of searches on topics that otherwise are near impossible to find information on the Internet, but it turns out the magazine archive is full of in...
by carlsson
Wed Apr 29, 2020 9:23 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Archimedes
Replies: 4
Views: 6967

Re: Archimedes

For a second I thought about the Socrates, which actually is a VTech product. Hey, in the dark all ancient Greeks look the same!
by carlsson
Wed Nov 21, 2018 11:01 am
Forum: General Laser 2001 and Salora Manager Forum
Topic: Colecovision Module
Replies: 9
Views: 11039

Re: Colecovision Module

Great write-up! I'm forgetting, do the Salora branded game cartridges say Manager somewhere on the screen instead of Laser 2001 or CreatiVision? From what I understand, quite a bit of the interior electronics in Salora products were manufactured elsewhere (e.g. Siemens, Luxor) and possibly just asse...
by carlsson
Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:45 am
Forum: Other VTech systems
Topic: Great TMS Video Chip Demo
Replies: 12
Views: 14684

Re: Great TMS Video Chip Demo

That the TI VDP was worked on in 1977-78 is interesting as the GI STIC is of similar lineage and it sometimes is claimed one was inspired by the other. Of course we also have Atari, to a lesser extent Commodore and a bunch more hardware developers around the same time. In reality all of them probabl...
by carlsson
Fri Mar 23, 2018 2:36 pm
Forum: Other VTech systems
Topic: Great TMS Video Chip Demo
Replies: 12
Views: 14684

Re: Great TMS Video Chip Demo

Nice documents, and cool game. When Karl Guttag writes they've had fully functional VDP's for 2.5 years by April 1981, does he mean the original 9918 without bitmap mode etc? As for the picture quality, would that be due to what happens once you feed its signals to a RF modulator, something TI avoid...