The CompuMate SV010 was a home computer peripheral manufactured by Spectravideo International for the

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. It was released on 6 January 1983 at the

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In Germany, the CompuMate was marketed by Quelle, a catalogue company, as the Universum Heimcomputer. In Brazil (circa 1985), at least two

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of CompuMate were made: the Dactar-Comp by Milmar Electronics, and the CompuGame.

Hardware

The ComputeMate consists of a

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, output interfaces, and read-only internal storage. It connects to the console's module slot and to both controller ports. The user could optionally place the ComputeMate on top of the console—although not when used with the Atari 2600 Jr. model. The CompuMate has a 3.5-mm phone connector in order to connect a Compact Cassette unit for non-volatile data storage. Its

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is preinstalled with three

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and

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versions of the CompuMate were manufactured.

Software

The CompuMate has three simple computer programs in its internal read-only memory: # Magic Easel, a drawing and animation program with a 40×40-pixel canvas and 10 selectable colors. It can animate up to nine frames in a repeating loop. It has two demonstration pictures: a

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editor and interpreter Spectravideo only published two programs for the CompuMate on Compact Cassette, PictureMate (1983) and SongMate (1983).PictureMate (SF-985)
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References

External links

Spectravideo CompuMate
Oldcomputers.net

scans of instructions * *
The CompuMate List(Loadable programs)
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Supports CompuMate emulation.

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Hardware

Software

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