The CompuMate SV010 was a home computer

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manufactured by Spectravideo International for the Atari 2600 home video game console. It was released on 6 January 1983 at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. UNIVERSUM Computertastatur fuer Atari Videospiel 2600 Seite rechts

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

Hardware

The ComputeMate consists of a membrane keyboard, output

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, 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

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model. The CompuMate has a 3.5-mm phone connector in order to connect a

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unit for non-volatile data storage. Its read-only memory is preinstalled with three computer programs. PAL and NTSC 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

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in a repeating loop. It has two demonstration pictures: a world map and a snowman. # Music Composer, a

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with four demonstration songs: " Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", " Long, Long Ago", " Jingle Bells", and " My Bonnie". # Microsoft BASIC editor and interpreter Spectravideo only published two programs for the CompuMate on

, 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)
- Atari 2600 - AtariAge Forums

Supports CompuMate emulation.

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Hardware

Software

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