MDOS (short for Myarc Disk Operating System) is an

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commercialized by Myarc. It was designed and implemented specifically for the

Geneve 9640 The Geneve 9640 is an enhanced TI-99/4A clone. It was sold by the company Myarc as a card to fit into the Texas Instruments TI Peripheral Expansion System. Released in 1987, it is in many ways similar to the earlier TI-99/8, which was in prototype ...

by Paul Charlton. MDOS was designed to fully emulate the

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computer while providing an advanced (for its time) virtual memory operating environment with full support for mouse,

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, and complex mathematical applications. In 1993, Beery Miller the publisher of 9640 News, organized a group of Geneve 9640 owners and was able to purchase all rights to the source code for MDOS,

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, the PSYSTEM runtime module, and the

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from Myarc and Paul Charlton. Over the years, MDOS has been updated by individuals including T. Tesch, Clint Pulley, Alan Beard, John Johnson, James Schroeder, Mike Maksimik, James Uzzell, Tony Knerr, Beery Miller, and others. Support adding

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, IDE, and larger ramdisks were added in the earlier years from the buyout. In late 2020 and early 2021 with the release of the TIPI for the TI-99/4A, the Geneve was interfaced with the TIPI and a

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providing

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access and nearly unlimited high speed hard-drive like file access. A small but active base of users still exist on www.Atariage.com as of 2021 where T. Tesch, Beery Miller, and others provide support. MDOS was written specifically for the TMS9995 16-bit CPU and the

Yamaha V9938 The Yamaha V9938 is a video display processor (VDP) used on the MSX2 home computer, as well as on the Geneve 9640 enhanced TI-99/4A clone and the Tatung Einstein 256. It was also used in a few MSX1 computers, in a configuration with 16kB VRAM. ...

video display processor. All source code for the Geneve 9640 is in the

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External links

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- a close look at the system board and sales flyer

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- mixed Geneve 9640 and TI-99/4A photos
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- at old-computers.com * elnet://heatwave.ddns.net:9640 Heatwave BBS- Telnet BBS operating on a Myarc Geneve 9640 under MDOS. {{Disk operating systems TI-99/4A Products introduced in 1987 Proprietary operating systems Disk operating systems