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Coleco ColecoVision

Coleco's relatively successful (but not really) venturing into the video game industry. Releasing in August 1982 for the US, the ColecoVision mainly excelled in it's ability to create more “Concise” games, akin to an arcade. For specifications, it contains a Zilog Z80, 1 KB of RAM with 16 KB VRAM, an 8 KB ROM, and a display output resolution of 256×192 with 16 color capability.

https://www.racketboy.com/retro/colecovision-a-beginners-guide

Operating Systems (Zilog Z80)

Adam Expansion

This simply converts the ColecoVision into a functioning Coleco Adam computer, which can run OSes like CP/M, EOS, and OS-7.

PC emulation (potential)

Whether these emulators support operating systems for these computers is unknown; it must be looked into further. PCs without meaningful OSes are not included.

CHIP-8 – Vision-8 (also has Adam version)

http://www.komkon.org/~dekogel/vision8.html

eop/video_game_consoles-home/1st_and_2nd_generation/coleco_colecovision.txt · Last modified: 2022/03/02 22:16 by io55admin