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 1/28/2008 10:47 AM
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Creativision - The Dick Smith Wizzard
 
Modified By Kevin J Baird  on 2/20/2008 4:58:52 PM




The Australian Edition of the Creativision. Here's the Wikipedia rundown.

 

The Video Technology CreatiVision was a hybrid computer and video game console introduced by VTech in 1981. The hybrid unit was similar in concept to computers such as the APF Imagination Machine, the older Video Brain computer, and to a lesser extent the Intellivision game console and Coleco Adam computer, all of which anticipated the trend of video game consoles becoming more like low-end computers.

The CreatiVision was distributed in many European countries and South Africa, as well as in Australia under the Dick Smith Wizzard name. Other names for the system (which were likely clones) included the FunVision Computer Video Games System and Hanimex Rameses. All CreatiVision and similar clones were designed for use with PAL standard television sets, except the Japanese CreatiVision (distributed by Cheryco) which was NTSC and is nowadays much sought after by collectors.

The CreatiVision console sported an 8-bit Rockwell MOS Technology 6502 CPU at a speed of 2 MHz, 1KB of RAM and 16KB of Video RAM, and had a graphics resolution of 256 x 192 with 16 colors and 32 sprites. The console had 2 integrated joystick/membrane keypad controllers (much like the ColecoVision) which, when set in a special compartment on top of the console, could be used as a makeshift computer keyboard. The CreatiVision had interfaces for a cassette player, an extra rubber keyboard, floppy disk drive, parallel I/O interface, modem (likely unreleased), Centronics printer and one memory expansion module for use with the Basic language cartridge. [1]

The CreatiVision, like many video game consoles and computers, was discontinued in 1984 due to the infamous Video game crash of 1983.

 
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 1/29/2008 12:28 AM
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never even knew this ever existed. looks cool!!


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NutMan At:7:48 PM

is the show going up tonight?

Jedihillis At:11:17 PM

New character battle is up. Skeleton vs. Gordon Freeman. Vote foo's!

Sheep At:2:02 PM

you could just lock the threads....as long as people keep posting new stuff, the old threads will get bumped off the screen.

Jedihillis At:9:19 AM

Ok nm. I figured out you can edit each thread with new info. I'll edit one of the old ones for the next battle to keep from dominating the screen. Good call kolop

Jedihillis At:9:16 AM

Good question Kolop. I'm not sure that it can to be honest

kolop1 At:3:40 AM

Can the voting be one thread only? It's going to take up a lot of threads for this game.

Jedihillis At:1:21 AM

I don't know why you can't vote. I leave each poll up for 2-3 days. Polls are only open on the most recent battle though which currently is Bison vs. Kain.

madmex At:11:29 PM

u should be able to vote, idk y

HotBox At:10:56 PM

Or is voting only up for a couple hours