The Telmac 1800 is an early

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that was delivered in kit form. It was introduced in 1977 by Telercas Oy, the Finnish importer of

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microchips. Most of the 2,000 kits manufactured over four years were bought by electronics enthusiasts in

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and

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. An expansion board, OSCOM, later became available, and included an

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, and up to of memory. A

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could be run on this configuration. The first-ever commercial video game to be developed in Finland, '' Chesmac'', was developed by Raimo Suonio on a Telmac 1800 computer in 1979. The Telmac 1800 was followed by the Oscom Nano and the Telmac 2000.

Major features

* RCA 1802 (COSMAC) microprocessor CPU @ 1.75 MHz *

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interface * 2 kB

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, expandable to 4 kB * RCA CDP1861 'Pixie' video chip, 64×128

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* Sound limited to a fixed frequency tone * Able to run a CHIP-8

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Revival Studios
Developer of new Chip-8/SuperChip/MegaChip8 games.
Telmac 1800 schematics.

Major features

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