The SPC-1000 is the first

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-based

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produced by

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. It was developed in

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, with built-in ''HuBASIC''

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written by

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in Japan. The computer features a 4 MHz processor and 64 KB of RAM.

History

The SPC-1000 launched in 1983 as the first personal computer produced by Samsung. The machine was mainly used in education.

Description

The main unit includes the keyboard and a built-in tape recorder. External disk drives, a

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, and a dedicated CRT monitor can be connected to this unit. The computer can run

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if equipped with double-sided, double density floppy disk drives. Software was published on

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s, with more than one hundred games and programs. Some games were conversions of popular

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in the early 1980s, adapted to the computer's limitations.

Features

The computer has a

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CPU running at 4 MHz, and 64KB of RAM. Sound is produced by a

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chip, providing 3 voices with 8 octaves each. Video is generated by an

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S68047 chip (quite similar to the

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), offering

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in 9 colors, a 128 × 192 mode in 4 colors, or a 256 × 192 mode in 2 colors.

Gallery

File:Samsung Electronics joystick SJ-1500 20070531.jpg, Gamepad for SPC-1000 File:Samsung SPC series software cassette tapes 20070601.jpg, Software cassette tapes for Samsung SPC series File:Samsung SPC-1000 SPC-1000A demonstration program tapes 20070601.jpg, SPC-1000/1000A demonstration program tapes File:Samsung SPC-1000 series software AAK-010T AAK-011T 20070601.jpg, User contest software collection AAK-010T cover and AAK-011T tape File:SPC1000BOOT.GIF, SPC-1000 boot screen File:SPC1000SOURCE.GIF, HuBASIC program listing File:SPC-1000TEXT.GIF, SPC-1000 text and color demonstration

Video games

There are 65 known SPC-1000 video games.Game Index - Conversions SPC-1000
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References

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