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Spectravideo, or even SVI, was the UK computer company founded in 1977 as "SpectraVision". It originally processed video games for Atari 2600 and VIC-20. Their computers were MSX-compliant, and IBM PC compatible.

Their foremost attempt at the computer was an add-in for the Atari 2600 called the Spectravideo CompuMate, with the membrane keyboard and very elementary programmability. Their number one really computers were a SV-318 and SV-328, released within 1983. Each were powered by the Z80 A at 3.Vi MHz, however differed in the aggregate of RAM (SV-318 got 32KB & SV-328 experienced 80KB total, 16kb of every unemotional for streaming) & keyboard style. A Kernel was CP/M and the OS a version of Microsoft Extended Basic. These ii computers were pre MSX and not fully compatible by having a standard, though a changes mass produced to their project to produce MSX were minor. the patterns experienced a wide range of optional hardware, for example the Colecovision-adapter making it possible to begin a Coleco games on the SVI.

A go computer by Spectravideo was a SVI-838 (also referred to as X'Press 16), but the company still operates under the name Logic 3.

SVI-318/328 emulator
An open source SVI-318/328 emulator for DOS.

Spectravideo software tools
Support site for the SVI-318/328 emulator by Jimmy MÃ¥rdell. Features a cas to wave and wave to cas converter, a frontend, and a manager for the cassette files.






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