| The Dream 6800 Home Video Computer, designed by Michael Bauer, was first publish in Electronics Australia magazine - May 1979 issue, page 82 to 89. The article spread across four issues detailing operation and construction of the project. Its purpose was a Home Video Computer the average home electronics. and computer hobbyist, could put together a personal computer that would display block graphics to a television. It is programmed in Chip-8 ["higher level language"] and M6800 assembler with many games written for it. Programs are saved, and restored, using an audio cassette tape. The video screen is a bitmap of 64 by 32 pixels using 256 bytes of RAM as the video page. Each bit actually represented a pixel on the screen. The pixels were quite large and appeared reasonably chunky. Even so, the graphics and computer system were very good for all sorts of work and even experiments into computers. Many users adapted the computer to HAM radio, Shop front displays, Computer design tools, EPROM programmers, communications terminal etc. Even with its chunky graphics, and small memory size, it found varied uses in many homes, schools, and businesses. Source and articles: CATE |
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Dream 6800 / ETI 660 (1978)