Apf game system

In 79 or 80 I was with my dad visiting some guy he worked with. The guy had a son a year older than me. I remember playing a Atari like system,but I have never found a picture of it until today.

Thanks very much! I found 5 carts for that system many years ago when I was looking for old computers and consoles on freecycle. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account.

Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Share this: Twitter Facebook. It was a cartridge system which had two wired controllers attached to it. Each controller had a numeric keypad and a joystick. It also had a built in game called Rocket Patrol.

The computer part of the system was called the Imagination Machine. The computer had a full keyboard, a cassette tape and an internal speaker. The Imagination Machine was incredibly popular amongst budding programmers, in part due to the price of the system compared to alternative options available at the time. Though it was also because of the versatility which peripherals added.

Users could purchase a floppy disk drive, a mini floppy disk drive, an 8k RAM cartridge to increase RAM to 17kb, a RS storage cartridge and a telephone modem too. But does so in a different way. It uses it's own memory management system. Much like the text mode. It then uses the other half as a character description table of 32, 8x16 highres or 4x16 colour characters. This introduces some limitations, like not being able to display a full screen bitmaped image, but also makes it much simpler to manage game graphics.

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