--- title: Tomy Tutor MK II categories: - Computers types: - Home Computer origins: - Japan years: - '1984' cpus: - Texas-Instrument TMS 9995NL params: name: Tutor MK II image: /media/museum/photos/tomy_tutor-mk2_3.jpg company: /companies/tomy company_name: Tomy specs: - label: NAME value: Tutor MK II - label: MANUFACTURER value: Tomy - label: TYPE value: Home Computer - label: ORIGIN value: Japan - label: YEAR value: '1984' - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE value: |- GBasic + Tomy Basic\ Integrated software : Tomy Paint (paint program) - label: KEYBOARD value: QWERTY mechanical keyboard, 53 keys - label: CPU value: Texas-Instrument TMS 9995NL - label: SPEED value: 2,7 Mhz - label: CO-PROCESSOR value: 'Videochip : Texas-Instrument TMS 9918ANL' - label: RAM value: 16 kb (up to 64 kb) - label: VRAM value: 16 kb - label: ROM value: 32 kb (including TOMY Basic, GBASIC, and graphic software) - label: TEXT MODES value: 32 x 24 in 16 colors - label: GRAPHIC MODES value: |- 256 x 192 in 16 colors\ 4 unicolor sprites - label: COLORS value: '16' - label: SOUND value: 3 channels (2 music, 1 noise), 8 octaves - label: SIZE / WEIGHT value: 36 x 24 cm - label: I/O PORTS value: |- Joystick port (9-pin DSUB, but not Atari compatible)\ RF output\ Video composite/Audio outputs\ I/O port\ Cartridge slot\ 5-DIN plug for tape-recorder - label: PRICE value: 29,800¥, approximately US$110 (Japan, 84) tabs: - photos - hardware - software - emulators - links photos: - title: TOMY TUTOR MK II subtitle: '' text: |- Too serious... I want the pink space bar back ! Picture courtesy of Junya Kubota image: /media/museum/photos/tomy_tutor_mk2_2.jpg - title: THE WHOLE TUTOR FAMILY subtitle: '' text: |- The Tomy Tutor, Tutor MKII and Tutor Jr game system Picture courtesy of Junya Kubota image: /media/museum/photos/tomy_tutor_famille.jpg hardware: - title: JOYSTICK subtitle: '' text: |- The Tomy Tutor serial Joystick \[9-pin plug, two fire buttons\] Picture courtesy of Cameron Kaiser image: /media/museum/hardware/tomy_tutor_joysticks.jpg - title: TAPE-RECORDER subtitle: '' text: |- Tomy Tutor Tape recorder \[600 baud interface - 5-pin DIN plug at rear of computer\] Picture courtesy of Cameron Kaiser image: /media/museum/hardware/tomy_tutor_tape.jpg - title: CARTS & CONTROLLERS subtitle: '' text: |- Tomy Tutor, carts and controllers Picture courtesy of Cameron Kaiser image: /media/museum/hardware/tomy_tutor_carts-joysticks.jpg - title: SOME VAPORWARE EXTENSIONS ? subtitle: '' text: |- The vapourware Tomy expansions: \- The 5"1/4 diskdrive\ \- The printer\ \- The big box under the tutor might be the the RAM expansion (+48k)\ \- The little black box before the diskdrive might be the speech synthesizer... These devices seem to have never been released... image: /media/museum/hardware/tomy_tutor_perifs.jpg - title: 'PICTURE #1' subtitle: '' text: This addon is used to play special 3D games. It is connected to the expansion port and then the 3D game cartridge must be inserted in this module cartridge slot. image: /media/museum/hardware/tomy_pyuuta_3daddon_1.jpg - title: INTERFACE CONNECTOR subtitle: '' text: Thanks to Rikard Ljungkvist for this picture image: /media/museum/hardware/tomy_pyuuta_3d-addon_2.jpg - title: CARTRIDGE SLOT subtitle: '' text: Thanks to Rikard Ljungkvist for this picture image: /media/museum/hardware/tomy_pyuuta_3d-addon_3.jpg - title: SIDE subtitle: '' text: Thanks to Rikard Ljungkvist for this picture image: /media/museum/hardware/tomy_pyuuta_3d-addon_4.jpg - title: TAPE-RECORDER PLUG subtitle: '' text: Thanks to Cameron Kaiser for this picture image: /media/museum/hardware/tomy_taperecorder_cable.gif screenshots: - title: BOMBMAN subtitle: Box text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_pyuuta_bombman_box.jpg - title: SOME CARTRIDGES subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_pyuuta_carts_2.jpg - title: MAHJONG subtitle: Box text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_pyuuta_mahjong_box.jpg - title: SOME GAME ILLUSTRATIONS subtitle: '' text: Pictures courtesy of Junya Kubota image: /media/museum/software/tomy_tutor_games.jpg - title: MORE GAME BOXES subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_tutor_more-carts.jpg - title: CARTRIDGE subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_tutor_frogger_cart.jpg - title: CARTRIDGE subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_tutor_jungler_cart.jpg - title: BOX subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy-tutor_jungler_box.jpg - title: CARTRIDGE subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_tutor_marine-adventure_cart.jpg - title: CARTRIDGE subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_tutor_mission-attack_cart.jpg - title: BOX subtitle: '' text: |- This game is to be used with 3D addon (see Hardware section) Thanks to Rikard Ljungkvist for this picture image: /media/museum/software/tomy_pyuuta_rescue-copter-3d_box.jpg - title: BOX - BACK subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_pyuuta_rescue-copter-3d_box_rear.jpg - title: STARTUP SCREEN subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_tutor_startup_screen.gif - title: JAPANESE STARTUP SCREEN subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_tutor_pyuta.gif - title: A DRAWING... subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_tutor_manual.gif - title: POOYAN subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_tutor_pooyan.gif - title: HYPERSPACE subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_tutor_hyperspace.gif - title: TOMY PAINT subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_tutor_tomypaint.gif - title: JAPANESE TOMY PAINT subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_tutor_tomypaintjap.gif - title: BOMBMAN subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_tutor_bombman.gif - title: DON PAN subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_tutor_donpan.gif - title: MONSTER INN subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_tutor_monsterinn.gif - title: MR DO subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_tutor_mrdo.gif - title: SCRAMBLE subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_tutor_scramble1.gif - title: SCRAMBLE subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_tutor_scramble2.gif - title: TORPEDO TERROR subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_tutor_torpedo_terror.gif - title: SAURUS LAND subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_tutor_saurusland.gif - title: CARTRIDGE subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_tutor_traffic-jam_cart.jpg - title: SCREENSHOT subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_tutor_trafficjam.gif - title: CARTRIDGE subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/tomy_tutor_triple-command_cart.jpg emulators: - title: ePyuTa url: http://www1.interq.or.jp/t-takeda/ platform: Windows text: TOMY PyuTa / PyuTa Jr. emulator by great TAKEDA Toshiya - title: The Tutty Emulator url: http://retrobits.com/tomy/ platform: Other platform text: For Commodore 64 ! - title: MESS universal emulator url: HTTP://WWW.MESS.ORG platform: Multiplatform text: Also emulates the Tomy Tutor series. links: - title: Japanese site about the Pyuuta url: http://www3.wind.ne.jp/toragiku/kopa/pyuta.htm text: '' - title: The Little Orphan Tomy Tutor url: http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/tomy/ text: Everything about the Tutor ! - title: TI-99 Forever! url: http://www.ti99.com/ text: This site has a detailed page about the Tomy Tutor - title: Tomy Homepage url: http://www.tomy.com/ text: Official Tomy site...nothing about the Tutor (?) comments: - author: Ksarul date: Sunday 1st February 2015 text: 'I have a pair of Pyuuta Mk IIs. As noted, the keyboard is not the same as the US Tutor''''s. That is not the only difference, however. The Tutor has two ROMs: one for the OS (including GBASIC) and one for BASIC. Only the first ROM is present in the Mk II. There is a cartridge (BASIC1) that adds this ROM to the Mk II so that it ends up being just like a US Tutor, but it doesn''''t come that way out of the box. There is also a printer interface for it that plugs into the expansion port at the back (this can connect to standard Centronics-style parallel printers using the included cable).' - author: Mark (USA) date: Friday 18th July 2014 text: |- There''''s an interesting site about TMS99xx stuff : http://www.avjd51.dsl.pipex.com/ Has quite a lot of stuff on the TI TMS9900/TMS9995 hardware including a breadboard self-build computer based on the TMS9995 Well worth a look ! related: - /museum/tomy-tutor-pyuuta oc_id: 363 source: url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230322104758/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=363 date: '2023-03-22' --- Well I don't know much things about this one. It seems that the only thing that differs from the [Tomy Tutor](/museum/tomy-tutor-pyuuta/) is the keyboard. Now there is a real keyboard, all white. So the funky pink space bar has disapeared, booo :o( It seems too that this model was only sold in Japan for a short time in 1984, one year after the release of its young brother the Pyutta "1". If you want to know more about this rare machine, please read the description of the [Pyuuta/Tomy Tutor](/museum/tomy-tutor-pyuuta/).