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title	categories	types	origins	years	cpus	params
TANGERINE MICROTAN 65	Computers	Home Computer	United Kingdom	1979	6502	name image company company_name specs tabs forum_thread photos screenshots emulators links oc_id source MICROTAN 65 /media/museum/photos/tangerine_microtan-65_1.jpg /companies/tangerine TANGERINE label value NAME MICROTAN 65 label value MANUFACTURER Tangerine label value TYPE Home Computer label value ORIGIN United Kingdom label value YEAR 1979 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE Machine-code (through TANBUG) label value KEYBOARD Hewadecimal keyboard in basic version label value CPU 6502 label value SPEED 0.75 MHz label value RAM 1 kb (up to 48k) label value ROM 1 kb (TANBUG v1), upgradable to 14kb label value TEXT MODES 32 x 16 label value GRAPHIC MODES 64 x 64 with graphic characters label value COLORS Monochrome label value I/O PORTS Bus, Tape, Monitor label value PRICE From $82 (single board version) photos software emulators links 177 title subtitle text image COMPLETE SYSTEM IN RACK /media/museum/photos/tangerine_microtan_systemrack_1.jpg title subtitle text image AIR ATTACK /media/museum/software/tangerine_microtan-65_air-attack_ss.gif title subtitle text image BREAKOUT /media/museum/software/tangerine_microtan-65_breakout_ss.gif title subtitle text image FACE INVADERS /media/museum/software/tangerine_microtan-65_face-invaders_ss.gif title subtitle text image FULL-SCREEN GRAPHIC PATTERN /media/museum/software/tangerine_microtan-65_graphic-pattern_ss.gif title subtitle text image SHOOT DOWN /media/museum/software/tangerine_microtan-65_shoutdown_ss.gif title subtitle text image SLOT MACHINE /media/museum/software/tangerine_microtan-65_slot-machine_ss.gif title subtitle text image GOBBLER Excellent adaptation /media/museum/software/tangerine_microtan-65_gobbler_ss.gif title subtitle text image HELL'S BELLS Excellent clone of "Hunchback" ! /media/museum/software/tangerine_microtan-65_hells-bells_ss.gif title subtitle text image MOON CRESTA /media/museum/software/tangerine_microtan-65_mooncresta_ss.gif title subtitle text image MOON RESCUE Title screen /media/museum/software/tangerine_microtan-65_moon-rescue-1_ss.gif title subtitle text image MOON RESCUE Excellent and very fast. /media/museum/software/tangerine_microtan-65_moon-rescue-2_ss.gif title subtitle text image ASTRO FIGHTER /media/museum/software/tangerine_microtan-65_astro-fighter_ss.gif title url platform text Tangerine Microtan 65 Emulator http://www.zillion.freeuk.com/cs/tann/tan65.html Windows Microtan 65 emulator for Windows by David A. Brown title url platform text MESS emulator project http://mess.emuverse.com/ Other platform Multiplatform multi-system emulator title url text Geoff Macdonalds Microtan65 Homepage http://www.geoff.org.uk/?microtan Quick guide (useful) and scanned magazines (PDF) ! title url text Oric World's Microtan page http://oric.ifrance.com/oric/microtan.html A lot of things here, documentations included title url text Wikipedia - Microtan 65 page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine_MICROTAN_65 good info here title url text www.microtan.UKPC.net http://www.microtan.UKPC.net Manuals, roms, magazines, history, etc 166 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230128063429/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=166 2023-01-28

This computer is what is the ZX-80 to the ZX-Spectrum, but for the Oric 1. Tangerine developped this computer before they became Oric and produced the Oric-1.
It was mainly sold in kit, without the complete keyboard shown in the photo, but with a little hexadecimal keyboard.

The unextended Microtan 65 couldn't use Basic (Basic65) due to its RAM limitation (1kb), so only machine-code was usable.

Te 1kb ROM contained TANBUG, a monitor which allowed to enter machine code programs. But with the unextended Microtan65, there was no way to save your work (not tape facility), so you had to re-type your program each time you switched-on the computer !