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title: TANGERINE MICROTAN 65
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Home Computer
origins:
- United Kingdom
years:
- '1979'
cpus:
- '6502'
params:
name: MICROTAN 65
image: /media/museum/photos/tangerine_microtan-65_1.jpg
company: /companies/tangerine
company_name: TANGERINE
specs:
- label: NAME
value: MICROTAN 65
- label: MANUFACTURER
value: Tangerine
- label: TYPE
value: Home Computer
- label: ORIGIN
value: United Kingdom
- label: YEAR
value: '1979'
- label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
value: Machine-code (through TANBUG)
- label: KEYBOARD
value: Hewadecimal keyboard in basic version
- label: CPU
value: '6502'
- label: SPEED
value: 0.75 MHz
- label: RAM
value: 1 kb (up to 48k)
- label: ROM
value: 1 kb (TANBUG v1), upgradable to 14kb
- label: TEXT MODES
value: 32 x 16
- label: GRAPHIC MODES
value: 64 x 64 with graphic characters
- label: COLORS
value: Monochrome
- label: I/O PORTS
value: Bus, Tape, Monitor
- label: PRICE
value: From $82 (single board version)
tabs:
- photos
- software
- emulators
- links
forum_thread: 177
photos:
- title: COMPLETE SYSTEM IN RACK
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/tangerine_microtan_systemrack_1.jpg
screenshots:
- title: AIR ATTACK
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/tangerine_microtan-65_air-attack_ss.gif
- title: BREAKOUT
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/tangerine_microtan-65_breakout_ss.gif
- title: FACE INVADERS
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/tangerine_microtan-65_face-invaders_ss.gif
- title: FULL-SCREEN GRAPHIC PATTERN
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/tangerine_microtan-65_graphic-pattern_ss.gif
- title: SHOOT DOWN
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/tangerine_microtan-65_shoutdown_ss.gif
- title: SLOT MACHINE
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/tangerine_microtan-65_slot-machine_ss.gif
- title: GOBBLER
subtitle: ''
text: Excellent adaptation
image: /media/museum/software/tangerine_microtan-65_gobbler_ss.gif
- title: HELL'S BELLS
subtitle: ''
text: Excellent clone of "Hunchback" !
image: /media/museum/software/tangerine_microtan-65_hells-bells_ss.gif
- title: MOON CRESTA
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/tangerine_microtan-65_mooncresta_ss.gif
- title: MOON RESCUE
subtitle: Title screen
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/tangerine_microtan-65_moon-rescue-1_ss.gif
- title: MOON RESCUE
subtitle: ''
text: Excellent and very fast.
image: /media/museum/software/tangerine_microtan-65_moon-rescue-2_ss.gif
- title: ASTRO FIGHTER
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/tangerine_microtan-65_astro-fighter_ss.gif
emulators:
- title: Tangerine Microtan 65 Emulator
url: http://www.zillion.freeuk.com/cs/tann/tan65.html
platform: Windows
text: Microtan 65 emulator for Windows by David A. Brown
- title: MESS emulator project
url: http://mess.emuverse.com/
platform: Other platform
text: Multiplatform multi-system emulator
links:
- title: Geoff Macdonalds Microtan65 Homepage
url: http://www.geoff.org.uk/?microtan
text: Quick guide (useful) and scanned magazines (PDF) !
- title: Oric World's Microtan page
url: http://oric.ifrance.com/oric/microtan.html
text: A lot of things here, documentations included
- title: Wikipedia - Microtan 65 page
url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine_MICROTAN_65
text: good info here
- title: www.microtan.UKPC.net
url: http://www.microtan.UKPC.net
text: Manuals, roms, magazines, history, etc
oc_id: 166
source:
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230128063429/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=166
date: '2023-01-28'
---
This computer is what is the ZX-80 to the ZX-Spectrum, but for the [Oric 1](/museum/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 !