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Tomy Tutor / Pyuuta	Computers	Home Computer	Japan	1983	Texas-Instrument TMS 9995NL	name company company_name specs tabs photos adverts hardware screenshots emulators links comments related oc_id source Tutor / Pyuuta /companies/tomy Tomy label value NAME Tutor / Pyuuta label value MANUFACTURER Tomy label value TYPE Home Computer label value ORIGIN Japan label value YEAR 1983 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE GBasic + Tomy Basic on later machines\ Integrated software : Tomy Paint (paint program) label value KEYBOARD QWERTY, 56 rubber keys\ with a large pink spacebar label value CPU Texas-Instrument TMS 9995NL label value SPEED 2.7 MHz label value CO-PROCESSOR Videochip : Texas-Instrument TMS 9918ANL label value RAM 16 kb (up to 64 kb) label value VRAM 16 kb label value ROM 32 kb (including TOMY Basic, GBASIC, and graphic software) label value TEXT MODES 32 x 24 in 16 colors label value GRAPHIC MODES 256 x 192 in 16 colors\ 4 unicolor sprites label value COLORS 16 label value SOUND 3 channels (2 music, 1 noise), 8 octaves label value SIZE / WEIGHT 36 x 24 cm label value I/O PORTS 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 value PRICE £150 (UK, October 1983)\ $380 (USA, October 1983) photos adverts hardware software emulators links title subtitle text image TOMY PYUUTA Notice that the keyboard is slightly different, even the key spacing ! null title subtitle text image TOMY PYUUTA #2 null title subtitle text image TOMY PYUUTA #3 Notice the different keyboard on this japanese model null title subtitle text image TOMY TUTOR null title subtitle text image KEYBOARD CLOSE-UP The flat rubber keys have a good feeling but forbid fast typing. null title subtitle text image SIDES null title subtitle text image UPSIDE DOWN null title subtitle text image REAR CONNECTORS From left to right:\ • AC power lead\ • Cover of the expansion connector\ • Joystick connector\ • Tape recorder DIN socket\ • Audio output jack\ • Composite video jack (NTSC or PAL)\ • TV/RF output jack, 2 selectable channels. null title subtitle text image OPENED The main board occupies less than half the case space. It is surrounded by a metal protection against magnetic fields. null title subtitle text image MAIN BOARD **(1)** TV/RF modulator\ **(2)** TMS9918A Video Display Processor. Has its own 16 KB video memory\ **(3)** 16 KB user's RAM (8 x 4116 chips)\ **(4)** Keyboard connector\ **(5)** Expansion port connector\ **(6)** ROM cartridges connector\ **(7)** 32 KB ROM chips, hold the BASIC interpreter\ **(8)** TMS9995 16-bit processor, an advanced version of the TMS9990 used in the TI 99/4A\ **(9)** 14W switching power supply unit, provides +5V, -5V and +12V\ **(10)** Label of the plastic case maker! Another label is sticked onto the upper shell. null title subtitle text image THE TUTOR FAMILY The Tomy Tutor, the Tomy Tutor mk2 and the Tomy Tutor Jr game system. Picture courtesy of Junya Kubota null title subtitle text image TOMY PYUUTA JR VIDEOGAME SYSTEM null title subtitle text image TOMY PYUUTA JR VIDEOGAME SYSTEM BOX null title subtitle text image TUTOR BOX null title subtitle text image PYUUTA BOX null title subtitle text image TUTOR MANUAL null title subtitle text image PYUUTA OPERATION MANUAL null title subtitle text image TUTOR CARTRIDGE Thanks to Cameron Kaiser for the picture null title subtitle text image JAPANESE ADVERT. Picture courtesy of Junya Kubota null title subtitle text image JAPANESE ADVERT. Picture courtesy of Junya Kubota null title subtitle text image JOYSTICK The Tomy Tutor serial Joystick [9-pin plug, two fire buttons] Picture courtesy of Cameron Kaiser null title subtitle text image TAPE-RECORDER Tomy Tutor Tape recorder [600 baud interface - 5-pin DIN plug at rear of computer] Picture courtesy of Cameron Kaiser null title subtitle text image CARTS & CONTROLLERS Tomy Tutor, carts and controllers Picture courtesy of Cameron Kaiser null title subtitle text image SOME VAPORWARE EXTENSIONS ? 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... null title subtitle text image PICTURE #1 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. null title subtitle text image INTERFACE CONNECTOR Thanks to Rikard Ljungkvist for this picture null title subtitle text image CARTRIDGE SLOT Thanks to Rikard Ljungkvist for this picture null title subtitle text image SIDE Thanks to Rikard Ljungkvist for this picture null title subtitle text image TAPE-RECORDER PLUG Thanks to Cameron Kaiser for this picture null title subtitle text image BOMBMAN Box null title subtitle text image SOME CARTRIDGES null title subtitle text image MAHJONG Box null title subtitle text image SOME GAME ILLUSTRATIONS Pictures courtesy of Junya Kubota null title subtitle text image MORE GAME BOXES null title subtitle text image BOX & CARTRIDGE null title subtitle text image CARTRIDGE null title subtitle text image CARTRIDGE null title subtitle text image BOX null title subtitle text image CARTRIDGE null title subtitle text image CARTRIDGE null title subtitle text image BOX This game is to be used with 3D addon (see Hardware section) Thanks to Rikard Ljungkvist for this picture null title subtitle text image BOX - BACK null title subtitle text image STARTUP SCREEN null title subtitle text image JAPANESE STARTUP SCREEN null title subtitle text image A DRAWING... null title subtitle text image POOYAN null title subtitle text image HYPERSPACE null title subtitle text image TOMY PAINT null title subtitle text image JAPANESE TOMY PAINT null title subtitle text image BOMBMAN null title subtitle text image DON PAN null title subtitle text image MONSTER INN null title subtitle text image MR DO null title subtitle text image SCRAMBLE null title subtitle text image SCRAMBLE null title subtitle text image TORPEDO TERROR null title subtitle text image SAURUS LAND null title subtitle text image CARTRIDGE null title subtitle text image SCREENSHOT null title subtitle text image CARTRIDGE null title url platform text ePyuTa http://www1.interq.or.jp/t-takeda/ Windows TOMY PyuTa / PyuTa Jr. emulator by great TAKEDA Toshiya title url platform text The Tutty Emulator http://retrobits.com/tomy/ Other platform For Commodore 64 ! title url platform text MESS universal emulator HTTP://WWW.MESS.ORG Multiplatform Also emulates the Tomy Tutor series. title url text Japanese site about the Pyuuta http://www3.wind.ne.jp/toragiku/kopa/pyuta.htm title url text The Little Orphan Tomy Tutor http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/tomy/ Everything about the Tutor ! title url text TI-99 Forever! http://www.ti99.com/ This site has a detailed page about the Tomy Tutor title url text Tomy Homepage http://www.tomy.com/ Official Tomy site...nothing about the Tutor (?) author date text Jay (UK) Tuesday 10th August 2021 There are still Gamepads being made for these in 2021 if you check at ebay!! Called ''Retro pads for the Tomy Tutor''! Someone still makes hardware for these machines in 2021 ...OMG!??!...O_o! author date text Mark (USA) Friday 18th July 2014 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 ! author date text Robert (England) Thursday 26th June 2014 Hi. Does anyone have schematics, service manuals, detailed pics of PCB etc ?? Thanks author date text byron guerrero (guatemala) Wednesday 12th December 2012 wow!! my father got me this computer when i was a kid!! i love it!!! you can program in BASIC (at the time i have no idea i will work on computers and still program in BASIC some times). it was fun!! you can draw things!!!, but i can not save anything... i never knew why, good to see it again!! thanks dad for the great gift (R.I.P). author date text byron guerrero (guatemala) Wednesday 12th December 2012 wow!! my father got me this computer when i was a kid!! i love it!!! you can program in BASIC (at the time i have no idea i will work on computers and still program in BASIC some times). it was fun!! you can draw things!!!, but i can not save anything... i never knew why, good to see it again!! thanks dad for the great gift (R.I.P). author date text Dave (USA) Wednesday 28th December 2011 This was my first computer as a kid$-the first computer that belonged entirely to ME. I had a couple of games, the joysticks, the built-in painting program, plus BASIC. But i couldn''t save anything, because we never got the cassette drive. Oh well. Fun stuff :) author date text wiley14 (North Carolina, USA) Monday 7th December 2009 Ahh... the Tomy Tutor. This is what got me interested in computers. My half-brother had one as a kid that his dad bought. Being the little brother with handmedowns, I got my hands on it. We had exactly one cartridge - Hyperspace. That gets old, quick. And i''m not an artist by any stretch. So, I learned BASIC. Didn''t have a tape recorder to save the programs, so I wrote them down and tried my best to keep from powering it off. To this day, I still have the console and somewhere, the manual. I thought about ripping out the CPU to use in another project, but I think after seeing this website, they are kinda rare and I''ll leave it intact. Dunno if it still powers on though... :-) /museum/tomy-tutor-mk-ii 337 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230610102717/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=337 2023-06-10

This computer was partially compatible with the Texas Instuments TI 99/4A. It had almost the same characteristics, except its main CPU (TMS 9995 instead of the TMS 9900 for the TI 99/4A).

The two languages (GBASIC and Tomy Basic) were only available in UK and US computers. The Japanese computers didn't have the Tomy Basic (a TI-like Basic), but a "nihongo basic" using japanese characters and words, e.g. "kake" meant "print", "moshi-naraba" meant "if-then".

This computer, known under the name Pyuuta in Japan had no really success outside Japan. It was followed by the Pyuuta Mark 2 and a game console called Pyuuta Jr one year later.