![]() Video - RF with 3-channel sound modulated output Here is the information that is in the Rabbit RX83 flyer:īuilt-in Language - Rabbit standard BASIC Other documentation in the Bob Fabris collection includes flyers for the Rabbit II, which had a proper full-stroke keyboard and 80K RAM (which sounds like they were including ROM and RAM). It also was released as the CCE MC-1000 in Brazil in 1985. The system was released in Belgium as the GEM 1000 and in Hong Kong as the Rabbit RX83. Unfortunately, the Rabbit RX83 was not released in the United States. I do have all of the paperwork exchanged between Rabbit Computer's president, Daniel Young, in Hong Kong and Bob Fabris it's quite fascinating! The final deal would have cost Rabbit computer $2,500-$5,000 for each program ported to the RX83. In fact, Robert was working out a deal in which programs that had been previously written for the Astrocade would be ported to the Rabbit RX83 computer. Like the Astrocade, which had 1.8K available to BASIC, the Rabbit RX83 shipped with just 2KB of RAM. He was extremely interested in the Rabbit RX83, as he felt he could provide software for this quite-limited machine. Bob was the the editor of the Arcadian newsletter (for the Bally Arcade/Astrocade) in 1983. This flyer was handed out to Bob Fabris at, I think, the Summer CES show in June of 1983. Here is some information about the source of the flyer, and also the contents of the flyer: This feature is not used in MC-1000.įeatures that don't seem to match (due to reporter being misinformed?): I have uploaded a flyer to for the Rabbit RX83 computer. I wonder if this refers to a feature of MC6847 where, in text mode, you can have user defined characters, given a memory where it can fetch that info. ![]() No native support to printing characters in graphic mode. "user-defined graphic characters": MC-1000's BASIC has no graphic instructions other than for (un)plotting lines and dots.Maybe RX83 had a different BASIC interpreter that made better use of the machine's hardware? All other graphic modes of MC6847 may be accessed, though, by means of POKEs or OUTs. "four graphic modes": since MC-1000's BASIC is similar to Apple II's, it provides access to only two graphic modes: "HGR" (hires) and "GR" (lores).In MC-1000, SHIFT+P fast-types "PRINT", but you can delete each letter separately. It's not as it is in the ZXs, where BASIC reserved words are "atomic", typed and deleted at once. "one-stroke Basic commands": Well, in fact, in MC-1000, since you have only uppercase letters, the combo SHIFT+letter was used to fast-type common BASIC commands.Hardware seems to be the same: "Z80A" "uppercase only", "eight colors", "resolution of 256 x 192 pixels" (MC6847?) "sound on three channels" (AY-3-8912?).įeatures that don't seem to match (due to reporter being misinformed?):.MC-1000 was shipped with a tape which had a program called "Music Composer" whose playback screen is just like that. It was presented with a "Music Composer program which shows four standard staffs of music with notes during playback".The cables connected to the RX83 in the picture are exactly where they would be on a MC-1000 connected to power supply (back), TV (right) and tape recorder (left), with a memory expansion pack (back).The "rubberized keyboard" seems to be the same on all three machines. GEM 1000 is pictured with TWO different (though very similar) cases in - one similar to MC-1000's, the other similar to RX83's.market at the time?Įvidences that it is (basicly) the same machine: Maybe having a space bar instead of a space key was a minimum standard in the U.S. ZX-80, ZX-81 and ZX-Spectrum all made a lot of success with a mere space key too. I wonder why the reporter was so baffled.
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