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History

The SPC-1000 launched in 1983 as the first personal computer produced by Samsung.³ The machine was mainly used in education.⁴

Description

The main unit includes the keyboard and a built-in tape recorder. External disk drives, a gamepad, and a dedicated CRT monitor⁵ can be connected to this unit. The computer can run CP/M if equipped with double-sided, double density floppy disk drives.

Software was published on cassette tapes, with more than one hundred games and programs.⁶ Some games were conversions of popular Arcade games in the early 1980s, adapted to the computer's limitations.⁷⁸

Features

The computer has a Zilog Z80 CPU running at 4 MHz,⁹ and 64KB of RAM. Sound is produced by a General Instrument AY-3-8910 chip, providing 3 voices with 8 octaves each.¹⁰ Video is generated by an AMI S68047 chip (quite similar to the Motorola 6847¹¹), offering semigraphics in 9 colors, a 128 × 192 mode in 4 colors, or a 256 × 192 mode in 2 colors.¹²¹³

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Video games

There are 65 known SPC-1000 video games.¹⁴¹⁵

References

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11. "MC6847 vs S68047: 정리". Retrieved 26 October 2022. http://retrospc.blogspot.com/2010/01/mc6847-vs-s68047-%EC%A0%95%EB%A6%AC.html ↩

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13. "Datasheet Archive S68047 datasheet download". www.datasheetarchive.com. Retrieved 26 October 2022. https://www.datasheetarchive.com/pdf/download.php?id=b77b48ca32c16e2b21d91ef58373cecf6fa514&type=O&term=S68047 ↩

14. Game Index - Retail Games SPC-1000 http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/korea/gameindex-retail-system.htm ↩

15. Game Index - Conversions SPC-1000 http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/korea/gameindex-conversions-publisher.htm ↩