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Composite and hard reset mods for the Tandyvision One

I still have my literal first home computer ( the Tomy Tutor ), and it so happens I also have my literal first game console: the Tandyvision...

In another happy coincidence, my first console, like my first home computer, was also an early 16-bit system: in this case powered by the General Instrument CP1610, famous for its use of 10-bit "decle" instructions stored on specialized ROMs in Inty cartridges. Tandy did not attempt to rebadge any of these cartridges either, though some vendors like Parker Brothers explicitly listed the Tandyvision as compatible on some titles, and they do not appear to have ever sold the Intellivoice — or for that matter the doomed Keyboard Component, which by then was all but a distant memory. This system went in storage for a number of years because its video chip started acting up and I got my Inty fix with a Sylvania Intellivision in the interim (my buddy was living in Santa Maria on the California Central Coast at the time and we found it for $cheap at a thrift store downtown, back when such finds were still possible).

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