Photo by and with permission from Bubboboo (eBay).
My Video
Genie was exactly same as the one in the picture above. This is the
second model with
all 4 arrows, clear key, lacking shift on right side and having a
volume control and VU-meter with
the cassette player. The first model had no right arrow (tab) or clear
key and no volume control or VU-meter.
Made by EACA International LTD.
Marketed in England as a product of Lowe Electronics,
and in Germany as a product of Trommeschläger Computer gmbh etc.
EACA wasn't mentioned.
Sold under other names in other parts of the world:
System 80 (Australia,
NZ), PMC-80 (USA)
and
HT-1080Z (Hungary)
are certainly the same. TRZ-80 (South Africa) according a review in 80 Micro January 1982
by Eric Lindsay. Video
Genie was the western European name.
It is a clone of The TRS-80 Model I (level 2, 16K)
with some differences
It's physically quite different but most of the
hardware is similar.
All except 3 and 7 are represented by changes
in
the ROM
The significant changes are 1 and 2, programs usually
use
the ROM routines for these devices so they work still. The ROM routine
for
the printer doesn't have a timeout, so if a program has its own routine
with
a timeout there could be a problem. Patching such a program is pretty
easy
though.
The 32 character mode is also different in what it does. The Video
Genie exands either the left half of the screen, or the right half if
the 'Page' button is down. The TRS-80 expands every other
character and has no 'Page' button.
David Keil's emulator for MS-DOS is no longer
available from his site, and it is a long time since it was maintained.
It doesn't work well with later versions of windows and some
functionality is lost under windows based on WinNT.
But!
Using it with an MS-DOS based windows like Win98se it is still a
great tool. And I can usually get it to work under WinXP with some
functionality loss: Real disk is not possible. Graphics driver has
problems, and you need to restart it after changing disks or changing
options.
Some of the following links are to the Internet Archive waybackmachine:
David Keil's TRS-80
emulatorwhere he also has software and documentation
(links to files in the archive that don't work from within the archive
trs81-62.acetrs80-62.acesupport.ace the laters version)
My page about how to change keyboard layout in David Keil's version 6 emulator Jürgen Büssert's TRS-80 page with
more
information about
International Keyboard layout for David Keil's emulator
My page about font modification in
David Keil's version 6 emulator with a tool and ROM modification
My page about my transfer utility X/CMD
for David Keil's emulator
Tim Mann's TRS-80 page
where he also has an emulator for unix
Ira Goldklang's www.trs-80.com information
Matthew Reed's www.trs-80emulators.com emulator and tools and www.trs-80.org
with very useful things like LDOS and 2012
TRS-80 Model I Expansion Interface Schematics
Layout (146k 100DPI JPG),
page 1 (157k 300DPI
PNG) and
page 2 (125k 300DPI
PNG).
A German EACA page (on oldcomputers.dyndns.org) information and software
Selfmade TRS-80 and emulator software
My transfer utility X/CMD for
David Keil's emulator
The ABELT page, an old TRS-80 game I
made
This RingSurf TRS-80
Webring page is owned by
.
