Looks like the "home" for this card is at http://www.regnirps.com/Apple6502stuff/redshift_limited.htm. There's a little more 6502-related content at http://www.regnirps.com/Apple6502stuff/apple_iie_cat.htm.

Hm, 16 posts about 6502 designs using TI chips and not a single one mentions VTech? In about 1981, they released a console/computer called CreatiVision, which features a 2 MHz 6502 with 1K system RAM, a TMS9918/28 with 16K VDP RAM and a SN76489, so pretty much a 6502 equivalent of the ColecoVision console. The system had a built-in touch type keyboard, and could be expanded with a better, moving key keyboard, tape recorder, parallel interface for connecting a printer, memory expansion etc. VTech had big plans about this system.

It was mainly sold in Australia (rebadged as Dick Smith Wizzard) and throughout European markets, some systems also in South Africa and there is a very rare Japanese edition too. VTech brought the CreatiVision to CES 1983 and got very good press from major home computer magazines, but apparently it never really got launched in the US which is a shame because technically it should be more than equal to the ColecoVision.

Eventually VTech repackaged the technology as the Laser 2001 home computer, which is even more rare to find. It has more CPU RAM, real keyboard, expansions including floppy drives but in 1984 the market was rather saturated for oddball computers. Finnish company Salora however on license sold this computer as Salora Manager in a different colour scheme, but otherwise identical content, which is why you may find slighly more machines in Finland than elsewhere.

There may have been other similar designs, but VTech combined with the Apple II boards mentioned above tend to be the best known.

That is a great reference.

What's funny is that I wanted to build this exact same machine. Essentially a Colecovision with a 6502. Looks like it was already done!

So that computer goes on my list of vintage computers to collect. Now to find one....

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Wow this had gone totally out of my memory - have read about Creativision and looked like a great idea to allow the joysticks to act as a keyboard.

Considering when it was released (1981?) this is pretty advanced hardware. I think at 2MHz the 6502A is probably the fastest I know about, except for the BBC Microcomputer, which also ran at 2MHz. Compare that with C64 (just under 1MHz) and even Atari 800 (just under 1.8Mhz).

I love these oddball computers. It's amazing that a small handful of parts can create so many variations of non-compatible computers.

I miss those days.

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