Tatung Computer Forum

Here it is in action at The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge last weekend. Used it to assemble one of Mike Follin's source disks and get an early Magnum Lightgun proof of concept demo up and running.

Ah grand. In which case I'll try that first. At ease everyone!

Does the creator still make them? Maybe if we can get a bunch of people to order them he'll do a run, his last post was may this year so he's still around. Or if not, is there enough info on his blog to recreate them (if it's opensource). I don't know much about electronics but gonna read over his ...

Hi,

Pretty much what the subject says - am looking for one or the other, working, for a reasonable price...

There's a bit more information in my Git, including the schematic - I'll be posting the source for the Tatung editor/assemblers for Z80 and 6502 there at some point over the next month or so when I get time.

https://github.com/breakintoprogram/einstein-ide

How did you do 6502 cross dev? Was the assembler written in house (I haven't seen one around) or was it via CPM? Are you going to show us a C64 link? The assemblers were written in house by Mike Webb initially. I'm going to work on the C64 link after RetroFest 2024 when I've got a bit more spare ...

I've just recreated the Spectrum/Amstrad development system I used in the late 80s at Software Creations. This used a Tatung Einstein as the development system running Mike Webb's Z80 assembler. The assembled code was transferred by serial or parallel interface to the target machine (Spectrum ...

MikeDHalliday wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 1:19 pm Hi there. Would you mind sharing your serial numbers? I am keeping a log of all the Einsteins still in existence and where they are located. Not seen any recently outside the UK!

Cheers

Mike.

My serial number is 6011938, and it's a working unmodified TC-01.

Hi, I'm doing some research into the use of the Einstein 8-bit machines as a cross-development platform for the Spectrum, CPC, etc back in the day, with a view to possibly constructing a museum exhibit to demonstrate how this was done. I've seen mention of the Einstein being used for this purpose ...

Hi Tony, 1986 eh? This looks very similar to the ones we used at Software Creations in Manchester. We used Tatungs as dev machines for edit and assembly. The ram drive was a godsend. I'm currently using a Tatung Einstein in a similar capacity archiving old source disks from back then, and recreating ...