Category
Home computers
Every home computer in the RetroFlops catalog, oldest first.
Home computers in the catalog
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Home computer · June 1977
Apple II
A 1.023 MHz 6502 home computer with configuration-dependent motherboard RAM and ROM-resident Integer BASIC.
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Home computer · November 1979
Atari 800
An Atari 8 bit computer whose 6502 clock follows PAL or NTSC video timing.
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Home computer · December 1981
BBC Micro Model B
A 2 MHz 6502 home computer with 32 KiB RAM and the BBC Micro MOS/BASIC in ROM.
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Home computer · April 1982
ZX Spectrum 48K
A Z80A home computer with Sinclair BASIC in ROM and a ULA that drives the display. Each key carries a whole BASIC keyword, so a program is typed in rather than spelled out.
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Home computer · August 1982
Commodore 64
The best-selling home computer ever made: a 6510 at roughly 0.98525 MHz with 64 KiB of RAM, a video chip that doubles as the system clock master, and the SID sound chip.
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Home computer · 1983
MSX
A standard rather than one maker’s machine: Microsoft and ASCII specified a Z80A, a TMS9918A-compatible video processor and ROM-resident BASIC, and manufacturers across Japan and Europe built to it.
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Home computer · June 1984
Amstrad CPC 464
A Z80A home computer sold as a complete set, with Locomotive BASIC in ROM, a cassette deck built into the keyboard and its own monitor.
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Home computer · 1987
Commodore Amiga 500
A 68000 at around 7.09379 MHz with the Original Chip Set handling graphics, audio and I/O in parallel with the processor, and memory shared between them.
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Home computer · October 1992
Commodore Amiga 1200
A 68EC020 at around 14.19 MHz with the AGA chipset and 2 MiB of 32 bit Chip memory.
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Home computer · October 1992
Commodore Amiga 4000
A modular AGA Amiga with a standard 68040 processor at 25 MHz, Chip memory shared with the custom chipset, and a CPU slot that later accepted 68060 accelerator cards.