Microtan 65

The Tangerine Microtan 65 was first sold in 1979. Unlike other systems available at the time, it was designed with expandability in mind. Based on the 6502 processor, the basic system could be expanded from 1 KB of RAM, 1 KB of ROM and a 32×16 text-only display to a full system with 48 KB of RAM, banked EPROM, tape and disk interfaces, high-resolution graphics, six-channel sound and more.

This section brings together the Microtan’s history and development, surviving documentation and software, and two separate emulator projects: my current Linux/WSL2 project and the historic Windows emulator published on the original site.

Archive updates

• 8 March 2004: The legacy Windows emulator was updated to include three high-resolution graphics cards and improved screen updating.
• 6 June 2000: The Microtan Quick Guide was added, and the legacy emulator gained basic serial-port support through a terminal emulator.
• 17 May 2000: Microtan World issue 6, ETI’s 64K DRAM project and the Tansoft Gazette were added.
• 16 May 2000: Microtan World issue 5 was added.
• 15 May 2000: Documentation was converted to PDF, and the Space Invasion and Life Gun articles from Computing Today were added.
• 13 May 2000: Microtan World issue 4 was added.
• 8 May 2000: The original Microtan section was started.