Colour Genie
EG2000 Colour Genie computer | |
| Manufacturer | EACA |
|---|---|
| Release date | August 1982 |
| Introductory price | £200 (equivalent to £892 in 2023) |
| Discontinued | 1983 |
| Operating system | 16 KB ROM containing LEVEL II BASIC |
| CPU | Zilog Z80, 2 MHz |
| Memory | 16 KB RAM, expandable to 32 KB |
| Display | PAL composite or RF out; 40×24 text, 16 colours; 160×96 graphics, 4 colours |
| Graphics | Motorola 6845 |
| Sound | AY-3-8910 |
| Input | 63-key typewriter style Keyboard with 4 programmable function keys |
| Power | 5V DC, +12V DC and -12V DC |
| Predecessor | Video Genie |
The EACA EG2000 Colour Genie was a computer produced by Hong Kong–based manufacturer EACA, and introduced in Germany in August 1982 by Trommeschläger Computer Service and Schmidtke Electronic.
It followed their earlier Video Genie I and II computers and was released around the same time as the business-oriented Video Genie.
The LEVEL II BASIC was compatible with the Video Genie I and II and the TRS-80, except for graphic and sound commands; most of the routines for Video Genie I BASIC commands were left over in the Colour Genie's BASIC ROM. Programs were provided to load TRS-80 programs into the Colour Genie. Colour Genie disks could be read in a TRS-80 floppy disk drive and vice versa, editing the pdrive commands.
The original Video Genies had been based upon (and broadly compatible with) the then-current TRS-80 Model I. As the Colour Genie was descended from this architecture, it was incompatible with Tandy's newer TRS-80 Color Computer which – despite its name – was an entirely new and unrelated design based on an entirely different CPU, and thus incompatible with the TRS-80 Model I and derivatives such as the Color Genie.
About 190 games were published for the system in English and German.
An 80 column card was produced.
Modern emulators for this system exist.