Talk:Matra Alice

Rebranded

I've never seen an Alice in the flesh, but it looks just like a Sinclair Research ZX81 (a better photo of the keyboard is here). It sold in the US as a Timex Sinclair 1000. It seems likely that it's another rebrand of the ZX81 (and if we can find one, that Tandy you mention is yet another). -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 11:03, 7 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I've read the exlink, and it seems they are different. Man, people weren't very imaginative about industrial design back them :) -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 11:07, 7 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

It was much more powerful than the ZX-81. This is a Tandy MC-10 in red with French keyboard.

Ericd 18:27, 7 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Success?

The article claims that the Alice was more successful than the original MC-10. This article and this article both suggest otherwise.

This one seems to imply that it was favoured by its inclusion in the government programme, but I'm not sure how much of a success that made it.

Fourohfour 14:29, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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What´s right concerning Graphics?

Hello all together! Taste this:

Outtake of the pages text:

"The Matra Alice 32 released in 1983 shared the case style of the original, but was a different computer inside, due to using the EF9345 video chip. The Alice 32 had 8 kilobytes of main RAM, 8 kilobytes of dedicated video RAM, and 16 kilobytes ROM (the ROM incorporated an assembler). The CPU was clocked at 1 MHz. Higher resolution graphic modes included 320 X 192 with 16 colors from a 256 color palette. ... The Thomson EF9345 video chip in the Matra Alice 32/90 was capable of displaying 8 colors, 128 alphanumeric characters, and 128 semi-graphic characters with a semigraphic mode and 40- and 80-column text modes. It could address up to 16 KiB of dedicated VRAM although the Alice 32 and 90 only included 8 KiB. The 32x16 semigraphic mode of the original Alice was simulated in software by the Alice 32/90 system ROM."

As you might notice, first is said that the 32/90 models can display graphics with 320x192p with 16 out of 256 colors, but at the end it shrinks to 8 colors and less rows/lines.

So - why is that?

Thank you - Anne 93.133.130.207 (talk) 21:29, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]