My Tomy Stuff

[+dhe]

The creation of this sub board, energized me to go pull the tub of Tomy stuff that's been shuffling around with me for the last 30 years.

 

I found:

    2x Tomy Tutor's.

    2x Tape Records - does anyone know if these use belts?

    2 Joysticks,

    a set of paddle controllers,

    The two recent modules produced by Klaus Sommer

    Cartridge Jungler  ---- I think Barry Boone (Aka The Master) ported all the Tomy games to the Geneve - which having all that would be pretty cool.

    Misc Documentation, some original housed at Calvin.ptloma.edu/~spectre by Cameron Kaiser, unfortunately, the wayback machine captured nada, but it looks like the owner kept everything and moved it to: https://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/tomy/  plus lots more!

    Not bad, for a mis-spent youth of going to computer shows and Goodwills.

 

   Something a little more interesting for your reading pleasure is the different levels of oxidization that can occur...

 

  

   

[matthew180]

Wow, those are pretty yellow!  I have done the retro-bright and it works, but some of the parts have started to yellow again.  I thought it only happened due to direct sunlight, but now I think it is also heat related (the plastic I did with the retro-bright was stored mostly in the dark after the process, but the space was hot (a garage) during the summer).

 

I only had access to a Tomy once, very briefly, to test the F18A in it.  I don't recall, but the keyboard looks like it would have been very frustrating; like the original PCjr keyboard, but not as bad as the U.S. Timex Sinclair or the Atari 400.

 

Having the 9995, it seems like it would run pretty quick.  Admittedly I know very little about the Tomy, and I don't think I have ever seen anyone actually use one.

[+Ksarul]

I used Barry Boone's method to add to the TOMY library on the Geneve a couple of years back. I modified a number of the Japanese Pyuuta games that didn't exist on the US Tutor (his method worked with 8K and 16K files, but I don't think it worked for the 32K files).

[MasterMotorola]

I'm a big fan of the Tomy Omnibot series and still have my Dustbot from 1985.  I never knew they made computers.