Simple Hardware
The SAM Coupé consists only of 6 logic chips:
CPU Zilog 80B 6 MHz, ROM, RAM, Philips SAA 1099 sound, Motorola MC1377P video and 10000 gate VLSI (ASIC) chip
Basic setup
- profi keyboard
with 72 keys
- 512 KB RAM
- 128 colour palette
- 256*192 or 512*192
graphics modes
- 32, 64 or 85
chars per line
- 6ch. stereo sound
- 1 or 2 diskdrives
- joystick
- MIDI in/out
- 65536 exp. ports
- ZX Spectrum 48K
ports/compatibility
Extended setup
- 4 MB fast RAM
- SAMBUS
- SAMCo mouse
- centronics
- rs-232
- DA Converter
for sound playback
- joystick splitter
- RTC Dallas
Modern Expansions
- CDROM/HDD: Atom IF
- CF(IDE): ATOM Lite(+)
- Turbo Mouse
- MMC/SD: Trinity IF
- 6ch. soundcard:
Quazar Surround
- NET: Trinity IF
- 20 MHz turboCPU
The Coupé missed:
- thousands of colours
- DMA chip
- ROM dock system
- ZX Spectrum 128/512K
compatibility
