Posts tagged "derivavision"

• January 20, 2026

  Controlling the Wizzard

  

  Remember back when I cloned the VTech CreatiVision/Dick Smith Wizzard, Australia’s almost-favourite video game system that’s also a computer? That was a fun time. Now for the really fun part of the project: trying to get the controller to work.

• October 3, 2023

  Dick Smith's Wizzard-ry 8 (Bit)

  

  Sure, I’ve cloned TI TMS99xx-based systems before. There’s the ColecoVision and the Sega SG-1000. But those were all Z80s, and it’s important to diversify my interests a little bit. Luckily, VTech released a little 6502-based system called the CreatiVision, and let the schematics get out.