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Summary of Contents for SORD M5
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Ways You Can Use Your M5 Creative Computer..........2 M5 Creates a New World at Home......4 Looking After Your M5..........5 How To Set Up Your M5..........6 Running Your M5............8 Putting Your M5 Away..........11 Cleaning Your M5............. 11 M5 Options............... 11 Playing Games With Your M5 1. - Page 3 Copyright © 1983 by SORD COMPUTER CORPORATION All rights reserved. Printed in Japan. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written...
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Page 4: Ways You Can Use Your
Ways You C a n Use Your M5 C reative C om p Be Creative with Up to 16 Colors! Do All Kinds of Calculation from Baseball Statistics to Calorie Counting! The M5 Creative Computer lets you draw your own pictures in 16 different col... - Page 5 There are also plans to offer the following: • A symbolic debugger • The source program list for BASIC-1 • Hardware circuit diagrams These will enable the M5 to be program med in machine language, for people who want a fuller understanding of how computers work.
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Page 6: M5 Creates A New World At Home
M5: household finances, loan calculations, purchase planning, menus and dietary planning, address management, you name it, the M5 can handle it. Even if you don’t know BASIC, “ FALC” will let you do all you want to. And for fathers having a hard... -
Page 7: Looking After Your M5
• Don’t put anything on top of the M5. • Don’t use sprays or chemically-treated cloths to clean the M5. • Don’t leave the M5 in a hot place or in direct sunlight. • Don’t pull the M5’s cables. • Don’t store the M5 in a dusty or humid place. -
Page 8: How To Set Up Your M5
How To Set Up Your M5 To run your M5, first connect the power supply, cassette tape recorder and TV set as shown in the diagrams. Wall outlet... -
Page 10: Running Your M5
Running Your M5 Now that you’ve connected the power 4. If the TV picture is wavy or fuzzy, adjust supply, TV and tape recorder to your M5... it using the tuner. Tuning switch: Tuning switches 1. Open the cover to adjust, press... - Page 11 If you don’t hear a click and the tape keeps playing, this means that the M5 hasn’t read the program. In this case, do the following: 1. Stop the tape. There are three game programs sup 2. Switch the power off, then back on again.
- Page 12 When you want the M5 to read a pro When Entering Data gram without reading the preceding programs: Press the 2 key while holding the FUNC key down to change to graphics character Method 1: input from the keyboard. 1. Start from step 6.
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Page 13: Putting Your M5 Away
When you’ve finished adjusting your TV, press the SHIFT and RESET keys where they are. simultaneously. The M5 is ready to read the next pro Volume control. gram, the baseball game. (For details, see page 12, step 8.) -
Page 14: Playing Games With Your M5
Playing G am es With Your M5 1. Baseball Game *Joypads cannot be used with this game. Inning display Strike, ball or out display Score display Pressing these keys Moving fielder keys makes the batter Pressing these keys makes swing. - Page 15 P ..pressing this key throws the caught 11, step 8.) ball to second. • If you are not going to use the M5 for a L ..pressing this key throws the caught while, or are going to change cartridges, ball to third.
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Page 16: Zac Banic
Playing G am es With Your M5 2. “Zac Banic” Score display Attacker with laser-beam cannon Key for moving attacker to the left Keys for shooting laser-beams (either can be used) Key for moving attacker to the right. - Page 17 RESET and SHIFT keys at the same time. (For details, see page 11, step 8.) • If you are not going to use the M5 for a while, or are going to change cartridges, switch the power off.
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Page 18: What To Do If Your M5 Doesn't Work Properly
If the solutions suggested on this page do not solve the problems, switch the power off, then take your M5 back to the store where you bought it, together with the guarantee. -
Page 19: M5 Specifications
Specifications Z80A (3.58 MHz) Timer 4 Channel Z80A-CTC Memory ROM: 8 k bytes, expandable up to 16 k bytes by expansion cartridge. RAM: 20 k bytes (of which 16 k bytes are used for video). Expandable up to 32 k bytes in 4 k-byte increments, by expansion box. Keyboard 55 keys, 8 shifts Alphabetic: upper/lower case letters, numerics, symbols Graphics patterns:... - Page 20 SOI2D S O R D C O M P U TE R C O R PO RA TIO N KYOBASHI K-1 BLDG., 7-12, YAESU 2-CHOME, CHUO-KU, TOKYO 104, JAPAN PHONE: (03)281-8118 TELEX: 2224225 (SORDIN J) GEE-0115 Printed in Japan June ’83 IJ...