[[Image:Matra Alice all.jpg|600px|right|thumb|Alice, Alice 32 and Alice 90]][[Image:Alice 8000 lateral.jpg|400px|right|thumb|Alice 8000]]The Matra & Hachette Ordinateur Alice is a home computer sold in France beginning in 1983. It was a clone of the TRS-80 MC-10, produced through a collaboration between Matra and Hachette in France and Tandy Corporation in the United States.
The Alice is distinguished by its bright red casing. Functionally, it is equivalent to It was a clone of the TRS80 MC-10, with produced through a collaboration between Matra and Hachette in France and Tandy Corporation in the United States. The TRS80 MC-10 itself was a SCART connector replacing stripped down version of the RF modulator for video outputTandy CoCo.
The Alice is distinguished by its bright red casing. Functionally, it is equivalent to the MC-10, with a SCART connector replacing the RF modulator for video output and an AZERTY keyboard instead of QWERTY. The Alice never became a popular computer in its home country. It tried to invade schools by being part of the country's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing_for_All Plan Informatique pour Tous ] ("Information technology Computing for everyoneAll") programme, but Thomson won the whole deal. Less than 50 games were released for the system.
The original model had 4 kB of RAM and used a Motorola 6847 video display generator chip, as used in the Dragon 32 and Acorn Atom among others.
*Péritel video output
*Expansion interface
== Later models ==
===Matra Alice 32===
Released in 1983, it shared the case style of the original, but was a different computer inside, due to using the EF9345 video chip instead of the weaker Motorola 6847. This gave it higher resolution semi-graphic mode 320 x 250 pixels max in 8 colours. 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.
===Matra Alice 90===
Released in late 1984, it was an upgrade to the Alice 32, which featured 32 kilobytes of RAM and a full-size case and keyboard. Its video cable included video-in, so EF9345 graphics could be overlaid onto the input video.
===Matra Alice 8000===
Released in 1985 as a prototype preseries of 125 machines, it was a more powerful machine with two CPUs, an MC6803 at 1.2288 MHz and an Intel 8088 at 5MHz. It had 64KB of RAM.
== Links ==
*[https://alice.system-cfg.com/ Le (wiki) d'Alice] Alice Wiki
*[http://alice32.free.fr/documentation/index.html Documentation Alice]
*[[Media:MC6803 CPU datasheet.pdf|Motorola MC6803 CPU datasheet]]
*[[Media:MC6847 MOS Video Display Generator (Motorola).pdf|Motorola MC6847 VDG datasheet]]
*[[Media:EF9345 datasheet.pdf| SGS-Thomson EF9345 datasheet]]
*[http://alice32.free.fr/ DCAlice] Emulator for Windows and collection of 86 programs and games
*[https://youtu.be/YhLn5F0Am_g TOP 30 GAMES for the Tandy MC-10 and Matra Alice 4k] by [[Olipix]]
*[https://youtu.be/du5enAwBLow Je vous dis tout sur ALICE, sans tabous !] [https://youtu.be/a4Do6LXfoSs L'imprimante thermique Alice] by [[Olipix]]
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