TIA-MC-1


The TIA-MC-1 — Телевизионный Игровой Автомат Многокадровый Цветной was a Soviet arcade machine with replaceable game programs and was one of the most famous arcade machines from the Soviet Union. The TIA-MC-1 was developed in Vinnytsia, Ukraine by the Ekstrema-Ukraina company in the mid-1980s under the leadership of V.B. Gerasimov. The machine was manufactured by the production association Terminal and some other factories.

Games

Some of the TIA-MC-1 based games are:
The Konek-Gurbunok game is comparable to The Legend of Zelda and included environments such as forests and castles.

Technical specifications

The arcade machine consists of several boards called BEIA.
The boards have the following purposes:
Games in a TIA-MC-1 arcade machine can be switched by replacing the BEIA-103 module, not unlike cartridges in video game consoles.
Main system characteristics are as follows:
For a long time the TIA-MC-1 hardware remained unemulated due to a lack of technical information and ROM dumps. Soon after the Russian emulation community obtained technical documentation and ROM dumps of one of the games, Konek-Gorbunok, the first emulator named TIA-MC Emulator was released on July 27, 2006. A TIA-MC-1 driver was included in MAME on August 21, 2006. By now, only five games are dumped and supported by emulators. An ongoing search for other games is in progress.