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Colour Maximite

The Colour Maximite is a small and versatile single chip computer running a full featured BASIC interpreter with 128K of working memory and eight colours on a VGA monitor.

It will work with a standard PC keyboard and because the Maximite has its own built in SD memory card and BASIC language you need nothing more to start writing and running BASIC programs.

The Colour Maximite also has 40 input/output lines including an Arduino compatible connector. These I/Os can be independently configured as analog inputs, digital inputs or digital outputs. You can measure voltage, frequencies, detect switch closure, etc and respond by turning on lights, closing relays, etc - all under control of your BASIC program.

The design and the firmware including the BASIC interpreter is free to download and use. And all this is powered by a single chip which costs just $9.58.

MMBasic Library

There is an update to the User Program library

The MMBasic library is a collection of programs specifically written for MMBasic. These include a game of Space Invaders with graphic invaders marching across the screen, demonstration snippets of code and programs to do interesting things like generate morse code. Because the programs are so small they are all bundled together into a single downloadable file available from the download section below.

Some new additions include:

Raros' Sudoku
YT2059's DIVTEST - a division practice tool for 6 year olds
BENCHMRK programs ported by CircuitGizmos from 1977 Personal Computer World
Theo Reimer's DATE-DAY which returns the day-of-week for any date
Update to MAXIFONT from Dennis Wyatt that now detects MMBasic version
Update to LCD from James Deakins that should support larger displays

Hugh Buckle is now managing the library and he has done a great job of verifying and organising it.

The Maximite

By Geoff Graham

The Maximite is a small and versatile computer running a full featured BASIC interpreter with 128K of working memory.

It will work with a standard VGA monitor and PC compatible keyboard and because the Maximite has its own built in SD memory card and BASIC language you need nothing more to start writing and running BASIC programs.

The Maximite also has also 20 input/output lines which can be independently configured as analog inputs, digital inputs or digital outputs. You can measure voltage, frequencies, detect switch closure, etc and respond by turning on lights, closing relays, etc - all under control of your BASIC program.

The design is free and open source including the software and BASIC interpreter. And all this is powered by a single chip which costs just US$8.44.

Don's DuinoMite Discounts

For a short period of time, Dontronics is offering 25% off our normal retail prices for all Olimex DuinoMite boards.
Around $23 (plus GST if applicable) for a complete computer system, such as the DuinoMite-Mini:
Or you can set it up as a 15 Pin MaxiMite.
Can be loaded with DuinoMite Basic, or MaxiMite Basic, as Geoff Graham has written a special version to offer limited support for the DuinoMite boards.
This is a great way of getting into MaxiMite-DuinoMite programming at an obscene entry price level, or perfectly priced as a backup board for your critical stand alone application. Quantity discounts still apply.
At $23 for 15 pins, that is $1.53 a pin. This has to be cheaper than you can actually purchase the individual parts to build one. You can't buy a PCB and a programmed PIC32 chip at this price.

This 25% discount also applies to all the other duinomite versions:

Most Popular Questions

Official Support for the Maximite & MMBasic

Newsflash

A new version of MMBasic (ver 4.0) is available for download from http://geoffg.net/maximite.html

This version supports the Colour Maximite and implements a number of new features for both the Colour Maximite and the original monochrome Maximite.
These include

Support for colour and the Arduino compatible connector on the Colour Maximite.
Audio synthesiser with high quality stereo on the Colour Maximite and mono on the original Maximite..
Support for the battery backed clock on the Colour Maximite..
Special commands to support animated games (BLIT, SPRITE and LOADBMP)..
Other small features and bug fixes..

The Change Log (included in the update download) details the changes.

You can also find details of the Colour Maximite Here

MM-Edit from TassyJim

For those who haven't tried MM Edit, it is a Windows application that lets you do your editing in the comfort of you own PC and relatively easily transfer file to and from the Maximite/Duinomite.

Full screen editor for the Maximite & clones

Original Maximites - For Sale

These are the ORIGINAL maximites and DO NOT come with a case. Just a fully populated board..

The only non-standard part is the VGA socket I couldnt get the `special' one that Altronics provide and my suppliers had only the standard type which sticks out about 3-4 mm further out of the back of the case (If one was fitted)

I dont see this as an issue and it lines up with the 26pin header anyway..

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Colour Maximite

MMBasic Library

The Maximite

By Geoff Graham

Don's DuinoMite Discounts

Most Popular Questions

Newsflash

MM-Edit from TassyJim

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Original Maximites - For Sale

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