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by mstevens 2795 days ago
I found the CG Maximite lately, which powers on to BASIC and has composite video or VGA out:

http://geoffg.net/maximite.html

There's also the fignition which has a composite out and powers on to forth:

https://sites.google.com/site/libby8dev/fignition

But does require assembly & soldering.

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Colour Maximite is a lot of fun [1]! The BASIC environment it has is quite powerful, and it even runs a full-screen text editor.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQA8lowEKOo

Beat me to it: I was going to post a link to the 8-Bit Guy's video as well.

There are, I believe, various versions available and if you just want something to learn and write BASIC programs on it's difficult to imagine a better place to start because it boots directly into a BASIC prompt, just like 8-bit microcomputers from the 80s.