CreatiVision

CreatiVision

Developer	VTech
Type	Hybrid video game console
Generation	Second generation
Release date	1982
Discontinued	1986
Successor	Socrates
Emulated	✓

CreatiVision is a console / microcomputer hybrid released by VTech in 1982.

Emulators

Name	Platform(s)	Latest Version	Libretro Core	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
PC / x86
creatiVision emulator		16.04.24	✗	✓	✓	✓
MAME		0.265	✓	✓	~	~
FunnyMu CreatiVe UI		0.43 0.49 0.48 R1.0 (AmigaOS 3.0+) 1.12 (CreatiVe UI)	✗	✓	~	~
CvEmu2 + Spartan		0.6.1 (CvEmu2) 2.0 (Spartan GUI)	✗	✓	✗	~
CreatiVEmu CreatiVEmu GUI		beta (CreatiVEmu) beta 0.03 (CreatiVEmu GUI)	✗	?	✗	~
Console
ColecoDS		7.9	✗	✓	✓	✓
FunnyMu		0.2	✗	✓	~	✓

Comparisons

• CreatiVEmu

Emulator by Roberto Ventura, coded in may 2001 for use with MS-DOS and then made Windows-compatible a few months later. It supports all existing ROMs with accurate video and audio emulation. Complete cassette tape player emulation, allowing to load/save BASIC listings through custom "binary log" format. Unfortunately it's never been publicly released and it's marked as "discontinued" since 2002.

• creatiVision emulator

The most recently developed emulator of the creatiVision, also featuring full compatibility with the Laser 2001 and Salora Manager home computers through a self-developed version of the BIOS. Great overall emulation quality and an useful option to load programs from cassette dumps. Programmed with C and SDL. Source code available. No user interface (command-line operated).

• CvEmu2

Emulator by Giovanni Ortu, supporting all existing ROMs (except the new formats for 6 and 18KB) with full video emulation, no audio emulation. Featuring a preliminary in-game menu. Programmed with C and SDL, compiled for Windows and Linux. Source code available.

• FunnyMu

Emulator by Paul Hayter, supporting 4, 8, 10 and 12KB ROMs with full video and audio emulation, unfortunately has no in-game menu and can't be configured. Programmed with C and SDL, based on MAME and ColEm source codes, compiled for Windows and Linux. Source code available.

• FunnyMu (unofficial)

MADrigal's personal revision of FunnyMu, with a few additions:

- fully compatible with all currently dumped ROMs (also 6, 10, 16 and 18KB ROM formats)
- correct colour palette (matching the one in MAME)
- support for right controller emulation and complete keyboard emulation
- mathematics bug-fixes here and there
- screenshot save
- load/save BASIC listings in plain text format
- settings stored to .ini file
- windowed and fullscreen modes available

Windows version is fully compatible with the new CreatiVe-UI graphics interface, also featuring a quite detailed games database with screenshots. Amiga version also available by Amigan Software. Wii version also available by Wiimpathy.

• MAME (formerly MESS)

Since version 0.135 (released on November 7th, 2009), MESS includes MADrigal's revision of the CreatiVision driver, with a few additions and bug-fixes to previous releases. Emulation quality is very high, though there's still much work to do in order to add several missing features and to make input management a little bit more user-friendly. As of 2017, MESS is incorporated in MAME.