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Revision as of 15:31, 25 June 2023

Signetics 2650
Developer Signetics, Philips
Type Home video game console, Home computer
Generation Second generation
Release date 1975
Emulated
Arcadia 2001
Emerson-Arcadia-2001.jpg
An Arcadia 2001
Developer Emerson
Type Home video game console
Emulated
Video Computer 4000
Developer Interton
Type Home video game console
Predecessor Video 3001
Emulated
TV Games Computer
Developer Elektor
Type Home computer
Emulated
Instructor 50
Developer Signetics
Type Home computer
Emulated
Type-right
Developer VTech
Type Home computer
Emulated

Machines

Emerson Arcadia 2001 console family (1982)
Bandai, Emerson, Grandstand, Intervision, Leisure-Vision, Leonardo, MPT-03, Ormatu, Palladium, Poppy, Robdajet, Tele-Fever, Tempest, Tryom, Tunix, etc.
Interton VC 4000 console family (1978)
Acetronic, Cabel, Fountain, Hanimex, Interton, Prinztronic, Radofin, Rowtron, Voltmace, Waddingtons, etc.
Elektor TV Games Computer (1979)
PIPBUG- and BINBUG-based machines (1977)
Electronics Australia 77up2 and 78up5, Signetics Adaptable Board Computer, Eurocard 2650, etc.
Signetics Instructor 50 trainer (1978)
Central Data 2650 computer (1977)
Zaccaria coin-ops (1979)
Astro Wars, Galaxia, Laser Battle and Lazarian
Kitronix coin-ops (1981) Malzak 1 and 2
Chaos 2 computer (1983)
Dolphin aka Dauphin trainer (1977)
PHUNSY computer (1980))
AY-3-8500/8550/8600-based Pong systems (1976)
Coleco Telstar Galaxy, Sheen TVG-201, etc.
Ravensburger Selbstbaucomputer aka 2650 Minimal Computer trainer (1984)
MIKIT 2650 trainer (1978).
VTech Type-right machine (1985)

Emulators

Name Platform(s) Latest Version Retro
Achievements
Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
PC / x86 / PPC / M68K
WinArcadia Windows 32.4 32.4 ?
AmiArcadia AmigaOS MorphOS 32.4 32.4 ?
MAME Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 0.265 ? ~
Tunix2001 Windows 26.8.06 ?
Arcadia 2001 Emulator MS-DOS 1998/07/30 ?
Emulator2001 Windows Linux macOS 2014/09/20 ?
Mobile / ARM
DroidArcadia Android 2.32.3 ? {✓}→{✗}

Contact developer to fix *"More" button crash bug*

Consoles
Super Bug Advance† GameBoy Advance 1.3 Low ✓‡

†Can only emulate Super Bug, Super Bug 2, and Capture

‡Only recommended because it's the only Emerson Arcadia 2001 emulator for the GBA.

DroidArcadia "More" button crash bug on Android 12 Its current target SDK API is 33 (Android 13), so this must be a bug. DroidArcadia will crash in the latest version, at least on my LineageOS 19.1 (Android 12) phone, after updating this bug, James Jacob didn't know about it and didn't do anything to fix it.

Please contact him as soon as you see this. mailto:[email protected]

How to reproduce the crash bug? Install and open DroidArcadia - More (top right button).

This means that all settings and options will not be available for all future updates if no one gives feedback to the developer.

History

The history of the Arcadia 2001 emulators is very foggy and hasn't been documented clearly before.

In 1998, Emerson Arcadia 2001 Emulator by Paul Robson was the first Emerson Arcadia 2001 emulator[1].

Emulator2001 was developed by Gavin Turner in 2005[2].

WinArcadia started in 2006.[3] It is the Windows backport of AmiArcadia, which is the enhanced official Amiga port of Emulator2001[4]. It was written by James Jacobs and Gavin Turner, but the original author (Turner) is no more credited[5].

WinArcadia emulates the Emerson Arcadia 2001 family of consoles (Bandai, Emerson, Grandstand, Hanimex, Intervision, Leisure-Vision, Leonardo, MPT-03, Ormatu, Palladium, Poppy, Robdajet, Rowtron, Tele-Fever, Tempest, Tryom, Tunix, etc.), and various other machines.

WinArcadia and MAME are multi-system emulators, which means that the Arcadia 2001 wasn't their major goal, but simply just a system upon a hundred other system these emulators are capable of emulating.

Issues

Probably the biggest issue is that this system didn't grab attention because of the very limited games it has and that it was discontinued only 18 months after it was released in 1982, so developers aren't giving it any significant attention.

References

  1. https://www.gamefaqs.com/a2k1/916364-arcadia-2001/faqs/2628
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20051026150459/http://www.gstsoftware.co.nz/
  3. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20130801182925/http://www.gstsoftware.co.nz/
  5. WinArcadia 1.21 (7 April 2006) : "AmiArcadia is the enhanced official Amiga port of the Windows program Emulator 2001. WinArcadia is the Windows backport of AmiArcadia." "They were written by James Jacobs and Gavin Turner of Amigan Software."