Emerson Arcadia 2001 emulators
| Developer | Signetics |
|---|---|
| Type | Home video game console |
| Generation | Second generation |
| Release date | 1975 |
| Emulated | ✓ |
| Arcadia 2001 | VC 4000 | TVGC | pipbug | instruct | cd2650 | malzak | dolphin | phunsy | selbst | mikit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Emerson | Interton | Elektor | ||||||||
| Release | 1982 | 1978 | 1979 | 1977 | 1978 | 1977 | 1981 | 1977 | 1980 | 1984 | 1978 |
| CPU | 2650 | 2650A | 2650 | ||||||||
| GPU | 2637 | 2636 | 2636 |
Signetics machines:
Emerson Arcadia 2001 console family (Bandai, Emerson, Grandstand, Intervision, Leisure-Vision, Leonardo, MPT-03, Ormatu, Palladium, Poppy, Robdajet, Tele-Fever, Tempest, Tryom, Tunix, etc.)
Interton VC 4000 console family (Acetronic, Cabel, Fountain, Hanimex, Interton, Prinztronic, Radofin, Rowtron, Voltmace, Waddingtons, etc.)
Elektor TV Games Computer
PIPBUG- and BINBUG-based machines (Electronics Australia 77up2 and 78up5, Signetics Adaptable Board Computer, Eurocard 2650, etc.)
Signetics Instructor 50 trainer
Central Data 2650 computer
Astro Wars, Galaxia, Laser Battle and Lazarian coin-ops by Zaccaria (1979-1981)
Malzak 1 and 2 coin-ops by Kitronix
Chaos 2 computer (1983)
Dolphin trainer
PHUNSY computer
AY-3-8500/8550/8600-based Pong systems (Coleco Telstar Galaxy, Sheen TVG-201, etc.) (1976)
Ravensburger Selbstbaucomputer aka 2650 Minimal Computer trainer
MIKIT 2650 trainer
VTech Type-right machine (1985)
Contents
Emulators
| Name | Platform(s) | Latest Version | Retro Achievements |
Accuracy | FLOSS | Active | Recommended | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PC / x86 / PPC / M68K | |||||||||||
| WinArcadia | 
|
32.5 32.5 | ✗ | ? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| AmiArcadia |  
|
32.5 32.5 | ✗ | ? | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| MAME |   
|
0.265 | ✗ | ? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Tunix2001 |
|
26.8.06 | ✗ | ? | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ||||
| Arcadia 2001 Emulator | 
|
1998/07/30 | ✗ | ? | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ||||
| Emulator2001 |
|
2014/09/20 | ✗ | ? | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ||||
| Mobile / ARM | |||||||||||
| DroidArcadia | 
|
2.32.3 | ✗ | ? | ✓ | ✓ | {✓}→{✗}
Contact developer to fix *"More" button crash bug* | ||||
| Consoles | |||||||||||
| Super Bug 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
- ↑ https://www.gamefaqs.com/a2k1/916364-arcadia-2001/faqs/2628
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20051026150459/http://www.gstsoftware.co.nz/
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130801182925/http://www.gstsoftware.co.nz/
- ↑ 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."
