Emerson Arcadia 2001 emulators

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Signetics 2650
Developer Signetics (Philips acquired)
Type CPU
Generation 2nd generation
Release date 1975
Emulated

The Signetics 2650 was an 8-bit microprocessor at 1.2 MHz introduced in July 1975.

GI AY-3-8500
Developer General Instrument (Motorola acquired)
Type IC
Generation 1st generation
Release date 1976
Emulated

The AY-3-8500 "Ball & Paddle" integrated circuit was the first in a series of ICs from General Instrument designed for the consumer video game market.


Emulators

Name Platform(s) Latest Version Retro
Achievements
Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
PC / x86 / PPC / M68K
WinArcadia Windows 32.4 32.4 High
AmiArcadia AmigaOS MorphOS 32.4 32.4 ?
MAME Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 0.265 Mid ~
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 High {✓}→{✗}

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."

Signetics 2650 machines

PIPBUG- and BINBUG-based machines
Developer Electronics Australia 77up2 and 78up5, Signetics Adaptable Board Computer, Eurocard 2650, etc.
Type Home computer
Release date 1977-1978
Emulated
Central Data 2650
Type Home computer
Release date 1977
Emulated
Dolphin aka Dauphin trainer
Type Home computer
Release date 1977
Emulated
Interton VC 4000 console family
Developer Acetronic, Cabel, Fountain, Hanimex, Interton, Prinztronic, Radofin, Rowtron, Voltmace, Waddingtons, etc.
Type Home console
Release date 1978
Discontinued 1983
Predecessor Interton Video 3001
Emulated
Signetics Instructor 50 trainer
Developer Signetics
Type Home computer
Release date 1978
Emulated
MIKIT 2650 trainer
Type Home computer
Release date 1978
Emulated
Elektor TV Games Computer
Developer Elektor
Type Home computer
Release date 1979
Emulated
Zaccaria coin-ops: Astro Wars, Galaxia, Cat and Mouse, Laser Battle and Lazarian
Developer Zaccaria and Zelco (Astro Wars and Galaxia)
Type Arcade
Release date 1979-1981
Emulated
PHUNSY computer
Type Home computer
Release date 1980
Emulated
Kitronix coin-ops: Malzak and Malzak II
Developer Kitronix
Type Arcade
Release date 1981
Emulated
Emerson Arcadia 2001 console family
Emerson-Arcadia-2001.jpg
Developer Emerson Arcadia 2001: Advision, Bandai, Tele-Computer, Hanimex, Intercord, Leisure-Dynamics, GiG, Schmid, Tedelex, Tchibo, Monaco Leisure

MPT-03: Morning-Sun, ? (Educat), P.I.C., Hanimex, Intelligent Game, ITMC, Poppy, Prestige, Robdajet, Rowtron, Soundic, Tempest, Tobby, Tryom

Orbit UVI: Grandstand

Ormatu 2001: Intervision, Inno-Hit, Sheen Neckermann Palladium: Polybrain, HGS, Trakton

Type Home console
Release date 1982
Discontinued 1984
Emulated
Chaos 2 computer
Type Home computer
Release date 1983
Emulated
Ravensburger Selbstbaucomputer aka 2650 Minimal Computer trainer
Type Home computer
Release date 1984
Emulated
VTech Type-right machine
Developer VTech
Type Home computer
Release date 1985
Emulated

GI AY-3-8500 machines

AY-3-8500/8550/8600-based Pong systems
Developer Coleco, Sheen, etc.
Type Home console
Release date 1976
Discontinued 1978 (Coleco Telstar series)
Successor ColecoVision (Coleco Telstar series)
Emulated