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GamePark Holdings GP2X
GamePark Holding's first “homebrew” handheld, being a company formed from disgruntled employees of former company Game Park. Releasing on November 10th, 2005 in South Korea, the GP2X was more primarily focused on the “homebrew” side of things, in contrast to Game Park's GP32 from 4 years prior, which originally aimed to become a legitimate portable handheld with South Korean origins. Because of this shift in direction, the GP2X had little in the name of commercial games releasing for it, although they still existed in some capacity, which makes the GP2X more than an “emulation handheld”. For the internals, the GP2X came with 64MB of RAM, a pair of ARM CPUs, 64 MB of flash memory, and a 320×240 screen. Since this console was one of the first dedicated “homebrew” systems, the fact that it sold around 60-70k units can easily be considered a success.
Operating Systems (ARM920T & 940T)
Acorn Archimedes OSes (ArcEm)
This emulator makes it possible to make function Linux ARM as well
Through the horrendous grammar on the wiki page, it seems possible to run Linux, RISC OS, and whatever the Archimedes runs stock on the GP2X.
https://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp2x.cgi?0,0,0,0,72,1307
https://web.archive.org/web/20090131203736/http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/ArcEm
Classic Mac OS 0.x-7.5.5-8.1 (in Basilisk II ROM #?)
Mouse works.USBmouse works. TVout works
Functional enough to run at acceptable speed. Some issues with keyboard/network.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF1SC_bH8nc
https://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp2x.cgi?0,0,0,0,72,1351
https://web.archive.org/web/20090203223431/http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/Basilisk_II
Console emulation (potential)
Whether these emulators support operating systems for these consoles is unknown; it must be looked into further. Consoles without meaningful OSes are not included.
https://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp2x.cgi?0,0,0,0,5
Game Park GP32 – Spot
Megazeux GCS – megazeux (has CHIP-8!)
https://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp2x.cgi?0,0,0,0,26,2920 https://www.digitalmzx.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=9709
Nintendo 64 - Nincest64
Nintendo Entertainment System – FCE-Ultra, fishyNES, GPFCE, InfoNES2x, NES2x, Phamicom
Super Nintendo Entertainment System – PocketSNES 7.2.1, SquidgeSNES, SNES9x
Nintendo Game Boy (Color) – GnuBoy, Lemonboy2x
Nintendo Game Boy Advance – gpSP, vba2x-r, gp2xVBA
Nintendo Virtual Boy – rboy2x, Red Dragon
Sega Master System – AlexKidd2x 0.6.4u, SMS Plus2x, Osmose
Sega Genesis – PicoDrive, DrMDx
Sony PlayStation 1 – PSX4GP2X 0.2.0
Emulation Nest
This device runs an operating system which is known to emulate various devices with EOPs. See the Acorn RISC OS, AmigaOS, Classic Mac OS, DOS, and MSX pages.
FreeDOS, Windows 95 (Bochs)
I’ve tried running FreeDOS, some old XT games and Win95 and everything works correctly
Tested and all works well, with a virtual keyboard. A bit slow, but not the worst considering the specifications of the device.
https://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp2x.cgi?0,0,0,0,72,1196
https://web.archive.org/web/20120204134836/https://elligre.tk/madelman/index.php/gp2x/
PC emulation (potential)
Whether these emulators support operating systems for these computers is unknown; it must be looked into further. Computers without meaningful OSes are not included.
https://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp2x.cgi?0,0,0,0,5
Amstrad CPCs – CapriceGP2x, GP2XCAP32, CAP32
Apple IIs – gp2xmess
Atari 8-bits – Emulator, GP2X-Atari, atari800
Atari STs – OutcaST
CHIP-8 - EFCS
Commodore 64 – Frodo2x, Vice2x
Commodore Amigas – UAE2x, UAE4All Beta/Cyclone, UAE4AllGP2X
Commodore PETs - VICE2x
Commodore Plus/4 – VICE2x
Commodore VIC-20 - VICE2x
Dragon 32/64 – GP2x-Dragon
Miles Gordon SAM Coupé - GP2X-SIM
MSXs – GP2X-MSX, fMSX, fmsx2x
Sinclair ZX Spectrums – Gp2xpectrum, Unreal Speccy Portable, ZXGP2X, GP2X-SIM
Tandy TRS-80 Color Computers – GP2X-Dragon
Texas Instruments 92 – GP2X-TI92
https://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp2x.cgi?0,0,0,0,73,2174
x86 – Dosbox 0.72-6, “Legacy IBM PC emulator”
https://web.archive.org/web/20090201083641/http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/DosBox
Termula2x
A basic Unix terminal emulator that likely accesses the underlying Linux system. This supports both vi and backgrounds.
Internet
Links
A rough port of the Links browser, with no JS or CSS support. There is a second version, but it’s improvements outside of a color map change are unknown.
https://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp2x.cgi?0,0,0,0,8,1226
https://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp2x.cgi?0,0,0,0,8,1251 (version, may be better?)
Version & Revision Guide
For general information, see the Game Console Revisions Overview.
Versions
There are four versions of this console, arranged chronologically.
First Edition MK1 (2005?)
DO NOT BUY
The first GP2X to release. Marred with hardware issues and general low production quality. Identified by the “First Edition” text below the GP2X logo, a flickering screen (sometimes), a transparent (not translucent) cover for the battery/power LEDs, and English text on the back (instead of Korean). Don't get these, they aren't common and there's no benefit from using one of these instead of a later model.
Second Edition MK1 (2006)
Changed a few things from the First Edition, such as improving the screen quality and hardware reliability. Identified by the lack of “First Edition” text, “wavy lines” on the screen, translucent (not transparent) LED covers, and text on the back that's in Korean.
Second Edition MK2 (2006-2007)
RECOMMENDED OVERALL (for joystick fans); BEST RELIABILITY
A superior version of the Second Edition. All improvements from MK1 are retained, however the joystick on this model has been rotated 45 degrees, which results in a different “directional bias” on the stick - this makes playing games and software a lot less tricky. Furthermore, the LCD was improved once again, eliminating the “wavy lines” issue of the MK1, alongside the previously-eliminated flickering issue of the First Edition.
GP2X F200 (2007-2008)
RECOMMENDED OVERALL (for touchscreen fans)
A sort of half-successor to the GP2X which replaced the joystick with a directional pad, and added a touchscreen. Very easily identified by the lack of any joystick on the system - instead there is a D-pad. Good for people who prefer a touchscreen. All other elements of the system are akin to the MK2 ie. very good.