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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.

https://emeric.io/GP2X/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X

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/

https://web.archive.org/web/20120204135424/http://elligre.tk/madelman/index.php/gp2x/freedos-installation/

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.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/termula2x/

Internet

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X

http://wiki.gp2x.org/articles/f/-/1/F-100.html

eop/video_game_consoles-portable/7th_generation/gamepark_holdings_gp2x.txt · Last modified: 2022/08/07 15:15 by io55admin