Emulating the Philips P2000
The Philips P2000 was a cool homecomputer from the
beginning of the eighties (1983 to be exactly) which my dad
bought in those days for +/- $350 (700 dutch guilders). I was
really excited about having a computer for games and stuff. In
1983 I was eight years and it was for me the first time I ever
touched a computer. It was a great computer, having 16 kilobyte
of memory and displaying blocky graphics in 8 colors. There was a
build in cassette recorder (small -digital- cassettes, very
expensive ;) and 2 rom slots. There were several roms available
for textprocessing, programming and graphic presentations (like
teletext) and ofcourse the 16 Kb Basic roms, but there was also a
32 Kb and a 64 Kb Basic rom available (only a fraction more
expensive). Now we can emulate this great oldie with the emulator
called M2000.
If you want to check out this great
emulator, then check it out by downloading
version 0.6. Some technical information about the
P2000 can be read
here. If you own a P2000 yourself and want to convert
cassettes to msdos files use this program called tape
converter.
Games and utilities
All these files are Public
Domain/Freeware (there were no commercial games made to my
knowledge)
There are more to come in the (near) future, I'm still
looking for titles not on this list, so if you have any, please
mail me at [email protected].
I will soon add screenshots in the open colomn. Last updated:
28th of december 1998.
