The PV-2000, also known as ''RakuGaki,'' is a home computer manufactured by
Casio
is a Japanese multinational electronics manufacturing corporation headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Its products include calculators, mobile phones, digital cameras, electronic musical instruments, and analogue and digital watches. It ...
and released in
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
in 1983, with a launch price of ¥29,800.
It has similar hardware to
MSX
MSX is a standardized home computer architecture, announced by ASCII Corporation on June 16, 1983. It was initially conceived by Microsoft as a product for the Eastern sector, and jointly marketed by Kazuhiko Nishi, the director at ASCII Corpo ...
machines, but uses a different sound chip, memory allocations and BIOS.
History
The PV-2000 was released shortly after the
PV-1000 game console.
It was intended as a home computer and featured an integrated keyboard. It is compatible with PV-1000 controllers but not its games, as it features a different architecture.
Technical details
The PV-2000 is powered by a NEC PD-780C CPU (compatible with the
Zilog Z80
The Zilog Z80 is an 8-bit computing, 8-bit microprocessor designed by Zilog that played an important role in the evolution of early personal computing. Launched in 1976, it was designed to be Backward compatibility, software-compatible with the ...
) running at 3.579Mhz, with 4 KB RAM, and 16 KB of
VRAM
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.
It had a
TMS9918A
VDP TMS9918A
VDP TMS9918A
The TMS9918 is a video display controller (VDC) manufactured by Texas Instruments, in manuals referenced as "Video Display Processor" (VDP) and introduced in 1979. The TMS9918 and its variants were used in the Casio PV ...
graphics chip capable of generating 256×192
pixels
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graphics with 16
colours
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and 32 sprites. Sound was produced by a
SN76489AN with three channel sound capability with 4 octaves. The operating system was C83-BASIC v 1.0, similar to
MSX BASIC
MSX BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language. It is an extended version of Microsoft's MBASIC Version 4.5, adding support for graphic, music, and various peripherals attached to MSX microcomputers. Generally, MSX BASIC is designed to f ...
.
PV-2000 games
Only eleven games were released for the Casio PV-2000, listed here by serial number:
* GPB-101: ''
Roc'n Rope''
* GPB-102: ''
Mr. Packn''
* GPB-103: ''
Galaga
is a 1981 fixed shooter video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. In North America, it was released by Midway Manufacturing. It is the sequel to ''Galaxian'' (1979), Namco's first major video game hit in arcades. Controlling ...
''
* GPB-104: ''
Pooyan
is a fixed shooter arcade video game released by Konami in Japan in 1982. It was manufactured in North America by Stern (game company), Stern Electronics. The player controls "Mama", a pig whose babies have been kidnapped by a group of wolves.
...
''
* GPB-105: ''
Super Cobra
''Super Cobra'' is a horizontally scrolling shooter developed by Konami, originally released as an arcade video game in 1981. It was published by Konami in Japan in March 1981 and manufactured and distributed by Stern in North America on June ...
''
* GPB-106: ''
Front Line
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''
* GPB-107: ''Ski Command''
* GPB-108: ''Pachinko UFO''
* GPB-109: ''Rakugaki Special''
* GPB-110: ''Excite Mahjong 2''
* GPB-111: ''Exciting Jockey''
See also
*
PV-1000
*
Casio PV-7
*
Casio Loopy
References
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Casio products
1983 in video gaming
Computer-related introductions in 1983
Products introduced in 1983