| VG 8020 |
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Philips |
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| MANUFACTURER |
Philips |
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| TYPE |
Home Computer |
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| ORIGIN |
Netherlands |
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| BUILT IN LANGUAGE |
Microsoft Extended Basic (MSX Basic V1.0) |
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| KEYBOARD |
AZERTY / QWERTY, mechanical keyboard |
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| CPU |
Zilog Z80 |
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| SPEED |
3.58 MHz |
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| ROM |
32 kb BASIC/BIOS ( MSX BASIC V1.0) |
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| TEXT MODES |
Mode 0 : 40 x 24\
Mode 1 : 32 x 24 |
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| GRAPHIC MODES |
Mode 2 : 256 x 192 with 16 colors (Hires mode)\
Mode 3 : 64 x 48 with 16 colors (Multi colour mode)\
32 sprites |
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| SOUND |
General Instruments AY-3-8910 Programmable Sound Generator\
3 channels, 8 octaves |
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| I/O PORTS |
Centronics port, 2 cardridge slots, Tape-recorder connector, RGB video output, 2 joystick sockets (Atari standard), RF lead video output (PAL models) |
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| OS |
MSX DOS (with optional floppy drive unit) |
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| POWER SUPPLY |
Biult-in switching PSU |
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| PRICE |
455 (France, september 85) |
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| FRONT |
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Thanks to Odessa2020 for this picture |
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| SECAM MODEL |
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This is a french Secam version. The keyboard is AZERTY and the top part of the case is black. |
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| CARTRIDGE SLOT |
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| LEFT SIDE |
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| RIGHT SIDE |
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Thanks to Odessa2020 for this picture |
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| JOYSTICK CONNECTORS |
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| REAR |
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**1** - Power cord\
**2** - Reset button\
**3** - Printer / Centronics interface\
**4** - Tape-Recorder\
**5** - Monitor audio/video output |
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| REAR |
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Thanks to Odessa2020 for this picture |
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| INSIDE |
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| DEEP INSIDE |
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**(1)** Video generator chipset.\
**(2)** RGB video out DIN connector.\
**(3)** 2 x ROM cartrige slots.\
**(4)** Cassette recorder DIN connector with remote control.\
**(5)** Parallel Centronics printer connector (MSX standard).\
**(6)** Mains plug.\
**(7)** Power supply transformer.\
**(8)** Power regulation board.\
**(9)** S-3527 MSX dedicated chipset. Provides MSX compatible sound generation, various input / outputs and parallel printer management.\
**(10)** 8 x 4164 chips (64000 cells x 1 bit) holding 64 Kb RAM.\
**(11-12)** Keyboard flat cables.\
**(13)** Z-80 microprocessor.\
**(14-15)** 2 x joystick connectors.\
**(16)** RGB signals generation board. This card may differ, depending on the country where the computer was sold. This one is a french 'Peritel' (scart) version. |
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| BOX |
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Thanks to Odessa2020 for this picture |
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| NATIONAL CF-2131 |
16 KB RAM expansion |
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| CASIO OR-216 - 16 KB RAM EXPANSION |
Box |
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| PHILIPS RAM EXPANSION |
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RAM expansion and LOGO language cartridges.
Thanks to Daniele from Italy |
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| MEGA RAM DISK 256 |
from DDX (Brazil) |
This is the famous Megaram cartridge made in Brzail, used to play all Konami cracked Megarom games.6401999243 |
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| PANASONIC FS-IFA1 & FW-RSU1W |
Scanner/Printer interface |
The FS-IFA1 is the printer/scanner interface (left on the picture) and the FW-RSU1W is the handheld scanner (right on the picture). These expansions are for MSX2 systems. |
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| SONY HBI-232 |
RS232c cartridge |
Used to connect serial printers. |
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| YAMAHA MOUSE #1 |
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This mouse was compatible with all MSX systems. It connects to the first Joystick port.
Thanks to **www.zonadepruebas.com** |
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| YAMAHA MOUSE #2 |
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Brand new!
Thanks to **www.zonadepruebas.com** |
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| PHILIPS VW0020 |
80-col dot-matrix printer |
This printer was a rebadged version of the Seikosha GP-500.\
It was a 80-column, 50 CPS model with a 7x5 dot matrix head.\
Commodore and Atari used same hardware basis for their MPS-801 and 1029 printers. |
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| SANYO PHC-DR II |
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| SANYO PHC-DR II |
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| SANYO DR-202 |
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The ADSS system allowed to quickly search a specific program in a cassette tape and load it. Seach time for a C60 cassette was less than 1 minute. |
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| NATIONAL RQ-8030 |
tape-recorder |
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| BIT-CORDER |
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Cassete recorder dedicated to Hit-Bit MSX systems, though it could be used with any home computers. |
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| fMSX official Homepage |
http://www.komkon.org/fms/fMSX |
Other platform |
fMSX is a portable MSX emulator ported on : Amiga OS, Mac OS, MS DOS, OS/2, Sony Playstation, Risc OS, Towns OS, Unix / X, Win95 / NT, X68K. |
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| fMSX official Homepage |
http://www.komkon.org/fms/fMSX |
Multiplatform |
fMSX is a portable MSX emulator ported on : Amiga OS, Mac OS, MS DOS, OS/2, Sony Playstation, Risc OS, Towns OS, Unix / X, Win95 / NT, X68K. |
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| openMSX - The MSX emulator that aims for perfection. |
http://openmsx.sourceforge.net/ |
Multiplatform |
This new MSX emulator can reproduce, among many other MSX, MSX2and MSX2+ machines, both Panasonic Turbo-R models. Be sure to get the catapult frontend and the system roms from FUNET. |
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| Folko (Germany) |
Tuesday 6th July 2021 |
In regards to the idea mentioned here that they sold a 80k RAM version in Spain to avoid taxes (like the Amstrad CPC 472 by adding unusable 8k to the CPC464 in Spain): The 80k statement was printed on all VG 8020 cases and it is just marketing by adding the 64k system ram with the 16k video ram. It’s still a 64k system ram computer and they did have to pay the Spanish tax. $-) |
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| Thierry (France) |
Monday 29th June 2020 |
hello :-)\
Sure the vg 8020-19 (France) has no RF out since...RGB (din to scart) output instead, yeah $-)\
Great feature at this times in early 80ties, also on other old computers sold in France.(ex:ti99)\
Better video quality with this $-) |
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| MsxKun |
Monday 18th June 2012 |
$$Due to some differences in the chipset, the Philips VG-8020 was not always 100$ compatible with other MSX-computers. Typing ''poke -1,170'' before loading programs usually fixed the bug.
That''s not correct. It wasn''t a problem of the comp, but of the software that didn''t follow the standard specs. Well done software never failed. |
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| Eric Wolff (Luxemburg) |
Monday 24th October 2011 |
Ok update :) mine has written on the top 80kb ram+ 16kbvideo seems this is a model to avoid the spanish n on keyboard tax. Seeing that i got it from spain it makes sense. Hope it helped a bit :) |
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| Wolff Eric (Luxemburg) |
Thursday 13rd October 2011 |
It s a pal model i got from spain but cant say much more about it:( |
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| Eric Wolff |
Wednesday 12th October 2011 |
Hi i can say there are 4 models not 3 i have a vg8020/40 no idea what the difference is though. Only wanted to complete the data . |
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| noobsaibot73 ((Madrid (Spain))) |
Saturday 6th December 2008 |
There''s another difference between the Secam and the Pal models, Pal models come with RF lead which is missing in the Secam models.
This is a superb computer, I owned one and I was so happy with it...If you''re looking for a good MSX1, this is your computer.
Greetings from Spain. |
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| Francisco Martin (Madrid (Spain)) |
Friday 21st March 2008 |
If you look carefully the photographs of the French version (Secam) of the VG8020, and the Pal versions, you'll discover one missing key at the right side of the right shift key. This is another difference between the two models. |
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