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title: Philips VG 8235
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Home Computer
origins:
- Netherlands
years:
- '1985'
cpus:
- Zilog Z80 A
params:
name: VG 8235
image: /media/museum/photos/philips_8235_system_2.jpg
company: /companies/philips
company_name: Philips
specs:
- label: NAME
value: VG 8235
- label: MANUFACTURER
value: Philips
- label: TYPE
value: Home Computer
- label: ORIGIN
value: Netherlands
- label: YEAR
value: '1985'
- label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
value: MSX-BASIC
- label: KEYBOARD
value: Full stroke 73 keys with function keys and arrow keypad
- label: CPU
value: Zilog Z80 A
- label: SPEED
value: 3.58 MHz
- label: CO-PROCESSOR
value: V9938 (video), S3527 (RAM, I/O, Keyboard, Tape, Centronics, Sound)
- label: RAM
value: 128 KB
- label: VRAM
value: 128 KB
- label: ROM
value: 64 KB
- label: TEXT MODES
value: 40 or 80 chars x 24 lines
- label: GRAPHIC MODES
value: 'seven graphic modes : 512 x 212 pixels maximum'
- label: COLORS
value: 256 simultaneously maximum among 512
- label: SOUND
value: three channels, 8 octaves
- label: I/O PORTS
value: Centronics, Cardridge (2), Floppy Disk, Tape, RGB, Joystick (2)
- label: BUILT IN MEDIA
value: One single sided 3.5'' FDD
- label: OS
value: MSX DOS
- label: POWER SUPPLY
value: Built_in power supply unit
tabs:
- photos
- hardware
- emulators
- links
photos:
- title: ANOTHER VIEW
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/philips_8235_system_1.jpg
- title: BOX
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/philips_vg8235_box_1.jpg
hardware:
- title: NATIONAL CF-2131
subtitle: 16 KB RAM expansion
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/national_cf2131_16k-cart.jpg
- title: CASIO OR-216 - 16 KB RAM EXPANSION
subtitle: Box
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/casio_or216_16kbramexpansion_box.jpg
- title: PHILIPS RAM EXPANSION
subtitle: ''
text: |-
RAM expansion and LOGO language cartridges.
Thanks to Daniele from Italy
image: /media/museum/hardware/philips_vg8020_cartridges_s1.jpg
- title: MEGA RAM DISK 256
subtitle: from DDX (Brazil)
text: This is the famous Megaram cartridge made in Brzail, used to play all Konami cracked Megarom games.6401999243
image: /media/museum/hardware/msx_megaram256-ddx_1.jpg
- title: PANASONIC FS-IFA1 & FW-RSU1W
subtitle: Scanner/Printer interface
text: 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.
image: /media/museum/hardware/msx_fs-ifa1_fw-rsu1w.jpg
- title: SONY HBI-232
subtitle: RS232c cartridge
text: Used to connect serial printers.
image: /media/museum/hardware/sony_msx_rs232c-cartridge.jpg
- title: 'YAMAHA MOUSE #1'
subtitle: ''
text: |-
This mouse was compatible with all MSX systems. It connects to the first Joystick port.
Thanks to **www.zonadepruebas.com**
image: /media/museum/hardware/yamaha_mouse_s2.jpg
- title: 'YAMAHA MOUSE #2'
subtitle: ''
text: |-
Brand new!
Thanks to **www.zonadepruebas.com**
image: /media/museum/hardware/yamaha_mouse_s1.jpg
- title: PHILIPS VW0020
subtitle: 80-col dot-matrix printer
text: |-
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.
image: /media/museum/hardware/philips_vg8020_printervw0020_s1.jpg
- title: SANYO PHC-DR II
subtitle: Side
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/sanyo_phc-drii_side_1.jpg
- title: SANYO PHC-DR II
subtitle: Front
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/sanyo_phc-drii_front_1.jpg
- title: SANYO DR-202
subtitle: ''
text: 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.
image: /media/museum/hardware/sanyo_phc28_dr202tapedrive_s1.jpg
- title: NATIONAL RQ-8030
subtitle: tape-recorder
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/national_tape_rq8030.jpg
- title: BIT-CORDER
subtitle: ''
text: Cassete recorder dedicated to Hit-Bit MSX systems, though it could be used with any home computers.
image: /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb201_bitcorder_1.jpg
emulators:
- title: fMSX for MS DOS Homepage
url: http://www.komkon.org/~dekogel/fmsx.html
platform: MS DOS
text: ''
- title: fMSX for MS DOS Homepage
url: http://www.komkon.org/~dekogel/fmsx.html
platform: MS DOS
text: ''
- title: BlueMSX
url: http://www.bluemsx.com/
platform: Windows
text: Excellent free MSX emulator
- title: BrMSX
url: http://www.lsi.usp.br/~ricardo/brmsx.htm
platform: Windows
text: A Bresilian MSX Emulator written in 100% assembler
- title: BrMSX
url: http://www.lsi.usp.br/~ricardo/brmsx.htm
platform: Windows
text: A Bresilian MSX Emulator written in 100% assembler
- title: CompuJunk's MSX Emulator
url: http://ftp.castel.nl/msx/
platform: Windows
text: A MSX1 and MSX2 Emulator
- title: CompuJunk's MSX Emulator
url: http://ftp.castel.nl/msx/
platform: Windows
text: A MSX1 and MSX2 Emulator
- title: RuMSX
url: http://members.eunet.at/lexlechz/msx.html
platform: Windows
text: A MSX Emulator for Win95 and Win NT + Direct X
- title: RuMSX
url: http://members.ping.at/lexlechz/msx.html
platform: Windows
text: A MSX Emulator for Win95 and Win NT + Direct X
- title: Virtual MSX
url: http://www.msxnet.org/vmsx/
platform: Windows
text: An other MSX 1 emulator for Win 95 / Win NT
- title: fMSX for MAC OS Homepage
url: http://www.emulation.net/msx/index.html
platform: Apple
text: ''
- title: fMSX for MAC OS Homepage
url: http://www.emulation.net/msx/index.html
platform: Apple
text: ''
- title: fMSX official Homepage
url: http://www.komkon.org/fms/fMSX
platform: Other platform
text: '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.'
- title: fMSX official Homepage
url: http://www.komkon.org/fms/fMSX
platform: Multiplatform
text: '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.'
- title: openMSX - The MSX emulator that aims for perfection.
url: http://openmsx.sourceforge.net/
platform: Multiplatform
text: 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.
links:
- title: Baboo!
url: http://www.baboo.net/baboo.shtml
text: MSX dedicated Yahoo clone. Essential !
- title: FILE-HUNTER.COM
url: http://www.file-hunter.com/
text: Excellent! All MSX emulators, sources and utilities!
- title: FTP da MSXBr-L/MSX.Org.Br
url: http://www.caetano.eng.br/msxsoft/
text: Excellent brasilian software archive
- title: MOAI TECH
url: http://www.moai-tech.com/
text: Spanish/English website with interesting content
- title: MSX Hardware List
url: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/hardware.html
text: An impressive list of MSX hardware. The Bible !!!
- title: MSX Ressource Center
url: http://www.msx.org/
text: Essential site !
- title: Possi's Konami MSX Page
url: http://dynamo.geol.msu.ru/MSX/
text: Nice page dedicated to all Konami MSX games (roms, scans, mids, etc.)
- title: The MSX Games Box
url: http://www.msxgamesbox.com
text: All about MSX gaming (games, covers.etc.). More Fun, Less Mhz!
- title: The MSX Museum BOX
url: http://www.msxmuseumbox.com
text: More than 190 different MSX models in pictures.
- title: The ultimate MSX Faq
url: http://www.faq.msxnet.org
text: Here, you can find near all hardware pieces related to MSX.
- title: Web Wiz CAPTCHA
url: http://www.webwizcaptcha.com
text: The MSX home computer system
comments:
- author: Roger Jowett (Ulster Londonderry)
date: Saturday 6th April 2013
text: |-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v$zsjTpFR0oYQ\
please help we have zx spectrum 48k and one 128k program running at 6mhz using external ram and snapper discs from velesoft site
- author: Jorge (Portugal)
date: Saturday 25th August 2012
text: Had the fortune of owning one of these here in Portugal, it was a high quality machine and very expensive (about 500 euros at the time!) and also a corresponding Philips dark grey monochromatic monitor.
- author: Geert Jalink
date: Friday 13rd April 2012
text: We had this system at school. I had the vg8230 so i could not play all games.
- author: AndiP
date: Sunday 15th May 2011
text: |-
Hello,\
I search the manuals for the VG8235 to download in german or english.
Thanks Andreas
- author: Svetlana
date: Friday 17th September 2010
text: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v$lowKKphBms4
- author: HERROU (PARIS)
date: Sunday 7th July 2002
text: |-
I FETCH A BASIC LANGUAGE LIKE ON THE PHILIPS VG-8235 CD-ROOM PRATICABLE ON WINDOW\
(compaq presario portable 1700)\
THANK YOU
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oc_id: 251
source:
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230606202319/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=251
date: '2023-06-06'
---
The Philips VG-8235 belongs to the [MSX 2](/museum/msx-2/) standard.
For its release, Philips presented the VG-8235 as the first link of their audio-video-micro concept, being able to use the newly announced **CD-i** system, but few VG-8235 were actually seen connected to a CD-i.
It was the successor of the the short-lived **VG 8230**, wich only had 64K RAM and a single sided disk drive.
Contrary to other MSX computers, the Philips used a custom chip for the sound instead of the "classic" Yamaha YM-2149.
The computer could use all of its 128 KB memory, the MSX-2 standard allows a computer to have 4 slots, whish in turn can all have 4 sub-slots, which can each hold a memory-mapper, which can be up to 4MB in size. In theory, therefore, an MSX-2 computer can hold 4x4x4 = 64MB RAM. However, the system ROM etc usually needs a (sub)slot, and so do other peripherals.
It was followed by the **NMS-8245**, a VG 8235 with a new case, no tilted keyboard and double-sided disk drive; then by the **NMS-8250**, an MSX-2 model with detached keyboard, the **NMS-8255**, same as the NMS8250, but with two floppy drives built-in, and the (legendary) **NMS-8280**, an MSX-2 computer with video-processing capabilities built into it.
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**Taneli Lukka** from Finland adds:\
VG-8235 is one of the few MSX2 computers to be at least semi-widely distributed in Europe, mainly in The Netherlands.\
The machine is quite solidly built and the keyboard can be tilted between two different positions for better ergonomics. The only real problem is the disk drive which is single sided and can so only use half of the disks capacity. Most commercial disk based MSX2 software refuses to run on the machine for the same reason. The drive is also quite fragile and most of them are no longer in working condition.
<table> <tr> <td></td> <td>We need more info about this computer ! If you designed, used, or have more info about this system, please send us pictures or anything you might find useful.</td> <td></td> </tr> </table>
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