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Videoton TVC

The Videoton TVC (Televízió Computer) is a home computer series produced by the Hungarian company Videoton. Released in 1986, it was based on the Zilog Z80 CPU and was primarily popular in Hungary. The TVC line included several models: TVC 32, TVC 64, and TVC 64+, differing mainly in memory configuration. It featured a built-in BASIC interpreter and was capable of displaying graphics and playing cassette-based software.

The ep128emu-core provides built-in ROM images. No external BIOS files are required, although it can use custom ROM versions if placed in /userdata/bios/ep128emu/roms/.

MD5 checksum Share file path Description
8c54285f541930cde766069942bad0f2 bios/ep128emu/roms/tvc22_sys.rom TVC system BIOS
5ce95a26ceed5bec73995d83568da9cf bios/ep128emu/roms/tvc22_ext.rom TVC extension BIOS
a2cf86ba8e7fc58b242137fe59036832 bios/ep128emu/roms/tvcfileio.rom TVC Direct File I/O
88dc7876d584f90e4106f91444ab23b7 bios/ep128emu/roms/tvc_dos12d.rom TVC disk BIOS

MAME requires the following BIOS file placed in /userdata/bios/:

File Description
tvc64.zip Videoton TVC 64 BIOS

Place your TVC ROMs in /userdata/roms/tvc.

RetroArch (formerly SSNES), is a ubiquitous frontend that can run multiple “cores”, which are essentially the emulators themselves. The most common cores use the libretro API, so that's why cores run in RetroArch in Batocera are referred to as “libretro: (core name)”. RetroArch aims to unify the feature set of all libretro cores and offer a universal, familiar interface independent of platform.

RetroArch configuration

RetroArch offers a Quick Menu accessed by pressing [HOTKEY] + South button (B SNES) which can be used to alter various things like RetroArch and core options, and controller mapping. Most RetroArch related settings can be altered from Batocera's EmulationStation.

Standardized features available to all cores of this emulator: tvc.videomode, tvc.ratio, tvc.smooth, tvc.shaders, tvc.pixel_perfect, tvc.decoration, tvc.game_translation

libretro: ep128emu-core

ep128emu-core is a highly accurate emulator ported to libretro. It supports both Enterprise 64/128 and Videoton TVC emulation.

libretro: MAME

MAME can emulate the Videoton TVC 64 using the tvc64 driver. This allows loading cassette and disk images directly.

The standalone MAME emulator provides the same tvc64 driver as the libretro core, but as a separate application.

Most TVC software is operated with the keyboard. There is a minimal pad2key configuration provided, but if you use only a joystick, you will most probably have to remap the keyboard to play your game.

For further troubleshooting, refer to the generic support pages.

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