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The GP2X is a Linux-based handheld video game console and portable media player developed by South Korean company GamePark Holdings.[1]

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  1. 93 relations: AA battery, AC adapter, Allegro (software library), Amstrad CPC, ARM9, Atari 2600, BennuGD, Caanoo, Central processing unit, Chipset, Color, Commodore 64, Digital rights management, DivX, Doom engine, Duke Nukem 3D, Egoboo (video game), Electric power, Electronic visual display, Emulator, Executable, Ext2, FFmpeg, File Allocation Table, File Transfer Protocol, Firmware, Flash memory, Frozen Bubble, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Gear, Game Park, GamePark Holdings, Gigabyte, GP2X Wiz, GP32, GPE Palmtop Environment, Gram, Handheld game console, Hertz, Homebrew (video games), HTTP, Linux, Linux kernel, List of handheld game consoles, List of video game console emulators, Lithium battery, MAME, Master System, Megabyte, ... Expand index (43 more) »

  2. Game Park
  3. Linux-based handheld game consoles
  4. Regionless game consoles
  5. Seventh-generation video game consoles

AA battery

The AA battery (or double-A battery) is a standard size single cell cylindrical dry battery.

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AC adapter

An AC adapter or AC/DC adapter (also called a wall charger, power adapter, power brick, or wall wart) is a type of external power supply, often enclosed in a case similar to an AC plug.

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Allegro (software library)

Allegro is a software library for video game development.

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Amstrad CPC

The Amstrad CPC (short for "Colour Personal Computer") is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990.

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ARM9

ARM9 is a group of 32-bit RISC ARM processor cores licensed by ARM Holdings for microcontroller use.

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Atari 2600

The Atari 2600 is a discontinued home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS), it popularized microprocessor-based hardware and games stored on swappable ROM cartridges, a format first used with the Fairchild Channel F in 1976.

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BennuGD

BennuGD (also referred as Bennu Game Development or Bennu) is a high-level open-source video game development suite, originally created as a Fenix Project fork by Argentinian hacker SpliterGU.

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Caanoo

The GP2X Caanoo, more commonly known as Caanoo, stylized CAANOO, is an open source, Linux-based handheld video game console and portable media player developed by the South Korean company GamePark Holdings. GP2X and Caanoo are ARM-based video game consoles, discontinued handheld game consoles, Linux-based handheld game consoles and seventh-generation video game consoles.

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Central processing unit

A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor, or just processor, is the most important processor in a given computer.

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Chipset

In a computer system, a chipset is a set of electronic components on one or more integrated circuits that manages the data flow between the processor, memory and peripherals.

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Color

Color (American English) or colour (British and Commonwealth English) is the visual perception based on the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Commodore 64

The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 7–10, 1982, in Las Vegas).

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Digital rights management

Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content.

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DivX

DivX is a brand of video codec products developed by DivX, LLC.

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Doom engine

id Tech 1, also known as the Doom engine, is the game engine used in the id Software video games Doom and Doom II: Hell on Earth.

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Duke Nukem 3D

Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed by 3D Realms.

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Egoboo (video game)

Egoboo is a free-to-play 3D open source dungeon crawling action role-playing game with support for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux, Mac OS X, and some earlier versions of Windows.

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Electric power

Electric power is the rate of transfer of electrical energy within a circuit.

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Electronic visual display

An electronic visual display is a display device that can display images, video, or text that is transmitted electronically.

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Emulator

In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the guest).

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Executable

In computer science, executable code, an executable file, or an executable program, sometimes simply referred to as an executable or binary, causes a computer "to perform indicated tasks according to encoded instructions", as opposed to a data file that must be interpreted (parsed) by an interpreter to be functional.

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Ext2

ext2, or second extended file system, is a file system for the Linux kernel.

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FFmpeg

FFmpeg is a free and open-source software project consisting of a suite of libraries and programs for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files and streams.

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File Allocation Table

File Allocation Table (FAT) is a file system developed for personal computers and was the default filesystem for MS-DOS and Windows 9x operating systems.

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File Transfer Protocol

The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard communication protocol used for the transfer of computer files from a server to a client on a computer network.

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Firmware

In computing, firmware is software that provides low-level control of computing device hardware.

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Flash memory

Flash memory is an electronic non-volatile computer memory storage medium that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed.

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Frozen Bubble

Frozen Bubble is a free software clone of Puzzle Bobble for a variety of home and mobile systems.

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Game Boy

The Game Boy is a handheld game console developed by Nintendo, launched in the Japanese home market on April 21, 1989, followed by North America and Europe later that year. GP2X and game Boy are discontinued handheld game consoles and Regionless game consoles.

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Game Boy Color

The Game Boy Color (GBC or CGB) is an 8-bit handheld game console, manufactured by Nintendo, which was released in Japan on October 21, 1998, and to international markets that November. GP2X and game Boy Color are discontinued handheld game consoles and Regionless game consoles.

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Game Gear

The is an 8-bit fourth generation handheld game console released by Sega on October 6, 1990, in Japan, in April 1991 throughout North America and Europe, and during 1992 in Australia. GP2X and game Gear are discontinued handheld game consoles and Regionless game consoles.

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Game Park

Game Park was a South Korean company that was founded in 1996 and went bankrupt in March 2007.

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GamePark Holdings

GPH, formerly known as GamePark Holdings, was a South Korean company responsible for creating the GP2X. GP2X and GamePark Holdings are game Park.

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Gigabyte

The gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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GP2X Wiz

The GP2X Wiz is a handheld game console and portable media player developed by South Korean company GamePark Holdings running a Linux kernel-based embedded operating system. GP2X and GP2X Wiz are ARM-based video game consoles, discontinued handheld game consoles, Linux-based handheld game consoles and seventh-generation video game consoles.

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GP32

The GP32 (GamePark 32) is a handheld game console developed by the South Korean company Game Park. GP2X and GP32 are ARM-based video game consoles, discontinued handheld game consoles and game Park.

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GPE Palmtop Environment

GPE (a recursive acronym for GPE Palmtop Environment) is a graphical user interface environment for handheld computers, such as palmtops and personal digital assistants (PDAs), running some Linux kernel-based operating system.

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Gram

The gram (originally gramme; SI unit symbol g) is a unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.

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Handheld game console

A handheld game console, or simply handheld console, is a small, portable self-contained video game console with a built-in screen, game controls and speakers.

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Hertz

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second.

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Homebrew (video games)

Homebrew, when applied to video games, refers to software produced by hobbyists for proprietary video game consoles which are not intended to be user-programmable.

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HTTP

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

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Linux kernel

The Linux kernel is a free and open source, UNIX-like kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide.

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List of handheld game consoles

The list of handheld game consoles documents notable handheld game consoles released as commercial products.

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List of video game console emulators

The following is a list of notable video game console emulators.

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Lithium battery

Lithium battery may refer to.

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MAME

MAME (formerly an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a free and open-source emulator designed to recreate the hardware of arcade games, video game consoles, old computers and other systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms.

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Master System

The is an 8-bit third-generation home video game console manufactured and developed by Sega.

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Megabyte

The megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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MP3

MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg, with support from other digital scientists in other countries.

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MPEG-1

MPEG-1 is a standard for lossy compression of video and audio.

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MPEG-4

MPEG-4 is a group of international standards for the compression of digital audio and visual data, multimedia systems, and file storage formats.

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MPlayer

MPlayer is a free and open-source media player software application.

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Multi-core processor

A multi-core processor is a microprocessor on a single integrated circuit with two or more separate processing units, called cores (for example, dual-core or quad-core), each of which reads and executes program instructions.

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Neo Geo (system)

The, stylized as NEO•GEO and also written as NEOGEO, is a ROM cartridge-based arcade system board and fourth-generation home video game console released on April 26, 1990, by Japanese game company SNK Corporation. GP2X and Neo Geo (system) are Regionless game consoles.

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A nickel–metal hydride battery (NiMH or Ni–MH) is a type of rechargeable battery.

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Nintendo DS

The (retroactively referred to as NDS or DS) is a 32-bit foldable handheld game console produced by Nintendo, released globally across 2004 and 2005. GP2X and Nintendo DS are discontinued handheld game consoles, Regionless game consoles and seventh-generation video game consoles.

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Nintendo Entertainment System

The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit home video game console produced by Nintendo.

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Open architecture

Open architecture is a type of computer architecture or software architecture intended to make adding, upgrading, and swapping components with other computers easy.

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Pandora (computer)

The Pandora is a handheld gaming computer originally released in 2010. It is designed to take advantage of existing free and open-source software and to be a target for homebrew development. It is developed and produced by OpenPandora, which is made up of former distributors and community members of the GP32 and GP2X handhelds.

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Payback (video game)

Payback is a video game developed and published by Apex Designs.

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PlayStation

is a video gaming brand that consists of five home video game consoles, two handhelds, a media center, and a smartphone, as well as an online service and multiple magazines.

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PlayStation Portable

The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a handheld game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. GP2X and PlayStation Portable are discontinued handheld game consoles, Regionless game consoles and seventh-generation video game consoles.

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A portable media player (PMP) or digital audio player (DAP) is a portable consumer electronics device capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio, images, and video files.

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Qt Extended

Qt Extended (named Qtopia before September 30, 2008) is an application platform for embedded Linux-based mobile computing devices such as personal digital assistants, video projectors and mobile phones.

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Quake (video game)

Quake is a first-person shooter game developed by id Software and published by GT Interactive.

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Random-access memory

Random-access memory (RAM) is a form of electronic computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data and machine code.

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Samba (software)

Samba is a free software re-implementation of the SMB networking protocol, and was originally developed by Andrew Tridgell.

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SD card

Secure Digital, officially abbreviated as SD, is a proprietary, non-volatile, flash memory card format the SD Association (SDA) developed for use in portable devices.

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Sega CD

The Sega CD, known as in most regions outside North America and Brazil, is a CD-ROM accessory for the Sega Genesis produced by Sega as part of the fourth generation of video game consoles.

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Sega Genesis

The Sega Genesis, known as the outside North America, is a 16-bit fourth generation home video game console developed and sold by Sega.

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Seventh generation of video game consoles

The seventh generation of home video game consoles began on November 22, 2005, with the release of Microsoft's Xbox 360 home console. GP2X and seventh generation of video game consoles are seventh-generation video game consoles.

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Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) is a cross-platform software development library designed to provide a hardware abstraction layer for computer multimedia hardware components.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.

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Stella (emulator)

Stella is an emulator of the Atari 2600 game console, and takes its name from the console's codename.

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, commonly shortened to Super Nintendo, Super NES or SNES, is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Europe and Oceania and 1993 in South America.

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SuperTux

SuperTux is a free and open-source 2D side scrolling platform video game inspired by Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. series.

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Synchronous dynamic random-access memory

Synchronous dynamic random-access memory (synchronous dynamic RAM or SDRAM) is any DRAM where the operation of its external pin interface is coordinated by an externally supplied clock signal.

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System on a chip

A system on a chip or system-on-chip (SoC; pl. SoCs) is an integrated circuit that integrates most or all components of a computer or other electronic system.

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Telnet

Telnet (short for "teletype network") is a client/server application protocol that provides access to virtual terminals of remote systems on local area networks or the Internet.

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TFT LCD

A thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT LCD) is a type of liquid-crystal display that uses thin-film-transistor technology to improve image qualities such as addressability and contrast.

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The Korea Times

The Korea Times is a daily English-language newspaper in South Korea.

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Touchscreen

A touchscreen (or touch screen) is a type of display that can detect touch input from a user.

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TurboGrafx-16

The TurboGrafx-16, known as the outside North America, is a home video game console designed by Hudson Soft and sold by NEC Home Electronics.

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USB

Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard that allows data exchange and delivery of power between many types of electronics.

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Video game console

A video game console is an electronic device that outputs a video signal or image to display a video game that can be played with a game controller.

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Voltage spike

In electrical engineering, spikes are fast, short duration electrical transients in voltage (voltage spikes), current (current spikes), or transferred energy (energy spikes) in an electrical circuit.

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Vorbis

Vorbis is a free and open-source software project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles

Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles (or W&W) (lit. "Wu Xing Space-Time – Great Feng Shui War") is an independently developed commercial videogame developed by Yuan Works, a company based in Korea.

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Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a series of audio codecs and their corresponding audio coding formats developed by Microsoft.

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Xvid

Xvid (formerly "XviD") is a video codec library following the MPEG-4 video coding standard, specifically MPEG-4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile (ASP).

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2D computer graphics

2D computer graphics is the computer-based generation of digital images—mostly from two-dimensional models (such as 2D geometric models, text, and digital images) and by techniques specific to them.

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See also

Game Park

Linux-based handheld game consoles

Regionless game consoles

Seventh-generation video game consoles

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X

Also known as GP2X executable, GamePark 2X.

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