Olympia PHC-2
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Description

The Olympia PHC-2 is one of the two adaptations for France of the Daewoo DPC-200.

Although the outside is clearly based on the DPC-200, the slot map is still different: the RAM is in another slot.

It was sold with a demo tape.

Brand Olympia (Manufacturer: Daewoo)
Model PHC-2
Year 1985
Region France
Launch price
RAM 64kB in slot 1
VRAM 16kB
Media MSX cartridges
Video Texas Instruments TMS9129
Audio PSG (AY-3-8910)
Chipset none (separate IC's)
Keyboard layout AZERTY
Extras demo cassette
Emulation ROM dumped and emulated. The rear expansion port is handled like a regular MSX cartridge slot.

Pictures

Olympia PHC-2
Olympia PHC-2 box
Olympia PHC-2 box (back)
Olympia PHC-2 content of box
Olympia PHC-2
Olympia PHC-2 left side
Olympia PHC-2 back
Olympia PHC-2 right side
Olympia PHC-2 underside
Olympia PHC-2 PCB

Specifications

The Olympia PHC-2 is a MSX1 without MSX-Engine. The CPU is a Z80A from Zilog or NEC (D780C-1). By comparison with the original machine and most other localisations, the RF and Composite video outputs are replaced by a RGB output.

Slot Map

Slot 0 Slot 1 Slot 2 Slot 3
Page C000h~FFFFh 64kB
RAM
Cartridge
Slot
Expansion
Bus
Page 8000h~BFFFh
Page 4000h~7FFFh Main-ROM
Page 0000h~3FFFh

Connections