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Everyone once in awhile I see a new youtube video pops up about OutcaST; recently someone did a port of an earlier build to the Firebee (FPGA 'new' Atari machine), with some virtualization of the CPU (!), so I want to dig out a more recent codebase and send it over.. Our goal in emulation to...

That one is a bit rougher .. since its only 200MHz iirc, it can do the job but struggles; the Wiz and Caanoo performed much stronger. I still think the PSP and Vita make pretty good pocket emu systems, but these days when you can get a quad core 1.5 ghz machine for $50 off ebay or ali, its...

Wild first guess: Modern PC -> SteamDeck -> Phone (Android or others) -> Switch -> PC (dosbox or better) -> Amiga -> GBA -> SNES -> NES

Waaaaait; if some of these devices are 15 and even 20+ years old, they in their own rite are retro consoles; Yo dawg, retro consoles playin' retro consoles

My Pandora batteries are still in pretty good shape; I've got a few of them spreading the load, but the damned things seem today almost a good as they were all those years ago; super impressive.

yeah the nubs seemed to have endurance issues .. maybe it depended on which run? I'm sure ED or folks woudl be able to comment on which parts might be still available, maybe a quick solder for those, don't remember :) .. I'm actrually pretty amazed, the Pandora batteries seem to have held up...

Wait wot - GP32 is 24 years old? GP2x is 19 and old enough to drink?! The Wiz 15?!! .... Caanoo 14! .. couldn't believe its a day over 10! Was just pawing through my old dev kits and gear, figured I needed to pull out good ol Caanoo or GP2x and give 'em a good whirl when I go on a cottage trip...

Devices do seem to multiply .. I used to do a lot of Palm OS development (and WinCE and so on) back in the mid 90s etc, and I had dozens and dozens of the gadgets around; probably 7-10 years ago I trimmed down tried to give away a lot of that stuff; kept the Tapwave Zodiac.. likewise kept all my...

I was going to post .. GP32? GP2x? Wiz? Caanoo? which to use in 2020? (OKay, I know most would just say Pandora but each has their place .. the GP32 boobies will never be forgotten, and the tiny pocketebility of the Wiz, the sleak Caanoo with the annoying analog, the GP2x with the DaveC modded...

yeah ScummVM was always a treasure, especially the versions with MIDI emulation. The Caanoo edition had touchscreen didn't it? Will have to check it out again .. probabyl been 10 years since I played a ScummVM title :)

I just duig out my Wiz, gp2x, Caanoo and other detritus from over the years. All told, with all its worts, I sort of liked the Wiz for its small form factor and generally bright screen. Was good for playing Raiden in a pinch! With my large stack of ancient retro handhelds, thought I best not let...

yeah, thats why I stepped back from dev here after the Pandora; I have so little free time, that any projects of mine take foreeeeever to get anywhere. I've been trying to get back to more of that, as the kids get older, but not there yet! Latest shenanigans is turning an old DC motor from a...

Pandora still has a great soundsystem and huge storage, and of course the crazy community. (I'm still using old Debian mods for it, not kept up to see if anyone more recently has done it...) Batteries are getting long in the tooth but still works alright :) .. edit: for Other; I rolled my own...

Are all the Pandora batteries the same? I made one a billion years ago when the exploit first came around .. (blew my mind at the time.. an active BIOS on a battery?! so cool..), on an original PSP battery (the thick one.) So, I keep it around, and used it on a PSP Slim I got later .. couldn't...

$64 or $45 seems a pretty good price point (jeesh, so cheap!), but they're not super high powered (5xxMHz) and essentially all very standard old components, hence the price. So, good stuff for the disposable option, and should be plenty fast enough for SNES and such, so probably pretty darned...

Arduino is pretty slick, since it makes things easy, and encourages 'blob reuse'; theres tonnes of good code snippets around you can just drop in, or little libraries .. for LCD or servo or etc etc. Myself, never much a fan .. ie: Arduino started and seems to still mainly be on the low end...

The STM32F4s etc have no problem emitting VGA; you don't need all that many MHz to emit it, really. (I was doing it before the bitbox, and I was going to release a kit.. but small kids and lazy, never got around; then he cleaned up that space, so good for him :) .. The STM32 architecture does...

The ESP is a pretty handy little chip, but I don't think it had any LCD peripheral driver built in; it does have SPI etc etc, and you can get some LCDs that have SPIC and I2C interfaces (some even with basic primitives like blit, rectangle, fill, fonts, etc), so you know.. not a bad idea...

Neat, and cute; sort of like my own homebrew machines :) I was never a Nintendo kid, so have no attachment to the GBAs and such; we have an original GBA ("game girl" we call it, for my oldest daughter :), and a clamshell GBA SP; but not much of a library for them. Course, GBA being essentially...

As an exercise, lets keep Pandora and Pyra off the table*; if you just want to have an easily pocketable (ie: small), and relatively inexpensive (ie: okay to carry around in a pocket all the time, or to a beach, or tossed into your backpack, etc) mobile console for retro gaming.. whats hot these...