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    GP32 .. almost 20 years old now? yikes!

    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...
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    GP32 .. almost 20 years old now? yikes!

    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...
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    New on the board and new with Caanoo

    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 :)
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    New on the board and new with Caanoo

    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...
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    Pyra ancestors poll

    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...
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    Pyra ancestors poll

    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...
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    Good dumb mobile retro-gaming console? What do you use now?

    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...
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    Good dumb mobile retro-gaming console? What do you use now?

    $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...
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    Good dumb mobile retro-gaming console? What do you use now?

    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...
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    Good dumb mobile retro-gaming console? What do you use now?

    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...
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    Good dumb mobile retro-gaming console? What do you use now?

    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...
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    Good dumb mobile retro-gaming console? What do you use now?

    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...
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    Good dumb mobile retro-gaming console? What do you use now?

    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...
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    Just a bunch of pics

    I'm sure you've checked all the usual sources for conflict-free, but the Tantalum caps in some specs are not too much more expensive; tantalum in general is pricier than you like but the conflict free.. 10x the price is okay in small quantity? I've never looked too hard, but we have Kemet...
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    Getting closer...

    Lol; "The Osbourne Effect" strikes again :)
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