cbmeeks wrote:
there are lots of portable Arduino based projects out there with tiny screens. They look truly awesome and I'd love to design one too.
There are lots of them around, I've designed 2 or 3 myself and they're a lot of fun both to design and write games for. It's surprising how capable they are. The only thing that frustrated me was putting different games on them - there are a few solutions out there with SD cards and external Flash chips, but I just feel icky about constantly having to rewrite the program flash memory. I know realistically that you'd have to be changing game multiple times a day every day for a few years to hit the 10,000 write lifetime. it just felt clunky to me.
That said, I'd still definitely recommend having a go at making one.
cbmeeks wrote:
But for me, I wished there were more homebrew 6502 consoles that connect to a TV or VGA monitor. But I guess those people prefer to just create NES games (which is great in itself).
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I think there's plenty of scope to cater for everyone's interests in the space. It definitely seems easy enough to build the computer, although I have noticed that a lot of the homebrew projects stop at the 4 line LCD. Satisfying graphics is a bit more of a challenge I think.