Have put together a modified version of the Arduino LiquidCrystal library, which allows the Arduboy to be used as a full-featured 16x2 character display!
The two rows of 16 characters are rendered directly to the screen, and fill up the top half (128x32). You can watch the demo using ProjectABE:
…has only occurred to me after the fact, but this could easily be used as a sort of ‘mixed-mode’ where you use the graphics buffer for the bottom 128x32 half of the screen and draw the text buffer over the top half - they will not overwrite each other as long as you always call arduboy.display()first and then lcd.draw()
I love the idea … just not sure what I will use it for.
Maybe I can be one of those limousine guys you see at the airport. I can run a marquee with my passengers name on it … if I hold the Arduboy out in front of me surely the passengers will be able to see their name?