Just saw this on CNX-Software:
for $4.90 you get a 32-bit 100MHz low-power CPU, 0.96″ 160×80 IPS RGB LCD, microSD card slot, case. All it really needs is a cheap base board with some buttons. It is arduino compatible, even supports LiPo natively apparently.
I might be missing something, but it seems remarkable that they are making so much hardware available for such a low cost.
I’ve been eyeballing this and some other RISC-V processors for some kind of color portable that could play Pico-8 but for now anything to build out the current platform that’s insanely overpowered.
I love the usb-c tho.
I would be all over this if at a decent price and with a good battery life.
To put things into perspective, that’s a faster CPU than the Gamebuino Meta, but with a slightly smaller vertical resolution.
2:1 is a bit of an odd aspect ratio.
Personally I like 4:3 the most for handheld consoles, but I’m horribly biased.
Part of what complicates that is that Pico-8 is closed source,
so it’s hard to know what the exact requirements would be,
I suspect there would have to be some cooperation with Pico-8’s creator to have a port to an embedded system.
That said, Pico-8 runs on Raspberry Pi,
so you could just fit a gaming shell around a Pi (possibly even a Pi zero) and use that.
The main page claims that you need a ~700Mhz CPU, but I find that claim somewhat dubious.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there were optimsations that could be done to the source to cut that requirement down.
I believe pi0cket is working on a product along those lines https://twitter.com/Pi0CKET/status/1043907079084347393?s=09
The pi zero doesn’t some pico8 carts full speed sadly.
I still want to see pre-compiled pico8 carts…
