Uzebox: retro-minimalist homebrew game console

[Aisha_Clan-Clan]

Now this is cool. Homebrew console ftw.

"The Uzebox is a retro-minimalist homebrew game console. It is based on an AVR 8-bit general purpose microcontroller made by Atmel. The particularity of the system is that it's based on an interrupt driven kernel and has no frame buffer. Functions such as video sync generation, tile rendering and music mixing is done realtime by a background task so games can easily be developed in C. The design goal was to be as simple as possible yet have good enough sound and graphics while leaving enough resources to implement interesting games. Emphasis was put on making it easy and fun to assemble and program for any hobbyists. The final design contains only two chips: an ATmega644 and an AD725 RGB-to-NTSC converter."

http://belogic.com/uzebox/

[Kesubei]

I stumbled across that when I was trying to learn 6502 assembly. I think it's a cool idea, especially the ability to make games in C. However, seeing as people would have to build it themselves (or probably pay strangers to do it for them), I don't see too many people buying it. I would give it a shot, but I have no experience in electronics.

I'm more interested in consoles like the Wiz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X_Wiz) and Pandora (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_(console)), ones that have more to offer.

[Aisha_Clan-Clan]

Interesting. Pandora uses PVR Sgx format. Dreamcast uses PVR2 format(s).

[Omega_Weltall]

i loled at the 4k ram. but then i remember that back then that was a Godsend. Pretty interesting though.