On Saturday, Jan 17, 2004, at 16:39 US/Pacific, Paul Anderson wrote:

> I was at a local computer gaming store, and they had one of the old,
> original Gameboys on sale for $8 or so.  Does anyone know of
> interesting
> things you can do with them?
>
At one point, there were a bunch of tools and stuff available for
reprogramming the OGB and GBC, but a lot seems to have dissappeared
in favor of GBA tools (like, the places selling flash GBC cartridges
and programmers have pretty much disappeared.  The SW tools are still
out there, mostly.)  It's basically a Z80.  Lots of people were writing
their own games, and there were some interesting experiments in making
them into GP electronic tools.  I always thought that a used GB was
about the lowest cost smart LCD graphics display that you were likely
to find, but they've lost ground to used/surplus PDAs, which have
standardized IO ports and more professional development environments.
(Refurbished Palm IIIe for $35 at computergeeks, already talks to
your PC, has rs232, IRDA, and touch screen interfaces, and the palmos
development environment is free and downloadable, and it's a 68k
processor.)

BillW

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