>-----Original Message-----
>From: William Chops Westfield [mailto:westfw@MAC.COM]
>Sent: 18 January 2004 03:20
>To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Re: [OT]: Old Gameboy Hacking
>
>
>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.)
>

http://www.devrs.com is an excellent resource for Gameboy, Gameboy Advance,
Cybiko, NeoGeo pocket and GP3 console hacking.  It also has a lot of
PIC/Ubicom related stuff.

Regards

Mike




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