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It's not really miniaturizing if you're using an emulator is it? And emulator was used for the gameboy color as well. I was expecting original hardware in a m
by turtlebits 9y ago
It's not really miniaturizing if you're using an emulator is it? And emulator was used for the gameboy color as well.
I was expecting original hardware in a much smaller form factor. Instead this is just an development board and screen in a custom enclosure.
Emulators on small devices isn't that interesting of a feat, IIRC someone ran and old version of MacOS on an Apple Watch when it first came out.
- mark-r 9y agoThe guts of the device are irrelevant to the user of the device. That was true of the original and it's true of this replica. As long as you can't tell the behavior from the original, and it's not relying on a connection to a larger system somewhere else, I'd consider it a success.
- cgriswald 9y agoWhile I disagree with the GP and believe this project is interesting, I can also empathize with his disappointment and sympathize with his original expectation. The use of the word miniaturization in the title was a poor choice. The audience of this article is not users, but hackers. In that context, the word miniaturization takes on a different connotation (if not meaning). The title therefore is a poor and misleading descriptor of the events that occurred (as evidenced by the GP's expectation and subsequent disappointment).
- ythn 9y agoLeave it to HN to poop on even the coolest of projects. "What? This tiny DIY rocket that can go all the way to Mars on a liter of hydrogen didn't use a space elevator? Disappointing."
- Chaebixi 9y ago> the coolest of projects. But running an emulator on an off-the-shelf ARM microcontroller and putting it in a retro 3D printed case isn't really that cool. Not to say it isn't cool, but don't get carried away.
- tyingq 9y agoThe esp32 has a dual core Tensilica Xtensa LX6 microprocessor. It's not ARM, and he did split functionality across the cores. I agree it's not rocket science, but it doesn't appear to have been a straightforward task either.
- khedoros1 9y agoHow about writing the emulator and interfacing the (non-ARM) chip with an inconvenient video interface? He used someone else's m68k emulator, but wrote the emulation for the rest of the hardware as custom code.
- jankotek 9y agoI come her to learn something. If "hacking" is something I can do myself over weekend, I do not learn anything. And some HN folks are familiar with Mac hardware. For example PSU was little piece of art. This is really, really disappointing.
- khedoros1 9y agoYou can write a Mac emulator to run on an ESP32, outputting scaled video on a MIPI DSI screen over a weekend? That's really damn impressive.
- mratzloff 9y agoHave you done anything that impresses and inspires people in a similar way?
- wanderingjew 9y agoPersonally, I'm amazed someone can be so joyless.