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Panic, the mac app development group, is making a custom handheld console for original retro-ish games: https://play.date/ https://play.date/
by sjs382 7y ago
Panic, the mac app development group, is making a custom handheld console for original retro-ish games: https://play.date/ https://play.date/
- derefr 7y agoAFAICT the Playdate is actually an instantiation of a less powerful abstract machine than even the PICO-8; closer to an Arduboy.
- jamesgeck0 7y agoIn my experience Pico-8 maxes out at something kinda-sorta approximating 4MHz, although in the words of the author, "PICO-8 CPU costs are made up and essentially silly when looked at too closely."[1] The CPU in the Playdate prototype runs at 216MHz.[2] The numbers aren't directly comparable, but I'd wager that the Playdate will have _significantly_ more headroom. 1. https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=33883 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=33883 2. https://twitter.com/zhuowei/status/1132447884719210497 https://twitter.com/zhuowei/status/1132447884719210497