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This was an exciting product for me! When I was 14 and learning coding, I got excited about the Cybiko and started playing around with grand ideas about games,
by kierenj 4y ago
This was an exciting product for me! When I was 14 and learning coding, I got excited about the Cybiko and started playing around with grand ideas about games, apps and even an "RPG Kit" (rpg builder) which I started to spec out on their forums.
As a result, Cybiko sent some units to me (in the UK) - before it was released! This got little old me very excited.
Unfortunately, not only did it not take off, but I was 14 and had all the enthusiasm and ideas without much of the ability to solve the problems.
Still, very exciting at the time.. remember working with the homebrew/hacking scene on IRC. Someone there was writing an emulator, and I had fun with IDA Pro playing around with trying to understand the firmware/BIOS dump.
The keyboard and stylus was pretty awful, and performance left a lot to be desired..
EDIT: holy moly! I forgot I had an old website with projects from that time. Well, here it is, warts and all: http://greenprojects.iwarp.com/specialprojects/rpgkit/ http://greenprojects.iwarp.com/specialprojects/rpgkit/