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As someone growing up coding Amiga demos and (mostly unreleased) games, I share this dream. There is the Commander X16 [1] but it's "too 8-bit". On the microc
by unwind 3y ago
As someone growing up coding Amiga demos and (mostly unreleased) games, I share this dream.
There is the Commander X16 [1] but it's "too 8-bit".
On the microcontroller side I was very excited about the STM32U599 [2] but it seems very secretive about how to program the graphics unit.
[1]: https://www.commanderx16.com/ https://www.commanderx16.com/
[2]: https://www.st.com/en/microcontrollers-microprocessors/stm32u599-5a9.html https://www.st.com/en/microcontrollers-microprocessors/stm32...
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