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pjc50 on May 24, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Making a Game Boy Game in 2017

All the retro platforms were proprietary, though? Can't get much more proprietary than Nintendo.

Cortex-M0 is very comparable to a 68k with 32-bit registers. http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc....

zzo38computer on May 25, 2019 | [–]

Many old Nintendo systems are now well documented and you can potentially make a fully non-proprietary hardware clone and software tools.

AnIdiotOnTheNet on May 25, 2019 | [–]

Retro platforms were current technology. If I'm going to use technology with several orders of magnitude less power, then I'd at least like it to be open, is all I'm saying.

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