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8-Bit Games On ESP32

Source: https://hackaday.com/2020/06/09/run-your-favorite-8-bit-games-on-an-esp32/

The Nintendo Game & Watch - which we covered in past issues already, is powered by an ESP32. With the RISC-V architecture and this tremendous amount of additional peripherals on-chip, it is a fantastic device for more than … just emulating an IBM PC. What about games? πŸ•Ή

Lewin Day also wrote a spot-on article about FABGL - a display controller, PS/2 mouse and keyboard controller, graphics library, sound engine, graphical user interface yada, yada, yada developed by Fabrizio Di Vittorio and open-sourced here. Should you consider an ESP32 development board, have a look.

And it gets even more interesting. Kerry Scharfglass aka @Borgel also examined gaming on this little device and documented, how to run your favorite 8bit games on it.

rossumur developed a groundbreaking piece of modern software history - esp_8_bit and presents you Atari 8bit computers, NES and SMS game consoles on your TV with nothing more than a ESP32 and a sense of nostalgia.

Both projects are everything but brand new. Still, they are very relevant if the ESP32 is relevant to you! Question is, are you relevant to the ESP32? πŸ˜‡

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