I have very high hopes for this board, and have been playing with RP2350 with DVI out for a while (I have one of these on order but it hasn't arrived yet, but other boards[1] exist).
Emulation is a sweet spot because if you race the beam, there is no compositor latency. Basically every retro computer with less than a quarter meg of VRAM is fair game (whether a framebuffer or not).
I have a bit of time off this fall and intend to do some fun things.
I guess the era of actual mini computers (which were larger than the typical computer of today which were originally called micro computers) is so far in the past that the term can be reused to mean "machines smaller than current computers"? Nanocomputer would be the consistent naming.
opan · 4h ago
This reminds me, I wanted the class of device that an iPod Touch falls into to be called "nano tablets" for a while in the early 2010s. It bugged me that it was basically a "phone" without the phone part. I hate to think you can only call something by its official branded name. Also, if you're using an actual phone without a SIM, it feels similarly silly to call it a phone.
That being said, I don't recall if anyone else did make something quite like an iPod Touch, and now it's dead as well.
adamredwoods · 5h ago
It's been a project I want to embark on to buy a non-functional Macintosh unit and put this in there with the emulator.
Emulation is a sweet spot because if you race the beam, there is no compositor latency. Basically every retro computer with less than a quarter meg of VRAM is fair game (whether a framebuffer or not).
I have a bit of time off this fall and intend to do some fun things.
[1]: https://github.com/DusterTheFirst/pico-dvi-rs/wiki/RP2350-DV...
That being said, I don't recall if anyone else did make something quite like an iPod Touch, and now it's dead as well.
https://learn.adafruit.com/fruit-jam-mac-emulator