I was thinking a setup for controls like the wonderswan would be good, because then you could even change screen orientation in Mame.PCp idea
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PCp idea
Has anyone ever considered making a PC handheld which has a more limited scope? I have seen people thinking about making very expensive handheld PC's for games, but what about a simpler handheld PC with linux or wintendo (windows 98se for those who want to know) for older games. I was thinking of Quake I or a little Jazz Jackrabbit on the run, or for an emulator to play some of those homebrew roms and the roms I have ripped. (no kidding I have ripped my own roms for NES) Or course, one could bend the rules here and say it could be used for MAME.... evil bad copyright infringing thing that it is; but still fun! I was thinking a setup for controls like the wonderswan would be good, because then you could even change screen orientation in Mame.
I was thinking a setup for controls like the wonderswan would be good, because then you could even change screen orientation in Mame.Emulation isn't accurate. There is no substitute for real hardware!
Problem is that the cost difference between a low-end board of decent size (around 3.5" or smaller) and the fairly high-end board, like I have, is very little.
I was playing around with a $40 board slightly bigger than a Game Gear from Halted.com to create a lower end, easier to be replicated PCp. However, the board doesn't have any easy and cheap way to hook up sound, and only has 1MB of RAM, so I stopped playing around with it.
If you're willing to have a larger handheld, you could get a thin client off eBay for fairly cheap in the power range you're wanting. You have to do some hacking to get them to act as regular PCs, but would be worthwhile if you were comfortable with their size and speed.
I was playing around with a $40 board slightly bigger than a Game Gear from Halted.com to create a lower end, easier to be replicated PCp. However, the board doesn't have any easy and cheap way to hook up sound, and only has 1MB of RAM, so I stopped playing around with it.
If you're willing to have a larger handheld, you could get a thin client off eBay for fairly cheap in the power range you're wanting. You have to do some hacking to get them to act as regular PCs, but would be worthwhile if you were comfortable with their size and speed.
If you really wanted to spend money you could get a PC104 style board. It's designed for embedded systems, but you can get them with a PIII and run the whole thing off of an SD card. They're really small too, about the size of an N64 motherboard
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