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Re:Pico-8 Virtual Fantasy Console is an idealized constraine... by sjs382 on Monday August 19, 2019 @06:07PM (#20742262)
Panic, the mac app development group, is making a custom handheld console for original retro-ish games: https://play.date/
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Re:Pico-8 Virtual Fantasy Console is an idealized constraine... by derefr on Monday August 19, 2019 @07:23PM (#20742617)
AFAICT the Playdate is actually an instantiation of a less powerful abstract machine than even the PICO-8; closer to an Arduboy.
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Re:Pico-8 Virtual Fantasy Console is an idealized constraine... by jamesgeck0 on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @10:56AM (#20747672)
In my experience Pico-8 maxes out at something kinda-sorta approximating 4MHz, although in the words of the author, "PICO-8 CPU costs are made up and essentially silly when looked at too closely."[1]

The CPU in the Playdate prototype runs at 216MHz.[2] The numbers aren't directly comparable, but I'd wager that the Playdate will have _significantly_ more headroom.

1. https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=33883

2. https://twitter.com/zhuowei/status/1132447884719210497

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