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Human beings are very visual people. If I was a 5 year old kid in a very remote part of Nigeria (I'm Nigerian, so not picking on any country), I would want a way to scan everyday items onto a device with a screen, and have the device tell me all about the item I just scanned in my native language.

Example: I'm 5 years old, and my mum asks me to bring her medicine. I'm not sure what this medicine accomplishes (even though I'm…

Here are some .CHR fonts that you are free to use and modify for game development.

Gumdrop and Sprout are 8x8 fonts with four variations each. Chickpea is a 16x16 font.

DOWNLOAD …

The translation of the Family Basic manual has been completed and is available below:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/w5t0lz

Here's a short video of a simple game called "Spinner Attack". I found it's source code in an old Japanese book.

Hi,

Rudla and me are happy to show you an beta version of the Scratchalan NES development system.

Its based on M.I.T Scratch and generates with the ATALAN compiler executable rom's that run on emulator or on the real Hardware.

The programm runs on Windows systems.

This version is still limited and can contain some errors on the IDE side or in the compiler.

We hope you have fun with playing with it.

In the tools folder is an…

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Today I made 2 videos of Family Basic tutorials which are based on the following pages of the manual:

p. 16, 22, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 32.

And also p. 33, 34, 35, 37 and 39.

Those pages are available in the photo…

I just uploaded a short video of a famous Japanese song which I found in the Family Basic manual.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_WnWP0lVjY

Does anyone know if this music board is also available on famiclones?

There are several ways that you can help Playpower.org achieve its goals!

The first thing you should do is learn to program the $10 Computer. In case you were unaware, the $10 computer that is our target platform is actually based on the popular Nintendo Entertainment System (thats right, the NES!). So when we talk about learning to program the $10 Computer, we are actually implicitly talking about the NES.

Your first stop should be to work through the…

Over on the Wiki we have a page dedicated to any ideas for programs/development that you think the Playpower Foundation should undertake.

Please have a look at the Ideas page, and if you have an idea for the next Killer App, please pop it on the list!

http://shop.4dsystems.com.au/poga-portable-gaming-console/289-poga.html

I recently got an email from 4dsystems, since I get some rare updates from then and found this.

Its a complete kit to create a full hand held with pretty good graphic and sound capabalities for just 50.

Consider if you don't need a screen and convert it into a console it could be much…

This is Part 1 of a 4 Part series of Blog Posts related to Unlicensed Third Parties.

Part 1: In the beginning

 

 

In the years leading up to 1983, Atari lead the way with Home Video Game Consoles.…

I noticed that Nestopia supports a mouse in various Subor and "Educational Computer" ROMs. This got me interested, so I decided to reverse-engineer the mouse protocol. Luckily, it was much simpler than I thought.

The mouse connects to joystick port 2. It then sends these signals, depending on the way it is moved.

• Left-click: A
• Right-click: B
• Move left: Select
• Move right: Select + Start (at the same time)
• Move down: Up…

Does your computer slow down when you play games on it? Thiscould happen due to several causes. Games come with specific systemrequirements. You will need to adhere to these specifics, in terms of the RAM,CPU memory, processor speed, graphics card type and speed, and monitor displayrequirements as listed in the game’s specifications. Before you do anything to fix slow computer speed, be sure to check all…