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RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch (github.com)
flopsamjetsam 9 hours ago [-]
From the GitHub page:

> It is a Gameboy Advance from a parallel universe where RISC-V existed in 2001. A love letter to the handheld consoles from my childhood, and a 3AM drunk text to the technology that powered them.

jihadjihad 7 hours ago [-]
Thank you to the author for writing a GitHub page in 2026 that is entirely devoid of emoji.
LukeShu 7 hours ago [-]
I mean no disrespect to Luke Wren, but he did not write it in 2026; he wrote it in 2018-2021. :)
tough 7 hours ago [-]
on the other hand having emoji on the readme is a great signal of llm-slop on my radar
jstanley 22 minutes ago [-]
Isn't that the same hand?
bananaboy 8 hours ago [-]
Oh this is Luke Wren’s work. He’s an ASIC design engineer at Raspberry Pi. Amazing project, I love it!
LukeShu 7 hours ago [-]
I think "ASIC design" engineer is under-selling him--he's working on their CPU cores too!
bananaboy 6 hours ago [-]
Haha yeah I just went by his LinkedIn title
wewewedxfgdf 7 hours ago [-]
This guy also designed DVI/HDMI from RP2040:

https://github.com/Wren6991/PicoDVI

LukeShu 7 hours ago [-]
He works at Raspberry Pi, and designed the Hazard3 RISC-V core that is at the heart of the RP2350--although he did Hazard3 in his spare time. It's actually a fork of the "Hazard5" core that he designed for the RISCBoy.
joshu 9 hours ago [-]
i love the "hardware from an alternate universe" projects.
LukeShu 7 hours ago [-]
I'm surprised to see that it's OK that he has opensource AHB/APB stuff in it--I'd avoided learning them too much about them assuming that they were ARM proprietary.
bri3d 6 hours ago [-]
AMBA has been an open standard for a really long time, I think maybe since it was released?
iFire 9 hours ago [-]
Does RISCBoy run Godot Engine? How can I make RISCBoy run Godot Engine?
bananaboy 7 hours ago [-]
If you set up the RISCBoy toolchain and port it then yeah.
Narishma 9 hours ago [-]
No. You can't.
emilfihlman 8 hours ago [-]
I'm quite willing to bet it can be done in this era of enabling developers with slob, which still usually works.
Narishma 7 hours ago [-]
How can you fit Godot into 512KB of RAM? And with no GPU?
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