32blit: retro-inspired handheld with open-source firmware

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Learn to create your own platformer, side-scroller, racer... whatever! The modern handheld designed for homebrew hacking. - The 32blit team grew up in the days when booting up your computer meant being greeted with the blinking cursor of an interpreter; it was a time when you could immediately start experimenting with drawing graphics on screen, making sounds, and processing input.Then the dark times came and suddenly everything was janky and complicated. Layers of abstraction hid away the hardware and you needed pages of boilerplate code, libraries, and drivers to get anything done at all.The ...

Read More magic was lost.Until now.Fancy a (home)brew?32blit takes you back, way back, to the start, providing a single hardware platform with a great set of game creation tools and software to play with. Everything is set up and ready to go out of the box.And, what's more, it's designed and manufactured by us in Sheffield,

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