Playpower

went to makezine.com as usual and found this cool post about the playpower, an open source"$10" computer based on the 6502 and famicon...basically a new famibasic computer (which was never released in the us). pretty interesting and something i could actually afford right now. on the playpower site theres tons of links to tutorials on programming (basic, c, asml), making chiptunes, and interactive design, as well as a blog and wiki. it can also be purchased in the maker shed at makezine.com ...however it costs about 50 bux there. it would have been ever more awesome had it actually costed $10 for us but part of the markup goes back into supporting playpower which then supports those in developing countries. also the list of schools that help work on this project is pretty interesting M.I.T is one in the us and others in India and China i believe. The "Nintendo AVS" link is a link to early drawings and info on what the NES was originally going to be released as ...a computer that hooked up to your tv and also played games and music. links below






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