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Seth Larson

Congrats Matt Greer for solving software distribution! E-Reader card with Solitaire delivered in an envelope by mail earlier today. Love it! 😍 (retrodotcards.com)

@sethmlarson Did they fit that on one side of one card?

Because if yes, that's 🍌

@sethmlarson That's pretty cool. Have you dabbled with development yet or is that huge lift?

@sethmlarson Back in the late 90s, I wrote a GameBoy game maker using VB6 that spit out Z80 code. it was more or less a multi-step dialog to get the basics. That's the last time I touched Z80 code and I'm not sure I ever will again. 😅

@webology @sethmlarson This sounds like fun piece of Game Boy dev history. Are any of the games or the tool itself still around?

@bbbbbr @sethmlarson Na, GB Studio or whatever it was in the 00s was way better and I switched to it. Plus they worked with C so I could code a Zelda-clone with it.

Mine was a Wizard that let you pick the screen options for a fixed, side-scrolling, or four direction (like Zelda) and then I had some other options. It basically wrote out some files, and after you compiled it, you could move a box around the screen.

@webology @sethmlarson Still sounds kinda cool to me, I love nooks and crannies of devtool history. :)

@sethmlarson Now this is really cool!

I never would have imagined that the e-reader would be getting homebrew support in 2024.

I have always been curious about the e-reader and always wanted to mess around with one but could never justify the purchase.

This seems like such a novelty more than anything but impressive nonetheless and hopefully is just the beginning of many small games being released on this format.

@Judeau heck yeah! We love late Homebrew :) Matt created a web emulator for E-Reader games so you can play without the hardware too: github.com/city41/ereader-z80-

Definitely a novelty, I'm just happy to cheer for someone keeping these niche consoles from childhood alive :)

GitHubGitHub - city41/ereader-z80-emulator: A web based emulator for running z80 Nintendo E-Reader appsA web based emulator for running z80 Nintendo E-Reader apps - city41/ereader-z80-emulator