Video Game SDK in Hardware

stm2 writes "Alex Varanese just released the XGameStation, a new homebrew video game system designed to teach its users how to build and program their own video game machines from the ground up. From their PR: "The expansive eBook, written by LaMothe himself, covers everything from introductory electronic theory all the way up to computer architecture, as well as a complete coverage of each of the XGS ME's subsystems. Imagine learning everything about how a video game console is built and programmed from scratch: designing and printing circuit boards, generating TV signals, external device interfacing, and much more.". They have two posters, as well."

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Re:ZSNES, I chose you!

[Richard]

Tough to tell how it stacks up - looks like the processing power blows away an SNES, but the graphics may be nowhere near as good.

From http://www.xgamestation.com/faq.php#a10 :

" Q:
What can the XGameStation Micro Edition hardware do? How powerful is it?

A:
The raw processing power of the XGameStation Micro Edition is approximately 40x that of the Nintendo (NES) or 20X that of a Super Nintendo, 50x that of an Atari 800 and it's graphical capabilities are similar to the Atari 2600, that is a directly controlled raster stream allowing pixel level timing and color control via software loops."

-Richard Campbell.