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$12 MIT Computer Based On NES, Not Apple II
ericatcw writes "The $12 computer that a bunch of designers and grad students are talking up at an MIT conference this month as a potential, cheaper alternative to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) for Third World students is actually a knockoff of the original Nintendo Entertainment System gaming console released in the mid-1980s, reports Computerworld, and confirmed in a comment by the project's spokesman, Derek Lomas. According to Lomas' account and pictures, the Victor-70 is an 8-bit NES clone that accepts its cartridges and is wholly contained in the keyboard. It is also likely to be an unlicensed clone made in China, according to Lomas, though he notes that may not matter patent-wise in the US, due to the length of time that has passed."
In addition, the console in a keyboard comes with a fully illustrated manual explaining the proper method of blowing into the cartridges in order to make them function properly...
Just another ignorant American.
Now we can teach children in developing countries the importance of gold coins, magic mushrooms and floating stars.
You play tetris on victor 70
It costs less than my abacus!
BIOS error, keypad not detected.
Press Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, A, B, A, B, Start to continue.
If they replaced the massive NES slot with an SD card slot. Also, think how much porn, I mean business applications, you could fit on one SD card.
We all know that's you really meant, no need to deny.
You just got troll'd!
If not, I bet there's someone who considers your question to be a challenge, and will now make one.
I doubt it. Eight bits made the baby Linus cry and it's why linux started on a 386 system.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
... stamping on turtles and jumping into drainpipes.
Holy shit everyone already knows this mr know-it-all. That's the point of parent.
I haven't heard of this before. Sounds interesting, a 3rd party clone to run my old NES cartridges. I searched for "Victor-70" and got some guy's myspace page - I'm guessing even if he's offering NES games, I don't want anything of it.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
porting Linux to anything less than an 8088 could lead to total protonic reversal.
I've reached this theory myself before - but have been too scared to test it.
The best idea I've come up with is porting it for a Z80 and then trying to boot it on a Sinclair in a remote region of Southern Utah using some sort of remote control for safety.
I really need a particle physicist to help me out with the minor details, you know - possible blast radius, how long before the area is habitable again, will the Earth's orbit be affected, etc.
Just disrupt the deflector shield with a tachyon burst.
why would you want to run linux on it?
Why wouldn't you want to run Linux on it? Man, and you call yourself a slashdotter...
So say we all
I'm sorry to hear that the Nintendo cartridge damaged the car you drove over it... Next time you may want to use something other than a lowrider for that purpose.
My truck is like a series of tubes.
Mum says thanks, but next time she wants to wear the bra and panties.
Speaking of things damaged by nintendo cartridges, I can safely say I'm one of the only people on the planet who chipped a front tooth in half thanks to a NES cartridge. :D
It happened to be tucked away in a fold of a beanbag that I jumped on in sheer joy that school was out for the week. I think you all can tell what happened after that! And yes, I remember which cartridge it was. Dragon Warrior.