{"id":27,"date":"2009-03-27T00:17:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T22:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/jaragunde\/2009\/03\/27\/the-latest-additions-to-my-collection\/"},"modified":"2009-03-27T00:17:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T22:17:30","slug":"the-latest-additions-to-my-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/jaragunde\/2009\/03\/the-latest-additions-to-my-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest additions to my collection!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really love accumulating old (and not so old) gaming devices and games. Recently I got two distinguished members of the club of handheld game consoles \ud83d\ude09 . The first one is the well-known Game Boy Color<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"My<\/p>\n

A Game Boy in its original package, with some games. Great!<\/p>\n

The second one is not so popular, but very interesting: it’s a GP32 BLU<\/a> (in the photo, with my tablet to compare its sizes \ud83d\ude09 ):<\/p>\n

\"My<\/p>\n

This console was released in 2001, and it was very powerful in that moment: it featured a 133MHz ARM CPU, 10MB of RAM and a screen resolution of 320×240, quite impressive for a handheld device. But the most special feature is the possibility of developing your own programs with the SDK provided by the company and save them to SmartMedia Cards<\/a> which were used as game cartridges; there were also a few commercial games, but not with an awesome quality. Anyway, their idea for game distribution was also interesting: some games were sold physically in their own cards, but some other were sold digitally via internet, to be downloaded and stored in your own card (obviously by a cheaper price \ud83d\ude1b ). As you can see, they implemented digital distribution long time before the “boom” we live in.<\/p>\n

The GP32 wasn’t a huge success, but it was enough popular among hackers for the company to launch another machine, the GP2X<\/a>, fully based on linux.<\/p>\n

By the way, does any of you have a SmartMedia Card? Now I need one of those old relics \ud83d\ude09 .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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